The secret history of shiny hunting in pokemon

[@CandyEvie]

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[@slickeey]

Butters better

[@firstryft]

ok

[@PootisSpencerHeeyah]

Blink twice if you’re being held hostage

[@blitzer9002]

No I don't think I will

[@steelboy_X]

Salt

[@RTGame]

who would have thought that rare bat would lead to a crippling addiction years later

[@robertlupa8273]

at least it didn't lead to a crippling disease

[@Sailor-Khione]

Me... (Looks at her shiny bird)

[@kinsan89]

It was a purple santa bird for me :^)

[@lordjaraxxus5418]

Same for me.. though I never caught that bat... Instead I caught a Steelix... which was lost to game corruption. Then a mantyke. It was not until I got an alpha Ralts that my shiny hunting really started.

[@A_Hylian_Not_An_Elf]

Shiny tadpole for me.

[@JJ_R]

In Scarlet & Violet, a shiny can be two feet behind you, and you’d never know! It’s a shiny hunter’s worst nightmare, and it’s actually possible now!!!

[@Larat..]

My first violet shiny spawned right next to me I almost didn’t turn around my camera, I almost missed it

[@batchest2977]

The first shiny i got in S/V was a random Snom. I didn't even notice. Idk why i even ran into it i literally had no idea i just did and it sparkled lol

[@skeletonboy6628]

i miss the sound from legends arcues bc as soon as it would connect with my ear drum i would just start hunting for it

[@hatennafromhoenn]

I don't usually worry about it. My mindset is that, if I miss a shiny, then odds are it isn't a very good one.

[@SpottyLotti]

My first shiny in Pokémon Violet was a shiny frokie I called rana that I found in 28 tries via masuda method

[@DarkDepth2000]

Imagine telling someone in gen 3 that the best way to currently shiny hunt is to make a sandwich.

[@A-Person1]

Why do I keep finding you again and again!?

[@Carcosahead]

When Gen 3 released I was a 9 yo kid obsessed with Pokémon Emerald so I would believed that 😂

[@PokeHokage]

Didn't shiny hunting in gen 3 also rely on having the right frame at the beginning of the playthrough?

[@JavaCake]

Yeah lol

[@BrewstoidOfficial]

@@Carcosahead bro when gen 3 released i wasnt alive!

[@alexallen6001]

My favorite full odds shiny encounter was when my uncle got his FIRST ever shiny in BDSP and it was a zubat and he yelled "IS THAT A ZINY SHOEBAT?!" cause his excitement messed up his words

[@NylaaTheNeedleFan]

A ziny shoebat 😔😔😔😔

[@inkterstellar]

YES!!! Your uncle is an absolute mood.

[@JSKWilson]

There is just something about the name "rare bat" that I find unbelievably funny. Truly, 9-year-old-Lucy was ahead of her time not just in shiny hunting but apparently in future internet comedy as well.

[@bewearstar9462]

I named my first shiny rare pup it was a seel and I named it after that zubat

[@AbsolBlogsPokemon]

Such a good overview of the evolution of shiny hunting from this suuuper obscure little hobby to one of the main ways people enjoy Pokemon! There are so many facets of shiny hunting that are so hard to convey (like the "value" of shinies), and you knocked it out of the park talking about how your personal value you put into a shiny is all that really matters at the end of the day. I'm so glad to still see so many familiar faces like you still around still looking for these sparkly animals all these years later!

[@CandyEvie]

You too dude :) who knows what hunting will look like in another 10 years lol

[@BlueBerryPieCherry]

Ello Mr.Clorox

[@TimmyDaTurtle]

Most definitely. I think at the end of the day, what people enjoy about shiny hunting just comes down to personal preference. I think for me, I like hunting full odds more (I started with methods in oras, but once we got to PLA I kinda decided I prefered full odds more) I don't think theres any one wrong way to shiny hunt, because if we go off the logic of safari zone, It just comes down to the individual. I do think a good balance is good though, one method shouldn't completely outclass another method, they should all be set to different preferences (Like how masuda is lower odds, but it sometimes takes longer than full odds) I think its because of this, its why I don't enjoy SV as much, since it feel like it limits your options a bit as far as how you want to hunt. At the end of the day though, I feel like no matter what, what matters is that the person has fun.

[@zachsusskind]

safari week!!!

[@Ssjvaca]

ABSOL!!!! I really didn't expect you here, I love your content!

[@Forever_Zero]

rare bat is a legend among legends, just imagine being the one pokemon that started CandyEvie's love for shiny hunting

[@MageSkeleton]

i can't believe the first video of someone uploading a video of a shiny pokemon was someone just "showing off" having a shiny Kyogre.

[@purumu_k1kau]

Imagine her disappointment to play Scarlet & Violet.... and theres no Yanma😂😂😂

[@dylanstrife7652]

​@PURUMU_K1KAU_ shiny yanma is very easily obtainable in legends arceus so there's that ❤

[@livblakey1326]

I was literally laughing whenever you said “it’s like a magnet for autistic people” because I chronically shiny hunt and am autistic. It really is nice to have a community who shares your obsession. I’m 18 and Pokémon still takes up around 80% of my brain.

[@CandyEvie]

you can beat the shiny addiction I believe in u

[@FROZENPWR]

@@CandyEvie Yes it's such a magnet, I have autism too. It's so nice to see a fellow autistic content creator :D I love your videos and i love shiny hunting (I'm crazy so I do it in emerald). Keep up the excellent work :)😊

[@msthecommentator2863]

Your first shiny Pokemon was basically how mine went, though mine was a Gastly in original Silver after leaving the National park. I'd already caught red Gyarados so when I saw the same sparkles on Gastly I shouted something like "They can all be a different color?!?" I caught it, and my life as a shiny hunter officially began

[@bluestylite7780]

Lol, that was my reaction too when I found a shiny Magmar in the burned tower.

[@lillith7257]

i too think Gyarados was how i knew my Tentacruel in Sapphire was shiny, i think it should have been much earlier in the games but it was a good tool to give children a heads up. though also realistically should have had dialogue accompany it (then again kids struggled with Whitney so i doubt they would have read it)

[@jrlaps521]

Mine was because of the Red Gyarados too but because of the one mentioned at the beginning of Diamond and Pearl. So when I saw a green Zubat in Mt Coronet I also assumed other Pokémon can be differently colored

[@aether905]

Same here. I caught a spinda and I loved it so much until I looked it up and was confused as to why it was orange lmao

[@impa7125]

If u want a long term project look for another shiny spinda with exact same pattern

[@StrikeAxl]

I don't know why, but your videos always take me back to when I was a little brat playing Pokemon. It hits home everytime you say that you started KZbin to make some friends because I never had many friends, let alone people that liked pokemon. It's crazy to think that I found a group of people with similar interests until college and was able to let my inner child loose with them playing Pokemon, trading, and battling. Even more insane that pokemon is now so massive on KZbin that even big streamers and KZbinrs do nuzlockes and shiny hunt. Little did we know we were cool all along, we were just ahead of the curve, lol. Love your videos, Lucy. Thank you!

[@Craig_Ackmen]

Shiny hunting takes a level of patience I may never achieve.

[@BlankedOutHere]

Bro one time I shiny hunted for a growlithe and it took an hour

[@danielgertler5976]

I've seriously probably only ever caught one shiny myself (not including red garydos) in all the time i've played pokemon, every other one i have i got from wonder trades.

[@santiagoacosta3372]

​@@BlankedOutHere doin the same thing for an hour straight is not something everyone have patience to do

[@SakhotGamer]

I used to play WAY too much pokemon crystal back in the day, I found 4 full odds shiny mons because I found breeding pointless back then and didn't know shinies could be found more often that way. I'm not sure how I never hatched a shiny baby mon from the daycare given how often I reset for no reason, and yes that means my full odds are gone.

[@BGAbazor]

@@BlankedOutHere Only an hour?! Shiny hunting in it's original form sometimes took days and days of playtime. Getting a shiny in an hour is what has caused them to be so much less valuable. It's way too easy to find them now in the new games.

[@MagentaNimbat]

If I told my parents 1 year ago that they’d be shiny hunters in GO, they’d think im crazy, but now My parents participate in Community days and even look for shiny legendaries which is bizarre but also amazing to see

[@Tom-oz7wk]

My parents are way better at pokemon go than I am. I'm level 40 but they're both level 50 and have way better pokemon collections. I dread to think how many more shinies or shiny legendaries they have

[@Raph___A]

Watching PM7 andMandJTV just fooling around together only for PM7 to get a shiny 1 or 2 minutes in is one of the funniest things I've seen lately. And it's very fun to watch a streamer get a shiny unexpectedly or get one after hours of hunting.

[@pkmnlover3812]

yes and Mand's reaction when it happens especially when they JUST started

[@delphoxhoopa7289]

PM7's luck knows no bounds! 😂✨

[@beccanpott]

@@delphoxhoopa7289 when you subscribe to PM7, you get more shinies 😉

[@msthecommentator2863]

It gets Mikey heated every time and I'm sorry, but it's kind of funny 😂 especially since his partner found like two shinies in Scarlet before he found one and they started their games together

[@cinnamonn3181]

hi Lucy, you probably won't see this but when you said about being on the spectrum I had to pause the video because I started crying. I was an amazing surprise to find out my favourite creator was like me. I've been feeling pretty lonely since it was realised I'm probably autistic, and when the diagnosis came in it made me feel so alone. but someone I really look up to is like me and it feels great. amazing video as always

[@maganhassan2627]

When were you diagnosed with autism? If you don't mind

[@lillith7257]

are you an adult like me who might not get certified? if so, i know your struggle. it's really hard to get tested as an adult.

[@maganhassan2627]

@Lillith they're taking long I am currently waiting to do my diagnosis on autism

[@Kayllister291]

​@@lillith7257 I'm not currently an adult but where I live the current waiting list is 2 YEARS in our free public neurodevelopment assessment service. However me not getting support from my school and my mental health deteriorating my local doctors office has funded a private diagnosis. I should be getting assessed within the next 6 months. I wish it was easier for adults to get diagnosises though since I assume due to not as developed technology and fairly shitty parenting some people may only be suspected when they're adults.

[@FROZENPWR]

@@maganhassan2627 I had mine when I was small, and it didn't take so long, and shiny hunting does feel like a magnet 😂

[@just_a_pkmn_guy7666]

dallas deserves every second of recognition he got! it’s so good to see the love in the community

[@kab4333alt]

that gay guy?

[@just_a_pkmn_guy7666]

@@kab4333alt it’s sad you think it’s okay to refer to someone like that. He’s still human, and probably a much better person than you are, obviously.

[@Kayllister291]

​@@just_a_pkmn_guy7666 ^ this ^

[@kab4333alt]

@@just_a_pkmn_guy7666? that's just what popped into my mind I didn't mean to offend anyone, it's totally ok to be gay

[@mordha86]

After years of casually playing Pokémon I’ve never seen a shiny Pokémon ever on my own 😂

[@BeforeYouKnew]

This video really hit home and almost followed my timeline exactly. I used to love Dallas’ and your own videos during that period, but never really joined the online community unfortunately (although some old videos exist out there). I did become a hybrid hunter in the end and now almost exclusively method hunt due to time constraints on my life as a supposedly functional adult. The controversy really was mad with Gen 6 and this video was a great nostalgic experience.

[@idiotically-everything]

Yeah. I am a med student so like, I am doing everything I can to increase the odds so I can actually hunt shinies in the time available to me

[@zohabaig6426]

@@idiotically-everything Same! Hence why my favorite way to find shinies is in pokemon go lol. Gets me out of the house, and doesn't take as much time.

[@partyhatkid9940]

Woah I'm in the same boat as you! I loved knowing that this niche thing I was watching as a kid was being watched by others as well. We've all come a long way

[@RedRingStudios]

the way FOYT unlocked a core memory, I remember JUST how crazy important it was to people in the early days of shiny hunting. Good lord.

[@adrostruiker6281]

I didn't know you were on the spectrum Lucy, i absolutely love shiny hunting. I'm never actually tried full odds hunting because I'm scared of how long I know it can take but I may just start trying it thanks to the inspiration from this video. Thank you for sharing a bit more about yourself and the history of Shiny hunting as a whole

[@milky7257]

I wondered why Lucy was so likeable to me, then she said she was on the spectrum. One of us. Always happens whenever I spot a cool person. They end up being autistic.

[@Kawaiitwo]

It’s always awesome for me when I find out a KZbinr I enjoy watching is autistic. Makes me feel less alone somehow, like there are other autistic people who like Pokémon or Minecraft or whatever else.

[@evie2670]

Yeah, as an autistic person myself I got really happy when she said that she is as well.

[@callmesummon]

@@milky7257 why is this so true 💀💀 all the cool people are autistic and I love it

[@PetitTasdeBoue]

Well it's some kind of "weird" specific interest so it's not that much of a surprise lol

[@tannerdudeman]

While i miss the mythical status that shiny pokemon had in the beginning, going for a shiny living dex in violet has been the most fun ive ever had in pokemon and im glad that i have a reason to keep picking it up.

[@jaysonkang]

This video is so nostalgic. You captured the exact feeling of being in the older pokemon fan crowd so well. Completely understand those feelings as someone whos been playing since gen 3. Initial feelings of defensiveness quickly turned into a newfound excitement for the new group of fans who get to have fun and enjoy hunting shinies in their own way 😃while it's different, i'm glad the community can all agree on the joy that brings!

[@lonelychameleon3595]

I still remember my first shiny encounter, also at the age of 9. 2007. My brother is sick and is in the hospital, I am visiting him and am currently playing through Pokemon FireRed. It is while searching for Moltres at Mt. Ember that I happen upon a chance encounter with a shiny Slugma, the first shiny I had ever seen in the wild. If I were playing it when I was older, I would've captured it in a heartbeat, but this was before I knew what shiny Pokemon were. I didn't just run away from it like any other wild encounter. No, as soon as I saw the stars shining off it, I turned my game off, fearing that it was damaged by generating an off-color Pokemon. It was only later when my friend informed me what shiny Pokemon were that I realized the mistake I had made. You never forget your first, even if it was a mistake.

[@Carcosahead]

Same, I was 9 playing Pokemon Emerald and a wild Poochyena was my first shiny ever, I remember thinking it was so fricking cool to have a pokemon of different color… nowadays it feels too easy to get a shiny, heck, I got my first shiny Cyclizar on the third day of my pokemon scarlet playthrough 😂

[@PineappleLiar]

Shiny Farfetch’d Soul Silver, Safari Zone. I knew what it was, but it got away cause I threw mud at it…

[@jamtone4492]

Shiny paras in ilex forest in my first playthrough of pokemon gold, only had 3 pokeballs left, didnt catch it. Didnt think anything of it until shiny gyarados in the lake of rage...

[@rithikrajgavishluximon6812]

In 2014, playing pokemon ruby - my first ever experience to the pokemon franchise encountered a shiny cacnea i literally thought "maybe females look like this"....and ran away from it🤦‍♂

[@jamtone4492]

@Rithik Raj Gavish Luximon I had a person who had a shiny amoongus and didnt realize it was shiny for the same reason.

[@monkeyman1og336]

I remember completing my scarlet dex, I was almost done, but when on my last 10, I saw a weird looking spiritomb, I was questioning if it was shiny while running over to dex it, when it shined I ran to my sisters room to gloat and I was so happy.

[@Hutch2Much]

i remember getting into shiny hunting and absolutely loving it. looking up to all the cool shiny hunters-including you!-and encountering hundreds of Pokémon was-and still is-a blast! i used to SOS hunt, but now i do exclusively full odds, but i’ll never forget my first shiny Grubbin i got so many years ago. boy do i wish i couldve been there when the older titles were popular

[@aictopus]

I still remember how mentally draining using the Masuda method for shiny charmander was in gen 3 for me lmao. It was traumatizing. I like how the odds increased over time and now we have SV.

[@dairoyx4754]

Was the masuda method even a thing in gen 3? I thought it was gen 4 it was introduced. Cause that would have been 1/8000 odds... with eggs... dear god

[@aictopus]

@@dairoyx4754 dang maybe I did it in gen 4 then

[@TheRealAdachi]

@@aictopusit was not a thing in Gen 3

[@aictopus]

@@TheRealAdachi read the comment above you

[@aictopus]

@@TheRealAdachi read the comment above you

[@CowboyMaster]

Thank you for making amazing videos for us, you truly are my favorite youtuber, keep it up Evie! Thanks for inspiring me to keep shiny hunting since I dont have any friends who like doing it, so I watch you!

[@NinJenna]

Nothing beats running into a random shiny though ☺️

[@hoobslice]

This is super interesting! I never knew the community ran so deep and there was a lot of stigmatism surrounding certain features like the X&Y shiny odds.

[@KokoroFrog]

Your shiny treeko fail is what got me into shiny hunting, and now this video is giving me the urge to get back to my old hunts I put in hiatus in 2019, I have no where near as much free time as I used to but my Pokémon Y copy is still standing in front of the starter selection and oh gosh the void beckons me in

[@KnightsofGaming2016]

Watching CandyEvie shiny Pokemon videos somehow gives me the determination to do some shiny hunting myself even though I know it's going to be rough. Only ever caught a shiny Oricorio in Pokemon Violet but now I want to find more shiny buddies for it!

[@shinyev3281]

As someone who just got into shiny hunting (2020) it's nice to learn about its history

[@nesradub360]

My first shiny encounter was a Graveler in Pearl, in the bowels of Iron Island while Riley was following me around. Of course it used Selfdestruct before I could even deal with the Lucario. My most clutch one was in Emerald many years later, a Sunkern in the expanded part of the Safari Zone. My favorite though is the shiny (and marked!) Chewtle I caught at the very beginning of my Shield playthrough that I had on my team for the entire rest of the playthrough.

[@BlueVacktor]

This is EXACTLY the type of video the community needed!! Amazing summary and amazing video 💙

[@Jaydenmedows]

I love your vids

[@saxlaxdm10]

So many shiny hunters I remember watching as an awkward teen. It never occurred to me that they were probably also just awkward teens with way too much spare time and I could just have reached out and made friends 😅

[@socialistbcrumb]

I love this combo of personal history and history of shiny hunting at large!

[@PineappleLiar]

I think wonder trades were also super important in making shiny hunting popular. In part because it made sone of the less intensive hunts like masuda method more interesting by splitting it into two phases: the egg hatching half and the wonder trade half. I remember the emotional high I got in ORAS while egg hunting a shiny eevee, getting one the morning for school, then getting a shiny dratini through wonder trades immediately after.

[@LeafpawofBrankenClan]

I refused to shiny hunt until it became easier and now I really enjoy it even thanks to your videos

[@willimakemusic]

This is a really interesting topic! I never really got into shiny hunting, but I would still always get so excited if I ever saw one. Thank you for always uploading such great content!

[@FilthyUnbound]

I’ve only started shiny hunting for real in Sword and Shield. I love how accessible it’s become. I had only ever found one, maybe 2 in other games full odds but it feels so much more fun and is something I can do in an evening if I’m lucky but over a few days if I’m not

[@ph5.484]

Late comment but it was so fun to hear about the history of shiny hunting from someone who was right in the middle of it back then. I clicked on the video expecting it to be a more emotionally-removed, research-based deep dive from someone who started more recently (which is still a valid format) and I absolutely loved the direction it went down. My personal obsession right now is shiny apriball pokemon, which is a whole other thing. When I tell even other players I'm into aprimon, they usually don't know what it is!

[@Watermelon-Pizza]

In the end, Shiny Hunting and Pokemon as a whole is a really cool way to bring people together. Now, if only my first shiny had been something cool... I don't miss you, Panpour.

[@IVXXIV]

I'll never forget the time I got a shiny Dracozolt on my birthday after 3 soft resets. I was stunned and took it as a sign from the universe as a happy birthday from pokemon lol 😅

[@ochuspin]

That’s amazing

[@MatterMorph]

I remember my first ever shiny Pokemon as a kid was a Machoke in Heartgold. I didn’t know why it was green but I threw a pokeball and caught it. Good times. Also nice work on the video!

[@Imjustshrimp]

I’m autistic as well and recently got into shiny hunting again on my switch. I used to shiny hunt on XandY when I was young but never had much luck. I’ve always loved Pokémon sm and I used to enjoy watching shiny hunting streams! The Pokémon community really is such a good place to find other autistic people just like me and it makes me happy

[@777lns]

9:58 evie: it’s amazing that people hunt shinies without knowing what they look like Me hunting hisuian voltorb thinking it’s blue:

[@Aerix16]

i personally value my 1/8092 shiny nidoran f on soulsilver a ton because i was just grinding friendship for my togepi. its just those random playthrough shinies that are just the best for me.

[@animateddoglover4391]

This is really interesting. I started Shiny Hunting in X and Y, and then I really got into it in Sun and Moon, so it was definitely more accessible when I started. I get the appeal of Shiny Hunting being this obscure thing for sure, but I agree that people should be able to hunt how they see fit.

[@timelyenigma]

3:47 One of the developers of CTGP for Mario Kart Wii uploaded the first shiny video on youtube???

[@IssyCoonify]

"It seems like the term Shiny came from the fans" Having lived through that period and thinking that was common knowledge I suddenly feel very, very old...

[@Larat..]

Shiny hunting is something I don’t have the patience for

[@pigeonleader]

I FEEL THIS SOMETIMES!!! I've shiny hunted before but sometimes mid way through I'm like, "why am i doing this?" Then i give up. Im like 3.5k srs for turtwig in platinum and i wanna give up now

[@piranhalettuce]

@@animechic420 Bruh

[@Arkenidae]

Ok.

[@Candyy248]

Not even my patience goes this high v:

[@matthewkuscienko4616]

For me personally, it's not just that I don't have the patience for shiny hunting, but also partly that I just never really cared that much about it in the first place. I feel like if I were to start shiny hunting at any point, I would probably only go after the ones that I really want personally rather than get any that I can manage to somehow get my hands on

[@Zepimo123]

I'm so happy that you talked about shiny elitism, it's always annoyed me lol. It's probably to do with how similar it is to souls game elitism lmao

[@animechic420]

Wasn’t even aware that was a thing.

[@matthewkuscienko4616]

It honestly just sounds stupid to me that shiny elitism was a thing at all. The way I see it personally, shiny Pokemon are so rare that if you have a way to increase your odds to get one is more so a blessing than a curse simply because you can get it easier with a little luck

[@Zepimo123]

​@@matthewkuscienko4616 Its not much of a thing anymore, though you still do see it rarely, though its usually to do with method hunting now rather than shiny charm/odd split.

[@ShouldOfStudiedForTheTest]

I also found it pretty ironic, since some of the full odds elitists would double battle hunt and still claim full odds. If double battles in gen4/5 are full odds then so are horde encounters.

[@masmurdermonkey9233]

@@ShouldOfStudiedForTheTest I would agree. Both are still full odds. It just speeds up the encounters is all.

[@TheCompanyRepresentative]

My first Shiney was when I first tried pokemon white. Walked into the grass right after the tutorial and found a patrat eye color that didn't match. I was so shocked that I searched it up to be sure😅

[@pinkdarkman]

My first Pokemon game was Pearl when I was like 11 and then Soul Silver and I played those games for hundreds of hours each and never stumbled upon a shiny Pokemon. Within the first like 5 hours of starting Moon, I stumbled upon a random shiny Caterpie. My whole time playing Pearl and SSilver, I had no idea shiny Pokemon existed, but by the time Moon came out I had regular access to the internet so I knew all about them. It was still wild to see one in the (digital) flesh for the first time. Sometimes I wonder if I did stumble across shinies as a kid and just ignored them cuz I didn't realize what they were. I know the shiny odds are doubled in the new games, but I only played Moon for like 30 hours vs the literal hundreds I put into the DS games. It seems improbable, but I guess math really do be like that sometimes.

[@partyhatkid9940]

This is an excellent video on the subject! Thank you for making it. I did not make a yt account for a long time, but I was watching you and Dallas about as early as you were uploading. I'm in the same age group and I was just so enamoured by these little secret pokemon! I've hunted for well over a decade, and it's been really cool to see you all do it online as a community. Your early videos are what gave me the courage to try REs in HG/SS - I remember being shocked when I actually found something after a while. Long story short I love the love for shiny pokemon, and I would have never expected it to last past our childhoods. I'm glad it did. Again, thanks for uploading

[@JD-iu6rv]

I still remember when I found my first shiny. It was a Marill on my Sapphire game. I thought the game had glitched and I was genuinely confused. After that I was constantly trying to find shiny Pokémon

[@christophera4527]

Mine was a Patrat in Black 2 lol

[@JD-iu6rv]

@@christophera4527 that’s pretty cool

[@austinhall6002]

Not counting Gyarados my first shiny was a Golbat in the original Ruby version

[@generationxpvp]

Omg I love Dallas! That’s so cool he was part of your early shiny hunting inspiration ❤

[@goigus]

I had an awful day but feel so much better seeing a new upload from you!

[@frxngediris]

"I've never met as many autistic people as I did full odds shiny hunting" IT WASNT JUST ME???

[@RyanPaquette-d8o]

as a man with autism myself, I find it very hard to stay focused on shiny hunting for as long as the people who actually do it for a living

[@U-Flame]

Man I miss when full odds was possible. I really don't mind boosting odds methods so long as they're optional, but I miss that thrill back when it was still possible to find one at the full 1 in 8000 odds. I find a shiny in Violet and my reaction is just "oh neat." But back then, finding a shiny in Crystal was so exciting it felt like my heart would burst out of my chest.

[@goldmemberpb]

Well, imagine if in crystal, you could see all of your random encounters at once like in SV. Even with the old full odds, shinies would be much more apparant.

[@TheAntiSanta]

The majority of us just never encountered a shiny, when it was 8000 odds (except the Gyarados in Silver and Gold). You might've gotten to feel that high, but the rest of us just never saw anything.

[@gligarguy4010]

Lot of weird gatekeeping in the shiny hunting community. No using quickballs, they don't count if not full odds, etc

[@CandyEvie]

the quick balls LOL

[@gligarguy4010]

@@CandyEvie Really can't believe the quick ball thing spiraled so out of control that the company themselves poked fun at it.

[@VideoGamer945]

Gen iv was best with the shiny finder or w/e it was called. I remember chaining the little sparklies in that gen. Great channel, keep up the good work!

[@fireflakesss]

the poke radar ^^

[@megaman37456]

I'd argue the best game for shiny hunting in the series would either be crystal for it's 1/8 odd egg shiny odds, or it's 1/64 shiny breeding method. However a contender for that would 100% be ORAS. Dex Nav, Hordes, Chain Fishing, Masuda, Soft Reset, Random Encounter, and of course shiny charm, not to mention in ORAS if you randomize the game and remove shiny locks you have access to all 719 shiny pokemon, which was the number back in gen 6, I'm well aware we've peaked 1k mons at this point.

[@zohabaig6426]

@@megaman37456 Hordes will always be the most fun I had shiny hunting

[@monochromayhem7422]

As a young kid who wasn’t yet a shiny hunter, I had used an Action Replay to see what the hype was about. I have those shinies migrated up through my game and I’m glad about it for sure, but since then I’ve gone on the prowl to “reclaim” them by doing it legitimately. I can’t wait to hunt the green rat in let’s go- I’ve been avoiding touching that game and desperately need to finish it.

[@Moonsong227]

5:54 no joke I'm not quuiiiite autistic but when I used to shiny hunt a lot it was for the repetitive, predictable stim of it and the ability to hyperfixate on pokemon, especially a specific species, without needing to be actually doing anything

[@LeviCPC25]

I'm actually autistic and I have hunted tons of shinies.

[@Lumberjack_king]

0:15 it's possible to get gen 1 shinies just really hard it's alot of math

[@fireflakesss]

Lucy I didn’t know you were also on the spectrum!

[@SketchUT]

PLA skyrocketed to my favorite Pokémon game partly because of the shinies. I have over a full box!! I’ve never had more than one in one save before, and in some saves I’ve never had any! It sucks that my first in PLA was an oshawott, the starter I picked lmao, but it did show me what that looks like and then I just kept catching them, and catching them, and catching them, and now I’m kiiiiinda hunting a bit (because I teased my friend about not having a shiny of a Pokémon she really likes, so I’m hunting for its first stage to give to her so she can evolve it (or not) and have that in her dex :3). I am so happy they changed the odds n all that :))) Now they just need to bring back the sparkles/sound effects in the wild. Or make it a toggle option.

[@frostbitesnox]

I love your content CandyEvie keep up the good work

[@sweethistortea]

I found a bunch of shiny Pokémon in January, and I almost missed them aside from the obvious ones. The newer shiny forms seem to have little to no difference.

[@joshuajames7034]

ngl I love these wholesome Pokemon videos that are not boring. Please keep it up Candy 👍

[@TalenLee]

'This obscure website called Azure Heights,' Clutching my chest and gripping my back as I panic at realising just how old I am.

[@animestop95]

I loved this video. It was great to remember how it used to be in the community vs how it is now. I appreciate the time and effort you put into making this.

[@decarabiaumbra560]

Oh hey, I didn't know Lucy was a fellow person on the spectrum. I find the ACE method super cool in GSC. It's practically the same as using an Action Replay, but it's fascinating to find out what innocuous things a person can do in a game to get whacky results.

[@wazzupyuwu]

my internal struggle between "i want to shiny hunt so bad" and "if i dont do something more stimulating RIGHT NOW im going to explode" is a vicious cycle from which i can never be free

[@Aaron-hv4hr]

11:35 “I think that assessing values in shiny Pokémon is pointless.” This is the sentiment that I started to have after I realized how many hacked shiny Pokémon are out there and that a lot of people just want to see the sparkles or prefer the look of the shiny regardless of legitimacy. I still value all of my self-gotten shinies more but now whenever I get a shiny from someone else I don’t look away in terror.

[@TunaBear64]

12:30 People don't live in USA or Europe: *hysterically laughs*

[@sapphanimates]

I was able to get 3 shinies in a row over 3 days, one per day and eventually another new one, all of which on the Glaceado Mountain cliffside. I got a female shiny Slandit, a shiny Makuhita, and two shiny female Pyroars. They're all fully evolved now and they're beautiful.

[@nated4237]

5:49 has me questioning if im autistic 😭

[@Supereneat]

Its not bad to be autistic

[@Supereneat]

Sensory overload is very annoying though

[@mercedestrenz1881]

One time I found a shiny Mudbray in my copy of Violet and I accidentally selected night slash and I think you can guess what happened next😢

[@ArchonZach]

I feel like shiny hunting has become end game for people who don't do competitive

[@honeybeechaos]

“Most of us were socially awkward autistic teenagers with WAY too much free time” damn you didn’t have to call me out 💀

[@Supereneat]

I dont have any free time i spend allof it playing Pokemon games 😊

[@crimsonpresents]

I love that shiny hunting is older than modern day internet. Edit: Nice to know that other autistics went threw a shiny hunting phase.

[@xeruexe1624]

I started shiny hunting on Gen 6. There were three reasons why I got into it: 1. I was already starting SR hunts in Gen 5, but not for shinies, but for triple Max IV special/legendary encounters. There was no "set 3 max IVs" them then, so they actually had lower odds than shinies (1/30k-ish). 2. I also got into Monster Hunter that time, and that game had a bigger desire sensor tease than shiny hunting at times. I will still not forget the Lucent Nargapearl I never had in MH3u. 3. The biggest factor was O-Powers. You walk around and you max your O-Powers regeneration by the end of the day, and after you max out levels and money what are you going to use them on? The only thing remaining is Egg Powers, and so the natural progression was to start Masuda breeding to get shinies. I remember I started with more competitive Pokémon first, so I started breeding Gible, Torchic, Froakie then Scyther. I then had some fun with Baton Pass shenanigans and bred a shiny Eevee for Espeon then a shiny Venonat. I put them all in my Battle Box and had a flex moment every time somebody randomly challenged a battle.

[@TheNoteblockLizard]

Yeah ... little sheltered me with absolutely no access to the internet back in 2000, I called them "Sparklies" when I first found them .... I initially thought the Red Gyarados was a one off thing until I found a Shiny Weepinbell by chance the first time I showed my little sister the game.

[@Hidden_Fern]

This was a really well done video!! Growing up w/o consoles meant I wasn't into pokemon for awhile, until late 2019 when I begged my sibling to let me play ultra sun on their 3ds. I found a shiny buneary for them (they were SOS chaining for lopunny). Shiny hunting has become one of my biggest pastimes, rumble weekend is one of my favorite events. I've made so so many (also neurodivergent) friends through it. I recently got a leaf green cart, hope to join everyone in the safari this summer!

[@emrald2000]

i wish my old youtube channel didnt get suspended, i had a few videos of shinies i found most notably a 1% shiny surskit back in 2007

[@pikapat321]

This video has honestly been a gem that brought back tons of memories, I remember watching Abenzio499 freak out over that darn Ponyta back in like 2011 and ever since I’ve been stuck in this hobby despite not uploading to KZbin anymore. Only foyt I ever got was Mespirit in Alpha Sapphire and technically there are 2 foyts since me and another KZbinr uploaded quite literally on the same day, but it’s always a fun story to tell

[@LittleSatyr]

I found out about shiny pokemon back in Diamond and Pearl, and one of my friends had heard somewhere that you could find different colored pokémon that were extremely rare, and I more or less brushed it off, because I didn't think I'd ever see one. Fast forward a couple months and I fished up a shiny clamperl, which caused my entire friend group at the time, who now had confirmation than said different colored pokémon did in fact exist, to start hunting for them as well. Ever since then, I've been obsessing over shiny pokémon and hunted them in every new gen, trying out different methods and also doing some full odds hunting here and there when I feel like it. I have such a massive hoard of them now, and I still love hunting them. This was such a throwback

[@joeyn4644]

I have been playing black and white 2 for YEARS now I have logged hundreds of hours, I did an entire living dex, beat the black tower but I have NEVER found a full odds shiny and I’ve done tons of play throughs

[@thecamelftw1381]

My first shiny was in Pokemon Gold in 2007 or so, Victory Road shiny Koffing. I wish rom dumpers existed so I could have him today. He came, when I finally needed to think who I needed to replace my hm slave with.

[@jonathanflanagan1504]

I think part of what made shiny hunting more mainstream (aside from it becoming much easier), was that it has slowly become the ONLY singleplayer thing to do once you've beaten the game. Scarlet and Violet don't even have a basic battle facility after DLC, something even Sword and Shield had in the base game. And the last substantial minigames were back in USUM with Mantine Surf and the Ultra Warp Ride. If you want something to do after you've beaten the main story, the one or two post-game quests, and (optionally) completed the pokedex, your only options in Scarlet and Violet are to either: Learn competitive battling and go online, or start shiny hunting, ...and THEN sometimes learn competitive anyway so you can show off your team of shinies when you go online. Tera Raids don't really count since their rewards really just exist to further the other two, with mints to change nature stats, or herba mystica to make shiny sandwiches. They made shiny hunting more accessible not just because it's a good idea, but because it's the basically the ONLY thing you can do now if you don't want to get into competitive.

[@Squeegi01]

I kind of understand the mixed reactions to how common shinies are now. I still think they are cool and I still think it's fun to hunt for them but I do miss the mythic status they used to have. I started playing Pokemon in 2003 (Pokemon Silver) and I remember my brother and I talking about whether shinies were even real on our way to school --I miss that level of mystery. That said, I just finished hunting a shiny Virizion today in Sword and Shield and that still feels pretty cool. I love these little buggers and will continue searching!

[@JustSkitz_YT]

I will say the first time I learned about shinys was in X and Y. My brother had played Black and White and so I knew about the games, but one day I begged him to play the X and Y versions for myself. So he instead he handed me his version of X and said that he wanted me to grind up levels in a route on riolus. So I immediately went to work having fun and stuff. Then I entered a battle with a Litlio. I noticed it had a little sparkly animation and it looked very pale colored. So I freaked out and ran over to my brother saying that the pokemon doesn't look right. He then looked at the game and snatched the console right out of my hands. He claims it was his first ever shiny, but in reality that was my first ever shiny! 😊

[@droozyyy]

It’s crazy to think that you’re now one of those OG shiny hunters on KZbin Lucy, been watching you since the shiny Treecko vid in 2015 :)

[@blair94]

I love how you mentioned meeting so many other autistic people through shiny hunting. I am a therapist and mainly work with autistic people and sooooo many of my clients’ special interest is Pokémon. I taught one about shiny hunting and now he’s going back to each game since gen 2 to try to get and entire shiny dex

[@Supereneat]

Pokemon is amazing I literally have info dumped for hours 😅

[@lissastargazer]

I just wanted to say 2 things about shinies here: - My first full odds shiny was Swinub in Silver, completely by accident. It also had Pokérus. The latter was more confusing for little me than the first 😂 Unfortunately I have no proof of this since my cartridge’s battery died. I miss shiny Swinub being dark blue. The new snot green color is meh - I freaking love SOS chaining for shinies in Pokémon Moon & the strategy & setup it sometimes requires

[@Norristhelegend]

So the earliest record I can find of Game Freak using the term shiny is when they gave away a shiny Eevee during 2010 VGC. Only reason I know this is because I found a way to get event pokemon whilst on a recent playthrough of the game

[@SpookedYT]

there is nothing more satisfying than how a shiny pokemon looks in a wild encounter in gen 5

[@FracturedPixel]

On Pokemon Emerald I encountered a shiny wingul...But not knowing shinies existed at the time and having just spammed run from about 20 encounters while using surf I ran from it, only to see the tiny green strip on its wing as it was exiting the screen.

[@shinycollector7]

I can absolutely relate. Around 2005, I accidentally ran from a shiny Girafarig in the Safari Zone, only noticing the blue after. I will reclaim it though. I hope you find a shiny Wingull again if you plan to go for it!

[@JosephWatson04]

It was around 2018 when I finally picked up shiny hunting and immediately went to a full odds rayquaza that took weeks to get. I will never forget that feeling of when it finally shined.