I never got into shiny hunting, but I had the same breaking point with competitive Pokémon. Battle simulators just felt like an objectively better way to play with people, both when it came to the match making and the fact that you could just go nuts with whatever team you could think up. That, and the more I got into fighting games, the more I realized that constantly experimenting with "characters" (in this case, Pokémon) is where the real growth happened. As soon as I started thinking of raising Pokémon as an hours long character select, there was no going back...again, especially when battle simulators were right there lol.
I couldn't agree with this more. If I'm playing a fighting game character I don't feel like it makes sense to spend between 60-200hrs just to unlock all the system mechanics, movelist and such. I just want to play the damn game I bought lmao. But yeah battle Sims are absolutely just the best way to do pvp pokemon right now
Unfortunate that you see it as all a big regret but you clearly value your time, so happy that you could confidently walk away from hunting if it was no longer fun for you. I've got the certain sickness in my head where I enjoy casually shiny hunting marked mons, so here's hoping I can balance my time and don't end up also regretting the hunt. Also totally agree, if someone wants a battle ready shiny, as long as the pokemon isn't impossible with like moves it shouldnt learn or stats past the in game max, then who cares how that pokemon was caught or made. Saves time to practice
I think my biggest pitfall was I didn't take the time to smell the roses. I GRINDED! If I had enjoyed the journey instead of racing to the destination maybe this video would have been different 🤔 Thank you for watching and your comment!!!
Oh, a video about shiny hunting! oh. oh you got an entire shiny dex. Yeah, I can 100% get that. As of right now I only have 4 boxes of shinies in SV and I think that's all I'm going to get unless Lopunny comes out in the next game (I love its shiny) or something like that. After a bit shiny hunting just didn't become fun with what little reward and overall GameFreak jank, I can't even imagine getting an entire shiny dex. Either way, doing that kind of thing is admittedly a little badass, and like what other people are saying now you have time to do other things :3
I finally completed the Hoenn dex on my childhood copy of Pokemon Ruby with all the games and accessories I needed. So I was excited to continue the journey only for Dexit to happen lol.
Damn, I'm sorry to hear that. The cool thing is that you did it on an og cartridge (The shiny milotic and mawile are so cool, kecleon too) :) thanks for watching!
My first shiny was a Krokorok in gen 5 and I thought it looked ugly and somebody gave me a legendary for it on the online trade link, I had no idea why someone wanted that ugly Krokorok. And then I got a Venonat in gen 2 and then recently I opened a Storm Silver rom hack for the first time and the Chikorita on the very first go was a shiny. THAT one was cool as heck.
See it this way, you enjoyed your time, but now you can use your time for new hobbies, games you havent played and other things you want to and need to do. For me, I've decided that it makes shinies more valuable if i dont hunt them and i come across them on accident. As for genning, i just wish mainline games had singleplayer normal, but then a mutiplayer that you could use a pokemon showdown-like mechanic, so people dont have use so much time anymore. Imagine if more people had a chance to enjoy mutiplayer because they wouldnt have to grind, and it would be more accessible to kids(their primary audience) and people with jobs and families. I would also suggest a gamemode with rentals to reduce cheating and show people with real skill, instead of meta chasing.
I'm sure their was a witty joke I could make with my name about how lucky it is that my name is Lucky causing the algorithm to be lucky for people but I am a simple vtuber with only 1 or 2 brain cells!
only shiny im adamant about having every play through that its available is gengar but thats only due to it being my favotire pokemon and prefered main pokemon every run through unless im doing like a "gym leader" run through were i use only one type of pokemon (doesint matter what the 2nd typing is as long as it has the main typing like ghost or steel or whatever). makes the run throughs alot more fun for me, or like a pseudo/starter/whatever them run through.
Yes you definitely can strip any hobby down to this conclusion. I just think it was a lot easier when I realized that I didn't gain anything from my journey when I reached the destination. It wasn't like how in a fighting game I can grind for hours and learn more about myself as a player and the game and come out the other side better in some way. I simply idled by an mashed some buttons. There was no pay off in game or out of game (to me). However I think it was a valuable experience in the sense that it taught me to more accurately asses and value my time going forward so not all was lost. Thank you for watching!
I never got into shiny hunting, but I had the same breaking point with competitive Pokémon. Battle simulators just felt like an objectively better way to play with people, both when it came to the match making and the fact that you could just go nuts with whatever team you could think up. That, and the more I got into fighting games, the more I realized that constantly experimenting with "characters" (in this case, Pokémon) is where the real growth happened. As soon as I started thinking of raising Pokémon as an hours long character select, there was no going back...again, especially when battle simulators were right there lol.
I couldn't agree with this more. If I'm playing a fighting game character I don't feel like it makes sense to spend between 60-200hrs just to unlock all the system mechanics, movelist and such. I just want to play the damn game I bought lmao.
But yeah battle Sims are absolutely just the best way to do pvp pokemon right now
Unfortunate that you see it as all a big regret but you clearly value your time, so happy that you could confidently walk away from hunting if it was no longer fun for you. I've got the certain sickness in my head where I enjoy casually shiny hunting marked mons, so here's hoping I can balance my time and don't end up also regretting the hunt. Also totally agree, if someone wants a battle ready shiny, as long as the pokemon isn't impossible with like moves it shouldnt learn or stats past the in game max, then who cares how that pokemon was caught or made. Saves time to practice
I think my biggest pitfall was I didn't take the time to smell the roses. I GRINDED! If I had enjoyed the journey instead of racing to the destination maybe this video would have been different 🤔
Thank you for watching and your comment!!!
Oh, a video about shiny hunting! oh. oh you got an entire shiny dex.
Yeah, I can 100% get that. As of right now I only have 4 boxes of shinies in SV and I think that's all I'm going to get unless Lopunny comes out in the next game (I love its shiny) or something like that. After a bit shiny hunting just didn't become fun with what little reward and overall GameFreak jank, I can't even imagine getting an entire shiny dex. Either way, doing that kind of thing is admittedly a little badass, and like what other people are saying now you have time to do other things :3
Oh yeah I remember their shiny being cool. The pink floof was a nice touch!
Thank you for watching :) and adding a thought out comment!
I finally completed the Hoenn dex on my childhood copy of Pokemon Ruby with all the games and accessories I needed. So I was excited to continue the journey only for Dexit to happen lol.
Damn, I'm sorry to hear that. The cool thing is that you did it on an og cartridge (The shiny milotic and mawile are so cool, kecleon too) :) thanks for watching!
My first shiny was a Krokorok in gen 5 and I thought it looked ugly and somebody gave me a legendary for it on the online trade link, I had no idea why someone wanted that ugly Krokorok.
And then I got a Venonat in gen 2 and then recently I opened a Storm Silver rom hack for the first time and the Chikorita on the very first go was a shiny. THAT one was cool as heck.
There is something truly exhilarating about getting a shiny starter on the initial bootup. Thank you for sharing your story and watching the video!
@@theluckytempest Yeah! It's never happened to me before like that. :D
See it this way, you enjoyed your time, but now you can use your time for new hobbies, games you havent played and other things you want to and need to do. For me, I've decided that it makes shinies more valuable if i dont hunt them and i come across them on accident.
As for genning, i just wish mainline games had singleplayer normal, but then a mutiplayer that you could use a pokemon showdown-like mechanic, so people dont have use so much time anymore. Imagine if more people had a chance to enjoy mutiplayer because they wouldnt have to grind, and it would be more accessible to kids(their primary audience) and people with jobs and families. I would also suggest a gamemode with rentals to reduce cheating and show people with real skill, instead of meta chasing.
I think both solutions you offered up are really cool and something easily implemented^
Thanks for watching the video!
@@theluckytempest thanks for the video! You earned a sub, I'm lucky the algorithm randomly brought me here
I'm sure their was a witty joke I could make with my name about how lucky it is that my name is Lucky causing the algorithm to be lucky for people but I am a simple vtuber with only 1 or 2 brain cells!
@theluckytempest lol,nah you seem like you got a good head on your shoulders. I'm sure success will come your way
Like what did you expect?
To feel a sense of accomplishment once I finished lol. But NOPE
Like, zoinks, Scoob.
only shiny im adamant about having every play through that its available is gengar but thats only due to it being my favotire pokemon and prefered main pokemon every run through unless im doing like a "gym leader" run through were i use only one type of pokemon (doesint matter what the 2nd typing is as long as it has the main typing like ghost or steel or whatever).
makes the run throughs alot more fun for me, or like a pseudo/starter/whatever them run through.
See, this energy I can get behind. I hella respect making sure your ace/face is shiny!
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No printer?!
You can strip any hobby down to this conclusion. Not saying you're wrong, but I feel for you that you didn't realize it before you put the time in.
Yes you definitely can strip any hobby down to this conclusion. I just think it was a lot easier when I realized that I didn't gain anything from my journey when I reached the destination. It wasn't like how in a fighting game I can grind for hours and learn more about myself as a player and the game and come out the other side better in some way. I simply idled by an mashed some buttons. There was no pay off in game or out of game (to me). However I think it was a valuable experience in the sense that it taught me to more accurately asses and value my time going forward so not all was lost.
Thank you for watching!
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the truth is no pokemon game is worth ur time, just watch the anime
Damn you right, that's why I became an anime catgirl lol