Thread: Your first shiny. How? when? where?

Originally Posted by Pennpenn

Is it abnormal that I'm up to Red in Heartgold and at the Elite Four in Diamond and I've never seen a shiny in the wild? (Obviously discounting red Gyarados. It doesn't count.)

Admittedly I haven't looked for them, but still, never seen one come up.

I've played through about 80 hours in Emerald (Damn you, shitty little Battle Frontier and no replay value...), over 100 in FR, and over 45 in Gold without seeing a shiny until my Tentacool. It's all about luck, so you might lack it.

Granted, I did see that Floatzel I mentioned on my 15th hour I think, but I didn't (well, couldn't) catch that, so...

I think my first shiny was indeed the red Gyarados, but since that doesn't count, the first one was a Butterfree in Gold. Ironically, it appeared when I headbutted a tree at the Lake of Rage.

I encountered two more shinies in the same game of Gold. And those were two Noctowl. In a row. Just like that.

Besides these, I have yet to encounter another shiny.

Shiny Gyarados in the Lake of Rage. :I

yeah, i'm that lucky. *coughsarcasmcough*

My first shiny was Lake of Rage Gyarados in Silver. My second captured shiny ever was a Krabby in Silver (I found it in Cianwood by Rock Smashing rocks to look for a Shuckle). My first shiny after Gyarados was a Rattata in Silver, but I didn't have any PokeBalls with me to capture it ;_;

Originally Posted by Ash93

I encountered two more shinies in the same game of Gold. And those were two Noctowl. In a row. Just like that.

God damn, that's lucky. I remember spending forever trying to Headbutt for a shiny Noctowl (have 72 hours on my SoulSilver thanks to it), and just got so fed up that I settled for a normal one instead, which is now a 75-er, but still lacking.

I really should transfer my Tentacools soon...

My first "seen" shiny was a Starly, in the Safari Zone in Diamond. I was looking for a Carnivine when this dude appeared, but it ran away. Even if I did find what I wanted, I was still kinda pissed.

Time after, in Platinum, after succeeding in the Distortion World and catching Giratina, I went to Lake Acuity to register Uxie in my Pokedex. As soon as I surfed into it, BAM. Shiny Psyduck. Also caught him succesfully.
Finally, in SoulSilver, my first shiny was a Tentacool. I was about to lose him because I only had 3 Ultra Balls, but the last one made him stay.

But my most lucky game for shinies was Platinum, definitely. *shrugs*

I saw a shiny girafig in my cousins saphire while looking for a wobuffet in the safari zone. I was barely looking and ran away just before noticing it was shiny-_-

But then I discovered chaining and now I've got loads of shinies!

The first shiny I saw/caught was red gyarados back in the original Silver. Other than that, my awesome friend gave me a bunch of shinies... I think the first was a shiny sandshrew. :3

The first Pokémon I ever caught in Pearl was a shiny Shinx. At first I thought I was hallucinating, no way I found a shiny that quick. The second shiny I found was a Golbat in Mt. Coronet on my brother's Diamond game. My brother was stuck so he asked me to get him through it, and he was pissed when he found out I caught TWO shinies in the same week.

He got me back though by hatching a shiny Magikarp on my Pearl (I was trying to do the Masuda Method with Meister's Magikarp which I later found out doesn't work - and he STILL got a shiny from it ). Of course, this was before HGSS, so he went and evolved it. Then about a month or two ago he was replaying Sapphire and found a shiny Wailmer.

I traded my Crobat and I think he released the Gyarados when he caught a better one in SS, so we're both down to one random encounter shiny each. All the others I got from events or trades.

My first I believe was a Shiny Golbat up in Spear Pillar (A good place to train in R/S/E got many Pokemon to lv100, including an lost Flygon that I didn't know what happened to. He just appeared and I was surprised (Actually this could have been a Shiny Zubat in another area but I am not sure).

I found a second Shiny Golbat up in Spear Pillar, but because I wasn't paying attention I accidentally killed it, when I noticed it it was dead.

I also once found a Shiny Zigazoon in Ruby but restarted the game. See I was too impatient to beat Collo or XD on the GC so instead of transferring it I went ahead and restarted the game >.>

Third Shiny happened in Gold, I decided to replay it (Gold not Heart Gold) and headbutted a tree before finding a Shiny Caterpie, now a Butterfree.

Mine is a very cool story. I had a Nincada swarm in Platinum (I love Shedinja and Ninjask) so I went towards Eterna Forest while walking to show my friend. I tripped on a cable and accidentally ran into the grass. In the VERY corner (1 tile and I would have missed it)... BAM! Shiny Budew. I was amazed. It is now an awesome Roserade, and the only random encounter shiny with my ID. :)

My first had to be a Caterpie in Fire Red.

First shiny was a shiny koffing in gold. Unfortunately I didnt catch it because I thought it was just a glitch. And then I went and accidentally defeated the Red Gyarados...sigh.

My first was the Gyarados on the lake rage, thought it was a virus of some sort! It was in my Crystal Version.

Shiny Poocheyena just outside Rustboro on Emerald, caught it and now it's a Golden Mighteyena