Current Events > Holy wow, I just caught my first, not gyarados, shiny!

(+) Yeah! (+)

In Legends Arceus, I caught a shiny drifloon

I swear, I never even recalled seeing a shiny unintentionally in my life. I did try to shiny hunt for ponyta once in Pokemon Y, and even encountered one on my 19th try, but then I accidentally ko'ed it and couldn't find another since after that. After that, I realized I did not actually care about shiny hunting, and vowed to never do that again.

Of course, there was the red gyarados that I had no idea was a shiny at the time, just thought it was a cool version of gyarados, being a kid and all.

My life... is now fulfilled.

ProfessorKukui posted...

Congrats.
My first was a Golurk in B/W. Which honestly, made me think whether I've accidentally killed a few by not paying attention. >_>

I always wonder the same thing, lol. Kid me would not have been the type to even realize if something was special or not.

And speaking of shiny ponyta, ain't no way this game just gave me a shiny ponyta like that!

Does a shiny Drifloon only steal shiny children?

oh wow, i have 3. 2 were caught at the same time.

oh i was specifically talking about gyrardos in violet. I have hundreds of shinies.

My first was cacnea in sapphire.

Congratulations TC. My first was a Mienfoo in BW2, and then a bunch thanks to the Friend Safari and the Masuda method in XY. For the Mienfoo battle I was so nervous because it was one of those wild double battles where you couldn't throw a ball until one of them was KO'd, because I was otherwise saving my Master Ball for that exact situation.

Awesome! My first nonscripted shiny was an Oddish. :)

My only shines:

Red Gyrados
Blue Ditto from the Red Gyrados trick

Then I found shiny versions of a Poliwag (evolved to Politoed) and shiny Mime Jr. (evolved to Mr. Mime) in Pokemon X and Y. Both of them from those horde encounters with a lot of underpowered Pokes.