I agree. Shiny locking just so they can give you the shiny in some random event is lame. I don’t get why they can’t just remove it and let people decide if they want the be stuck at the start or play the game normally.
@@THGMR-ox7sd Because those are the same kind of people who think that the games shouldnt have things like the Battle Frontier, because players wont play em and play mobile games instead, lmao
I'm eternally grateful for the shiny sparkle. Two shinies that I randomly found in gen 4 were Flaaffy and Smoochum, both of which are not very distinct and I probably would have just ran from if I didn't see the sparkle effect.
1:14 Hold it right there! That’s footage of Crystal that’s been grayscaled! You can tell because of Celebi’s animation, and because wild Celebi can only be encountered in Crystal version which was exclusive to the GB Color only!
@@megaspacewaffles I really have to explain? Between my comment and the one I replied too and the video, how do you still need context 🫣. If someone doesn't know something so simple and massively known, there's a chance their full of it and making content about things they don't know. I obviously gave it a chance and left it as a simple oversight.
Something I'd like to add is the rare phenomena of a double shiny encounter in the same horde of pokemon. Back when X/Y was first being hunted in, there were a few people posing online who found two shinies in a horde of five while shiny hunting. It's super rare but a shame that you can only throw a pokeball at a single pokemon, and are forced to choose one to faint
Kinda not really It's just pulling a (assuming charm odds) 1/273 then pulling a 1/341. Basically 1/93k or 1/341 per single shiny in a single outbreak. It's honestly not as rare as we may have thought it's probably just placebo and that there's so many more people hunting today than 10 years ago
Imagine finding two or more shinies in your horde and excitedly leaving your game on to consult the internet as long and hard as possible to try and find a way to capture both or all of them and instead returning to find you didn't leave your game plugged in and it died
While it's not exactly a case of shiny Pokemon being *stronger* than non-shinies, in at least one Mystery Dungeon game, shiny Pokemon would have double the Belly stat of non-shinies, giving them an edge when exploring.
I have a shiny Spinda. I literally have a Pokemon that is very unique. Like...absolutely unique to the point that even if people were to shiny hunt Spinda, it will never be the same as mine. Thats awesome
@@va8013 how on earth would I prove it on a RUclips comments section? I can tell you what their exact PID is tho it's 00000008 (just figured that out 5 minutes ago) so if you know how the gen 4 games work that will probably let you figure out how that happened. Also if you find 1 shiny spinda there is a 100% chance that if you find the same spinda pattern it will be shiny again in the same save file so it's not really as rare as it's made out to be (still ridiculously rare using normal methods).
Small correction: The Shiny Charm doesn't double your chances for a shiny it adds two additional rolls to the personality value check, effectively tripling it, making it a 3/8192 chance in B2W2 (or ~1/2731) and 3/4096 in Gen VI and beyond (or ~1/1365)
@@NeCoruptionit's all bs man. You ever SEEN the shiny charm roll 3 times or 2 times?? Nah. In reality shiny Pokémon is a 50/50 chance. It's either shiny or it ain't.
@@royrogers4468you are confusing probability with possibility. thats like saying the chances of waking up with a million dollars in your bank account tomorrow are 50/50 odds
Ash’s Gengar is actually the correct color for gen 1-4, every regular gengar sprite from Plat or hg/ss and on were just changed to be way darker than they were supposed to be for seemingly no reason
As someone who _has_ shiny hunted once or twice before, yes, Shiny Hunting _is_ kind of a waste of time... But you gotta respect the commitment, y'know? Finally getting a Shiny is a very rewarding experience.
I've been shiny hunting towards a Shiny Living Dex since 2014, I'm focusing on Gens 1-6 and currently have 604/718. Making a big push to hunt what I can before Pokemon Bank goes down!
Gg and Gl! I just started a shiny living dex last year in October, and I'm focused on the legendaries and any mythical I can get my hands on 😅 I'm so grateful Bank's still up!
It's really bad that Pokémon Bank might go down anytime. So definitely a smart move to focus on pre-switch titles before your Pokémon get trapped. Good luck with your hunts!
For completeness, for NPC shinies you could add the NPC trades in Legends Arceus. For example, if you give the NPC a shiny Wurmple they will always have the shiny for the rest of the game, including its evolutions.
About Arceus- As of PLA, we now know that the form of Arceus that we are able to catch and battle is a fragment of Arceus's true form. It's an avatar of sorts, so Arceus might just send a shiny form of it's fragment of power for us(the player) to capture. We don't know what Arceus's real form is like, just a deliberately-shaped vessel that carries its name. To add onto this, Arceus as the parent and creator of the creation and lake trios allows for shiny Giratina/Palkia/Dialga as well as Uxie/Mesprit/Azelf to exist without being a paradox. Arceus simply makes a new, independent instance of a Pokemon its created before, as seen by the Sinjoh Ruins event in HG/SS. About Mewtwo- Mew was one of the initial lifeforms that became other species of pokemon. It's the common ancestor of(almost) every single species to ever exist. As it's the single common ancestor, a shiny Mewtwo being cloned from a shiny Mew is most likely, as there were more Mew in the past than the present. Or it's shiny isn't a result of shiny Mew DNA at all amd is merely a mutation, as there were multiple Mewtwos, most of them just failed to thrive. I feel like this is also supported by the fact that the other clones that Mewtwo made of Pokemon such as Charizard do not look like exact copies of the Pokemon they were cloned from, with brand-new markings on their bodies that were likely a mutation, if not intentional. Just my 2 cents lol. Pokemon is notoriously inconsistent with lore and stuff, so of course not all of it will make any sense.
I saw a headcanon once where a person said that the reason shiny Pokémon shine is because they use the sound as an intimidation tactic against predators. But, once a trainer catches it, it is so proud of its different coloring that it keeps making the sound when entering battle.
I lost a shiny Chimecho in Legends Arceus, and a shiny Dratini in Violet after he went underwater and despawned. but that luck was reversed when I hatched two shiny Cottonees back to back a few days later. :D
For some added context to the shiny costumes in Battle Revolution, the manuals did say there were shiny costumes, but it's a very difficult hunt, though I'm not aware of many specifics. Also, if you get the costume once, then you can not get it again, even if it's shiny. The first one successfully obtained by a player was, to my knowledge, a shiny Groudon costume found in 2022 (but I think someone saw it before but couldn't get it). That's why you wouldn't be able to find many of them.
The thing I hate most about the non-distinguishable shinies is the fact that there's NO REASON for them to still be like this. In the older games, they used a color filter to alter the colors of shiny Pokemon, which is why most of them look terrible, and why certain Pokemon have barely any difference. But they don't use that method anymore... The shiny versions have completely different texture files. So that means Pokemon like Calyrex were INTENDED to barely any different! Pokemon like Flabebe at least have an excuse, since the flower itself isn't part of the Pokemon... But seriously, they need to do something about this.
Great video, was a cool surprise to see my april fools joke in here! Some additions I think are worth mentioning: 1) Gen 5 is not the first gen that included shiny locks. In fact Gen 2 were technically the first games to include shiny locks, since all NPC trades in these games are shiny-locked. Most people think about Gen 5 first when they hear the term "shiny lock" - since the cover legends are obviously locks people care a lot about, but technically we had shiny-locked Pokemon already in the very early days of Pokemon. Most just didn't care that a NPC trade Onix is locked when you can hunt it somewhere else via random encounters. 2) Johto shiny Pokemon can be found in Gen 1. In fact 99 of the 100 Johto mons can be obtained and shiny hunted in Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow (all except Celebi). There is a lot that goes into how and why that is possible, but I think it's incredibly neat that you can shiny hunt Pokemon like Totodile or Lugia already in Generation 1 if you want to.
It's nice to have you here! That was sure an April Fools a lot of people fell for (and a very smart one). I actually wasn't aware that Johto Pokémon are somehow shiny huntable in Gen 1 (I guess it has to do something with the slots for Pokémon that were empty or with Missingno.) Have an awesome day!
Looking for a Blue Gyarados happened to me at the Lake of Rage. Some months before, I caught the shiny static Gyarados. I knew the Lake of Rage was one of the easiest to find Magikarp family. My first Gyarados with Gen 4 full odds, after fishing up Magikarp, was a level 20 Red Gyarados. It was my first full-odd in a Gen 4 game. What bad luck? I have found two Red Gyarados at the Lake of Rage on the same copy.
Several years ago I tried to replay Pokemon Black, so I started a new file. My Snivy ended up being a shiny, and I was so excited about it... But what they DON'T tell you is that you can't overwrite an existing save by starting a new game. In order to erase the file you need to do the button combo on the title screen. For whatever reason GameFreak decided it was okay for you to still be able to click the "New Game" button even if you have an existing save, but wouldn't let you save it. I lost that Shiny full odds Snivy and I'm still furious about it to this day.
Shiny Arceus has a better explanation, when you complete the Dex in PLA, you can challenge Arceus, and after passing his trial, he will say something along the lines of giving you a portion of his power to accompany you in your journeys, leading to you gaining a playable Arceus, this leads to a series of implications, like that every single instance of a playable Arceus in the series has been an avatar of Arceus rather than it being proper full power Arceus, that Arceus is legitimately far more powerful than his gameplay stats suggest, something obvious if you really think about it but it is really nice to have a solid confirmation, and so on, this also suggests that a Shiny Arceus is... simply an avatar that the true Arceus decided to make Shiny, quite literally, god willed it to happen, why that is the case? who knows, it's hard to tell the whims of an omnipotent space llama.
Amazing take on the Shiny Arceus topic. I spoke about how the Arceus we can catch is just a portion of the real entity, but it never crossed my mind when making this video. Thanks for watching, and have an awesome day!
Seeing the streamer get two shinies back-to-back, made me think of when i was a kid, playing Pokémon ruby, and i caught a shiny lotad and shroomish, one right after the other trying to level up my starter and zigzagoon.
shiny zapdos is kind of criminal. the jump to 3D absolutely ravaged a nice chunk of shinies - zapdos being one. the gens 3 and 5 sprites are beautiful.
To add to the Battle Revolution costumes, we knew that they existed all the way back when the game launched because images of them were shared in the official strategy guide, however no one knew how to obtain them. It was only last year IIRC that someone figured it out, where you have to get all the way to the colosseum boss under certain conditions, then they would have the standard Gen 4 shiny odds applied to their costume. If you beat them, you’d get their shiny costume to use. If you already beat them in their standard costume, you miss out on the chance to get the shiny entirely. I believe only Groudon and possibly Marill have been found so far (or at least documented)
As someone working on a shiny living dex, I have over 720 unique shinies in my pokemon Home boxes right now. I have more if we count duplicates that aren't unique entries to my living dex. I've done both the manaphy and the wishmaker jirachi hunts, as well as hunt for gen 1 eevee. As for the iceburg, surprised that battle revolution wasn't on here except for the costumes. The rental battle pass you get in the start can have shinies on it. I'm also a fan of the fact that in gen 2 due to how shininess and gender are determined, a pokemon with a 7:1 male/female gender ratio can never be both female and shiny at the same time.
That's an impressive feat, basically the number of Pokémon that existed in Generation 6. I hope you get more shinies, and it's an advantage that you already caught 2 of the most difficult ones. Good luck on your hunts!
When I was a kid playing fire red, I found a shiny rhyhorn in the safari zone and i was lucky enough to catch it too… while I regret losing my gameboy with my game in it, I will never forget it as the first shiny Pokémon I have ever seen.
41:54, funny how Arceus is another easily explainable shiny. In Legends: Arceus when we obtain Arceus, it’s explained that the Arceus you receive isn’t the God Arceus but just a sliver of the power of the true God Arceus. So, it can be explained away that the Arceus that you fight in DPP/BDSP is not the true God Arceus but just a sliver of the true God Arceus and that sliver can have the chance to be shiny
There’s a clip of a guy in gen 4 getting a shiny and while running back to the box to look at it, first wild encounter is another shiny. So legit back to back
Ultra Shiny was actually a trademark filed due to the Pokemon TCG. In Japan, there was a set called GX Ultra Shiny, featuring a lot of the Ultra Beasts in their shiny variation. Hence the name. People were just looking too far into it.
Interesting! I wasn't convinced that the Ultra referred to the Pokémon with square animation, but I definitely didn't know it was about TCG. Greetings!
I still have my very first shiny that I caught nearly 14 years ago. It was a male shinx I caught at the valley wind works. I was a kid and couldn't spell very well so I named him GLITTR. He's a Luxury now, and was travelled all the way up to my Brilliant Diamond copy. I also randomly got a full odds shiny snover in the same game I caught GLITTR in as well (though not the same save file). I also got one more shiny Pokémon that was random and full odds, which was a golbat that I stumbled upon in Alpha Sapphire. I have other shiny Pokémon, but I hunted for those ones. My luxray, snover, and golbat were all organically encountered so they feel a bit more special to me.
"It's a pain you don't easily forget" flashes back to when I missed my first shiny ever, tentacool, because I ran away from it thinking it was glitched. This was 16 years ago.
Back when X and Y were the most recent games I Friend I used to play competitively with hatched two Shiny Froakies in a row. The first one had Torrent while the 2nd had Protean
Here's another shiny fun fact, but Raichu had a palette swap done between Gens 2 and 3. If you look at old Raichu in the anime and in Gen 2, it was a very dark orange color, now it's more of a lighter, almost gold color, which was what the shiny coloration was in Gen 2. In Gen 3, the gold became the normal Raichu and the shiny became the og orange color of Raichu, so if you're a fan of the anime, hunting a shiny Raichu is like having an og Gen 1-2 Raichu.
@@NopeNope-mh4tyI think he means that one time where someone found a shiny Giratina in a Gen 4 game after days of resetting and when it finally appeared, the game froze.
This is a pretty sick video. I've been playing pokemon for a while and am an avid shiny hunter. I've been shiny hunting since roughy 2016 and pretty much exclusively on gen 6 and 7 games. I usually play pokemon in bursts where I play the game a bunch for a while and then take a long break. It wasn't until this recent stint of me playing where I realized I've accumulated over 100 shiny pokemon and the shiny living dex seems in my grasp. Excluding extra copies I have: 63 shinies on my copy of Pokemon X 13 shinies on my copy of Omega Ruby 43 shinies on my copy of Ultra Moon Making 119 total! Some of my favorite methods are horde hunts, dex nav chaining, chain fishing, and soft resetting. I've got a handful of legendaries. My least favorite method is by far the masuda method as I hate hatching eggs and I had a hunt that went almost 4 times odds (1800 eggs) for a shiny froakie.
I’ve had such luck finding shinnies randomly in pokemon violet post-game. I have the shiny charm and its unintentionally been coming clutch, like I haven’t even been hunting
I've also been finding quite a few random shinies in that game but I don't even have the shiny charm. I've found that area zero usually has at least 1 random shiny when I go down there, don't know why tho
Footage for the double shiny freeze can be found in HamsterBomb's Cute Charm series, in which he uses the Cute Charm glitch to try and catch every available shiny pokemon. Also, it doesn't always softlock, it depends on the timings of the animations of the Pokemon. It seems to happen if the shiny sparkles for both Pokemon land on the same frame.
Re: shiny roaming Pokemon, you have to save before they are released (before seeing the TV for the Latis, before stepping onto the lowest stairs in the tower basement for beasts, etc.)
very well made video as always!! one thing that was sorr of briefly mentioned was rng manipulation, specifically in pokemon emerald. that could be a whole iceberg in it of itself but thought id mention it since its facinating stuff! keep up the great content man :))
4:33 - lobsters are only red after being cooked. Lobsters are a bluish/grey colour when they're alive thanks to the Cyanoglobin (copper-based compound) in their blood.
Great video! Although I just wanna add that in Pokémon colosseum, the NPCs shadow Pokémon CAN be shiny, but these odds re-roll when you catch it, so it most likely won't be anymore after the battle. However this means that it can be shiny when you catch it even if the NPCs one isn't as you explained :)
Just a correction. Pokemon Colosseum doesn't REROLL the data for the pokemon. What happens is that the first time you see the pokemon, it's PID is LOCKED, and it's made to not be shiny for the OPPONENT's TID. When you catch it, it keeps the same PID, and there's a full odds chance that your specifically TID/SID is compatible with that PID to be shiny, since your TID/SID combo is most likely different from your opponent's. That aside, the opponent's TID/SID is also rolled every time you battle them depending on the frame you hit, so you could theoretically battle them, lock the PIDs, lose the battle, then re-battle them and have the opponent summon them as a shiny, because the Pokemon's PID was locked for the first TID/SID of the opponent, not the new one. Because of that, you can either: 1: Battle the opponent for the first time and find their pokemon aren't shiny, and still aren't shiny when you catch them (Most common situation). 2: Battle the opponent for the first time and find their pokemon aren't shiny, but they ARE shiny when you catch them (your TID/SID matches the 1/8192 chance). 3: Battle the opponent for the first time, lose after the pokemon appears, then re-battle them and they ARE shiny for the opponent, but not you (Your opponent's TID/SID matches on the second battle, but not yours). 4: Battle the opponent for the first time, lose after the pokemon appears, then re-battle them and they are shiny for the opponent AND for you when you catch them (Both your opponent's new TID/SID and your TID/SID match. Rarest option and outside RNG manipulation it's extremely unlikely to ever happen). I actually did a full colosseum run catching all shadow pokemon as shiny, so most info related to them kinda got burned into my brain permanently.
Because they weren't, no matter how much patterns you think you see. There's no consistency in that idea, as they didn't just apply a slider on the color for almost gen 1 Pokemon. There are plenty of them that were the same color but turned out way off on the color wheel. There are videos on this already
My worst shiny fail was Ho-oh back in Soul Silver. My Meganium decided to hit with a critical at the right moment. Why didnt I use a Masterball? I was hoping to save it for another hunt. Why didnt I use False Swipe? I didnt had any back then. I swear, everything was calculated then BAM critical. 💀
Everything that could go wrong, went wrong. It happened to me with that shiny Mewtwo. False Swipe, got it to sleep, ultra balls until it ran out of PP. I didn't have a Master Ball, so no choice to see him struggle until the end. Greetings!
@@RealEisenBerg I got a shiny Mewtwo. Its from the 2016 event for participating in an online VGC competition. I didnt hunt for it but a shiny is a shiny. 😅
I think shiny hunting is a relaxing way to pass time. I usually just do a small amount at a time, like 100 encounters or something like that. I don't have hours to spend on it, but 100 encounters a day does add up reasonably fast. It's easy to do something else at the same time such as watch TV or chat with friends, you just have to be sure to pay attention to each encounter so you don't reset over it or run.
In gen 3, roamers are set at specific points before you can even search for them. Theyre sorta "psuedo statics" like that. In RSE its post Elite 4 after interacting with the TV, and in FrLg its after giving the Ruby and Sapphire to the scientist on the Sevii islands-- the one that allows you to trade with RSE
I have 899 shinies. As for Pokemon where there is technically only one, I think this is linked to the Pokémon multiverse, so when reset the game while shiny hunting, you're resetting your universe.
Also a easy way to prove the forest double shiny crash is using a emulator to make all wild pokemon shiny, ive seen the game crash because they are both shiny myself
Of note is that you can only get ONE Manaphy egg from a copy of Pokemon Ranger, FOREVER. You have to get an entirely new copy of Pokemon Ranger that's never been played/had the special mission completed if you want another egg. The only way to use the same cart of Ranger again is to use a program to completely wipe out all of the save data, which some shiny hunters might consider cheating. There might also be a way to purposefully corrupt the save data.
So, gen 1 didn't have shiny Pokémon. Pokemon stadium would sometimes have different color pokemon, but they of course didn't have the sparkle, and you could force any pokemon to change their pallettes through nicknaming. A lot of pokemon would have more than one pallatte as well
I didn't start shiny hunting seriously until sword and shield. Before that I think I only caught a shiny pidgey in fire red. But nowadays I have almost 40 shiny pokemon across all my games
Here's my shinies for your research. All of these are in Pokemon Moon, some with and without a shiny charm. Without, I've gotten Exeggcute (169 enc), Caterpie (77 enc), Growlithe (58 enc), and Two shiny oricorio (392 and 106 enc). With the Shiny Charm, Trapinch (36 enc), Two shiny Feebas (133 enc, 422 enc), and Two shiny cubone (16 and 569 enc). I also got a shiny Virizion in Pokemon Black on 422 soft resets, but on an emulator. Right now, I'm shiny hunting in Heartgold Soulsilver for a shiny starter and at 400 encounters and counting. Hope this helps!
I remember playing Silver back in 2001 on my old school Game Boy. I didn't realize other pokemon than Gyarados could shine. I was biking in Kanto and encountered a Grimer that had the shine animation. I didn't catch it but I sat there wondering what I had just encountered. Same thing happened in Johto with a Pidgey.
In Colosseum the trainers can in fact have shiny Pokemon, the problem is that when you catch it, the Pokemon is rerolled, so if it was shiny for the NPC and it's still shiny after you catch it, you've just gotten a back to back shiny. Shadow Pokemon are locked in XD: Gale of Darkness, whereas the starter Eevee, gift, trade, and wild Pokemon aren't, while the opposite is true in Colosseum where the starters and every non-shadow Pokemon are locked. Another thing of note is that second encounter battles in Colosseum are set, so you cannot shiny hunt those.
"I lost a shiny because I was playing in italian". I swear, that sounds like a Family Guy throwaway gag or something. Also, I need a backstory as to why you were playing USUM in Italian lmao.
Some texturing glitches in Pokemon ScarVio have made me want to see hybrid shiny Pokemon. The glitch was a Luxray that was blue on one side and yellow on the other, and it made me think of Pokemon with something like vitiligo. They could do a thing like Spinda and have the shiny colored patches be randomly generated (but Spinda must be a pain to deal with, so maybe just have a set pattern or handful of patterns.)
Back in the days, my first 2nd Gen shiny appeared in my first casual Gen2 playthrough. I was in a cave and encountered a shiny zubat, but I did not have any pokeballs on me. Since then, I have always double-checked.
The Odd Egg section brushed off some important informations.... In the Japanese version of Crystal, the Odd Egg could only be obtained with the Egg Ticket which was an event item, but the odds of having a shiny was as high as 50%. In the International versions HOWEVER, the odd egg was hardcoded into the game so you receive it no matter what. But the chances of hatching a shiny were reduced to 15%.
Small point but it is a significant difference, you don’t need to catch all Pokemon in the dex to get the shiny charm you just need to register them so see them in battle, no need to catch or even knock out
your videos got me through 11th grade bro. love your content keep it up and please please do as much pokemon content as possible! id love a tcg iceberg video like nescretros blackstar promo video.
Two corrections on this video: one I think the improved shines are talking about how shinies like cumbuskin were improved in later generations, second the arceus we have isn’t arceus but it’s simply a part of him as told to us in legends arceus so the shiny arceus makes sense, the other mythicals and legendaries I have no clue. For my own shiny stories I had a full odds random shiny grubbin that I used for my whole playthrough in moon but then it and several other of my beloved mons got destroyed in a save data corruption issue, that same issue lead to me shiny hunting ho-oh twice one being lost and the second transferring to scarlet
What kills me about shiny locks.. is theres some kid out there on 100k resets because they dont know better. They dont tell you its locked and if you avoid online content because if spoilers, you probably wont know better
Been Shiny hunting for many years now. I currently have 2,142 Shinies, including a Shiny Galarian Farfetch'd I've yet to move out of GO, but do plan to.
Honestly a big part of this video left me sour. A lot of the times you simply just explained the title of what you were pointing out, but never went into detail. The one that irked me the most was when you were talking about the april fools blue gyarados at the lake of rage. At the end, you simply just said that someone who knew the game well enough explained why the event managed to happen, then you moved on. I would've really loved to hear about it. Don't be afraid to delve deeper into a subject, gives more understanding.
Ive failed two shinies since i only just began hunting them last year. One was a piplup in PLA that somehow saw me through the grass i was crouching in, ran off, and then poofed away. The second was a bidoof on route 201 while i was grinding up piplup, i didnt have any pokeballs. Painful. Painful, agony inducing.
I've never gone so hard with shiny hunting until Scarlet and Violet. But it's only cause they made it easy. I don't mind the old way. But I doubt I'd do it as much back then since I've only attempted it 5 times.
Also in regards to mythical shiny Pokémon, I believe Arceus created clones of himself and other Pokémon for alternate universes. Since these universes are infinite, I wouldn't be surprised if at least some mythical Pokémon are shiny in their own respective universes.
love the vid, one thing that would be nice is if you could read out some of the examples (not all, but like 3 or 4. like this vid, the name of the pokemon and about what is different, etc). i (and many other people) listen to the audio in the background while doing work, it gets a little annoying to check the video.
You're right, I think there are 2 parts where I don't read and only used text. Next video, I'll make sure I both put text and read it. Greetings, and thanks a lot for watching!
21:35 Actually you can catch shiny Battle Tower pokemon in Ruby and Sapphire without cheats. There is a glitch involving the roaming Lati@s which allows you to do this in only those games, not FRLG or Emerald.
So about the Shiny Fails... In Pokémon Moon, I failed a Shiny Petilil because I fainted it with the Flamethrower from my Zoroark, I didn’t notice that it was Shiny until the game showed it fainting; its eyes were of other color, purple, the color of its eyes when Shiny. Also failed a Shiny Tauros by accidentally running away from it when I meant to click my Bag. I reclaimed both Shinies eventually so all is good lol In Alpha Sapphire, I have four Shiny Drapion that I hunted myself. Two of them I transfered them from my Pokémon Y game and I love all four them so much. My favorite Poison Type 😎
Love the vid, but there's a small detail I'd like to address if I may. You mentioned pokemon being called "Shiny Pokemon" because of the twinkle animation being present after gen 2. While it is true that fans started calling them shinies for that very reason, the official term for these Pokemon was "Oddly colored Pokemon." In fact, Pokemon wouldn't adopt the phrase "shiny" until generation 5.
My first ever shiny was a Machop in sapphire. I thought something was wrong with my game because it was a different color, so I turned my gameboy off. I didn’t even know it was shiny and I still have that pain. Made up for it later by encountering back to back shiny wild mudbrays in ultra sun :)
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Shiny locking Pokemon just to release them as an event distribution (or never released at all) is one of the most stupid shit in Pokemon.
Basically, an award for doing nothing. Thanks for watching!
I agree.
Shiny locking just so they can give you the shiny in some random event is lame.
I don’t get why they can’t just remove it and let people decide if they want the be stuck at the start or play the game normally.
it feels intentionally out of touch, but then again so do in-person events in general
@@THGMR-ox7sd Because those are the same kind of people who think that the games shouldnt have things like the Battle Frontier, because players wont play em and play mobile games instead, lmao
Reminder that they started shiny locking the starters when it was the easiest to soft reset for them 😊
I'm eternally grateful for the shiny sparkle. Two shinies that I randomly found in gen 4 were Flaaffy and Smoochum, both of which are not very distinct and I probably would have just ran from if I didn't see the sparkle effect.
Absolutely, Pokémon that are barely distinguishable without the spark effect would go unnoticed. Greetings!
1:14 Hold it right there! That’s footage of Crystal that’s been grayscaled! You can tell because of Celebi’s animation, and because wild Celebi can only be encountered in Crystal version which was exclusive to the GB Color only!
I almost left this video because of that. Everyone knows gen 1 didn't have shiny sparkles
@@NeCoruptionleft the video? But what exactly did he do wrong?
@@megaspacewaffles I really have to explain? Between my comment and the one I replied too and the video, how do you still need context 🫣. If someone doesn't know something so simple and massively known, there's a chance their full of it and making content about things they don't know.
I obviously gave it a chance and left it as a simple oversight.
@@NeCoruptionyeah, it didn't, but GEN 2 is compatible with the GB, so that's why they implemented sparkles
Something I'd like to add is the rare phenomena of a double shiny encounter in the same horde of pokemon. Back when X/Y was first being hunted in, there were a few people posing online who found two shinies in a horde of five while shiny hunting. It's super rare but a shame that you can only throw a pokeball at a single pokemon, and are forced to choose one to faint
Kinda not really
It's just pulling a (assuming charm odds) 1/273 then pulling a 1/341. Basically 1/93k or 1/341 per single shiny in a single outbreak.
It's honestly not as rare as we may have thought it's probably just placebo and that there's so many more people hunting today than 10 years ago
I feel like you didn't watch the first 45 seconds lmao there were 5 shiny goons
I think it would be worse to encounter double shinies in Diamond/Pearl/Platinum during the part where you’re going through the forest with Cheryl.
Imagine finding two or more shinies in your horde and excitedly leaving your game on to consult the internet as long and hard as possible to try and find a way to capture both or all of them and instead returning to find you didn't leave your game plugged in and it died
While it's not exactly a case of shiny Pokemon being *stronger* than non-shinies, in at least one Mystery Dungeon game, shiny Pokemon would have double the Belly stat of non-shinies, giving them an edge when exploring.
I thought shinys had worse stats than regular?
I have a shiny Spinda.
I literally have a Pokemon that is very unique. Like...absolutely unique to the point that even if people were to shiny hunt Spinda, it will never be the same as mine.
Thats awesome
That sounds like a challenge
I have one too that i caught on Emerald many years ago and that fact that you stated makes it even more cool.
I have 2 identical shiny spinda. Without hacking.
@@roadrunner5549do u have proof?
@@va8013 how on earth would I prove it on a RUclips comments section? I can tell you what their exact PID is tho it's 00000008 (just figured that out 5 minutes ago) so if you know how the gen 4 games work that will probably let you figure out how that happened. Also if you find 1 shiny spinda there is a 100% chance that if you find the same spinda pattern it will be shiny again in the same save file so it's not really as rare as it's made out to be (still ridiculously rare using normal methods).
Small correction: The Shiny Charm doesn't double your chances for a shiny it adds two additional rolls to the personality value check, effectively tripling it, making it a 3/8192 chance in B2W2 (or ~1/2731) and 3/4096 in Gen VI and beyond (or ~1/1365)
Who told you it adds 2 rolls? It adds 1. It's doh le the odds and very well known to be.
@@NeCoruptionit's all bs man. You ever SEEN the shiny charm roll 3 times or 2 times?? Nah. In reality shiny Pokémon is a 50/50 chance. It's either shiny or it ain't.
@@royrogers4468 no, it's Def not 50/50 that's wild, and yes, you can see the code of the game that generates the rolls. That's how we know about it.
@@royrogers4468you are confusing probability with possibility. thats like saying the chances of waking up with a million dollars in your bank account tomorrow are 50/50 odds
@@NeCoruption its very well known to triple the odds. look it up homie, you obviously havent looked up the source code. everyone knows about it
Ash’s Gengar is actually the correct color for gen 1-4, every regular gengar sprite from Plat or hg/ss and on were just changed to be way darker than they were supposed to be for seemingly no reason
Ye I have a shiny Gengar in platinum and it's very noticable
@@roadrunner5549 oddly enough the colors were fine in d/p
As someone who _has_ shiny hunted once or twice before, yes, Shiny Hunting _is_ kind of a waste of time... But you gotta respect the commitment, y'know? Finally getting a Shiny is a very rewarding experience.
I've been shiny hunting towards a Shiny Living Dex since 2014, I'm focusing on Gens 1-6 and currently have 604/718. Making a big push to hunt what I can before Pokemon Bank goes down!
Gg and Gl!
I just started a shiny living dex last year in October, and I'm focused on the legendaries and any mythical I can get my hands on 😅
I'm so grateful Bank's still up!
It's really bad that Pokémon Bank might go down anytime. So definitely a smart move to focus on pre-switch titles before your Pokémon get trapped. Good luck with your hunts!
I actually thought it would go down way before, but let's make good use of it before it's gone. Greetings!
For completeness, for NPC shinies you could add the NPC trades in Legends Arceus. For example, if you give the NPC a shiny Wurmple they will always have the shiny for the rest of the game, including its evolutions.
About Arceus- As of PLA, we now know that the form of Arceus that we are able to catch and battle is a fragment of Arceus's true form. It's an avatar of sorts, so Arceus might just send a shiny form of it's fragment of power for us(the player) to capture. We don't know what Arceus's real form is like, just a deliberately-shaped vessel that carries its name. To add onto this, Arceus as the parent and creator of the creation and lake trios allows for shiny Giratina/Palkia/Dialga as well as Uxie/Mesprit/Azelf to exist without being a paradox. Arceus simply makes a new, independent instance of a Pokemon its created before, as seen by the Sinjoh Ruins event in HG/SS.
About Mewtwo- Mew was one of the initial lifeforms that became other species of pokemon. It's the common ancestor of(almost) every single species to ever exist. As it's the single common ancestor, a shiny Mewtwo being cloned from a shiny Mew is most likely, as there were more Mew in the past than the present. Or it's shiny isn't a result of shiny Mew DNA at all amd is merely a mutation, as there were multiple Mewtwos, most of them just failed to thrive. I feel like this is also supported by the fact that the other clones that Mewtwo made of Pokemon such as Charizard do not look like exact copies of the Pokemon they were cloned from, with brand-new markings on their bodies that were likely a mutation, if not intentional.
Just my 2 cents lol. Pokemon is notoriously inconsistent with lore and stuff, so of course not all of it will make any sense.
I saw a headcanon once where a person said that the reason shiny Pokémon shine is because they use the sound as an intimidation tactic against predators. But, once a trainer catches it, it is so proud of its different coloring that it keeps making the sound when entering battle.
How would they produce the sound in the first place? In the end they are just regular pokemon but with another color.
I lost a shiny Chimecho in Legends Arceus, and a shiny Dratini in Violet after he went underwater and despawned. but that luck was reversed when I hatched two shiny Cottonees back to back a few days later. :D
Seeing disappear such random Pokémon is painful. I hope you get them back. Good luck and greetings!
You do know that you can save after finding a Shiny meaning you can never fail it?
For some added context to the shiny costumes in Battle Revolution, the manuals did say there were shiny costumes, but it's a very difficult hunt, though I'm not aware of many specifics. Also, if you get the costume once, then you can not get it again, even if it's shiny.
The first one successfully obtained by a player was, to my knowledge, a shiny Groudon costume found in 2022 (but I think someone saw it before but couldn't get it). That's why you wouldn't be able to find many of them.
Bro I have been watching all your iceberg videos, very entertaining, appreciate the videos!
Thanks a lot for your support. It means a lot, and I hope you enjoyed all the icebergs. See you soon!
The thing I hate most about the non-distinguishable shinies is the fact that there's NO REASON for them to still be like this. In the older games, they used a color filter to alter the colors of shiny Pokemon, which is why most of them look terrible, and why certain Pokemon have barely any difference.
But they don't use that method anymore... The shiny versions have completely different texture files. So that means Pokemon like Calyrex were INTENDED to barely any different! Pokemon like Flabebe at least have an excuse, since the flower itself isn't part of the Pokemon... But seriously, they need to do something about this.
Great video, was a cool surprise to see my april fools joke in here!
Some additions I think are worth mentioning:
1) Gen 5 is not the first gen that included shiny locks. In fact Gen 2 were technically the first games to include shiny locks, since all NPC trades in these games are shiny-locked.
Most people think about Gen 5 first when they hear the term "shiny lock" - since the cover legends are obviously locks people care a lot about, but technically we had shiny-locked Pokemon already in the very early days of Pokemon. Most just didn't care that a NPC trade Onix is locked when you can hunt it somewhere else via random encounters.
2) Johto shiny Pokemon can be found in Gen 1. In fact 99 of the 100 Johto mons can be obtained and shiny hunted in Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow (all except Celebi). There is a lot that goes into how and why that is possible, but I think it's incredibly neat that you can shiny hunt Pokemon like Totodile or Lugia already in Generation 1 if you want to.
It's nice to have you here! That was sure an April Fools a lot of people fell for (and a very smart one). I actually wasn't aware that Johto Pokémon are somehow shiny huntable in Gen 1 (I guess it has to do something with the slots for Pokémon that were empty or with Missingno.)
Have an awesome day!
Looking for a Blue Gyarados happened to me at the Lake of Rage. Some months before, I caught the shiny static Gyarados. I knew the Lake of Rage was one of the easiest to find Magikarp family. My first Gyarados with Gen 4 full odds, after fishing up Magikarp, was a level 20 Red Gyarados. It was my first full-odd in a Gen 4 game.
What bad luck? I have found two Red Gyarados at the Lake of Rage on the same copy.
Several years ago I tried to replay Pokemon Black, so I started a new file. My Snivy ended up being a shiny, and I was so excited about it... But what they DON'T tell you is that you can't overwrite an existing save by starting a new game. In order to erase the file you need to do the button combo on the title screen. For whatever reason GameFreak decided it was okay for you to still be able to click the "New Game" button even if you have an existing save, but wouldn't let you save it.
I lost that Shiny full odds Snivy and I'm still furious about it to this day.
NO WAY IM NOT JOKING SHINY SLAKOTH FULL ODDS HEARTGOLD RIGHT AT THE END OF THE VIDEO
Nice to see new icebergs from you!
Thanks a lot! And there are more to come!
@@RealEisenBerg can`t wait
Shiny Arceus has a better explanation, when you complete the Dex in PLA, you can challenge Arceus, and after passing his trial, he will say something along the lines of giving you a portion of his power to accompany you in your journeys, leading to you gaining a playable Arceus, this leads to a series of implications, like that every single instance of a playable Arceus in the series has been an avatar of Arceus rather than it being proper full power Arceus, that Arceus is legitimately far more powerful than his gameplay stats suggest, something obvious if you really think about it but it is really nice to have a solid confirmation, and so on, this also suggests that a Shiny Arceus is... simply an avatar that the true Arceus decided to make Shiny, quite literally, god willed it to happen, why that is the case? who knows, it's hard to tell the whims of an omnipotent space llama.
Amazing take on the Shiny Arceus topic. I spoke about how the Arceus we can catch is just a portion of the real entity, but it never crossed my mind when making this video. Thanks for watching, and have an awesome day!
Zapdos like "Im already shining thanks"
Seeing the streamer get two shinies back-to-back, made me think of when i was a kid, playing Pokémon ruby, and i caught a shiny lotad and shroomish, one right after the other trying to level up my starter and zigzagoon.
And when the world needed him the most, he returned 🗣️🔥
I actually never went away, it just takes ages to edit the videos! I hope you enjoyed!
You’re glazing too hard 💀
@@JiosWrld Mb lol
@@RealEisenBergid wait a year for your vids although it'd be a sad AF year
Im here… I was always here for you😢
shiny zapdos is kind of criminal. the jump to 3D absolutely ravaged a nice chunk of shinies - zapdos being one. the gens 3 and 5 sprites are beautiful.
To add to the Battle Revolution costumes, we knew that they existed all the way back when the game launched because images of them were shared in the official strategy guide, however no one knew how to obtain them. It was only last year IIRC that someone figured it out, where you have to get all the way to the colosseum boss under certain conditions, then they would have the standard Gen 4 shiny odds applied to their costume. If you beat them, you’d get their shiny costume to use.
If you already beat them in their standard costume, you miss out on the chance to get the shiny entirely.
I believe only Groudon and possibly Marill have been found so far (or at least documented)
As someone working on a shiny living dex, I have over 720 unique shinies in my pokemon Home boxes right now. I have more if we count duplicates that aren't unique entries to my living dex. I've done both the manaphy and the wishmaker jirachi hunts, as well as hunt for gen 1 eevee.
As for the iceburg, surprised that battle revolution wasn't on here except for the costumes. The rental battle pass you get in the start can have shinies on it. I'm also a fan of the fact that in gen 2 due to how shininess and gender are determined, a pokemon with a 7:1 male/female gender ratio can never be both female and shiny at the same time.
That's an impressive feat, basically the number of Pokémon that existed in Generation 6. I hope you get more shinies, and it's an advantage that you already caught 2 of the most difficult ones. Good luck on your hunts!
When I was a kid playing fire red, I found a shiny rhyhorn in the safari zone and i was lucky enough to catch it too… while I regret losing my gameboy with my game in it, I will never forget it as the first shiny Pokémon I have ever seen.
41:54, funny how Arceus is another easily explainable shiny. In Legends: Arceus when we obtain Arceus, it’s explained that the Arceus you receive isn’t the God Arceus but just a sliver of the power of the true God Arceus. So, it can be explained away that the Arceus that you fight in DPP/BDSP is not the true God Arceus but just a sliver of the true God Arceus and that sliver can have the chance to be shiny
Stadium 2's Shiny Kangaskhan is a dark indigo blue... like a dark denim kind of color. It's really dramatic! I wish that stuck around.
There’s a clip of a guy in gen 4 getting a shiny and while running back to the box to look at it, first wild encounter is another shiny. So legit back to back
Ultra Shiny was actually a trademark filed due to the Pokemon TCG. In Japan, there was a set called GX Ultra Shiny, featuring a lot of the Ultra Beasts in their shiny variation. Hence the name. People were just looking too far into it.
Interesting! I wasn't convinced that the Ultra referred to the Pokémon with square animation, but I definitely didn't know it was about TCG. Greetings!
I still have my very first shiny that I caught nearly 14 years ago. It was a male shinx I caught at the valley wind works. I was a kid and couldn't spell very well so I named him GLITTR. He's a Luxury now, and was travelled all the way up to my Brilliant Diamond copy. I also randomly got a full odds shiny snover in the same game I caught GLITTR in as well (though not the same save file). I also got one more shiny Pokémon that was random and full odds, which was a golbat that I stumbled upon in Alpha Sapphire. I have other shiny Pokémon, but I hunted for those ones. My luxray, snover, and golbat were all organically encountered so they feel a bit more special to me.
"It's a pain you don't easily forget" flashes back to when I missed my first shiny ever, tentacool, because I ran away from it thinking it was glitched.
This was 16 years ago.
Yaaaay, a new iceberg video! And it's about my favorite thing in the world: shiny hunting!
I hope you enjoyed it! Have a nice week!
Back when X and Y were the most recent games I Friend I used to play competitively with hatched two Shiny Froakies in a row. The first one had Torrent while the 2nd had Protean
Great video as always
As someone who has done the shiny manaphy hunt I can say it was painful despite using multiple eggs.
The odds back in gen IV are extremely painful to deal with, but I can imagine how satisfying it is to get it in the end. Greetings!
@@RealEisenBerg yeah it was worth it in the end after a 4 month hunt. Named them Ponyo and they're one ribbon off of being a ribbon master now
Here's another shiny fun fact, but Raichu had a palette swap done between Gens 2 and 3. If you look at old Raichu in the anime and in Gen 2, it was a very dark orange color, now it's more of a lighter, almost gold color, which was what the shiny coloration was in Gen 2. In Gen 3, the gold became the normal Raichu and the shiny became the og orange color of Raichu, so if you're a fan of the anime, hunting a shiny Raichu is like having an og Gen 1-2 Raichu.
No mention of the infamous shiny Jiratina fail? *GOOD.*
jiratina fail????
That fail was LEGENDARY
Now you have to tell us
you don't know about the iconic double shiny jirachi and giratina fail?
@@NopeNope-mh4tyI think he means that one time where someone found a shiny Giratina in a Gen 4 game after days of resetting and when it finally appeared, the game froze.
Keep up the good work Sir!
Thank you so much! I hope you enjoyed!
This is a pretty sick video. I've been playing pokemon for a while and am an avid shiny hunter. I've been shiny hunting since roughy 2016 and pretty much exclusively on gen 6 and 7 games. I usually play pokemon in bursts where I play the game a bunch for a while and then take a long break. It wasn't until this recent stint of me playing where I realized I've accumulated over 100 shiny pokemon and the shiny living dex seems in my grasp.
Excluding extra copies I have:
63 shinies on my copy of Pokemon X
13 shinies on my copy of Omega Ruby
43 shinies on my copy of Ultra Moon
Making 119 total! Some of my favorite methods are horde hunts, dex nav chaining, chain fishing, and soft resetting. I've got a handful of legendaries. My least favorite method is by far the masuda method as I hate hatching eggs and I had a hunt that went almost 4 times odds (1800 eggs) for a shiny froakie.
Good video Eisenberg. We need more iceberg videos of Pokémon. Saludos desde España
Saludos amigo, y gracias por apoyarme en mi canal en inglés. Un abrazo!
I just finished working and a new Eisenberg video comes out? Thanks for the great content!
Thanks to you for watching my videos. I hope you enjoyed!
This channel is so great, it could watch it for hours
That's a nice compliment. I'll make sure to bring more videos for all you. Greetings!
@@RealEisenBerg it's totally honest and well-deserved, can't wait to see more!
I’ve had such luck finding shinnies randomly in pokemon violet post-game. I have the shiny charm and its unintentionally been coming clutch, like I haven’t even been hunting
It happens to me when I'm hatching eggs. I end up with more random-encounter shiny Pokémon than the ones I hatch. I hope your collection increases!
I've also been finding quite a few random shinies in that game but I don't even have the shiny charm. I've found that area zero usually has at least 1 random shiny when I go down there, don't know why tho
Keep it up fam the community needs more like you ❤
Thank you so much, I'll keep bringing more content like this!
Footage for the double shiny freeze can be found in HamsterBomb's Cute Charm series, in which he uses the Cute Charm glitch to try and catch every available shiny pokemon. Also, it doesn't always softlock, it depends on the timings of the animations of the Pokemon. It seems to happen if the shiny sparkles for both Pokemon land on the same frame.
Re: shiny roaming Pokemon, you have to save before they are released (before seeing the TV for the Latis, before stepping onto the lowest stairs in the tower basement for beasts, etc.)
very well made video as always!! one thing that was sorr of briefly mentioned was rng manipulation, specifically in pokemon emerald. that could be a whole iceberg in it of itself but thought id mention it since its facinating stuff! keep up the great content man :))
Thank you so much. I appreciate your comment! I think I might get into this RNG stuff so I can make an iceberg of it in the future. Greetings!
4:33 - lobsters are only red after being cooked. Lobsters are a bluish/grey colour when they're alive thanks to the Cyanoglobin (copper-based compound) in their blood.
I hate to think how many hours I spent and Charmander eggs I hatched as a child until I got my shiny Charizard
Saturday morning plus a new video on shiny Pokémon I haven’t seen? No one can ruin me day now
I found a shiny bisbarp and lokix in the same spot in scarlet
Great video! Although I just wanna add that in Pokémon colosseum, the NPCs shadow Pokémon CAN be shiny, but these odds re-roll when you catch it, so it most likely won't be anymore after the battle. However this means that it can be shiny when you catch it even if the NPCs one isn't as you explained :)
Just a correction. Pokemon Colosseum doesn't REROLL the data for the pokemon. What happens is that the first time you see the pokemon, it's PID is LOCKED, and it's made to not be shiny for the OPPONENT's TID. When you catch it, it keeps the same PID, and there's a full odds chance that your specifically TID/SID is compatible with that PID to be shiny, since your TID/SID combo is most likely different from your opponent's.
That aside, the opponent's TID/SID is also rolled every time you battle them depending on the frame you hit, so you could theoretically battle them, lock the PIDs, lose the battle, then re-battle them and have the opponent summon them as a shiny, because the Pokemon's PID was locked for the first TID/SID of the opponent, not the new one.
Because of that, you can either:
1: Battle the opponent for the first time and find their pokemon aren't shiny, and still aren't shiny when you catch them (Most common situation).
2: Battle the opponent for the first time and find their pokemon aren't shiny, but they ARE shiny when you catch them (your TID/SID matches the 1/8192 chance).
3: Battle the opponent for the first time, lose after the pokemon appears, then re-battle them and they ARE shiny for the opponent, but not you (Your opponent's TID/SID matches on the second battle, but not yours).
4: Battle the opponent for the first time, lose after the pokemon appears, then re-battle them and they are shiny for the opponent AND for you when you catch them (Both your opponent's new TID/SID and your TID/SID match. Rarest option and outside RNG manipulation it's extremely unlikely to ever happen).
I actually did a full colosseum run catching all shadow pokemon as shiny, so most info related to them kinda got burned into my brain permanently.
04:29 Jump scare alert!
You don't need to thank me.
Dinner entertainment secured
Bon appetite!
I'm surprised you didn't talk about how shiny pokemons colors were determined in the older games before they were manually decided what colors to be
Because they weren't, no matter how much patterns you think you see. There's no consistency in that idea, as they didn't just apply a slider on the color for almost gen 1 Pokemon. There are plenty of them that were the same color but turned out way off on the color wheel. There are videos on this already
My worst shiny fail was Ho-oh back in Soul Silver. My Meganium decided to hit with a critical at the right moment.
Why didnt I use a Masterball? I was hoping to save it for another hunt.
Why didnt I use False Swipe? I didnt had any back then.
I swear, everything was calculated then BAM critical. 💀
Everything that could go wrong, went wrong. It happened to me with that shiny Mewtwo. False Swipe, got it to sleep, ultra balls until it ran out of PP. I didn't have a Master Ball, so no choice to see him struggle until the end.
Greetings!
@@RealEisenBerg I got a shiny Mewtwo. Its from the 2016 event for participating in an online VGC competition. I didnt hunt for it but a shiny is a shiny. 😅
I prefer the colloseam version of shiny heracross
I think shiny hunting is a relaxing way to pass time. I usually just do a small amount at a time, like 100 encounters or something like that. I don't have hours to spend on it, but 100 encounters a day does add up reasonably fast. It's easy to do something else at the same time such as watch TV or chat with friends, you just have to be sure to pay attention to each encounter so you don't reset over it or run.
In gen 3, roamers are set at specific points before you can even search for them. Theyre sorta "psuedo statics" like that. In RSE its post Elite 4 after interacting with the TV, and in FrLg its after giving the Ruby and Sapphire to the scientist on the Sevii islands-- the one that allows you to trade with RSE
I have 899 shinies. As for Pokemon where there is technically only one, I think this is linked to the Pokémon multiverse, so when reset the game while shiny hunting, you're resetting your universe.
Also a easy way to prove the forest double shiny crash is using a emulator to make all wild pokemon shiny, ive seen the game crash because they are both shiny myself
YOO banger video! Just when i really wanted something Pokémon to watch on YT, CLUTCH🙏💪⚡️🍃💧🔥
Of note is that you can only get ONE Manaphy egg from a copy of Pokemon Ranger, FOREVER. You have to get an entirely new copy of Pokemon Ranger that's never been played/had the special mission completed if you want another egg. The only way to use the same cart of Ranger again is to use a program to completely wipe out all of the save data, which some shiny hunters might consider cheating. There might also be a way to purposefully corrupt the save data.
So, gen 1 didn't have shiny Pokémon. Pokemon stadium would sometimes have different color pokemon, but they of course didn't have the sparkle, and you could force any pokemon to change their pallettes through nicknaming. A lot of pokemon would have more than one pallatte as well
I didn't start shiny hunting seriously until sword and shield. Before that I think I only caught a shiny pidgey in fire red. But nowadays I have almost 40 shiny pokemon across all my games
Here's my shinies for your research.
All of these are in Pokemon Moon, some with and without a shiny charm.
Without, I've gotten Exeggcute (169 enc), Caterpie (77 enc), Growlithe (58 enc), and Two shiny oricorio (392 and 106 enc).
With the Shiny Charm, Trapinch (36 enc), Two shiny Feebas (133 enc, 422 enc), and Two shiny cubone (16 and 569 enc).
I also got a shiny Virizion in Pokemon Black on 422 soft resets, but on an emulator. Right now, I'm shiny hunting in Heartgold Soulsilver for a shiny starter and at 400 encounters and counting.
Hope this helps!
I remember playing Silver back in 2001 on my old school Game Boy. I didn't realize other pokemon than Gyarados could shine. I was biking in Kanto and encountered a Grimer that had the shine animation. I didn't catch it but I sat there wondering what I had just encountered. Same thing happened in Johto with a Pidgey.
A new video holy 🔥best wishes to you brother hope all is well recently
My friend! It's going pretty well. Thank you for keeping following me. I hope everything it's wonderful on your side.
In Colosseum the trainers can in fact have shiny Pokemon, the problem is that when you catch it, the Pokemon is rerolled, so if it was shiny for the NPC and it's still shiny after you catch it, you've just gotten a back to back shiny. Shadow Pokemon are locked in XD: Gale of Darkness, whereas the starter Eevee, gift, trade, and wild Pokemon aren't, while the opposite is true in Colosseum where the starters and every non-shadow Pokemon are locked. Another thing of note is that second encounter battles in Colosseum are set, so you cannot shiny hunt those.
Full credit to my man for getting the raw footage of all these. Dude must’ve been waiting generations
oh man, the audio is only JUST SLIGHTLY more right ear focused, especially on headphones. its messing with my brain
"I lost a shiny because I was playing in italian".
I swear, that sounds like a Family Guy throwaway gag or something.
Also, I need a backstory as to why you were playing USUM in Italian lmao.
Some texturing glitches in Pokemon ScarVio have made me want to see hybrid shiny Pokemon. The glitch was a Luxray that was blue on one side and yellow on the other, and it made me think of Pokemon with something like vitiligo. They could do a thing like Spinda and have the shiny colored patches be randomly generated (but Spinda must be a pain to deal with, so maybe just have a set pattern or handful of patterns.)
Back in the days, my first 2nd Gen shiny appeared in my first casual Gen2 playthrough. I was in a cave and encountered a shiny zubat, but I did not have any pokeballs on me. Since then, I have always double-checked.
The Odd Egg section brushed off some important informations.... In the Japanese version of Crystal, the Odd Egg could only be obtained with the Egg Ticket which was an event item, but the odds of having a shiny was as high as 50%. In the International versions HOWEVER, the odd egg was hardcoded into the game so you receive it no matter what. But the chances of hatching a shiny were reduced to 15%.
Small point but it is a significant difference, you don’t need to catch all Pokemon in the dex to get the shiny charm you just need to register them so see them in battle, no need to catch or even knock out
your videos got me through 11th grade bro. love your content keep it up and please please do as much pokemon content as possible! id love a tcg iceberg video like nescretros blackstar promo video.
Two corrections on this video: one I think the improved shines are talking about how shinies like cumbuskin were improved in later generations, second the arceus we have isn’t arceus but it’s simply a part of him as told to us in legends arceus so the shiny arceus makes sense, the other mythicals and legendaries I have no clue.
For my own shiny stories I had a full odds random shiny grubbin that I used for my whole playthrough in moon but then it and several other of my beloved mons got destroyed in a save data corruption issue, that same issue lead to me shiny hunting ho-oh twice one being lost and the second transferring to scarlet
What kills me about shiny locks.. is theres some kid out there on 100k resets because they dont know better. They dont tell you its locked and if you avoid online content because if spoilers, you probably wont know better
Been Shiny hunting for many years now. I currently have 2,142 Shinies, including a Shiny Galarian Farfetch'd I've yet to move out of GO, but do plan to.
Honestly a big part of this video left me sour. A lot of the times you simply just explained the title of what you were pointing out, but never went into detail.
The one that irked me the most was when you were talking about the april fools blue gyarados at the lake of rage. At the end, you simply just said that someone who knew the game well enough explained why the event managed to happen, then you moved on. I would've really loved to hear about it. Don't be afraid to delve deeper into a subject, gives more understanding.
Thank you for the feedback. I'll take it into consideration for the next iceberg. Have a wonderful day!
I love how people didn't get the April Fools one when the number of found shinies is literally 42069
420. 69. The funny numbers
Ive failed two shinies since i only just began hunting them last year. One was a piplup in PLA that somehow saw me through the grass i was crouching in, ran off, and then poofed away. The second was a bidoof on route 201 while i was grinding up piplup, i didnt have any pokeballs.
Painful. Painful, agony inducing.
Pokemon Gold on my 3DS took me around 2100 soft resets to get shiny Ho-Oh. I used the tracking app on the 3DS to count my resets.
I've never gone so hard with shiny hunting until Scarlet and Violet. But it's only cause they made it easy. I don't mind the old way. But I doubt I'd do it as much back then since I've only attempted it 5 times.
Also in regards to mythical shiny Pokémon, I believe Arceus created clones of himself and other Pokémon for alternate universes. Since these universes are infinite, I wouldn't be surprised if at least some mythical Pokémon are shiny in their own respective universes.
love the vid, one thing that would be nice is if you could read out some of the examples (not all, but like 3 or 4. like this vid, the name of the pokemon and about what is different, etc). i (and many other people) listen to the audio in the background while doing work, it gets a little annoying to check the video.
You're right, I think there are 2 parts where I don't read and only used text. Next video, I'll make sure I both put text and read it. Greetings, and thanks a lot for watching!
I have lost two shiny pokemon both gravelers and I think I have tell more than enough about how it happened
Koffing and Voltorb are in that club too!
21:35 Actually you can catch shiny Battle Tower pokemon in Ruby and Sapphire without cheats. There is a glitch involving the roaming Lati@s which allows you to do this in only those games, not FRLG or Emerald.
35:15 oh the encounter tally is 42069, I'm surprised it took an expert to point out it was a joke
So about the Shiny Fails...
In Pokémon Moon, I failed a Shiny Petilil because I fainted it with the Flamethrower from my Zoroark, I didn’t notice that it was Shiny until the game showed it fainting; its eyes were of other color, purple, the color of its eyes when Shiny. Also failed a Shiny Tauros by accidentally running away from it when I meant to click my Bag. I reclaimed both Shinies eventually so all is good lol
In Alpha Sapphire, I have four Shiny Drapion that I hunted myself. Two of them I transfered them from my Pokémon Y game and I love all four them so much. My favorite Poison Type 😎
Love the vid, but there's a small detail I'd like to address if I may. You mentioned pokemon being called "Shiny Pokemon" because of the twinkle animation being present after gen 2.
While it is true that fans started calling them shinies for that very reason, the official term for these Pokemon was "Oddly colored Pokemon." In fact, Pokemon wouldn't adopt the phrase "shiny" until generation 5.
My first ever shiny was a Machop in sapphire. I thought something was wrong with my game because it was a different color, so I turned my gameboy off. I didn’t even know it was shiny and I still have that pain.
Made up for it later by encountering back to back shiny wild mudbrays in ultra sun :)
Yes I needed this
Thank you for watching!
VVV I like indistinguishable shiny Pokemon button