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Here are, imo, the easiest ways to find shinies.

XY: Friend Safaris. Friend Safaris have a 1/580 or so chance for shiny. Just keep running around and encountering pokemon, and just run when it's not shiny, and catch it if it is shiny. I've found like 4 shinies an hour with this method sometimes. And sometimes it will take a week of doing it for about an hour a day. But, eventually you will find shinies with this method. The limiting factor is the pool of available pokemon isn't super big, but you can still find some good stuff this way.

ORAS: Dexnav. This method starts at 1/1300~ with the shiny charm, but the neat thing is the more you do it, you get permenant compounded shiny rolls per species you hunt. So by 900 encounters your shiny chance is actually like 1/150, but chances are good you'll find shinies LONG before then. Once you practice it a bit and get good at it, you can get 100 encounters in about 80 minutes. You can just run away, but if you keep a chain going by knocking out or catching pokemon, you get bonus shiny rolls at 49 and 99 in an encounter chain. You can get TONS of different Pokemon doing this method. Almost all gen 3 Pokemon can be obtained shiny this way, and also hundreds of Pokemon from other generations.

SM/USUM: SOS chaining. Like Dexnav, as long as you keep a chain of successful SOS calls going, your shiny chance compounds pretty fast. Starts at about 1/1024, but compounds to about 1/680 or so. Sometimes you get a shiny immediately, sometimes it takes a few hours. But this is a nice easy way to get some good gen 7 shinies, and some other odd Pokemon too. Actually the pokedex in gen 7 is pretty varied.

USUM: Ultra Wormholes. This is actually what got me into shiny hunting. Your odds of shiny with this method are frankly INSANE. Like 1/8 if you travel far enough. Yes. 1 in 8. You'll find shinies ALL the time with this method. And while the selection of Pokemon you can hunt shiny is pretty good, the pool is tiny. Like only 25 different specieis are actually huntable with this method, but you'll get some pretty great ones doing this. You can spend hours doing this and get tons of shinies.

SwSh: Dynamax Adventures. This method is time consuming, but, your odds of shiny are 4/100. Yes really. And this is a great way to hunt for shiny legendaries. I got a shiny Necrozma with this method. And while you hunt for legendaries you will get other shinies too. And the pool is massive. Hundreds of different Pokemon can be found shiny with this method. But here's the catch. You don't know that a Pokemon is shiny until after the adventure is over. You get to examine all the Pokemon you catch on an adventure after it's over, and that's when you find out if it's shiny, and you can take one Pokemon with you.

Go out there and get hunting!