gone fishin': horsea in pokémon ruby // fishing encounters

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everyone have your super rods ready? let's go fishing! it's horsea time.

i've wanted to do this hunt for awhile due to my love for aquatic life and intense wish for purple kingdra. however, i have been very passive about hunting this year, so it took me far longer than it should have to set up during my incomplete ruby playthrough (not counting me having to double back to the trick house for the smoke ball, having my bag be full, and having to reset and do it all again so i actually could get the item). i don't have another gba or sp to use with my link cable, so i'd likely have to beat colosseum and trade back and forth there to evolve... i'm really hoping i can get it done by the 23rd for my college pokémon club's big yearly event where i can just ask someone to bring theirs. 

i talked about this hunt a few days ago, in my intro post on this forum. now that i'm finally all ready to hunt, and have done 200 encounters today, i thought it was worth making this thread! i think i'll be here awhile, as here are the encounter rates for where i'm fishing on route 134:



...yeah. i'm likely going to phase at least once, although i got a decent number of horseas for my first 200 fishing encounters. it's been mostly sharpedos. without the ability to repel trick, this is most likely going to take some time. the upside is i take my gba in my bag with me everywhere, so in moments where i don't have anything else going on, i can just pull it out and do a couple encounters. my coworkers crochet and cross stitch in staff meetings, but sadly i don't think i can get away with pulling out a game system 

my main problem is likely to continue to be what i think the reason for a lack of shiny horseas in ruby/sapphire on youtube to be: fishing with the super rod in ruby is wildly annoying. you not only have to press a button at the right time, you have to time the button presses correctly in varying intervals of waiting multiple times in a row. you don't know how many buttons you're going to have to press, or how fast you'll have to press them (if you get a bite at all), which means that i really have to pay attention to my fishing.

i haven't been 100 percent foolproof with that thus far, as i need a piece of media to watch while i hunt, but hopefully i'll get better at it with time. it took me nearly 4 hours to hit 200 encounters, which frankly isn't great time-wise, but we'll get there! some encounters also just go by slower than others.

thanks for reading!

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total count so far as of this post : 200 encounters (will be updating the header with each post, but the bottom count will stay the same!)