@captaincharisma:Of the ones I actually have, my Gallade and Gardevoir set is pretty high up there. Actually, I'm pretty fond of a lot of the ones I've caught, since in many cases I went out of my way to search for them because I wanted them really bad. My Porygon-Z is pretty cool looking, as are my Gastly, my Geodude, and my Pheromosa. And of course the aforementioned Umbreon.
If you mean in general, including ones I don't have, I have a hard time answering that for sure. Since there are ~800 different Pokemon at the moment, I don't know what a good 80% of them actually look like shiny. I tend to look them up if they meet a few other criteria and then go for them if they look cool. Off the top of my head, Ponyta is the first thing that comes to mind. It looks genuinely rad. Though I really, really like the way shiny Mega-Gardevoir looks, maybe more than any other shiny I've seen, including ones I don't have. I think it's probably my favorite shiny overall.
@imhungry: It's really very tedious. I've never gotten one through breeding yet, which is the method I've anecdotally seen the most people use to find their firsts. I find it more tedious than soft resetting, and I am pretty averse to soft resetting. Soft resetting requires zero mental input. Hatching eggs requires a little bit of juggling in order to be as efficient as possible. Though not in Gen 2. Those eggs show up so infrequently that I've almost never had a situation where my party is full of eggs when there's another one available.
Across all of my games, I have a total of 55 shinies, though 2 of them are the red Gyarados from Gen 2 and about 20 of those were obtained through a hunting method so easy it's almost trivial. If you go really far through the wormhole you unlock at the end of Ultra Sun/Moon, there is a really decent chance the Pokemon you find there is shiny. The odds can be as good as 1/10 in some cases. It's a method I used to just do a few times before going to bed; it probably takes under an hour on average to obtain shiny Pokemon doing this. The pool of available Pokemon is really limited, and limited mostly to Pokemon I don't care for, and additionally you have very little input on what actually shows up, but if you just want to find a shiny for the sake of it, it's the absolute easiest way aside from Event Pokemon.
My favorite is probably the shiny Gardevoir. Gardevoir is a very cool Pokemon with good stats and a strong moveset that looks cool shiny and even cooler mega AND shiny. I have a pretty strong affinity for Psychic-type Pokemon in general, too, and the Ralts that evolved into Gardevoir was also the first shiny I ever found using the Dexnav, so there's some sentimental attachment there, too.
@nicksmi56: My younger sister's first shiny was a totally random encounter, and she's had some very good luck with the Masuda method since then, too. And fairly recently, a friend of mine ran into a shiny in the first ten minutes of booting up Ultra Moon, full non-shiny-charm odds and everything. I had never seen a totally random shiny in one of my own games before, so I was extremely jealous. Literally the very next day I randomly encountered my shiny Geodude in Omega Ruby while just walking to the place I was planning on hunting. That was pretty cool. Also, I found my second Ralts (which happened to be male, too, meaning it's a Gallade now) while just walking between two areas and deciding to Dexnav a handful of times on a whim before moving on, and it showed up after less then 10 encounters. I found my Growlithe after burning out looking for something else, deciding to search for a Charmeleon in the Friend Safari. Growlithe showed up shiny after only 7 encounters.
That said, I've also had some crazy bad luck with them, too. It took me months to finally find my shiny Pheromosa, doing at least a handful of soft resets every day, and usually way more than a handful. That Eevee was a real nightmare, too. And I've been trying on and off to find a Ponyta for a loooong time, with no success.
@bleshoo: Honedge is definitely one of the cooler shinies out there. If I had more patience for Masuda method-ing, it would be a pretty high priority for me, but that method is just one I struggle with.
@mezza: I have only ever encountered one shiny Pokemon completely randomly, and even that was in a game where I had the Shiny Charm, so the odds were three times as high as they would have otherwise. I have witnessed a total of three random shiny appearances, in person, happening to be with my sister when she found hers and with my friend when his showed up, but as for ones actually appearing in my games, there's only my Geodude. His name is John Rocket. My brother said I should name him that, giving no explanation, and I did, and as it turns out, there was no explanation to give; it was a meaningless combination of a name and a word that popped into his head randomly. That's honestly better, though.
@strangestories: That's rad; Ampharos is probably one of my ten favorite Pokemon, and my Pokemon Gold save is actually in the middle of trying to hatch a shiny Flaffy right now.
Man, what I'm gathering from this is that it sounds like people have had a lot more luck seeing random shiny Pokemon then I ever have. I played these games obsessively growing up, and now play them obsessively as an adult, and in my cumulative thousands and thousands of hours playing Pokemon games since shinies became a thing in Gen 2, I have still only personally encountered one random shiny, and even that one had increased chances since it was on a save with a Shiny Charm.
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