oh man I cant stand this..... several hundred hours searching, nothing
a few minutes of trying to run through an area, 2 shineys.. what gives. I screwed up my EV training on a Pokemon because while trying to learn its IV's for HP purposes, I stumbled into my Shiney Whismur. My Numel was just on my first trip through Jagged Pass.
that was 450+ hours ago since I ran into a shiney. I find myself in 1 area in preticular, battling with a Pokemon, and Item Farming hoping to run into 1 of 4 shineys on Saphire. The area just south of Fallbarror (SP?). there are only Seviper, Swablu, and Lotad/Lombre. Same on Ruby, cept it is Seedot/Nuzzleaf and Zangoose with Swablu.
I am trying to get an all shiney normal type team.... I only have Exploud now. Need Altaria, Zangoose, and some others, plus I have a friend who would kill for a Shiney Lotad line.... Seviper just lloks cool, and Seedot, eh, I would take it.... have spent well over 200 hours in this area alone, hoping, and nothing.....