How do you get your shinies?

[chella182]

I don't bother with them really, although I'd love to have one. The only one I've ever owned is Red Gyarados.

 

[cazzler]

I traded for my ones, I have quite a few, I also bred one unintentionally! (A Nidoran F)

 

[Zelda]

If I'm trying to obtain shinies, I'd probably go to my best frand sis TwilightBlade to see if she'd be willing to give me the one I'm looking for. Otherwise, I usually chain for them in Pearl. I've tried SRing, egg hatching and other techniques in the past, but they consume a lot of my time and patience, stuff I really don't have. n_n

 

[~*!*~Tatsujin Gosuto~*!*~]

Out of the shiny Pokemon that I ever got in my life, about 5% of the time I get them from online trading whether its unintentionally or I know that I am getting a shiny Pokemon, 2% of the time it is by finding them in the wild and the last 93% will have to go to using an action replay to get these shiny Pokemon.


:t354:TG

 

[Harebrained]

I get them by maaagic. Throughout several years of just playing, I had only seen one shiny. Last week I started a new game on Crystal, and got two in the same night. There is no way to describe my expression.

To answer your question simply, I just kind of stumble onto them.

 

[User19sq]

I just end up finding them out of the blue, Like my Ponyta and Mankey. Other times, I try to MM breed them, like my Vulpix.

 

[Mister Coffee]

I got my competitive shiny's from a breeder.
However most of the shiny pokemon I have are found in the wild by chance.
I recently got a Japanese ditto, so I might be ready to try breeding my own shiny's.

 

[DexHolderBlue]

I've been playing Pokemon since third grade, and still have yet to encounter a shiny, other than the default Red Gyarados...;_;

 

[Mr Cat Dog]

If by 'shinies' you mean 'the Red Gyarados', then I don't think I even like getting that one. It's a nice feeling to get when you use, like, a Thunderbolt or something and its red body sinks deep into the Lake of Rage. But that's just me. Apart from that, like presumably many other posts, I've yet to encounter a shiny in the wild.

 

[echolocated]

I usually go on the GTS to find one(I got a Shiny Rhyhorn for a level 1 Roggenrola there!), but when I feel like it, I usually try the Masuda Method, but I hardly have any luck. So yeah, I don't really bother trying to get one.

 

[Procrastinatron]

I've gone to the GTS to get as many foreign Pokemon as I can. Then I start hatching eggs until I start frying them for breakfast in frustration.....

Then I finally got a shiny Rufflet...not from the Masuda Method. Apart from the Red Gyarados, that was the first legitimate shiny I've encountered ever since I played Gold ten damn years ago >:[