I spent 100 hours hunting for a shiny starter

and I'd do it again.
looking for shiny bidoof in legends arceus I require help / candyevie
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[@CandyEvie]

pls come see me on twitch rn when ur done with the vid I require assistance :( www.twitch.tv/candyevie

[@Sheepyshere]

Okie

[@TheAnimeDegenerete]

I love the og diamond

[@MrCommentGod]

Ok

[@dangercactus]

ok

[@shawarmadadi494]

Okie dokie artichokie

[@okanut]

"This Infernape is probably older than some people watching this video." ... I can feel my soul withering away as we speak.

[@neothepenguin1257]

That made me double take

[@hawkfeather6802]

The youngest they could be is 12. Wow,2010 was 12 years ago....

[@LexYeen]

@@hawkfeather6802 12 year olds do be watching youtube and playing pokemon tho

[@Dorian_Scott]

At this rate, you may as well be known as "ShinyEvie." You're a very dedicated shiny hunter.

[@YourDM64]

She should make a second channel with that name. It could be vods about shiny hunting.

[@RixaveYustin]

But she isn't shiny colored

[@Fluorite-Fox]

ShinyEevee is already the name of this flipnote artist ^^

[@droolmax8943]

That’s a sick name honestly

[@Fluorite-Fox]

@@droolmax8943 kzbin.info/www/bejne/laiqeoGGoMuFi6s Here's one of their old af flipnotes lol

[@rwrcookiez]

I'm always happy to see successful shiny starter hunts! It gives me hope that I'll see my Turtwig sparkle soon (5195 resets, 177 hours, 1 shiny starly seen and counting)!

[@Katakuri1B57]

holy shit

[@kuyaboben5300]

I gave up after 2 weeks. I’m counting on you to find the good boi!

[@Willow4526]

Than there's arceus, less than 30mins hunting Turtwig and bam shiny or my other luck today double shiny monferno on the first try hahaha.

[@danielvargas895]

OMG I’m at 135 hours, 4,050 resets and no shiny starly 😭 hoping we get it soon

[@justin07820]

The commitment is strong my guy any updates?

[@JordansKarma]

I feel this to such a high extent. I'm going for a shiny Piplup, and I started hunting on Christmas Day. My switch says I've played 150+ hours, and I'm currently 3,950 resets in. Not even a shiny Starly yet. I've gotten nothing. I'm going insane- I have begun to hear colours.

[@JordansKarma]

update: I got him yesterday at 4,042 resets :) the world has returned back to normal

[@Victor-xg6xn]

The Good Ending

[@rezvilletrainer3168]

Where do you check on the switch on how many resets you got?

[@Aranboi]

@@rezvilletrainer3168 i think it doesnt tell you and you might have to count

[@rezvilletrainer3168]

@@Aranboi I finally got my shiny chimchar just to have it faint b4 the third gym in the underground area 😭🥹💔😫

[@yveltal1249]

5:49 Here we can see how a human being can turn into a chicken by the sheer amazement of finding a shiny after hours of soft resetting. Truly a marvelous sighting that'll go down in the Pokemon science books for years

[@Terandonrex]

When i clicked the time stamp it gave me an ad of McDonald's saying mcmcmcmc and when i skipped the ad i saw what you meant hahaahha

[@ASquared544]

Lucy: “Finally, all my long forgotten quests have been completed…” “…” “… UNTIL-“

[@robertussin005]

I’m at 5800 resets for a shiny Turtwig on Platinum, and my hunt has been going for 100+ hours. I hope the lower odds don’t screw me over, but your video gives me hope! Thank you Update: It finally shined after 6323 soft resets! 3/22/22

[@latios7886]

nice

[@algotkristoffersson15]

Just breed for shinies, that is way faster

[@robertussin005]

@@algotkristoffersson15 I wanted the turtwig to be the one you get at the beginning. Also not every Pokémon can be shiny hunted by breeding

[@algotkristoffersson15]

@@robertussin005 but if you can breed Pokémon (like you can in all modern games) and every generated Pokémon has a 1/X chanse to be shiny. Then Pokémon can be shiny-hunted by breeding them

[@robertussin005]

@@algotkristoffersson15 well for me, it’s also about doing different kinds of hunts. I’m not very interested in hatching a bajillion eggs unless it’s a special egg. I like starter resets, fossil hunts, safari zone, etc

[@normanfranklin4784]

If only she knew how much easier it was to get a blue turtle in the 90's.

[@bigfootjinxthecat8696]

The blue turtle did not exist in the 90’s

[@Tofu_Kiki]

​@@bigfootjinxthecat8696I think it was a Legends Arceus reference

[@bigfootjinxthecat8696]

@@Tofu_Kiki ok

[@superdejan64]

​@@Tofu_KikiI think he's referring to squirtle cause like, legends arceus happened wayy before the 90s

[@jacobruby2237]

As someone who's currently at 4025 resets and resetting at this moment for Turtwig in Brilliant Diamond, it's such a pain. At least you got one. Congrats!

[@hexy_boi]

I'm also hunting for one but I'm only at attempt 737

[@stephaniegoldstein205]

I figured because of how long it takes to get to it

[@jesuslacanilao4117]

Same boat I'm at least 4k

[@ImGoat1995]

Got my shiny Turtwig at 3851

[@bee6259]

Got my piplup at 7k, sometimes they’re stubborn

[@Pikafishy]

I remember watching several streams, trying to catch the one where you got the turtwig, and I missed it because of a band contest :(. Congrats on the shiny!

[@zwonderouscyndaburst5905]

Hey the band contest musta been fun

[@jameshampton4150]

Bruh same I watched every stream aswell and then I missed the turtwig because I went for a shower 😭

[@TheNutshaq]

I miss band

[@arcaneusumbra1539]

The fact that Nintendo offered you a free copy of the game rather than suing you for everything you have shocks me.

[@erica659]

Not only is she an amazing shiny hunter, she is a good animator aswell!

[@mcshazer3115]

I think it’s the other way around

[@dav1d130]

She's a dollar store jaiden animations. Literally lmao.

[@catcandiez]

@@dav1d130 thats rude as fuck

[@loveofchickens7665]

​​@@dav1d130 yeah but shes really fun to watch and she has more pokemon content lol

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

I remember hearing a streamer say "It's a special moment when you get your first Shiny." Which got to me, because I've never gotten one aside from Red Gyaryados in Gold and Crystal.

[@desuordie4856]

Mine was a green zubat

[@nerdyboi121]

Mine was the gold Ho-Oh in HG, soft resetting for it.

[@Draculord666]

If it makes you feel any better, my only legit shiny was a shiny magikarp I randomly fished up in gen 6 when everyone gets that shiny Gyarados for free lol

[@velvetbutterfly]

Mine was Cascoon. Though I since got Golurk, Chikorita, Ekans, Budew, and I think two others I can't remember

[@Kostyurik]

My first shiny was a green Cubone in FireRed in 2012. At the time I didn't even know about shinies, but I catch it anyway and green Marowak was a valuable team member who carried me and my Charizard all the way to Hall of Fame. But then I haven't catch or even seen a legitimate not-guaranteed shiny for many years, until pink Castform in Pokemon GO in 2019.

[@shinyeevee37]

Can I just say- that shiny reaction was THE BEST one I have EVER heard

[@billybobjoe1335]

What about the Blue Koffing?

[@mr.stuffdoer8483]

Are you kidding? That was so tame

[@shinyeevee37]

@@mr.stuffdoer8483 She sounded so confused 🤣

[@jz6393]

I went through all of these emotions as I was shiny hunting my Dialga. The part about the need to continue after wasting too much time already or thinking that my copy of the game is just shiny locked for unexplainable reasons was me before 3400 resets to finally get that shiny.

[@jaedenBerrios]

Shiny hunting starters is one of the most painful things a Pokémon fan can do

[@magicshruums1014]

"I spent 100 hours resetting for a shiny starter" Me who gave up after 20 days: "Damn okay"

[@swirlymoth]

I’ve never shiny hunted a starter, nor taken more than like 40 minutes to shiny hunt. I rage quit after that amount of time… I really admire the dedication put into this.

[@Rob-hb7wh]

Shiny hunting is the height of masochism

[@ritzboo9490]

I feel like I have no problem with the time but considering the fact that I’d waste 40 hours for a couple pixels is just wrong to me

[@irajkhamsi8892]

I appreciate the admittance of 98 hours. You earned that title and kept your honor at the same time👍

[@Aurora-bg8pz]

I did this hunt, going into it thinking it'd be "easy" (I did not do any research..) and boy oh boy was I wrong, but after 20 hours I knew I couldn't give up. Took me 80 hours to get my shiny monkey. BUT I DID IT, this video gave me the strength knowing others have suffered this fate.

[@donovan802]

As someone who failed a Shiny Spearow back in Sun, which was full odds, and has yet to reencounter it, I know your struggle.

[@linus4023]

Try to get one in let's go evee or pikatchu if you have those games cus the odds are better

[@compass_bat]

i also failed a full odds slowpoke in my moon version i know your pain :(

[@mixed6640]

I like how luvie is just actual logic that comes in whenever she does something stupid

[@CandyEvie]

the (very small) voice of reason

[@nathansmith3784]

God I feel this. I got about 150 hours hunting for a shiny piplup, and eventually my wife went in and saved with just a regular piplup so I would be able to start the game lol

[@BankaiFever]

But you could just erase that data and keep trying lolwut

[@Benzlisting]

I would’ve just kept going if I already spent 150 hours trying.

[@BlazeBallin23]

Bro for me personally even 30 mins of shiny hunting and I'm quiting... maybe less than that 😂

[@TheItalianoAssassino]

Seeing my friends little sister playing Pokémon on the Switch made me feel like a boomer at 23. "Well, back in my day, Pokémon games were in black and white" "What?" 😂

[@jamesesterline]

0:17 I love the little detail of her briefly turning into her other channel

[@LeviCPC25]

When I saw it, it was like 10 seconds after I dropped my phone, and I thought it broke internally 😅😅😅😅😅.

[@classicrob16]

You're not a fraud! The dedication to not play Platinum untill you get your shiny is the madness we need on KZbin.

[@scribbitb.4519]

This was a fun hunt to follow on Twitch!! I'm glad you put up the video of you finding him, I missed it by like an hour

[@morrigankasa570]

I remember an Emerald Version playthrough where I got legitimately random: 2 Shiny Poochyena's and those where my first Shinies other then the guaranteed Red Gyarados in Silver Version.

[@supersquidder7044]

The sad thing is that after 100hours of soft resetting she was still under odds

[@SuperYtc1]

Yep. She keeps complaining about luck but doesn’t realise that she actually got lucky, lol.

[@Professor_Kami]

That's what I was thinking the whole time

[@whisperingwooper1763]

Exactly she is super luckily but the resets are brutal

[@b-mill4306]

@@whisperingwooper1763 mine took 216 hours and the thing is it easily could’ve been worse lmao

[@BargerClan]

Use the PKhex MOD easy

[@Forever_Zero]

This isn't your everyday shiny hunting...this is advanced shiny hunting. Well at least I'm glad Lucy's shiny dreams are materializing

[@jackiethibodeaux4426]

Oh my goodness. I’ve never seen a single video of yours before and I’m instantly following, love you so much total stranger 💕💕💕

[@wandering4104]

Aight i have reason to believe you are blessed with shiny powers, because genuinely the minute i clicked on this video, my _own_ shiny hunt in Brilliant Diamond for an shiny chimchar starter (which had gone well over odds at this point) came to an end

[@BreezyStreamy]

You are the shining example of why you shouldn't soft reset for a shiny starter (in BDSP!) I'm happy that you finally got one! I watched you play when you where in your first few hundred, so I had a feeling that it was going to take a while. Thanks for all the time you put into it!

[@andrzejzoll952]

Absolutely love your videos ^^ I'm so happy i discovered this channel

[@joneduardo9356]

I was there to witness the moment of the most persistent shiny hunter the world has ever seen getting a shiny turtwig. This will be in the history books

[@someoneelse4579]

I've been watching you for around 7 years now, and it makes me so happy to see that you've grown so much since then. Your content is better than it ever was before, and even though you don't upload often, when you do it always makes my day. Thank you for existing

[@jerrydragon9382]

Congrats on your shiny! Though I'm not very interested in the change of color for the gen 4 starter shinies, it is still satisfying to watch people get it after an extremely long time.

[@zaino432]

Man, I feel this in my soul. I've been shiny hunting in my Pokemon X game for a shiny fenniken for about 1,000 resets but then shiny hunting for the squirtle you also get and I've been on it for a long time, I've lost count of how many resets and hours I've spent on it.

[@Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee584]

This was a year ago did you get your 2 shinys?

[@BeepBoopBee]

Congratulations on getting your son! I've never seen what the shiny turtwig looks like, but it's very pretty ^~^

[@auresc04]

Seeing that there are people who have put as much time as me into this game to get a shiny starter and have actually managed to get it gives me hope.

[@sapphirew00my]

during one stream I asked lucy for recommendations of a shiny to hunt in my original diamond game because I've always thought the shiny sprites looked great in that game, and she said chatot she will be pleased to know that I have found him. he is my son. I named him william after the stream in which lucy asked me to find him

[@CandyEvie]

william CLUB

[@hmstudios2468]

Me telling my parents about shiny hunting. Me Mam: Do you NEED it to sparkle? Me Dad: *sounds of approval*

[@lis2974]

I was watching your stream every night as soon as I got out of work (conveniently thats when you started) and the one stream I missed had William ;-; I'm happy for you :)

[@AbsolBlogsPokemon]

William!!!!!

[@Mintz_Eventing]

How has this not blew up after 1 year??

[@T.F.Samwell]

I went looking for a starter hunt stream and found yours because I was suffering looking for my own shiny turtwig and wanted to feel some kind of parasocial solidarity with someone. It also took me like 3 weeks and 3575 resets but I think I found him a day after you found yours (his name is Lemontree) anyway thanks for streaming your pain so I could feel slightly less insane during that endeavor lmao

[@NicoUnken]

OOOooooff.... Great job hanging in there! I was at about 450-500 or so resets for my shiny Piplup. Found a shiny starly along the way, too! So I really had an extremely easy time goodness.

[@kyliemiller2667]

Omg I love this, Turtwig was my first ever starter when I played Diamond when I was 7 years old and I resetting for a shiny Turtwig. It took me 2 or 3 days until I got one and I couldn't be more happier with him :)

[@Alex_Off-Beat]

Lucie is basically just the living embodiment of the sunk cost fallacy at this point lol

[@JLeft4Bread]

"Shiny hunting is easy" "After a few HUNDRED resets I got a shiny chimchar"

[@jacobcain9008]

Only a few hundred is pretty lucky. Full odds is around 1 in 4000.

[@SylverMaracti]

@@jacobcain9008 it was on a pre gen6 game, so the odds were worse at 1/8192

[@kirbyeatsyourfamily7345]

@@jacobcain9008 in platinum it was 1/8000

[@JLeft4Bread]

@@jacobcain9008 I am a shiny hunter I am aware

[@Professor_Kami]

@@SylverMaracti The remakes' chances are 1/4096 tho

[@nemnyoom]

i feel like you blessed me with this video bc between you uploading and me actually watching i caught two (2) shiny gastly in pla

[@Andrew-wl3hn]

I don't literally laugh out loud to many KZbinrs but you never fail to make me laugh. Your videos literally give me life 😂

[@CairoOmar39]

I love how Cookie is strong willed. Reflects how you must’ve been to look for her

[@holty1314]

Poké Tubers: I’ve already 100% beat the game! Eevee: I spent all that time getting a shiny starter! Poké Tubers: 😀😃😄😆🤣

[@hannahdavis4256]

I'm soft resetting for Chimchar. I'm about 110 hours in and at 1,475 if I recall correctly. Gonna name the little darling Razzy after a raspberry. Congrats on your shiny!!! I see people constantly go "why would you do that? A new game came out in the time it took you." I've played the 3 original Sinnoh games and used all 3 starters, why not try with a shiny? I got a shiny mudkip as my starter in Omega Ruby during my second playthrough of Hoenn and it's been the best! Plus my bestie and I are hunting together, she's hunting Turtwig! It's really fun tbh :)

[@Sam-xl2xh]

Wait... How did you only do 1475 resets in 110 hours?? Im at 1761 and I played for 55 hours

[@kweeniepiez]

you realize you can encounter a wild shiny chimchar in an outbreak and it would take like a half hour and you'd catch him? 😂😂

[@Sam-xl2xh]

@@kweeniepiez you know that sometimes people prefer challenges over easy hunt? I think soft reseting his starter is more fun since you can litteraly start your adventure with a shiny. If everyone would be doing easier hunts everyone would hunt in the ultra-wormhole from USUL

[@hannahdavis4256]

@@kweeniepiez I prefer starting with the shiny. It's not fun if I catch it in an outbreak or later in the game because then I won't really use it. It's literally up to the individual person what they wanna do. And of course I know I can catch Pokemon that way. As I said, I've played through with all three starters so I figured why not shiny hunt the starter. It's easier for me to do it that way.

[@hannahdavis4256]

@@Sam-xl2xh I honestly couldn't tell ya man. I guess just my ADHD. I leave my game on a lot, forget it exists, see it dim, tap it, then just leave it running so that probably did it ngl 😂

[@FangirlKatydid]

Watched all your shiny videos in a row and was inspired to go back to my attempted full shiny dex in virtual console Crystal. Still going for that cyndaquil. Been two years. No idea how many resets. The saga continues.

[@Goldesy]

Congratulations! I was there for most of the streams, I'm really happy you got William

[@ASquared544]

If the Sunk Cost Fallacy was a higher state of being, Lucy would’ve reached Nirvana twice over.

[@CovertChristo]

I feel all of this pain. I decided about a week ago I wanted to actually, y'know, play the game when I got the uncatchable Starly. Kept that save because the Dex now shows I saw the Starly.

[@keshiaanders6452]

I only caught three Shinies. The requested Ponyta, a Magmar, and a Dustox.

[@udonclips4066]

Love your Pokemon videos Candy,keep em coming 😊

[@plushyrope698]

great vid!!! i remember seeing this live and i was just waiting lol

[@ShadowPlays01]

this video got me to grow confidence to start shinyhunting, thanks :)

[@13paulis]

Your labor for getting your William was 3 weeks long! OMG!! That's why I had a c-section to get my William. It took 5 minutes! LOL

[@avcevyll0066]

Nicely done, and very lucky. Currently, Brilliant Diamond is my most-played Switch game... but all 285 hours have also gone to hunting Turtwig, at 6,914 resets (and I found *four* Starly thus far). Hoping to get it before Feb. 21, when the Mystery Gifts are no longer available. My brother's hunting Chimchar in Shining Pearl, and he's also around 6k (having found one Starly).

[@adhyakshkk4063]

I wish you luck so you and your brother would get shiny before 8k

[@Tigery760]

I'm at 115 so far and if by the 20th I don't get my Piplup I'll just stop and collect everything I can from Mystery Gift.

[@shinyhunteralana2297]

A streamer ik she's double odds over 8192 for a shiny Chimchar I wish both of u luck in getting shiny starters

[@avcevyll0066]

@@adhyakshkk4063 Thanks. Yeah, I'm trying to pump out more resets every day, but I'm really hoping we get it before 8k.

[@avcevyll0066]

@@shinyhunteralana2297 Thanks. That sounds rough. Between my brother (we're twins, so we've played all the games together) and me, we've completed 39 full-odds hunts (where the only modification can be the shiny charm), and only 8 of those have crossed the 2x mark. Hoping that number doesn't go up to 10.

[@the_lazy_captain2447]

honestly i admire the dedication you shiny hunters have i just consider myself lucky if the starter i have is the gender i want and if it isnt i just improvise with the name i was gonna give it

[@Foxtrot12345]

lol I love these videos; it reminds me of my chimchar hunt in Platinum. I was legit over 40k encounters for that annoying fr. It was worth it though, in spite of the painstaking hours I spent hunting it XD

[@Nittsu13]

Deep admiration. Been super into RNG’ing because the numbers game is so fun, but I’ve been thinking how fun it’d be to just step away from my computer windows and just lay in bed with the switch for a while, (especially after doing fuecoco eggs and getting that one, feels good!)

[@josephjones4542]

I was really hoping to see another video cause I recently got into your channel, good stuff ❤️❤️

[@SaskiaSketches]

Oh my gosh! Congratulations on your shiny turt!! I got super lucky on my shiny Turtwig, it took around 700 encounters! I didn’t get a shiny starly either! I’m doing a nostalgia team quest, and Turtwig was my first! Hunting Magikarp now for shiny Gyarados!

[@israelpacheco8937]

I’m really itching for a new video didn’t know her shiny stories were so good

[@aikkel]

litterly the first time i tuned in to the channel, you found this bad boy. Gz

[@primrosevale1995]

"I got the blue turtle!" Shiny Turtwig is fucking teal.

[@Dylan-Frost]

Whenever I saw the stream title and the words "blue turtwig" I was expecting the turtwig to actually be blue. But it's shiny is just as similar as piplup is

[@toxictaco7567]

CandyEvie has become one of those KZbinrs I immediately get happy when I see them upload

[@gordonlynch771]

You were WAY TOO CALM when William arrived! 😂

[@feralpossum2089]

I love the shiny turtwig line - it's like a mossy version!

[@ImVeryHongry]

I spent my entire winter break hunting for a Shiny Turtwig, only for me to get a Shiny uncatchable Starly a few days before the break ended. It was the worst defeat in years.

[@anavaeru]

Sunken Cost Fallacy at its finest lol. Great content.

[@David13579]

I’m currently playing Alpha Sapphire and just found what I think is the neatest shiny right now, shiny Magcargo, it’s bright pink! 😁 And the Slugma is silver/grey, which is also pretty neat! 😄 The only other shiny I have caught so far in Alpha Sapphire is a Shiny blue Medicham! 😄

[@LloomiDreamz]

Mega?

[@David13579]

@@LloomiDreamz oh! That’s a good idea! I think I have that mega stone on a normal (not shiny) Medicham! 😄 Thanks!

[@prizmpawsaj3370]

rewatching this video bc im currently in a similar situation. i got ultra moon years ago and have yet to play it all the way through bc i insisted on playing through it with a shiny rowlet. the usum starter cutscene is 4 minutes long. i stubbornly insisted on only soft resetting for it for a while but eventually got tired of that and decided to start masuda-ing for it on the side. 500 soft resets (aka ~33 hours) and a little over 100 eggs and my green owl has yet to come home. wish me luck !

[@cluelesskhajiit]

I've been actively hunting for a shiny Yanma in Arceus just to gift it to yah lol. It's rare to find someone around my age that loves Pokémon as much as I do, and since I've had good luck with shinies in Arceus, I thought I'd give that a go while I'm at it.

[@Dandiego235]

I have got a shiny Yanma without even looking for it 😂

[@shinyeevee37]

That's why I didn't hunt the starters... One of my friends took about 120 hours before getting shiny Piplup

[@MintyOwlett]

Me watching this while hunting Turtwig in OG Diamond lmao. The "I have three, you can't hurt me." had me rolling because same!!

[@amberlee4536]

Oh my god you finally got there, I've been stopping in your Twitch stream off and on to watch you play Briefcase Simulator

[@menkomonty]

Streaming 100 hours on a game for a single starter. Yeah that sounds about right

[@QyfieK]

I found my first ever shiny yesterday after playing pokemon for over a decade! It was a Drifblim in a Distortion but I didn’t have any Pokeballs on me. I went to get some and when I came back, it was gone. Reloaded the save, now the distorsion was gone. Pain. (The reason I had no pokeballs was because I had by mistake put them into the item box while I was emptying my inventory and didn’t realize until it was too late. And I had no materials on me.)

[@maneruloquendero]

0:05 don't worry Lucy. I mainly like your content because of your hunts and experiences on GBA and NDS

[@collieallover]

You questioning if your game had been shiny locked, is exactly where I’m at, hearing you go through the same thought reassured me. LOL

[@dodger01theawesome81]

I remember the encapsulation of William the blue dirt turt, hope bidoof shines in over double the encounters 😉

[@theodoretekkers]

Glad you're doing well Candy Evie!

[@KristenHarmala]

I know it's way late, but congrats on the shiny! William's a good boy!

[@Fefe65800]

The only starter i ever shiny hunted was treeko on alpha sapphire, being the first pokemon i shiny hunted with actual determination without giving up after 2 hours. After 11 days of resetting for 6 hours every day, i still have my beloved shiny sceptile in my ORAS team :)

[@JakePetrolhead]

Honestly, these streams were so much fun to hang out in - 10/10 would watch someone form a cult around a Blue Turtle again

[@Gaming2DMX]

You wanna know something funny, two days ago I just found a shiny turtwig without even trying to hunt it

[@olliego]

Here's a little story, recently I've gotten into rom hacks. And once I got around to playing blaze black 2 redux, my starter (snivy) was a shiny. I didn't even soft reset for it. It just happened, the full 1/512 shiny odds of that game just decided to bless me on my first mon. Since blaze black 2 makes the starters hidden ability I was able to storm through the game with a shiny contrary serperior. Very nice

[@rodolfoperales1357]

The begining was everything "can't keep up" 😂

[@bagofgroceries]

Seeing this happen live was AMAZING

[@atharvarathod4262]

Finally you're back!!!!!!!

[@pufferfishboi4686]

"I spent 100 hours hunting for a shiny starter" Me who has over 250 hours of shiny hunting turtwig has gotten 2 shiny starly AND still hasnt gotten to play the game: Pathetic

[@Strashky]

only 100 hours? jkjk congrats evieee!! you finally got your beautiful groundturtle, have fun finally playing through the game! i feel like that is an extra bonus for completing the hunt :)