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Your first unexpected random shiny?!

I believe I was on route to cianwood when I found a shiny tenticool. I did catch it and hope to ev train it for the laughs. I'm pretty sure it has a bad nature for most of what tenticruels end up being.
 

Kalslaffin

Herping the Durp
Got a naive, rock head Larion on my Emerald on victory road, I was so excited
 
The first and only radnom shiny I've ever gotten was a shiny blue Gulpin on Ruby. My mother was playing it for some reason, when she looked up, and told me about.
My reaction (bear in mind I was only young): IT'S A LEGENDARY! CATCH IT!
So she did so. It was only much later, after I had gotten rid of my copy of Ruby, that I finally discovered what a shiny was. I will never forget the guy.

The only other shiny I have ever gotten in my life, aside from Gyarados, was a Charmander. The problem was, I SRed for him, so that doesn't really count as random...
 

Bluekit121

Little Miss Lucario
I've never encountered a shiny.
I've owned 12 games (MAIN SERIES) and have yet to even ENCOUNTER one.
~F M L ~
 

Dragon Trainer X

良い感じ!
I remember that in Daimond, I was searching for a good shiny, perhaps a Beldum (Pokér Radar) or Buizel. After an hour of nothing, I just gave up and went swimming. The first Pokemon I came across was a STUPID SHINY TENTACOOL!!! Right after I stopped and gave up >_<

Why, WHY!?
 

ishni18

~*Shiny Hunter*~
A wurmple - in Emerald before I had a chance to get Pokeballs. Very annoying >.>
 

samhain88

Magikarp trainer
Mine was a Carvanha I encountered in the Safari Zone, I think. Luckily, it didn't flee. I was so relieved when I saw it was caught.
 

pok'edude

New Member
I've had a few random shinys lol
My very first one was a scyther in gold, ages ago. I found it in the bug catching contest, and thought it would come back later so I ran. I was such a noob back then lol :(
The next one I found was a golbat in victory road on sapphire, i caught that one and still have it :)
Then I've had a bunch of REs, like a pidgey on route 1 in firered, a gyarados in route 228 and a ponyta in route 214 on pearl and a wurmple in route 102 on sapphire, which I lost because I lost my pearl :(
Then, i decided to buy another one, and I've hatched a random shiny snorunt without the masuda method and a random lapras with masuda method but not realising it, an oddish in emerald safari zone, and a starly and budew in normal patches while chaining, I'm so lucky :)
And I've also got a bunch of chained shinies too, but they don't count as REs
 
My first shiny in the 4th gen was a shinx. It was right when I started a new game on my Pearl. It ended up having pokerus as well. Somehow about a month later my file was corrupted and i lost it :(
 

SCBoogie

i$e CreMe Man
Mine was Pidgeotto in the Viridian Forest.

For me this was like a gift from a higher power. When the show debuted, Pidgeotto was my favorite, and I caught my shiny in the same place Ash caught his Pidgeotto. Win.
 

G-Money

Polychromatic Iridescence
My first random 4th gen shiny was Bibarel. I was in Sinnoh's Safari Zone looking for Pokemon to complete my Dex, and a shiny Bibarel appeared! I was absolutely terrified that it would run away, haha. I just started chucking balls at it, and I was incredibly lucky to catch it! From that point on, I never go into any Safari Zone unless it's to catch Pokemon for the first time to complete the Dex! :)
 

EmiiLava

Joltik Queen <3
Shiny Golduck in pearl(failed 2 catch...34 FREAKING ULTRA BALLS AND DIDN'T CATCH THE THING!!!!...anyway...)
Then less than a month later i caught shiny raticate lv.50 in the same pearl file :D
 

Neji-and-Pidgeot

Well-Known Member
my first was a zubat in leaf green. It was the first encounter in victory road. i caught it in my first quick ball.
 
I've had a few random shinys lol
My very first one was a scyther in gold, ages ago. I found it in the bug catching contest, and thought it would come back later so I ran. I was such a noob back then lol :(

I'm right there with you. Mine was a Graveler in silver and I also ran. I figured I'd see it again. Never did.
 
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