I DID IT!
5 hours and almost 200 ponytas later. This is all I wanted
a shiny horsypic.twitter.com/5cpPRaREtI
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I was thinking about evolving this ponyta but not sure if I should. Did it take you too long to get the shiny rapidash? 
The ponyta was a gift from one of my viewers actually, but the shiny shelder only took 1 hour or so. I was trying to get a perfect IV one and got the shiny instead.
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