Xous said:
The bad video game memory is having that darn Shiny Wooper run away from me in the Safari Zone. I knew that kind of thing was bound to happen one day, but... Man, it still stings.
I feel for you man. It could've been worst. You could have a Shiny encounter when you fight a Pokemon with no Pokeballs.
Speaking of Shiny, my memorable moments involving them came from
Pearl and
White. In the former, I caught a Shiny Golbat which evolved to Crobat, and in the latter, while EV training Neelix the Archeops (As an Archen), I encountered a Shiny Watchog. I tossed the Quick Ball, and I caught it.
Battle wise, this happened yesterday:
(WARNING: Wall of text ahead.)
I was in a tough Wi-Fi Rotation Battle with this girl named ハルカ (Haruka) online. I had Huxley the Haxorus, a Japanese Tornadus, Explodo the Typhlosion, and Rodrick the Aron, while she had a Whimsicott, Porygon2, Garchomp, and Starmie. I mainly tried to stall the team, and weaken them with my Aron, which did it to Porygon2. Whimsicott also had Encore, which was lucky it did not touch the Huxter. Her Porygon2 managed to knock out Rodrick in revenge, switching into Explodo. I wasted a Gem on the Porygon2, and her Whinsicott locked Tornadus into Encore also. Starmie OHKOed Explodo with Scald, leaving Huxley and Tornadus on the field. Whimsicott made the fatal mistake of using Tailwind, and Garchomp NEARLY knocked out Huxley. Tornadus got 2 succesful Protects until the Encore ended. At the begining, I got a Dragon Dance while Whimsicott set up Tailwind the first time, and a second time during Garchomp's Outrage, Hux Dragon Danced again. This, also thanks to Tornadus setting up Tailwind before going down, sealed my win, with a powerful Outrage knocking out Starmie, and my opponent giving me a forfeit before I knocked out Garchomp.
I'll get the video up if I can, so watch this space!