Age 28
Male
Not in this world
Seen March 13th, 2023
Posted April 21st, 2016
36 posts
14.3 Years
Hello Poke-dudes and dudesses,

I was playing X today and it turns out I had my first ever Shiny Pokémon Encounter! Guess who?

Graveler.. Now you know where I'm going with this :|

I passively attack it until its HP turns red. It uses Explosion and I'm like -_-

My first ever Shiny... A dream that was torn into pieces...

T-T

Anyway, I would like to hear about yours. Perhaps yours went as you expected, maybe not.

:D
Male
Seen October 9th, 2017
Posted July 13th, 2017
1,900 posts
9.6 Years
my very first shiny was a Scatterbug. I was running back and forth battling on that very first route with my very first few caught pokemon and I was just casually tapping the buttons and watching TV and I just happened to look down and the Scatterbug had a white face! I was so excited! I caught it and I do kind of wish I had kept it, but I immediately put it on the GTS and traded it for an Articuno! :D
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Age 28
Male
Not in this world
Seen March 13th, 2023
Posted April 21st, 2016
36 posts
14.3 Years
my very first shiny was a Scatterbug. I was running back and forth battling on that very first route with my very first few caught pokemon and I was just casually tapping the buttons and watching TV and I just happened to look down and the Scatterbug had a white face! I was so excited! I caught it and I do kind of wish I had kept it, but I immediately put it on the GTS and traded it for an Articuno! :D
Really? The GTS? You should have thought it twice before trading it. Imagine where it is now. Being traded all over or being used for Shiny or IV breeding thinking "What did I do to deserve this"?

Shame on you :/

:D

Hikamaru

Age 30
Female
Australia
Seen January 24th, 2019
Posted September 4th, 2018
50,214 posts
12.2 Years
It was a few months back, when I was training something from my PC to learn better moves, and I was on Route 8 when a shiny Drifloon showed up. I ended up catching her with a Quick Ball (it does match shiny Drifloon's colors which is funny) but yeah like every shiny I found previously it was totally unexpected. I was actually looking for an Absol at the time I ran into that Drifloon.

Turned out with a pretty decent nature (Hasty) and Unburden, which is cool. I then went on to catch six more shinies in X alone.
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Seen October 9th, 2017
Posted July 13th, 2017
1,900 posts
9.6 Years
Really? The GTS? You should have thought it twice before trading it. Imagine where it is now. Being traded all over or being used for Shiny or IV breeding thinking "What did I do to deserve this"?

Shame on you :/

:D
Wow, now I actually feel like garbage! :D This actually bummed me out
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Age 37
Male
Seattle, WA
Seen September 15th, 2021
Posted July 17th, 2020
2,585 posts
11 Years
I was very disappointed with my first shiny in Kalos - it was a Pokemon I don't really like - it was a Gulpin - I sent it to Wonder Trade, and got a female Japanese Eevee in return.

My next shiny I really loved!! it was a shiny Luxio in Friend Safari
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Age 26
Female
Colchester, England
Seen November 15th, 2019
Posted November 14th, 2019
48 posts
10.6 Years
Mine was a Zangoose... In a horde battle... It got slaughtered by Sevipers :( I really like shiny Zangoose too...
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Breeder

Male
Seen April 9th, 2018
Posted March 16th, 2017
1,003 posts
10.4 Years
In X, I had just completed the dex and decided to start breeding again. I hatched my self a shiny nidoran female. And then I hatched a shiny beldum an mankey after that but nidoran was my first shiny hatched from an egg and first seen in 6th gen. (I caught a shiny staravia in a most recent platinum play through about a good year or so ago, but that doesn't count here since it's 6th gen) :)
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Cakesu

Hyrule's Saviour

Age 30
Female
Somewhere
Seen January 4th, 2019
Posted June 3rd, 2017
1,788 posts
9.1 Years
I stumbled upon my first shiny when I started playing Pokemon Y. I was around Geosenge city and I was playing at night.
I accidentally ran through the grass that you could find before reaching the said city and tadah, wild shiny Sigilyph appeared out of nowhere.

I've been keeping it as a trophy in my shinies box.

Didn't expect it at all, to say the least. That's surprise at its finest.

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Pendraflare

Age 32
Male
Pennsylvania
Seen July 30th, 2021
Posted March 29th, 2021
6,263 posts
9.8 Years
If we're talking XY, my first shiny here was a Floatzel that I found in a challenge while I was training in Couriway Town. It was a neat find, came when I was almost finished training. Nice stuff.
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Mr.Eeveelutions

Male
Mothertruckin' Kalos
Seen February 7th, 2015
Posted October 29th, 2014
69 posts
9.1 Years
In X and Y it was a Eevee that I breed, about 700 eggs in so I was rejoicing in the fact it was shiny :) But my first ever shiny was back in Platinum which was a Shinx! That thing was cute as hell ^^
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"Smell ya later!" - Blue

Age 29
Female
Denmark
Seen December 12th, 2016
Posted October 22nd, 2016
78 posts
10.3 Years
My first shiny in X&Y was also totally unexpected. I was just checking out my Friend's Friend Safari's to see which Pokémon they got. I was searching the Bug safaris, when I suddenly stumbled into a pink bug, and I was like: "Uh.. That's odd... Oh wait.. It's a shiny Heracross!" And then I caught it with my Premier Ball, since I try to catch all shinies in Premier Balls. Anyway, I nicknamed it "Birdo".
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Hiatus

Seen 1 Week Ago
Posted July 24th, 2021
12,283 posts
10.8 Years
My first shiny encounter in XY was sort of a mess, unfortunately; wound up disappointing me quite a bit.

If I remember right, I believe it was a shiny Litleo. At the time, sadly, I did not have much Poké Ball with me, and was afraid that I'd be wasting them if I weren't able to capture the Pokémon successfully. Due to that, I decided to hurt it a little so that my chances of catching would increase and whatnot, but when I hit, it turned out to be critical, which was kind of shocking, making Litleo faint in an instant.

Thankfully, though, I managed to encounter another of these shiny Litleo further into the game; had no trouble catching that one!

ingcoliptis

Best Pokémon Breeder NA 2015

Age 25
Massachusetts
Seen December 16th, 2022
Posted September 9th, 2014
46 posts
14.8 Years
In general my first shiny was a Ryhorn in Pokemon ruby (this was in 2004).I was playing in the Safari Zone and stumbled upon it, I wasnt actually aware of what a shiny was at the time, and didnt know what it was until after I ha restarted the game and it had disappeared from my life.

In X and Y however, it was Bagon. My original intention with the bagon wad just to ge an adamant one for my friend because at the time almost no one had a ditto to IV breed. I bred 82 Bagon eggs to my first X and Y shiny :D. The really sad thing is I hadnt hatche an adamant one yet, and gave up immediately after.
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Male
Seen October 24th, 2014
Posted October 10th, 2014
113 posts
9.1 Years
Well, if you're talking about XY then my first shiny was from chain fishing till 25-30 chain. I encountered a Shiny Basculin, I used False Swipe and it killed itself with Final Gambit(I wanted to catch it in Pokeball) Last time i'll use a Super rod for fish chaining.

But my first ever shiny was in Emerald on an emulator, it was a shiny Golbat that I encountered. I didn't have any pokeballs left that time, so I had no choice but to rekt it. ;-;
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Age 44
Male
Northeast PA
Seen January 14th, 2018
Posted January 14th, 2018
451 posts
19.6 Years
My first shiny Pokémon in XY was a female Cubone in Glittering Cave that I encountered while level grinding there. It's become a standard member in my Kalos team and is fully EV trained.

And since others have shared their non-Gen 6 first shiny experiences too, my first every shiny Pokémon was back on Pokémon Crystal, sometime between Christmas and New Years that year (2001, I believe?). I was just wandering around the National Park, and found a little female Nidoran that popped out of the tall grass.
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Bounsweet

Fruit Pokémon

Seen September 17th, 2018
Posted October 11th, 2017
2,102 posts
15.6 Years
I think mine was a Drowzee in either Silver or Crystal Version, though I wanna say it was Silver. I also had a shiny Krabby in that game, though I didn't know they were a big deal. I just saw the sparkles and was like "oh, cool" and caught them lol. I ran across a shiny Nidorina sometime later in Crystal but I had no Poké Balls, and it was when I learned how rare they are. I was just staring at my game for like 10 minutes like "why" lol.

As far as XY my first shiny was a Masuda Method bred Eevee like 2 weeks after the games came out.
Male
Seen August 28th, 2015
Posted October 27th, 2014
34 posts
9.6 Years
Mine was in Pokémon Y. I found a Metapod in the forest and thought I had a glitch then remembered the whole "shiny" Pokémon (I stopped playing Pokémon back in Silver/Gold). I still have it as a Butterfree, heh.
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