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Pokémon Share Your Shiny Pokémon Stories and Screenshots

Well, I didn't expect to catch this today! Did my usual rounds on Legends Arceus, and came across a shiny alpha (or as the community has been referring to them as, shalpha) Spiritomb!

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Caught quite a few shiny Pokemon in Violet since the games release - first been a random golden Magikarp (now Gyarados) I found just a few days into starting the game. Since then I've completed the Pokedex to grab the shiny charm and used outbreaks and sandwiches to shiny hunt, other then Fuecoco who was bred - after a very long time!


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Realised while shiny hunting that I seemed to be going for similar colour schemes 😆

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Outside of Violet I also had some shiny luck in PoGo today and caught this lil one in a raid ☺️

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An update to my Shiny Totodile, who decides to find a shiny leaf~
Researching I realised pokemon finding a shiny leaf was rare, so just makes Everglade just as special.

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I'm not evolving her until I get to Goldenrod City so I can get a picture ingame of them beforehand.
So yeah, slowly playing this game again, currently dealing with Slowpoke well and the gym.
 
I've been on the hunt for Alolan Vulpix since 2021, I think? It's been over a year for sure. To be fair, I don't continually hunt for shinies, I always play a wide range of games and come back to my hunts whenever I feel like it. I don't count my eggs, resets or encounters when I shiny hunt as it feels like a tedious extra step to me, but I'm pretty sure I hatched about 1000+ eggs for this one. Anyway, here's my precious boy, Bingsu! ♡ I may or may not have screamed when he hatched, haha. c':

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The first Shiny Pokemon I ever encountered was Shinx in Pokemon Pearl. I was spending hours looking for a Female level 4 Shinx with the ability Intimidate, and then I encountered a Male Shinx with Rivalry that was Shiny. I usually ran from the encounters, but I decided to kill this one for some reason.
My second shiny was a fully EV'd and IV'd Weavile that I got through wonder trade. I'm unsure if it's hacked.
The third shiny I encountered was a Weezing in a Max Raid Den. I ended up EV training it, and it is now in Pokemon HOME.
The fourth shiny I encountered was this month in Pokemon Scarlet. It was a shiny Hoppip I randomly saw while running around. Unfortunately, I reset my account without remembering that the Shiny Hoppip (then a Jumpluff) was on it, marking the end of its life.
I also have a Shiny Mareep that a friend gave me on Wednesday, that is currently sitting in a box.
 
I finally completed my Pokémon Scarlet Pokédex on Monday thanks to @/Midoriya and got my shiny charm. And boy did that thing work fast. I caught three Pokémon that night. Sneasel while leveling up my Koraidon in the Area Zero cave, then Paldean Wooper and Swablu a few minutes apart from each other near Los Platos. (Idk why this shows up as two spoilers as I only put in one but oh well.)

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They all showed up without shiny boosts (no outbreaks, no sandwiches) except the shiny charm. And little did I know, I'd end up being a shiny Sneasel magnet as I caught two more earlier this week, also in the Area Zero cave with no sandwich.

I also found an absolute friend yesterday, a shiny Dratini that I nicknamed Mailbox and quickly evolved into Dragonite. (Not pictured : her shiny brother Noodle, caught as a Dratini and evolved into Dragonair.)

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It's hard being an adorable green dragon following your shiny hunting trainer everywhere. Also not pictured : the shiny Psyduck I caught earlier today, a shiny Roaring Moon I named Sencha and a shiny Houndstone found while I was looking for shiny Roaring Moon with a sparkling power dragon sandwich. Hm.

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"You came to the wrong neighbourhood, hooman."
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Sleepy Koraidon. Poor beast carries me and the team around all the time, he deserves to rest.
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The Azumarmy, also known as Cinderace's Angels. ->
 
I caught a shiny Rhydon in Arceus without realizing it. Only when I was looking for through to see who I had did I realize Rhydon was shiny. Today I was so excited when I found and caught a shiny Sneasel in a mass outbreak on Coronet highlands.

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just now, i caught a female shiny rattata on heartgold :D

edit at 12:53 pm on 20/7/23 - i think i didn't have any pokeballs last time i found a shiny rattata*can't remember if it was heartgold or not*, but this time i did....
 
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very late to posting it here, but my first ever shiny (though I've been playing Pokemon for a few years now) was actually this past April. It was a full 1/4096-odds shiny Cetoddle, as at the time I had not yet gotten the shiny charm. Now that I do, I have 7 shinies total, with varying levels of luck. (All of which I caught myself, as this doesn't include event/gift shinies.)

One of which (the Cetoddle) was full-odds,
three were 1/1365 (base odds with shiny charm, Iron Moth, Chansey, Sneasel.)
three were 1/820 (60+ outbreak pokemon defeated with shiny charm. Tatsugiri, Tarountula, Froslass),
(Fun fact, Chansey and Sneasel were both found accidentally while I was hunting for shinies in other outbreaks, Florges and Cryogonal respectively.)
the screenshot attached is of my first shiny right after I caught it.
 

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very late to posting it here, but my first ever shiny (though I've been playing Pokemon for a few years now) was actually this past April. It was a full 1/4096-odds shiny Cetoddle, as at the time I had not yet gotten the shiny charm. Now that I do, I have 7 shinies total, with varying levels of luck. (All of which I caught myself, as this doesn't include event/gift shinies.)

One of which (the Cetoddle) was full-odds,
three were 1/1365 (base odds with shiny charm, Iron Moth, Chansey, Sneasel.)
three were 1/820 (60+ outbreak pokemon defeated with shiny charm. Tatsugiri, Tarountula, Froslass),
(Fun fact, Chansey and Sneasel were both found accidentally while I was hunting for shinies in other outbreaks, Florges and Cryogonal respectively.)
the screenshot attached is of my first shiny right after I caught it.

Dang, I'm envious, lol! Cetitan is one of my favorite Pokemon from the newest generation! 🤩
 
realised it‘s been a while since i posted my shiny catches but have been playing PoGo quite a bit over the last few months with a couple of my siblings and friends and found quite a few shiny mons

caught lil shiny shadow larvitar quite a while ago and he’s now one of my best buddies and also today became best buddies with my gold jellyfish

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also caught shiny party charmander as well as sun burnt chicken and a icy bird - unfortunately Zapdos decided not to be shiny, and pikachu with crown from go fest

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two of my more recent shinies

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can‘t include pics of them all with how many there are but some others from last couple of months;
  • community day catches - togetic, swinub, fennekin, axew, squirtle, poliwag and froakie
  • some of the other shinies i caught at go fest London - dewpider, elgyem, deino, mantine, durant and seel
  • caught two swablus - traded one to a friend who really wanted one in exchange for one of her amauras
  • stunfisk and meowth from eggs
  • lapras, tapu bulu and heatran from raids
  • onix, spinda and gligar from tasks and battles
  • magikarp, barboach and sableye from gold research day
  • few others just in the wild - charizard, mudkip, totodile, cyndaquil, mareep, scyther, teddiursa, tangela and omanyte
 
I have a bunch of shinies (Pokémon Scarlet) but this is my favorite story, I was in the water hatching eggs to try and get a sprigatito, my controllers are janky so they were moving me automatically and while I was watching a YouTube video I ran into a random shiny barraskewda, wouldn’t have even know it was shiny if I was paying attention, unfortunately after over 3000 eggs I still haven’t hatched a shiny sprigatito.
 
Back when I used to play Pokemon or being heavily invested into Pokemon, I accidentally encountered a shiny Flabebe in Pokemon X. (Sorry, no screenshots since this is years ago like 2014 or 2015 and I didn't even know how to screenshot in the 3ds back then. 😅)

I was trying to encounter and catch an Articuno then I accidentally encountered a wild shiny Pokemon. I didn't even think of shiny Pokemon actually existing but I caught on later and decided to catch the shiny Flabebe. The flower is orange by the way but the body is different color, like color blue.
 
a few of my fave catches from PoGo this weekend

shiny lizard - unfortunately didn't get a shiny Kyogre that I really wanted but did get a 100% IV one

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completed my shiny Pikachu with a crown collection after getting the first one at London fest

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some of the new shiny releases in PoGo - managed to get a couple of both of these

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Today I decided after failing to get a Lucky Egg in Pokemon Platinum for my Pokemon SoulSilver Nuzlocke, I was going to shiny hunt in Pokemon Legends: Arceus. I went to the icelands region and encountered a mass outbreak of Gibles, but sadly no shiny Gible. HOWEVER, I went back soon after after hearing about a Piloswine outbreak in the region. And lo and behold, I encountered and captured a shiny Piloswine!! 🤩

I'm literally so happy about this. It didn't even take that long. I don't know what it is about me and finding shiny Ice types lately (I had recently captured a shiny Snover in my Pokemon Platinum Nuzlocke before winning it, which is a shiny Abomasnow now in my Pokemon Violet game). :LOL:

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I now have a full shiny team in PL:A as well excluding my starter. 😤

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in my 2nd playthrough of violet, i just found a shiny female scatterbug!! *at 8:50 pm* 😲 *early game, on the way to mesagoza in south province area one *
she was just sitting there & she took me by surprise, seeing her there...

i caught her in a premier ball.... not sure if i'm gonna use her or not, yet, though... ....


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*thinking.... thinking.... thinking....
i might do... i do want a flying/bug type, i think, after all

this'll be my 2nd shiny that i ever used

i don't mind having a shiny version of my fancy form vivillon... if it is that....
:D
i'll name her ''mel '' after her german name ''Purmel ''
 
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when i turned around, she was asleep ...mel is so cute :love:

i almost don't want to evolve her... but i know she wants to grow up & fly....

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violet playthrough 2
 
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