I've been full odds hunting for about 2 years now, and only have a bit to show for it, but it truly is some of the most exhilarating ways to play pokemon out there. I think that the thing that gets modern players about it is just how long a hunt could take. The way I see it, the shiny has an 100% chance of appearing as long as you finish the hunt. Thinking about how long a hunt is taking, or how unlucky you are is something I, as well as many other full odds hunters probably started, but one encounter can really change that. A day ago from this comment, I wrapped up my 33k sr shiny snivy in black version, and even though I was so down about it for 2 months, it was all worth it in the end. Great vid man.
I love that! I’ve been doing something similar, focusing on the excitement that the shiny could appear on the next encounter. Another encounter, another chance Also congrats on the Snivy!! My favorite shiny of the Unova starters
@@shinycollector7 tysm! I'm so glad someone else thinks similarly. The snivy encounter really made me love shiny hunting again, and I even found my next target today only after a bit of double grass hunting (shiny blitzle). I hope your hunts are as fast as my recent one, and snivy supremacy :)
One of my favorites hunts are the explorer kit shinies in D/P/Pl. Have an empty party, get at least 5 fossils, save in front of the fossil guy. Then hunt and do soft resets. I got an aerodactyl super quickly this way
HGSS is a great game to play for a first full odds shiny hunt. Start with the starters, then gamecorner abra, Sudowoodo soft reset, and by the 4th gym you already have three.
@@Cabz. I didn’t count mine but it was a week and about 2 hours a day on a gba sp. you want to do it on a gba because the time you lose on the ds opening menu is massive over time
@@austinbelitz3808 fair enough, and what do you mean the time bro? It’s exactly the same to soft reset on a ds lol, just press A,B,start, select all at once.
Haha same! Mine was actually on heart gold and I had no idea until 2 days later bc i put the poor thing immediately in my box since I was shiny hunting rayquaza
hgss chikorita was actually my first successful hunt starting a badge quest in HG this week, it's such a comfy hunt to do on a treadmill. had 2 phases on shiny cyndaquil which i won't complain about!
My personal favourite legendary hunt, and my first shiny legendary, is celebi from the crystal VC. The encounters are pretty quick, and the shiny is gorgeous and interesting. I love it
My shiny hunting adventure started by me attempting speed runs in leafgreen with bulbasaur. Proceeded to hunt the bird trio, got moltres and articuno, and failed zapdos running out of balls with about 60 balls pre fight
I frogot how I got into shiny hunting. I think it started with chain fishing in xy and oras then I found out legendaries could be soft reseted and I saw videos online of people doing it and stuff. But it was so hard to believe it could be me. Well one day I said ok I’ll do it and I won’t give up this time. I frogot how long it took but eventually I got my first shiny legendary a shiny regigigas. After that I was so hooked. I shiny hunted every legendary I could after that and chatching them. Which continued into ultra moon where I did the same but that shiny yvetal took me a year to get. I was super unlucky but I would not quit. Eventually I got it felt unreal especially sense xy was my first modern pokemon game. So I was very found of those gens legendaries. I also remember my whole team getting mauled by a shiny terrakian because I couldent attack it any more but I also ran out of potions even though I stocked up on revives and potions. Sadly those files are long gone but I still own the original cartridges I did all of it on. Except my Ora’s because idk where it went had to buy an alpha sapphire to play through again but I still have my og x game but it’s not the og save or anything and I have my og ultra moon but again the og save with all the hunts has been long gone. But I still have the og cartridges so it still feels good remembering poping them in after school
the hgss starter hunt takes me back lol I started my shiny hunting journey with those three when I was 16, and a few months later I was shiny hunting ho-oh.
While I’ve found a handful of 1/8192 Shinies before, there’s only 2 I actually have gone out of my way to hunt for. Litwick in Black 2, and Celebi in Crystal. I’ve been considering hunting for all of the available Legendaries in Black 2, and I’m also currently getting things set up to hunt for Deoxys in LeafGreen.
To add a little more as why you should just do random encounters is that you can do that while EV trainning, I found a shiny Pidgy and Weedle while EV trainning my Shiny Lugia in Viridian Forest. Also you could get extra lucky and fight a wild pokemon with Pokerus.
If you want a specific starter shiny just click on the directional pad, that's ideal for totodile or cyndaquil. And just press a if you want see chikorita. I wanted cyndaquil, so I just kept pressing left on the directional pad. SR until it was shiny. Hope this helped anyone. But it does take longer since your only looking at one at time then SR
Excellent list! Shouldve added static encounters like the dragon den dratini and the Friday lapras in crystal. Subbed! Such a charming channel! (But could you increase the volume a little.) 😁
I started hunting recently my first shiny ever was a full odds shiny Lugia in Pokémon silver and I got it after about 3 weeks now I’m trying for shiny mudkip 😅
I would also include the starter hunt in ruby and sapphire as they are as fast as random encounters in gen 3, about 3 to 4 a minute So you'll reach 1000 SRs in under 6 hours The only downside is that you need a working RTC battery two generate different initial seeds every reset
My one (and only) shiny hunt was ho oh in gold (on the 3ds). It took me three years of on and off dedication so probably only like 24hrs overall. I am never shiny hunting again im letting them surprise me now
Just finished my 1st ever full odds hg SR for totodile, and it was the 1st i got after 2649 encounters 😭 was so happy only took 15-20 hours. Going for oshawott, charmander and treecko next. Guess im a full odds hunter now lol
@shinycollector7 thank you! I did one of the worst ones (ultra sun/moon) after totodile and got super lucky with rowlet at 1372 encounters..I'm never doin gen 7 resets again lol took me like 50-80 hours 😭
@@mangobuster2460 Respect for going for an US/UM starter! I bet that was tough but rewarding. Great choice, shiny Rowlet looks great! I’ve never hunted the Gen 7 starters, but did complete 3 roamer hunts. Those were tedious at times, entertaining at others with getting the Pokémon onto the same route
Nice list! Too bad I don't have gen 3-5 games. But I do have Crystal VC and shiny hunting Celebi is a lot of fun. Idk why but the sparkles in the gen 2 games make it look really cool
Gold and silver crystal VC 😂 Chikorita was so rewarding but not beginner friendly Then i did the odd egg which was easy peasy and FUN. Because I only hatched 10 eggs (1/64?) And got a different baby Pokémon everytime not knowing which would be the shiny. Just didn't want Tyrogue. Bittersweet. Got the green eyed igglybuff line BUT that'll be very special to tranfer to my SV games 😊 Sudowoodo im doing now. It's easy to get 2 encounters a minute or even 3. No luck crazily. RNG is a bitch.
You like hunting Rayquaza in Emerald or HGSS more? (also when I was ramdomly resetting for a good IV Zapdos in HGSS, I found it shiny, which I wasn't even aiming for, it just shone a few days ago)
Congratulations on Zapdos, for Rayquaza I personally like emerald better because it Is one of the only Run-away legendary hunts. Also, I like the atmosphere of sky pillar better
Not to be that guy but you meant to say the odds are higher not lower The shiny odds where doubled in gen 6 from 1/8192 to 1/4096 Since 1/4096 is a larger number that makes it an increased chance Other than that this list is pretty much in the mark My first shiny hunt was the HGSS starters and I got a shiny totodile in about 2 hours
@@NAVI7x 17,036 so far, & thanks I actually needed that aha. Been using two SPs so the resets have been "quick" at least, lol. I've only done 5 hunts previously, all under odds and two of them just ridiculous. Evee in Leaf green at 272, and dratini in fire red at 148. I guess this is just the games making up for that ahaha. Good luck when you start the lati hunt! The colors on those two are sweet
I've been full odds hunting for about 2 years now, and only have a bit to show for it, but it truly is some of the most exhilarating ways to play pokemon out there. I think that the thing that gets modern players about it is just how long a hunt could take. The way I see it, the shiny has an 100% chance of appearing as long as you finish the hunt. Thinking about how long a hunt is taking, or how unlucky you are is something I, as well as many other full odds hunters probably started, but one encounter can really change that. A day ago from this comment, I wrapped up my 33k sr shiny snivy in black version, and even though I was so down about it for 2 months, it was all worth it in the end. Great vid man.
I love that! I’ve been doing something similar, focusing on the excitement that the shiny could appear on the next encounter. Another encounter, another chance
Also congrats on the Snivy!! My favorite shiny of the Unova starters
@@shinycollector7 tysm! I'm so glad someone else thinks similarly. The snivy encounter really made me love shiny hunting again, and I even found my next target today only after a bit of double grass hunting (shiny blitzle). I hope your hunts are as fast as my recent one, and snivy supremacy :)
One of my favorites hunts are the explorer kit shinies in D/P/Pl. Have an empty party, get at least 5 fossils, save in front of the fossil guy. Then hunt and do soft resets. I got an aerodactyl super quickly this way
I accidentally got a shiny Totodile lol was gonna start with cyndaquil on that playthrough, but like you said: was fun almost not knowing
HGSS is a great game to play for a first full odds shiny hunt. Start with the starters, then gamecorner abra, Sudowoodo soft reset, and by the 4th gym you already have three.
My first full odds shiny hunt was mudkip on my sapphire. I got that little purple mudkip after 2 weeks
I just started a shiny hunt on ruby yesterday , going for mudkip and I’m
Currently 700 in.
@@Cabz. I didn’t count mine but it was a week and about 2 hours a day on a gba sp. you want to do it on a gba because the time you lose on the ds opening menu is massive over time
@@austinbelitz3808 fair enough, and what do you mean the time bro? It’s exactly the same to soft reset on a ds lol, just press A,B,start, select all at once.
@@Cabz. yooooooooooo I legit didn’t know this. THANK YOU
Haha same! Mine was actually on heart gold and I had no idea until 2 days later bc i put the poor thing immediately in my box since I was shiny hunting rayquaza
hgss chikorita was actually my first successful hunt starting a badge quest in HG this week, it's such a comfy hunt to do on a treadmill. had 2 phases on shiny cyndaquil which i won't complain about!
I would totally recommend the Rayquaza hunt in Emerald! It was an important success for me, when I was going insane with my roaming Latias hunt
hoping to go for shiny litwick, since chandelure is one of my favourite mons of all time and you don't have to worry about other spawns
My personal favourite legendary hunt, and my first shiny legendary, is celebi from the crystal VC. The encounters are pretty quick, and the shiny is gorgeous and interesting. I love it
Awesome video! You earned a sub! Can't wait to see more.
Shiny hunting growlithe in heartgold and if I get it I’ll try to shiny hunt on the safari zone just want to mentally prepare for this area
My shiny hunting adventure started by me attempting speed runs in leafgreen with bulbasaur.
Proceeded to hunt the bird trio, got moltres and articuno, and failed zapdos running out of balls with about 60 balls pre fight
I frogot how I got into shiny hunting. I think it started with chain fishing in xy and oras then I found out legendaries could be soft reseted and I saw videos online of people doing it and stuff. But it was so hard to believe it could be me. Well one day I said ok I’ll do it and I won’t give up this time. I frogot how long it took but eventually I got my first shiny legendary a shiny regigigas. After that I was so hooked. I shiny hunted every legendary I could after that and chatching them. Which continued into ultra moon where I did the same but that shiny yvetal took me a year to get. I was super unlucky but I would not quit. Eventually I got it felt unreal especially sense xy was my first modern pokemon game. So I was very found of those gens legendaries. I also remember my whole team getting mauled by a shiny terrakian because I couldent attack it any more but I also ran out of potions even though I stocked up on revives and potions. Sadly those files are long gone but I still own the original cartridges I did all of it on. Except my Ora’s because idk where it went had to buy an alpha sapphire to play through again but I still have my og x game but it’s not the og save or anything and I have my og ultra moon but again the og save with all the hunts has been long gone. But I still have the og cartridges so it still feels good remembering poping them in after school
the hgss starter hunt takes me back lol
I started my shiny hunting journey with those three when I was 16, and a few months later I was shiny hunting ho-oh.
While I’ve found a handful of 1/8192 Shinies before, there’s only 2 I actually have gone out of my way to hunt for. Litwick in Black 2, and Celebi in Crystal. I’ve been considering hunting for all of the available Legendaries in Black 2, and I’m also currently getting things set up to hunt for Deoxys in LeafGreen.
To add a little more as why you should just do random encounters is that you can do that while EV trainning, I found a shiny Pidgy and Weedle while EV trainning my Shiny Lugia in Viridian Forest.
Also you could get extra lucky and fight a wild pokemon with Pokerus.
If you want a specific starter shiny just click on the directional pad, that's ideal for totodile or cyndaquil. And just press a if you want see chikorita. I wanted cyndaquil, so I just kept pressing left on the directional pad. SR until it was shiny. Hope this helped anyone. But it does take longer since your only looking at one at time then SR
Excellent list! Shouldve added static encounters like the dragon den dratini and the Friday lapras in crystal. Subbed! Such a charming channel! (But could you increase the volume a little.) 😁
Thanks, appreciate the feedback
I started hunting recently my first shiny ever was a full odds shiny Lugia in Pokémon silver and I got it after about 3 weeks now I’m trying for shiny mudkip 😅
Congrats!! What an amazing first shiny 👏 Making me want to get a Silver Version again!
My first full odds hunt was a targeted shiny totodile (managed to get it first phase😊)
On my third phase and 50+ hours in hunting shiny totodile. I got 2 shiny cyndaquil so far. It’s my longest hunt but definitely gunna be worth it
I been there I got totodile fast, then 4 straight chikorita and finally cyndaquil
Fire video gonna give these a shot one day
I would also include the starter hunt in ruby and sapphire as they are as fast as random encounters in gen 3, about 3 to 4 a minute
So you'll reach 1000 SRs in under 6 hours
The only downside is that you need a working RTC battery two generate different initial seeds every reset
Counterpoint: You can get an uncatchable shiny Poochyena in the meantime.
@@saxor96 skill issue
good beginner hunts for sure
Can't soft reset in emerald, but you can find shiny pokemon in the wild. Just gotta learn what to avoid doing and how the seed works.
Awesome video! Do you happen to know when the next safari week is?
great video you deserve more subs keep up the good work
all weady to Gooo for Saffari 2024!! XD
I just started to try to get mudkip in omega ruby. At least it's fast to reset but I'm already about 450 tries deep.
Great vid - totally agree with your list!
I didn’t hunt for it but I had a random shiny encounter doduo in the safari zone and it was tense
My one (and only) shiny hunt was ho oh in gold (on the 3ds). It took me three years of on and off dedication so probably only like 24hrs overall. I am never shiny hunting again im letting them surprise me now
Just finished my 1st ever full odds hg SR for totodile, and it was the 1st i got after 2649 encounters 😭 was so happy only took 15-20 hours. Going for oshawott, charmander and treecko next. Guess im a full odds hunter now lol
Congrats!! Hunting for shiny starters is fun (but not as for longer cutscene ones). I hope you find them soon! 🍀
@shinycollector7 thank you! I did one of the worst ones (ultra sun/moon) after totodile and got super lucky with rowlet at 1372 encounters..I'm never doin gen 7 resets again lol took me like 50-80 hours 😭
@@mangobuster2460 Respect for going for an US/UM starter! I bet that was tough but rewarding. Great choice, shiny Rowlet looks great! I’ve never hunted the Gen 7 starters, but did complete 3 roamer hunts. Those were tedious at times, entertaining at others with getting the Pokémon onto the same route
Nice list! Too bad I don't have gen 3-5 games. But I do have Crystal VC and shiny hunting Celebi is a lot of fun. Idk why but the sparkles in the gen 2 games make it look really cool
Celebi is a great shiny hunt! I love the Gen 2 sparkles. I hope you find it soon if you havent yet!
I was surprised you didn’t include soft resetting for legendaries.
Currently 17k dry for shiny mewtwo in Fr/Lg 😢
Gold and silver crystal VC 😂
Chikorita was so rewarding but not beginner friendly
Then i did the odd egg which was easy peasy and FUN.
Because I only hatched 10 eggs (1/64?)
And got a different baby Pokémon everytime not knowing which would be the shiny. Just didn't want Tyrogue. Bittersweet. Got the green eyed igglybuff line BUT that'll be very special to tranfer to my SV games 😊
Sudowoodo im doing now. It's easy to get 2 encounters a minute or even 3. No luck crazily. RNG is a bitch.
Odd egg is not 1/64. Odd egg is 14% chance to be shiny, so more than 1/8 odd eggs will be shiny.
What IPS screen is that on the GBA sp?
great video!
Great video!
Do you shiny hunt gen 5 a lot? That’s the gen that I mainly shiny hunt bc the game is just so good? Also do you have a discord server?
I have done a bit of hunting in gen 5 definitely want to do more , and I don’t use discord.
great vid! where is that clip from the beginning from?
Thanks, it’s the paldean fates Japanese commercial
My first full ods shiny was completely accidental lol
You like hunting Rayquaza in Emerald or HGSS more? (also when I was ramdomly resetting for a good IV Zapdos in HGSS, I found it shiny, which I wasn't even aiming for, it just shone a few days ago)
Congratulations on Zapdos, for Rayquaza I personally like emerald better because it Is one of the only Run-away legendary hunts. Also, I like the atmosphere of sky pillar better
Not to be that guy but you meant to say the odds are higher not lower
The shiny odds where doubled in gen 6 from 1/8192 to 1/4096
Since 1/4096 is a larger number that makes it an increased chance
Other than that this list is pretty much in the mark
My first shiny hunt was the HGSS starters and I got a shiny totodile in about 2 hours
I got my shiny Cyndaquil after 1858 resets.....Yeahhhh
Does Diamond/Pearl/Platinum also show all three shiny starters?
Sadly it does not
Isn't emeralds rng busted so it's impossible to soft reset ?
Yes, thats why you have to do the run away method instead
Haha I been doing the fire red starters SR over 3.5k rests as of now. Great video
Nicee, did you get any of them yet?
@@CloudyMason Yes I did, i got lucky and got it under odds. It took 3798 resets.
@@NAVI7x Gzzzz, that's awesome! My luck ran out it seems.. 17k dry on shiny mewtwo & starting to lose the drive lol
@@CloudyMason Ufff. 17k resets? That's insane. I really hope you get it soon. I'm about to start the Latios shiny hunt in soul Silver.
@@NAVI7x 17,036 so far, & thanks I actually needed that aha. Been using two SPs so the resets have been "quick" at least, lol. I've only done 5 hunts previously, all under odds and two of them just ridiculous. Evee in Leaf green at 272, and dratini in fire red at 148. I guess this is just the games making up for that ahaha. Good luck when you start the lati hunt! The colors on those two are sweet
*pokemmo enters the chat
Where's the community more often? Twitter? Reddit?
Probably Twitter and UA-cam
Do you just hate yourself or something
Safari zone shiny hunting as a beginner friendly hunt makes literally zero sense 😐
You forgot Red Gyrados