User blog comment:Lissamel123/AHHHH OMG GUYS/@comment-13187859-20140713135713/@comment-13187859-20140713195911

I've tried shiny hunting many times. It's rather hard, I must say, and when I try to get a shiny from GTS, the people offering them often want you to pay an arm and a leg for them. Yeesh, deals like a shiny level one Pumpkaboo for a level one hundred Arceus just doesn't fly with me...

I think I may have done every method I can think of to get shinies and none have worked so far. Magnet Pull, the Matsuda Method, just plain breeding (which I get so freakin' tired of after a while), chaining... I was told that I should use the Repel Trick, which I've seen in action and can attest to its greatness, but I can't seem to find a Staryu with Illuminate. All the ones I catch have Natural Cure for some reason. (sigh)

Much like meeting people in real life, I generally just wait for a shiny to catch me by surprise, like my Foongus and my Wooper, but other times I'm impatient... Maybe I should just stick to what I know, in regards to shiny hunting.