1 in 40,960

I just founded a shiny Camerupt in Pokemon Platinum with full odds!!! My first shiny was a shiny numel in pokemon sapphire in like 2009. Around three years I lost that game while traveling - it had my first level 100 and a total of 550 hours before the clock stopped. I recently started to shiny hunt using the pokeradar in Platinum, but when I found the shiny it was not part of any chain (chaining increases odds). Camerupt only has a 20% of being encountered in the area I was in. Thank God that was not a golbat or ferrow.

Since Camerupt is shiny, 1/8192 and then multiplied by the odds of encountering a Camerupt at all 1/5 gives me 1/40,960. (Hopefully my math is not too horribly off)

Edit: I cannot describe how insanely happy and excited I am. Literally this made my year. This is the highlight of my luck. like in 2016 I opened 10 packs of holon phantoms and got a gold star pikachu. RNGjesus has done me well. On cloud 9… no, cloud 40,960

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  1. Congrats!

  2. Pics or it didn’t happen

  3. Nothing wrong with shiny Golbat, except that it was once shiny Zubat.

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Hell yeah, congrats!

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Wow congrats thats insane!

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Shiny Camerupt is amazing!

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Wow! Congrats!

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Amazing! Congrats! My 3 yr old kid and I were playing Let’s Go Pikachu a bit ago and we caught a Shiny Rhyhorn! No shiny chaining or anything was in use, just good 'ol RNG. I was so excited, we threw a little “party,” which was just me going to the store and buying a Carvel Ice Cream cake hahaha. Doesn’t it feel good to get a shiny? Very happy for you, man, and hope that it happens again soon!

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:sunglasses:

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Congrats! :blush: I know how exciting it is to run into a shiny. Especially on the older games with full odds!

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Wanna hear something crazy? I once found a random shiny Aipom in Crystal as I was headbutting trees looking for a Heracross to shiny breed.

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Ah, I remember my first shiny. Also Pokemon Sapphire, but it was a Wingull. I made it my HM slave after it evolved.

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Wholesome Level 100

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  1. Big thanks :blush:

  2. Making this post to upload the pic in the morning.

  3. Shiny Crobat >> shiny Golbat and Zubat though

lol, that is an amazing flex to have a shiny as your HM slave. Sapphire was such an amazing game

That’s awesome! The good old RNG shinies are so amazing, and it’s super cool that you had a party for them : )

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