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How many shinies have you caught/seen so far?

Hooh

Only if for a night.
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    Shiny Pidgey on my emulator.....

    AND I FORGOT TO SAVE ;~;
     

    Vrai

    can you feel my heart?
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    • Age 29
    • Seen Oct 24, 2022
    Aside from the red Gyarados... I haven't ever encountered or caught a shiny Pokémon in-game. >:<
     

    Sydian

    fake your death.
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    Most of my shinies seem to be from trades. XD I just had a shiny Litwick traded to me from Kirozane today. :> Dunno if I want to evolve her all the way to Chandelure though. I don't like that orange. :P But yeah~

    How many shinies have you caught/seen so far?
     

    Calamity

    Just for the love of the game.
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    In 10 years of playing pokemon I've only encountered one shiny, a Zubat in my Leafgreen, I thought it was just a glitch though and was so focused of grinding my pikachu I killed it. :| But in my HG I have quite a few shinies from trades and wi-fi off the top of my head;
    Charizard
    Salamence
    Flygon
    Milotic
    3 crown beasts
    And the oh so common red Gyrados. Now I've gone through them I'm pretty happy lol, shame I can't get them on to my white! :(
     

    amberfunk

    Almost master trainer
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    Generation 2:
    Hoothoot
    Magikarp
    Cleffa

    Generation 3:
    Plusle

    Generation 4:
    Caterpie
    Spinarak
     

    Shining Raichu

    Expect me like you expect Jesus.
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    I encountered one Shiny Whismur in Sapphire, and that's it. Nothing else. Unless you count Red Gyarados.
     

    gameplayer56

    Loving Latias Forever
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    Aside from the in-game event Gyarados, I've only encounter 3 shines.
    R/S/E:
    Female Ralts (Mistakenly defeated her)
    Female Tentacool (Caught with Ultra Ball, nicknamed, Ms.LadyGrn)

    B/W:
    Female Audino (Caught with Pokeball, still deciding what to nickname, suggests?)
    None of them were GS or AR coded.
     

    phonastik

    Strange Quark
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    Hmm.
    Shiny Swablu/Altaria in Sapphire
    Shiny Spheal/Sealeo/Walrein in Sapphire
    And my first shiny in B/W? A frickin' Pidove. But I did get a critical capture on it.
     

    deoxys121

    White Kyurem Cometh
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    Shinies I've caught, and wasn't even trying to catch, they just appeared, what game, and where in the game:

    Chinchou: Pokemon Gold (not HeartGold), fishing with Super Rod at Fast Ship port in Vermilion City. Status: Evolved to Lanturn, save file corrupted several months later after staying in my party with a level in the 70s.

    Tentacool: Pokemon Silver (not SoulSilver), surfing in Olivine City fighting whatever Pokemon appear in order to level up. Status: Save file corrupted after never being taken out of the PC

    Weedle: Pokemon FireRed, grass in Viridian Forest on my first time through. Status: Evolved to Beedrill, still in PC.
     

    The Corrupt Plague

    Missingno. hunter
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    Very few. I have some rotten luck with finding them.

    Caught:
    1. Raticate (Caught in Crystal. Deceased)
    2. Golbat (Caught in Crystal. Deceased)
    3. Krabby (Caught in Naranja while I was screwing around with the walk through walls code, cloned with Pokegen, and brought into Black with the GTS exploit)
    4. Rapidash (Received in a trade with a very nice friend. Cloned and currently resides in Black.)

    Seen and missed: Horsea (NPC trainer in Emerald Battle Frontier)
     
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    rstevenson1976

    The Eevee-Loution Master
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    1st: Tentacool on the way to Cianwood in SS
    Status: cloned and residing in pc box on ss

    2nd: Graveler in Victory Rosd cave on Platinum
    Status: evolved into Golem and moved to SS, residing in box

    3rd: Golbat near Giant Chasm on Black
    Status: lost forever, forgot to trade it away and back when I restarted(raaaaaage)

    then there are various shinies that were traded to me for various things.

    btw, red gyrados in lake of rage DOES NOT COUNT!!!!!!!!!!
     

    Tyranee

    Can't read my Poke'-face!
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    Nidorina (Gold): Evolved into Nidoqueen and traded to a friend for I forgot what. Was a long time ago. May have been a Piloswine i eventually rose to lvl 97 and traded for something else. (I was like 10 don't judge me XD)
     

    TheGr8

    lovely pair<3
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    Seen: Shiny Graveler, exploded on me.

    Caught: Shiny Ditto my first, and in Pokemon Black.
    Shiny Stunk: Pokemon Diamond

    Seen: Shiny Graveler, exploded on me.

    Caught: Shiny Ditto my first, and in Pokemon Black.
    Shiny Stunk: Pokemon Diamond
     
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    Weavile05

    Currently Hacking BW
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    The only completely legit Shiny I have is a level 12 Tentacool I found on Route 40. I would have shouted if I wasn't in the car.

    I have found a shiny Stantler and Shiny Swinub once, but it was on an emulator with the speed up button on, so I wouldn't count that.
     

    Hooh

    Only if for a night.
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    All my shinies had unfortunate lives ;~;

    Glory, Pidgey - Forgot to save the game for 3 gyms, found while grinding
    Mew - In a hack when you could catch wild mew, I didn't know you couldn't find Moltres in the area, and after about 700 tries, my reaction was: Oooo! It's shiny!


    I deleted the hack afterwards......
     

    Pan

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    I had a couple shinies in my pokemon Silver and Gold games, but you can imagine some unfortunate fates, I'm sure.

    In Pokemon Sapphire I wasted my masterball on a shiny sandshrew.

    In the fourth generation games I slowly gathered a small collection of four others with various origins.

    And recently I ran into a Stoutland while grinding and OHKO'd it with a critical hit. :c
     
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    • Age 29
    • Seen Jan 28, 2019
    I've caught a bunch of shinies and obtained a ton more in trades and such.

    I can't really list all of them off the top of my head so I'll just post these links:

    Part 1

    Part 2

    I have some more lying around, but I can't remember what they are for the life of me.
     

    Sevrah

    Sevrah Lux
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    I once caught two shiny Tailows in a row in Emerald. I managed to catch both of them. Currently, they're on my Emerald version at my boarding school, and I plan to transfer both of them to Pokemon Black.

    Also, I've encountered a shiny Pidgeotto on my old Leaf Green. However, I never managed to catch it. Somehow it fled.. Sadface :(

    I don't know if this counts but I saw my friend encounter a shiny Wingull when heading to the 2nd city in Sapphire. He ran away from it, and didn't know it was rare :O

    Anyways, thanks for reading (:

    -Sevrah
     
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