Is this normal?

So um I was progressing through the game normally, and I didn’t use a shiny charm or anything that increases shiny odds, and randomly found a Shiny Ninetales before arriving at Sonata City without hunting for one. Is this normal???

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Well, yeah, that’s perfectly normal. Rare doesn’t mean impossible.

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Ok, but how did it happen?

Random 1 in 8000 chance. I found 2 random shiny pokemon just playing through the story also.

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^^ What Peter said. This has happened to me two times in a row. Once with a shiny foongus and secondly, with a shiny gastly.

Also gg on the ninetails. Its shiny is AWESOME

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Actually, basic odds have been lowered to 1/4096 for this game.

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Since Gen 5 iirc.

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*Gen 6

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