Two Shinies That Mean the World to Me
Jun 15, 2024 6:33:41 GMT
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Post by legendlinke on Jun 15, 2024 6:33:41 GMT
The BackStory
Back in 2003(2004?) I was gifted my first piece of Pokemon Media in the form of Pokemon Heroes: The Movie (Latios and Latias?) (the way they used to name these movies I stg) on DVD. And I instantly fell in love with the Eon Duo and their home city of Alto Mare based on Venice, Italy. The DVD came with 2 promo cards of Latios and Latias that I carried with me for weeks before my older sister grabbed them and dropped them in water (a crime I have never forgiven) that I one day will buy again. For those who haven't seen the movie before, I'll give a rundown
Ash and the gang are visiting the town of Alto Mare (presumably in Johto?) and Ash and Misty are taking part in the Tour de Alto Mare, a water race where each trainer is pulled along by a water Pokemon. As Ash is going along, his reins are pulled on my an invisible Pokemon and he's rocketed ahead. He nearly wins the race but another invisible mon pulls him off course. Misty wins the race and the 2nd place winner offers them a tour of the town via gondola. As they are touring they are told the legend of the town's guardians, Latios and Latias. After the tour, Pikachu wants some water and is helped by a random girl who has an interest in Ash but then runs off. She is then confronted by two Team Rocket members, Annie and Oakley and Ash of course comes to save her. After their escape, the girl leads Ash to a secret garden and it's revealed that she's actually Latias. Ash becomes friends with her and Latios and learns of the Soul Dew from the duos caretakers.
That's where I'll leave it tho so you all can watch the movie 
I was always the most attached (NOT attracted) to Latias for one reason or another, probably because she was a bit more prominent in the movie. So when I got my first Pokemon game back in 2010, HeartGold, and found out I could find a Latias, I was through the roof. I tracked her down as soon as I could and caught her in a Great Ball! She was then on my team almost constantly. A few months later, the Enigma Stone event was revealed that would grant you an encounter with the other Lati not normally found in your game. I remember I couldn't download it at home because our WiFi was too good for the DS Wifi Connection and when my family went to Noodles and Company for lunch one day, I tried so hard to download it but to no avail. So it wasn't until I got my copy of SoulSilver that I finally had a Latios of my own.
The Hunter
Fast forward to 2020 when I discovered the joy of Full Odds Shiny HuntingTM , and watched Sonniks go for all the roamers. i saw him get Latias and knew I had to get one of my own. But I'm too much of a coward to hunt roamers, so alas. It was a bit later that I discover that through Custom Firmware on the 3DS, I could basically give myself any event item I wanted on my games. I promptly used this to hunt Shaymin and Darkrai in Platinum, having kind of forgotten about the Enigma Stone. It wasn't until late 2022/early 2023 that I remembered the event when figuring out my shiny BINGO for the year. I started hunting them around February of 2023 but only like 2000 encounters of each. Not being picked up for about a year, but still ending up on my 2024 BINGO card. When NoraintheFuture sent out the announcement that PKMNPride was occurring again this year, I HAD to take part as I missed most of last years event. And Latios and Latias fit the bill. So once the event started, I got to hunting them (after a few hundred Heatran in BW2).
The Hunt
I started the hunt doing 2x Latias and 1x Latios, as at the time I only had 2 SoulSilvers to hunt Latias, so better to increase my chances of her first. This was also my first hunt using my new Controller Mods, which allows me to control 3 DS systems with 1 other DS System so resets were a breeze. And so, on Tuesday June 11th, 2024, while doing a few resets and catching up on season 3 of The Bad Batch, I was granted with this sight:
She put up quite the fight to catch, but after about 30 or so Love Balls, she stayed! Her name is Miss Laguna Lemonade the Lonely Shiny Latias and she is my pride and joy and has been EV Trained in Sp Atk and Speed.
A few days later on June 14th, 2024, after speed running a third HeartGold, witnessing insane shiny luck in a server I'm in, and while on call with many friends watching a recreation of Promiscuous Girl by Dev Lemons where they could not hear it being made (it was awful, trust) this happened:
Laguna's brother, Mister Baja Zero Sugar, was found after a mere 6253 SRs! And on the game I had JUST speed ran. He's Docile and I plan to train him in Sp Atk and Speed as well!
Sorry this turned into such an essay, I just really love these two Pokemon and am behold happy to have finally hunted them full odds style. I plan to gather the shiny leaves for both of them as well, just for fun.
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