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I've only encountered two legit shinies.
>playing new game of white before deleting my old save
>Dicking around, doing whatever, trying to decide if I should delete my old game and start over
>Shiny watchog
>Oh LAWD AN JEEZUS DEM EYES!
>Catch that shit
>"I'll save, it's worth it"
>Can't save
>Regretfully turn the game off and feel sad for a while
I...I didn't know ;-;
Also, as I still have fire red...
>Get to Sabrina's gym and mess around
>Know bug is good against psychic
>Decide to get a caterpie and level it up until it's a buterfree
I didn't know at the time that it wouldn't really make a difference. Anyway
>Training that and a weedle, just because i like beedrill
>Suddenly shiny spearow!
>holy shit.
>say out loud "Holy shit!"
>turn to friend "HOLY SHIT!"
>only have my two weak bug types (metapod and kakuna) and over-leveled pokemon from my usual team
>Send out venusaur (no h8) and put it to sleep
>Throw a bunch of ultra balls
>catch it and feel pride for the rest of the day
I name all my pokemon (exceptions are legendaries) and named a spearow I caught "Shine" because the Dex entry mentioned Mirror Move, so I found it pretty neat that Spearow is the first shiny I caught.