Shinies

So, last night I caught my first shiny. Happened totally by accident
-- up until that point, I was sure it was one of those "urban legends"
where everyone "knows someone who has seen one" but no one has seen
one themselves. I was surfing up in Lake Acuity (trying to catch a
swarming Smoochum) -- with literally two minutes on the clock until
midnight came and washed them all away. I'm PRAYING not to hit
anything in the lake, since I have to get all the way to the other
side in two minutes. Which means, of course, that I hit three on my
way across the lake. I dutifully am tapping the stylus on where the
"Run Away" button appears ...

.... until I notice that the Psyduck I'm about to run away from is ...
blue. (I guess cold from Lake Acuity?)

I never did catch a Smoochum. *laugh*

But it got me thinking ... since it's a random thing, can you hatch a
shiny Pokemon? Or is it only something that happens with wild Pokemon?

"Dave Massive" <dave.massive.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> So, last night I caught my first shiny. Happened totally by accident
> -- up until that point, I was sure it was one of those "urban legends"
> where everyone "knows someone who has seen one" but no one has seen
> one themselves. I was surfing up in Lake Acuity (trying to catch a
> swarming Smoochum) -- with literally two minutes on the clock until
> midnight came and washed them all away. I'm PRAYING not to hit
> anything in the lake, since I have to get all the way to the other
> side in two minutes. Which means, of course, that I hit three on my
> way across the lake. I dutifully am tapping the stylus on where the
> "Run Away" button appears ...
>
> ... until I notice that the Psyduck I'm about to run away from is ...
> blue. (I guess cold from Lake Acuity?)
>
Congrats. I actually noticed the different coloration of my shiny Budew
before it blinded me with shine-ness, and I had just enough time to wonder
if it was a gender variation before my DS went *FWOOSH* and burnt my skin
off. It's a gothy-looking Roselia now, and once I get it's level-up moves
out of the way it's going to be a gothy-looking Roserade.

> I never did catch a Smoochum. *laugh*
>
> But it got me thinking ... since it's a random thing, can you hatch a
> shiny Pokemon? Or is it only something that happens with wild Pokemon?
>
From what I understand, the chances of a Pokemon being shiny are the same,
regardless of it being wild or hatched. Back in GSC, though, shininess was
based on stats and you could actually breed shinies.

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