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Originally Posted by Perdition Haze
I've read on various websites that shinies are less common now. I don't know if I should believe them or not, but I'm leaning more towards believing them. In previous gens, I used to encounter one shiny Pokémon every two - three. This gen, though, I've met up with two shinies only within the first month. One shiny was at Route 22, and the other was from Route 5, I think. I wasn't able to capture the first one, unfortunately, as I accidentally made it faint. Caught the second one, though!
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Shouldn't you say more common?
I think that shiny rates have been halved throughout, though I'm not sure if there is a confirmation on it. Then there's chain shiny, hordes, and friend safari (I got one shiny from just 30 mins of serious hunting), so I'd say it's definitely more common than it was.