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way too common in my opinion. They were meant to be a rare thing that makes you question 'wtf is this real????' not 'oh okay time to breed for a perfect IVs jolly shiny Larvitar and get it in 100-200 eggs!' not to mention they do dumb shit now like shiny locks to promote their garbage events that offer nothing different for Pokémon gameplay-wise.
>b-but I'll never see one then
It's cosmetic, it shouldn't bother you that much if a casual doesn't see one
>I'll just inject anyway!
Stop cheating. Sure, you can do that, but you robbed yourself of the magic of the encounter.
One time I found a shiny Tentacool to replace one that I had lost years earlier as a kid on the same Ruby cart on the same day as I had hunted for my shiny Groudon. Don't think it would have hit quite the same if it was 1/4096 or even lower like certain ROM hacks do where it's 1/1024 or even 1/512
