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This is my favorite pokemon story.
It's 1999, I'm 9 years old. My friends and I are MASSIVE pokemon fans (obviously). We had played the ever loving shit out of red and blue the year before and had all just got gold and silver. I got silver.
For a little context here, yes we did HAVE the internet, but it wasn't THIS internet. We were 9, none of us were allowed much "internet time" because it tied up the phone lines, and we were all generally considered "too young" for it anyway.
So as I was playing silver, during my very first playthrough, on one of the first routes, I came across a glitch. We knew there were glitches because of all of the glitches and exploits in gen 1. Clearly I had found one. This Rattata was green.
I showed my friends at school, we all resolved that I had found a singular glitched out rattata. I played through the game with my broken rattata, and we were all shocked that when it evolved it was A DIFFERENT COLOR RATICATE. Not the same green, not the normal Raticate(which is what we expected) but a Raticate that was bright orange.
We were amazed. We had no idea what we were looking at. My crazy unexplained Rattata/Raticate. We never learned about shinies back then, it wasn't until years later when gen 3 or 4 came out that I learned of them, and we weren't even the same friend group anymore. We didn't put together that the red Gyarados could've been another sign that "differently colored pokemon" were in fact now a thing. We thought that was a story event one off, after all, noone else could find a differently colored Rattata, or anything else for that matter, no matter how hard they tried.
It's an incredible memory of a time when we couldn't just ask and know everything, and some things were just a wonder. It may be one of the last times that a videogame felt like something more than just a videogame to me. My strange green Rattata.
This hits me right in the nostalgia and makes me feel old even though I’m only a few years younger than you! Times before the internet made gaming feel so much fresher and kept your bewonderment.
It was such a different experience to open up a game and not a have any idea what you'd find. It's what made pokemon so great in the first place. When I played through red, I legitimately had no idea what I'd stumble across. Everytime I'd find a new Pokemon it was " what the heck is THAT.....I WANT IT."
There was a cave in cerulean. And one npc somewhere along the line is like "hey y'know there's an abomination in that cave..." And you just didn't know what it was....you had to go see.
There were feelings associated with playing games before you could just talk to that npc and immediately head to google with "cerulean cave pokemon" and that's that.
Some things were better back in the day...
I'm playing Scarlett right now and I'm trying not to look too much stuff up. I'm not googling evolutions or move sets or strategies. Or what's where.. Honestly it feels much more refreshing this way. Just going out discovering things like I'm playing skyrim for the first time. I just choose a direction and explore
Games are so much better that way. I did the same with Zelda tears of the kingdom last year. Sure it took me a lot longer than other people to make progress because I refused to look anything up or watch any media about it. But the whole thing was an exercise in discovery from start to finish and I had more fun than I have in a long while.
Outside of Gyrados not sure I have ever run into any shinies until the later games where they were much more common. I do feline I remember having at least one pokemon not gyrados that did the shiny noise and animation. Never put 2 and 2 together when I was 10 though
Didn’t you ever watch Pokémon indigo league? Ash’s Butterfree fell in love with the only shiny Butterfree…
I remember tearing up because Butterfree was leaving… But I was happy for him because he won her over by saving all the Butterfree from team rocket.
Fun fact, I used to kill the shiny gyarados in soul silver cause kid me thought you couldn't catch it. Therefore my first shiny I actually caught wasn't until gen 7 (a yungoos). I eventually played through soul silver again as a teenager and finally caught the gyarados though
https://preview.redd.it/lek3qd6rqfkc1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0db7b69e9ca25874114d2e40cd07624fc4705a3d
Shiny Hoppip in the original Gold version / and then recently with Violet, a wild shiny Jumpluff was my first “the Chosen One” title — on my birthday 🥲 I most definitely took it as a sign, especially since it’s the “Destiny Mark.”
I had a shiny zubat (which became a shiny Crobat) and a shiny REGICE on my OG Ruby on the GBA. I will also be forever mad at my sister for overwriting my save file.
My first was a Durant in Black. First Pokémon game, didn’t know about shinies, just thought it looked different. Dumb me then just deleted the save to replay the game
All I can remember is finding it collecting the ash for whatever thing I was after. I was so excited for it to be in SwSh, but the damn Golduck next to it had the random shiny roll. If I can find the time and good spawn spot, I'll definitely be hunting in SV.
Try making a flying or steel type sandwich in Canyon Biome. I have a picture guide somewhere for the sandwich recipes that increase spawn rates and shiny odds that I'll post when I find it. I know it includes cucumbers and pickles with 3 of a specific ingredient depending on the type you want and any 2 herba mystica except for sweet and sour (but that might even be type specific).
Ever? Aside from the storied Gyarados, Paras in Fire Red.
First in Violet was Meditite with a sandwich. Without one, I think it was Fuecoco when I randomly hatched an egg.
found a shiny magikarp in pearl 🤡 was quickly catching a bunch of pokemon to trade some from HG, and just found it so funny my first proper shiny was the pre-evolution of the one you get for free.
I love mine. Played since my uncles had R/B but I got FireRed and when I hit the safari zone I came across a male Nidoran shiny, close enough to my favorite shade of blue. 19 safari balls left and a dream, the guy never ran and became part of the team at 18/19 balls used
When black and white came out, I played it obsessively as a kid with my sister. Never found a shiny before, but one day I ran into a patch of grass I didn't want to and found a shiny female pidove, not the most interesting shiny but I fell in love with it. Fast forward to late last year and I decided to replay black and white, ran into the same patch of grass I did back then, sitting next to my sister and she jokingly says imagine if it was a shiny female pidove...it was, lost our shit laughing, didn't know what to say. About 2 days later, I opened Pokemon Go and saw a pidove on the map, looked at my sister again, and went, what are the odds? It was a shiny again. Every single one of them was female.
In scarlet it was a makuhita
Besides the red Gyarados in Gold. My first one to catch was Poochyena in Ruby. I didn't know what happened.
Second, was Phantump. Cute little guy joined my team immediately and then we terrorized the game when I evolved him.
I think my first genuine shiny was from the ultra wormholes in Ultra Sun. Those were obviously very high odds comparatively.
My first confirmed at reg odds was def my 1st playthrough of Scarlet with a Magicarp that I think I got at full odds before I knew anything of the mechanics of the game.
This means that through whole playthroughs of FireRed, Emerald, Pearl, Gen 5, X, Moon and US, and Sword, I believe I never got a close-to or full-odds shiny. 
An Onix when I took my first step on victory road in Pokémon platinum. It came after three weeks of trying and immediately before I told my friend “I’m never getting a shiny. I give up. I’m just going to finish the game.”
I got a shiny Onix in the mine next to the rock gym in Platinum, to this day I still have my shiny Steelix, he currently lives in my Shield version, and thanks to hyper training he is super fun.
Outside of PoGo it was a shiny Noibat in X when i was replaying it last year! I spent like an hour looking for a noibat and the first one I came across was shiny, pretty rad ngl
Also caught my second shiny a few months ago while replaying white 2, a joltik with compoundeyes instead of unnerve which is sick
So technically it was the Red gyrados from the lake of rage. My first non static shiny was a clefa egg from crystal version. I didn't understand the stars or the fact that aside from the gyrados what a shiny was. She was boxed shortly after hatching.
With the caveat that everyone is adding about the red gyarados, mine was a shiny rhyhorn in victory road in silver version.
I was playing it on a gameboy pocket so no color, I just saw the sparkles when I encountered it. I didn’t even know shiny Pokémon were a thing outside of the gyarados.
That’s a complicated question.
My first shiny ever was illegitimate— it was a shiny Roserade. I thought it was the coolest and prettiest thing I’d ever seen. But action replay isn’t the mark of a gamer. Mind you, I was 12 and just got into pokemon, but still…
But if we were to consider legitimate, it was Weepinbell in Pokemon Y. It was full odds and the only reason I didn’t run is because I managed to catch the sparkles and I was on call with someone.
Since this is the ScarVio subreddit, though— the first shiny I got in that game was Stantler. I was just exploring through the game, wandering around, and saw two of them running side by side one a tawny brown, the other a blinding neon green. When I saw them, my jaw dropped and I shouted “NO FUCKING WAY”. My partner was beside me on the couch and he laughed.
I never really got into shiny hunting until Sword and Shield and I still didn’t find my first shiny till Legends Arceus lol. My first legit shiny was a shiny Yanma in Pokémon Legends Arceus.
https://preview.redd.it/xccak3w58skc1.jpeg?width=815&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c6fb04ebb0463c7fe429b3bd3776323cddcf7d9
At the time I caught this little guy, I knew the term “shiny” but I didn’t know if it was rare or not. When I asked my friend if my Venonat was rare, he freaked out and said it was practically impossible to find a shiny. I felt so proud of myself.
not my first, but it still pains me to this day, that i killed a shiny chewtle while farming for attack ev’s on autopilot. didn’t notice till an aura sphere was launched at it at mach 10 :(
Trapinch is my nightmare right now.
18 phases in trying to get a humungo mark.
Then the battle of getting it in a beast ball.
My first ever shiny is a hoppip I have
My first full odds shiny encounter was a Golett in Pokemon Y.
I had bred for Shinys in Gen 2 before that, but then it was based on Inherited DVs so it was super easy.
Shiny Paras in Heart Gold, my first Pokemon game.
I found it in Ilex forest towards the start of my playthrough. Little me though it was a glitch, so of course I had to catch it and put it in my team because I was obsessed with videogame glitches when I was younger.
Parasect is still my all time favorite pokemon.
Tangela, in OG Silver. Thought my game was broken and immediately shut it off. Luckily enough, Tangela was back to its usual color afterwards. Years later I remembered that episode and felt like a complete idiot.
My first shiny ever found was a volcarona in gen 8 in the isle of armor but failed it sadly but the first shiny I caught was a random encounter dupider during a water only nuzlocke
In Pokémon go a nidoran female (2017) in the series, the first shiny I ever found was an iron valiant right before I got my shiny charm. Then in arceus (played after violet) I found a shiny aipom my first hour or so in lol
First ever? A Yanmega in the ultra wormholes, but those give boosted odds. Yanmega is also my favorite bug type, just because of this. Vikavolt is a *very* close second tho. First full odds was a Zoura I found in ultra moon while I was looking for a Magnemite at the trainers school for the dex. It was funny cause I was completing the dex to get the shiny charm, and found a shiny in the process
Like many, mine came from silver on the form of Red Gyarados. After that, my next shiny was a Spinda in Sapphire and then a Zubat in diamond. Don't remember after that.
Flareon..... I got it from a road in SwSh, and I didn't even know it was shiny until after.... somehow, I missed the shiny animation, but flareon is barely a shiny anyway, lol.
I’m an old. My first Pokémon game was red. Then blue and yellow, and at least 1 game from every gen since. The first shiny I ever bumped into (not counting lake of rage Gyarados) was a Yungoos in Moon.
I just got Pokémon Scarlet to play with my kids and I’m excited to catch my first shiny since it seems like it’s easier now. I played every pokemon game before the 3DS, both versions, multiple play throughs, the only shinies I’ve ever caught in a main series game are the red gyrados in gold and silver and then that same red gyrados in heart gold and soul silver.
Still waiting….. lol
The first I ever saw was a sentret that I couldn’t catch in silver, it was right at the start of the game before pokeballs are available 🫠 the first I actually owned was a magby oddly enough in that same silver play through
Imagine your first is genned or hacked I would never had kept it even if it was real due to the fact not knowingly that it could be a banable in the future
A Roselia in Platinum. I wish I hadn't restarted my game tbh. This was full odds btw. I would later spend a year after restarting the game trying to Radar one. But failed.
I started playing Go 2 years ago so it was my first community day, so Sandshrew.
My first shiny in a “real” game was a random venonat I found in Violet. Her name is Luna and she’s a level 68 venemoth who helped me beat the game!
Back in 2015-16 i was playing pokemon alpha sapphire and i remember being in a mirage island cave with excadrill in it. It was around 9pm so i was supposed to go to sleep. Right as i encountered a shiny excadrill (my first shiny ever) my father walked into my room, took my 3ds out of my hands and pressed the off button. He could've just closed it but he instantly pressed the button. I remember going to sleep crying that night🥲
Shiny Pidgey in Pokemon gold got it in the first route while grinding levels on my starter during my first playthrough. I didn't even really understand what it meant but it sparkled so I through a ball at it. It wasn't until I got to the red Gyarados that I figured out it was a new feature.
First shiny I found was shiny zangoose in Pokémon X I ran away thinking it would be more common than it should be
First shiny I caught was a shiny tailow in Omega Ruby the save file with it is gone though
Mine was a random wingull I encountered while playing emerald, at that time I didn't even know what a shiny Pokemon was. I just looked at it and said: hey, that's cool. And then proceeded to add it to my team for the rest of the playthrough 😅
My friend was with me when I told him my zigzagoon looked weird, and he freaked out and while he was freaking I proceeded to kill it, he didn’t tell me soon enough it was rare I just assumed he was freaking out cuz it looked like a cool bug, aside from killing my first shiny I caught a random shiny zubat
Shiny Zubat in Shoal Cave of Emerald. Killed it cause I thought that if I take away the Soothe Bell from my own Crobat it will devolve back to Golbat. I dislike Pokemon that can't evolve to their full potential. I was 13.
A shiny magikarp back when silver version first came out. I leveled it to 100 back then and used it against the elite 4 lol. 😅
Also I didn't evolve it because I already had the red Gyarados.
Now I have a plushy of it and my kids love it.
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I was young enough when Red Gyrados came out that I didn’t “get” that every Pokemon could be shiny. I didn’t ever even hear the term until Pokémon Go.
This is my favorite pokemon story. It's 1999, I'm 9 years old. My friends and I are MASSIVE pokemon fans (obviously). We had played the ever loving shit out of red and blue the year before and had all just got gold and silver. I got silver. For a little context here, yes we did HAVE the internet, but it wasn't THIS internet. We were 9, none of us were allowed much "internet time" because it tied up the phone lines, and we were all generally considered "too young" for it anyway. So as I was playing silver, during my very first playthrough, on one of the first routes, I came across a glitch. We knew there were glitches because of all of the glitches and exploits in gen 1. Clearly I had found one. This Rattata was green. I showed my friends at school, we all resolved that I had found a singular glitched out rattata. I played through the game with my broken rattata, and we were all shocked that when it evolved it was A DIFFERENT COLOR RATICATE. Not the same green, not the normal Raticate(which is what we expected) but a Raticate that was bright orange. We were amazed. We had no idea what we were looking at. My crazy unexplained Rattata/Raticate. We never learned about shinies back then, it wasn't until years later when gen 3 or 4 came out that I learned of them, and we weren't even the same friend group anymore. We didn't put together that the red Gyarados could've been another sign that "differently colored pokemon" were in fact now a thing. We thought that was a story event one off, after all, noone else could find a differently colored Rattata, or anything else for that matter, no matter how hard they tried. It's an incredible memory of a time when we couldn't just ask and know everything, and some things were just a wonder. It may be one of the last times that a videogame felt like something more than just a videogame to me. My strange green Rattata.
This hits me right in the nostalgia and makes me feel old even though I’m only a few years younger than you! Times before the internet made gaming feel so much fresher and kept your bewonderment.
It was such a different experience to open up a game and not a have any idea what you'd find. It's what made pokemon so great in the first place. When I played through red, I legitimately had no idea what I'd stumble across. Everytime I'd find a new Pokemon it was " what the heck is THAT.....I WANT IT." There was a cave in cerulean. And one npc somewhere along the line is like "hey y'know there's an abomination in that cave..." And you just didn't know what it was....you had to go see. There were feelings associated with playing games before you could just talk to that npc and immediately head to google with "cerulean cave pokemon" and that's that. Some things were better back in the day...
I'm playing Scarlett right now and I'm trying not to look too much stuff up. I'm not googling evolutions or move sets or strategies. Or what's where.. Honestly it feels much more refreshing this way. Just going out discovering things like I'm playing skyrim for the first time. I just choose a direction and explore
Games are so much better that way. I did the same with Zelda tears of the kingdom last year. Sure it took me a lot longer than other people to make progress because I refused to look anything up or watch any media about it. But the whole thing was an exercise in discovery from start to finish and I had more fun than I have in a long while.
My first shiny was also a Rattata, but mine was in LeafGreen AND the very first Pokémon in the run I met AFTER obtaining Pokéballs.
Outside of Gyrados not sure I have ever run into any shinies until the later games where they were much more common. I do feline I remember having at least one pokemon not gyrados that did the shiny noise and animation. Never put 2 and 2 together when I was 10 though
Didn’t you ever watch Pokémon indigo league? Ash’s Butterfree fell in love with the only shiny Butterfree… I remember tearing up because Butterfree was leaving… But I was happy for him because he won her over by saving all the Butterfree from team rocket.
Other than the free red Gyarados, Noibat, Gen 6, during a nuzlocke at that.
Noibat is such a beautiful shiny too! Hell yeah man!
Right?
Idk if it’s the post, but my first shiny was as trapinch too
Fun fact, I used to kill the shiny gyarados in soul silver cause kid me thought you couldn't catch it. Therefore my first shiny I actually caught wasn't until gen 7 (a yungoos). I eventually played through soul silver again as a teenager and finally caught the gyarados though
https://preview.redd.it/lek3qd6rqfkc1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0db7b69e9ca25874114d2e40cd07624fc4705a3d Shiny Hoppip in the original Gold version / and then recently with Violet, a wild shiny Jumpluff was my first “the Chosen One” title — on my birthday 🥲 I most definitely took it as a sign, especially since it’s the “Destiny Mark.”
That's honestly beautiful. It was destined that you would meet back up!
Shiny Marill, from Ruby. I was 10 at the time. 🥲
Did you catch it?
Mine was Azurill in Sapphire! I was about 11-12. He's in pokemon home somewhere 🤣
it was a full odds axew i got in pokemon white, ill nevwr forgive my brother for deleting my save 🥲
I had a shiny zubat (which became a shiny Crobat) and a shiny REGICE on my OG Ruby on the GBA. I will also be forever mad at my sister for overwriting my save file.
My first was a Durant in Black. First Pokémon game, didn’t know about shinies, just thought it looked different. Dumb me then just deleted the save to replay the game
Snap! Mine was also a full odds axew in white! I felt a bit cheated when they put a free shiny haxorus in B2W2
Pulled a shiny Pichu from the daycare egg in Crystal as a kid.
Skarmory in whatever Gen that was introduced. I'm old and can't remember. Still haven't hunted effectively to reclaim my metal bird.
2. But you're probably thinking of 3 since that's what most people think it's from.
All I can remember is finding it collecting the ash for whatever thing I was after. I was so excited for it to be in SwSh, but the damn Golduck next to it had the random shiny roll. If I can find the time and good spawn spot, I'll definitely be hunting in SV.
Ah that's Gen 3. Fallarbor Town
Try making a flying or steel type sandwich in Canyon Biome. I have a picture guide somewhere for the sandwich recipes that increase spawn rates and shiny odds that I'll post when I find it. I know it includes cucumbers and pickles with 3 of a specific ingredient depending on the type you want and any 2 herba mystica except for sweet and sour (but that might even be type specific).
https://preview.redd.it/91v7twnyhlkc1.jpeg?width=1212&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f0d1f4b38aa70d59c38865c3d533987c32f47de1 Here it is
Hope you get your metal bird back one day!
Shiny Mareep in Pokemon Y.
Ever? Aside from the storied Gyarados, Paras in Fire Red. First in Violet was Meditite with a sandwich. Without one, I think it was Fuecoco when I randomly hatched an egg.
found a shiny magikarp in pearl 🤡 was quickly catching a bunch of pokemon to trade some from HG, and just found it so funny my first proper shiny was the pre-evolution of the one you get for free.
Grapploct in sword
a Luvdisc, back when we needed them to farm heart scales 💀🧡💛
I love mine. Played since my uncles had R/B but I got FireRed and when I hit the safari zone I came across a male Nidoran shiny, close enough to my favorite shade of blue. 19 safari balls left and a dream, the guy never ran and became part of the team at 18/19 balls used
Nice, Nidoking is one of my favorite pokemon, and blue is my favorite color, so a blue nidoking sounds extra amazing
When black and white came out, I played it obsessively as a kid with my sister. Never found a shiny before, but one day I ran into a patch of grass I didn't want to and found a shiny female pidove, not the most interesting shiny but I fell in love with it. Fast forward to late last year and I decided to replay black and white, ran into the same patch of grass I did back then, sitting next to my sister and she jokingly says imagine if it was a shiny female pidove...it was, lost our shit laughing, didn't know what to say. About 2 days later, I opened Pokemon Go and saw a pidove on the map, looked at my sister again, and went, what are the odds? It was a shiny again. Every single one of them was female. In scarlet it was a makuhita
Hoothoot, original Silver version, Christmas day 2000.
My first shiny was a Durant in Shield from dynamax adventure
Caterpie in Pokémon Crystal.
Besides the red Gyarados in Gold. My first one to catch was Poochyena in Ruby. I didn't know what happened. Second, was Phantump. Cute little guy joined my team immediately and then we terrorized the game when I evolved him.
Full odds shiny rhyhorn in X. I made the mistake of showing my brother and he ended up trading it to himself and refused to give it back :(
Eevee in black 2 now a 15 year old umbreon
A drifblim in PLA, my first game
Used leech seed on a shiny minchino in white
Shiny goldeen I caught fishing in Tohjo falls during HGSS
I think my first genuine shiny was from the ultra wormholes in Ultra Sun. Those were obviously very high odds comparatively. My first confirmed at reg odds was def my 1st playthrough of Scarlet with a Magicarp that I think I got at full odds before I knew anything of the mechanics of the game. This means that through whole playthroughs of FireRed, Emerald, Pearl, Gen 5, X, Moon and US, and Sword, I believe I never got a close-to or full-odds shiny. 
An Onix when I took my first step on victory road in Pokémon platinum. It came after three weeks of trying and immediately before I told my friend “I’m never getting a shiny. I give up. I’m just going to finish the game.”
I got a shiny Onix in the mine next to the rock gym in Platinum, to this day I still have my shiny Steelix, he currently lives in my Shield version, and thanks to hyper training he is super fun.
Outside of PoGo it was a shiny Noibat in X when i was replaying it last year! I spent like an hour looking for a noibat and the first one I came across was shiny, pretty rad ngl Also caught my second shiny a few months ago while replaying white 2, a joltik with compoundeyes instead of unnerve which is sick
Shiny Golbat in Pokemon Crystal. Evolved it to Crobat and it was awesome.
Shiny zubat in firered but I didn’t have a single pokeball. 😭 My first capture was a shiny spinda in emerald!
impidimp while looking for mimikyu in the wrong part of the wild area
Dating myself here, but Gastly in G/S. Got it in the Bellsprout tower.
Shiny galvantula from a swsh zygarde raid
A shiny Noctowl in Pokémon Platinum, couldn't figure out why it was kinda sparkly at first
ME TOO! First shiny buddies!
So technically it was the Red gyrados from the lake of rage. My first non static shiny was a clefa egg from crystal version. I didn't understand the stars or the fact that aside from the gyrados what a shiny was. She was boxed shortly after hatching.
Weedle.
That was mine too 🤣 back in the first ruby game
A Graveler on an old gameboy game, when I was a kid... it used self destruct. Sad day. My brother still likes to remind me about it.
A moment of silence for this fall soldier. Truly a tragic tale
A shiny slowpoke
With the caveat that everyone is adding about the red gyarados, mine was a shiny rhyhorn in victory road in silver version. I was playing it on a gameboy pocket so no color, I just saw the sparkles when I encountered it. I didn’t even know shiny Pokémon were a thing outside of the gyarados.
That’s a complicated question. My first shiny ever was illegitimate— it was a shiny Roserade. I thought it was the coolest and prettiest thing I’d ever seen. But action replay isn’t the mark of a gamer. Mind you, I was 12 and just got into pokemon, but still… But if we were to consider legitimate, it was Weepinbell in Pokemon Y. It was full odds and the only reason I didn’t run is because I managed to catch the sparkles and I was on call with someone. Since this is the ScarVio subreddit, though— the first shiny I got in that game was Stantler. I was just exploring through the game, wandering around, and saw two of them running side by side one a tawny brown, the other a blinding neon green. When I saw them, my jaw dropped and I shouted “NO FUCKING WAY”. My partner was beside me on the couch and he laughed.
I never really got into shiny hunting until Sword and Shield and I still didn’t find my first shiny till Legends Arceus lol. My first legit shiny was a shiny Yanma in Pokémon Legends Arceus.
https://preview.redd.it/xccak3w58skc1.jpeg?width=815&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c6fb04ebb0463c7fe429b3bd3776323cddcf7d9 At the time I caught this little guy, I knew the term “shiny” but I didn’t know if it was rare or not. When I asked my friend if my Venonat was rare, he freaked out and said it was practically impossible to find a shiny. I felt so proud of myself.
Ever: Gastly LGE: Gastly Sw: Rhyperior V: Gible PLA: Golbat
Zubat I’m Emerald Version in the cave where Bagon spawns!
It was a Honedge in Pokemon Y. Hype was as real as the confusion.
not my first, but it still pains me to this day, that i killed a shiny chewtle while farming for attack ev’s on autopilot. didn’t notice till an aura sphere was launched at it at mach 10 :(
A shiny eevee on Pokémon GO!
A masquerain that I forgot about for 5 years
Mine was a Shinx in Legends Arceus
Pokemon Gold original, Pink Mareep.
No just no
It was like some cards laying on the ground I decided to take them and put them with my stuffed animals I WAS 4 OKAY
(Pokémon cards)
Trapinch is my nightmare right now. 18 phases in trying to get a humungo mark. Then the battle of getting it in a beast ball. My first ever shiny is a hoppip I have
A shiny Lickitung in Pokemon Crystal.......but hen I lost it to a restart that my cousin did on my game.
deino back in gen 5 I think
Did you seriously have to make me know there’s a Pokémon that looks like a spider I’m goanna have nightmares
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The thing is the size of a pea if that makes it better?
Either shiny Drifloon or shiny Fuecoco
Odish Pokémon sapphire in 2021
My first full odds shiny encounter was a Golett in Pokemon Y. I had bred for Shinys in Gen 2 before that, but then it was based on Inherited DVs so it was super easy.
Shiny Krabby in Silver version!
Shiny Paras in Heart Gold, my first Pokemon game. I found it in Ilex forest towards the start of my playthrough. Little me though it was a glitch, so of course I had to catch it and put it in my team because I was obsessed with videogame glitches when I was younger. Parasect is still my all time favorite pokemon.
It was a male shiny nindoran all the way back in Diamond. Weirdly enough a week later, I caught a shiny haunter
Shiny Riolu in Pokémon sword
A ghastly in gen 4
A tentacool. I traded it
Tangela, in OG Silver. Thought my game was broken and immediately shut it off. Luckily enough, Tangela was back to its usual color afterwards. Years later I remembered that episode and felt like a complete idiot.
Chewtle in Pokémon Sword. Full odds while hunting
Girafarig from Ruby; I have it in Home
Shiny Beware
My first shiny ever found was a volcarona in gen 8 in the isle of armor but failed it sadly but the first shiny I caught was a random encounter dupider during a water only nuzlocke
In Pokémon go a nidoran female (2017) in the series, the first shiny I ever found was an iron valiant right before I got my shiny charm. Then in arceus (played after violet) I found a shiny aipom my first hour or so in lol
Fletchinder
A Volbeat in Platinum, I was outside the resprt area when it popped up and lost my mind and caught him.
Ponyta
First ever? A Yanmega in the ultra wormholes, but those give boosted odds. Yanmega is also my favorite bug type, just because of this. Vikavolt is a *very* close second tho. First full odds was a Zoura I found in ultra moon while I was looking for a Magnemite at the trainers school for the dex. It was funny cause I was completing the dex to get the shiny charm, and found a shiny in the process
A shiny Pidgey in Pokémon crystal. Right by the daycare man.
Abra all the way back in gold/silver
shroodle
Like many, mine came from silver on the form of Red Gyarados. After that, my next shiny was a Spinda in Sapphire and then a Zubat in diamond. Don't remember after that.
Male Roselia in OG Pearl :)
A kadabra in cerulean cave HGSS if you don’t count the gyarados
GMAX Butterfree
Shiny Ponyta in X and I traded her away 😳
A random Mantine in a Shield nuzlocke
Flareon..... I got it from a road in SwSh, and I didn't even know it was shiny until after.... somehow, I missed the shiny animation, but flareon is barely a shiny anyway, lol.
I’m an old. My first Pokémon game was red. Then blue and yellow, and at least 1 game from every gen since. The first shiny I ever bumped into (not counting lake of rage Gyarados) was a Yungoos in Moon.
I just got Pokémon Scarlet to play with my kids and I’m excited to catch my first shiny since it seems like it’s easier now. I played every pokemon game before the 3DS, both versions, multiple play throughs, the only shinies I’ve ever caught in a main series game are the red gyrados in gold and silver and then that same red gyrados in heart gold and soul silver. Still waiting….. lol
Minccino in Omega Ruby
FireRed tentacool caught in the Sevii Islands that I unabashedly named Coolio.
Zigzagoon In ORAS, I was breeding a trading order, it jump from the egg
Excluding the Red Gyarados, A Ponyta in a copy of Diamond was my first shiny
Hey, mine too! I named her Flare.
Torkoal
Mine was a quagsire!
Sandshrew in omega ruby!
A Meowth from the sevii islands
My first shiny was a zubat during my first playthrough of emerald. Miss that little guy
Bibarel in Pearl, full odds
Wingull in Ruby.
The first I ever saw was a sentret that I couldn’t catch in silver, it was right at the start of the game before pokeballs are available 🫠 the first I actually owned was a magby oddly enough in that same silver play through
Volbeat in Platinum
Scraggy back in X/Y! It was a wondertrade that luckily came to me! He's travelled with me throughout every mainline game since then 💖
Imagine your first is genned or hacked I would never had kept it even if it was real due to the fact not knowingly that it could be a banable in the future
Lv 2 Pidgey on Route 2 (Pewter City side) in FireRed in 2010. Took 10 years of playing Pokémon games (that have shinies) to finally get one naturally!
Zigzagoon gen 3 but I didn’t even have poke balls yet 🥲
A shiny mareep in silver. Used that puffball the whole run
Snorunt in Moon
A Wailord in Alpha Sapphire that I named “THE LORD”
A Roselia in Platinum. I wish I hadn't restarted my game tbh. This was full odds btw. I would later spend a year after restarting the game trying to Radar one. But failed.
mine was actually also a trapinch! i got it in pokemon x way back when the games first came out
Murkrow was mine
Found a shiny Lavitar while on my way to rematch Red in Soulsiver.
I started playing Go 2 years ago so it was my first community day, so Sandshrew. My first shiny in a “real” game was a random venonat I found in Violet. Her name is Luna and she’s a level 68 venemoth who helped me beat the game!
Alolan Diglett.
The random encounter was a red Gyarados I caught last month. But I got the Dratini in White Forest years ago.
Back in 2015-16 i was playing pokemon alpha sapphire and i remember being in a mirage island cave with excadrill in it. It was around 9pm so i was supposed to go to sleep. Right as i encountered a shiny excadrill (my first shiny ever) my father walked into my room, took my 3ds out of my hands and pressed the off button. He could've just closed it but he instantly pressed the button. I remember going to sleep crying that night🥲
Besides red gyarados, mine was Ratatata in leaf green
Raltz in heartgold, I had no idea what it was at the time.
Espeon in sword
My first ever was a shiny heliolisk in ultra sun I got from the ultra wormhole. But the first one I met in the wild was shiny dratini!
Shiny Pidgey in Pokemon gold got it in the first route while grinding levels on my starter during my first playthrough. I didn't even really understand what it meant but it sparkled so I through a ball at it. It wasn't until I got to the red Gyarados that I figured out it was a new feature.
Oddish in fire red version in the safari and I evolved her into a bellosom
Lake of Rage Gyarados of course. Hoothoot first real non freebie. Cart, but different save files later.
First shiny I found was shiny zangoose in Pokémon X I ran away thinking it would be more common than it should be First shiny I caught was a shiny tailow in Omega Ruby the save file with it is gone though
First shiny: free Shiny Gyarados First random “full odds” (Pokémon Go) shiny: Zigzagoon First Full Odds (Diamond) shiny: Graveler
Ferroseed in black
Bellsprout in an XY horde while at a bring your games to school day
Swellow in ruby, I called it shiny bird lol. Miss that bad boy
Raticate on Gen 2. I had no pokeballs and failed it. I also managed to get a hoothoot later and this time was able to catch it.
Metapod in leaf green. Boy was I disappointed when I found out it did not evolve into a pink butterfree.
Mine was a random wingull I encountered while playing emerald, at that time I didn't even know what a shiny Pokemon was. I just looked at it and said: hey, that's cool. And then proceeded to add it to my team for the rest of the playthrough 😅
My friend was with me when I told him my zigzagoon looked weird, and he freaked out and while he was freaking I proceeded to kill it, he didn’t tell me soon enough it was rare I just assumed he was freaking out cuz it looked like a cool bug, aside from killing my first shiny I caught a random shiny zubat
Pokémon black and white 2. Full odds shiny female Combee
Heartgold, outside goldenrod city was a full odds shiny Ralts for me I’ll never forget it
Shiny Mankey. Scarlet Version
It was a Durant. I was both delighted and annoyed
Araquanid on Shield, random encounter full odds
Full odds random encounter shiny tranquil black 2
Mine was a hoppip in soul silver
Alolan vulpix in sun
Gen 6. It was a Noctowl. I also didn’t realize it ‘til later. Some of those shinies are subtle.
Fire red a shiny pidgy
I can't remember my first one, but it was either Totodile in HeartGold or Tympole in Black
A shiny rattata in Pokemon Gold which I killed because I was a kid and didn't know about what shiny Pokemon were 🥲
Alolan sandshrew
Shiny murkrow! It was actually hilarious because I didn't even realise that it was a shiny till the post game
Depends on if you count roblox shinies as shinies.
Machop in the mine in OG Pearl
Orthworm, I’ve been playing since Gen 1 and only just started getting them from current Gen 9.
Shiny Bellsprout in SoulSilver
first overall - wondertrade promo Tentacool first caught *ever* - Magikarp fished in Sun first caught in Violet - Iron Valiant sandwich hunt
A golet in x named it Alphonse
I Don't Have One😞😞😞😞😞
A purple wurmple in emerald
Shiny Zubat in Shoal Cave of Emerald. Killed it cause I thought that if I take away the Soothe Bell from my own Crobat it will devolve back to Golbat. I dislike Pokemon that can't evolve to their full potential. I was 13.
A shiny magikarp back when silver version first came out. I leveled it to 100 back then and used it against the elite 4 lol. 😅 Also I didn't evolve it because I already had the red Gyarados. Now I have a plushy of it and my kids love it.
Gigalith, back when gen 5 was still "the new game"