What's the quickest you've ever gotten a shiny?

one try of sos chaining in sun/moon and it was a shiny shellder lol

i think i've used up my shiny luck considering my dyanamax adventure hunt for tapu lele isn't going so well :c
 
I guess the ones I didn't hunt for were the quickest since you don't get a lot of encounters when casually playing through the games, especially if you use repels.

Random:
My first shiny was a random Audino that I found while grinding my team for the next Gym on my first Black 2 playthrough, I was in the grass for maybe 20 minutes just encountering Audinos since they give a lot of EXP and the shiny just showed up. But that was around the middle of the game so if we are going by the earliest I ever found one in the casual playthrough then I have 3 that come to mind: a random shiny Wurmple before even the first Badge in Alpha Sapphire, a random shiny Pikipek in Sun on the first island right after I got the Tauros Ride and a few years ago I was also (un)lucky enough to see an uncatchable shiny Weedle in the Old Man's catching tutorial of FireRed.

Hunted:
My fastest shiny hunts were usually with different shiny hunting methods. I got a shiny Flabebe from the 3rd Egg with the MM and I also found a shiny Dusclops in Friend Safari in like two encounters and I wasn't even trying to shiny hunt, I just wanted to see all 3 possible Pokemon in my new Ghost Safari. I also got Luvdisc, Horsea and Magikarp with Chain Fishing Method in under 25 FEs.
The fastest full ~1/8k odds shiny that I actually hunted for was a shiny Growlithe in White 2 and I got it in under an hour and maybe around 600 REs.
 
i ran into a bunch of shinies last year. the quickest one i got was a Zigzagoon on the second route of a rom hack i was playing. i don't think i'll count it though since i heard that that game in particular had boosted shiny odds. i can't remember the last time i got a shiny in a legit main series game, and i don't actively hunt for any at all so...
 
Quickest shiny without the shiny charm - I bought Pokémon Black at midnight release and the first time I stepped into the first forest area, I ran into a random shiny Cottonee. It was very exciting for me as I specifically bought Black just to have a Whimsicott. I used her on my in-game team. <3

Fastest method was horde battles with a shiny charm in X/Y. I ran into a shiny Spinda before I was finished EV training. Though to be fair, the chain fishing method in X/Y also got me a shiny within an hour.
 
TwilightBlade said:
Quickest shiny without the shiny charm - I bought Pokémon Black at midnight release and the first time I stepped into the first forest area, I ran into a random shiny Cottonee. It was very exciting for me as I specifically bought Black just to have a Whimsicott. I used her on my in-game team. <3
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The exact same thing happened to me! Only mine was a rom so the save and the golden cottonee is gone forever :(

I've never had a successful shiny hunt (boredom and lack of determination) so I guess I'm still yet to encounter my fasted hunted shiny.
 
hmm... a few years ago, I replayed Omega Ruby and got a shiny Wurmple in route 3 (too bad I don't like bug types or beautifly :p)

there was also that time I was replaying Platinum and I got a Shiny Chimchar in less than 400 soft resets. felt pretty good
 
Percy said:
hmm... a few years ago, I replayed Omega Ruby and got a shiny Wurmple in route 3 (too bad I don't like bug types or beautifly :p)
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I got a shiny Wurmple really early on in Sapphire too, except it ended up evolving to Dustox... would've loved Beautifly instead haha ;_; (Congrats anyway!!)
 
If we're talking without the Shiny Charm, there was a night where I was staying over at a family friend's house and decided to play Crystal since I needed something to kill time. Went through the beginning of the game and ended up finding a shiny Rattata as my first encounter, before receiving PokeBalls.
I stopped playing pretty much right after that.

After the charm, I've been blessed with hatching a shiny Dhelmise after 13 eggs in Sword last year. It ended up balancing out the fact I had to wait until 666 eggs to hatch a shiny Roselia with 1/512 odds. Do I miss Shiny hunting? Hard to say after that one.~
 
As soon as I got my started in SoulSilver I encountered a shiny Rattata right off the bat. I didn't have Pokeballs.
 
Only counting full-odds, probably Porygon in Platinum. I wasn't actually Shiny-hunting it though, just SRing for a certain nature and got a Shiny instead after only four resets!

I think my earliest playthrough Shiny was a Pidgey in HeartGold, near National Park.
 
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I usually don't find shinies until the post game. The one exception I remember was in Emerald. After getting the 7th badge I surfed downward towards Pacifidlog Town. right at the middle point I encountered a shiny Tentacool. However, I didn't end up catching it. I don't even remember if I even had Poke Balls at that point.
 
none that were like as soon as the game started, but the quickest during hunts hmmm. i think i got shiny swablu in about 130 eggs in X? and then wurmple on the same day in 60-ish eggs? and then i was hunting in a friend safari for just whatever shinies i could find and found a mawile but idr the time frame, but what happened after was a shiny quagsire in less than 20 minutes after finding the mawile. those are the only ones that stick out immediately, everything else has been rather slow or i did RNG manipulation so lol.
 
I'll let you know when it happens... -_-
 
I have unfortunate luck with shiny Pokemon. It seems like I never find them on my actual cartridge, only when I'm emulating. (So I can't trade them over). I found a bunch through the Ultra Wormholes, but most of the time when I do run into a shiny it's a Linoone or something when I'm almost finished with the main story.
 
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