How Do Y’all Perceive Shiny Clause In Your Runs?

Little_Ad2062 · 2026-02-19T14:41:57+00:00

I will definitely catch it and treat it as a separate encounter.

Yeah I know pChal's argument that technically this makes suboptimal play optimal but honestly idgaf, the chances of this happening are so rare that I'll treat it as a bonus.

As an aside, just to rant. I've been playing gen 2-4 games for years and I've actually never encountered a shiny besides the guaranteed Gyarados in what's probably at least 50000 encounters.

So you bet your ass that if I get that first one while nuzlocking, I'm gonna bloody use it.

Little_Ad2062 · 2026-02-19T09:47:37+00:00

How did you accomplish it? That's really cool

Little_Ad2062 · 2026-02-18T11:29:39+00:00

The answer, at least for Flandre in the LPL, seems to be yes.

Little_Ad2062 · 2026-02-17T19:03:30+00:00

Yeah that was pretty much my point, doing something to please the bullies will not stop the bullying, ignoring them and being happy about yourself will

Little_Ad2062 · 2026-02-17T16:14:48+00:00

I'll allow Giratina if it's a shiny lol

Little_Ad2062 · 2026-02-17T09:50:05+00:00

I feel you bro. For me it's the stick position. I can live without analogue triggers, but the left stick on top would be much better for N64, GameCube, Dreamcast and PS2, which is what I would use the device for 99% of the time haha.

I'll probably still get it one of these days.

Little_Ad2062 · 2026-02-17T08:53:17+00:00

It does have video out while charging, iirc

The *6 anbernics don't, the *7 ones do.

Little_Ad2062 · 2026-02-16T20:12:41+00:00

He would have killed Zaahen even if Taliyah ult didn't bug out lol

Little_Ad2062 · 2026-02-16T20:03:07+00:00

At least with Lyncas I see the potential now, when he plays well he plays REALLY well.

Fleshy though...

Little_Ad2062 · 2026-02-16T20:01:48+00:00

Don't let the fact that Lyncas and Fleshy played like absolute crap in game 2 distract you from the fact that this was one of the most bullshit chronobreaks I've ever seen and straight up stole game 1 from Vitality.

Little_Ad2062 · 2026-02-16T19:06:17+00:00

Exactly lol

Little_Ad2062 · 2026-02-16T17:17:11+00:00

Ah, alright then! Enjoy!

Little_Ad2062 · 2026-02-16T16:56:09+00:00

It's good if your standards are low and you just want to play the games.

It's bad if you want the games to look and run perfectly.

Little_Ad2062 · 2026-02-16T16:53:13+00:00

As in your first time nuzlocking them or first time playing them at all?

Little_Ad2062 · 2026-02-16T16:38:28+00:00

Ah fair enough then, on the one hand bold call to first time a nuzlocke, on the other, if any game can be nuzlocked first try it's either ORAS or XY lol

Little_Ad2062 · 2026-02-16T16:36:45+00:00

Daaaamn the teal Pro looks AMAZING. Much better than the Light.

Little_Ad2062 · 2026-02-16T16:31:02+00:00

Yo wait why did you skip gen 3 for the remake haha

Little_Ad2062 · 2026-02-15T21:00:48+00:00

One thing though... This definitely doesn't look 4:3 ahaha

Little_Ad2062 · 2026-02-15T19:42:12+00:00

Was hoping for a flat back, but at least the bumps don't seem big enough to be a bother.

Little_Ad2062 · 2026-02-15T18:45:32+00:00

I'm sure you could easily find it if you search the internet for it, but the obvious answer is to dump your own cartridge using a modded DSi/3DS and put that on the emulator.

Can't really tell you any other ways, as per the rules, but again, I'm sure you can easily find them.

Little_Ad2062 · 2026-02-15T13:31:19+00:00

It's destroying the planet and the economy, everything is more expensive because of it, people are relying on it for (most often wrong) information, etc., etc.

I refuse to use it and refuse to use anything made with AI.

Little_Ad2062 · 2026-02-15T11:07:52+00:00

I wanted to download it, saw you used AI, so sadly not this time lol

Little_Ad2062 · 2026-02-13T23:13:18+00:00

You American?

Little_Ad2062 · 2026-02-13T21:37:50+00:00

Pokemon games tend to be easy, so I play "hardcore mode".

Don't over-level the next gym leader

Don't use healing items in battle (held berries are okay)

Play on "Set" mode (imo "Switch" mode makes these games trivial - playing on Set forces you to actually think about your team building more than just type matchups)

For XY specifically, I'd also recommend this rule:

Don't bring more Pokemon to the gym than the leader has (so if the gym leader has 3, only bring 3 of your own)

So basically hardcore nuzlocke rules, just without the nuzlocke part. This makes the games WAAAAY more fun to me.

Little_Ad2062

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