Shiny Giratina in Platinum - 1836 soft-resets

This was my first soft-reset shiny... also, my reaction was priceless. It took only 1836 soft-resets in front of Giratina until the shiny appeared. Man, 1836 resets is very lucky considering the 1 in 8192 chance, which is equivalent to 2 to the power of negative 13.

I was even luckier that my Bold natured Synchronizer lead worked on the shiny (the chance of getting a synchronized shiny on any given encounter is 1 in 16384!). I chose a Bold nature as I'm going to use this Giratina as a wall with 252 EVs in HP and 252 in Defense, and the moves Dragon Pulse, Calm Mind, Rest and Sleep Talk. One attack but it's very hard to defeat, so it's a good strategy (I'm using Altered Forme, since Origin Forme is reserved for my Shiny Giratina #2 which appeared on July 4, 2009).

Even better, the shiny had very nice IVs:

HP - 31, Attack - 20, Defense - 19, Special Attack - 29, Special Defense - 5, Speed - 23. Epic win.

One thing that other shiny-encounter videos don't do is prove it's a legitimate shiny by still filming afterwards until a normal, non-shiny wild Pokemon appears. My video shows this. It proves it's not hacked because with an Action Replay, the shiny code makes you ALWAYS encounter shinies. I had an AR but it stopped working ages ago (they are fragile).

The video is in 3 main parts:
1. Lowering Giratina to 1 HP (difficult as it's a Ghost type).
2. Trying to catch it (incredibly hard but based only on luck).
3. Showing its' summary screen and the calculated IVs.

Also, I had to use my Master Ball or else Giratina would have used Struggle as its' 30 PP total was about to be used up. Struggle would KO itself, and I'd have lost my shiny. I had no choice.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• shiny
• giratina
• origin
• forme
• platinum
• distortion
• world
• legitimate
• proof
• encounter
• drdimentio

[sk8ersagz]

does hard resetting work?

[DrDimentio]

@sk8ersagz Yes, but it's much slower and drains the battery faster when you turn the system on a lot.

[Arorastarleader]

Where'd you get smeargle?

[DrDimentio]

@Arorastarleader It's a Poke Radar exclusive in this game... can't remember the route, you should look it up on Bulbapedia.

[guhmanrocks]

I've tried like 200 times and it's making me mad. I don't have a lot of patience.

[DrDimentio]

@guhmanrocks If you don't have a lot of patience, don't try shiny hunting. It will drive you insane.

[guhmanrocks]

@DrDimentio I was ok for the first 75 and then it got boring then i just caught giratina none shiny

[Sc0rpx]

my bro once got this on 3rd try, we were both like WOOOT

[shinyhunter56]

@DrDimentio congats! ur lucky! mine hasnt shine yet! dang!

[DrDimentio]

@pokemonfreak573 lol, I see what you did there. I could also have a Timid, Quiet or Quirky nature.