I’ve played Pokemon for eons now, and most recently passed the two-hundred hour mark on Pokemon X. The first shiny I ever got was in an unlocked Pokemon Platinum game; The first patch of wild grass I went into, I found a wild Zigzagoon - I thought it was a hoax, since I anyways got an edited game. Anyways, back to today.

I wanted to add more people to my Friend Safari, so I opened up a r/friendsafari post to add newbies who didn’t know their friend safari Pokemon. One of them had a Ghost type, and had Shuppet, Phantump and Drifblim. Lo and behold, on my second go-around in that person’s Friend Safari, there was a SHINY PHANTUMP! I caught it on my 1st try w/ a quick ball! (The pic below is from someone’s Tumblr page, but is more or less like mine.) I’m SO HAPPY! Only my SECOND shiny EVAR! :)