It all began on April 5th 2025 when a random shiny Sandslash during the completion of the Unova-Dex, sparked my interest in shiny hunting.
I got the shiny charm couple of days later and now 13 months later this is where I'm at. 15 via masuda method (red) and 15 random encounters (blue).
Few side notes:
-The Cryogonal was randomly found by a friend of mine, also while completing the regional Dex, and he gave it to me in exchange for a fourth shiny litwick I caught.
-I caught FOUR male litwicks before finally getting a female by using cute charm (I like the colour red and litwick is my favourite Pokémon 🙂)
One I gave away like I said and the other is now on my Black 1 game so I actually got 31 shinys in total.
-I was looking for a male Frillish using cute charm, got one, looked at it for 10 seconds, did NOT realise it was shiny🥴 and ran away, got a female sometime later, checked my Pokédex and realised that I saw a male shiny sometime earlier, was sad, kept hunting and finally got a male as well. In the end I am grateful for missing it because had I caught it I would have stopped and therefore not have both forms by now.
Phew, that was a lot, so in summary: I got 30 shinys on Black 2 over 13 months and I am looking forward to playing with them on white and white 2😊