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What Shiny pokemon have you captured Legitly?

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In my FireRed, I found a shiny Geodude and managed to catch it before it used selfdestruct (it had it--I checked afterward). Talk about nerve-wracking. My first shiny, ever, and it's a poke that usually LOVES to blow up on you whenever you really want to catch it, lol. It was awesome though because literally 1 hour later, I was on one of the islands and found a shiny Sentret XD

Recently I was replaying Emerald and training for the E4 in Victory Road, and I was not really paying attention, just biking around and KOing random pokemon. Then all of the sudden, as a wild Hariyama came on the screen and just before I selected a move to kill it, I noticed it was shiny and stopped myself XD I eventually caught it, thankfully, but it was only afterward that I remembered it would have had whirlwind >_< That battle lasted like 15 turns too (taking capture attempts into account), so I guess I was just REALLY lucky.
 

dreamcatcher

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Zubat in Platinum, Delibird, Goldbat, Golduck and Graveler in Crystal (I was stuck in that ice cave for daysssssss -.-) and a Gloom in Ruby. I have yet to see a single shiny in Black >.<
 
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I've only caught two.

1. A shiny Spearow in the route to the right of Vermillion City on a Leaf Green rom.

2. A shiny Pidove on a White cartridge.
 
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I have lost track of what shinys I have actually caught, but I remember my first was an Aron. I didn't even know it was shiny because I had the sound off and wasn't paying 100% attention to the screen.

The actual only difference I noticed was its eye was red, so I thought that was cool and caught it. I later found out it was shiny! :D

The other one I remember is a shiny Gastly. I nearly wet myself when I saw that because it looked so epic and all blue! :D​
 
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The first shiny I've seen was a Gloom in Ruby. At this time I thought it was some kind of bug.
The first one I've caught was a Shiny Goldeen, but I didn't like it much. After that I caught a Shellder, which I liked more. ^^
 
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Ive had great luck with shinies. My first shiny I ever saw was a pikachu. I got it, thought it was a glitch, then turned my game off withought saving.

My second I found when after days of attempting to chain a shiny voltorb, I found one in the battle frontier. :(

But don't worry since then I have chained both of them. :)
 
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Let's see..

G/S Noctowl, Flaaffy, , multiple Gyarados of course.
R/S Tentacool
HG Gyarados, Spearow
B Nidoran (M).. don't remember how I got it, actually... DW maybe? Or maybe transferred from HG. Either way I just realized that when I recently erased my B/W save file, I also erased the shiny Nidoran.. fuuu.
Caught a shiny Woobat last week, who is now Monster the Swoobat.

There have got to be more, but I don't remember. From all of these, all I have left are one of the many Gyarados, Swoobat and Spearow.
 
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No, the red Gyarados you get for free in HG/SS Doesn't count.

How about the red Gyara from the original Silver? :P

On a more serious note, until last week, I had only ever seen two shiny pokemon. One was a shiny zubat one of my friends found (this was the first time I ever even heard of a shiny pokemon - I thought the red gyarados was just some recolor the gamemakers did) and the other was an Espeon in the FireRed double battle room in battle tower.

Last week, I chained my first shiny: a bidoof! :)
 

Sakura Rain

→Let's laugh at everything!
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asdfjkl SHINIES Let's see...I've got a shiny Arcanine from chaining back in Diamond, a random Gurdurr, a hatched Swablu, and a MM'd Milotic.
 

TheGr8

lovely pair<3
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My first shiny in any game was in Black, when I was looking for some dittos, I got a shiny one. Then I MM'd an Elekid :D
 

TheFallenUmbreon

Dreams shall never fall...
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In Pokemon fire red, the most extraordinary thing happened. My first Pokemon encountor was a shiny pidgey! Unfortunately, I didn't have any poke balls to use. Later in the game, I found another shiny; a growlithe. I was desperate and successfully captured it. My total shinies in all my games are: 3 (no hacks or trades). Growlithe, Wooper and Bidoof (-.-)
 

Zapperz

colour swapper!
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um, in gsc, was shiny tentacruel.
in 3rd gen, an illumise and weedle.
and in 4th gen, a pichu!
 
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How about the red Gyara from the original Silver? :P

On a more serious note, until last week, I had only ever seen two shiny pokemon. One was a shiny zubat one of my friends found (this was the first time I ever even heard of a shiny pokemon - I thought the red gyarados was just some recolor the gamemakers did) and the other was an Espeon in the FireRed double battle room in battle tower.

Last week, I chained my first shiny: a bidoof! :)

Ugh I just saw a shiny Hippopotas, but again, it was in the Battle Tower! This is ridiculous... Is there a higher rate of shiny in the Battle Tower or something?

Also, to TheFallenUmbreon, that's tough luck that you didn't have any pokeballs, but definitely a cool story; Pidgey's my favorite of the bird lines, I'd be so angry to be in your position, haha
 

Killjoy

"He was a laser fish."
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I just caught a Lv.22 Zubat in Pt!

So now that's Growlithe (now Arcanine) in HG, Staravia (now Staraptor) in Pt, and now Zubat, soon to be a sexy pink Crobat lol after it gets transported to my White version like the rest
 

Turn-it

Coordinator/Elite Trainer
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  • Seen Dec 4, 2012
Just got a random shiny ratatta! I won't use it in battles but it's cool to have I can add it to the collection.
 

Derpy.H

Derpy - The Ponymon Elite
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  • Seen Feb 10, 2013
A couple months ago I got a shiny Magikarp ( ;_; ). Not looking good, there. heh.
 

Nickmonster

I AmThe Best So Give It A Rest
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I've encountered a Shiny Poocheya. Sadly, it was the beginning of Pokemon Ruby and I had to help Prof. Birch.
 
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