lol you took that more easily about shinies then I did actually >.< I became a full hunter until around 4th generation but I did run into shinies occasionally like my pidgey by accident in leafgreen on bond bridge still have him ^_^ I did run into a shiny linoone through my play through of ruby version years ago which I have her too :3 I remember the first time I ran into a shiny which I thought it was a glitch a shiny vulpix in my silver version >.< I ran away from it immediately thinking it was gunna hurt my data because I remembered the missingo thing in red and blue when I was a kid which messed with my file and had to restart my game >.< oh boy I was wrong learned it in a guide that was a shiny which is rare to see and I was mad never really saw another shiny in my silver version again :/ oh my shiny lugia did show at 4,621 sr :3 I have a video need to upload and also I need to get the images up on the forums :3