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.
@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 🤗
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.
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 😊
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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 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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
"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"
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.
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.
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.
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...
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").
Ive done multiple ditto glitch gen 2 breeds, its super easy and a good idea for a fun full shiny playtrough that doesnt take too long to prepare. You do however need 2 3ds's or 2 gbc/gba's for this to work so quite an investment nowdays.
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
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.
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.
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
Im not a big fan of shiney pokemon but some are cool. My first shiney pokemon i ever encountered was a shiney White Rattata in the rafters of Tin Tower on my way to Ho-Oh.
My first shiny I ever saw was a Rattata in Gold version... Didn't have enough Pokeballs to catch it though 😭😭 So now I always keep extra Balls just in case
i'm just 1min 20 in, and i am one of the small group of people who played Pokemon Gold on his GB Pocket, and indeed the only reason i noticed the difference was because of the sparkles :)
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
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.
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
I live in PA right next to Philadelphia and we have gray squirrels well the other day as I was playing Pokémon go, I saw a shiny squirrel! I freaked out! Cause he was black! There’s no black squirrels around here! I love it! I hope he lives a long life and gets some gray squirrels pregnant and have some babies haha or the other way around if it’s a girl squirrel
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.
I think s/v has the best shiny hunting. It's still hard and you can choose full odds if you want. And the over world shinies are the best. Just my opinion. I've been playing pokemon since red and blue
@@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
you can MAKE different coloured Pokémon in Gen 1, without transferring to gen 2, but you need Pokémon Stadium. You can affect the colouring of your Pokémon by nicknaming it weird things.
Tbh, I wasn't a huge fan of the lack of indicator In the over world initially in sv, but it's grown on me and feels more immersive. Like I'm actually hunting them and have to rely on my eyesight. Terrible for accessibility, but it is fun.
I always thought shinnies were partly to show what I call Darwinian evolution, pokemon evolve slowly over time. With the shininess being due to mutation in their DNA.
Thanks IntoTheAM for sponsoring this video! Check them out and use code PAPASEA for 10% off your purchase at checkout! intotheam.com/PapaSea
To make content creators suffer by talking to chat until they find one
Based
Real
so based on
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)
7:50 kinda crazy how the shiny for the cyndaquil line back then became the colours for hisuian typhlosion
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
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
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
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
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 🤗
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
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.
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 😊
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.
1:54 "This just in, 5g towers change the colors of the surrounding pokemon? Find out at 11"
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
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.
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.
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.
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. :)
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
💀
omg this took me out I'm SO sorry
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!
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 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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
you've gone all the way down the rabbit hole, I'm so proud to be your friend
I don't know why they exist, but I can't stop hunting all of them... help...
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.
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.
5:55 Decreased odds for dexNav in gen 4 XD
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
THEY'RE PUTTING RADIO WAVES IN THE WATER THAT TURN THE FRIGGIN' GYARADOS RED!
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.
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!
"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"
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.
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
I missed a shiny chansey in fire red... Still haunts me to this day since I'd have it in pokemon home
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 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.
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.
Shout out to my full odd shiny Krabby I caught on Gold + Silver release day as my birthday present!!
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...
Amazing that the DV values determine which are shiny in Gen2 and yet the two unowns that can be are I V
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.
So PM7 can find them immediately at the start of a JMC episode, clearly. XD
Bruh good luck with turtwig. It took me 5 years to get a shiny chimchar in platinum
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 once played Pokemon Crystal after buying it on my 2DS. The tutorial dude caught a shiny Rattata.
Wild coincidence that the I and V Unown are the ones that could be shiny in Gen 2, when DVs would be renamed IVs.
Ive done multiple ditto glitch gen 2 breeds, its super easy and a good idea for a fun full shiny playtrough that doesnt take too long to prepare. You do however need 2 3ds's or 2 gbc/gba's for this to work so quite an investment nowdays.
0:52 its giving First Partner Pokemon
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
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.
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
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
Watching this while I continue the grind for a shiny Mewtwo in Fire Red.
wow i can't believe the lake of rage had 5g rays
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.
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
Gotta catch 'em all, and keep catching them.
When he called modern shiny Spinarak green and not blue it was kinda funny
My favorite thing is the shiny ditto method between gen 1 and 2
Ironically Gyarados also changed it's colour... and then changed it back. The fabled ORANGE gyarados is my favourite ( FRLG)
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
Im not a big fan of shiney pokemon but some are cool. My first shiney pokemon i ever encountered was a shiney White Rattata in the rafters of Tin Tower on my way to Ho-Oh.
I got junipered and wallyed within a couple of days of each other
My first shiny I ever saw was a Rattata in Gold version... Didn't have enough Pokeballs to catch it though 😭😭 So now I always keep extra Balls just in case
i'm just 1min 20 in, and i am one of the small group of people who played Pokemon Gold on his GB Pocket, and indeed the only reason i noticed the difference was because of the sparkles :)
Shiny Cyndaquil [in Crystal] took me AGES 😭
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
Shoutout to me getting shiny Starly'd twice making me give up on my piplup hunt in brilliant diamond
I ran into a shiny Pidgey on route 1 in Leaf Green before I got Oak's Parcel
We got Shiny PaPaSea before GTA 6
I think you should do a video on horribly long shiny hunts. My favorite example is Reversal!
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.
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
I live in PA right next to Philadelphia and we have gray squirrels well the other day as I was playing Pokémon go, I saw a shiny squirrel! I freaked out! Cause he was black! There’s no black squirrels around here! I love it! I hope he lives a long life and gets some gray squirrels pregnant and have some babies haha or the other way around if it’s a girl squirrel
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!
Heres why, there wouldnt be pokemon without it XD
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.
Awesome video as always!
They're like exotic pets
I think s/v has the best shiny hunting. It's still hard and you can choose full odds if you want. And the over world shinies are the best. Just my opinion. I've been playing pokemon since red and blue
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
you can MAKE different coloured Pokémon in Gen 1, without transferring to gen 2, but you need Pokémon Stadium. You can affect the colouring of your Pokémon by nicknaming it weird things.
I think the Pokémon TCG could be responsible for the origins of the name "Shiny" with the Shining Gyarados card from the year 2000!
Tbh, I wasn't a huge fan of the lack of indicator In the over world initially in sv, but it's grown on me and feels more immersive. Like I'm actually hunting them and have to rely on my eyesight. Terrible for accessibility, but it is fun.
I always thought shinnies were partly to show what I call Darwinian evolution, pokemon evolve slowly over time. With the shininess being due to mutation in their DNA.