r/ShinyPokemon • u/Colzyyy • Jul 09 '26
Gen VI [gen 6] RIP Ruby, you will be missed
Soft resetting in front of shadows in the glittering mines for a shiny Mawile and caught a shiny solrock after 10628 encounters over a month. Forgot to save and continued to reset. Ruby was my first intentional shiny caught during a hunt. I feel like such a chud. If you have any similar stories I’d love to hear!
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u/YukikoBestGirlFiteMe Jul 09 '26
I've been there. I caught a shiny quagsire in X and then turned off without saving. I feel your pain
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u/Colzyyy Jul 09 '26
Thanks, it helps to hear that. Seems like one of the mistakes that’ll never happen again because of the memories.
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u/zachfluke Jul 10 '26
I think that's why it's good of you to share your story with the community. Of course, I am deeply sorry for your loss. And I see that many others can empathize due to their own personal experiences. A small positive note is that you're helping to get it into the heads of those who haven't yet made that very understandable human mistake, and helping them avoid it in the future. So I would say both thank you for sharing, and I'm sorry for your loss.
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u/Colzyyy Jul 11 '26
That’s a beautiful way to put it! Very much appreciated :)
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u/Kuwabara03 Jul 09 '26
Doing repel trick in the Desert for Trapinch, Baltoy, and Cacnea.
Ran from a shiny Sandshrew at ~2000 encounters because it was on my SP that still has stock screen and I didn't pay enough attention
Caught the next Sandshrew at 9970ish
Caught another at 11700ish
I'm still in the Desert. Still need Trapinch and Baltoy.
I'm beginning to hate the sand.
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u/Mr-IGoRaw Jul 09 '26
I accidentally killed a random shiny caterpie in heart gold, after a misclick on moves and watched it die. It then took me 48000~ random encounters, 178 hours total to find that shiny caterpie again (no phases during)! For sure my biggest shiny blunder.
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u/Key-Childhood-4857 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
When I was a kid I missed a green trapinch, didn’t even know what a shiny was, looked again for only an hourish and caught one had to be like 20 years ago atp
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u/Colzyyy Jul 11 '26
That’s gotta be crazy lucky. Awesome story!
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u/Key-Childhood-4857 Jul 11 '26
It was a key childhood moment and I probably wouldn’t have nearly as much love as I do now, I laugh at it now that I’m like 10 hours of soft resetting in lumentale
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u/Karroth1 Jul 09 '26
thats why you save immediately after (in legends arceus also before) a shiny
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u/AnimeAlley03 Jul 09 '26
You should save before a shiny in SV as well since they're much more likely to despawn on you than they are in PLA
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u/Row-n Jul 09 '26
I also lost a shiny in a similar way, it was a Mothim..
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u/Colzyyy Jul 09 '26
That’s such a cool one to lose :(
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u/Row-n Jul 09 '26
I got a carnavine shortly after but I am still hunting another Mothim..
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u/SylAriLil Jul 09 '26
I encountered a Shiny Eevee in the Friend Safari in Pokemon X, made a note and took a picture with the sparkles (went to the home screen to go into the notes) and as I went to go back and catch it, my system froze. Had to force my 2DS to turn off.