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It's a 1 in 8192 chance of finding one, your best chance is to either get lucky, keep hatching till ya get one or SR in front of a legendary or when you get your started poke.
sigh. i wasnt going to even justify this with an answer, but i guess the more people say it the more chance the guy has of maybe reading the site or checking other threads...
1/8192 chance of encountering a shiny pokemon in the wild or against another trainer. its the only way.
I've got 4.
my first one I sat for 5 hours straight before I got it. It menas running from every Pokemon that attacks you and staying in the same area. No guarantee if you'll get one that way though.
My second one was when I was EV training my Swampert
The third one I ran into by accident
The 4th one I had the gameboy on for 5 minutes and surfing and it appeared. I was shocked.
It's completely based on luck. You don't know when they'll appear. The problem is the ones that appear are the ones I don't want as shiny but I catch them because they're shiny and that's it. Yet to find a shiny I actually want.=P