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Pokémon Community Thread: Gotta Catch 'Em All!

Thought the color of Zubat/Golbat was awesome, then was completely disgusted with Crobat's color.

Oh man, you're not kidding.

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Lumination

'enry 'ollins
My first ever shiny was caught in SS:
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I'll love him forever and ever, but boy, I get to evolve him into a grotesque shiny:
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or a very subtle one:
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Thankfully, on the SAME DAY, I caught this beautiful baby:
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that I hastily evolved into this lean, mean, green machine:
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I'd like to think God was being good to me, because my first encounter with a shiny was the very first battle in SS. Yes, it was a golden Sentret before I was able to even obtain Pokeballs. After over a thousand hours of Pokemon, I find 3 during my time in SS. They didn't increase the encounter rate, did they?

:O

I need to get one!
Yeah! I also found a wild shiny Litwick. I really loved the ghostly fire and the ghostly eyes. I didn't like that Chandelure's shiny has plain old normal fire. =/
 
Pfft. All this talk of shiny Pokemon has made me sad knowing that I never found one in the wild, however it makes me happy knowing that I managed to snag a shiny Spiritomb off the GTS for a Palkia
 
Hold your tongue! Just because our king secludes himself, does not mean he's unfit to rule.

Oh and I almost forgot:

Metroid Killer, the renowned athlete.
Pokeathlon. :p

Professor Beef, an alien in a foreign land.
Digimon avatar. >_>

Exterminieren, a newborn pauper.

UltimateIke, the faithful royal canine.

Okay, so I just stumbled across this post (from November) for the first time. I'm happy to have been included! <3

But now I feel extra bad because I quit posting in/reading the thread for so long. :(
 

ThatObviousUser

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Okay, so I just stumbled across this post (from November) for the first time. I'm happy to have been included! <3

But now I feel extra bad because I quit posting in/reading the thread for so long. :(

You should feel bad, and you're not a legendary.

However you quoted me so I guess you're cool. :p
 
For those of you who, like myself, a currently down in the shiny-related doldrums, just remember: it could be a lot worse.

I probably shouldn't be laughing at this, considering if this happened to me I'd probably tear my 3DS in half, but foul-mouthed 12-year-olds make for such easy targets.
 
Cool. Does it have Wonder Guard too?
Harsh. Lol.

It could be legitimate...maybe.


You should feel bad, and you're not a legendary.

However you quoted me so I guess you're cool. :p
Arcanine isn't a "legendary Pokémon," but his species/classification is the "Legendary Pokémon." Ask Game Freak what's up with that.


I caught a shiny Magnemite in the Safari Zone. I guess that was pretty lucky.
My brother caught a Doduo in the same situation. So lucky.
 

Lumination

'enry 'ollins
When I was in middle school, I had a friend who only caught his Pokemon with normal Pokeballs. One day, he decided to go after the Regis in his Ruby. I laughed at him and told him it would be a waste of time. Over the course of 2 weeks, he caught Regice and Registeel. I watched as he attempted to catch Regirock. After about the 20th soft reset due to struggle-death, a shiny appeared! I told him to just use his ultra balls. He refused. 20 harrowing minutes later, he caught it with a god damn Pokeball. Unfortunately, we are no longer friends, but in every game thereafter, I've made it my goal to catch every Pokemon in normal balls.

TL;DR: Roaming legendaries make me cry.
 

ffdgh

Member
hmm how many wild pokemon have all of you encountered in BW?
my trainer card says 1495......i swear it should be more.


are they making fun of animal rights activists or something? The team plasma thing seems like bullshit.
just keep playing, it'll make sense later.
 

EvilMario

Will QA for food.
hmm how many wild pokemon have all of you encountered in BW?
my trainer card says 1495......i swear it should be more.



just keep playing, it'll make sense later.

4,663 at 672:10 hours.

Mostly for EV training, not collecting. Probably half are Audinos for level boosting too.
 

ThatObviousUser

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are they making fun of animal rights activists or something? The team plasma thing seems like bullshit.

It's all pretty tongue in cheek, but yes, there are a lot of (intentional or not, who knows) comparions to PETA made in the game.
 

ffdgh

Member
zjust be glad you didn't fight the e4 with serperior....had to spam x items,coil and calm mind just to survive adler
 

upandaway

Member
Black City and White Forest don't matter because you don't live in Japan so you'll never populate them with enough NPCs to make them worthwhile.

being honest, the forest and the city exclusive to their respective games are usless if you don't reach them in a certain amount of time.

black ftw
Um you guys, you know it's possible to fully populate the city and forest and keep it populated with just 1 copy of each game?

Even if one version's area is completely empty, if you enter it from the other version, there will be NPCs to talk to. It's fool proof.
 

ThatObviousUser

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Never really use X items either. Probably because I play competitively so it never occurs to me to use them in the single-player.
 
I think the only time I ever used them was a starter-only run of Sapphire.

Which culminated with Swampert defeating Steven with STRUGGLE.

If I'm ever out of room for items in the older games, the X items are the first ones to go.
 

ThatObviousUser

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Wait, I think I do use them when trying to catch a legend that has a crappy catch rate. Maybe. Probably the only times.
 

MikeMyers

Member
I think the only time I ever used them was a starter-only run of Sapphire.

Which culminated with Swampert defeating Steven with STRUGGLE.

If I'm ever out of room for items in the older games, the X items are the first ones to go.

Yeah, I used it in my Pikachu Yellow Solo Run. Had to give Pikachu a ton of X Defenses for the 8th Gym Battle
 
Yeah, I used it in my Pikachu Yellow Solo Run. Had to give Pikachu a ton of X Defenses for the 8th Gym Battle
I remember the first time I beat Yellow. My team was Pikachu, Moltres, Zapdos, Articuno, Squirtle, and Butterfree.

Ah, to be young and not understand team building.
 

ffdgh

Member
oh yeah I couldn't beat steven with a level 60 blaziken without 6x attack/defends.
I wish steven could be battle against more than once.
 
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