I spent most of the first 3 days of the game just trading lol, it definitely took the better part of a few months to get where I'm at , some just a piece or so at a time, and I'm honestly still surprised myself sometime. A friend of the Royal Court and I used to always talk about Shiny Dragon possibilities that would be great to have and now look where we are....I mean I have some royal contacts that just give me stuff, like I actually also got another Shiny Tyrunt today from the same guy I got Mimikyu from, the person I'm gonna be getting Shiny Necrozma from had Shiny Turtonator and Shiny Drampa just sitting around and I was like absolutely when they offered.
Sam/VisionOfMilotic told me before she thinks I'M actually the real Shiny Charm lol.
I just find these people or they find me Lol. Like the latest one from today, I just made a reply or two joking about Shinies, mine came up, he mentioned he's into Shiny Dark types, and before you know it we traded a Shiny event Larvitar from BW for Shiny Haxorus.