how many shinys do you people have?

[Phoenixsong]

Shiny Swellow is supposed to be green. What'd the Gameshark do?

[Elec Man EXE]

Swalot =/= Swellow

Swalot (evolution of Gulpin) is blue in its shiny form

[Phoenixsong]

Ack. Read it too fast. Ignore me, then.

[Crazy Elf Boy]

Thats ok Elec Man EXE it took me a very long while to pick up my shiny sharpedo, trust me you just can't go out looking for shiny pokemon the come up at the time when you least expect it. Motto "Always be prepared"

[Number1ChanseyFan]

[color=magenta]The shinies that I have are:

Gold: Gyarados, Spearow, Fearow.
Silver: Gyarados.
Crystal: Gyarados.
Ruby: Koffing, Zigzagoon. (Zigzagoon was from the GameStop promotion.)
Sapphire: Grimer, Linoone, Swablu, Zigzagoon (This Zigzagoon was also from the promo.)
Emerald: Smeargle.
FireRed: None.
LeafGreen: None.

[color=magenta]Thursday night I added a shiny Whismur from Victory Road to my collection in my Emerald game. I wish that I would have brought my Cradily or something with Soundproof with me now that I think about it, because the Whismur at Victory Road know Roar. Thankfully, I had never used my Master Ball, so I used it on Whismur. I didn't want to risk throwing something else at it, fail to catch it, and then have it use Roar. I am just glad that I had the presence of mind to remember that Whismur know Roar. XD

Back in my Gold version, I had a shiny Abra get away from me... I felt lousy after that!! I also had an unfortunate encounter with a shiny Seviper in the Battle Pike @ Battle Frontier... Can't catch the wild Pokémon there... I stared at it for prolly 15 minutes wishing that there was someway I could catch it.

[Foguet]

About two weeks I got my first ever shiny Pokémon (apart from the red Gyarados, obviously). I was training my Medicham east of Dewford when I encountered a shiny Tentacool. I caught it but I won't use it for anything except contests.

[lordsalamence]

In my emerald version,i have a whole party full of shineys. they are:

Tyranitar

Salamence

Dragonite

Dragonite

Flygon

Altaria

[Elec Man EXE]

[color=magenta]Thursday night I added a shiny Whismur from Victory Road to my collection in my Emerald game. I wish that I would have brought my Cradily or something with Soundproof with me now that I think about it, because the Whismur at Victory Road know Roar. Thankfully, I had never used my Master Ball, so I used it on Whismur. I didn't want to risk throwing something else at it, fail to catch it, and then have it use Roar. I am just glad that I had the presence of mind to remember that Whismur know Roar. XD

Back in my Gold version, I had a shiny Abra get away from me... I felt lousy after that!! I also had an unfortunate encounter with a shiny Seviper in the Battle Pike @ Battle Frontier... Can't catch the wild Pokémon there... I stared at it for prolly 15 minutes wishing that there was someway I could catch it.

I had something like that happen to me back in Crystal. Found a shiny Graveler, weakened it down, threw a ball and failed to catch it, and then it selfdestructed >.<

[Number1ChanseyFan]

[color=magenta]Gold: Gyarados, Spearow, Fearow.
Silver: Gyarados.
Crystal: Gyarados.
Ruby: Koffing, Zigzagoon. (Zigzagoon was from the GameStop promotion.)
Sapphire: Grimer, Linoone, Swablu, Zigzagoon (This Zigzagoon was also from the promo.)
Emerald: Smeargle, Whismur.
FireRed: None.
LeafGreen: None.

[color=magenta]Yay!! Sunday night I caught a shiny Poochyena!! I guess I must be on a hot streak or something!!

[Jeff]

I had something like that happen to me back in Crystal. Found a shiny Graveler, weakened it down, threw a ball and failed to catch it, and then it selfdestructed >.<

Heh, looks like I'm not the only one, and it was Crystal for me too, weird.

The only shinies I've ever owned were the Red Gyarados (Silver and Crystal) and a shiny Tyrouge that evolved into a Hitmonchan (Crystal). And yeah, Tyrouge came from the daycare.

I've never run into any shinys in the wild, except for the Graveler, but I have encountered some in Battle Tower in Ruby, but I guess that doesn't count.

[Silencer]

Only shiny I ever got (besides the gyarados) was a bellsprout that I found on my Gold, close to the first cave you need to go through.

[Number1ChanseyFan]

[color=magenta]I guess I must be on some kind of shiny hot-streak or something... Yesterday I found a shiny Spinda!! I hope this streak keeps on going.

~Updated Stats~

Ruby: Koffing, Zigzagoon. (Zigzagoon was from the GameStop promotion.)
Sapphire: Grimer, Linoone, Swablu, Zigzagoon (This Zigzagoon was also from the promo.)
Emerald: Smeargle, Whismur, Poochyena, Spinda.
FireRed: None.
LeafGreen: None.

[Jeff]

YEESSS!!!

It just happened, FireRed, Cerulean Cave. I just caught a shiny Machoke, my first "real" shiny .

Edit:
This is nuts, I've only ever run into one random shiny before (Graveler) and failed to catch it, and now I catch two in one week (just caught a Whismur!)

[Blademaster]

How odd... maybe it's just a coincidence, but it seems like certain shiny Pokemon appear more often than others - namely, shiny Whismur seem like they show up more frequently...

[lordsalamence]

the shiney bagons are the rarest. got all my shineys to lvl.100!

[Cool Trainer Jess]

My brother has one.He has a shiny makuhita and he evolved it.(Wish I had one)

[Everoy]

None, but in Gold I saw a shiny Rhyhorn.

[SeleucusII]

11

Gardevoir
groudon
raichu
rapidash
smeargle
sneasal
alakazam
bellossom
pelipper
beautifly
sandslash

[Shadow Wolf]

I've had a few shinnies...

Gold-Rattata

Silver-Meowth, Celebi(this one was traded)

And now I have

Saphire- Lunatone

Emerald- none

On Emerald, I am still trying to get the Rayquaza in its shiny version.

[Jeff]

This has been an excellent summer for me! I just caught a shiny Kadabra. So here's my list alltogether now, and keep in mind ALL were caught this summer.

Ruby:
Whismur

FireRed:
Machamp (caught as Machoke)
Kadabra

[mvtm]

I stopped playing pokemon years ago , but anyways just checked my catridge.

Non-Gamesharked:Cleffa,Elekid,Magby,Smoochum,Igglybuff ,Gyrados,Surfing Raichu.
Gamesharked:Articuno,Ditto,Sandshrew,Mew,Celebi.

I also got some pokemons that i value then ,than some shiny that are my Baton Passer Farfetch,Earquaking Gligar,Amnesia Psyduck which are gained through stadium 1 & 2.

I dont play anymore, i got them on my 80 hours crystal version,which was my last version.

[frylock]

I have only caught one shiny-

GSC- ponyta, and I found it Right before I fought Red on my Monotype challenge, so I could've used it, but didn't... It was cool looking, but Rapidash shiny looked sort of goofy.

[gameboyjunkie]

so far i've had these

Ruby: Roselia

Emerald: Smeargle, Mareep, and Pikachu

[mvtm]

Hey i manage to take some pictures of my favorite shinys..xD,enjoy!

[Number1ChanseyFan]

[color=magenta]Yay I found another shiny today!! This time I caught a green Marill.

~Updated Stats~

Ruby: Koffing, Zigzagoon. (Zigzagoon was from the GameStop promotion.)
Sapphire: Grimer, Linoone, Swablu, Zigzagoon (This Zigzagoon was also from the promo.)
Emerald: Smeargle, Whismur, Poochyena, Spinda, and Marill.
FireRed: None.
LeafGreen: None.

[DarkestLight]

o.o Crazy shinies!

Only got 2. The Red Gyara...and then I was surfing along, trying to hatch eggs in Emerald, when I came across this shiny Tentacool. I couldn't catch it because I had no pokeballs, and currently my Emerald is home to 14 boxes full of Scythers, Houndooms and Poochyenas {Been trying to find one with semi-good stats. Always end up with 31 speed, but like..2 for attack -.- and then its Careful. What?}

I don't like Tentacool, but i know its an elite competetive pokemon, so I kinda wanted it. I shrug it off, knowing at least I finally saw another shiny in the 8 years since I played Gold...has it been 8 years? {I got it first day it came out USA, but I can't remember what year that was...}

Anyway, I went back to my box, and began releasing MAJOR Scythers, Poochyenas and Houndooms in the wild...and when I was done, went back to hatching eggs {Cause tha guy in Mauville just LOVES giving me eggs}. I went back to Route 109-104 and began swimming, and BOOM, there he is again. A shrug, cause I'm out of Pokeballs now, and I sail away. Get to Dewford, pull out some balls, and I jump back in the water. BOOM. There again. I guess he just wanted to be caught cause I just threw a Pokeball, no sweat.

Then I see it has an IV stat of 9 in every stat. Yeah he's gonna rot there.

[Sceptile_Master]

Ack I really need to find my gamecube memory card or else my shineys will be lost forever. I'm kind of annoyed that I've lost it. Lots of cool pokemon are on my pokemon box too.

[BiGSh0t]

[color=magenta]Meh, just keep trying, I know it is frustrating, but one will turn up eventually!!

The shinies that I have are:

Gold: Gyarados, Spearow, Fearow.
Silver: Gyarados.
Crystal: Gyarados.
Ruby: Koffing, Zigzagoon. (Zigzagoon was from the GameStop promotion.)
Sapphire: Grimer, Linoone, Swablu, Zigzagoon (This Zigzagoon was also from the promo.)
Emerald: Smeargle.
FireRed: None.
LeafGreen: None.

Any chance you'd be willing to trade that Swablu for a crobat? (my only shiny :'()

[BiGSh0t]

Oh, to the OP.

On silver version, got a rattata and several charmanders in an extensive breeding program.

On my Ruby version, only a zubat (now crobat so far), level 44ish for awhile now, just not a big crobat fan, and it's pink, lol.

Fire red, only started this cartridge yesterday, and nothing yet.

1 in 64 chance of breeding when using Shiny Pokemon? Dear God, I need to go beg my cousin to borrow his Shiny female Poochyena. I love Mightyena and I desperately need a beige one... arrrgh!

Yes, it was EASY to get shinies through breeding in metallics, but in advanced generation, that's no longer the case unfortunately those beige mightyena are gorgeous, I agree.

A few questions, though: How does breeding for shinies work? Does it have to be the mother that's shiny, the father, or does it matter? What if both parents are shiny, and/or they're both the same species? In other words, am I more likely to get (ANOTHER) shiny Oddish by breeding my Vileplume and Bellossom, or is that just as likely as breeding a random, non-shiny Ditto with my Sharpedo? Can I get a shiny Magikarp by breeding a female Gyarados with my purple Sharpedo?

It doesn't matter if the mother or father is shiny, but obviously, to get different species, your shiny needs to be male. 2 shiny's cant breed together, at least not in the metallic versions, as 2 pokemon with identical IV's (determining factor of shiny in these versions) can never breed together.

As far as advanced gen, I don't know if they can breed together or not, but I think it wouldn't make a difference anyways, and getting a shiny through breeding on these versions is a long shot.

Sorry for the late response. Also would like to add I dont really thing sharking for shinies is anything to brag about, no work involved in that!

[Elekidkid]

Of the ten years I've been playing Pokemon, I have found a total of 0 shineys. Amazing luck, eh?

[Blademaster]

Does that include the GSC Red Gyarados?

[rinku]

Took advantage of the Emerald clone glitch and traded for another 4 shinies last month:

Sandshrew, Bellossom, Venonat & Jumpluff

Also screwed up and missed a shiny Spearow on Leaf Green - missed the flash and just as I was knocking it out thought "hey, are Spearow wingls normally that colour?". Checked the 'dex and the answer was "no". Grr.

So that brings me to 4 caught myself (3 on Sapphire, 1 on Emerald), one from sending my cart off to get the berry bug fixed, 4 trades and two that got away. Plus about 4 seen in Trainer Tower. Roughly speaking, I would have seen one per 300 hours of play, I estimate (hard to say since my Sapphire time is maxed out at 999.59 )

[Sceptile_Master]

I just found my gamecube memory card again. Well my brother did. Wh00t. My shiny blastoise and tentacruel are saved. My friend has a shiny charizard which me and him kept restarting until we found it (i found both my shineys just going through the game). Took ageeeeeeeeees.

[Crystalmaster Mike]

Well, technically, I only have 1 at the moment: a Shiny Sandshrew from my Ruby copy (2 years of non-resetment and counting!), which I ran into east of Fallarbor. I also had a Shiny Roselia, which I traded with my brother, since he didn't have any.

And then there's the possibility I have some Shiny Pokémon on my Silver and Red copies, but I haven't played them in ages... (I wanted to get as many Stage 1 / Baby Pokémon ready to trade into a new game before I restarted, but since the only other Metal Generation game we have at home is Crystal, that plan was never put in motion - trading all those Pokémon would have required a bunch of Junk Pokémon, and a lot of semi-expensive Balls to catch them with).
I know I had a few (Box Glitch-multiplied) Red Gyarados', and once in a previous saved file I had caught a Shiny Jynx in the Ice Cave. I also lost a Shiny Graveler on Victory Road to a Self-Destruct or an Explosion, and that's about it...

[Sceptile_Master]

Hmm a shiny exeggcute in the safari zone ran from me a week or two ago. Damn that annoyed me.

[Drago]

Funny, the exact same thing happened to my sister a week ago. Shiny Exeggcute, Safari Zone, gone.

Anyway, this topic hasn't had a whole lot of livelihood, but I thought I'd update my shiny status, mostly because I feel the need to brag and dance a merry jig.
I now have a shiny Charizard, Dragonite, Rayquaza and Mew. Oh hell yeah.

[Number1ChanseyFan]

Meh, I haven't found any shinies for awhile, right now I am looking on Mt. Pyre, because I hope to get a shiny Vulpix. I did have a pretty rare event happen today though... I had a perfect match at the Lotto drawing at Lilycove City, so I won a Master Ball, which will come in handy just in case I even encounter a shiny that can escape/self-destruct or something!!

[nick]

I bought pokemon fire red a couple months ago and caught a shiny caterpie that EVOLVED INTO butterfree does this count

[Phoenixsong]

Yeah, that counts. I found a shiny Caterpie in my FireRed, and it's now a Butterfree, too. Whoo.

[Andrew]

I had a Shiny Tangela and a Shiny Magmar... it was pink and crap....