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6th Gen What's the luckiest you've been with shiny hunting?

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    I managed to catch a shiny Deoxys playing through the Delta Episode a second time.

    I find this doubtful considering it's shiny-locked.
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    Staying on-topic, I just caught a shiny Cresselia that only took about 40 SRs. :D
     

    JayTheKing

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  • It might be in Y but I considered myself extremely lucky:I hatched a shiny froakie with 4 31 ivs at important stats(only lacked HP but still the HP wasnt bad)with HA after 20 or so eggs.
    It was MM and shiny charm but I have seen other people getting a shiny after 100+ eggs(with MM and S.Charm).
     

    LilyGardy

    The Flowering Pokemon
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  • The luckiest Alpha Sapphire Shiny for me was finding a Shiny Swablu (Now a Shiny Contest Altaria) in a random encounter.

    Finding a Shiny Petilil (Now a Shiny Lilligant with numerous ribbons) was pretty lucky too as was finding two Shiny Female Oddish in one day. :)
     

    Rai

    Quarter Life Crisis! @.@
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  • I haven't found a single shiny Pokemon in ORAS >.> However, I found a shiny Swablu in the original Ruby, but accidentally made it faint :(

    Now that I think about it, I have terrible luck in the third generation... I have gotten a shiny in almost all of my other games though D:
     
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    I caught my first shiny yesterday. I was just searching for Heart Scales, and the second Luvdisc I see is shiny. It's kind of a shame it's such a weak pokemon, I'd like to show it off.

    But I love it anyways.
     

    Rabid Poochyena

    [size=1][u][b][color=purple]You read my usertitle.
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  • The luckiest I have been is catching a shiny Poochyena on route 101 in Emerald since it's my favorite Pokemon and it was a random encounter, I wasn't even shiny hunting at the time.
     

    sCam

    Killing is a pleasure
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    I wasn't paying attention when training my Sylveon in the cave before elite 4 in Pokemon X cause I was multi tasking watching That 70's show and playing with the volume down low. I ran into a drudigon that i wanted to run from i think. Now that i think of it, i think i was doing something different than training unless i ran out of pp to ohko it. Anyways i wanted to run from it, and you know how sometimes the camera moves and the opposing pokemon you can't see for a second. I said "Wait, what if it's a shiny" Camera moves back to the drudigon and bam! Green and Orange guy was there standing right there. I was freaking going crazy. craziest amount of luck i ever had just by being a bit superstitious i believe or wishfull thinking.
     
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    My luckiest shiny from ORAS was a Relaxed Male Weak Armor Onix while I was looking for a female Weak Armor Onix and I evolved my shiny Onix into Steelix though.
     

    Mardovelin

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    i've been super lucky with shinies.
    before my shiny charm i got a shiny virizion in around 200 soft resets and a shiny starly after 8 eggs.
    with my shiny charm though i found a random shiny wingull, a numel after about 20 random encounters and minum after 42 eggs.
    and that's not even naming half of my lucky shinies.
     

    AmetsuCAT

    KITTY POWER!!
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    I'm only lucky when I'm not looking for them. I randomly encountered a Shiny Whismur in Connecting Cave on my way to get my 2nd badge in X

    Meanwhile, in Omega Ruby, I got a chain of 80+ Zangoose(200+ including other hidden Pokémon) and still no shiny :( Sigh...
     
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    I was chain fishing for a shiny, and got a shiny luvdisc within the first 20 encounters, first legit shiny. I don't even like Luvdisc but I kinda have a certain appreciation for it now.
     
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    I just started using the Dex Nav over the weekend and have caught 4 shinies so far.

    The first was a Skitty, was looking for it and found it after about 200.
    Then I found a random Slakoth while looking for Shroomish, it was only my 30th Slakoth encountered, after that found a Wurmple at about 14.

    Today I found shiny Taillow at 155.

    Probably not the luckiest finds, but having never used the Dex Nav before I was surprised it was so easy.
     
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