The first shiny I encountered (i think as I may have encounted one earlier and just not noticed) was a rhydon but it was in the darn safari zone and the bugger fled - soooo frustrating. The next was a shiny oddish and luckily I caught her - she is now a gorgeous Bellosom. Both were in GBA games The next - and last was in diamond and it was a shiny eevee in the trophy garden. I screamed and started freaking out as eevee and it's evo's are my fave pokemon. Then I froze, i was so scared something bad would happen, luckily I had a poke with false swipe in my party. I eventually caught him. I have not touched him and he is safetly sitting in my box and is very treasured. I always have a poke with False swipe now as i never want to be in the situation of acidently killling a shiny or other good poke. My fave poke catcher is a Breloom with spore and false swipe - He has served me very well.
I have resetted many times trying to get shiny starters or in game event poke - but to no avail. I usually give up after 5 hours. I have also spent many frustrating hours resetting to try and get good IV's, but this is pretty hit and miss at the lower levels and I just go on which have slightly better looking stats and natures. I also generally reset untill I get a decent Trainer ID at the start. Unfortunantly I was so keen to start Diamond when I got it that i didn't bother - now I wish I had. I recently started Platinum and after over 3 hours of restting (while watching TV) got the ID 00800 so I kept it. The hard thing about doing it is that kinda good numbers would come up and it would be like do i keep it or try again and risk not getting anything any better and losing the ok one .
