3rd Gen Shiny Discussion/FAQ [Read all of first post if you don't want an infraction]

[seeker85]

WOW congrats mence master on rayquaza!! looks awesme

[wichu]

Still no luck with Rayquaza, but I have been reading on the broken RNG code thing. Very interesting. I just haven't caught a shiny so I can't find out its Shiny PID and I don't know how to find our my ID or SID (No ARG or GS).

The ID is on your trainer card :P
If you have D/P and Wi-fi, you can migrate a Pokémon from Emerald, and trade it to someone who can check its SID. You'd have to do that through PMs, though...

Anyway, on-topic, I caught a shiny Ditto using the trick. It's fun watching it transform into shiny versions of the opponent :P

[ShinyFufu]

I'm still soft resetting for a shiny Zapdos on both FR and LG. It feels likes it's been forever.

My Ruby and Sapphire games are now effectively useless. There aren't any shiny Pokemon I want to go for on either game that I can't get more easily or through breeding in D/P.

[Jessara]

Caught myself a shiny Torchic on Emerald last night It's my first SR shiny, I still feel amazed about it even now That's one shiny target down.

Pics:

Sorry about the quality, they were taken at night after 2 am.

[elitefive5]

abra. but thats not really an accomplishment just sr at the game corner in firered. still will look cool when it evolves though

[Vliegtuig]

2 new Emerald Shinies....both perfect nature and IVs....

No photo, sorry...
And

[Freakshow]

Jessara: If you did not use a cheat go get your Secret ID, you can use orchic's IVs to find its PID, which you can then find your Secret ID from.

Vlieg: What do you mean by perfect? Like Hasty nature? 31s in what?

[Jessara]

I got Torchic with my shiny frame I heard of friends succeses with it but didn't think I could do it myself as hunting for shinies has failed for me in the last year or more but I got it Haven't gotten anymore since though, I can't work out the Sweet Scent time for my shiny frame, minusing 5.27 seems to be wrong

[Vliegtuig]

Jessara: If you did not use a cheat go get your Secret ID, you can use orchic's IVs to find its PID, which you can then find your Secret ID from.

Vlieg: What do you mean by perfect? Like Hasty nature? 31s in what?

Oops I meant, almost perfect....well I think it's perfect.....

Naive - 23-27-21-26-22-25
21 is the lowest IVs...well they aren't 31, but I like it =)

P.S. Didn't you saw it in LAMP?


EDIT: 5.27 is only for Oddish.....

[shadowkami]

Last night, I was trying to catch mewtwo on my firered version. It was eating my team alive. On the first soft reset, I faced mewtwo again and I noticed that it's tail was green and sparkles appeared. At first I was like huh??? Until I realized that It was a shiny. I was so happy, I instantly went for my masterball(which I was planning to save for a suicune. And now I'm happily bragging to everyone about my very first shiny pokemon.

[Saberu]

I was IV breeding bulbasaurs the other day on my Emerald.
Suddenly I noticed that one was a slightly darker green than the others. :3

It's female, calm-natured, and has outstanding HP. It's a child of my very first Pokémon and inherited his best IV.

[joIteon]

Jessara: If you did not use a cheat go get your Secret ID, you can use orchic's IVs to find its PID, which you can then find your Secret ID from.

how can i find my SID using my PID i caught a shiny one?
please help me....

[Jessara]

This Emerald shiny thing is insane In the last hour and 40 minutes I've caught the following in Emerald after several days of using an inner focus Abra (didn't notice it wasn't a syncher until a few hours ago, got a syncher and now I have success!):

5 x Poochyena
2 x Electrike
1 x Minun
3 x Oddish (would of been 5, one was KO'd and the other was lost due to forgetting to save before resetting lol)
1 x Illumise
5 x Numel
1 x Marill
4 x Koffing
1 x Machop
1 x Spinda

And that's it for the night, time for sleep

[Shiny Dialga]

This Emerald shiny thing is insane In the last hour and 40 minutes I've caught the following in Emerald after several days of using an inner focus Abra (didn't notice it wasn't a syncher until a few hours ago, got a syncher and now I have success!)

Does that mean if you have the Syncher the liklihood of getting a shiny is higher (with the broken RNG, of course)?

[mattman324]

My one shiny was a Phyduck caught in firered.

[Pokerealm]

Does that mean if you have the Syncher the liklihood of getting a shiny is higher (with the broken RNG, of course)?

Yes, it will jump you to the next spread with the nature of your Syncher.
So when your shiny frame is 660, Quiet, you would need a Quiet Syncher.
Frame 660 is 11.00 seconds. Which means if you press 0.10 seconds too early, it will still jump to the Quiet frame and thus, the shiny one.

[Heliotrope]

*smacks forehead* I forgot to post about my newest shiny. ^^;

On the 19th February while I was hunting for my shiny Numel, I realised that a Machop I was about to run from looked a funny colour... it was shiny. Sigh, why shiny Machop and not my shiny Numel?

Shiny Machop appeared

Profile pic


I'm still hunting for shiny Numel. I'm at just over 8350 encounters.

[Dragonking]

I got a shiny Swablu yesterday on my Ruby file, no shiny frames or anything. I was trying for Taillow but this wasn't bad, Rash nature male, haven't checked IVs yet.

[Storm_Dragoon]

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SHINY REGIROCK!!(Sorry for the blurriness, my camera doesn't like my GBASP too well)

Finally after several months of on/off hunting(since Dec 06/Jan 07), I finally complete the shiny Regi Trio . Not more than 10 minutes after I saved(to mess up the RNG), I was busy reading through posts on the forums, when I heard Regirock's cry, followed by the shiny sound I was desperately waiting to hear for months ^_^.

I decided to throw the Master Ball at it, as I didn't want to accidentally get a critical hit(and the fact that I was SRing for shiny Regirock on my SP, which does tend to restart if I accidentally move the power button the wrong way). After I saved, I switched Ruby from my SP to my DS, so I could take some better pictures.

More pictures:

No cheating devices(once again, a bit blurry)
Shiny Regirock, Careful nature
Stats

Totally happy about this shiny capture, I'm in the mood to get a few more of my other shiny targets once again. Two of the Regi trio were caught in Ruby, Regirock and Regice, so I'll have to find a new target to SR for in Ruby(don't need Registeel, as I have one from Sapphire and another from Emerald). Beldum may be next on my list, and hopefully it decides to shine almost as fast as this shiny Regirock did.

[wichu]

Wow, nice. You got a good nature; it's got decent IVs too (it has good HP, Attack and Sp. Def).