I Speedran Catching 100 Shiny Pokemon

With the more recent years of Pokemon releases, Pokemon fan claim that shiny hunting is easier than it has even been before - but is it really? I took on this idea in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet's Indigo Disk DLC, to see how quickly I could catch 100 Shiny Pokemon. This video took a lot of time and effort to put together, so I'd really appreciate it if you shared this with a friend. If you have any suggestions for the next video, leave it in the comments below! Have a great day :)
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0:00 - Intro
0:34 - 10 Shinies
6:16 - 20 Shinies
9:38 - 30 Shinies
13:30 - 40 Shinies
16:47 - 50 + 60 Shinies
23:25 - 70 Shinies
25:53 - 80 Shinies
28:33 - 90 Shinies
30:41 - 100 Shinies

[@anishkulkarni5901]

15:25 he says "I am the first person to catch a shiny crabominable in a sports ball 30000 ft in the air", bro was clearly not invited to the cloudy-crab sports jamboree back in 09

[@kanedgytheguy8105]

Erm actually crabominable was created in 2016

[@jacobcain9008]

​@@kanedgytheguy8105Clearly you werent invited either. The coudy-crab sports jamboree was run by people with time machines and my uncle who works at nintendo.

[@leakz-3115]

what’s the cloudy crab sports jamboree?

[@jacobcain9008]

@@leakz-3115 You catch crabs from high in the air, obviously.

[@MrDudeDudley]

The post jamboree BBQ was to die for, 09 was a great year

[@StickMaster500]

At this rate, Johnstone will manage to speedrun getting a full Shiny Living Dex

[@zdelrod829]

That would be a weeks long nightmare.

[@Twiddle_things]

StickMaster500 gaming

[@theangryparas3167]

​@@zdelrod829 Bold of you to assume it'll only take a week 😂

[@blockgqmer]

@@theangryparas3167not trying to go acktually but I’m pretty sure they meant it would be many weeks

[@notmended]

Yeah, I've been working on my Full Shiny Living Form Dex, for over two years now. Please end my suffering...

[@floatielle2.06]

I really wish they would bring back the audible chime that Legends Arceus made when a shiny spawned. It was super helpful for those tough-to-spot shinies, especially now that we have mons that are small and decently hidden in the grass.

[@Rattus375]

Or at least the shiny sparkles from LGPE

[@K_King2024]

It would be especially good for color blind people

[@ItsShinyDelta]

Same. I never owned a Legends Arceus game card, but i saw people find shinies in the game before and wish they had the overworld sparkles and noise in the gen 9 games as well. It would be so much easier to notice shinies

[@ericaguayo764]

Yeah I loved that feature but apart from the ponyta and Pokémon I transferred in I hardly heard it despite having the shiny charm I've only caught like 7 shinys 😅 best highlights were getting a shiny shinx in the first hour of the game and then running into a shiny chimchar when going to the outbreak

[@arisuvocals7556]

I have colourblindness, I basically relied heavily on those cues to find my shinies- I don't even want to know how many I've missed because they removed the sparkles and chime :(

[@GeorgeTGF]

Speedrunning catching Johnstone videos at launch.

[@theicetypespecialist9691]

TIME! 37 minutes! Was my time

[@GeorgeTGF]

24 seconds here. gotta get lucky with the rng homepage refresh@@theicetypespecialist9691

[@midniteroky5075]

Yessir

[@TheCowBoyShark]

MUDKIP

[@SnappyH-ht2gz]

1 hour sadly

[@chriss.9662]

John, outbreaks of Sinistea and Polchageist were updated when the Teal Mask came out. There are outbreaks for both, if one Pokémon in that outbreak is authentic, they all are authentic and vice versa.

[@Amelia4111]

Poltchageist* (there should be 2 T's)

[@JubioHDX]

@@Amelia4111 its actually Polteageist*. Poltchageist is the unevolved form of Sinistcha, not the evolved form of Sinistea. Ik very confusing

[@Arceusbot]

​@@JubioHDXthe point was they were mentioning both Pokemon with 1/100 authentic. They said the right Pokemon

[@dakkath414]

Johnstone out here catching more shinies in 10 minutes than I've found in my life.

[@Cridila97]

Did John forget Litleo was in the base Scarlet/Violet dex?

[@VivKJean]

lol i think he did

[@luceharrietf]

I went looking for this comment haha!

[@tonybishop3686]

I've caught two shiny litleo, both female. They're so damn common too lmao

[@underverse2006]

Also Zebstrika was on many ORAS Mirage Islands. Not exclusive to XY friend safari.

[@InfiniteCraft404]

I know that’s what I was thinking

[@vanillikyu3101]

At 22:30 during the sinistea outbreak, the form of sinistea is locked to outbreak so if it’s an outbreak of phony forms it’ll only spawn phony and never an authentic meanwhile if the outbreak is of authentic it’ll only spawn authentic and never phony

[@btmikey1925]

Anyone else see the Shiny Araquanid in the background while John was talking about using his sandwich to find a Shiny Araquanid? 🤣🤣🤣

[@majesticocelol9762]

I THOUGHT I WAS GOING CRAZY, YES

[@dodagamer2560]

The dedication to go and catch a lapras in lets go for the bit is crazy considering the current method in that game Also his inner Legends Arceus is getting to his brain he called the costal biome the coastlands

[@lostxnxyou]

It was an old clip re used. Pretty sure from his shiny badge quest.

[@BlargMyShnoople]

he don't miss

[@TheGodIvy]

Oh hey its Blarg

[@land8780]

oh blarg is here

[@skywardbound8017]

Matt what are u doing

[@Chronostra]

What, is he secretly V.IV Rusty?

[@JessAMessOfficial]

Blarg?

[@Lamentationsofapoory]

I have a theory that established shiny hunters have an internal enzyme in their body that makes finding shinies easier and easier as they collect more and more. Case in point - Johnstone. Also, anecdotally, my brother and I were hunting a beldum for my VGC team and I've only recently started hunting shinies. I came away with one. My brother, who's been hunting for several years now, came away with two, one of them were marked :/

[@kanedgytheguy8105]

I have like 150 shiny pokemon, I get dry spells like crazy though

[@jacobcain9008]

My first shiny was a pidgey that i couldnt catch. I didnt get any more until Legends Arceus, but those were mostly outbreaks. So far ive gotten 2 random shinies in S/V, and a shiny Cyndaquil i hunted in HGSS

[@kageedgar4002]

30 shirts in 15 hours on shiny sandwiches is actually probably low odds.

[@pancakes4life804]

I got just over 60. I am trying for a full shiny living dex. It takes me hours on average to find one, even with all the methods. My sibling is not a hardcore hunter. They're basically a living shiny charm, having about the same amount of shinies as me, except a good majority just kinda happened, whereas most of mine were hunted. Max amount of shinies I've found after a day of hunting, 2. My sibling found 5 without trying the other day lmao. I may just be an outlier who should not be counted though idfk lol

[@legomanwhohateskpop1532]

Trust me that is not the case, in pokemon black i was doing a all shiny run and im hard stuck on a shiny water type. I have a total of 200 + shiny across all my games between gen 4 to 7

[@Aeroczema]

Late to the party because I wanted to finish the DLC before watching this, but loved this video!! Always a pleasure to watch you shiny hunt, and was very rewarding after many of your videos where you'd hunt hours for a single pokemon to see you get a whole bunch in 10 minutes in the middle there! Thanks as always for the effort to put this together!

[@flameshard8748]

You actually just saved me a heap of time by mentioning litleo was only in the poke pelago in USUM. I have been working on my dex and didn't realize it. Thank you so much!

[@AzureFlute]

It's been fun seeing John evolve from the Professor Oak Challenge guy, to the "how fast can I complete the game?" guy, to Competitive Shiny Hunter

[@dwglr]

Honestly started losing it when you started talking about the polar caves in New Hampshire. You unlocked so many childhood memories of yearly trips going to the polar caves and the lemon squeeze and orange crush, haven’t thought about that place in well over a decade.

[@_Fraya]

same, i used to live close by to that place. it was great.

[@PicketPolecat]

Well, you know what Nuzlockers say: if something gets too easy, add more rules

[@JediKnightDaniel]

Can I just say that Johnstone chose the BEST shiny Pokémon to use for the Thumbnail. Good to see another Totodile fan

[@YoungSlugStudios]

And then he changed it lmaooo

[@JediKnightDaniel]

@@YoungSlugStudios RIP

[@awsmrs]

​@@JediKnightDanielAnd now it's back to Totodile 😅

[@YoungSlugStudios]

​@@awsmrs and now it's back to mudkip lol

[@awsmrs]

@@YoungSlugStudios Battle of the thumbnails

[@spelkyfantastic15]

I love these videos. I listened to every one in the last year grinding out every shiny starter. :D

[@ChuyitoSon28]

I know the pain of catching a shiny in a beast ball, proud owner of a shiny marked iron valiant in a beast ball

[@stevenoskam]

I gotta admit, I was already impressed by PM7's "all shiny starters" in a week, but this tops it.

[@_Banjo_]

15:40 woah the graphics update on that lapras catch is insane

[@L1nk2002]

It's funny cause lgpe came out 4 years before shit ass scarlet and violet and it still looks futuristic compared.

[@storm_fling1062]

​@@L1nk2002 lgpe isn't an open world game

[@L1nk2002]

@@storm_fling1062 and? An open world game can't look good? Yeah keep on forgiving that small indie company for making shit ass games that sell 20 million copies, that's the way to go.

[@crayfishfuture]

@@L1nk2002 The small indie company that also made LGPE? There's reasons SV looks worse, and one of them is definitely the fact it's open world. Quit being a little piss baby and throwing tanty in the youtube comment section, adding nothing of value.

[@L1nk2002]

@@crayfishfuture it's you who bought that ass game, not me. I didn't throw 60 euros + plus whatever for the dlc in the toilet, you did. You should feel ashamed of how low you value your time and money to have spent them on a game that shouldn't even have come out.

[@CalebFritz-ui6lk]

Man I was just watching your Sun randomizer. This is awesome!

[@randomgarbage5938]

the way i found a shiny sinistea was literally because i jumped over one of the area borders in the terrarium and landed ON a pink teacup. i was bewildered. i have almost a box full of shinies, despite never doing shiny hunting and never even using sandwiches. ive probably missed a lot. its still very special every time, though.

[@eddy796]

The milcery/floette/litwick outbreaks with the charms were insane. Found all 5 flowers and 7 milcery’s in one day. Hoping we have some more events like that for sure

[@mugs-]

3:23 litleo is in base game scarlet and violet btw!

[@JD_A-G]

22:03 Nystagmus? Same here dude. I’ve never noticed your eyes dart back and forth, so maybe there’s hope for me yet

[@MrsMistofelees]

always makes my day to see you've posted!

[@theniceguy6170]

The thing I love most about Johnstone os also the most irratating. He will do a challenge for 50 hours, edit it all and ONLY take the absolute peak highlights and it will still be a 30 minute video. So if he did shorter videos it would be more good content, but everyone knows that Johnstone is the best at quality over quantity. ❤️ u man

[@EternalRadiant]

you know its a great day when you wake up and see a johnstone vid in your sub box, great vid!!

[@romanburrell8069]

yo radient

[@samdilophosaur9787]

21:20 Oh! I caught a Bulbasaur as my first shiny in scarlet like 2 days ago! I named him Goldleaf

[@darrenbudgen966]

Shiny Bulba crazy!

[@francescabrogna6103]

As always, John is probably going to be the only run on this as he’s the only one dumb enough to do it. Never change man

[@lifeisabruhmoment6167]

hey johnstone, love this videos, I was wondering if you had any plans to make professor oak challenges for the scarlet and violet dlc’s?

[@-Waffled-]

john is probably one of the poketubers that have the most endurance for boring tasks

[@randomlurker3144]

You new to poketubers?

[@AdminAbuse]

watch absolblogspokemon lmao

[@yommmrr]

You know nothing , @ waffled.

[@frostcloud09]

as mentioned by someone else absolblogs pokemon (lv 100 gauntlets with non-optimal leveling methods). If you add in not poketubers specifically but game variety streamers there are videos like restart the game if you get hit challenges across various poketubers/youtubers and pikasprey yellow's soft-lock picking series.

[@-Waffled-]

i mean one of the poketubers @@AdminAbuse

[@beanceline]

rellor was my first shiny in scarlet early in the playthrough! bug is my favorite type and when it evolved into a strong psychic type with a fantastic design and perfect shiny colors i was so happy!! 😭💕

[@spotthegecko6928]

17:35 is that a shiny araquanid in the background, in the same thirty seconds since he ate his sandwich, WHILE he’s catching a shiny dewpider

[@epicponedge1177]

5:01 "I can evolve m Exeggcute to Alolan Exeggutor." Are you sure about that?

[@chadradge9460]

He definitely cant

[@epicponedge1177]

@@chadradge9460 Woosh

[@angelsartandgaming]

Me thinking I can take my shiny Exeggcute to the Coastal Biome but finding out it doesn't work that way

[@Heathiekins]

Could never be me. Four sandwiches for a shiny round boy. RNG and I are rivals. 😂 Seeing so many shinies filled me with hope! Also, super fun video, as always!

[@Bfine94]

Thank you for a wholesome video, John! I think you could hunt 100 faster in an 8,192 game, but I guess we won't know until you speedrun that some other time. 😂

[@ThePredator1312]

i hope the next legends game will have the overworld shiny sound. that's the most addicting sound ever.

[@milkman4407]

8:55 that’s a war crime… why a luxury ball, a premier ball is literally the perfect ball

[@Dotaitos92]

Easily the best channel I've stubbled across for months now

[@1ifebyjay]

i was hoping you were gonna post and boom you posted

[@billyfaulk6789]

John: *sees a shiny* “It looks so good!” Every time lol

[@haunting_houses]

youre so right about solosis, i outbreak hunted one and ended up respawning after 60kos for probably two hours before i looked at the sv model and went oh GOD i probably missed several. i thought it would be brighter!!!

[@5v0lt]

Oh my god Lemon Squeezer mention!!! Also congrats on all the shinies

[@Undonebasher72]

The shiny power of my home state of New Hampshire is insane

[@ceruleanhero]

Love your content so much!🎉❤

[@PinkAmpharos]

Was just thinking about a good JS video to watch. Happy Friday.

[@daylightshadows4599]

Will you do a dlc catch em all? i know the grinding for bp would take a while, but it would make for a great video

[@chaoslordmissingno]

Just a note for the future. With the sinistea and polchageist lines you can get outbreaks that are the authentic and artisan forms making the shiny hunts for them guaranteed. I had that happen to me where I found an outbreak that was unseen for me. Caught a polchageist and it was artisan form.

[@Red09Yt]

I’m so happy to find another one of my favorite KZbinrs actually is from the same state as me

[@Leto85]

He is back! The man, the legend, the livingdex maker!

[@Oshtoby]

Oh heck YES, a Johnstone video.

[@skoip6673]

Never fail to deliver on a banger video, thanks John.

[@Tylahh]

The video is 33 mins long and you commented 3 mins ago, must be a really good intro lol

[@skoip6673]

exactly@@Tylahh

[@diamondinmyeye6160]

Your Minior catch was a lot like mine with Tandemaus. I saw an outbreak, ran over it, thought "this is going to be tricky," and literally the first one I auto battled was shiny! (If only I'd succeeded with Dratini outbreaks.)

[@itz_jeedquinn]

Idk how he can notice the most tiny differences in shinies is honestly just impressive

[@LocalTiredArtist]

10:05 Rotom was my first ever shiny. I was just casually playing Scarlet while completing my living dex and it just randomly spawned. I screamed so loudly cause I was so excited. I caught it and named it tangerine. It’s my beloved pokemon. Rotom holds a special place in my heart now.

[@cowboymccoy5895]

A Johnstone upload day is a good day

[@Hoshimaru57]

5:43 Rellor was the 2nd shiny I got in my main story play through. The first was Psyduck about 1/2 an hour in, and the last was Dunsparce right before I went and fought Sada.

[@DannyRayqu]

John: Litleo hasnt been seen since pokepelago!!! Litleo: Ive been avilable on SV since release but okay...

[@BruiserProdigy]

BANGER VIDEO! MUCH LOVE

[@starwarswaffles3696]

I love how absoloutely insane you are, who else has this absoloute inhuman level of patience

[@elloevan3495]

Absolutely amazing that this banger is on my birthday what a great present

[@gymleader797]

I started two weeks ago, almost got to 100! Spiny hunting in this game is addicting 😂

[@yuckymudkipmudkip1907]

Mudkip my Beloved, thank you Johnstone for this upload!

[@Connowot387]

I got four Shiny Delibird in one outbreak during my Christmas break in Paldea. I caught each one in a different and RARE pokeball.

[@shewolfsdomain1581]

btw john zebstrika was actually catchable in oras from certain mirage spots after defeating or catching kyogre/groudon and the dex expands

[@Weafers]

It’s a Good day when John uploads

[@jmgrule]

Seeing John do this just reminds me of the journey to get a shiny female Glaceon. My friends have dubbed me insane.

[@trenerendriu]

I love your videos! You are amazing!

[@Sugar_Cook]

It should be noted that outbreaks of a specific form will always be that specific form. So, for the sinistea outbreak, it would always be phony sinistea (though the area spawns sinistea naturally so there's always the chance you get a non-outbreak one there)

[@hitavi4965]

I felt Jon killing that shiny charmander, that...that was painful

[@slateportraichu5416]

Thank you for an awesome challenge video=3

[@joshparkinn]

thank you for this Johntent

[@Hoshimaru57]

I think I might have ya beat for the Savannah biome. As soon as the cut scene with Lacey ended I took 2 steps and got plowed into by a shiny Doduo. And yet I never managed a shiny Milcery during the outbreaks. I did get 2-3 shiny Duraludon though during that event. 3:37 good to know. I thought it was just my game that feels like it’s gonna crash every time I go to the big area. And oddly the performance was better before I upgraded the biome.

[@silverhowler999]

Funny story I heard you say the word "polar" and my brain immediately went to the Polar Caves 🤣 I hate living in NH but any time I hear someone "famous" mention it I'm like OMG I LIVE THERE!!!!!!!!!

[@akgplayz]

I remember hunting authentic sinistea in an outbreak and lost like 5 hours of hunting because I didn't know it had memento. Thankfully I got another one 15 mins later.

[@TheBedrockMaster]

Today’s a good day for KZbin videos

[@clau6ia]

I was waiting for new video ❤

[@fishermanarturo8896]

Perfect I just started my lunch hour. Thanks 🙏

[@miguelguindos]

At this point you should do a Living Shiny Dex for this game!

[@greeneoasis9051]

Yeah the milcery outbreaks were crazy, i wanted to get an alcremie with each topping and it took like less than 2 sandwhiches

[@Alph4Falc0]

AYO THE GOAT IS BACK 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@captcrunch2580]

It took me 10 hours to find a shiny milcery in that event. I can't believe you just found one immediately.

[@cockyroaches]

bruxish mentioned lets gooooo 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 love that freak so much its unreal

[@alticiaekelley4721]

I did a poplio hunt as soon as i upgraded coastal biome. I was also worried that i wouldn't be able to see it that well, but somehow, it stuck out & I was able to spot it really easy.

[@HarounSheep]

Already know its gonna be good

[@lexsombersunrise]

Hearing about Blitzle's lack of availability hurts my soul. It's such a cute Pokémon.

[@TheShinyAlex]

I do in fact love the polar caves, I had to pull someone through.

[@trigrx6]

I find it so funny how we complain now when a shiny takes over and hour when the fastest hunts used to be like 8 hours and tbh i dont really hate that shiny pokemon are easier to find now because you can still go back and hunt shiny pokemon in the games where theyre difficult if you want to but for those who dont have 8 hours a day to soft reset for a shiny starter or whatever but still want their fav starter as a shiny its really convenient

[@Alibrarianschoice]

just like you I have a shiny addiction, I have been shiny hunting in a pokemon clicker game for the past 2 weeks with only 73 shinies. I AM DYING

[@MortanAMrk]

Still remember getting my shiny obstagooner full odds, hes so beautiful, only shiny ive ever gotten (except for hgss gyarados)

[@ThalkorthePyromaniac]

That Sacred Sword was tragic💀

[@xtrememystery4386]

HONEY WAKE UP JOHNSTONE UPLOADED

[@TigeriPlaysGames]

while watching this, i opened up my switch and just hopped around to a few outbreaks that were already up, no sandwich or whatever. the first one i went to was a spoink outbreak. there was a shiny spoink in the very first spawns i saw as i walked up.

[@HardCapGames]

What a cool video as always Mr. Johnstone. ALSO POLAR CAVES MENTIONED RAHHHHHHH

[@rustynutsmedia3427]

If I’m not mistaken, in Sinistea outbreaks if they are phony form, they are all phony (including shiny). Same with Sinistcha. I believe Austin John has a video on this. So you could find an outbreak of authentic forms to get the shiny.

[@_Banjo_]

John making jokes about his eyesight and im staring at his footage...at his known shinies and going "how is there a shiny here?????????????"

[@mrmaverick2188]

JOHNSTONE UPLOADED RAAH!!