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Your First shiny

Darkwing Ducklett

Let's get dangerous
155
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10
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  • Age 34
  • Seen Aug 20, 2014
Excluding the obvious Red Gyarados, my first shiny was a Whismur in Ruby, which I almost missed, as I wasn't really paying much attention at the time...thankfully, I noticed that my opponent had green ears just before I killed it.
 
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10
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  • Age 28
  • Seen Sep 28, 2013
My first shiny was a Donphan, unfortunately I thought it's color scheme was awful, and I just dumped it in the PC...
 

Andrew Shard

Shards of Fury
19
Posts
10
Years
My first shiny was a zubat I think -.- After that I got a geodude (both in emerald since I had like 400 hours of gaming)...
After thath I got a shiny bibarel in pearl and in BW my shinies were: dearling, psyduck and sandile (I know, sandile is good and I stll have it for EV training since it's naive ^_^)
 

Kieran

the Blueberry Champion
1,486
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14
Years
I got a shiny Noctowl at the grass from Goldenrod to Ecruteak in Gold version.

That was my first shiny!
 

yungdialysis

shoutout to britney spears
28
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10
Years
My first shiny was on pokemon pearl, it was a shiny azumarill! And the coolest part was shiny azumarills are yellow so i was really happy with him, he is now in my pokemon black team at lvl 84.
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Rune Alchemist

Magical Evil Role Player
349
Posts
12
Years
  • Age 28
  • Asia
  • Seen Oct 5, 2023
My very first shiny... Was a Male Shiny Pikachu outside of Viridian Forest of Pokemon Crystal.

After that, I found a Shiny Lotad in Pokemon Sapphire right after I got my first 5 Pokeballs, and a Shiny Lombre in a later save.

After that, I rarely encountered Shiny Pokemon. Well, there was that Shiny Ponyta in FireRed, but I wasn't able to save before I ran out of battery :(

Does a Shiny Mewtwo TC count? :)
 
17
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10
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  • Age 31
  • Seen Sep 29, 2013
My first shiny was a Caterpie actually. I was still pretty proud about it haha!
 
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10
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  • Age 34
  • Seen Oct 28, 2013
The first shiny I saw was a pink Lugia in Silver. I didn't know about shinies, and thought something was wrong with my game/gameboy. I reset and everything was normal. -sob- When I realized what I did later I felt like the biggest idiot.

The first shiny I actually caught was a Marill in Soul Silver.
 
284
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10
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  • Age 25
  • Seen Sep 14, 2017
Mine is a shiny Grimer in Soulsilver.
I got these shiny Pokemon in trades though: Mew and Xatu (from my friend), Noctowl and Glaceon.
Soon I'm gonna get a shiny Zorua! Someday!
 

Legendaries tamer

Man who's coming up with a plan
5
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10
Years
now, let's see...

i do believe my first ever shiny was way back when i first got into pokemon with Ruby version. it was a geodude I saw in the dewford cave, somewhere between level 8-12. at the time i didn't even know what a shiny was, so i thought it was no big deal and ended placing it in a pc box, where it remained the entire time of my play through until i started a new game
 
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10
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  • Age 30
  • Seen Oct 12, 2015
The first shiny that I saw (besides the Red Gyarados) was a Poochyena in Route 4 just outside Petalbourg City about 6 years ago during my second run through Pokemon Emarld. I flipped my sh!t and went nuts for about 2 miutes. I played the game really slowly on the carpet so that I wouldn't fudge it up by dropping the console or somehow making it freeze. I caught the glorious barstard and I still have it today on my Pokemon Pearl card. I haven't seen a shiny since that terrific day
 

Lazer

Geek in the Pink
44
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10
Years
  • Age 28
  • Seen Jan 24, 2014
Aside from the free shiny Gyarados, I got a shiny Pawniard with jolly nature in White2.
 
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10
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  • Seen Jan 20, 2015
I think my first legit shiny was a mankey in diamond. Just recently I caught a shiny

shedinja in DR. Of course i nicknamed it "shedblinga" haha
 
252
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10
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  • Age 31
  • USA
  • Seen Feb 19, 2022
Outside of red Gyarados I have never legitimately caught a single other shiny pokemon, and I've been playing for 13 years. :pink_frown: :pink_no:
ONE day I will run into a shiny, and I hope it will be an epic one. probably a magikarp and I would just end up with another red gyarados.
 
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10
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Well, Red Gyarados was the first 'shiny' Pokémon I've encountered. In the wild, it was a Psyduck, which became "Shiduck".

Brendino would probably tell you a funny story about a shiny Weedle, if you asked nicely...
 
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10
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My first shiny's were in Pearl: Stunky & Meditite
And later in SS I caught: Rattata & Togepi (apart from Gyarados). Didn't notice Togepi was shiny at first though just hatched the egg and placed it in a box :3c
 

TearsOfNightfall

♦ the night watch ♦
18
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10
Years
Zubat in Pokemon Silver. I've had three shiny zubats, actually. The only other one I've had was a Cascoon in Ruby. That was the last one, though - haven't come across a shiny for nearly a decade.
 
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