I added several points to this iceberg that I thought would be interesting as well as omitting points if there wasn't sufficient enough information to speak to it. Feel free to correct anything I got incorrect in the comments. There was a decent amount to cover, so i'm sure something slipped through the cracks. My typical style of content isn't going anywhere, just wanted to make something for the sake of having fun. Gotta make stuff to clear the mental sometimes, y'know? Enjoy :)
fun fact: EVERY toxicroak in the anime is still colored wrong. alllll the way up to Pokémon Journeys. they ALL look like the psuedo shiny. Saturns was just seen first.
its really funny, bc of the recent leak all anime reference sheets until bw were leaked and can confirm toxicroak is colored wrong *in* the refence sheet! with the a picture of the normal colored toxicroak in the top right LMAO
I think I have you beat. A Wooper and a Quagsire within three encounters of one another in the same location. Same nature. Nearly the same IVs. I leveled the Wooper two levels up and evolved it to compare the two. Most of the stats were the same. Different abilities though.
My luckiest Shiny moment was coincidentally with the first shiny I ever caught/encountered! I was playing a Platinum nuzlocke and I ran into a shiny Geodude as a completely legitimate encounter - it was *actually* the 1st encounter on that route/area - didn't even need to use the "shiny clause" that some people opt to play with.
I remember my very first shiny was a Tentacool in Pokémon Ruby. This was back in 2007-08 and I didn’t have access to the internet like we do now, so I remember keeping it in a box and never evolving or even leveling it up cause I was so scared the color change was a glitch and would revert to normal colors lmao
Pokémon emerald doesn’t act like the internal battery is dry. It still has time based events. What makes emerald broken is the seed never changes when you reset. It is always 0 so all frames across all games will be the same only differing in shininess based off the trainers ID and secret ID
Suggests taking a shot everytime he says shiny & then says shiny 8 times in the next 60 seconds, this is what true evil looks like guys all jokes aside this video is really well made & I hope it continues to reach a wider audience :)
For Let's Go, it was found that the Catch Combo boost applies to the next Pokemon of that chain that spawns only, so after it spawns you would need to catch another to get another shiny boosted spawn!
“Take shots every time I say shiny” dude, I’m 2:09 minutes in and can’t take more, in just that small timeframe I counted over 15 shiny, if someone does it to the end I hope they don’t end in ER
The only full odds shiny I ever found pre gen-5 was a random Mesprit, which is cool, but also kinda weird that from all the possible pokemons it was a roaming legendary
same here! the first shiny I ever caught was the Mesprit from Platinum. I remember the first time it showed up I was on a road trip with my family, and I was so excited to get a shiny legendary that I screamed and nearly scared my mom so bad that she swerved off the road. safe to say, she wasn't amused when she learned why we nearly crashed... 😅 I've still got the Mesprit in my Pokemon Home!
I am actually surprised that this video only has 57 views (at the time of watching) Your videos are really high quality man. I hope your break through comes
One of my favorite shiny memories was using action replay to really mess with the gen 4 games. I used an "all pokemon shiny" cheat just to see what other shiny pokemon were like, but forgot to initiate it when the game was booting up. At the time i thought, i was fully convinces that i did succesfully initiate the cheat. The first pokemon I came across was a random shiny goldbat, a pokemon whose normal form i avoid like the plague. I thought "i can probably skip this, ill be seeing loads of shiny golbats." But then something within me changed, and i thought "know what, ill see if i can catch one of each shiny." So i caught it. Next thing you know my next encounter was not shiny. "What the hell " i thought. I saved the game and attempted again, this time realizing i missed a step where i had to hold both the left and right triggers as the game boots up so the AR could do its thing. It didnt hit me until after i saw my shiny golbat that i realized i saw an *actual shiny* totally by chance, after being fully convinced it was just a cheat shiny. Those days as a kid were so much fun... i named that golbat "Goldbat" and never evolved it.
Wait, did we not cover Jiggly Puff? In the early seasons of the anime there is a reoccurring jiggly puff that just wants people to listen to it sing, but everyone falls asleep. Anyway, this Jigglypuff is shiny, you can tell because of its eye color. This jigglypuff appears starting in "The Song of Jigglypuff" which takes place before the Orange Archipelago arch, and before Jhoto, making it the first appearance of a shiny pokemon within the anime.
18:47 lockstin and gnoggin basically reverse engineered the algorithm that would have generated the vast majority of the shinies from gen 2 - gen 5. There are a couple of pokemon that don't apply like charizard because those were likely manually changed after gen 2 which is why they look different in gen 3, perhaps because they wanted to put the design on the playing cards.
dunno if someone else has said it but i'm guessing the gen one shiny lock refers to the fact that non static pokemon cannot have the DVs (stats) to be shiny
bro sounds like a cutie patootie jokes aside though this commentary/editing style is really chill and i even learned a couple new things so thanks for that 🙏🙏 hope to see this channel go far
oh stop ittttt🙈 i appreciate this comment a ton! i’m glad you enjoyed and were able to learn a few things as well. i make this videos for fun, so im just glad people find them entertaining at all ☺️ thank you for watching!
Great video :) I learned a surprising amount of things that i didnt know. The only things I would add are the shiny clothing from the Battle revolution games and the end credits shinies in rumble.
Seeing this and actually learning about the TCG gold star pokemon more in detail is great. As a kid I collected cards because of how much I loved the art... and stumbled upon that gold star charizard in the process. Still have it to this day despite not collecting anymore. I really treasure it.
Gold star pokemon are some of my favorite cards. Thank you for sharing that, it’s so wholesome. Have you ever considered getting the card graded at all?
That actually only applies to soft resetting the starters, Game freak forced us to use the masuda method to get the starters you get at the beginning of the game
Thats what i was referring to yeah :) I think its lame they're shiny locked. I think it should be our choice to avoid hunts like that and not have the option stripped away completely.
I’m glad we’re talking about shiny cards in the tgc; I got a shiny Azumarill card when I was way younger, and she has never been taken out of her x/y mega charizard binder
I never see anyone talk about the gen 4 cute charm glitch anymore, where if you had a certain trainer ID you could have a cute charm pokemon out in front and have absolutely ridiculous shiny odds for wild encounters. It was a really cool thing back in the day
I always feel so proud that I found two full odd shinies before the rate change in gen 6. Of course it was Lillipup and Vulaby, but still cool I found em!
My first ever shiny was the uncatchable pooch but it was because I hadn’t received any pokeballs yet not because I was shiny hunting the starters. Terrible experience.
That’s brutal. I’m familiar with the uncatchable pooch and have unfortunately met the same fate lol. I hope you at least got the shiny starter eventually! ✨
What a great vid! This is my first time seeing your content and you are super underrated. The only thing I saw wrong in the vid was at 7:26 It was not known for quite some time but the chance of encountering a star sparkle shiny in the wild is WAY more than just 1/16. The true odds are around 1/18,000,000 and there have been only around ~13 to be found. I love your vids and hope to see more!!
I remember my first shiny pokemon. A venonat that I caught in Gold Version during the bug catching contest. I didn't know what shiny pokemon were. Just that the Venonat had blue eyes instead of red. I caught it, and won the contest. I was so happy when I found out it was a super rare thing. I named it Blue Eyes and leveled it up on my team, even took it to the elite 4 and won! It was awesome!
I thought I knew everything about shinies, but I learned a couple things today!! I've never heard about the shiny illusion legendary beasts, that's so interesting
When I was younger I had a fire red run in which I caught a shiny voltorb with explosion/selfdestruct, that I found in the power plant. Will never forget it. And in my current fire red run being older, I got a lucky egg on my fourth chansey (tho I encountered way more that fled lol)
I appreciate this comment a ton! I make these videos for fun in my spare time, I’m just happy people find them as enjoyable to watch as they are to make. Thank you for watching ☺️
In Pokémon go odds for community day shinies are 1/20, for raids it depends on the pokemon; legendaries are 1/20, others are 1/64 and for wild pokemon that are NOT shiny locked, its 1/500 for common spawns and 1/64 for rare spawns
@@paulycrossing honestly there’s a little more that I don’t know about too much, but im aware that some raids have higher shiny chances than others but im not sure if its 1/10 or 1/20 for mega raids
yea my first shiny was the impossible poochyena, i remember not really knowing what shinies were or their importance, but i remember just sitting there staring at my screen for like 20min knowing i couldnt catch it
Thank you for this. My first shiny Pokemon was full odds Doduo in Pokemon Crystal, caught it in Kanto. I was 10 or 11 years old. It was the same save file I defeated Ho-oh and Lugia without catching them. It was also the same save file my Feraligatr didn't learn "Slash", because I misread it as "Splash". I thought it was so bizarre they would teach my Pokemon such a weak move so late in its levels.
Can't believe this doenst have a like 100k + views. Insane quality, made me remember my first shiny i catched when i was like 8 (it was a pidgey in gold - didnt even realised that the colour is different lmao)
i really appreciate the comment! that’s an extremely wholesome memory, i feel like you never forget your first shiny lol that’s awesome thank you for watching :)
Having not seen an igglybuff in modern 3d before, seieng a shiny one just float in the wind behind a battle with a Happiny is one memory i hope to never forget. I miss the audio cue 😢
I’ve only ever found 4 shinys while playing through the games. I almost feel lucky as I’ve seen others say that they’ve never found a single wild shiny. I’m no shiny hunter but it was interesting to learn about the history of such a simple yet not so simple aspect of the franchise.
I remember back in elementary school one of the kids on my bus had a damaged gold star Charizard. Even then the card was worth hundreds if not over a thousand dollars, and I remember being blown away and asking to take a picture lol
The only legit shiny I found was a Wurmple (if that's how you spell it) in Pokémon Emerald. I was so excited. Shinys used to be special and super rare. Not throwing shade, but it's so...systematic... now it's just kinda blah to me. Love the idea of think of some kid, back in Gen 2 stumbling across a Shiny in the wild (that's not red garados) and that punchy sound effect and sparkle confusing them along with the off color. Catching it and showing it off at school to the amazement of their friends. All of them bargening their own pokemon trying to trade for it. So cool.
First of all: Absolutely fantastic video! Second: What happened to Whismaker Jirachi, it is literally one of the most iconic shinys out there…? (And one of the most expensive ones too…)
Great point! I knew there would be things I would miss just with how massive of a topic shiny pokemon is, but I don’t know how I forgot this one lol. I think I may make a follow up video if there are enough facts to warrant it. Thank you for watching ☺️
16:26 my mum used to buy us 1 pack of Pokemon cards every week if we were good, one time my brother pulled a shining charizard. It was the rarest card I've ever seen, had 3x stars in the bottom left. Sadly we lost it, it now retails for around $1500-2000
Amazing video But I suggest adding the "ultra shiny" as well to the video. If u never heard of this term - it's a special THIRT shiny animation that was introduced in Sword/Shild. Suppose to be The Shing Among Shiny pokemon. It has a special "blinding" light flash when spawned
My first and only full odds shiny as far as I can remember (been playing for 24 yrs), was Galarian Corsola. Weirdly it was also the first time I saw corsola in this game at all.
12:41 - I really really wish you elaborated on this more for the people who don't already know about it!! Very big missed opportunity! In Colosseum, you didn't know if a shadow pokemon you caught was shiny or not until after you purify it in the Relic Forest.
Some clarifications on the Gen 1 Shiny Lock portion. Like you said, not all stats match up for Gen 1 Pokemon when they're brought into Gen 2 to be shiny. Where it goes deeper though is that only a few handfuls of Pokemon can actually roll the stats to become shiny in the Gen 1 games. There is a bug involving the CPU timing for generating random values for if a wild encounter will occur, which encounter it will be, and then lastly the stats of the wild encounter. By the time it hits that last part, the algorithm will no longer be randomized. Because of this any walking encounter--cave, tall grass, surfing, etc. cannot be shiny. This means that only fishing encounters, gift Pokemon(starters, Celadon Eevee, Silph Lapras, Game Corner prizes) and static Pokemon(Snorlaxes, Power Plant Voltorbs/Electrodes, Legendary Birds, Mewtwo) can be shiny. Where the iceberg gets deeper is that what I just said isn't entirely true. Because of how unsecure the Gen 1 games are, you can make any Pokemon shiny. What you do is take a normal Pokemon from a walking encounter and perform some memory manipulation via overflow glitch to produce the stats required to be shiny. But this is waaay more complex than most players would go through.
Woah! Thank you so much for the deep dive on this, it’s so interesting. I figured that’s what this was referencing, but having it explained like this definitely makes it a lot clearer ☺️
In XY and oras chain fishing, the chain is not broken unless 1. you miss the timing on the reel in 2. you don't catch or knock it out or 3. you leave the area you can move as much as you want within the area and your chain is still active
I actually did the gen 4 shiny charm glitch, it took 3ish hours just to get my trainer ID and seeker ID matched and another 4 hours to catch the correct clefairy with cute charm. I now have 2ish boxes of shinies lol
8:08 for anyone wondering the max fishing chain is 20 and the odds of encountering a shiny while on a chain of 20 or higher are indeed 1/100 without the shiny charm, and 1/95 with the shiny charm.
My first ever shiny was a shiny Suicune in my cousin's Crystal. I don't have that particular Suicune anymore, but I did hunt it in my Soul Silver and got it almost immediately. Every game where Suicune is huntable, I hunt Suicune first alongside Giratina. So far, the only game I haven't gotten Suicune(or any shiny) in is my Shield...
my very first shiny was a Geodude from a rock smash boulder and I swear it survived using self-destruct for some reason. idk if that was because it has sturdy, but I couldn't find anything on it online.
Here’s a fact I didn’t think you added. Dylan Lefavour won the 2008 TCG world championship with a shiny Mew. That shiny mew was available in the silver boarder world champion booster deck that included a copy of his deck. Can I tell you that light blue looks so clean with that silver boarder. P.S. I only know this because I have the card :P great video
The zoroark thing you mentioned reminds me of arven’s pokemon. They can be shiny, but *only* in the animation of him throwing them out. Once properly in battle, they aren’t
Its crazy to think that in gen 1-5, 1 in 8000 kids saw a shiny as their first pokemon and other kids never ended up seeing a shiny even after playing hundreds of hours
The first and only shiny I've ever found was yesterday in Pokémon Black -- just a totally random full-odds shiny Deerling while getting some for the seasons scientists
Shinies are so prominent now, I even have these graded and stored separate from my other graded cards lol: Shining Magikarp, Gold Star Gyarados, Gold Star Charizard, need Mew and Rayquaza 😢
Here is a list of Pokémon Go shiny odds for further use, if you need them. "Full odds" Wild Pokémon - 1/512 "Perma-Boosted" Wild Pokémon - 1/64 Community day Pokémon - 1/25 Egg Pokémon - 1/64-1/512 (Dependent on Pokémon) 1 Star raids - 1/512 (unless Perma boosted Pokémon, then its 1/64) 3 Star raids - 1/64 4 Star Mega raids - 1/128 5 Star Legendary raids - 1/20 Raid day Pokémon - 1/10 Research Day Pokémon - 1/10 Incense Day Pokémon - 1/64-1/128 Some times wild Pokémon get boosted to 1/256 during certain events, but that is negligible.
Don't quote me on this, but Gen 1 IV transporting had absolutely crazy common chances of getting shiny pokemon. Being able to transport that to newer games is a pain, though.
My first shiny was a Zigzagoon I found near Mr. Briney's house in Ruby. I didn't know what a shiny was at the time, so I ran like any other wild encounter. A couple days later I found out what the weird color meant, and spent the next few hours running around that patch of grass hoping I'd find it again 😭 20+ years later I still have that save file and no shiny Zigzagoon...
9:42 That is how I got my very first shiny pokemon charmander the day Pokémon gold and silver came out. I just wanted a charmander on my team along with the other 3 starters. But when I first traded charmander over it was purpleand we had no idea why. Nobody Did at least for a couple weeks. You have to remember not everybody had a computer and if they did it's another gamble if they had internet. Or not.
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I added several points to this iceberg that I thought would be interesting as well as omitting points if there wasn't sufficient enough information to speak to it. Feel free to correct anything I got incorrect in the comments. There was a decent amount to cover, so i'm sure something slipped through the cracks. My typical style of content isn't going anywhere, just wanted to make something for the sake of having fun. Gotta make stuff to clear the mental sometimes, y'know?
Enjoy :)
Finally found my shiny type null while watching this
@@austinshirley4253 congrats!!!!
fun fact: EVERY toxicroak in the anime is still colored wrong. alllll the way up to Pokémon Journeys. they ALL look like the psuedo shiny. Saturns was just seen first.
oooo that’s actually really interesting! appreciate the clarification on this ☺️
On a similar note, Giovanni's Persian in the anime more closely matches its shiny appearance in the games.
My favorite pokemon all time
its really funny, bc of the recent leak all anime reference sheets until bw were leaked and can confirm toxicroak is colored wrong *in* the refence sheet! with the a picture of the normal colored toxicroak in the top right LMAO
the luckiest thing to ever happen to me in my life was finding 2 full odds shiny budews within 30 minutes of each other in platinum
I think I have you beat. A Wooper and a Quagsire within three encounters of one another in the same location. Same nature. Nearly the same IVs. I leveled the Wooper two levels up and evolved it to compare the two. Most of the stats were the same. Different abilities though.
That’s insane!
Wooper is such a good shiny!
My luckiest Shiny moment was coincidentally with the first shiny I ever caught/encountered! I was playing a Platinum nuzlocke and I ran into a shiny Geodude as a completely legitimate encounter - it was *actually* the 1st encounter on that route/area - didn't even need to use the "shiny clause" that some people opt to play with.
I remember my very first shiny was a Tentacool in Pokémon Ruby. This was back in 2007-08 and I didn’t have access to the internet like we do now, so I remember keeping it in a box and never evolving or even leveling it up cause I was so scared the color change was a glitch and would revert to normal colors lmao
this is such a wholesome memory aw thank you for sharing!!
I have seen so many stories of people thinking shinies were just a glitch and then killing it
Pokémon emerald doesn’t act like the internal battery is dry. It still has time based events. What makes emerald broken is the seed never changes when you reset. It is always 0 so all frames across all games will be the same only differing in shininess based off the trainers ID and secret ID
Suggests taking a shot everytime he says shiny & then says shiny 8 times in the next 60 seconds, this is what true evil looks like guys
all jokes aside this video is really well made & I hope it continues to reach a wider audience :)
I appreciate this comment tons!
For Let's Go, it was found that the Catch Combo boost applies to the next Pokemon of that chain that spawns only, so after it spawns you would need to catch another to get another shiny boosted spawn!
Ahhh okay interesting! Thank you for the clarification ☺️
“Take shots every time I say shiny” dude, I’m 2:09 minutes in and can’t take more, in just that small timeframe I counted over 15 shiny, if someone does it to the end I hope they don’t end in ER
Shiny pokemon shiny pokemon shiny pokemon (take three more🙈)
I once found a shiny pidgey as my first ever encounter in crystal...before you could get pokeballs
That’s bruuuuutal
The only full odds shiny I ever found pre gen-5 was a random Mesprit, which is cool, but also kinda weird that from all the possible pokemons it was a roaming legendary
Woahhhhh that’s amazing congrats!!
My only full 1/8000 odds shiny was one that i accidentally found WHILE hunting for a roaming legendary 😂
same here! the first shiny I ever caught was the Mesprit from Platinum. I remember the first time it showed up I was on a road trip with my family, and I was so excited to get a shiny legendary that I screamed and nearly scared my mom so bad that she swerved off the road. safe to say, she wasn't amused when she learned why we nearly crashed... 😅 I've still got the Mesprit in my Pokemon Home!
My first one was Magnemite in gold, BEFORE the red gyarados
someone probably said it already but the first shiny appearance in the anime was when butterfree was trying to find a mate.
I am actually surprised that this video only has 57 views (at the time of watching) Your videos are really high quality man. I hope your break through comes
i appreciate this comment tons! i make these videos for fun i’m just glad people enjoy them at all ☺️
thank you for watching :)
Gained a few more views lol
This comment is aging well
@@paulycrossing well, i'd say you got what you deserved :O congrats!
I mean, when you click on a video that only came out minutes ago, then you have to expect that it has less than 100 views, duh.
18:58 This Is The Happiest Psyduck I've Ever Seen, Misty's Could Never
This psyduck looks like it’s never had a headache lol
@@paulycrossing That Psyduck Got Its Mind On The Right Place/Track
One of my favorite shiny memories was using action replay to really mess with the gen 4 games. I used an "all pokemon shiny" cheat just to see what other shiny pokemon were like, but forgot to initiate it when the game was booting up. At the time i thought, i was fully convinces that i did succesfully initiate the cheat.
The first pokemon I came across was a random shiny goldbat, a pokemon whose normal form i avoid like the plague. I thought "i can probably skip this, ill be seeing loads of shiny golbats." But then something within me changed, and i thought "know what, ill see if i can catch one of each shiny." So i caught it.
Next thing you know my next encounter was not shiny. "What the hell " i thought. I saved the game and attempted again, this time realizing i missed a step where i had to hold both the left and right triggers as the game boots up so the AR could do its thing.
It didnt hit me until after i saw my shiny golbat that i realized i saw an *actual shiny* totally by chance, after being fully convinced it was just a cheat shiny.
Those days as a kid were so much fun... i named that golbat "Goldbat" and never evolved it.
My favourite part of this video is the Banjo Kazooie theme in the background at one stage
it’s kind of a banger
Wait, did we not cover Jiggly Puff? In the early seasons of the anime there is a reoccurring jiggly puff that just wants people to listen to it sing, but everyone falls asleep. Anyway, this Jigglypuff is shiny, you can tell because of its eye color. This jigglypuff appears starting in "The Song of Jigglypuff" which takes place before the Orange Archipelago arch, and before Jhoto, making it the first appearance of a shiny pokemon within the anime.
Good point!!
Being an avid shiny hunter, I believe there was only 2-3 things I didn't know in this whole iceberg. It's cool to learn something new!
18:47 lockstin and gnoggin basically reverse engineered the algorithm that would have generated the vast majority of the shinies from gen 2 - gen 5. There are a couple of pokemon that don't apply like charizard because those were likely manually changed after gen 2 which is why they look different in gen 3, perhaps because they wanted to put the design on the playing cards.
Ohhh interesting! I’ll have to check that out 🥰
dunno if someone else has said it but i'm guessing the gen one shiny lock refers to the fact that non static pokemon cannot have the DVs (stats) to be shiny
that’s what i thought too!
bro sounds like a cutie patootie
jokes aside though this commentary/editing style is really chill and i even learned a couple new things so thanks for that 🙏🙏 hope to see this channel go far
oh stop ittttt🙈
i appreciate this comment a ton! i’m glad you enjoyed and were able to learn a few things as well. i make this videos for fun, so im just glad people find them entertaining at all ☺️
thank you for watching!
Great video :) I learned a surprising amount of things that i didnt know.
The only things I would add are the shiny clothing from the Battle revolution games and the end credits shinies in rumble.
Woah great points!
this was nice, the pressure in this was worth it and you did great!
I appreciate this!!
I LOVE how indepth and detailed the video was and on such an interesting topic. Great job!!
I appreciate the kind words! Thank you for watching :)
Seeing this and actually learning about the TCG gold star pokemon more in detail is great. As a kid I collected cards because of how much I loved the art... and stumbled upon that gold star charizard in the process. Still have it to this day despite not collecting anymore. I really treasure it.
Gold star pokemon are some of my favorite cards. Thank you for sharing that, it’s so wholesome. Have you ever considered getting the card graded at all?
That actually only applies to soft resetting the starters, Game freak forced us to use the masuda method to get the starters you get at the beginning of the game
Thats what i was referring to yeah :)
I think its lame they're shiny locked. I think it should be our choice to avoid hunts like that and not have the option stripped away completely.
22:00 Hey look it’s me.
I drank every time you said the word shiny. I am now in hospital getting my stomach pumped. Thanks Paulycrossing! Was worth it!
Chug chug chug
I drank water every time he said shiny and now I feel great! Thanks Paulycrossing!
Im a man of the people what can I say
I’m glad we’re talking about shiny cards in the tgc; I got a shiny Azumarill card when I was way younger, and she has never been taken out of her x/y mega charizard binder
I never see anyone talk about the gen 4 cute charm glitch anymore, where if you had a certain trainer ID you could have a cute charm pokemon out in front and have absolutely ridiculous shiny odds for wild encounters. It was a really cool thing back in the day
I used to watch hamsterbombs hgss cute charm play through I thought it was the coolest thing
@@paulycrossing yeah me too! Good memories
really enjoyed this vid. cozy and digestible for sure. subbed
Dude you deserve waaaay more recognition! Great video!
i appreciate this tons! I make these videos for fun, i’m just glad people find them enjoyable ☺️
thank you for watching!
Great iceberg! I was surprised to see the shiny Gible and Dratini mentioned, but not the Beldum given by Steven Stone :]
Anyway, it's great stuff!
ahhh good point! i knew there would be certain things i’d miss maybe if i compile enough ill make a follow up ☺️
I always feel so proud that I found two full odd shinies before the rate change in gen 6.
Of course it was Lillipup and Vulaby, but still cool I found em!
I think it would be awesome if there was a “shiny hunter” trainer class you could encounter and battle against
Million dollar idea right there honestly. game freak take notes
oh god the sword and shield shiny wooloo footage is taking me back to the rtgame shiny wooloo hunting streams
I literally know everything about shinies but this was a good history reminder haha
Glad you found it enjoyable!
My first ever shiny was the uncatchable pooch but it was because I hadn’t received any pokeballs yet not because I was shiny hunting the starters. Terrible experience.
That’s brutal. I’m familiar with the uncatchable pooch and have unfortunately met the same fate lol. I hope you at least got the shiny starter eventually! ✨
Finally a Pokemon iceberg for me (I am a very dedicated shiny hunter)
I soft resetted fire red all day for a shiny Charmander as a kid and my mum threw the cart out years later by accident hahah
100% earned a sub for this. I knew all of them, but great content!
I appreciate this!
What a great vid! This is my first time seeing your content and you are super underrated. The only thing I saw wrong in the vid was at 7:26
It was not known for quite some time but the chance of encountering a star sparkle shiny in the wild is WAY more than just 1/16. The true odds are around 1/18,000,000 and there have been only around ~13 to be found. I love your vids and hope to see more!!
woah interesting! i appreciate you for clarifying that, i must’ve missed that while doing research for the vid. thanks for the comment 🥳
No problem! I love your content and will definitely be seeing more. You gained a sub! ❤️
one of my worst shiny encounters was a shiny magikarp, in soul silver…
Brutallll
I remember my first shiny pokemon. A venonat that I caught in Gold Version during the bug catching contest. I didn't know what shiny pokemon were. Just that the Venonat had blue eyes instead of red. I caught it, and won the contest. I was so happy when I found out it was a super rare thing. I named it Blue Eyes and leveled it up on my team, even took it to the elite 4 and won! It was awesome!
I thought I knew everything about shinies, but I learned a couple things today!! I've never heard about the shiny illusion legendary beasts, that's so interesting
When I was younger I had a fire red run in which I caught a shiny voltorb with explosion/selfdestruct, that I found in the power plant. Will never forget it. And in my current fire red run being older, I got a lucky egg on my fourth chansey (tho I encountered way more that fled lol)
Shiny voltorb is such a good shiny ESPECIALLY in leaf green and fire red
Ah yes, the video that explodes your channel, congrats!!! Subscribed :)
I appreciate this comment a ton! I make these videos for fun in my spare time, I’m just happy people find them as enjoyable to watch as they are to make. Thank you for watching ☺️
In Pokémon go odds for community day shinies are 1/20, for raids it depends on the pokemon; legendaries are 1/20, others are 1/64 and for wild pokemon that are NOT shiny locked, its 1/500 for common spawns and 1/64 for rare spawns
Woah thanks for sharing!
@@paulycrossing honestly there’s a little more that I don’t know about too much, but im aware that some raids have higher shiny chances than others but im not sure if its 1/10 or 1/20 for mega raids
My first two full odd shinies were Riolu and Scyther. Both times I waited hours so I could show my cousin what I found
That’s awesome!
yea my first shiny was the impossible poochyena, i remember not really knowing what shinies were or their importance, but i remember just sitting there staring at my screen for like 20min knowing i couldnt catch it
I’ve gotten the pooch a few times while hunting the hoenn starters it’s a bit painful every time lol
Thank you for this. My first shiny Pokemon was full odds Doduo in Pokemon Crystal, caught it in Kanto. I was 10 or 11 years old. It was the same save file I defeated Ho-oh and Lugia without catching them. It was also the same save file my Feraligatr didn't learn "Slash", because I misread it as "Splash". I thought it was so bizarre they would teach my Pokemon such a weak move so late in its levels.
Reading it as “splash” is so funny lol. Thank you for sharing ☺️
Can't believe this doenst have a like 100k + views.
Insane quality, made me remember my first shiny i catched when i was like 8 (it was a pidgey in gold - didnt even realised that the colour is different lmao)
i really appreciate the comment! that’s an extremely wholesome memory, i feel like you never forget your first shiny lol that’s awesome
thank you for watching :)
Having not seen an igglybuff in modern 3d before, seieng a shiny one just float in the wind behind a battle with a Happiny is one memory i hope to never forget. I miss the audio cue 😢
The audio cue was nice for sure
I’ve only ever found 4 shinys while playing through the games. I almost feel lucky as I’ve seen others say that they’ve never found a single wild shiny. I’m no shiny hunter but it was interesting to learn about the history of such a simple yet not so simple aspect of the franchise.
There really is a lot of history surrounding this one mechanic, it’s pretty interesting. I appreciate the comment, thank you for watching 🥳🫶
this is so informative and gives such great context to the entirety of the concept behind shinies
thank u for ur lecture professor 🤝🤝🤝
I remember back in elementary school one of the kids on my bus had a damaged gold star Charizard. Even then the card was worth hundreds if not over a thousand dollars, and I remember being blown away and asking to take a picture lol
The only legit shiny I found was a Wurmple (if that's how you spell it) in Pokémon Emerald. I was so excited.
Shinys used to be special and super rare. Not throwing shade, but it's so...systematic... now it's just kinda blah to me.
Love the idea of think of some kid, back in Gen 2 stumbling across a Shiny in the wild (that's not red garados) and that punchy sound effect and sparkle confusing them along with the off color. Catching it and showing it off at school to the amazement of their friends. All of them bargening their own pokemon trying to trade for it.
So cool.
‘A shiny is a shiny at the end of the day’
I couldn’t agree less with a statement, when the shiny odds are under 1000
I laughed when you said make it a drinking game and accepted the challenge. I gave up quickly 🤣
Chug chug chug
The only one shiny that I found was the uncatchable ahh poochyena before I even know what a shiny is
Brutal
First of all: Absolutely fantastic video!
Second: What happened to Whismaker Jirachi, it is literally one of the most iconic shinys out there…?
(And one of the most expensive ones too…)
Great point! I knew there would be things I would miss just with how massive of a topic shiny pokemon is, but I don’t know how I forgot this one lol. I think I may make a follow up video if there are enough facts to warrant it.
Thank you for watching ☺️
nice long-form video that i was craving
i appreciate this tons! always a pleasure reading one of your comments 🫡
as always, thank you for watching :)
16:26 my mum used to buy us 1 pack of Pokemon cards every week if we were good, one time my brother pulled a shining charizard. It was the rarest card I've ever seen, had 3x stars in the bottom left. Sadly we lost it, it now retails for around $1500-2000
MY GOAT POSTED! AMAZING VIDEO LIKE ALWAYS!!
I LOVE THE BANJO AND KAZOOIE MUSIC!
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The quality of your vid is amazing surprised you only have 1.8k subs ur worth of atleast 500k
I appreciate this a ton! Thank you ☺️
This is a great video to watch while doing the Masuda method ✨
Good luck!
My second shiny ever was a DRATINI in a game of Firered. Full odds, caught it with my second Safari ball and just about screamed.
Amazing video
But I suggest adding the "ultra shiny" as well to the video.
If u never heard of this term - it's a special THIRT shiny animation that was introduced in Sword/Shild. Suppose to be The Shing Among Shiny pokemon. It has a special "blinding" light flash when spawned
Good point !!
My first and only full odds shiny as far as I can remember (been playing for 24 yrs), was Galarian Corsola. Weirdly it was also the first time I saw corsola in this game at all.
Woah interesting! Galarian Corsola is such a neat pokemon imo
12:41 - I really really wish you elaborated on this more for the people who don't already know about it!! Very big missed opportunity! In Colosseum, you didn't know if a shadow pokemon you caught was shiny or not until after you purify it in the Relic Forest.
Thank you for the explanation!
Great Iceberg, well worth watching
glad you enjoyed, thank you!!
Some clarifications on the Gen 1 Shiny Lock portion. Like you said, not all stats match up for Gen 1 Pokemon when they're brought into Gen 2 to be shiny. Where it goes deeper though is that only a few handfuls of Pokemon can actually roll the stats to become shiny in the Gen 1 games. There is a bug involving the CPU timing for generating random values for if a wild encounter will occur, which encounter it will be, and then lastly the stats of the wild encounter. By the time it hits that last part, the algorithm will no longer be randomized. Because of this any walking encounter--cave, tall grass, surfing, etc. cannot be shiny. This means that only fishing encounters, gift Pokemon(starters, Celadon Eevee, Silph Lapras, Game Corner prizes) and static Pokemon(Snorlaxes, Power Plant Voltorbs/Electrodes, Legendary Birds, Mewtwo) can be shiny.
Where the iceberg gets deeper is that what I just said isn't entirely true. Because of how unsecure the Gen 1 games are, you can make any Pokemon shiny. What you do is take a normal Pokemon from a walking encounter and perform some memory manipulation via overflow glitch to produce the stats required to be shiny. But this is waaay more complex than most players would go through.
Woah! Thank you so much for the deep dive on this, it’s so interesting. I figured that’s what this was referencing, but having it explained like this definitely makes it a lot clearer ☺️
In XY and oras chain fishing, the chain is not broken unless
1. you miss the timing on the reel in
2. you don't catch or knock it out
or
3. you leave the area
you can move as much as you want within the area and your chain is still active
interesting thing about lgp/lge is the catch combo shiny odds only apply to the 1st pokemon of that chain to have those increased odds
Oh interesting! Thank you for the comment ☺️
Nice video. I enjoyed it very much.
Thank you! I’m glad to hear you enjoyed it ☺️
I actually did the gen 4 shiny charm glitch, it took 3ish hours just to get my trainer ID and seeker ID matched and another 4 hours to catch the correct clefairy with cute charm. I now have 2ish boxes of shinies lol
Dang that’s impressive! I’ve thought about setting up a save file on my heart gold but it seems daunting lol
Good video Pauly, looking forward to your next upload
i appreciate the kind words! working on a few different projects, so hoping to upload again soon ☺️
This was a really well done video.
Great job🙂👍
i appreciate this thank you!!
8:08 for anyone wondering the max fishing chain is 20 and the odds of encountering a shiny while on a chain of 20 or higher are indeed 1/100 without the shiny charm, and 1/95 with the shiny charm.
My first ever shiny was a shiny Suicune in my cousin's Crystal. I don't have that particular Suicune anymore, but I did hunt it in my Soul Silver and got it almost immediately. Every game where Suicune is huntable, I hunt Suicune first alongside Giratina. So far, the only game I haven't gotten Suicune(or any shiny) in is my Shield...
I think the broken unown odds entry refers to unown having varying shiny odds in gen 3
Ohhhh good point! Unown has had some history lol
banger background music selection
thank you sir 🫡
my very first shiny was a Geodude from a rock smash boulder and I swear it survived using self-destruct for some reason. idk if that was because it has sturdy, but I couldn't find anything on it online.
Here’s a fact I didn’t think you added. Dylan Lefavour won the 2008 TCG world championship with a shiny Mew. That shiny mew was available in the silver boarder world champion booster deck that included a copy of his deck. Can I tell you that light blue looks so clean with that silver boarder.
P.S. I only know this because I have the card :P great video
Dude this is such an interesting fact! I had no clue, I’m gonna look into this more. Thank you for sharing ☺️
The zoroark thing you mentioned reminds me of arven’s pokemon. They can be shiny, but *only* in the animation of him throwing them out. Once properly in battle, they aren’t
awesome vid man, i thought i knew everything about shiny pokemon but apparently not!
i appreciate this! i’m glad you were able to learn something from the video ☺️
thank you for watching :)
I remember coming across an NPC trainer with a shiny Onix in Pokémon Battle Revolution once.
Interesting!
Its crazy to think that in gen 1-5, 1 in 8000 kids saw a shiny as their first pokemon and other kids never ended up seeing a shiny even after playing hundreds of hours
The first and only shiny I've ever found was yesterday in Pokémon Black -- just a totally random full-odds shiny Deerling while getting some for the seasons scientists
I learned something! Very good video
Instructions unclear: currently have alcohol poisoning
Ok that one’s on me
Shinies are so prominent now, I even have these graded and stored separate from my other graded cards lol: Shining Magikarp, Gold Star Gyarados, Gold Star Charizard, need Mew and Rayquaza 😢
Gold Star Rayquaza goes so hard
My first was a golden pidgey in fire red🥲
Here is a list of Pokémon Go shiny odds for further use, if you need them.
"Full odds" Wild Pokémon - 1/512
"Perma-Boosted" Wild Pokémon - 1/64
Community day Pokémon - 1/25
Egg Pokémon - 1/64-1/512 (Dependent on Pokémon)
1 Star raids - 1/512 (unless Perma boosted Pokémon, then its 1/64)
3 Star raids - 1/64
4 Star Mega raids - 1/128
5 Star Legendary raids - 1/20
Raid day Pokémon - 1/10
Research Day Pokémon - 1/10
Incense Day Pokémon - 1/64-1/128
Some times wild Pokémon get boosted to 1/256 during certain events, but that is negligible.
Woah! This is super cool thank you for sharing this. ☺️
New to pokemon, but love all types of videos of pokemon i need to catch up!
Don't quote me on this, but Gen 1 IV transporting had absolutely crazy common chances of getting shiny pokemon. Being able to transport that to newer games is a pain, though.
SOS Chaining was the BEST! I caught so many Bewear trying to exp grind.
My first shiny was a Zigzagoon I found near Mr. Briney's house in Ruby. I didn't know what a shiny was at the time, so I ran like any other wild encounter.
A couple days later I found out what the weird color meant, and spent the next few hours running around that patch of grass hoping I'd find it again 😭
20+ years later I still have that save file and no shiny Zigzagoon...
9:42 That is how I got my very first shiny pokemon charmander the day Pokémon gold and silver came out. I just wanted a charmander on my team along with the other 3 starters. But when I first traded charmander over it was purpleand we had no idea why. Nobody Did at least for a couple weeks. You have to remember not everybody had a computer and if they did it's another gamble if they had internet. Or not.
6:35 SpongeBob and Patrick moment.
I'm a huge shiny fan and i didnt know about some of these things!! ty for the info :)