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From what I remember, they're really easy to get a hold of. I think after the second gym, some kind of cave/tunnel is the next spot to go and in there is a guy that lets you mine for items. Heart scales are pretty common to come across during the mining mini-game.
In Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu, after catching a lot of bulbasaur and Pikachu in Viridian forest trying to get ones with good IVs/nature, right after leaving and getting to that patch of grass right in front of Pewter City, shiny Rattata. No gym badges at the time. Was actually how I found out...
Anyone have a swinub they're willing to part with? Was going to breed one in Alpha Sapphire for my new Pokémon Y playthrough, when I realized that swinub was unavailable in ORAS natively and pretty much all the ones on the GTS are hacked and cause an error that forces me to reboot the game...
Jangmo-o line
Beldum line
Sewaddle line
Skorupi line
Poliwag line
Bellsprout line
Geodude line
Zubat line
Spheal line
Aipom line
Gligar line
Rhyhorn line
Togepi line
Swinub line
Aron line
Trapinch line
Honedge line
Absol
And, by my count that makes 50.
Ok, I could have sworn that this was said somewhere, but upon actively searching for a source, I actually couldn't find anything concrete. So, what I heard very well may have just been rumors or hearsay. But, I recalled that somewhere they said that they hated Colosseum/Gale of Darkness...
Yeah, I'd love to see more games made in this style, but any hope off that died off for me when I found out Game Freak's stance on them, unfortunately.