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6th Gen ... Accidental Shiny?

stelstravsky

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I was looking for Ekans hordes last night at 12AM, and I could literally find NONE :( which is unfortunate, as I'm trying to catch all Pokemon. What I did find, however, was a shiny Bellsprout in a horde encounter... which was my first shiny in any game, so I was pretty pleased. I know Bellsprout isn't the most adorable or cool of all Pokemon, but I still think it's pretty neat and I'm gonna evolve it soon.

Has anyone else found shinies on accident? And which ones?
 
Hiatus

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This is the way how they want us to encounter shinies—by luck, accident. I know there are various methods to run to these things, such as shiny chaining, but this is a lot better, I'd say, as it retains your surprise factor. n_n; Anyhow, yeah, I've encountered a lot of Pokémon like that! The most recent would be Litleo.
 
Skystrike

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I haven't really met any Pokémon randomly...

All my shinies are forced obtained on purpose :(

Even with the Shiny Charm!
 

stelstravsky

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Peitharchia said:
This is the way how they want us to encounter shinies—by luck, accident. I know there are various methods to run to these things, such as shiny chaining, but this is a lot better, I'd say, as it retains your surprise factor. n_n; Anyhow, yeah, I've encountered a lot of Pokémon like that! The most recent would be Litleo.
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Yeah! It came as a REALLY nice surprise and I was super excited :) I never felt the need to get shinies (although I will always be interested in finding a shiny Luxray since it's my favorite) but if I ever experience this again, I'll be just as equally happy.
 

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Technically, I found a shiny Charmeleon in the Friend Safari on accident--I wasn't looking for shinies, but a Fletchinder with its HA--however, given how the FS increases the rate of finding shinies, I don't know if it'd count. Other than that, the only shinies I've found were through Chain Fishing.
 

Foamy96

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I got shiny pokemon through breeding but never a wild encounter
 

Xebelleon

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stelstravsky said:
Has anyone else found shinies on accident? And which ones?
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I find shiny wild encounters more a random surprise than accident.
XY brought me a Bergmite and Shelmet so far.
Ability and nature tend to be undesired with my few shinies. Hate Gentle.
 
Lotus the Cat

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I've never seen a wild shiny. I did breed one though (a Starly), which was my first. Unfortunately it didn't have the nature I wanted so I just gave it to my husband. :P
 

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So far, every shiny I've encountered is by accident. The only time this wasn't so is a Mawile that hatched via Masuda Method, and I still wasn't aiming for that.
 
Meganium

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Well, accidental shinies aren't by accident imo, whether with the shiny charm or not. My recent shiny encounter was more unexpected rather than by accident, and it's my shiny Spearow.
 

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Okay, so funny thing was, I was using the PokeRadar trying to learn how to use it for obtaining shinies. I kept failing to get higher than a 13 chain and started to walk out of the patch with sadness and I encountered a non-chained random shiny Pancham.. I almost died. I then stayed on the same route but different patch to check for Zapdos and I ran into ANOTHER shiny less than 2 minutes later, thus a shiny Gulpin. I've never had anything like that happen before and those are my only two non-fishing chained/friend safari shinies. I was happy to say the least.
 

stelstravsky

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Timesurfers said:
Okay, so funny thing was, I was using the PokeRadar trying to learn how to use it for obtaining shinies. I kept failing to get higher than a 13 chain and started to walk out of the patch with sadness and I encountered a non-chained random shiny Pancham.. I almost died. I then stayed on the same route but different patch to check for Zapdos and I ran into ANOTHER shiny less than 2 minutes later, thus a shiny Gulpin. I've never had anything like that happen before and those are my only two non-fishing chained/friend safari shinies. I was happy to say the least.
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... you have some crazy luck going on there :o I'm jealous!
 

Hikamaru

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Except for that one shiny orange flower Flabebe I got in a Poke Radar chain, every shiny I caught in my X game so far was a random encounter. Sometimes I find those shinies when I wasn't even intending to do so.

In fact, these are the shinies I have in the game so far:
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Proteun

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In my good old Silver version I encountered two shiny Onix while grinding in Victory Road. Though back then, I didn't know what the sparkles meant, and I just KO'd them. Life is hard ;__;

A few months later, however, I was going to beat Red for the 152nd time and ran into a Shiny Quagsire. I did catch that one.
 
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ForeignLawyer

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Shiny Squirtle!!!

When I was about 10 or 12 years old, I started a new game of Pokémon Leafgreen, and looked at the squirtle which was to be my starter, and to my surprise, it was shiny! I wasn't a big fan of the pink Blastoise though.
 
SaniOKh

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I found a Shiny in a horde as well, a Poliwag. I had to take note of which one it was when I saw sparkles, because its color wasn't noticeably different from the normal one.

As for other generations... I roughly have one shiny per gen: a Spearow in Gen 2, a Slowpoke in Gen 3, a Turtwig and a Weezing in Gen 4 and an Audino in Gen 5. I've never been a Shiny hunter, so it was all pleasant surprises :) .
 
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