I just happened to do a Magikarp raid for the candy and xp, it turned out to be a 98% shiny and my first one too!
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Far out. Good for you, disapoint for me. I’ve done between 45-50 (lost 8 days of data) Magikarp Raids now fo no Shiny. What’s even worse is best one has been 93% IV.
I’ve convinced myself when I do get one it will a 100%er. I’ll spew if it’s a crappy bottom end IV after all the Raid Passes I’ve wasted on these as the return of Goldies, TM’s and Rares has not been worth the time.
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Caught my first one last night, a Duskull. I had to attempt 737 to do it, but it finally happened. Hoping to hunt Sableye tonight.
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I have two shiny magicarp
I’ve been grinding like hell for a duskull, but no luck. I’ve only managed about 30 Sableye encounters so no luck there. Not sure why but sableye seems much rarer for me than a lot of people during the event. Now shuppet is apparently shiny too, so I’ll try that one too.
Not holding out much hope, but I still have a day or two left
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Shiny Karp #3 on the way to work this morning.
Saw a Karp was in sightings at the Round About Pokestop (others may know this as a turning circle) while catching Gulpins at the Gym 50m before the Round About.
No car behind so I was going heaps slow, the Poke Stop became available but no Karp spawn appeared to quickly click on so instead of going straight like I normally do I made a split minute decision to turn the corner and it appeared. Quickly click on it and drove forward 100m to where I could park legally. Looked down at phone and it was a Shiny.
73% IV_135 CP
Stats since last Shiny.
77 Days
410 Magikarp Encounters
17 Raids
Had to make an edit above after consolidating 2 spread sheets. I never transferred some data over to the newer format.
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My daughter has a Shiny Shuppet now to go along with her Shiny Magikarp. I still only have just a Shiny Pikachu.
Spent 3hrs on the push bike yesterday riding a bike/walking trail 10mins from home that’s littered with Gyms and Pokestops.
Got this as one of the last catches for the day before calling it quits.
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Nice; congrats. I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a shiny Pokemon other than Magikarp, and they’ve all had absolute crap for CP.
This is one shiny Gyarados caught as a Magikarp with about 26 CP, after I evolved it and then dumped tons of candies and stardust to power it up to something useful.
I’m inclined to think most shinies are a costly vanity, considering the disproportionate quantity of resources it takes to make them useful, versus more ordinary Pokemon with better IV / CP traits.
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Please tell me that was a worthy IV of all that Dust and Candy?
Not all of them a re crap.
A friend caught a 93IV over 100CP Shiny Karp. Took her 3 days to tell me as she wasn’t chasing them and knew I’d be farming 2 nests over 2 weeks and had caught over 500+ for no Shiny.
My son got a Shiny Snorunt on his 4th day of playing the game. He has the same number of Shinys that I do since playing from July of 2016.
I’ve powered my shiny Gyarados up all my stardust. It’s just 49% iv but has 15 attack.
15 Attack with Waterfall and Hydro Pump does make it quite useful.
I wouldn’t go past L30 with that though.
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OMG lucky have dusclops shiny but none else
A Shiny Karp with over 100 CP? Sweet. After the amount of futility you’d had, that had to sting a little. Looking at that 135CP Shiny Karp, though, it appears your efforts did bear fruit in a big way – kudos for that.
That’s nothing compared to how long before my first Shiny Karp. My close hunting freinds gave me so much crap as I was farming nests on the Push Bike where ever I could find one. One called in to see me at one of the nests one day and the first Karp they clicked on was Shiny for them. I copped it for weeks until I got my own.
I tracked everything and logged weekly reports on another Forum that sadly shut down so I lost 8 days of data while I was farming a local nest for an hour each day before work…
Lucky I regularly updated my close hunting group through Telegram on the progress so I was able to recover the results and convert them into a spread sheet in Google docs.I reset the day counter and encounters each time I get one. I count Dust offs as well as Captures as it’s easy to work out from the caught and seen in the Poke Dex.
Here’s the run down of all 4
Shiny #1
Caught 2017 September 15th_564 encounters, 148 days_107CP, 53%_28 were Raids
Shiny #2
Caught 2017 September 24th_77 encounters, 9 days_20CP_19%_1 was a Raid (this is where I lost the 8 days of traceable data, I estimate roughly 50-70 Karp and 3-4 Raids in that time extra)
Shiny #3
Caught 2017 December 12th_410 encounters, 77 days_135CP_74%_17 were Raids
Shiny #4
Caught 2018 January 6th_40 encounters, 24 days_84CP_44%_2 have been Raids
Level 39, 17442 Pokemon caught. Never captured a shiny yet (or seen any in the wild).
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