Pokemon Diamond.

During this glorious holiday of mine, I have finished my Pokemon game by seeing all 150 pokemon in the Sinnoh Region and obtaining the National Pokedex!! It wasn't easy though, I had to trade a few pokemon, which were Riolu and Cherrim in order to complete 2 of the final 4 pokemon needed. Then, I went to Route 221, I think, maybe it's wrong, but anyway, yeah, I went there and caught a Tentacool. That completed the final 3 then went on to Celestic Town and talked to the Town Elder and she showed me a picture of Palkia, which completed the Sinnoh Region Pokedex. Yeah, the League was really hard, even when my pokemon were 10 levels away from their's, so if you want an easy battle go for 20 levels away, at least all your pokemon are at level 75 if you want to insure an easy battle.


Now, as you can see in the picture above, that is a Charizard, but don't you think there's something different? No, its not the size, no,no, no, its, hmmm, let me think, the eyes, Nah, well, duh, its the colour!! There's even a star at the far right corner to comfirm it. No, that is not my Charizard, apparently I tried taking a picture of it in the DS but it didn't turn out so well, so I googled it an found a picture. Now, the above pokemon is under the category of an ultra rare breed, well, more than ULTRA maybe, MEGA ULTRA rare because it is a starter and it is a Shiny pokemon. The thing about this breed is that it is the ultimate pokefan's collectible. Any pokefan would want a Black Charizard or shiny pokemon, its so COOL!!

But in order to obtain this pokemon, your chances of getting one, based on a few sites are 1 in 8000 pokemon, not 800 but 8000. I obtained my Charizard when it was a Charmander at level 3, I traded it with someone and mine likes sour food. I checked a few sites and some of them did mention that getting a shiny pokemon from hatching an egg is harder than to catch it in the wild. To tell you the truth, it really is. My elder bro told me that if I wanted to get a shiny pokemon, I should save before the egg hatches, try and save 1 step before hatching, and when it hatches, see if it is a shiny pokemon, if it isn't then turn the DS off and hatch it until you get a shiny pokemon. I actually DID try that and I lost my patience after the 25th time, I was hatching a Riolu.

I didn't get the shiny Riolu...

I searched the net and found a website that showed how to catch a shiny pokemon. I mentioned that you can obtain shiny pokemon with the pokeradar and the chance increases as you chain the pokemon higher. Chaining means that you encounter the same pokemon with the radar over and over again. This is the important part if you want to get shiny pokemon so read on carefully.

First, you obtain the radar by completing the Sinnoh Pokedex, 150 pokemon on your seen list, you don't have to catch them. Then, after you get it from Professor Rowan, you can start your shiny pokemon search!! The easiest place to get shiny pokemon is your home town, Twinleaf. Go to the grassy areas there, that's where I started anyway. Now, you have to prepare a lot of repels, max repels or super repels do just fine. Then use them before you start your pokeradar.

When you activated the pokeradar, you must do so in the grass, not in caves or while surfing, it won't work. Then, you will see patches of grass shaking, pick one and you will encounter a pokemon, even with your repel on. The reason for the repel is so that other wild pokemon will not interfere with your progress because when you encounter the same pokemon when walking into the patches of grass that was shaking, you start a chain and meeting a wild pokemon not be using the radar, breaks your chain, which is very heartbreaking. You must encounter the same pokemon, using the radar, up to maybe 40 times in order to easily get shiny pokemon. The patches of grass that shake are divided to 3 types:

1) It shakes with its normal colour.
2) It shakes with a small shine to it.
3) It shakes with 2 flashes of bright white shines.

The 3rd ensures your shiny pokemon, the 2nd ensures a rare pokemon, the first... maybe the normal kind. You can get advice from Lucas/Dawn, he/she tells you that the grass that shakes farthest from you ensures you meet the same pokemon again, and this is the most important advice he/she gives you. And you must also defeat the same pokemon you encounter to continue your chain. You must also pay attention to the upper screen after you defeat the same pokemon to see which patch of grass shakes next.

Example, you encounter a Bidoof when walking to the shaking patch of grass, then after defeating it you see 3 (there can be a maximum of 4 patches of grass shaking in one time) patches of grass shaking scattered around the field, pick the farthest one and there's a high chance of meeting a Bidoof again. You must not leave the grassy area because it will break you current chain, you cannot switch off the DS, it to will break your chain, and never use your bicycle, it will break your chain. Always keep your repel on and have a high level pokemon with false swipe and a lot of PP to help you. Once you encounter a different type of pokemon, your chain is broken and you have to start all over again.

Of course, it is a very hard task even to get 1 shiny pokemon. I stayed up till 1,30am to get one but I didn't. The current chain kept on breaking at around the 5th one. Oh, but I obtained a shiny pokemon from the most unexpected place, from hatching an egg, I hatched 3 eevee eggs and the 3rd one was a shiny eevee. That time I was surfing when it hatched. Ahhh, SOOOOO COOOLLLL!!!! And this Eevee is not for trading. Well that's all, you should search the net for a much better guide to catching and obtaining SHINY POKEMON!!!! (Background changes to a galaxy background while I point to the Sky...)



Farid