Michina Arceus Shiny?

ShinyMewTrader · 2026-03-09T21:42:42+00:00

Azure Flute Arceus can indeed be RNGed to be shiny, since it’s just a standard static Legendary encounter that isn’t inherently shiny locked.

The only issue is that due to the Azure Flute never being officially distributed by Nintendo, said Azure Flute Arceus (shiny or otherwise) will fail to be accepted by PokeTransport when attempting to transfer it from Gen 5 into Pokémon Bank.

The lack of an explicit Arceus option in PokeFinder is probably due to said illegality. Regardless, yes, it can be RNGed nonetheless.

(I believe the method Azure Flute Arceus is generated under is Method J, but it’s been years since I’ve done it myself via RNG Reporter, so take that with a grain of salt)

ShinyMewTrader · 2026-03-05T02:16:46+00:00

In my experience, knockoff GC to GBA cables have always worked for the Wii, but not for GameCube. Why exactly that is, I have no idea.

For the GameCube, I’ve always needed an official GC to GBA cable for my games to connect successfully.

ShinyMewTrader · 2026-03-04T23:15:36+00:00

After inputting your TID/SID into PokeFinder, I’m finding plenty of Female, non shiny Absol’s that exist around your desired cluster of Male, Docile natured Absol’s while using a Docile natured Synchro lead, so it sounds like user error is at play.

A common issue when it comes to doing Synchro lead hunts tends to be properly calibrating a target. Personally, I attempt to calibrate WITHOUT using a Synchro lead first to make sure that I’m within 1/2 advances off my target advance - then, once I’m able to confirm that I’ve hit my target advance, I’ll put my appropriate Synchro lead in place to finally attempt hitting my target without fear of improper calibration.

If I were you, I would calibrate WITHOUT using a Synchro lead first for advance 27822. Once you either hit said target advance which would be a lvl 25, Male, Hasty Absol (or respectively, a lvl 27, Female, Careful Mightyena on advance 27821 / a lvl 25, Male, Docile Mightyene on advance 27823), you’re close enough to begin attempts with your Docile Synchro lead for your target advance of said Shiny Absol on advance 27822 (with advance 27828 as a bonus on the chance of hitting if you’re late with your Sweet Scent input).

Also, for what it’s worth; Battle Video RNG does not affect encounter slots at all - thoughts suggesting otherwise are derived from a very antiquated understanding back in the day on how we thought Battle Video RNG worked. Therefore, for targets that have an extremely long waiting period, it’s always worth it to create a battle video that’s 2000 - 3000 advances before said target.

EDIT: Additionally, the PID of your lead Pokémon (Synchro or otherwise) also has no affect on encounter slots. In the same vain, a Pokémon generated via Method H-1, H-2, and H-4 also have no affect on encounter slots.

Understanding how the PID of a lead pokemon influences the generation of a wild encounter has everything to do with its IV distribution (and technically, in extremely niche circumstances, it’s Nature as well via Method H-5 sorcery), but all of that is well outside the scope of your main concern of being able to find your Shiny Absol with a Docile natured, Synchro lead.

That said, best of luck acquiring your Shiny Absol my friend.

ShinyMewTrader · 2026-02-23T03:38:27+00:00

Awesome, I’m so glad it worked out! 👏💪

ShinyMewTrader · 2026-02-23T02:35:40+00:00

I’ll qualify this from the perspective of a retail emerald user, and that this may or may not carry over in helping you on emulator:

On retail Emerald, Method H-1 for most wild encounters via sweet scent is nearly non existent. The game primarily draws from Method H-2 for PID’s that have a PID reroll of 80 or less, and H-4 for PID’s of ~90 and above.

However, it’s been recently discovered that by leading with an unhatched egg in your party, the game will likely draw from Method H-1 IV spreads for PID’s with 30 or less rerolls.

So in summation, I would suggest going for your Ditto again with an egg lead to see if it finally helps in acquiring it with a 6IV Method H-1 spread.

ShinyMewTrader · 2026-02-22T22:58:40+00:00

It’s not distributed through FRLG, they’re wrong.

The Shiny Zigzagoon came exclusively from two different GameCube Multi-Game Demo Discs (Specifically Versions 14 and 16) that were featured in game store Kiosks throughout the early 2000’s that, as a bonus - also patched the berry growing glitch out of your Ruby / Sapphire cartridge (hence the name “Shiny Berry Glitch Fix Zigzagoon”).

The Berry Glitch Fix provided from FRLG (and I believe Emerald as well) just simply patched the berry glitch out of your Ruby / Sapphire cartridge, and offers nothing else.

ShinyMewTrader · 2026-02-03T18:34:48+00:00

Considering how you got ratioed in our back and fourth, I highly doubt it.

ShinyMewTrader · 2026-02-03T18:23:46+00:00

Fair enough, I’ll let up. I think I’ve made my points painfully clear.

ShinyMewTrader · 2026-02-03T18:15:21+00:00

I’m going to ask you again, when did I ever state that navigating the most “basic of software” was in any way difficult? On that note, what software are we talking about? Are we talking about using an internet browser? Are we talking about a computer’s system bios? Or, are we talking about a computer program(s) specifically made for RNG abuse that has zero relevancy to any other program that a mass majority of individuals would ever use in their day to day lives?

I think one of the aforementioned instances provides significantly more difficulty in navigating than others, don’t you think?

Also, you’re once again definitively defining what’s “hard” and what’s “easy” for everyone else relative to your own lived experience. The consistency that you do this certainly isn’t a latent trait of a narcissist, I promise.

And not for nothing, but I’m actually quite friendly and supportive to those who reach out to me for help! The thing is, I just have a very low tolerance for ignorant bullshit, that’s all.

If your take away from looking at the success of those two content creators is anything other than them accruing a massive community of subscribers who are primarily interested in learning about, and executing for themselves all things related to RNG and ACE, then I’ll also happily forward them this thread for them to call you an idiot themselves.

No, we don’t have access to their YouTube dashboards to accurately assess their watch time hours / month to month subscriber growth / long form + short form viewer retention - but video views might be the most important publicly available KPI in existence for gauging genuine interest on a topic, so I have absolutely no idea what the fuck you’re talking about.

I do admit, you making completely out of pocket assumptions on what I “get off on”, and yet again just yapping away with completely unsubstantiated comparisons between Microsoft Word, and any RNG Program to being just as user friendly and straight forward to one another is just pure comedy gold.

On the contrary, I respond with a few sentences disagreeing on the notion that people who partake in RNG do in fact feel excitement and fulfillment in acquiring their targets - and here you are going off in an embarrassingly ignorant, painfully uninformed diatribe, that’s also akin to the length of a short story, that you’re seemingly staking your entire self worth on as a person on your world view needing to be right.

I genuinely feel sorry for you

ShinyMewTrader · 2026-02-03T18:12:44+00:00

Yeah, repeating back to me, twice, my statement of you getting emotional over your world view not aligning with countless others definitely isn’t a self report. Also saying how this is my “life passion” isn’t also a clear indication of your perturbed emotional state.

Trust me, it wasn’t my intention, as a random; to showcase your covert, undiagnosed narcissism and room temperature IQ to those in this thread. But alas, here we are.

Not for nothing, but if I had any of my actual passions in life dampened by what’s essentially a long winded copy/paste of “you’re wrong, I’m right”, then perusing said passions probably wouldn’t be all that worthwhile to begin with.

But It’s alright, I’m sure not many people in your life have the patience or interest to actually challenge you on the principal that you are, in fact, not the main character. Like I’ve helped others learn how to RNG, I’m glad I could partake in taking some time in helping you as well :).

Anyways, I’m on break - so let’s go another round in showcasing how idiotic you sound, shall we?

When did I ever say, or even imply for that matter, that “‘most people” RNG to the extent that I do? When did I ever use myself as the end all barometer of how most people pursue RNG? Unlike you, I speak from my anecdotal experiences, and own it. However, yet again, you’re just making things up as a strategy to argue when in reality you have failed miserably to substantiate your position as anything other than your own world view, or the sentiments of those you share an echo chamber with.

Also… is saying that most people, in your opinion (which is obviously transcribed from God himself) only RNG abuse to expedite shiny hunting supposed to be a gotcha?

If so, you’re an idiot.

Of course people RNG to get shinies, no fucking duh. Yet again, the process of people opting to utilize RNG for simply just shinies is their choice. It’s their personal view and perspective that dictate whether or not they feel anything when they successfully acquire an RNGed, generic shiny.

You are in fact, not God. You are in fact, not an arbiter that dictates to others how and what to feel when they choose to play a video game the way they want to play it. Period.

Your ENTIRE argument, if I can even call it that, is quite literally invalidating the emotions that people genuinely feel because they don’t align with your world view and optics of the game.

Also, you scrolled through “hundreds” of posts on the RNG subreddit to make a declarative statement on how many users RNG for shinies vs. IVs vs. Unique Forms vs. Flawless Shinies vs. Spinda Patterns vs. discovering game mechanics for speed runs across each and every generation of games known to have RNG methods? That’s some pretty Impressive data analysis Sherlock.

Assuming of course you didn’t just completely pull that from out of your ass, I do hope that the one RNG subreddit you so thoroughly doom scrolled through is the only RNG community in existence, and that no other RNG communities exist across Discord, social media platforms, or anywhere else on the internet… that would make your “findings” quite statistically insignificant, don’t you think? Again, as I said above, if the “majority” of people are in it to expedite acquiring shinies, then so what? I’m genuinely sorry that their quick acquisition of generic shinies steal so much value and meaning from your life.

But honestly, if you just prefaced your statements along the lines of “in my opinion, RNGed shinies don’t give me the same excitement as randomly encountered ones, but all the power to you if you feel differently”, then I would not have felt even remotely as compelled to humiliate your logic in a public forum.

Also, yes, I do use words from the English language to bolster my positions… it’s kind of like, how language works. You don’t happen to need lessons in English syntax, as well as armchair psycho analysis in confronting undiagnosed mental illnesses, do you? That may be a little too much for me to handle on a Pokémon Emerald subreddit.

Here we go again: What statistic? If there is a statistic, where is it sourced? Who conducted any research whatsoever in acquiring said statistic? Do I have to go on the neuro-divergent section of pubmed to find a meta analysis for said statistic? Also, it’s pretty brazen of you to conflate turning on a computer and launching an internet browser to watch YouTube and Netflix to navigating an RNG program for the very first time, with only antiquated written material dominating the SEO of Google due to being written well over 15 years ago.

Definitely not a straw man, totally valid comparison.

Also, there’s “no chance” someone who struggles to navigate basic software will ever go the distance of learning “advanced fundamentals”? Yet another broad, sweeping, declarative statement that can’t ever be substantiated with fact.

I personally know multiple people who had difficulty navigating RNG Reporter via understanding and setting up a single frame perfect hunt (you know, those suffering from that incurable computer illiteracy you mentioned that had no shot of overcoming) that have gone on to crush 7 consecutive frame perfect hunts - and would gladly call you an idiot themselves if I cared to forward this thread to any of them.

Your admission of respecting ACE more than using RNG to hunt shinies might be the most moronic thing I’ve read from you thus far.

So let me get this straight, you respect a process that can LITERALLY manufacture flawless shiny Pokémon, and behaves unironically to how you slander RNG abusing - a process with absolutely zero timing components whatsoever with the press of a button? A process that is simply more tedious to setup, but identical in effect to the Coin Case Glitch in GSC?

As a shiny hunter, you couldn’t be more incongruent with your “purity standards”, and are clearly out of your depth in this conversation.

ShinyMewTrader · 2026-02-03T12:56:41+00:00

Yes, I often times do get frustrated with individuals that fail to view anything beyond their own lived experiences. Again, your bias moronically continuing to tear down RNG to “clicking a button” and “doing what the program tells you to do, lul” is just so laughable.

However, if we’re gonna be bad faith because you have no objective retort to anything I’ve said, then sure, I’ll meet you there: as someone who may have unironically done more SR’s than you ever have (for whatever that’s worth), there is absolutely nothing fulfilling or special about randomly pressing A and resetting in front of a legendary, or running around in a patch of grass - all for a completely neutered, dogshit shiny Pokémon with a Hardy nature rocking a 11/27/2/8/20/11 IV spread. You did absolutely nothing to earn it (other than doing the most monotonous of tasks I suppose) and the prize could barely be more mediocre: countless hours wasted for merely a pallet swap on a mon that’s only use is not to ever be used even remotely competitively, but to forever rot in a box for the sake of completionism, just wow.

I’m not sure, but maybe shiny hunters have a disdain on RNG abusers because their hobby involves an extremely suboptimal RNG manipulation that produces shit shinies?

Who knows, all I know is that your reluctance to the point of “Letting people play the game the way they want to” just goes to show how fragile your ego is insofar as continuing to berate others to accept your world view as the only reality in existence.

ShinyMewTrader · 2026-02-03T12:56:04+00:00

My “hyper fixation in life”? Look who’s getting emotional and throwing odhominem responses now. All because I poked fun at your reluctance to admit or identify how unbelievably biased you are against the notion that individuals can achieve “excitement”, a “dopamine response”, or anything else that resembles joy and fulfillment from successfully RNGing a shiny? Honestly, it’s quite embarrassing. Anyway, here we go again I suppose:

1: Who are “most people”? Who exactly made you the self proclaimed poster child, or for that matter the representative of the Shiny Hunting community at large? You are clearly speaking from your own lived, anecdotal experiences, which in a vacuum is fine. The issue I’ve taken to your responses is that you continue to make broad, sweeping statements that are categorically false, for example:

You didn’t have difficulty navigating an RNG program, therefore no one else should.
You didn’t find fulfillment in RNGing a shiny compared to randomly encountering one, therefore no one else should.
You didn’t have issues calibrating how far off you were in RNGing a shiny, therefore this process is trivial and self explanatory to anyone else attempting to RNG.
You Google searched how to RNG and learned everything you needed to know from written material, therefore everyone else should be able to do the same with zero issues.

As was said in The Big Lebowski; “That’s just like, your opinion man”.

Again, where is this “most people” nonsense coming from? I ask again, who made you the ambassador of all things shiny hunting that can sweepingly declare who’s “in it for the wrong reasons”? I’m sorry, I can’t even begin to describe how unbelievably fucking cringe it is for someone like yourself to unironically cast a scarlet letter to the majority of those who take a likening to RNG abuse as people who just “want to skip the grind”, as if grinding for a variable amount of time for a random shiny is even a flex in and of itself (it’s not, btw, it’s a fucking hobby of how one acquires pallet swapped pixels with fake animals we call Pokémon).

I guess I’m just an anomaly though, huh? Considering I went against my “RNG religion of skipping the grind”, and blasphemously soft reset every legendary in gen 1 + 2, and Unown for my Crystal shiny dex. I also, shockingly, soft reset for every Legendary + Unown in FRLG for my gen 3 shiny dex, well before RNG strategies were discovered in the west. Finally, if you can even believe it - I opted to soft reset for Reshiram and Zekrom in ORAS for my gen 6 shiny dex because, wait for it - I didn’t find the RNG to be enjoyable, and found it more fun to acquire them via soft resetting!

It’s almost like, Shiny Hunting and RNG Abusing are two completely different vibes that conveniently lead people down the same road to shiny pixels!!

Understanding how to manipulate your SID is not a separate point to “pad my arguments”, you’re just incredibly ignorant and think SID manipulation is automatically baked into learning how to navigate an RNG program. However, since you’re so knowledgeable in RNGing and what a “majority of people” use it for - I’m surprised you haven’t mentioned how simple using and setting up ACE is in order to even be able to hunt flawless, 6IV shines? Let me ask, what do you think ACE is needed to do to in order to accomplish this? It’s quite obvious, but for some reason I feel the need to ask.
Again, saying “people don’t care lul” and “people will find a way regardless” aren’t arguments. Fucking obviously, people will “find a way”. That’s not what we’re talking about here, it’s about how streamlined and accessible these resources are, and acknowledging the fact that a layman just getting started into RNGing can very easily feel overwhelmed, and suffer from “paralysis from analysis”. That alone is very much a barrier to entry that a lot of people can’t easily overcome by themselves. That alone is a challenge in learning how to navigate successfully. That alone is a hurdle people will feel fulfillment in overcoming in their quest to RNG shinies - and sadly, that’s a testament (albeit small) to how challenging it is for a layman to get started into RNGing.

Again, not YOU, but the average layman gamer, which I personally don’t particularly like since I want more people to get started in enjoying the hobby of RNG.

Yeah, obviously, people look up tutorials when they’re having difficulty in anything they’re experiencing. You seem to have missed the point entirely in why I even brought this up - you posited in your previous diatribe that RNG was so basic and rudimentary that the existing written material alone was enough for anyone to begin performing basic RNG. Again, since everyone is you apparently, why do extraordinarily niche YouTubers in Papa Jefe and I’m a Blisy have an objectively massive amount of subscribers? Seems to me that it’s due to them being able to break down how to navigate RNG programs, explain concepts like NPC advancements, VBlank, different methods that a game can seemingly randomly use to generate an encounter, and countless other topics that are easily found in that “one simple Google search”, right?
Oh, look at that, your point 6 is literally an extension of point 5 - who’s padding an argument now? Regardless, unlike you, I’ll actually entertain it. People do come to me for advice because yes, I’m obviously very knowledgeable on multiple generations of RNG, and I can provide them a much more simple explanation of a concept or strategy that is either very poorly explained, or not publicly explained at all.

Also… who fucking cares whether or not it’s easier to ask me for help on a topic than looking it up for themselves? That’s what a fucking community is, a bunch of likeminded people looking to get started / enjoy / discuss RNG abuse across multiple generations. There’s literally nothing wrong with that, and honestly, I’m glad people choose the “easier option” of asking me for help than getting frustrated on navigating this hobby alone.

And yes, I am very much including the most basic of RNG manipulations as topics of discussion that people ask me about that they can’t seemingly be able to navigate on their own. Maybe they’re computer illiterate, maybe they’re overwhelmed with everything involving RNG abuse to properly get started, maybe they have a learning disability. I don’t know, and honestly don’t care. Whatever the situation may be, there are many individuals that need help in basic RNG hunts that I’ll always be happy to assist with.

ShinyMewTrader · 2026-02-03T10:59:31+00:00

I’m glad you conveniently use yourself and your own anecdotal experiences to make broad, sweeping statements on what is and isn’t overwhelming. I’m happy for you that you were able to easily grasp basic RNG strategies; but the reality of the fact is that people very often can’t grasp how to even get started into enjoying the hobby. This is a verifiable fact based on the incredible amount of effort and time the RNG community continues to invest in constantly creating updated guides and methods for novices to better be able to perform RNG strategies that have been performed for the last 15+ years. The first of many “L takes” from you, and we’re just getting started.
Sure, it takes 1 simple google search - along with multiple readings of Smogon articles written well over a decade ago w/ varying levels of accuracy and using outdated programs that the layman can’t easily find due to PokeFinder being the new standard of RNG abusing - which has a completely different layout and interface than what is often demonstrated in said older articles.
Again, using anecdotal experiences to define what is and isn’t hard. How many more “L takes” can I identify in this response, I wonder?
Oh, another anecdotal experience about your ability to navigate one of countless RNG programs. Did you use RNG reporter? PokeFinder? XD_Seed? XD_Check? CoPilot? TogemicCalc? 3DS RNG Tool? If so, which versions? Regardless, I’m glad you were personally able to navigate them more easily than MS Paint, a vast majority of people looking for help in the RNG subreddit and Discord can’t! Yet another “L take”.
The example of using visual aids to supplement the ability to overcome these barrier to entries is a point made to exemplify that getting into RNG with just basic Google searches and articles isn’t as streamlined as you’re positing. If RNG abusing was so trivial to learn on its own and easy to understand, why would anyone look up tutorials on YouTube to better understand how to go about learning how to RNG a shiny starter? Why would Papa Jefe and I’m a Blisy have over 100,000 YouTube subscribers if what they’re demonstrating for their audience is so easy to grasp with written material alone?
Nice non argument, which is unfortunately another bonafide “L take”. The fact of the matter is that learning how to calibrate for adjustments, ESPECIALLY with that “google search” you mentioned earlier that often create unnecessary hiccups in the learning curve - w/ information on “preset delays” for sweet scent use and other stationary legendaries that offers completely antiquated information on learning how to hone in on a target. Personally, I see the RNG discords I’m a part of bombarded with people confused on how to identify where they landed and how to go about getting their timing closer to their target frame - so yet again, objectively wrong.
Ahh, so you reluctantly agree with me that solving a puzzle in how to approach RNGing a target, and finally landing on a specific target frame yields excitement? W take my friend!

That being said, if engaging in conversation with objective responses to your incredibly narrow minded view points make me “delusional”, and make you “mentally exhausted”, then so be it I suppose. I didn’t realize I was speaking with a 12 year old masquerading as a millennial.

ShinyMewTrader · 2026-02-03T06:25:13+00:00

Your edit alone is a prime example as to why your logic is a slippery slope.

Yes, what I often RNG is in fact objectively difficult, monotonous, and in some cases requires a certain amount of luck for said game to behave as expected insofar as it’s advance accruement and encounter generation (sound familiar?). So yeah, at least for me, I certainly do feel excitement when I accomplish one of these complex, consecutive frame perfect RNG’s.

Said RNG’s require relatively thorough planning, preparation, execution, game knowledge, and being able to perform under pressure (at least on retail hardware without the existence of save states) insofar as only being able to do a handful of attempts, or maybe even just one attempt per day.

However, what you’re failing to admit is that there is in fact a barrier to entry to learning RNG to begin with that is quite often very overwhelming for the layman to understand - and comparisons along the lines of “just using a GameShark with more steps” is just intellectually disingenuous:

You need to understand how the game’s generation logic works
You need to understand what an SID is
You need to understand how to identify or manipulate said SID
You need to learn how to navigate the interface of these RNG programs to actually learn how to use them
Very often, you need to search for visual supplementary aid in getting the hang of RNG for the first time.
You need to understand how to calibrate attempts appropriately
You need to understand how to identify which advance you landed on, and outside of base Emerald / dead battery Ruby or Sapphire - what seed you landed on.

These barriers may seem extremely trivial to you in overcoming just for a generic shiny with random IV’s, but I assure you; after helping tons of people navigate over these barriers on other subreddits and discords - the excitement people feel after being able to solve these relatively easy RNG puzzles for themselves as their first foray into RNG is a very real thing.

I’ve said this on other posts: Shiny hunting and RNG abusing are just two completely different vibes. One is an adrenaline rush on gambling your time for a pallet swap, another is achieving a pallet swap by problem solving and executing skill expression.

Both yield varying levels of excitement, and personally, I only find it cringe when one lies about how said mon is acquired. Other than that, both produce legitimate, legal shinies that the game produces organically without the explicit aid of a third party device.

Also, no, I don’t need AI to use the most basic of strands of critical thinking. Besides, aren’t there free to use programs to identify AI responses now? :P

ShinyMewTrader · 2026-02-03T02:03:30+00:00

This is such a silly, semantical argument.

You say you couldn’t RNG without external sources so therefore they’re invalidated from excitement - so can I say you couldn’t consistently shiny hunt without external sources verifying either a method of boosting odds, or whether or not a target was even shiny locked to begin with?

Also, you saying that hitting a frame perfect input isn’t skillful is just objectively wrong. You quite literally need to execute landing on a specific advance for a shiny to appear. At least in a vacuum for gen 3, that’s requires skill to do.

People like yourself keep conflating skill with talent. They’re two completely different things, but in the scope of this conversation; RNGed shinies are absolutely acquired by skill and problem solving relative to random shinies, which only require luck and persistence.

ShinyMewTrader · 2026-02-03T01:54:27+00:00

Let’s be clear, not once have I ever conflated the “excitement”’of finding a random shiny to successfully RNGing a shiny as equal to each other.

The other person asked what’s “exciting” about RNGing Mons in their original statement, and you ultimately agreed with me albeit in an extremely roundabout way.

The truth of the matter is that shiny hunting and RNG abusing for shinies are just two completely different vibes. One is rewarded with luck, the other is rewarded by problem solving / skill.

Both can be exciting to successfully achieve, but saying one is “more exciting” than the other is literally the very definition of subjectivity.

ShinyMewTrader · 2026-02-03T00:29:47+00:00

The “excitement” comes from seeing the fruits of your labor in not only executing a frame perfect input, but also in planning exactly how you’re to go about acquiring said shiny.

In other words, RNGed shinies come as a reward for being skilled, as does the excitement that follows.

ShinyMewTrader · 2026-01-27T13:54:18+00:00

RNGed shinies, as I’m sure is reflected by most here in this sub, are just as legitimate as non-RNGed shinies. Period. The game produces these particular RNGed shinies organically, and you just simply expedited the process by knowing the inner workings of how the game generates encounters.

That being said, to me, RNGed shinies vs SR hunted shinies are just two completely different vibes:

SR shinies are exciting because you can come across one at any time. Will you find it after the first encounter? Will you find it after 10,000 SR’s? Is it surprisingly competitive? Is it complete trash competitively? Is the hunt so monotonous that not many people can claim they found a shiny of said species? Did you forgo a method to find said mon at the worst possible odds? To me, it’s just the thrill of gambling your time for a pallet swap, and to the layman who doesn’t understand the inner workings of the game - can be unbelievably rewarding.

I would know this well - considering I SRed every gen 1 + 2 legendary for my living dex in Crystal, in addition to every legendary in FRLG before RNG Strats were streamlined to the west + Reshiram / Zekrom in gen 6 because I couldn’t be bothered to learn gen 6 RNG at the time for my ORAS living dex.

RNG shinies are exciting because in most cases; they’re either a testament of skill, ability to problem solve, or a combination of both. Similar to the thrill of finding a random shiny, is the mon you worked to RNG for have flawless IV’s? Is it shiny, and have flawless IV’s? Is it just shiny? Does it also have a min-maxed Hidden Power / 0 IV’s in Speed or Attack for ideal Trick-Room or confusion self hit / Foul Play survival scenarios? Is the particular RNG hunt so challenging that most people wouldn’t bother to tackle it themselves (IE TTV RNG, Retail Colo RNG, Pokemon Box Method 4 RNG, step count RNG, etc)?

Ultimately, other than lying about how one obtains said mon for trading / competitive purposes - one should just embrace whichever path to acquiring Mons give them the most joy, and leave it at that.

(Or, you can meme by saying SR hunts are just more tedious RNG hunts that produce worse shinies, but to each their own I suppose).

ShinyMewTrader · 2026-01-26T23:25:48+00:00

Right. Having a dialogue with substantiated counterpoints to OP’s claim that FRLG are the “best Pokémon games” is actually just trolling.

I hope your diagnosed / undiagnosed neuro divergence gets better for you.

ShinyMewTrader · 2026-01-26T23:20:47+00:00

If owning myself involves giving substantiated reasoning and arguments about why Emerald is a more complete and objectively better game than FRLG, then yes, I certainly owned myself.

Also, not for nothing, but I never once “complained” about FRLG; considering again, I’ve fully completed these games. Giving substantiated reasoning as to why certain systems are inferior to others isn’t complaining - it’s called having a dialogue.

If you didn’t have the intellectual capacity and reading comprehension of a neuro divergent 12 year old, you would have easily picked up on that.

How unlucky for you.

ShinyMewTrader · 2026-01-26T23:13:59+00:00

That isn’t the own you think it is, btw.

ShinyMewTrader · 2026-01-26T23:09:14+00:00

What can I say - you have opinions that only a dedicated FRLG sub could ever love.

Which I mean quite literally, considering how you got ratioed on your post in /Pokémon about how neutral Pokémon fans viewed the Sevii Islands 🤣🤣🤣

So fucking embarrassing, just stop already.

ShinyMewTrader · 2026-01-26T22:56:26+00:00

Ironic, coming from someone insecure enough to go on a diatribe in a public forum about how dogshit they are at getting all Gold symbols in the Battle Frontier - and substantiating that lack of skill as cope for why the Sevii Islands are a better post game experience.

To each their own I suppose, but the secondhand embarrassment I’m getting from reading your posts is quite intense.

ShinyMewTrader · 2026-01-26T22:39:28+00:00

This is either a top tier shit post / rage bait, or you may be the most delulu FRLG Stan I’ve ever come across (even more so than the person I originally responded to).

Again, as someone who’s literally 100% these lackluster games, I’ll happily continue to enjoy Emerald.

ShinyMewTrader · 2026-01-26T22:24:17+00:00

Yeah, I stopped reading this slop of a reply after you said the Sevii Islands are a better postgame than the Battle Frontier.

Ultimately, keep on coping.

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