This is the best advice I ' ve received so far . I believe I have quite a bit planned out now , and how I ' ll go about it . Now to just graduate the Hell of High School . Anyway , thanks for your help ! <| sep |> I got a shiny Magby from a friend way back when on Crystalwe were trading random stuff to fill the pokedex . Nothing special . I only learned it was special 2 years later because I actually bothered to take the Magby out of the PC once and look at its stat screen . Since that was the only Magby I had encountered in Crystal in a loooong time , I hadn ' t realized that thing was shinybecause regular Crystal Magby is way too dark and shiny Magby is just a hue change making it look closer to the artwork . Was a pretty neat surprise and it made me realize how rarely you actually see that sparkle effect . Only in the stat screen and in battle apparently .