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Kind of, but I mostly wt to blindly expand my dex and accumulate pokemiles to get the most out of the online store before its shut down.
My first shiny was an obviously hacked maxed out Charizard that I got well before completing X, which I wound up using it as my HM slave. The racist subtext there didn't occur to me until a few days later.
Not long after that I got one of the perfect cloning Dittos by luck, so that was nice.