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Your first shiny. How? when? where?

My first was,of course, the red gyarados. Then when saphire came out, I caught a shiny numel and in leaf green I caught a shiny duduo
 
Aside from the obvious Red Gyarados.

My first legit Shiny was completely on accident. I didn't even know it was Shiny until I just so happened to glance at it. I had just been capturing random Zigzagoon left and right on Sapphire, because I was going to use them as trading fodder for Emerald and release them later, but as I was looking at their summaries one day, I noticed one of the Zigzagoon looked alot lighter than the others. So on a whim, I sent her to Emerald, it was there I saw the star and was like, oh crap this one is a shiny! I later nicknamed her Ayaka and leveled her up now she's a Shiny Linoone in Pearl.
 
My first shiny was a Shiny Ditto that I was chaining in Diamond. Accidentally kept in my Rayquaza instead of switching.

First Shiny that I caught was the Gyarados.
 
hahaha, Wurmple, Violet Wurmple. That thingy thing, My computer has some monitor problems but I can tell, it SPARKLES. :DD
 
I remember in my Sapphire I was hunting for a Shroomish.I had already caught a Ralts..I just wanted a Shroomish.He was my favorite pokemon at the time.

So I'm running in the grass,trying to catch Shroomishes,but no luck.
Then another Zigzagzoon appears.
"Again?I'll just ru-"
DING-DING!
"OH MY GOD!"
It was shiny.I didnt even belive it.I was freaking out.
One problem.My starter,Combusken,had evo'd from a Torchic was too high leveled for it!One hit?POW!Dead!
So I look through my party.
Surskit was the poke I had JUST caught before hunting,and it was weak enough.
I used Bubble to lower Zigzagzoon's health to about yellow,and took no chances and threw the Great Ball you get for saving the Goods.
Gotcha!Zigzagzoon was cau-"YES!!YES!YEAAHHH!"
Zigzagzoon then became a Linoone and was a bro on my team.He picked up stuff like no tommorow.
He wasnt that bad in the E4.Did pretty good damage overall.
Linoone is still on my Platinum game.Once I find it I'm transfering it to White.
Linoone deserves to pick more things up...
and a spot at the Elite 4.

Actully that should be my WHOLE team.
 
My first Shiny Pokémon was a shiny riolu. I got the shiny when it hatched. I really wanted a Riolu and there it was... THE GOLDEN RIOLU. I trained it till it was a Lucario and now it's called golden aura. It hatched in Canalave City. Now it's a massive level 100 Lucario!
 
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If that was the egg you get from Riley, shit's some insane luck, and actually merits the thousands of steps you have to walk through to hatch one. I had to do it the hard way because I didn't have any Flame Body'ers, but mine was just a dinky little blue Riolu. Didn't even bother to evolve it.
 
the first wild shiny i encountered was in gen 4 (platinum) on victory road where i encountered in one day not one, but 2 shinies, a shiny Machoke and a Shiny Medicham. and i caught them both. (i cant remember which one came first)
 
my first shiny was a Raticate on Silver. It was on Route 38. Serebii says the only possible levels are 16 but I swear I remember encountering the shiny rat at lv. 17, but that's a minor detail. me being the picky kid I was, I was so disgusted that my first shiny was a Raticate that instead of capturing it, I killed the rat to teach the digital gods a lesson in trolling me with such bullspit XD

Now, the first shiny I caught (not Red Gyrados or Odd egg) was a shiny Banette on Sapphire in Sky Pillar
 
Giratina : Continuous soft resets : Took two days. It was totally worth it though considering he's my favorite of the creation trio.
 
My first official shiny is a Clefairy in Pokemon Black, who appeared out of nowhere in Giant Chasm, I didn't reacted at first but when it sunk in that I just encountered a Shiny, I was happy, especially since it was on my birthday.
 
My first shiny was Geodude from Gold version, which I barely can recognize the colour.. My sister and I were so amazed with the sparkle that time.. XD Then followed by..
Sapphire - Wingull
Diamond - Barboach, Dratini
Black - Gothic, Audino (my friend found it in my game, so isn't mine actually DX)
 
Re: Your first Shining Pokemon.

My ever first wild Shiny Pokemon was a Glameow I came across on a route in between Lake Verity and Sunyshore City, I caught it and nicknamed it Shiny-Meow!
 
Back in February of this year, I was looking for shinies on Route 29 in SoulSilver. After about two weeks of searching, I found myself a shiny Hoothoot and was ecstatic.
 
I've only ever had 2 shiny pokemon (other than red gyarados) despite spending HOURS hunting for them in FR/LG and not finding any. However, as soon as I got SoulSilver, I caught two pokemon in as many days (a blue Gastly from Sprout Tower and shiny Slowpoke from Slowpoke Well respectively). :D
 
My first and only shiny was a Spinarak in Gold when I was a little boy. Everyone I knew said my Spinarak wasn't nearly as cool as their Red Gyarados, which wasn't a real shiny. I didn't care though, because that Spinarak was my bro and we defeated the E4 together.
 
My first random encounter Shiny was a Shiny Remoraid in Pokémon Emerald, which I found in the post-story Safari Zone area. I felt extremely lucky, catching it.
 
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