Well, AFAIK, the odds of that happening would be: 1/178956970Leemaster777 said:It took me awhile, but I found my first shiny ever in Pearl. And it's actually a funny story.
I was EV training in the haunted house, and I randomly found a shiny Gastly (with sexy blue smoke, no less). I caught it, praised Arceus for my good fortune, and returned to the Pokemon Center.
Upon returning to the Pokemon Center, I received a message that I had never seen before: Nurse Joy told me that I had contracted Pokerus. So, not only had that Gastly been shiny, but it ALSO had Pokerus. If you're not aware, the odds for encountering a Pokemon with Pokerus are actually LOWER than the odds for encountering a shiny.
What are the freaking odds that I'd find one with BOTH? (Seriously, what are the odds? I'm sure there's some math master out there that can tell me. The odds of a shiny are 1/8192, and the odds of Pokerus are 3/65536. Get on that, math nerds.)
Sorry, not me. I stumbled onto a shiney hoothoot after only about 30 hours in crystal. Though, that's the only one I've found in possibly even more playtime than you have.LordBongo said:I've been playing Pokémon since Generation 1. I've put in at LEAST 200 hours into every major game. Yet, I'm a shiny virgin. I've managed to avoid running into a shiny Pokémon for this long. Besides the standard Red Gyarados, of course. It's become really frustrating, especially when everybody else seems to have stories of shinies that they've run into. I've reached a point where I've decided that I'm going to put the first shiny I see/catch into my party, no matter what it is. It will be a special moment.
So I ask my fellow Escapists: are there any other shiny virgins who experience the same pain as I?
Hitmonchan? Nah, you get him (Or Hitmonlee) for beating the Fighting Dojo. The fossils gave you either Kabuto or Omanyte. Very neat that you got it on a one-instance pokemon though.Breaker deGodot said:In Firered I had a rather bizarre incident where I got a shiny Hitmonchan. I don't remember it very well (I was like 8) but I think I got in an ingame choice. (Like they give you a choice between two fossils and you can only take one.)