My Shiny Drought Is OVER!

[EeveeBailey]

Ah, your bitter tears over losing shinies.... its delicious! When in doubt, always knock out you partner's Pokémon! Sure, they won't like it, but for a shiny, you would do just about anything, would ya?

Oh, I definitely would have knocked him out.  The problem with that was (if you noticed the team facing them in the second screenshot)... Nimflora was mine, and S51-A was Adam's.  There was no way I was going to be able to OHKO him with Nimflora, and switching out to Archilles would have resulted in S51-A knocking it out anyway.

My only course of action was to try to hit S51-A with Sleep Powder and go from there... which I attempted... only Sleep Powder missed, and well, you know the rest of the story...