Daely Snack: Have shinies lost their purpose?

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Shinies. The elusive differently coloured Pokémon that were so rare that most people thought they were hoaxes/glitches/hacks. Yet, with the internet becoming more and more widespread, soon everyone knew about them. With a 1 in 8000 chance of finding them, they were truly sought after by collectors who had to put considerable effort into getting them.

With people complaining they couldn’t get one, Gamefreak threw a bone and released several shiny Pokémon as events, in addition to making some slight tweaks to the chance of finding shinies. Sorry folks that had a shiny Raikou, your’s became so common that people didn’t care about your achievement anymore. Luckily there were only a few event Pokémon, leaving a majority still hard to catch (even when using the Pokéradar).

But XY changed even more than that. They made so many tweaks that, as evidenced by the comments here and on other sites, you could easily find three shinies a day. The Safari zone with hundreds of Pokémon available, a new egg breeding mechanic, horde battles, the Pokéradar is back and maybe even a tweak to the base chance itself! This brings my to my concern of today: is there still a point in shinies?

The major thing about shinies was not that they were differently coloured. In fact, you could say that over half of all Pokémon looks worse or almost not different at all in their shiny form. No, the thing that made them cool was the rarity of finding one, the thrill of encountering and successfully catching it. It shouldn’t be only about its looks, but also on the memory that is attached to it. But with XY the rarity is gone. People will stop caring about your feat. “Oh, you got 30 shinies? I got 60, hmpf.” The whole elusive aspect went away, and that makes shinies not that exciting for me anymore as they once were.

But that’s just me of course. What do you think? I’d love to hear your opinion in the comments, and when I got the time I will try to respond to them. Seeing as this is a discussion post, keep spam to a bare minimum. If you got something interesting to say, say it, but don’t start 200 comments threads about one battle you had, use the chat.

~Daedardus~

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3,018 thoughts on “Daely Snack: Have shinies lost their purpose?”

  2. hmm .. im watching some wifi battles, and the people in the video say stuff like “-pokemon here- isnt allowed”. are we seriously restricted from using some pokemon? D: or is it between just the players and not the server itself banning the use of some pokemon?

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      • oh wow xD well, i use that site for some ideas on what would be the best choice to train some pokemon in, but thats about it. i feel restricting pokemon sorta sounds like a weak thing to do . taking down legendaries isnt too hard either . poison bomb an xerneas and heat waving a yveltal usually brings them down to about 40/50% of their health so i feel everything is pretty balanced as is o: but then again, i wouldnt know ;u;’

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      • yea, i believe so. shofu said something about being sorry for using a blaziken in the video . i face lots of people with blazikens so i dont see how exactly theyre banned D: theyre still beatable …at least before all the speed boosts

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  3. So I want to Masuda Method my first shiny Pokemon through hatching. So, which is a good and cool looking Pokemon to MM for? Or should I go with that shiny Fletchling that seems to not want to be caught through the Poke Radar. Help?

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  5. alright, I finally have my full team:
    Shiftry, Ninetales, Walrein, Aromatisse, Drifblim, and Gothitelle
    Now to breed, EV train, level grind, and get the right moves for all these fuckers 🙂

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  6. Just a quick update on my Thanks Giveaway:

    I’ve been very busy the past few days, so I haven’t been able to play as much as I needed to. I probably only got about 5-6 hours the past three days, which isn’t enough. I plan on giving out 6 Pokemon and I plan on having 10 of each so there are plenty to go around. Of the 60 total, I have about 40 Pokemon between the six. I’m trying to get good ones that are worthwhile. It’s not hard, just time consuming.

    I plan on posting a reservation list tomorrow and the day after with all the details of every Pokemon available so people can pick the one they specifically want. Hopefully everyone will be able to see the list over the next two days, and then, probably a day or two after, will be the official Giveaway, so plan on this weekend to be the trades!

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  8. my heart dropped!! jfefj I thought my game froze cause I like bumped it or something and I didn’t save after just catching two shiny fish and I walked in the pokecenter the lights dimmed and it froze for a sec then confetti and what not just shot out of no where now nurse joy is wishing me happy birthday 🙂 haha. amazing. I didn’t realize my 3DS was 1 hour ahead of time lol I have to change it. Atleast these two shiny fish or an early present.

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  22. there’s beginning to become so many Pokemon now that I’m starting to forget names. I couldn’t tell you the name of Spritzee’s evolution if my life depended on it. About to try and masuda for one.

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  25. Hey everyone! I missed you all! I don’t think shinies lost their luster (haha shiny), because it was by dumb luck I hatched a shiny Zorua, though I did use a foreign Ditto.

    In other news, does anybody have a Prankster Sableye, Huge Power Diggersby (Bunnelby), Bullet Proof Cheaspin, and/or a supersized Pumpkaboo? *Females determine the size of offspring 100%, maybe the case with Male Pumpkaboo/Ditto*

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