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Let's see...hmm...well, one time I was playing with my cousin a few years back when the GTS on Pokémon Diamond and Pearl was still the poop. I remember seeing some of those shocking trades, where someone offered you a shiny Porygon for any Porygon (obviously hacked). My cousin was always upset that he could never get a Shiny, and constantly just ran around the game without the Pokéradar just looking for wild Shinies. I remember my first Pokéchain I got a shiny Zigzagoon, which I was very proud of. However, I already had two more Shinies (both Zigzagoons, surprisingly), and decided to trade him my third one for a Bidoof or something.

He still plays Pokémon occassionally. Turns out he trained the Zigzagoon into a level 100 Linoone, and is still pretty proud of it (I think he's 11 or 12 now). Last time I battled him, I gave him another Shiny that I had stumbled upon, an Adamant Porygon. I loved seeing the expression on his face when he realized it was shiny and he immediately set off to training that one, too.