As stated in the title.

I'm the first to vote on Yes. 

I got a Pidgeotto on my first 500 hours. Easy, while training EV on Speed (Island 5, Kanto). I was using a Excadril + Rock Slide and prompted that was a shiny to avoid faint it.

Rattata during a @Sethcatching contest, only single encounterso far, 2 mins after a friend of mine @xMagofound a shiny Meowth aswell (Tom and Jerry)

Linoone while ev-training speed. Right before my shameful streak of 4 Tentacruels.

Smeargle random horde encounter after a month of playing was my first. Still kept it, now it knows 4 legendary moves hehe.

Got 2 shiny tentacruels within 100 encs of each other while i was making my gym rerun team

Corphish while fishing in route 103 at about 700-800 hrs

Single hunted magikarp literally just before sinnoh was released, and mass magikarp hordes appeared everywhere.

Previously it was still easy to encounter, but had no hordes. Wish i had the foresight to see that coming.....i floated in sootopolis for many months xD

Nidorino while training Atk EVs. I had 971 hours when found it. Since i follow the policy of keep 1st shiny(Don't sell/trade it), it still are with me.

Of course i do remember, so simple, becuz my encountered shinies are as many as fingers of one's hand 

Shiny Mightyena

A Black smoke Rapidash (20/12/21)

I was training EV on speed on smeargle (ready for catching ahah) in Unova, route 12.

 

My first shiny was a shiny swablu 😄 (21/6/2022)

Yep. I had 398 hours of playtime. It was a shiny Snorunt from a swarm in Seafoam Islands. It was male and had 31 Defense IV. I sold it for 3m. 😢

I had maybe 30 hours of game time, saw a shiny kang in safari back in 2016, it fled quit the game for a bit and came back in 2017 and caught a shiny crobat while shunting for spheal.

Back in 2018 before I had completed Kanto story, was trying to grind in berry forest for some leftovers and found a venonat.

 

Ended up selling it for 6mil, pretty sure I didn't even know the shiny rate at the time.

About 2 hours after starting my first shiny hunt I managed to get a beautiful shiny magnemite. Still my favorite shiny to this day!

On 3/14/2023 at 7:57 AM, BrokenJoker said:

As stated in the title.

Why is there no option for "what first shiny?" 🤔

My first one was a Gible at single encounter while i was trying to find a decent one to make a semi comp garchomp, at april 2020

Pikachu!!ʘ‿ʘ

Still fresh in my memory！

1215 hours spent in the game, the most of which hunting or training, and still no shiny 😢

Was running around in Kanto safari, ended up finding Nidorina about 200 hours in & have been a shiny hunter since! 

Edited March 15, 20232 yr by Stolen

Yes!!!

I didn't think I was anywhere close in encounters and it happened when farming for an amulet coin. I played a little bit after work on my phone and I screenshotted it and it's the only one I've currently caught.

 

Edited March 18, 20232 yr by draconicMedium
Screenshot policy

My first was Shiny Cottonee (under 72 hours) while exploring the Lostlorn Forest on 7/20/2018.