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Your first shiny pokemon

Sydian

fake your death.
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    you guys do know this is for the GBA games and not the GBC games right?

    Actually, no, this covers all games. It's General Gaming. Anyway, my first shiny was a Whismur on Ruby. I thought it was diseased, but I caught it because I felt bad for it.
     

    Samme!

    Haterz gonna hate
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    • Seen Oct 3, 2011
    First shiny i came across was a Buizel in Diamond but it diedz D:

    And then I got a shiny Ambipom from a trade in Platinum ^_^
     

    Rain

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    My first shiny pokemon was a hoothoot in pokemon gold.
    I wasn't paying attention, so I wasn't sure at first if had seen it sparkle, so I made sure to catch it and it was indeed shiny. :)

    He is now a noctowl.
     
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    I was in Victory Road in my Pokemon Ruby version and I found a Shiny Golbat! See, I didn't know anything about Shiny Pokemon, or that they even existed, but I knew it looked different, so I caught it. I was so happy with my new, "gold" Pokemon (what me and my friends used to call it because the Shiny Golbat's body was gold-ish) that I knew I had to train it until it became a Crobat, and back then me and my friends thought trying to evolve a Pokemon with friendship was very, very, hard. Not too hard, really. (I was good at Pokemon, but I didn't know much besides what you see in the game. Stuff like Shiny's and events and all that that you aren't told about I didn't know. Then one day I found Serebii.net and I changed!)

    I think I found a Shiny Pokemon in my Fire Red, let me see... I think I found a Shiny Pidgey. I'm pretty sure I did. Yeah! I did! Also, I made some trades for a Shiny Castform, Pikachu, and Meowth/Persian (its a Persian now, but I can't remember if it was a Meowth when I got it) by giving away Pokemon my friend were somehow unable to get like Entei, Regice ect.

    After that my days of collecting Shinys were over....... until one day, when I was testing my hack of Pokemon Ruby, Pokemon Iron Ruby - Rage of Flare (this was before I changed the whole beginning), I was testing somethings I had added, and I picked Torchic as my starter. BAM!!! Shiny! Too bad I really can't use that file as I am going to have to restart at some point... Not to mention Red Gyarados from Silver/Crystal (I don't have Gold, its the only game I never got, not counting all the sidegames like Pokemon Snap, Ranger, Mystery Dungeon ect.) And also the Red Gyarados in Shiny Gold, Zel's hack.
     

    Charmageddon

    Charizard has evolved into ^
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    Apart from the Red Gyrados..... I've never caught a shiny pokemon. :( I've never even seen one.
     

    Stellar

    Minior used Cosmic Power!
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    It was actually around a month ago. I've got a minor shiny obsession, even though I hadn't even heard of them until D/P (I thought the Gyarados was some sort of legendary in G/S/C xD). I chain every so often but I've never been successful at it. There was one morning, however, when I stepped into the grass, and before I even began chaining... bam, a shiny Electrike. I was really out of it too. xD I was like, "...haha, that's funny, I wonder why it's blue instead of green?"
     

    adi_balwani

    A HUGE game fan
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    Excluding the Red Garados, my first shiny Pokemon was a Lairon which i found in the Victory cave while going to the Poke League in Emerald.
     

    Empty Pot

    a new beginning...
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    Silver - Shiny Mantine | Shiny Gyrados
    Crystal - Shiny Tentacruel | Shiny Gyrados
    Ruby - Shiny Nincada
    Emerald - None
    Diamond - Shiny Tentacruel (my actual first shiny)
    Platinum - None

    So yeah . . .
     

    LadyJirachu

    Fluffy and Elegant :3
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    A shiny RATATTA.

    :D ^__^ I soo wish I called it Ratty. ._.; *shooted*

    XD ^^


    It was captured in my ollld Crystal file, AFTER I won the game, outside of Goldenrod city. And, yes, I actually DID kill the Red Gyarados in lake rage early on. Yah...I was a n00b. I thought you HAD to KILL it as part of the storyline!!! 0_o; XDD ^^;
     

    Boonzeet

    Pokémon Secrets of the Ages Developer
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    The first one I saw was strange, I was 6 at the time, I'd just been bought Crystal, and I was at the Lake of Rage, and a trainer (a lass, or something) sent out a Shiny Butterfree, I think. Maybe I encountered it. Either way, I never caught it. It was around midnight at the time.

    About a week later, I was walking in the grass I believe just under violet city, it's a T shape and has a bug catcher in the grass; I dunno; anyway I encountered a wild Pink Drowzee. I caught it about 20 ultra balls later and loved it forever. I traded it one day to Yellow, I think, and was heartbroken -- its shine, gone, forever :(

    (until I traded it back to crystal, i talk too much)
     

    Lady Berlitz

    Cinnamon ♪
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    My first Shiny Pokémon... hmm... That would probably have to be my Shiny Magikarp in Pokémon Crystal. That's the WORST Shiny Pokémon to get in G/S/C because a Shiny Gyarados is in the game. My second, if I can remember correctly, is a Shiny Golbat in Pokémon Emerald.
     

    Silhouette

    On my way to Viridian City ♪
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    My first shiny beside GSC's Gyarados was a shiny Numel on Mt. Chimney in Sapphire. But I didn't know it was shiny (somehow 0_o) because it was the very first one I ran into. So I started a new game a few months later, and no more Numel ):
     

    IcyArceusRider

    Nyaaaaa <3
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    The very VERY first time I encountered a shiny pokemon, it was a Bellsprout and I was playing Silver version way back when it was the latest and newest thing. Since I was a little kid, I didn't exactly realize what I had found, and I instantly KOed that shiny Bellsprout and I have never again seen a shiny Bellsprout.

    However, the first shiny that I actually caught was a Shuppet on my Sapphire version. ^^ I love Shuppet. I just found it at Mt. Pyre one day and I was like, "OMG shiny!" And I threw and Ultra Ball and caught it.

    Today I have three shinies: Shuppet, Tentacruel, and Meowth. ^_^
     
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