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stelstravsky May 24th, 2014 1:09 PM

... Accidental Shiny?
 
I was looking for Ekans hordes last night at 12AM, and I could literally find NONE :( which is unfortunate, as I'm trying to catch all Pokemon. What I did find, however, was a shiny Bellsprout in a horde encounter... which was my first shiny in any game, so I was pretty pleased. I know Bellsprout isn't the most adorable or cool of all Pokemon, but I still think it's pretty neat and I'm gonna evolve it soon.

Has anyone else found shinies on accident? And which ones?

Hiatus May 24th, 2014 1:35 PM

This is the way how they want us to encounter shinies—by luck, accident. I know there are various methods to run to these things, such as shiny chaining, but this is a lot better, I'd say, as it retains your surprise factor. n_n; Anyhow, yeah, I've encountered a lot of Pokémon like that! The most recent would be Litleo.

Skystrike May 24th, 2014 1:37 PM

I haven't really met any Pokémon randomly...

All my shinies are forced obtained on purpose :(

Even with the Shiny Charm!

stelstravsky May 24th, 2014 1:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Peitharchia (Post 8266708)
This is the way how they want us to encounter shinies—by luck, accident. I know there are various methods to run to these things, such as shiny chaining, but this is a lot better, I'd say, as it retains your surprise factor. n_n; Anyhow, yeah, I've encountered a lot of Pokémon like that! The most recent would be Litleo.

Yeah! It came as a REALLY nice surprise and I was super excited :) I never felt the need to get shinies (although I will always be interested in finding a shiny Luxray since it's my favorite) but if I ever experience this again, I'll be just as equally happy.

Yato May 24th, 2014 1:43 PM

Technically, I found a shiny Charmeleon in the Friend Safari on accident--I wasn't looking for shinies, but a Fletchinder with its HA--however, given how the FS increases the rate of finding shinies, I don't know if it'd count. Other than that, the only shinies I've found were through Chain Fishing.

Foamy96 May 24th, 2014 1:53 PM

I got shiny pokemon through breeding but never a wild encounter

Pokefan203302 May 24th, 2014 2:10 PM

My first shiny was a bellsprout as well!

Xebelleon May 24th, 2014 3:15 PM

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Originally Posted by stelstravsky (Post 8266688)

Has anyone else found shinies on accident? And which ones?

I find shiny wild encounters more a random surprise than accident.
XY brought me a Bergmite and Shelmet so far.
Ability and nature tend to be undesired with my few shinies. Hate Gentle.

Lotus the Cat May 24th, 2014 4:19 PM

I've never seen a wild shiny. I did breed one though (a Starly), which was my first. Unfortunately it didn't have the nature I wanted so I just gave it to my husband. :P

PlatinumDude May 24th, 2014 5:09 PM

So far, every shiny I've encountered is by accident. The only time this wasn't so is a Mawile that hatched via Masuda Method, and I still wasn't aiming for that.

stelstravsky May 24th, 2014 5:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Pokefan203302 (Post 8266769)
My first shiny was a bellsprout as well!

NICE :) it seems a lot of my friends' first shinies were Bellsprouts as well, but in the older games haha

Meganium May 24th, 2014 5:17 PM

Well, accidental shinies aren't by accident imo, whether with the shiny charm or not. My recent shiny encounter was more unexpected rather than by accident, and it's my shiny Spearow.

Timesurfers May 24th, 2014 9:05 PM

Okay, so funny thing was, I was using the PokeRadar trying to learn how to use it for obtaining shinies. I kept failing to get higher than a 13 chain and started to walk out of the patch with sadness and I encountered a non-chained random shiny Pancham.. I almost died. I then stayed on the same route but different patch to check for Zapdos and I ran into ANOTHER shiny less than 2 minutes later, thus a shiny Gulpin. I've never had anything like that happen before and those are my only two non-fishing chained/friend safari shinies. I was happy to say the least.

stelstravsky May 24th, 2014 9:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Timesurfers (Post 8267347)
Okay, so funny thing was, I was using the PokeRadar trying to learn how to use it for obtaining shinies. I kept failing to get higher than a 13 chain and started to walk out of the patch with sadness and I encountered a non-chained random shiny Pancham.. I almost died. I then stayed on the same route but different patch to check for Zapdos and I ran into ANOTHER shiny less than 2 minutes later, thus a shiny Gulpin. I've never had anything like that happen before and those are my only two non-fishing chained/friend safari shinies. I was happy to say the least.

... you have some crazy luck going on there :o I'm jealous!

Hikamaru May 24th, 2014 9:52 PM

Except for that one shiny orange flower Flabebe I got in a Poke Radar chain, every shiny I caught in my X game so far was a random encounter. Sometimes I find those shinies when I wasn't even intending to do so.

In fact, these are the shinies I have in the game so far:

Timesurfers May 24th, 2014 10:03 PM

I'm just happy to hear you found your first shiny! :D

Pokefan203302 May 25th, 2014 3:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stelstravsky (Post 8267057)
NICE :) it seems a lot of my friends' first shinies were Bellsprouts as well, but in the older games haha

Yeah, caught mine in SoulSilver while trying to get to an item in the grass. Then I saw it, and caught it!

Proteun May 25th, 2014 4:19 AM

In my good old Silver version I encountered two shiny Onix while grinding in Victory Road. Though back then, I didn't know what the sparkles meant, and I just KO'd them. Life is hard ;__;

A few months later, however, I was going to beat Red for the 152nd time and ran into a Shiny Quagsire. I did catch that one.

ForeignLawyer May 25th, 2014 9:31 AM

Shiny Squirtle!!!
 
When I was about 10 or 12 years old, I started a new game of Pokémon Leafgreen, and looked at the squirtle which was to be my starter, and to my surprise, it was shiny! I wasn't a big fan of the pink Blastoise though.

SaniOKh May 25th, 2014 10:03 AM

I found a Shiny in a horde as well, a Poliwag. I had to take note of which one it was when I saw sparkles, because its color wasn't noticeably different from the normal one.

As for other generations... I roughly have one shiny per gen: a Spearow in Gen 2, a Slowpoke in Gen 3, a Turtwig and a Weezing in Gen 4 and an Audino in Gen 5. I've never been a Shiny hunter, so it was all pleasant surprises :) .

SparklingMistral May 25th, 2014 4:18 PM

The only accidental shiny I've found was in gen 4, and it was a Fearow.

Haven't gotten lucky in gen 6 yet. One day, perhaps, but not any time soon.

shippothekit May 25th, 2014 6:13 PM

I once found a shiny Ponyta in Pokemon Crystal and a shiny Poocheyena in Emerald which is now Poketransported to my Y game. ^_^

XtinaIsMeLuvinWWE May 25th, 2014 7:29 PM

I was fishing for a Clawitzer in X, kept getting other Pokémon until finally a Shiny Relicanth appeared!!!! I couldn't believe it at first and Googled to make sure it was real (which it was to my delight haha) and so I caught it :)


Then I resumed my mission of finding a Clawitzer, and eventually found one... and it was a Shiny as well!!!!


I caught it too and then, feeling in complete disbelief from having found TWO shinies within such a short space of time in comparison to games where I hadn't caught any the whole way through lol I did some research and learned about Chain Fishing which I'm guessing is what happened :)


Considering I didn't know this when I was looking for Pokémon, I'm counting both as accidental haha :)

Sheep May 25th, 2014 7:48 PM

I was breeding one of my Dugtrios for a Diglett since I needed one for my dex - just one - and it happened to hatch shiny. No complaints there at all but it was so unexpected and was the last thing on my mind, lool.

Kikaito plush May 26th, 2014 4:35 AM

I bred an shiny Vanillite when I was looking an female one for my dex.


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