How many non scripted shinies have you encountered in the years you've played?

[WaterTypeStarter]

Today I encountered my very first random shiny (not counting scripted ones like the odd egg or red Gyarados). It is a Pokémon I've used previously in an older playthrough. However, as my first shiny I am definitely not leaving it in the PC. Wondering how many shinies others have encountered given this is the first time in my whole life I've gotten a random shiny.

 

[Pyrax]

I've encountered 4 shinies in Gen III.
The first two were a shiny Wingull and Vulpix in Sapphire, but unfortunately my 8 year old self released them both.
Next was a Pidgey in LeafGreen and a Numel in Emerald. Caught them both years and years ago (~2006 and ~2011 iirc), they're currently in my HOME boxes in fact.

 

[zolios]

I've only ever encountered 1 shiny in Gen 3 and it was the uncatchable shiny Weedle during the Old Man's catching tutorial in Fire Red. It sucked when it happened since Beedrill is one of my favorites and I would've loved to have it as a shiny but I'm not that mad about it anymore because I was lucky enough to find and catch at least 1 random shiny in every other generation (except in Gen 1 since shinies didn't exist in those games).

 

[KyogreThunder]

The first shiny I've ever encountered was a Pidgey in FireRed, but sadly I ended up defeating it since I didn't know about shinies back then. Later in FireRed, I managed to catch a shiny Ponyta, and also encountered a shiny Parasect, but destroyed it thanks to a critical hit. I also caught a shiny Meowth in FireRed, a green Taillow in Sapphire, an orange Zigzagoon in Emerald, a green Tangela in LeafGreen, and shiny Mawile and Koffing in Ruby. Also in Emerald, I remember an NPC with a shiny Sandshrew in Fallarbor's Battle Tent, and shiny rental Misdreavus, Dewgong, and Feraligatr in the Battle Factory.

 

[Shiny Venusaur]

I've come across many random encounter shinies throughout my time playing Pokémon games. I even had some Soft Reset Gen 3 shinies, but for the longest time, at Gen 3 random encounter shiny avoided me (only generation where I didn't have one). Back in 2020, I was replaying though Leaf Green and stumbled across a shiny Grimer in the Pokémon Mansion on Cinnabar Island.

So for the time being, and probably for the foreseeable future, Grimer is my only Gen 3 random encounter Generation 3 shiny.

 

[Tsukuyomi56]

Just three in Gen 3, a Spearow in Leaf Green, an Oddish in Sapphire and a Spheal in Emerald. The Oddish sadly fled (since it was a Safari Zone encounter), but was able to catch the other two.

 

[BladeRunnerEX2.0]

I never had a random encounter ever!
I’d like to vent about my terrible luck in these Pokemon games. I’ve played up to Pokemon X/Y, and replayed a Gen 3 game about 2 more times.

I have chained for a shiny at least.
Was chaining a Shellos…to find out it’s shiny doesn’t change much. At the moment it popped up I didn’t really care. I was stoked to finally have one.

 

[Ubermuk]

Maybe one or two. Finding shinies by accident in generation 3 or in the old games in general outside of events was incredibly rare, not like in the new games where you can find one every other day without even trying...

 

[UltraGlitterCat]

I remember finding a shiny lotad and a shiny poochyena in sapphire way back in the day. I caught them in premier balls. Nowadays I try to catch everything in the plain ball, even legendaries. I just like the red and white classic combination.

 

[wayc]

1) First ever was a shiny Koffing on Fiery Path in Gen 3 Pokemon Emerald
2) Next was a shiny Marril surfing in a little pool of water near Petalburg Woods also in Gen 3 Emerald THE SAME DAY AS THE KOFFING

 

[Bluerabboot]

Today I encountered my very first random shiny (not counting scripted ones like the odd egg or red Gyarados). It is a Pokémon I've used previously in an older playthrough. However, as my first shiny I am definitely not leaving it in the PC. Wondering how many shinies others have encountered given this is the first time in my whole life I've gotten a random shiny.

No one here will believe me, but, a shiny dusklops in Pokémon Sword.

 

[UltraGlitterCat]

Why wouldn't we believe you? You're new here and there's nothing you've done that would make you seem untrustworthy. Congrats on the shiny.

 

[Missingno. Master]

Ooh, lemme see... So, discounting the B2W2 Garchomp, Dragonite, and Haxorus... The Mew and Celebi from GO... Couple of Ponyta and Rapidash from Legends... The Mystery Gift ones... My brother's old Flareon... Taking all those out of consideration, that leaves me with a grand lifetime total of 2,497 Shinies.

 

[MinorMash31]

My first ever shiny was in a random route near the battle chateau in Pokemon X. It was a green hoppip. Right now, it lives as it's final evolution in Pokemon HOME. In Pokemon Violet, I got a shiny Pawmo just running around Area Zero. Obviously I got a lot of surprise trade hacked shinies and I also have every shiny from the original games Tapu giveaway from Gen 7 (Tapu Koko, Tapu Lele, Tapu Bulu, and Tapu Fini shinies). On a side note, don't know if this counts but I have a shiny Lilligant and Linoone from a rom hack called Pokemon Rutile Ruby.

 

[kingferret53]

I played emerald religiously back when I still had it. I never once found a shiny pokemon. I didn't find my first wild shiny until ORAS.

 

[UltraGlitterCat]

My newest shiny (and first in pokemon go) is a shiny Litleo I caught today with an ultra ball cause I was afraid she might flee. I'm considering giving her a nickname.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

I’ve gotten at least 20 of them since Platinum and Crystal respectively. I’ve only hatched one Shiny which was a Meowth in Emerald. I did hatch a Shiny Pichu from the Odd Egg in Crystal but that was always programmed to have a 50/50 chance of occurring.

 

[Pokemon Power]

In Gen. 3 alone, zilch.

 

[Det. Viper]

Since this is a Generation III thread I’ll just keep it to those games. While running through the Sevii Islands I was lucky to come across a shiny Pidgeotto. This was ~20 years ago when FRLG was the current game.

Last year I went into my Sapphire game and found about 20 unhatched eggs. Curious to know what I was doing 20+ years ago, I decided to hatch them all. One of them just happened to be a shiny Treecko. Poor shiny had to stay in its shell for two decades.