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i tried shiny hunting when i was a kid and did NOT have the patience for :( today as an adult i tried to repurchase a DS and some games! (diamond, b2, and ss!) --- i still hadnt found a shiny yet, but knowing that people still upload shinyh hunting stuff this time is so fun!! i cant wait to find my first hunted shiny

currently 3012 resets into a shiny tepig hunt in B/W and watching videos like this helps with the motivation!

I think it's funny that I'm watching this video and I have been shiny hunting for probably around a decade at this point lol. This is a really good video And frankly not what I expected it to be. I appreciate that you actually talked about the mindset and things to do, rather than just telling people the basics and what shinies are and how to hunt them. Also I very much agree with your statement at the beginning of the video, it is a very weird feeling seeing shiny hunting go from this hypernice community and hobby. To essentially one of the cornerstones of pokémon in general, it's weird. Like I'm happy that more people can enjoy this thing that I love so much, and the more attention that it gets the more the actual pokémon company cares about shiny pokémon which is great cuz I've been obsessed with them since I was like 10. But also it's bittersweet, it doesn't feel like my special little hobby anymore. It's not this niche little KZfaq community where people are pointing webcams at their DS as much anymore. There are so many shiny hunting KZfaqrs with hundreds of thousands of subscribers, there's millions of posts online, there's constant discussion and even stuff like RNG manipulation is becoming more mainstream. It feels like when a band you love finally gets popular, you're so happy that this thing you really care about is finally getting recognition and being seen as something to genuinely appreciate. But it feels like you're almost losing a part of yourself, giving up a part of your identity that was More unique and almost yours, and letting it expand to something much bigger than you. I don't know if this is too deep for talking about shiny pokémon. But it's just a weird feeling

Im so glad you mentioned sonnikks, hes such a cool guy

Tip for masuda in SV: If you use multiple foreign ditto, you will get more eggs, so that’s always a plus..

I have a friend who used to do a lot of Dex Nav hunts. I think I will give it a try!

As a hunter, I can definitively say you should try to immunise your team when it comes to hunting particularly strong Pokémon, like Legendaries. Shedinja is often a good option for this, as it also has False Swipe, but simply walling their offence can work too. I had a low level Sableye when I was going for Arceus, simply because it has the potential to easily take out your actual hunting team, and Sableye happens to be completely immune to Future Sight and Hyper Beam. If you expect a catch to take a while, it might be a good idea to try and minimise the risk. Currently, I have a Shedinja while I go for Dialga in Platinum, though that’s on break. With that Arceus hunt, I actually panicked when I eventually found it, and it ended up reaching a point where it was about to struggle to death (already using the move, from full health because Recover). Luckily a Timer Ball worked right towards the end, otherwise I would probably have given up. (400 hours on Arceus alone). Do try to have the Master Ball as backup, I didn’t because I was fully unprepared, no thanks to a certain random Shiny Weezing, and I wasn’t willing to fail it. Lastly, try a few test catches and use Catch Rate Calculators. This can do wonders when it comes to figuring out how you’re going to go about catching the Shiny when you DO find it.

the rubber band trick was not known to me, i just started full odds hunting with your last video, when i was a kid when HG/SS just came out my brother and i had several shinies in those games, my first was a slowbro in the safari zone, then in 2012-2013ish i learned about shiny hunting and wanted to go for chikorita, and got tododile in under a couple hours, and then never played HGSS after completing that game file. a few days after the kyurem video dropped, probably 10 years or more since i played HGSS i spent almost 200 CAD on a soul silver copy, after 500ish resets i had a shiny chikorita, i did 4 hours the first night, then TEN MINUTES the next morning. i was ecstatic. a week later i got heartgold because i found it such a fun experience and in FOUR resets (1 minute 34 seconds) i had ANOTHER shiny chikorita (then after being sad the hunt didnt go on longer did random encounters the first route for hoothoot and got one after 134 encounters/47 minutes) i just bought a SECOND heart gold copy yesterday and an extra dsi so i can double hunt and for 2 hours i was swapping each in my hands to do the resets the rubber bands are gonna make this so much more effective, i just hopefully wont get a third chikorita LOL (though i wont complain if/when i do)

Heyyyy I got mentioned! Thanks! Shiny Hunting is definitely a mental struggle and its greta to finnaly have a guide to it! Great vid!

For anyone checking out his channel these are great tips. I would also suggest that if you want to hunt in Gens 3-7 you might wanna jump on that soon. The bridge between gens is on borrowed time. If you have the Poke Bank or have a friend with Poke bank its supposed to continue working after april of 2024 for now but its borrowed time. They could shut down bank and break the only bridge to move mons to the newest gens.

I was watching this video to try and keep motivation to shiny hunt Rayquaza on BDSP, and not even halfway through, just before 7:36 was when I got it. That was also my first ever authentic shiny legendary by soft resetting. I know you didn't really help that Ray show up, but I'd still like to thank you

Tip 11 resonates with me so much. Great video

Man, I had tried a Kyurem hunt back in 2021 but gave up. After seeing your video on it a few days ago (late, I know.) It inspired me to pick up the hunt again. Currently 829 resets and counting whenever I can find the time. Gotta thank you for the tips that will definitely help me not go insane!

I really love this video a lot; as someone who watches content creators a lot to fuel my own drive to continue my own hunts, I really appreciate the growing shiny hunting community. Just a few days ago I actually finished my Shiny Giratina hunt in Pokemon Platinum that I had been working on for over half a year and it just feels so gratifying to finally have my first full-odds shiny hunt completed. I know I'll be doing many more in the future! c:

A shiny hunting tips video with actually helpful ideas? Very cool Also that last tip resonates with me on a personal level lmao

New Anthmags video! Thanks for putting so much effort in to these videos, it’s really inspiring! I’m still getting into shinies and competitive, so this really helps.

Hey I got the mention. I've actually been at this game for 2 decades now. I helped start a group on GameFAQs in Gen 3 literally called "The Shinies" that was focused around them at first and just kind of became a social hangout. Currently working on a shiny Landorus in Black and White that I'd ideally like to take to Sacramento Regionals this weekend, but if I don't find it, no biggie.

Tip for anyone hunting in an area in gen 2 with fleeing Pokemon in GSC: Do some catch calc with a level Ball! I found that by having a Pokemon that's at least level 10, a level Ball will garunteed the catch of a Teddiursa that's level 4 in Dark Cave. Highly recommend it

Great video! Loved all of the editing and effects, they looked very satisfying, fun and smooth!

literally the whole reason I bought bdsp was to shiny hunt some of the legendry's, and thats just what I did, the moment I got access to palkia, I started shiny hunting. 6 months later the pink striped water dragon appeared after 2176 resets, and it felt amazing, so I decided I wanted to do another hunt like that, so I decided on giratina. just 4 days later at 726 resets the blue spiked eel appeared, and yet again I wanted to do another hunt, but for rayquaza this time, so I did hours of preparing to be able to shiny hunt it, spending hours getting mysterious shard, and catching the necessary legendry's to unlock rayquaza, and 2 days later at a jaw dropping 250 resets, the black tapeworm appeared, and again I got cocky, so I got some more mysterious shards, and started my hunt for mewtwo. my mewtwo hunt is ongoing as of writing this comment, and im at 641 resets going strong! :D

Thank you for the tips! I watched your other video about hunting a shiny Kyurem and now I'm invested in the wonders of shiny hunting, lol. I'm also thinking of trying to catch a shiny Kyurem (in BW), but since I restarted my save I'm currently nowhere near the postgame. I think I'll try my hand at catching a shiny Yamask or Cofagrigus instead!

I am definitely planning on doing some full odds shiny hunts soon since i now have free time! Shiny snivy here we go!

Hey, I just want you to know that I’ve watched this video about six times when I have lost motivation at the ending of watching this video I realised I finished all of those hunts and this one won’t be an exception. Thanks for making this great video on shiny hunting and good luck on your next hunt

im currently doing a shiny hunt for honedge in y rn, i'll definitely try to remember these tricks for the next hunt i do! i've already tried to shiny hunt a few times, with varying success, so these will probably be very helpful for me :D

Damn with this video you got me excited to go shinyhunting and great video btw

On tip 9, I almost cried when you tossed the ds there.

Hey, man! Once again, watching this video got me some great shiny luck as I was shiny hunting for Poipole on USUM! I got it in about 722 soft resets and found it around the 15:49 timestamp! Again, I know you had no influence over the odds, but I'd like to say thank you again lol

I saw your Kyurem video a while back and kind of forgot about it, but the Kartana video brought me right back! Once I get past rewatching various videos by Absolblogspokemon (also pretty cool to see them mentioned in the video) I'll be sure to rewatch the Kartana and Nihilego videos while I hunt for Pheromosa! (Currently 12 hours in i'm at 2038 resets, I'll probably update you guys on it every 1000) oh, and thanks for the guide I guess

Literally got a shiny Guzzlord while I was watching this! Been hunting it and darkrai at the same time, darkrai is over odds and taking ages.

I want to clarify something on the rubber bands: No, it won't harm your system, but if you leave it on without taking it off, it can mess with your LR buttons to where they won't register when they're pressed, so you'll have to open your system to fix it. If you take a break, take it off, if you're done for the day, take it off. I've experienced this issue firsthand with a couple of systems.

Just came back to say that I finally got my shiny ho oh. I took about 1700 srs. I got it while watching maximum overdrive. But your tip with the tape made it much more bearable, thank you.

Another tip:Please,if there's any way to increase your odds,just do it.If you hear that your fav poketuber only hunts at full odds(SupremeRK9s),please,don't pick up the same habbit.Always hunting at full odds is draining and try your best to avoid it and only do it when you don't have any other choice(Shaymin in BDSP for example)

No matter what you cover next, there will always be people interested

I’m 5317 resets into my shiny tepig hunt in Pokemon black thank god my brother keeps motivating me to keep going I think I’m almost there!

Taping down the bumpers was huge. Reminds me of when I would stick a dime under the joystick in x while hatching eggs in that circular city.

I just got the shiny charm in violet, good time to see this video

Another video I have been waiting! ❤ Edit: I will have to watch tomorrow its already late

I was trying to get a female grookey for competitive Pokémon and accidentally hatched a shiny grookey after 4 eggs any advice on a fun hunt to do I haven’t gotten any shiny Pokémon in bw and bw2 or oras/xy

I've wanted a shiny Lapras so bad for my entire life and I'm ready to finally take my shot at it

I love shiny hunting but i only have gen 8 and 9 and i was thinking about buying a ds lite with pokemon emerald or black 2 (if i find any that wotn cost me my liver) so that is a very helpful video thx man

These are some good tips, I’d definitely agree with doing something else while hunting. I rarely hunt without doing that. But another tip I figure I should add. Don’t feel like your cheating for using methods like charm, chain fishing, or sandwiches. Your value of your shiny comes from you alone. So if you haven’t got much time, no need to full odds it for it to ‘count’ do whatever works for you. Watching things whilst hunting also given me good name ideas or just memories. Like, I remember Welcome to Eden pretty much purely because I found shiny Celebi in what I’m pretty sure was the final episode. Or watching through Inscryption while hunting (Garbodor or Kyurem, not entirely sure which as they were my first hunts).

i love that tip number eleven xD

Excellent video! Always enjoyable. Currently I'm soft resetting for a shiny snivy and yeah, after nearly 2 months plus a break over lent, I'm sure hoping it shines soon. Personally I view it as "shiny hunt in the background while doing other stuff" I actually don't mind the kind of resets where you wait for a cutscene and Click once or twice like legendaries. Its constantly clicking through dialogue I hate.

I'm shiny hunting Celebi on Pokemon Crystal since December. I'm gonna get it some day !

THE GOAT IS BACK, NOW HES THE TEACHER AHHHHH

It's so funny you pit up alpha sapphire. I thinks that's the best games for my generation to hunt in. People who are as old as pokemon. Gen 4 and below is nostalgic for me so I get tha old pokemon fee but alot of modern convinces of modern pokemon in 3d. This the game I currently shunt in and started making shorts vlogging my hunts!

Your channel is also a big reason why I want to hunt for shiny Giratina 😸

3:00 called me out straight up😂 im legit multitasking to beat sappire with my new shiny torchic so i can hunt shiny kyogre

im a master shiny breeder... been doing this since 2012 when bw2 came out. The only thing I can tell to people that wants to shiny hunt, is to have pantience. Ive been trying to hatch a perfect 5iv competitive shiny scorbunny for some time now, and after 21 hatched shinnies with not so perfect iv spread, im still grinding. Aventually ill get it.

first! excited to watch a new video from you!

I use illuminate mons to increase encounters to help get the encounters faster

ive been trying to finish oras with a full team of shinies for the hall of fame screenshot lmao... i got a shiny mudkip (prob shoudlve gone for trecko but oh well) and a shiny ralts (93 dexnav encounters!!) and then my luck ran dry. 8000 encounters for a single phase (going for roselia, got an oddish instead) so i switched to masuda, hit 683 encounters and nothing so then i met up with someone from the internet irl to get the eon ticket via streetpass for a latios hunt... i got like 2900 RAs in an got demotivated... i might go back to finish that now though after watching this video! your shiny kureum vid actually got me into this playthrough in the first place lol

Ive watched your videos while doing my Kartana hunt Miraculously I got my Shiny Kartana at 615 soft resets Its my first soft reset shiny and legendary type I named it Talos : D

I just got back into shiny hunting and got a shiny poipole at 705, im thinking of doing more SR hunts in oras and transfering my exclusives to UM to hunt stuff like kyruem or rayquaza

I’ve actually used most of the steps you had here! My main goal is to someday have a shiny Kyurem of my own (with my OT of course) kinda sucks black are white are super expensive now, I’ve been trying in the frozen tundra, hopefully theirs some sort of way inside of the indigo disc

I feel like this ties to your tip of “try new methods”. When playing games with lower odds/no shiny charm it’s good for making the shiny more meaningful ,and rare. Do this if you get bored of typical shinies ,and want a challenge/special shiny in some way.

After seeing your BW hunt that inspired me to also shiny hunt in my old BW save (I still haven’t got kyreurem 😭)

to share my first ( & second) shiny experience It was my second playthrough of Sun and i had just got to paniola ranch, i went though the yellow grass forgeting a repel and encountred a full odds shiny mudbray, i didnt quite register at first but he had a special place in my heart as my first ever shiny Now for my first intentional shiny Rowlet aka the bestest roundboi, it was my US save file and i decided to restart and hunt for rowlet because why the hell not, i wasnt counting my resets because i kept forgetting to press the sr button oops but i got him in literally a day and he is what really started my love for shiny hunting. i got a switch amd Sword for christmas (+ im getting legends arceus and scarlet on the 8th) and right now im filling out my dex to get the shiny charm then ill hunt an undecided pokemon and ill update this comment when i reach certain milestones )

I've been on a dual hunt for a few years now, Marill in Gen 3 and Remoraid in Gen 5, though each have been on and off

"Have fun, no one is forcing you to shiny hunt" Nintendo shutting down Online services and pokemon Bank soon on 3DS: *"Are you sure about that?"*

I can’t believe I only found your channel now

So far i hunted Arceus Dialga Palkia Shaymin Darkrai Rayquaza Poipole Yveltal Celebi Ho-Oh Giratina And currently lugia. My longest was Arceus with 220 hours. It took me longer than darkrai shaymin giratina celebi Ho-Oh And dialga combined. Still worth it. Dialga giratina arceus shaymin and darkrai were all hunted on BD

I'm actively carving a candle, correct about the multitasking.

This really helped me, I am gonna pick up the double grass encounters in BW2. And thanks for that rubber band tip.

3:29 i was shiny hunting for beldum while seeing this vid :D

One thing I never understand is counting encounters I feel it slows me down having to increase a counter and gets me out if rhythm. I also hate seeing high numbers. Like you mentioned seeing a hunt that goes way over just fills me with dread and counting encounters to me is a remind of the tedious waiting game that shiny hunting can be

I've been shiny hunting Groudon in Soul Silver, after managing Kyogre in Heart Gold (espeon synchronise failed though), for yeeeears, I had been doing hard resets via a broken A and L bumper 3ds, but those are off to get repaired, so IDK my count now. I should really use a reset counter 😅😅

Bruh I have been soft resetting for a shiny Jellicent in White 2 literally since 2017. I go through cycles of about a month or so on and off of hunting. This shiny hunt has ABSOLUTELY KILLED ME like I have been so close to giving up at times. Still going strong though, and have also caught other shinies in different games throughout the years. But goddamn I wish I had an encounter counter started at the beginning because 7 years for one Pokemon is INSANE… 😭😭😭😭😭

Hey everyone now I know a lot of people like to track there shiny hunts by doing a counter. I normal do the same but doing it can make you feel very angry so if you feel that way just ignore the counter then just calculate the average per encounter per second after you find it. I know shiny hunting can be hard but don’t lose hope you got this

Great guide ^^

This is gonna sound unbelievable but with the charm my dynamax adventure hunt for kartana took 9 months over 16 hundred das and 9 phases funny that the phase and month number was the same

I’ve only ever found 2 shiny pokemon in my 13+ years of playing, first was in Diamond, my first pokemon game. It was a shiny Zubat but i didn’t know about the Up+Select+B you had to do to restart a game and couldn’t keep it. 2nd was when i recently started a new White playthrough after years of not playing, my first encounter was a shiny Patrat, got it down to the red and threw all 5 pokeballs, i ran out.

LET ME SAY, 200 hours for a shiny snivy (shiny starter for my only shiny save) was not fun. I was so disappointed how it didnt shine. Luckily i got it a week and some days ago. 20 mins later i found a shiny patrat as well. However 38 hours or 13864 RE in gen 5 for a shiny solosis is over odds. At the very least Unova is my favorite so all of this work will be worth it

love the video!

I tried to shiny hunt a Scorbunny using a french Ditto in Sword, never got it. I've played pokemon for years, i have NEVER seen a shiny ever, except for that one event in Sw/Sh for a shiny Magicarp, which i caught, but i dont count it, honestly. Might try a Sableye if I get the Scorbunny

How do I get harvest Pokémon in black 2 now that dream world is down

i put this video on while looking for shiny galarian zigzagoon and i kid you not, found it three encounters later

I think I'm at abot 1200-1500 srs with ho oh. I did it for about 3 hrs a while back during a road trip. I just added in around 300 because It was probably around that many. (I took a few breaks during g the trip)

3:03 looking for my shiny zigzagoon right now in Omega Ruby while I watch this, 340 horde encounters so far without the shiny charm, hope I get it today, still morning so I still got the energy to push it to at least 800 encounters which would be waaaay over odds for horde hunting by then (hopefully)

I'm shiny hunting Electrode in Hear Gold, but I'm starting to wonder if I need a regular DS instead of a 2DS

Tip for efficiently shiny hunting? Play SV. Free shinies. Sadly diminishes their value/rarity…so I still enjoy getting shinies in the older games!

im just watching this video meanwhile im shiny hunting frillish in pokemon black 2

Definitely take breaks every hour or two. It gets really demoralizing just sitting there soft resetting over and over.

I like SR because it guarantees that you will get the shiny you are looking for (duh 😅) But I also like RE hunts because finding the exact pokémon you are hunting makes you feel so lucky My last hunt was Nidoran male in Gen2. But while hunting for him I managed to find a shiny Ledyba, I'm a huge Ledian fan. And the next day after just a few encounters, I was hunting in Y at the same time, and while watching at the screen, I heard the sparkles, but it wasn't on Y, it was my Crystal, and there it was my shiny Nidoran. Haven't been this lucky I think ever. Fate made me find Ledyba first, because you know if that first shiny would've been Nidoran, I would've been out of there the second I caught it, and I wouldn't have find my little Ledyba

Love this any more tips

5686 for a drifloon in bdsp. Hunting on 2 switches. This is painful

hopefully we could shiny victini, thats my favorite shiny, hopefully in the remakes we can. Time to watch the vid😁

Yall wish me luck I'm doing a black nuzlock shinys only with random pokemon so ya

i have a question, im using the emulator "DraStic" on my phone, and im trying to shiny hunt suicune, this emulator lets me load previously saved data, i saved in front of suicune and i keep load the previous data, does that means that im shiny hunting the same Pokémon over and over, or it changes after each try? bcs i dont know if that count as soft reset or not... let me know if im wasting my time or not, thank you😅

My most recent hunt was for a shiny latios that I named enola gay I got it in ultra sun

Awesome 😎

Any tips to not accidentally soft reset shinies?

I've a question. I'm hunting Shiny Kyurem using an original cartrigde of PW2 on my Nintendo 3DS, just pressing the HOME button counts as a Soft Reset?

O my God I was just in the bath thinking, "I should look up a video on tips for shiny hunting". Godd@**it algorithm Stop reading my thoughts!

Thanks for the tips! Question: does the Masuda method work if the different language Pokémon is from a rom?

"do something else, watch tv, watch this video" wel, thats what I'm doing smart guy lol I love watching youtube, while hunting. It's weird how often I get shinies while watching shiny videosEDIT: Got my target 15 encounters after this comment

been hunting Poipole and Regidrago for about 90 hours now, send help

The online is gona to shutdown in the 3DS and you culd not transfer Pokémon to poke transporter.😢

Where can I buy cheap Pokémon games? My older brother gave me his old Pokémon games, but I’d feel horrible deleting his White 2 save file!