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Your first Shiny?

Dr. Slavic

Last of the Wailords
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11
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My first and second shinies were both on my first Ruby game. I remember they were a shiny Zubat and a shiny Duskull, and they were pretty awesome! Unfortunately, my file got corrupted and I lost them, so that's not as cool.
 

Lumenos

Artist, Pianist and Socialist
10
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11
Years
My first (and so far only) shiny is a Krookodile, evolved from a Sandile. It was found by pure chance- I wandered into Route 4 to catch myself a Darumaka in my White 2, and my first encounter was the shiny Sandile. I was running around the house screaming in joy afterwards.
 
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  • Seen Oct 2, 2020
My first seen and first caught was a Zubat in Leaf Green. I looked it up online (I'd never even caught a Zubat before) and found out that, if it was happy enough, it evolved into this thing called Crobat that had good stats and could learn Fly, so I kept it in my party. I didn't like Golbat much (and still don't) so I was just looking forward to it evolving that much more.

I bet I watched that Golbat start to evolve, then stop, half a dozen times. I tried everything I could think of, but it just wouldn't evolve. I finally gave up and put it in a box.

It wasn't until after I beat the E4 and got the National Dex, and figured out that that meant that a whole bunch of pokemon that hadn't been available before were now, that I had some idea of what the problem was. So I got the Golbat out of the PC and gave it a Rare Candy, and presto - a shiny Crobat. Finally. I used it from then on and was very impressed, and have gone out of my way to catch a good Zubat and evolve it into a Crobat in every game they've been in since.

That particular one currently lives in my Emerald, along with all my other 3rd gen shinies. And I actually caught another shiny Zubat in Diamond, but even though it's got awesome stats, I haven't used it, just because I really prefer shiny Zubat over shiny Crobat.
 
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17
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Umm, Whismur in Sapphire, I think. Don't remember if I got a shiny in G/S/C (and if I did, it was probably from that egg you get from Daycare that has increased chance of being shiny) so I'm leaning towards that! Not the best Pokemon in the world but it's still not bad~
 

Margaery Tyrell

Growing Strong
335
Posts
11
Years
  • Age 25
  • USA
  • Seen Feb 28, 2018
My first shiny - and caught - was a Golduck in Black. I went into battle, and BAM! There it was. I'm lucky I realized it was shiny and caught it...*sighs*...however, I think I may have traded it, or maybe Misty got jealous and stole it. I forgot.
 

Pancake

Old-Schooler
7
Posts
14
Years
  • Age 32
  • Seen Jan 14, 2013
The only random shiny I've ever seen was way back in silver version, before I even made it to the lake of rage. It was a mareep, I wasn't really paying attention, just grinding, then I saw it right before it fainted and was like: WTF? It's pink! I didn't realize shinys even existed untill I made it to the red gyrados, I thought my game had glitched or something lol. Actually, now that I think about it, I was using an AR with HG to fill my pokedex with a wild encounter code and when I got to hoothoot it was shiny @_@
 

Schwan

Frontier Brain
101
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11
Years
  • Age 30
  • Seen Mar 2, 2016
Lapras way back in Crystal. It was right before my battery died though so he was alive for like a month. :/
 
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11
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  • Seen Nov 23, 2022
My first shiny was a Goldbat in Crystal >.>
I was searching for a shiny Ponita
 
130
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11
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  • Age 24
  • Seen Dec 9, 2020
The first Shiny Pokemon I've seen and caught was a Primeape in Pearl version at the level 52 (I was too lazy to train him xD)
 

MegamanDX

Pokemon/Megaman fan
54
Posts
13
Years
Wow...Im just as rare of never seeing a shiny in my life as the shiny Pokemon themselves...

*takes "haven't ever seen a shiny Pokemon"trophy and walks away quietly*
 
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The first Shiny I've seen is an Electrike I found in Ruby. The first I've caught is my Linoone in Emerald.
I find this odd because the first one I saw was a shiny Elecktrike in Ruby... Haha what an awesome coincidence! ^-^ I caught it naturally!
 
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112
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14
Years
  • Age 29
  • Seen May 13, 2021
The first shiny Pokemon I have seen is red Gyarados from GSC. Not counting that, shiny Exeggcute in the Safari Zone on FireRed - didn't successfully catch.
 
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