Has anyone gotten the shiny charm yet? I got mine last friday and oh boy how crazy was the following day.
I went to the route with the stones (can't remember the name) to hunt for some yanma hordes. I wasn't planning on actually getting a shiny. Just whimsically hunting like I always do. Then out of the blue, on the 16th horde, pops a shiny yanma (called it cyanma because creativity).
After that I tried my luck with hordes again in azure bay since i've wanted a shiny wingull ever since I first saw how it looked. Being distracted, I didn't notice that on the 17th horde there was a shiny wingull until I hit the run away button. I was so FURIOUS to see that green-striped seagull vanish. I tried to reclaim it for the rest of the day and, when night came, I decided to switch to the safari, afraid that in the dark I'd barely notice the difference between blue stripes and green stripes.
In the electric safari where I found my first shiny emolga, while hunting for either electabuzz or luxio, I found another emolga, this time a male (I hate how its eyes turn yellow too). Still hungering for more, I switched to the rock safari, hoping to get a shiny shuckle. I was negated again and presented with a shiny magcargo instead. I called it gum because, seriously, it looks like a piece of gum with a rock on top.
Spend the whole sunday trying to reclaim my wingull and still no results (300 hordes atm), but nonetheless, I'm happy with all the other shinies I got in the process.
My opinion on locking shinies is pretty much the same as TSE's. If people go through all that work to get a shiny legendary, why deny them that priviledge. I mean seriously, even mewtwo and the birds are probably locked in X and Y. STOP IT GAME FREAK!! WE WANT SHINY LEGENDARIES!! (btw i should go sr for kyurem, why am i such a sloth :( )