Episode 3: Part 5 -- A Pokémon Retrospective Gold and Silver

[jedgex2]

DON"T FLAME ME playing HG i fought mewtwo only for it to be shiny no freaken lie

[ChaserOfTheDawn]

lol wow... i feel kinda weird that I USED TO think the Rocket Executives were Jessie and James in the future or somethin >.<

[BistroMcSex]

Black Charizard <3

[sethnuva]

@BistroMcSex you have just crushed every ounce of my being by making me realize i will never have a black charizard :(

[KataraHaku7290]

Ha! In HGSS they took out the bouldrs in the gym XP

[04carrolld]

the only shiny i ever seen was a fucking tentacool not larvitar or something cool a god damn tentacool

[MannyPearce]

The only shiny I ever found/captured was a red gyarados. On platinum.

I was ecstatic but then I realised that Heartgold and Soulsilver would be out soon, and my shiny would become redundant and common.

Goddamn it nintendo.

[pokemoneinstein]

All shiny Pokémon have better IVs, thus, through training, they are more powerful than normal Pokémon.

[PKMNRetrospective]

@pokemoneinstein true, but isn't it a really really tiny percentage?

[pokemoneinstein]

@PKMNRetrospective I just looked it up. Apparently, in Gen. II, they had better stats. I mean they weren't like Pokémon gods or anything, but they were better. However, since then, their stats are just like any other Pokémon's.

That's pretty stupid.

[nicoleb]

@pokemoneinstein They only have slightly above average IVs, and that's only in Generation 2. In Generations 3 and up, the IVs can be anything from 0 to 31.

[NesBoy43]

RIP I guess no more vids

[Michelle8936380]

Most shinies are pretty cool, especially Charizard, but the Machop line's makes me laugh. The first thing that went through my head when I saw a shiny Machamp was HULK SMAAAASH! XD

[tontogawowski]

i spenta ges to get to claire with the boulder pushing, and then found out it was actually to save her coz she was stuck with the lava river surrounding her and all...

[jonservo]

i found a shiny golbat the regular searching way. it was green instead of blue which was pretty cool

[BrokenFWD]

oh it isn't that hard to get a shiny. hell I had (deleted my games alot) a shiny Meditite, Ryhorn, Delibird (twice, the second being in the remake), and at one time a shiny bulbasaur though I didn't notice it was shiny until looking it up later, the red Garidos of course, a shiny Raltz, and a friend game sharked me a shiny Mew though that was the only one I cheated for.

[BloodThirstWolf]

Some shinies are really cool looking...but I agree that they could have been more of a variety of colors for most of the pokemon T^T

[frankprime]

the shiny's in the new generation games are awseome

[tywood2012]

About the shinies...I'm pretty sure that Pokemon that were shiny in G/S they had better IVs than normal Pokemon (good for competitive play, even casual).

[PKMNRetrospective]

@tywood2012 and I was sure I read EVERYTHING I could about shinies before talking! My resarch is apparently really really sloppy. I'm gonna' go fix that now. Sorry for another wave of Pokinaccuracy!

[BrokenFWD]

@PKMNRetrospective while true that was fixed in the R/S versions so not sure how much good it will do to mention it unless it's going to be part of the rant on R/S.

[Roflauncher]

I love shiny pokemon!

[Evnyofdeath]

I've been wondering how Clair got behind us too