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C_Pain posted...

This is what I was going to say. I believe it could only spawn on like 4 tiles in the whole game or something like that.

IIRC the specific way it worked was that there was one route with a river running through it (can't remember the specific number, it was the one that had the Weather Station in the middle). Feebas could spawn on six of those river tiles, which were randomized at the start of the game; you could talk to some NPC to reroll the randomization, but it's not an obvious thing (as in you wouldn't assume it had anything to do with Feebas unless you had a guide). It also only had a 50% spawn rate when you finally did find one of the six tiles, so you had to fish each tile in the river multiple times to be sure it wasn't there.

I finally caught one after hours of painstaking searching, and every single Feebas / Milotic I ever 'caught' for my Pokedex up through Gen 6 was bred from that original one. I was never gonna jump through hoops to catch another Feebas.