I Found My Long Lost Shiny Pokémon Again 

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For me it was a shiny Ho-Oh in HeartGold, I remember not knowing anything about shinys but when I saw it and the shiny sound effect I knew it definitely wasn't anything bugged, I went to my brother about it followed by a "HOLY SHIT CATCH IT IMMEDIATELY THATS SICKKK" I ended up catching it with a master ball out of fear and calling it "Flare" based on the Yu-Gi-Oh card "E-Hero Shining Flare Wingman" I still have it to this day.

My first shiny ever was a hoothoot i got in a fangame called "pokemon golden sky" it's a gen2 remade with gen3 graphics, i was a kid and that game was my first ever pokemon game, i remember that i was confused and went searching something related to the "yellow hoothoot"

I love to see stories like this one! As for myself, I've been playing Pokemon since kid too but never found a Shiny and never did shiny hunting, I wanted it to be a surprise. It was just a few months ago that I finally got my first shiny, Spoink on Pokemon Violet! I like Grumpig and I like it's shiny so I was really happy

I traded my first shiny 😢

I remember playing Pokémon Silver on my Gameboy Color. After getting my Red Gyarados and beating Blackthorn City I started heading south. I found a glitchy Donphan and beat it in two moves I think. Later did I realize that my GBC was not acting weird, it was a shiny Donphan and I had lost it. I never saw another shiny in my Silver again. I did see a shiny geodude that blew itself up in Crystal though…😫

My first ever shinies were all hacked mons on pokemon X, it was until BDSP that I actually started my journey as a shiny hunter. Shiny Piplup was my first target and it took me 3 weeks since release. Anyways, I really enjoy your storytelling and your video sure do kinda help me while im working on uni stuff, Keep it up!

My first Shiny was a Pidgey in an emulated copy of Leaf Green. I dont have the phone that was emulating it, but if i ever get said phone back im gonna find someway to move it to main series officially. Only reason i can 100% confirm it is that I actually had 2 blogs from my elementary school era (so mid 2010s) that showed my random nerd stuff and on the Pokemon one i had done a post (with improper grammar XD) showing the Eeveelutions and a normal and shiny Pidgey. I knew what a shiny Pokemon was but not how rare they were back then, ah the memories. Thats why when i got a shiny pidgey in Let's go Eevee 4+ years later i nicknamed it "Nostalgia" Because it just made sense Edit: another shiny story: I participated in this year's safari week and it was my first time shiny hunting in the safari zone. I used 1 console and was hunting in an area with Paras. I found a shiny Paras. I managed to catch it, and was super hyped. Then a few hours later i found another and caught it. Both had opposite genders and in Firered/LeafGreen shiny Paras has yellow mushrooms. Its so cool

This is inspiring me to go reclaim my first shiny, a Duskull on MT. Pyre in Sapphire

This may not be my first ever shiny, but when I was a kid playing pokemon black, I randomly encountered a shiny female litwick. I knew this was something special so I caught it and even took her through the rest of the game. Eventually my cousin were over at my house and went behind my back, stealing my chandlure. When I opened my game she was gone and replaced by a Squirtle. I was sad, but I still used the Squirtle they left for me. Ever since it was something engraved into my mind. So when SV’s dlc part one came out I immediately had to shiny hunt for my beloved chandlure again. I was at the end of my sandwich, no shiny litwick in sight until I looked over to my left and see this tiny litwick looking up at me. I could tell right away it was a shiny and caught it. It was also a female!! Even better was she had a mark, I felt so happy having this long lost shiny back in my hands, I caught her in a love ball because it was kinda emotional reuniting with a long lost friend. Her mark the the sleepy mark and I decided to name her Visp.

My first shiny story isn't that cool, but it means a lot to me. I was 12 years old. I had recently gotten Pokemon Sword for my birthday. The only other pokemon game I had played was Pokemon Sun (and a TINY bit of Pokemon Ruby). I didn't know what shiny pokemon were, but I had heard people talk about them. Once I beat Pokemon Sword, and found out what shinies were, I wanted to shiny hunt one. I was NOT patient enough for a full odds hunt, and either way, the pokemon I wanted shiny was not obtainable in the wild. I wanted a shiny Grookey. I chose Grookey as my starter, so I already had a Rillaboom, but I needed someone to trade me a foreign ditto so I could do a Masuda Method hunt. I went on Surprise Trade and almost immediately got an Italian ditto. So I started hatching eggs. I was making good progress, hatching an egg every 10 seconds approximately. So I kept hatching, and kept hatching... This may not seem like much, but once I got to 436 eggs, I gave up. I told you I wasn't patient. I thought, "maybe shiny hunting isn't for me. I feel like I should have gotten it! Am I just unlucky...?" 2 months went by. At this point I was just playing other games like Earthbound and Super Mario RPG (I had an SNES Classic). Then, one day, I remembered my shiny grookey hunt. I was bored at the time and wanted something to do. So, I booted up Pokemon Sword and started hatching. Well not exactly, because when I hatched my first egg, a strange looking Grookey appeared. Then it sparkled. I had found it, the shiny I spent so long wanting, found under odds! (And I thought I was UNlucky...). I was so happy and I quickly evolved him into Rillaboom! I still have him to this day and although he can go to Paldea whenever he wants, he's staying in Galar for the time being. I like it better that way. :)

The first shiny I ever found was a Duskull in Ruby. I traded it to my brother because I thought my game was glitched (I was 6 years old at the time). Thankfully I reclaimed it last year with a random shiny Dusclops in Legends Arceus!

I have a vague memory that I didn't understand what the shiny stars meant the first time I encountered a shiny in silver and it must've been one with a pretty unremarkable coloring, so I either battled it or ran. The first shiny I caught though was Drowzee in silver. Pink Hypno looked pretty cool. That cartridge battery is long dead though.

My first shiny was a Tentacool in Pokémon Diamond and it was a fail. 8 year old me was surfing around Floroma Town and randomly encountered a shiny Tentacool. I didn't know what a shiny was at the time and ran away from it. Only then years later I looked up on the Internet to learn about shiny Pokémon and their rarity. I was upset and didn't run into shiny Tentacool again until Alpha Sapphire came out. I was in high school around that time and was surfing through Lilycove City then ran into a random shiny Tentacool. I like to think that this lost shiny swam through the oceans to reach me in Hoenn. I caught this one and named it "TheLostOne" and it's currently in my Scarlet save file. The 2nd shiny I found in Diamond was a Gloom and luckily I remember to catch it. Shiny Gloom was caught around 3 years after my shiny Tentacool fail in Diamond.

Last year I was grinding for the Elite Four in Heart Gold. I was on Victory road training my Dragonair, falling asleep while playing. I was tapping the A button and opened my eyes to an Orange Donphan with low hp. I caught it and named it Orange. That was my first real shiny and I’ve been playing Pokemon since the Gameboy Color. Great video!

The first ever shiny I found naturally was a Zebstrika in White version. I was astonished that shinies weren't event exclusives because I never found them in the wild. I caught it but because it had no EVs, it kept losing battles and I got so fed up with it, I traded it away on the GTS. I really regret that now and I want to find it again.

I thought my first shiny was a game breaking glitch and erased from existence

My first shiny was a Pikachu in Pokémon go back in 2018. I caught two on the same day. Then, in 2019, I abandoned Pokémon go, and with it, my shiny Pikachus. This year, I decided to try playing Pokémon go again. I barely remembered my old password, and I thought my shinies were gone. Yet, somehow, I was able to get back into my old account and find those shinies I had caught 5 years ago. I transferred them to Pokémon Violet through Pokémon home, evolved them into Raichus and got them all the way up to level 100. Some other shinies I’m proud of are my shiny treecko that I SR’d in Pokémon emerald for, and my full odds shiny Tentacruel I caught while grinding in Crystal. Over the years, I have gotten more into shiny hunting and am currently trying to hatch a shiny drowzee in Crystal.

My first shiny was vulpix from leaf green which I evolved into nine tales. It’s currently sitting in Pokémon home

I remember a shiny Altaria using Perish song and I couldn’t catch it

I got my first Shiny Starter, a Bulbasaur, in Let's Go Eevee last year. I have him in Pokemon Home for safety reasons but I will never forget how surprised I was as I HAD been looking for a Bulbasaur in Viridian Forest but was not expecting a Shiny one to appear!

Must have been 2006-ish when I found my first shiny in Sapphire, it was a Voltorb. I was confused about why it was the wrong colour, so I caught it and showed my brother, who i'd been begging to give me his Entei. He explained it to me, and how rare they are, and offered me the Entei i'd been bothering him for weeks for, as well as a Raikou and Suicune. I accepted the trade and loved the Beasts. Since then i've kind of wanted to find another shiny Voltorb for the nostalgia. That said, I still have on my Leaf Green a shiny Exeggcute, Wurmple, and a couple others. Along the way i've had a shiny Bibarel run away from me in the Great Marsh on Diamond, and a Kangaskhan in the Leaf Green Safari Zone

My first shiny ever was in leafgreen. In the patch of grass to the left of the top of the cerulean bridge. I was hanging out with my friend who I still play Pokémon with to this day 15+ years later. A golden caterpie appears, I check my bag, no pokeballs… we were both devastated.

My first shiny was a shiny magnemite that I found in sea mauville in pokemon Sapphire. I transferred it up to my platinum version to evolve it into magezone. Then to my soulsilver for my run of the game. After that my soulsilver ended up in the washing machine. I just reclaimed it a few months ago in the same Sapphire I found it in before.

Great story, the first shiny i got was a shiny bidoof but I runned away... R.I.P Bidoof

For me that Shiny was a Shiny Skorupi. I hunted it endlessly on Pokémon Y and transferred it over to my Alpha Sapphire before I resetted Y. After a while, I realized that Skorupi could also be found in Alpha Sapphire via de Dexnav. After I reset Pokémon Y, I decided to hunt it again and got it a second time (transferred it over to Alpha Sapphire as well). I had two successful hunts for Shiny Skoropi on both games. Caught my fourth one after I realized that I screwed up my first Shiny Drapion's stats. I know I can trade it away but I just can't bring myself to do it u.u Also, Gen 6 was when I started Shiny Hunting :) Edit: I remember finding a Shiny Hariyama in Victory Road when playing Pokémon Emerald but it used Whirlwind before I could do anything. Still haven't reclaimed it :c

my first shiny was actually from Pokemon Shield i was in the wild area when I accidentally ran into an onix. I thought “oh great, I accidentally ran int-“ …and then it was shiny. It was around 12 in the morning but I screamed so loud and showed my brother. I didnt even have the shiny charm and it was full odds

I still have my first shiny, it was a Magikarp that I evolved into Gyardos and I was so pumped when Bank came out and even MORE stoked when Home came out. I have a forever shiny Gyardos. (For now lol)

I had a Pokémon X file, and I traded over some of my favourite shinies I spent ages hunting. Sadly my game card got corrupted and I lost my favourite shinies, including my first ever shiny. I lost a Linoone (my first ever shiny), an Absol, a Ponyta, a Tentacool and a Luvdisc. The last 2 were replaced quickly, but losing the others still makes me sad even now

My first shiny was in Leaf Green, full odds Ponyta. I think it is still in my copy of Pokemon White currently (now that I think of it I should trade it up before Bank shuts down!)

My first shiny was in Pearl, a Medicham on Victory road right between the last bridge and the door leading to the waterfall before the elite 4. I was at a friends house, this blue dude shows up and i remember asking them what happened because id never heard of or seen a shiny before... he got very loud and excited then teied to help me catch it, to which i told him i didnt have any pokeballs on me... so Medicham has eluded me, to this day i carry 25 of each ball always by the Elite 4 lmao im not even sure why i was running up and down that bridge that day, must have been grinding levels or something but the first shint to first failed shiny stuck deep

The only full-odds shiny story i have is from my copy of Pokemon Ruby which I've had since launch day. I never bothered trying to shiny hunt, but i DID do my damnedest to complete the pokedex on my Ruby copy as, to this day, it's probably the version of Pokemon I've put the most time in. Now, of course i got to the point where i had to start searching for the really obscure Pokemon, the worst of which obviously being Feebas. I spent so long looking for that stupid fish that, eventually, i actually found a shiny Carvanha. I was stoked, and eventually when SoulSilver came out, i unlocked the pal Park and he's still in my copy of SoulSilver to this day. Soon i plan on finishing Pokemon White 2 so i can port him to later games or at least into Home

This does bring memories me at 5 years old, and finding my 1st shiny before my older cousins ever found their first 😂

I had a similar encounter like you i was playing Pokémon Y as a kid and manged to find a full odds Shiny skiddo it has been with me in every game since

So glad you found it! My first shiny was a shiny Marowak I found on the Sevii Islands. I still play a lot of Pokémon and I still haven't found another, I dream of the day when it happens.

My first shiny Pokémon was a full odds Jynx in Frost Cavern in Pokémon X. On the other hand, the only shiny I've ever failed was a shiny Ralts in Alpha Sapphire. In 2014, I was using the DexNav to find one with a cool egg move but encountered a shiny instead. It was a higher level than the rest of my team so it proceeded to knock out all of my Pokémon until I had one remaining and then used Teleport. I stopped playing the game for about a week after that. It wasn't until recently that I began playing Omega Ruby and decided I would try to hunt my lost shiny. After about 1200 DexNav encounters, I finally reclaimed it almost 10 years later. 🙂

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Pokémon Y was my first game and I wanted to complete the pokedex so I had to trade shinies for legendary pokemon. One of my biggest regrets is no longer having my first shinies.

Trying to help my dad understand why I love Pokemon I made him a profile and started a new save for Pokemon Sword; once freed from tutorial hell called "You're new here's how you do this and here's where you go next." On route 2 to Magnolia's house he was being stalked by the Yamper when he ran into a shiny Chewtle... and because he didn't let me buy another Nintendo account for his account when he lost interest (he's was 67) I couldn't just move it to Pokemon Home and so after fiddling around with it he deleted it right in front of me! TL;DR: Tried getting my dad to understand why I liked Pokemon and he ended up catching a shiny Chewtle...that couldn't be moved into Pokemon Home before getting bored and deleting his profile

My first shiny was in Diamond on route 1...a Bidoof. I wasn't thrilled it was a bidoof, but oh well a shiny! My next was an oddish in fire red, which I think looks really cool! Then I remember in Diamond lowering the odds with the moving patches of grass and I found a Farfetch'd. My last was a shiny Zangoose in Omega Ruby. I haven't found any in the newer games yet, although I apparently encountered a shiny in Sword as it says I did...I must have been trying to fill the pokedex and was just running away a lot and missed it.

This isn’t a shiny one but when I was small I had Pokémon alpha sapphire and I loved swampert and everything in it, but one day when my friend was over he told me to try a nuzlocke and I ended up resetting my level 100 swampert. This still has me crying but I am really close to getting it back because I think that a computer I own has a backup and it is being repaired now so fingers crossed the backup is thefs

First shiny was a spinarak in silver lol I didn't noticed until I tried training it and it sparkled when it came out. Back then I called it a pink spinarak because red gyarados 😅 most recent shiny was 2 pidgey 73 encounters apart. I was spd ev training at 16x speed in fired red for a nuzlock link challenge

I have a memory of encountering a shiny Abra in the grass in ORAS from whatever the chain method was after only a 2 chain. I thought I’d caught it, but it is nowhere to be found in my pokemon bank. I did go through a massive purge (sadly) of my childhood pokemon when I was a teenager because I thought my nicknaming skills were cringy 😢 so it may have been a part of that, but I still have almost all of my other original ORAS pokemon so perhaps I was so scarred from it teleporting away that I wiped it from memory LOL anyways I “reclaimed” it in Arceus, but I’m debating also going back and getting it on my original ORAS copy to properly reclaim it

First shiny was technically a zubat in a rented crystal. But actual first shiny was steelix in Diamond. Sadly, that save got corrupted and ha to reset the game to actually play the game. lost that shiny and many of my original legendaries from gen 3. Got a shiny mantyke on the next playthrough and still have it in ultra moon. also got another shiny steelix later on in legends arceus along with a shiny alpha ralts that broke my shiny drought of over a decade.

I found a shiny Zubat like, 18-19 years ago on Pokemon Ruby, it was in Granite Cave, had no poke balls though, so my first, not the shiny Lake of Rage Gyarados from GSC was an absolute failure

I accidentally killed my first shiny. It was a zubat in Platinum and i should have thrown balls at it but attacked instead. You may have inspired me to try for a reclaim. If I use level 2 of Oreburgh tunnel instead of the initial level where I found it the first time, it’s 60 percent Zubat so maybe ill get lucky. Repel trick will work too as the highest geodude are level 9 leaving me between zubat and psyduck

When I started ultra sun I was at a cave where fossils spawned on melemele island and I actually found a full odds shiny Omanyte I never finished the game and to this day that shiny omanyte is till there

i never did shiny hunting as a little kid but i learned what it was when i was like 12 and i caught a shiny dragalge through chain fishing and i remember being so proud of myself :’)

NIDOSHINY IS BACKKKKKKKKK! LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO

spam saving is useful. sometimes in the gen 4 games you have to spam or else youll go back to previous save. whenever it says "saving a lot of data" in diamond pearl or platinum. you NEED ti save again. until you dint get the saving alot if data message

My first shiny was in Pokémon go back when it only had gen 1 of all things… Their name is Crab the Krabby :)

My first shiny was a random shiny staravia in platinum. I was looking for a female eevee so I could get all the Eeveelutions. I found one but unfortunately ( maybe fortunately), I fainted a female eevee and couldn't find another in the trophy garden. But I guess it's nice because I kept searching and found a shiny staravia. I screamed so loud and was very careful to catch it. After I did so. My ds went in the red and I had to quickly save it until I got home. (I was at school) Now that same pokemon is a shiny staraptior in Violet.

i remember my cousin 1st erver shiny it happen a long time ago in pokemon black/white i lost the game btw so i can never get it back but anways back to the story we was both playing though the game also i am the only one who still plays he quit after gen 5 for good and we reatch the town cyantia was in and he put his rod in the water to fish and this was b4 i ever even knew getting all the pokemon would get you a shiny charm as well btw and as soon as he got a bit i am not kidding you he fish out a shiny shelder at full odds with out charm 1/8192 chance i was shock because he did not know what shinys was but i did not that i shiny hunted i just play for fun and saw people online call them shiny pokemon but after i show him a picature of a shiny he was also slocked and he did caught it i think it was also on my save if i remember right so ya my 1st shiny i got myshelf was a shiny cutefly in ultra sun and moon i was raceing a twitch streamer to see who could find shinys 1st and was sosing mons but hit run b4 i found a shiny only to run into 1 the shiny cutefly right after and ever sence i been cruse with finding them shiny because in shield i was doing a wonderlocke and found a 1/4096 odds shiny roombee then in part 1 of gen 9 dlc i found a cutefly again as my 1st dlc shiny

I traded my shiny Pikachu to my heart gold cartridge and just reset it forgetting he was in there 😭

i have 2 shinies very special to me 1. shiny azumarill 2. shiny alolan exeggutor Azurmarill is my top favorite because it was the first Pokémon i was obssesed with and i just love it! although ive never used an exeggutor let alone an exeggcute its coming back in the indigo disk i dont know why i love it so much i think its the fact that it just suits me has a perfect shiny and doesnt change much in its regional form so yeah thats my story!

i still always save like 20 times before exiting

My first shiny was in SoulSilver when I found a random Nidoran female My PROUDEST shiny is a full odds xurkitree found in sword

I also reset the game over my first shiny, it was a nidorina

i was trying out the cute charm glitch in Pokemon Diamond. Ended up encountering a shiny Geodude. first shiny ever and i was stoked, couldn’t figure out how to get more shinies after that one encounter..😭

I was breeding Pumkaboo to wonder trade away for Halloween. First egg hatched was a shiny Pumkaboo on Halloween. Nit my first shiny but my favorite

same here fire red is also the first pokemon game I played and it was my brother's

I found a nidorina I think in one of the early games. But on the switch I struggle to find one shiney in the wild

I still have my first shiny. Its a shiny banette from victory road of white 2. I named it "HOLY F***"

i tell this story in every comment section about shinies. lol. anyway, my first shiny was a joltik in black version. it was my very first pokemon game, and i didn't know anything about pokemon at the time, but i thought that joltik must've been special because of the sparkles so luckily i caught it ^^ it wasn't til much later i learned about the value of shiny pokemon, and realized just how lucky little me was to not only encounter a full odds shiny but also NOT run away from it like a dumbass LMAO simply nicknamed tarantula(i was maybe 7 or 9? then?), i've transferred it up to sword for now. here's to hoping joltik/galvantula comes back in the SV dlc :)

My first shiny was a sandshrew that I found in the desert in Sapphire when I was 7. My brother ended up confiscating it because the cartridge I had my save on was his. We ended up moving and we somehow lost the GBA I played on along with the sapphire cartridge as well as the leafgreen cartridge my shiny was sent to. On top of this we also lost a bunch of other GBA games and our Xbox.

My first shiny was a Spheal in ORAS, but I ran cuz I didn’t know what it was 😭

My favourite shiny I got was Inteleon got it from the The Masuda method with a Japanese 5iv ditto and a Sobble with it's hidden ability what I breed from the one you get from pokemon home as a free gift it taken many days but it was worth it

Similar situation I lost a shiny Geodude in my copy of Pokémon. Let’s go Eevee when I forgot to say, do you have any suggestions for easy games? I can go back and shiny hunt Geodude I only have a Nintendo switch

My very first shiny was a full odds Clefairy i ran into but I forgot to save after catching it and played for a longer after, i later lost it...😢

My first was a boldore which i deleted my save so now ima re hunt it

cool story bro

my first shiny was a emolga in pokémon black

my first shiny pokémon was a shiny dratini in heartgold before getting the gift one i ended up restarting the game and found another shiny which was a shiny golbat in victory road. I caught a shiny dratini in pokémon violet and called it Barney just as the original

my first shiny was a fearow in pokemon sun

My brother reset my game with my first shiny

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TBH, NidoShiny is a Decent Name NidoKing, NidoQueen and NidoShiny not the Best Name, But i cant Say its Bad

this video is really sweet ( ´ ▽ ` ) i love hearing people's pokémon memories. the shiny of mine with the most unique story might be my 1/4096 shiny alolan exeggutor in sun, which i caught on a car ride to a parent-teacher conference when i was... 10, i think? i was super excited, even though my parents didn't understand. that exeggutor still lives on my original sun file!! as for the saving question: i'm *still* a save spammer! i blame my ocd. can't risk losing a shiny because i didn't save at least twice ^^

yooooo

My first shiny was a Wingull that I also named SHINY. I still have em to this day 🥲

Hey, I'd greatly appreciate if someone would be able to help me out on a story like this. I had my first shiny back in Pokemon X, it was a Kakuna evolved into a Beedrill. I wanted to transfer it to ORAS without using Bank, by putting a Wurmple on the gts from oras and asking fora beedrill. Instead my dumbass put up the shiny beedrill and asked for a wurmple, and I lost it. I have a hacked 3ds and that save file, is there any way to recover that pokemon from caught data or something? It unfortunately wasn't in a hall of fame team.

i don't even remember my first shiny to be honest. not at all. but judging by the shiny barbaracle named "FIRST SHINY!!!!!" in my ultra sun boxes, i think it's clear what it was. my first shiny i remember catching was in 2021, and was also in ultra sun. i had around 8 other shinies that i don't remember catching in my boxes though. the shiny specifically i caught was a swellow, which i named "shiny birb". as for the shiny barbaracle, i don't want to lose it, so it's safely stored away in my home boxes currently. i also might as well go over some other shinies that are special to me, while i'm at it. my first shiny in scarlet/violet was full odds, i didn't even have the shiny charm at that point. it was a shiny glimmora, caught at the bottom of area zero. that glimmora was named "WHAT" for a while, but i renamed it to kirakira a few months ago. for perhaps my craziest shiny story, i was going to a tera raid north of medali, which was blocked by a horde of sudowoodo. i accidentally ran into one of the sudowoodo. it actually wasn't a sudowoodo. it was a zorua. _a shiny zorua._ i panicked and immediatly threw my master ball at it, and currently that zorua, now zoroark, is named violet. i don't know what it is with me and my luck with full-odds shinies... the story behind probably one of my favorite shinies isn't actually that interesting. i was playing through teal mask, and a random full-odds shiny yanma spawned above the crystal pool. of course, i caught it, and i named it "HOW". currently, though, she's called miko! she's such a silly little yanmega.

Gosh.. Each time I watch video's about pokemon from the past I remember my own first two shinies.. Well my first legit two shinies, my first two were hacked by my cousin which I appreciated as a kid but it made me think it messed up my game (Pokemon Diamond) a bit so a few months later when I encountered a full odds shiny Venomoth.. I killed it because I thought it was hacked in.. As for my second legit shiny, it was a new playthrough of Pokemon Soul Silver and I found a shiny Bellsprout in my first playthrough (i think it was the second route even) but my game kept crashing when I reached the park area and I had to return the game, including my shiny, to Nintendo cuz I couldn't keep it safe or trade with anyone.. May they rest in peace. Thankfully there would be many more shinies for me along with my quest to find my lost shinies thanks to Scarlet and Violet.

I've only caught two legitimate shinies. My first shiny was a Tentacool in Leaf Green, route 19, surfing around to see if I could complete the dex. I was only 11 at the time so I didn't even know what a shiny was so I just caught it thinking it had something to do with the plot lol, it was after I've finished the main story and post story too so I was tryingg to find something to do lmao. The next one was Oddish in Pokemon Emerald route 119, I was in a hurry because almost all my pokemon were fainted and accidentally stepped into the tall grass, but lo and behold! There was a shiny oddish, and so I caught it with the one great ball I had. Good times

In Pokemon Sword I was grinding for a 6IV Popplio and hatched a shiny by accident lol.

In two different save files on the Sevii Islands (in LeafGreen) I found shiny unknown S and a shiny Machop

Evolve Execcute into alolan Exegguttor when migrating into Pokémon sun

"i knew ratatta was not a good pokemon." Pokemon Challenges would like a word with you.

When i was seven i found a shiny zubat in pokemon ultra sun i successfully caught it but.. i lost the game cartridge and i transported half of my pokemon x mons to the ultra sun copy. Biggest regret in my life. This Zubat was also my first shiny

Hello 🤗

My first shiny died it was a ghastly in gold I caught it but it was gbc gold

My first full odds shiny was a ekans in virtual console silver

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How do you use the r4 to backup fire red save file

Loved your story telling bro! 1st shiny ever was a mt silver tangela silver version, I told everyone it was green and it fled after 1 ultra ball. No one believed me, times b4 we knew what shinies were. I'm sure one day I'll get it back

Congrats

I didn’t know the value of shiny Pokémon either back when I first played Pokemon. I even left behind a sponik I saw sparkle back when I first played OR back in 2015. But then I saw a video about shiny hunting and i got interested in shiny hunting right away. I’ve been a shiny hunter since 2017, I failed my first shiny in Heartgold but reclaimed shiny Lugia in SoulSliver. Since then, I’ve gotten more prepared for these hunts. With weaken the pokemon with super fang, neutral moves that wouldn’t knock it out right away and it also depends on the Pokémon’s spk atk and atk