It is. Sugimori was still in charge when they were made and probably fed into his animal catching hobby. If he left after Gen 1, we probably wouldn’t have them.
Around here, we used to call them "Golden Pokémon" at first until the term shiny became a thing. The reason was of course the highest chance the first shiny you'll see is Gyarados, which some thought was meant to be a reddish/orangey goldish colour... also didn't help the games are called GOLD and Silver. When many started to get random shinies, most of them were yellowish in colour... like gold, like Charmander, Doduo, Shellder, etc... so the name golden stick for a while. Of course, the majority called them shiny, and then the official term became shiny, so the term "Golden Pokémon" vanished.
2:05 i thought it was red because of radio waves forcing evolution, so unnatural evolution caused color not to change from magikarp red to gyarados blue
I didn't know that shiny pokemon existed for almost fifteen years. I thought the Red Gyarados in GSC was just special and wasn't indicative of any other potentially different palettes for any other Pokemon.
@btran05 you to?!?!? I found mine almost the same place, was that patch of grass before sudowoodo just northeast of the route First shiny, i didn’t catch it. Tried ran out of balls Had Thought it was like a missingno
With 3rd gen being my first, the first shiny I got was a Swinub in FR/LG, being a weird blue-ish color. Having no knowledge of what Red Gyarados was as I hadn't played Gen 2 so I didn't know shiny pokemon were a thing, was trully amazed at seeing it in a different color from the couple I'd found prior so I caught it. So many cool memories 🤗
18:45 Fun fact: you can also evolve that shiny Magikarp - if you haven't already previously retired a Magikarp by accidentally evolving it. For the achievement "Adios, Gyarados!" if you tap repeatedly on your Magikarp, it'll break the everstone it's holding. Then once it grows to level 20, it'll evolve, and if you happen to do this to a shiny Magikarp, your Gyarados will be shiny as well. Of course, it also retires your Pokemon since you can't use it anymore in jumping contests.
1:47 the funny part is nobody ever even referred to the Gyarados as a shiny. It was always just 'The Red Gyarados'. That said, I imagine shinies in universe is more like albinism for Pokémon
In Pokemon Stadium, the Pokemon could have color variations based on their names. Not exactly "shiny", but it made my army of Mewtwo special and unique and awesome.
11:45 idk why but it cracked me up that I was used examples of uncatchables for 3 clips in a row. I’m very good at finding shinies I can’t keep 😂 Great video homie!
As someone who originally played Gold and Silver on a black and white game boy, the sparkle effect was much appreciated 😅. I never assumed the red Gyarados was red because it was angry, I just assumed that a shiny Magikarp was among the Magikarp forced to evolve from the radio waves and, being red, it stuck out like a sore thumb. It was a good way to introduce shinies to the player though.
Hunting shiny people is so relaxing. I think it's awesome to have found a new goal in the games other than "gotta catch 'em all" or beating the storyline. I've never played X and Y before and recently bought X. 3 weeks in and I'm still resetting for shiny Froakie 😊
Did anyone else find the music in this video a bit loud and distracting at times? I really noticed it around the 7 minute mark during the talk of DVs. Made it hard to hear the actual dialogue clearly. But still loved the video because I'm a sucker for anything shiny!
Fun facts: 1)The shiny seedot was actually found by a shiny hunting bot that was running 24/7 2) The bot actually had already found 1 shiny seedot and wanted one more. 3)The second seedot took 1 year and approximately 3 million total encounters!
I remember being happy and proud for owning at least 1 shiny. I remember being happy and proud that I own 10 shinies. Then it became 30....50....80...then it came to the point that I stopped counting nor being proud of it since shiny hunting has been easier nowadays. Aside from the countless ones I got in Pokemon HOME, I caught every single shiny Pokemon in SV (not all forms and shiny locks not counted However, I do have all shiny regional varians).
I’ve been playing Pokémon for years, my first being Blue back in the day. I’ve still never once seen a shiny aside from scripted Shinies like Gyarados.
I think it was to add a mythical status to regular Pokémon. Like legendaries are cool and all but if i had a slightly different colored piplup I wouldve been the most popular in my friend group
The reason why the original guide refers to them as different colored pokemon, is because it's a direct translation from the Japanese version. They are called 色違い (iro-chigai) which color different.
The story I heard was it was the classic programmer error of how the first element in an array is noted by position 0, and someone thought it was 1. This meant that when selecting Pokémon colour palettes, they accidentally selected the neighbouring palette. Then they thought it was cool, and left it as a rare feature and gave you one as part of the story.
8:32 One thing you left out about Gen 1 Pokemon. It is impossible to get a shiny Pokemon in the wild without you're friend's romhack of the game. In vanilla Gen 1, you can get a shiny Pokemon through gifts, stationary encounters, and fishing. This restriction is also for max DV Pokemon. Also, it might be technically possible to get a shiny Pokemon from the Stadium games' event Pokemon, but I do not believe anyone was able to show proof of them getting one. Getting a shiny Amnesia Psyduck, Baton Pass Farfetch'd, or Earthquake Gligar would be huge, but they would probably be the longest resets in the series if you don't have a save backup before you obtain them.
Been shiny hunting over the last 2 years off and on and it’s been fun. Now caught Shiny Celebi and Shiny extreme speed dratini from the elder in dragons den on Crystal for the 3DS virtual console. Got shiny Lugia last month in Soul Silver and currently working on the 3 Kanto starters in Firered/Leafgreen. Got Charmander and Bulbasaur but haven’t started squirtle yet. Needed to take a break since Bulbasaur took around 10000 resets.
Also, i really hope that gen5 remakes will lift the shiny locks on Victini, Keldeo, and Meloetta. Dont care if it is one you capture yourself like Victini or resetting for gift Meloetta like you could with the gift pokemon in gen7.
We called them Shiny back in the day, I even had that game guide that said "special colored pokemon" and chose to call them Shiny. I suspect the players themselves solidified the nomenclature.
Great, fun video. I bought crystal version before the eshop went offline and decided to shiny hunt Cyndaquil. Because I wanted the full experience of crystal so I dimmed by brightness. Sat down with some snacks and something to watch and wasn’t paying attention and thought the 2nd cyndaquil looked a little off but wasn’t quite sure and it didn’t register in time before I reset. As soon as the next one popper up and was a different color I realized my mistake. Turned the brightness back up after that but still haven’t reclaimed it. It’s been almost a year.
I'll never forget playing Gold when I was a kid, encountered this weird Onix that sparkled and was a different color. I got scared and thought my game broke. I ran away and turned the game boy off, then it played normally again. I didn't realize the red Gyarados meant all pokemon could have this variant. It was a while later I learned about "Shinies" and remembered then realized what happened. This was like 2000-2001 and outside of guaranteed encounters / gift pokemon I have NEVER again encountered a random shiny pokemon in my life, only doing like RNG manips these days. "How Nintendo intended" these were absurdly rare.
I found a full odds magikarp in my copy of Ruby during my very first play through. I wanted a milotic in my play through team so bad that I sat my butt down on the river and checked every single tile until I found 1 of the six that would give me feebas. In that process, I got a shiny.
i play magikarp jump, and have a shiny magikarp! i've heard the corsola and luvdisc that show up to drop food can be shiny as well, but it's much rarer than the magikarp
Still will never forget my Pokémon Gold Shiny Drowzee that I got on a random playthrough. I never got to use him though since the battery for my cartridge wasn’t put in correctly and my save file was lost. RIP Elliot the Drowzee. Still have a picture to prove it happened.
It’s so interesting to learn that they weren’t called shiny officially until gen 4. I played the games as a kid as they came out and I remember my friends and I called them shiny pokemon in gen 3. I wonder where we got it from, we could have just as easily called them sparkly pokemon.
@@DarkestVoid low odds are bad. High odds are good. Masuda, etc. is raising odds, increasing, making them better, not lowering. That's my point, papa reversed the wording
They should create a very specific color for full odd shines and all of them have 0IVs in all stats. Since shiny pokemon are too common, I prefer ribbons and marked Pokémon over them. Even the age matters more, as I still have my Wailord from Sapphire. If I run into a shiny in SV, I give it away, unless it has a mark OTHER than sociable. I probably missed it, but has anyone ever caught a legit shiny XD001? That's gotta be hard because it doesn't appear shiny until you purify it, and the only way to purify XD001 is to purify all other pokemon. That will take hours just to find out it's shiny or not.
10:26 FINALLY!!! I found someone similar to me, I didn't know someone as unlucky as me actually existed. I'm 31 years old & have been a fan of the franchise for about 1/2 of my life, but despite my dedication to Fire-red/Leafgreen/Ruby/Sapphire, I've only seen 2 shinies EVER and caught NONE of them! Ponyta and swinub both k.o.'d themselves with takedown after I used false swipe...
My first shiny was Sneasel when I originally played Gold Version. I used Mt Silver grass right next to pokemon center for grinding and found it and was so excited!
Earlier this year in soulsilver I ran into a full 8192 odds shiny sentret before I got pokeballs. I don’t even know a word for how I felt in that moment
"Welcome to the Salty Spitoon, how tough are ya?" "How tough am I? I got my shiny Heracross in Soul Silver after about 30k headbutts" "Yeah, so?" "I did it all on a single Nintendo DS" "Uh... right this way"
When I was a kid my first shiny was a Wingull in Emerald, but I KO'ed it because I didn't know shiny was a thing. A few years later I got 2 shiny Whismurs back to back in Rusturf Tunnel in Emerald. I still have those 2 Whismurs after 10 years.
My first shiny that wasn't gyrados was a full odds Diglett in fire red. I was training Dragonair in Diglett cave when it appeared. I thought it was a glitch but caught it anyways. I didn't see or hear the sparkles until I used it in battle and realized it was different. I didn't understand shiny pokemon until diamond, pearl and platinum
I’ve caught two full odds shinies in my 26 years of Pokemon. A Fearow in Firered, still have it in Home, and a Houndour back in Gold. I accidentally knocked it out, not knowing the Red Gyarados was a hint that shinies were a thing. I would be devastated except Nintendo never gave us a way to transfer up to Gen 3 anyway.
2:00 no the radio waves make pokemon evolve, most likely there was a shiny Magicarp in the lake of rage and since it evolved when it didn't want to it got p*ssed off
hang on where did they confirm that shiny-locked mythicals were to promote events? ive seen an interview of them saying it was to make specific instances of pokemon more unique e.g. liberty garden victini is a specific individual victini, but ive never seen them confirm that its to promote events in later games
In French, we call them "Pokémon Chromatiques" which refers to their colour. We call them "shiny" as well (and by that I mean we use the english word "shiny").
I remember playing fire red and encountering a shiny Venonat in the safari zone. I was shitting bricks hoping it didnt run away, but thank christ I got it lol. I also encountered a shiny Rattata in burned tower in OG silver version, but my box was full, so I had to run away... that broke my heart as a kid lol
When you get to Gen 4... you got to mention the cute charm.... glitch? Though you will likely need to do it on a different game then the one you are currently trying to get that Turtwig on. Since it requires your trainer ID and secret ID being close together.
To some extent, shinies you can't catch are... A bit hilarious to me. Especially the mincino or whatever it's spelled in the very opening of Black and White, haha.
"Why are there some people out there who encounter the same pokemon over and over again for the slim chance it'll be a slightly different color?" Because some people have no life.
My first ever shiny was a Marill in Pokemon Silver in some random cave and I was confused and thought my game glitched so I reset, thinking only Gyarados can have a legit different colour. My second was a Tentacool on Mt. Silver. And the third was the Hitmonchan you can choose in Fire Red in the Dojo. Though I played on an emulator back then so it didn't even matter, which is sad because I never got that lucky on real Hardware.
I've been spending the past couple months casually trying to bully Bill into giving me a shiny Eevee in SS. My adhd cannot stand the amount of resetting, but the Autism *needs* that shiny okay, I just wanna be able to say that I stuck it out- (granted, I still have no clue if it'll even happen at all because I cannot comprehend the whole trainer code equals shiny likelihood situation, so, uh, yea, this feels like the ultimate full odds quest at the moment ngl-)
I manifested a Shiny Trapinch. Hear me out. I woke up last week from a dream of finding a Shiny Trapinch in Ruby, but in the dream it ran away. So I took it as a sign. I then booted up Ruby and ORAS, and NOT 10 MINUTES IN, Found a shiny Trapinch in ORAS. I literally said "there's no way" out loud 3 times.
That's not why the Red Gyarados was red, it was Red due to it being forced to evolve by the radio waves, making it keeps Magikarps red colour, this wasn't just in the anime, this was in the games too.
Out of all the years of playing Pokémon. The only games before gen 6 where I've gotten a shiny in. Is gen 5 where I got a shiny Mienshao. And again around 2018 when I got a shiny Sandile. And then again a two years ago I got another Shiny Sandile and it was ironically the same gender lol
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Yeah by doing a shiny Franchiselocke with no repeats
Or in your case finding many and if it's a repeat to bad so sad (btw I started a nonshiny franchiselocke cuz you made it seem awesome)
I just thought it was the Pokémon version of Albinism, something you’d see in real life where an animal is a different colour.
It is. Sugimori was still in charge when they were made and probably fed into his animal catching hobby. If he left after Gen 1, we probably wouldn’t have them.
More like melanism (excess pigment, as opposed to albanism, the lack of pigment) but yea.
Albinism is very specifically lack of any colour, not really the same thing
7:25 Imagine the kid who transferred their favorite Pokemon from gen 1 to gen 2 not realizing it had the perfect stats to be shiny
7:50 kinda crazy how the shiny for the cyndaquil line back then became the colours for hisuian typhlosion
But, Papa Sea......You never answered the damn question. WHY do shiny pokemon exist? I know how they came about, but not the why.
Thanks you saved me time
Around here, we used to call them "Golden Pokémon" at first until the term shiny became a thing.
The reason was of course the highest chance the first shiny you'll see is Gyarados, which some thought was meant to be a reddish/orangey goldish colour... also didn't help the games are called GOLD and Silver. When many started to get random shinies, most of them were yellowish in colour... like gold, like Charmander, Doduo, Shellder, etc... so the name golden stick for a while.
Of course, the majority called them shiny, and then the official term became shiny, so the term "Golden Pokémon" vanished.
Cool history
2:05 i thought it was red because of radio waves forcing evolution, so unnatural evolution caused color not to change from magikarp red to gyarados blue
This was my thought as well.
You are correct, he was wrong.
I didn't know that shiny pokemon existed for almost fifteen years. I thought the Red Gyarados in GSC was just special and wasn't indicative of any other potentially different palettes for any other Pokemon.
I remember my first shiny encounter... 22 years ago. It was a Nidoran male in route 35 in Pokemon Gold.
@btran05 you to?!?!? I found mine almost the same place, was that patch of grass before sudowoodo just northeast of the route
First shiny, i didn’t catch it. Tried ran out of balls
Had Thought it was like a missingno
With 3rd gen being my first, the first shiny I got was a Swinub in FR/LG, being a weird blue-ish color.
Having no knowledge of what Red Gyarados was as I hadn't played Gen 2 so I didn't know shiny pokemon were a thing, was trully amazed at seeing it in a different color from the couple I'd found prior so I caught it. So many cool memories 🤗
18:45 Fun fact: you can also evolve that shiny Magikarp - if you haven't already previously retired a Magikarp by accidentally evolving it. For the achievement "Adios, Gyarados!" if you tap repeatedly on your Magikarp, it'll break the everstone it's holding. Then once it grows to level 20, it'll evolve, and if you happen to do this to a shiny Magikarp, your Gyarados will be shiny as well. Of course, it also retires your Pokemon since you can't use it anymore in jumping contests.
We are a shiny nation. We spend a lot of time on hunting and chaining and doing things and we don't have any problem.
1:47 the funny part is nobody ever even referred to the Gyarados as a shiny. It was always just 'The Red Gyarados'.
That said, I imagine shinies in universe is more like albinism for Pokémon
In Pokemon Stadium, the Pokemon could have color variations based on their names. Not exactly "shiny", but it made my army of Mewtwo special and unique and awesome.
Wild coincidence that the I and V Unown are the ones that could be shiny in Gen 2, when DVs would be renamed IVs.
11:45 idk why but it cracked me up that I was used examples of uncatchables for 3 clips in a row. I’m very good at finding shinies I can’t keep 😂
Great video homie!
As someone who originally played Gold and Silver on a black and white game boy, the sparkle effect was much appreciated 😅.
I never assumed the red Gyarados was red because it was angry, I just assumed that a shiny Magikarp was among the Magikarp forced to evolve from the radio waves and, being red, it stuck out like a sore thumb. It was a good way to introduce shinies to the player though.
i am basically a shiny cubone the way i was an accident and now don't have parents
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omg this took me out I'm SO sorry
Love the shoutout to 40Cakes. I throw it on in the background when I’m working just to watch the progress. It’s oddly relaxing
1:54 "This just in, 5g towers change the colors of the surrounding pokemon? Find out at 11"
Hunting shiny people is so relaxing. I think it's awesome to have found a new goal in the games other than "gotta catch 'em all" or beating the storyline.
I've never played X and Y before and recently bought X. 3 weeks in and I'm still resetting for shiny Froakie 😊
Kwikpanik together with TalesOfTaylor created the Fossil Week shiny hunting event, while Safari Week was created by AbsolBlogsPokemon
my bad, I got those mixed up
Did anyone else find the music in this video a bit loud and distracting at times? I really noticed it around the 7 minute mark during the talk of DVs. Made it hard to hear the actual dialogue clearly. But still loved the video because I'm a sucker for anything shiny!
sorry about that, I had trouble mixing the music for this one and felt the same while editing but got it to the best level I could
I was distracted by the constant use of “lowering the odds” when the reference was always to increasing them instead lol
@@PaPaSea It happens! Thank you for the acknowledgement and keep up the awesome work. :)
Ironically Gyarados also changed it's colour... and then changed it back. The fabled ORANGE gyarados is my favourite ( FRLG)
Fun facts: 1)The shiny seedot was actually found by a shiny hunting bot that was running 24/7
2) The bot actually had already found 1 shiny seedot and wanted one more.
3)The second seedot took 1 year and approximately 3 million total encounters!
I remember being happy and proud for owning at least 1 shiny.
I remember being happy and proud that I own 10 shinies.
Then it became 30....50....80...then it came to the point that I stopped counting nor being proud of it since shiny hunting has been easier nowadays.
Aside from the countless ones I got in Pokemon HOME, I caught every single shiny Pokemon in SV (not all forms and shiny locks not counted However, I do have all shiny regional varians).
I’ve been playing Pokémon for years, my first being Blue back in the day. I’ve still never once seen a shiny aside from scripted Shinies like Gyarados.
I think it was to add a mythical status to regular Pokémon. Like legendaries are cool and all but if i had a slightly different colored piplup I wouldve been the most popular in my friend group
The reason why the original guide refers to them as different colored pokemon, is because it's a direct translation from the Japanese version. They are called 色違い (iro-chigai) which color different.
When he called modern shiny Spinarak green and not blue it was kinda funny
Because they look expensive, beautiful, rare and different.😊 Especially when first seen in the Stadium series on the n64.
They are not shiny, they only have a special color
Then you look at colosseum shinies and those are fun.
Say that to Garchomp.
@@mebreevee Yes, they are amazing. In the box, in battle, and even the battle interface sprite/photos differ. It's beautiful.
@@astrealove1 *Cries in subtle shiny just as most of gen 9 mons too*. Chomp could have been so much better.
The story I heard was it was the classic programmer error of how the first element in an array is noted by position 0, and someone thought it was 1. This meant that when selecting Pokémon colour palettes, they accidentally selected the neighbouring palette. Then they thought it was cool, and left it as a rare feature and gave you one as part of the story.
8:32 One thing you left out about Gen 1 Pokemon. It is impossible to get a shiny Pokemon in the wild without you're friend's romhack of the game. In vanilla Gen 1, you can get a shiny Pokemon through gifts, stationary encounters, and fishing. This restriction is also for max DV Pokemon.
Also, it might be technically possible to get a shiny Pokemon from the Stadium games' event Pokemon, but I do not believe anyone was able to show proof of them getting one. Getting a shiny Amnesia Psyduck, Baton Pass Farfetch'd, or Earthquake Gligar would be huge, but they would probably be the longest resets in the series if you don't have a save backup before you obtain them.
Been shiny hunting over the last 2 years off and on and it’s been fun. Now caught Shiny Celebi and Shiny extreme speed dratini from the elder in dragons den on Crystal for the 3DS virtual console. Got shiny Lugia last month in Soul Silver and currently working on the 3 Kanto starters in Firered/Leafgreen. Got Charmander and Bulbasaur but haven’t started squirtle yet. Needed to take a break since Bulbasaur took around 10000 resets.
Celebi in Crystal is also fun I got it earlier this year and was well under odds
5:55 Decreased odds for dexNav in gen 4 XD
the most unlikely shiny is your favourite spinda form
Also, i really hope that gen5 remakes will lift the shiny locks on Victini, Keldeo, and Meloetta. Dont care if it is one you capture yourself like Victini or resetting for gift Meloetta like you could with the gift pokemon in gen7.
We called them Shiny back in the day, I even had that game guide that said "special colored pokemon" and chose to call them Shiny. I suspect the players themselves solidified the nomenclature.
Same here. The term passed around quickly via the AOL chat rooms and early message boards.
Great, fun video.
I bought crystal version before the eshop went offline and decided to shiny hunt Cyndaquil. Because I wanted the full experience of crystal so I dimmed by brightness. Sat down with some snacks and something to watch and wasn’t paying attention and thought the 2nd cyndaquil looked a little off but wasn’t quite sure and it didn’t register in time before I reset. As soon as the next one popper up and was a different color I realized my mistake. Turned the brightness back up after that but still haven’t reclaimed it. It’s been almost a year.
you've gone all the way down the rabbit hole, I'm so proud to be your friend
I'll never forget playing Gold when I was a kid, encountered this weird Onix that sparkled and was a different color. I got scared and thought my game broke. I ran away and turned the game boy off, then it played normally again. I didn't realize the red Gyarados meant all pokemon could have this variant. It was a while later I learned about "Shinies" and remembered then realized what happened. This was like 2000-2001 and outside of guaranteed encounters / gift pokemon I have NEVER again encountered a random shiny pokemon in my life, only doing like RNG manips these days. "How Nintendo intended" these were absurdly rare.
I don't know why they exist, but I can't stop hunting all of them... help...
I found a full odds magikarp in my copy of Ruby during my very first play through. I wanted a milotic in my play through team so bad that I sat my butt down on the river and checked every single tile until I found 1 of the six that would give me feebas. In that process, I got a shiny.
I feel you man, torchic was my first soft reset shiny that I got like 2 weeks ago after failing it and a year of SRs
To this day, the only full odds shiny I've ever seen was the Poochyena in Ruby you have to defeat to save Professor Birch from.
i play magikarp jump, and have a shiny magikarp! i've heard the corsola and luvdisc that show up to drop food can be shiny as well, but it's much rarer than the magikarp
You can massively increase your shiny odds in Gen IV with the Cute Charm glitch.
Still will never forget my Pokémon Gold Shiny Drowzee that I got on a random playthrough. I never got to use him though since the battery for my cartridge wasn’t put in correctly and my save file was lost. RIP Elliot the Drowzee. Still have a picture to prove it happened.
It’s so interesting to learn that they weren’t called shiny officially until gen 4. I played the games as a kid as they came out and I remember my friends and I called them shiny pokemon in gen 3. I wonder where we got it from, we could have just as easily called them sparkly pokemon.
Shout out to my full odd shiny Krabby I caught on Gold + Silver release day as my birthday present!!
Hate to be that guy but you're raising odds, not lowering. The odds don't need to be any lower!
I’d rather the odds be lower rather than being as high as they are lmao
@@DarkestVoid low odds are bad. High odds are good. Masuda, etc. is raising odds, increasing, making them better, not lowering. That's my point, papa reversed the wording
was about to comment this. thought more people would catch on.
Was literally about to write this. Down to the "Hate to be that guy" 😅 We're trying to increase odds
oops
THEY'RE PUTTING RADIO WAVES IN THE WATER THAT TURN THE FRIGGIN' GYARADOS RED!
They should create a very specific color for full odd shines and all of them have 0IVs in all stats. Since shiny pokemon are too common, I prefer ribbons and marked Pokémon over them. Even the age matters more, as I still have my Wailord from Sapphire. If I run into a shiny in SV, I give it away, unless it has a mark OTHER than sociable.
I probably missed it, but has anyone ever caught a legit shiny XD001? That's gotta be hard because it doesn't appear shiny until you purify it, and the only way to purify XD001 is to purify all other pokemon. That will take hours just to find out it's shiny or not.
10:26
FINALLY!!! I found someone similar to me, I didn't know someone as unlucky as me actually existed. I'm 31 years old & have been a fan of the franchise for about 1/2 of my life, but despite my dedication to Fire-red/Leafgreen/Ruby/Sapphire, I've only seen 2 shinies EVER and caught NONE of them! Ponyta and swinub both k.o.'d themselves with takedown after I used false swipe...
I missed a shiny chansey in fire red... Still haunts me to this day since I'd have it in pokemon home
I shiny hunted a full odds 1/1892 Totodile in heart gold it took me forever but it feels good to have it knowing I got it at the hardest odds
So PM7 can find them immediately at the start of a JMC episode, clearly. XD
My first shiny was Sneasel when I originally played Gold Version. I used Mt Silver grass right next to pokemon center for grinding and found it and was so excited!
Amazing that the DV values determine which are shiny in Gen2 and yet the two unowns that can be are I V
Earlier this year in soulsilver I ran into a full 8192 odds shiny sentret before I got pokeballs. I don’t even know a word for how I felt in that moment
wow i can't believe the lake of rage had 5g rays
In the spaceworld beta shiny pokemon were any ones with top DVs, so at least the original intention was to show unusually strong pokemon.
My first shiny I encountered was in Gen 3 Ruby on victory road. It was a graveler, I didn't have a master ball, and it exploded.
"Welcome to the Salty Spitoon, how tough are ya?"
"How tough am I? I got my shiny Heracross in Soul Silver after about 30k headbutts"
"Yeah, so?"
"I did it all on a single Nintendo DS"
"Uh... right this way"
0:52 its giving First Partner Pokemon
When I was a kid my first shiny was a Wingull in Emerald, but I KO'ed it because I didn't know shiny was a thing. A few years later I got 2 shiny Whismurs back to back in Rusturf Tunnel in Emerald. I still have those 2 Whismurs after 10 years.
My first shiny that wasn't gyrados was a full odds Diglett in fire red.
I was training Dragonair in Diglett cave when it appeared. I thought it was a glitch but caught it anyways. I didn't see or hear the sparkles until I used it in battle and realized it was different.
I didn't understand shiny pokemon until diamond, pearl and platinum
Pokémon Sleep also has shinies! I'm not sure what the odds are, but I know they're relatively high with how many shinies I've gotten
Blud got frustrated that he accidentally soft reset when he got a shiny so in his frustration he made this video
The first shiny Pokémon I encountered was a shiny whismur in ruby. But bc I was a kid I never bought pokeballs and couldn’t catch it
you know my friends and I were calling them Shinys before the word took off. my first was Caterpie called it butters
Bruh good luck with turtwig. It took me 5 years to get a shiny chimchar in platinum
I’ve caught two full odds shinies in my 26 years of Pokemon. A Fearow in Firered, still have it in Home, and a Houndour back in Gold. I accidentally knocked it out, not knowing the Red Gyarados was a hint that shinies were a thing.
I would be devastated except Nintendo never gave us a way to transfer up to Gen 3 anyway.
2:00 no the radio waves make pokemon evolve, most likely there was a shiny Magicarp in the lake of rage and since it evolved when it didn't want to it got p*ssed off
Shoutout to me getting shiny Starly'd twice making me give up on my piplup hunt in brilliant diamond
13:13 So, you're saying the DVs affect the I, Vs? 😄
I once played Pokemon Crystal after buying it on my 2DS. The tutorial dude caught a shiny Rattata.
hang on where did they confirm that shiny-locked mythicals were to promote events? ive seen an interview of them saying it was to make specific instances of pokemon more unique e.g. liberty garden victini is a specific individual victini, but ive never seen them confirm that its to promote events in later games
My favorite thing is the shiny ditto method between gen 1 and 2
In French, we call them "Pokémon Chromatiques" which refers to their colour. We call them "shiny" as well (and by that I mean we use the english word "shiny").
Watching this while I continue the grind for a shiny Mewtwo in Fire Red.
Gotta catch 'em all, and keep catching them.
I got a shiny full odds PIplup. My sister got it for me, cuz I was soft reseting Diamond for a Female one, got a shiny one instead!
I remember playing fire red and encountering a shiny Venonat in the safari zone. I was shitting bricks hoping it didnt run away, but thank christ I got it lol. I also encountered a shiny Rattata in burned tower in OG silver version, but my box was full, so I had to run away... that broke my heart as a kid lol
When you get to Gen 4... you got to mention the cute charm.... glitch?
Though you will likely need to do it on a different game then the one you are currently trying to get that Turtwig on. Since it requires your trainer ID and secret ID being close together.
To some extent, shinies you can't catch are... A bit hilarious to me. Especially the mincino or whatever it's spelled in the very opening of Black and White, haha.
5:20 minor correction, it is only the language that matters. not region
They're like exotic pets
"Why are there some people out there who encounter the same pokemon over and over again for the slim chance it'll be a slightly different color?"
Because some people have no life.
We got Shiny PaPaSea before GTA 6
Awesome video as always!
My first ever shiny was a Marill in Pokemon Silver in some random cave and I was confused and thought my game glitched so I reset, thinking only Gyarados can have a legit different colour. My second was a Tentacool on Mt. Silver. And the third was the Hitmonchan you can choose in Fire Red in the Dojo. Though I played on an emulator back then so it didn't even matter, which is sad because I never got that lucky on real Hardware.
I've been spending the past couple months casually trying to bully Bill into giving me a shiny Eevee in SS. My adhd cannot stand the amount of resetting, but the Autism *needs* that shiny okay, I just wanna be able to say that I stuck it out- (granted, I still have no clue if it'll even happen at all because I cannot comprehend the whole trainer code equals shiny likelihood situation, so, uh, yea, this feels like the ultimate full odds quest at the moment ngl-)
I got junipered and wallyed within a couple of days of each other
I manifested a Shiny Trapinch.
Hear me out. I woke up last week from a dream of finding a Shiny Trapinch in Ruby, but in the dream it ran away. So I took it as a sign. I then booted up Ruby and ORAS, and NOT 10 MINUTES IN, Found a shiny Trapinch in ORAS. I literally said "there's no way" out loud 3 times.
I ran into a shiny Pidgey on route 1 in Leaf Green before I got Oak's Parcel
That's not why the Red Gyarados was red, it was Red due to it being forced to evolve by the radio waves, making it keeps Magikarps red colour, this wasn't just in the anime, this was in the games too.
the guy doing all shinies in emerald actually juat got his second shiny seedot, he's doing the living shiny dex
Out of all the years of playing Pokémon. The only games before gen 6 where I've gotten a shiny in. Is gen 5 where I got a shiny Mienshao. And again around 2018 when I got a shiny Sandile. And then again a two years ago I got another Shiny Sandile and it was ironically the same gender lol