The Hardest Pokemon to Get in Every Region

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[@castform7]

I find it extremely funny that Barry, the guy who can barely sit still for 2 minutes, has two of the most rare honey encounters. Either Barry's extremely lucky or wanted to beat his dad so bad he played the waiting game for strong team members.

[@Twinklethefox9022]

That image alone is hilarious

[@Kuronosa]

@@Twinklethefox9022 I can just imagine him standing next to a tree he put honey on, tapping his foot impatiently waiting for the Mon to come.

[@MrHaze56]

Barry treated it like Johto and just headbutted the tree

[@rajkanishu]

or he just got lucky

[@Montygbc]

@@MrHaze56 lmaoooooo

[@dobeeeeval]

Larvitar wasn't available in gen 2 until after you got all 16 badges. Had a 5% encounter rate, and a max level of 20, so you'd have to level it up 35 times to finally get a Tyranitar. All just for 1 remaining fight against Red.

[@rightdamask8705]

Yea but thies guys are like 18 years old or younger, so they don't remember the good Ole days

[@worstwurst7593]

@@rightdamask8705 I actually did that on my nostalgia replay of Pkmn Gold on my Emulator and say what you want but having Tyranitar was worth it

[@Birdman6130]

Let’s not forget how Houndour and Murkrow were also introduced in the postgame. Ironic how dark types didn’t get their shine in the gen that introduced them.

[@djsuswbsb]

@@Birdman6130 and to top it off Physical/Special split made dark Special so most all moves were hitting like wet noodles on anyone but Ttar.

[@Thorozak]

HGSS did a lot to fix some of the odd decisions they made for encounters in gen 2

[@Ikcatcher]

I encountered Raikou in Leafgreen when I was young and it used Roar on me to flee. Cue me spending the next two years trying to search for it only to give and now for JPR to tell me it was a glitch.

[@hologram4118]

Yeah that was news to me too

[@itz_ryugium3525]

Always use master ball on the dogs

[@XenithShadow]

The secondary issue is that gen 3 didn't have respawning legendaries, as in later generations if a legendary is fainted/ fled from it can be respawned upon beating to league to encounter it again.

[@Awuga]

@@XenithShadow lati’s would flee and respawn a different route tho

[@XenithShadow]

@@Awuga If you fled (which is cause by raikou/entei using roar in generation 3). Yes the gen 3 roamers would appear on other routes if they themselves fled.

[@DCG909]

In regards to Regigigas. During the OG Ruby & Sapphire time, when Internet was still somewhat scarce, I heard the rumor that you could catch a pumpkin headded pokemon, with one whip and a regular arm, when the space center reached a certain number of launches. You would go up with the rocket to space and get to fight this mysterious pokemon. When I reached the end of the Delta episode, I let out a tear thinking back at those days and how insane it was they actually implemented something rather close to it in the actual game.

[@MarshallSambell]

Yep I remember that rumour was circulated that you could go to the moon on a rocket

[@FrenkTheJoy]

Who told you it was a pumpkin-headed pokemon? I always heard it was just Jirachi.

[@DCG909]

@@FrenkTheJoy After someone hacked in deoxys, the guy who told me showed ut the pokemon and it was way different from what we'd imagined. I do remember Jirachi was also being rumored around that time, but the details aren't as clear as deoxys. I think people were expecting that to be in meteor falls, due to the description "star shaped head with ribbons/cards on the tips". This was in the time before google and word of mouth was a more potent tool than it was today. I do like the way they implement mythical pokemon afterwards not to keep the chances of leaks to a minimum, but I prefer the way they had an unique area/story of hgss/dpp.

[@wkeezz]

@@FrenkTheJoysame I always heard it was jirachi as well

[@Hanson032]

The amount of time I spent walking around the space station and trying out every rumor is immeasurable lol

[@wutangklan5084]

I remember playing Pearl and thinking ‘I want my water type to be Milotic’ and then spending tedious hours trying to find one of the 4 random squares with feebas, followed by more tedious hours looking around the park for pamtre berries. That sort of grind made those Pokémon special

[@DynamoTwentyTwo]

I didn't know Chansey was that rare in gen 2 so I was getting frustrated at how long it was taking me to find one and I said to myself "I swear I'm going to find a shiny Noctowl first at this rate". I did.

[@JKLeScH777]

Liar

[@4NeonFun]

It's true! I spent waaay too long catching mine in LeafGreen. That said, it seems like hardly a flex compared to some KZbinrs. Ah well! The roaming legendaries in the game felt kinda like a fever dream in LG and had the legendary beasts in Colosseum.

[@goldenhydreigon4727]

Tbf, at least the Shiny Noctowl can be a reference to the Anime

[@DarthBenneth]

My biggest rare encounter flex had got to be Salamence in Ultra Sun. Accidentally ran into a Bagon that automatically summoned an SOS Salamence that I managed to catch. Fully evolved Pseudo before Hala's battle was awesome, even had an attack-raising nature.

[@robertlupa8273]

:O

[@SexyEgg-s1p]

That is a ridiculously rare encounter bagon only has 1% encounter rate and it only has a 1% percent chance to sos salamance. I tried to grind that encounter once but gave up.

[@dlarsh]

I'm jealous; Salamence is my favorite pseudo, and I spent hours trying to get one in S/M. Ended up giving up and catching the third Bagon after it started struggling. I do have a pseudo encounter that might have you beat though; I was farming Audino xp in the Chasm in B/W. I didn't even know Metagross could spawn there, but the first one that popped up for me was shiny. Ended up using my master ball on it and had to catch the weather legendary the hard way, but was so worth it. That was the only full odds shiny I ever found all the way until s/v (got a lucky pink Lechonk in the opening area while hunting sparkles on the ground).

[@oscaratriano8534]

When I got moon I looked at a video saying you could get a 1% salamence if you sos’d a 1% bagon encounter. I found bagon pretty early and started sosing. I found a shiny bagon, so I caught it went back to find another 1% bagon, started sosing, next thing you know a shiny bagon,( I’m pretty sure I only caught 2 shiny bagon and encountered 3 but I couldn’t be fucked to catch the third one so I killed it) I ended up getting the salamence in the end but I was so confused

[@yeahyeahwowman8099]

Biggest rare encounter was a shiny male burmy in platinum. Remember thinking, well I got to use Mothim now, even though it sucks, lol.

[@johngilbert8898]

Having attempted them all, I can tell you that while Salamence was undoubtedly a pain, it is topped by volcarona in ultra sun/moon, which has the same 1%/1% encounter rate, but from a higher level pokemon with a recoil move. Even so, the real worst pokemon to get for all of alola if you don't have access to trading is definitely Politoed. The reason is that it must be night, raining (which only occurs naturally between 5-6pm in Ultra Sun and 5-6am in Ultra Moon, otherwise you have to set it manually) and seems to have a similar encounter rate or even lower from the SOS to salamence and volcarona. However, the crowning glory of this encounter is that the politoed naturally knows perish song, which it will immediately use and give you just 3 turns to wear it down sufficiently to capture (with a catch rate of 45, this is less of a given than you might think). While no Honey tree munchlax in difficulty, my drizzle politoed remains the most ridiculously difficult thing i have ever caught (and yes, I am including shinies)

[@gamesmasher1489]

I have caught every sos called Pokemon except Salamence, Gengar, and Dragonite. It was part of my "create as much of a living dex as you can without evolving challenge". Personally it was Magmar that was the most annoying to find because of the constant burns and poison

[@airtempest8945]

I remember when I was trying to get a Moon SOS Chain Politoed. Only reason I stopped after like 3 hours was a Shiny happened to spawn, so I got that instead and just traded with someone I knew to get it into Politoed 🤣

[@eddy796]

Getting Politoed in Moon for the dex and then trading it for other rare mons or even legendaries was such a pain but for some reason i managed to find 5 before giving up. Hated going for that thing

[@TheNutshaq]

Now imagine shiny hunting that Politoed...

[@otterfire4712]

What about using Taunt to negate Perish Song?

[@kartiksaraf4676]

In Post game in UM I caught the level 10 Sala in a beast ball. Real sense of achievement on that one. I also caught imposter ditto in B2 which was another tough hunt

[@Laserbeak316]

I managed to catch Beldum in a Beast Ball. The Beldum line have some of the lowest catch rates of any Pokémon and I managed to catch one in a Beast Ball of all things.

[@abhinavanand9032]

@@Laserbeak316 Beldum actually has legendary catch rate. GF did that so that players who tried to encounter beldum by hacking would have a hard time catching it.

[@robertlupa8273]

@@abhinavanand9032 Don't forget that before Gen 8, Beldum only knew Take Down, meaning it would slowly knock itself out if you don't have a Ghost type.

[@terraventusaqua123]

@@robertlupa8273 Even with a Ghost-type, you still only had 20 turns before Take Down ran out of power points and Beldum began to Struggle.

[@CarnivorousConnor]

@@Laserbeak316 I caught one before post game in my other copy of Ultra Moon and it’s a great team Member against Poni island

[@StickMaster500]

Props to the people that managed to get these rarest Pokemon shiny!

[@lambybunny7173]

Right? I'm curious if anyone got the 1% dragonite shiny...

[@sbryant1993sb]

No doubt that would be insane

[@SpankinDaBagel]

I got a shiny salamence, but the nature wasn't very good. Still loved using them though!

[@robertjermaine5382]

Quick shoutout to Christina Applegate

[@dragonmaster3030]

Give a international award to anyone getting a shiny manaphy, from the Pokemon rangers gift

[@joshernsteen2066]

Some reason a Nintendo employee was talking about the exact reasons as to why Chimecho was 2% in Mt. Pyre. They did not notice until the game was about to be finished getting coded, and it was added as one of the last pokemon to get added into the game as a whole.

[@bulborb8756]

that kinda sounds like with Basculin how that was put into gen 5 as a last minute addition, no wonder these 2 pokemon are so forgettable

[@malachiroberts6198]

This tracks because Chimecho is one of two pokemon weren't in the beta build of Ruby and Sapphire.

[@claymathewselevator8121]

I always thought it was a Sinnoh Pokémon

[@luigiRobs14]

For the Darmanitan you can also get an ability patch from the Dynamax Adventures but it’ll take a bit of grinding to do but hey you can possibly get shinies out of it

[@wikiuser92]

There's one free Ability Patch you can also get.

[@maganhassan2627]

@@wikiuser92 how & where?

[@wikiuser92]

@@maganhassan2627 By catching Necrozma at the Max Lair after completing all of Peony's adventures.

[@cs82271]

As someone who has completed a Professor Oak challenge in every pokemon game, I personally had the most trouble catching a wild Gengar in Sun. Twenty to thirty hours of having Haunter call out for help...

[@BurakkuHishou]

I instantly knew Feebas was gonna get the mention, it was stupid rare.

[@bobbysmith8095]

At least it was a good Pokémon unlike water bug and the other bug (I already forgot their name that how useless they are)I can’t imagine anyone really trying to get those Pokémon cuz they want them. Most player just need it to compete the Pokédex.

[@jaden8923]

@@bobbysmith8095 surskit? araquanid?

[@bobbysmith8095]

@@jaden8923 Surskit that the rare bug I was talking about. Very useless pokemon and it could have been so good sadly.

[@jaden8923]

@@bobbysmith8095 didnt find surskit to be very rare

[@javonbatiste5984]

@@jaden8923 it has a very low encounter rate in the gen 3 games.

[@thesuperthingymabob8209]

I honestly didn't find out until really recently that regigigas was even in oras because all the guide writers at the time or release didn't even know about it lol

[@MidwestArtMan]

I caught a Feebas in Ruby when I was 9 and didn't know how it's spawn mechanics worked. I screwed up the pokeblocks and it never evolved. I remember it getting to level 70-something, though. I think I was going for 100.

[@MWHProject]

had almost the same - my cousin almost went mad when he knew I caught one even without knowing how difficult that should have been 😅

[@fernand0thefern]

Will never forget going into Pokémon Black completely blind and encountering Cryogonal for the first time. I was completely shocked, and fainted it thinking it would be a common Pokémon to find. Boy was I wrong.

[@joshernsteen2066]

Cryogonal is made gaureented to encounter in the Crown Tundra because it is actually needed to be used in the region, and maybe because they felt sorry for making it difficult to encounter in Pokemon Black and White at 1 to 5% in Twist Mountain by walking. It is slightly easier to encounter in the game remakes with it being 10% in Twist Mountain by walking. I assume that it being transferred to the game by Pokemon Go would also work as a last resort.

[@spectra1096]

First playthrough of Pokemon white I spend 4 hours for cryogonal and it really paid off cuz it turned into a shiny one

[@SinjinOmega]

In Red and Blue, you can also use the MissingNo Glitch to help get Chansey. Just go to Safari Zone and the Zone Chansey is in, and after your time is done, immediately fly to Viridian, do the catching tutorial, then fly to Cinnabar Island and just surf like you do for the glitch. For some reason it changes your encounters for the last area that you were in to the last area capture table. This glitch can basically be done with all routes

[@pathos7527]

I think my boi Volcarona deserves consideration for Gen 7, only found in the small cave section of Lush Jungle and only in the Ultra games. There it’s a 1% chance of finding a Larvesta, which unlike Corsola provides no chance of boosted encounter odds. Then on SOS chaining there is a 1% chance of it actually being Volcarona, 99% to just be another Larvesta. Bear in mind, this is the times it ACTUALLY summons something, at least half the time it will summon nothing. Purely from a math perspective, this Volcarona is more difficult to find than a shiny. I ought to know, I literally found a random full odds shiny Alolan Dugtrio before I finally got it. 💯 “But remember, if you can find an earlier stage in a line and evolve it, it’s not actually that rare. Why wouldn’t you do that instead?” Well here’s the catch: Volcarona normally evolves at 59, while these are underleveled similar to the Relic Castle static spawn in B2W2, in this case found at level 41-44. This matters because the Elite 4’s teams on first go range 56-57, and Hau’s for the Champion title defense match caps at 60. This means if you are going for evolving one of the Larvesta instead, you’ll basically be super grinding it at the very end of the game and overleveling the Elite 4 with it to have access to Volcarona for JUST that set of five battles. If you actually want Volcarona to be on your team for a good length of time, including your last handful of trials, Legendary fights and final rival battles, along with a ton of other Trainers along the way, then you HAVE to use this method after you first gain access to Strength on Poni Island. Though it doesn’t affect encounter odds, it’s worth noting that the Larvesta you have to deal with to find one of these Volcarona are a pain. Like any SOS hunt of something you want to get them in the red and use Adrenaline Orbs, but these Larvesta have Absorb so they can always heal themselves out of red range to where they won’t call for help nearly as often, or on the other side of things they have Take Down and could simply kill themselves while you are waiting for them to summon something so you can keep the chain alive as you work toward finding Volcarona. They also have Flame Body, so if you are weakening them with physical attacks like False Swipe, they’re likely to burn you and mess with your damage calcs. Handling this the right way takes a LOT of care and decent amount of strategy. So yeah, you can see why this thing is hard to find but still justified to hunt down. Getting one for me felt as satisfying as getting any shiny because it took that much work, but had a great payoff going on my team for the rest of my playthrough.

[@DryBones271]

yeah, but you could visit the safari zone, then fly to Cinnabar surf the east coast, and the Pokémon that show up (aside from Missingno) are Pokémon from whatever "dungeon" you just went to, thus making Chansey and all the other Safari Zone encounters easier to get, since you can weaken them.

[@RobinLeft]

That applies to any non-static encounter though. It doesn't make Chansey less rare than anything else

[@RyanADillon]

@@RobinLeft just get Chansey in the Unknown Dungeon then. Was never difficult to find and capture it there.

[@Casper9]

You can also catch Chansey in Cerulean cave with 10% chance in R/B and 5% in Yellow

[@FaLL0uTZ0mBie]

I had no idea those Hoenn Pokémon were that hard to find. They felt more common to find compared to Relicanth

[@nonesuchriverinc]

The biggest offender of impossible to catch Pokémon is Sinnoh, this is mainly due to daily events such as the trophy garden, swarms, the great marsh, there are Pokémon that are exclusive to these. And the selections are random each day

[@bulborb8756]

yeah, and some the pokemon in Sinnoh's "Safari Zone" are pretty infuriating to catch like skorupi who has a very high chance to bolt

[@bluebaron6811]

@@bulborb8756 Not to mention Hippopotas. Seriously, who ACTUALLY goes to the Maniac Tunnel?

[@bulborb8756]

@@bluebaron6811 to make it worse, you need to catch like every form of Unown just so you can increase the odd's finding hippopotas in there from 5% to 20%

[@bluebaron6811]

@@bulborb8756 yeah. That entire region's design is a dumpster fire. Nostalgia is the only thing saving it.

[@sergsoir1691]

When I was a kid I was playing Pokémon Gold and I was just walking through the tall grass when all of a sudden a wild Entei appeared, of course he ran away but it was still one of the best things I had experience as a kid. Nobody believed me

[@obscureopenings]

Same. First time playing Pokémon my cousin and I ran into Entei he snatched the gameboy away from me as soon as he saw

[@oathkeeperblade]

Video starts at 1:53

[@Kuronosa]

I think that the only one of those I have tried to do, is the Marinie one, because I wanted to try to get into Competitive Pokémon, and wanted a Toxapex on my team...it took nearly an hour, once I got onto the Corsola, which I lucked out on, to get to a Marinie.

[@theTRUEelectrek]

I did this to to get a marenie with regenerator! Luckily the first marenie I found had it 😁

[@Kuronosa]

@@theTRUEelectrek it took me sooooooo long to get a Regenorator Marinie... that was terrible experience..

[@theTRUEelectrek]

@@Kuronosa I'm so sorry lol, I didn't know how fortunate I was LOL

[@gbuttersland7757]

I love the mention of the Route 3 Salamence, not because it's the rarest, but because it's my favorite Pokemon and I actually hunted for it and got it within an hour! He was my starter and is still my ace to this day!

[@vortexxaegaeon1029]

I did a white nuzlocke and i actually got cryagonal as my twist mountain encounter. Granted i was playing with species clause and already had boldore, but still, when i went to check the encounter rates and saw it was only 1% i was hyped. Very useful for the dragon gym

[@BryanRainey]

I found the authentic forms of Sinistea and Polteageist harder than Zen Mode Galarian Darmanitan

[@terraventusaqua123]

Since the video said "get" rather than "encounter", I think that in Gen II and its remakes, Heracross and Beldum respectively are the hardest pokemon to get. Heracross will only show up in certain headbutt trees in the game relative to the character's ID Number, while Beldum (and Metang) are both only available in the Safari Zone after maxing out specific environmental items. Doing so, requires around 200 days to do so. And even after all of that, Beldum and Metang still only have a 3% catch rate at max health, 4.5% when acounting for the Safari Ball's enhanced catch chance.

[@supremegoesviral9922]

I thought heracross was easy to get in hgss. I actually got 3 or 4 until I got the nature I wanted. Maybe I just got lucky and was head butting the tree I needed

[@Xalvadore505]

In HGSS, Steven offers Beldum in a trade for Forretress after defeating Red, so that probably eliminated it from this video, since Forretress's pre-evolved form, Pineco, is easy to get in that game

[@PaulWiele]

Yeah, I was wondering why no mention of the headbutt trees! I never figured out that it was specific trees, and it was not easy to look it up at the time, so I never even *encountered* a Heracross in my Silver Version at all, let alone caught one. :-(

[@jrlaps521]

I’m still proud of my hidden ability Bagon I got from a hidden grotto in White 2. Probably the rarest Pokémon I have in my collection

[@jarofflies1]

I've got a Surskit on my first playthrough of Pokemon Ruby as the first encounter on route 102 and never know that it was so rare until I saw a video about it some 15 years or more later 😆

[@sohazy3307]

As long as I can catch a growlith in the region I'm playing I never worried about anything else I base my team around him

[@kii_2002]

I know some will not beleive me but it´s okay. In my fist run of Pokemon Moon I felt like sos chaining a Bagon UNTIL I found a Salamence to fill the dex. About 3 hours later, what I found was indeed a Salamence. A shiny level 9 Salamence. To this day, I have to say it´s the luckyest I have been in my life :)

[@bradhaley8432]

Kii I've got an even better one I know some people won't believe me either but it's every time I shiny hunt in pokemon games I never find a single shiny but it's only when I'm trying not to shiny hunt I find 4 shiny's in my pokemon gameplay on pokemon violet

[@Amelia4111]

The Y in luckiest is supposed to be an I! The second E in believe should be after the I!

[@TarosTheVoid]

Thought cryogonal was more common, I remember as a kid I found them alot often but maybe it was really the winter season that boosted them appearing lol Surprising that it's that rare

[@timeducktorkie]

I loaded up on Leppa berries and set out to catch myself an SOS Salamence. It took a long chain of SOS calls, but I did eventually get it. I consider it one of my greater achievements in the game series.

[@Astral161]

Honestly out of all of the times someones dropped their subscriber metrics this was the first time it was done in a clever way to actually convince me to sub xD

[@INFERN0FIRE]

When I was young I thought Entei was unavailable in Crystal. I did 2 or 3 playthroughs where I caught Raikou and even one were I trained Typhlosion, Raikou, Suicune and Dodrio to lvl 100, but never caught Entei.

[@qbcomicaddict2590]

I still remember the exact moment and spot I caught my first kangaskhan. Easily my favorite and hardest catch from the original.

[@tompurcell8825]

I feel antique sinistea at an automatic 1% of sinistea encounters is worse than dreepy. I got dreepy quite easily multiple times. Antique sinistea however took quite a bit more work

[@Oscar92839]

10:00 normally he is so hyper and fines you a million but this breaks logic how he was patient unless he is lucky

[@Elfking94]

Wow, with emerald and the hoene all 5 of those rares were what held up my pokedex. The feebas I literally searched over half that river for before i found 1! Ah simpler times lol

[@sykora9526]

Munchlax actually has a 100% chance to show up at the tree, he's fat he loves that honey. It's just that there's a 99% chance that Barry will beat you to the tree and yoink the munchlax before you even get there. He doesn't have time to put the honey down himself you know? He'd have to fine you for that.

[@TechnoTrainer]

Wow, completely surprised me to see my footage in this video LOL. Great video as always JPR

[@brunette3cookie]

I spit out my drink at the Hash Slinging Slasher reference. Well done

[@garethtompkins7232]

Raising a Dratini from a younger level makes it stronger than a wild caught Dragonite

[@gh0rochi363]

Because of the evs?

[@jrlaps521]

@@gh0rochi363 yes

[@pewdipiekjelberg7938]

whats an evs

[@RyanADillon]

2:01 - You can encounter Chansey EASILY in the Unknown Dungeon. Surely the correct option is a rare Pokemon which can only be caught in Safari Zone, say Kangaskhan or Tauros (4% encounter rate at best and no option to acquire anywhere else).

[@georgeacheson5660]

I have to say having just played through Fire Red again, Scyther was much, much more difficult and time consuming to catch than Chansey.

[@Whiteythereaper]

Now go for a Lucky egg, took me a full week last year and about 30 caught chansey

[@christianjackson3524]

6:33 It took me this long to learn how absolutely stupid it was that I caught a shiny surskit in either sapphire or ruby back in the day. My second and last shiny ever (stopped playing after gen 4)

[@jesuisunstroopwafel]

Funny, I remember encountering less wild Ralts in the Hoenn games than Dunsparce in Johto, even though Dunsparce has a 1% encounter rate if my memory is good. Glad to see FRLG Entei and Raikou on this list, that was a frustrating bug. God, I never realized nicknaming your Regice and giving it an item in ORAS to find Regigigas was not explained in-game. They really want players to buy strategy guides, don't they?

[@Uh_khakis]

“There is some good news thanks to a loophole in the mechanics” just call it what it is, a bug in code held together by gum and Elmer’s glue 😂

[@williamballard767]

I remember catching my first Chansey on Pokémon Yellow. I was so happy. And it was only last year AFTER I spent my entire childhood trying to catch one.

[@kazuallykunfuzed]

I got the route 1 Salamence, a shiny female Salandit, and shiny Mareanie. My Pokémon Moon play through was good to me

[@deathbygoo3607]

No, the hardest in Alola is getting Gengar, without trading, you have a 1% or lower SOS encounter and it is grueling to catch if you dont have friends who play pokemon

[@charliehill4951]

I'd argue Milotic into the gen 3 mention. Not only do you have to catch the feebas, but you have to max out its beauty stat. That is easier said than done though, as every pokemon you feed pokeblocks to will feel full after a certain amount. If you fail to max the beauty before you reach that cap, you're stuck with a permanent feebas. So you also have to get lucky that the nature suits the types of pokeblocks required to raise beauty.

[@maetchiyu8320]

I had Aeroy (the trade Aerodactyle in gen 2) in my Gold save as a kid. I had no idea Chansey--and Aerodactyl as a result--were so rare.

[@Amelia4111]

AERODACTYL DOES NOT END WITH AN E!

[@maetchiyu8320]

@@Amelia4111 Typo. Mye bad.

[@Amelia4111]

@@maetchiyu8320 My does not end with an E either! And we don't say my bad, we say sorry!

[@maetchiyu8320]

@@Amelia4111 Note Goininge toe apologizee

[@Amelia4111]

@@maetchiyu8320 Can you please not end every word with an E?

[@_Azagoth_]

I had no idea Illumise was such a rare pokemon. one time years ago i accidentally ran into the grass and found a full odds shiny Illumise. I caught it and it's now in pokemon Home, level 100 and IV/EV trained, with pokerus given to me by my brother.

[@j.r.1704]

Bruh I swore Dedene and Mimikyu had a 1% encounter rate in SM I had the worst luck finding either near the power plant or that grocery store

[@kurababucosplay]

I’ve been replaying my Crystal game and i was about to be very confused why Snubbul was included in this. I’m tired of running into the stupid things 😂😅 Glad to know the encounter rates were changed.

[@Amelia4111]

Snubbull is supposed to end with 2 L's!

[@Hip-Gnosis1134]

My second playthrough of sun I did the bagon encounter. Shockingly didn’t take me as long as I thought it would. Took him FOREVER to call for salamance though 😂

[@venabre]

I got the lvl 10 salamence for my Ultra Moon playthrough and boy does it destroy the game's balance. It's so much fun!

[@bulborb8756]

yeah the fact in gen 7 there's a chance you can get a fully evolved pseudo-legendary very early in the game is pretty insane, granted its very difficult to get, but if your lucky, then salamence can be very useful

[@TriaMilia]

I remember when I was trying to catch a Salamence on Pokemon ultra moon (I guess) and I accidentally found a Shiny bagon, it was a happy day

[@uarelikeme]

I won’t lie - I’d love an endless loop of the first 5 seconds of that intro. That beat is tough asf

[@nidohime6233]

4:25 At least breeding is a thing in Gen 2 so you can have many Chanseys.

[@jayelovee693]

i think you shouldve included the ho-oh from pokemon colosseum, requiring catching every shadow pokemon, purifying every one, and then getting a 100-win streak on the colosseum mode 100-battle vs

[@mushmak]

I've caught that lv9 salamance in route 1 Took a while but it felt good

[@Amelia4111]

Salamence is spelled with 2 E's, not 3 A's!

[@westonwright5029]

I remember back in the day I always asked for the old pokemon guide books for my birthday. I was maybe 8 years old when emerald was out? I remember reading the old regigas guide part of it and I thought it was a prank. But I ended up getting it! All of the kids on the bus thought I was lieing when I told them how and assumed I used a GameShark lmao

[@_DewGaming]

wish Hisui as a region talked about, even though it is technically Sinnoh

[@joshernsteen2066]

The pokemon spawned in are already predecided at least at certain points in the game, so it is unclear at first glance what is deemed a rare encounter in the game. Also there is another area that you can access somehow that was definitely finalized early on in the game development. The area pertaining to where Piplup can be found was also likely finalized really early on in the game development as well with crystal clear pictures being already drafted up about the items for the Piplup correlation event to the game already being talked about. I do not recall exactly how long I have been digging up information up to that point to be finding out that particular bit of information about the game.

[@ohhellwhereami2574]

Undoubtedly arceus is the hardest mon to catch I mean you have to complete entire game, catch all legendary and also evolving all new hisuian form. Then you have to win that balm fight and then defeat areceus who undoubtedly strongest with his legends plate.

[@SuperTheast]

@@ohhellwhereami2574 I think this is more in terms of spawn rate which wouldn’t make arceus all that rare. Sure it’s a rare mon to have but all it takes is completing the dec which isn’t terrible. I’d put it more towards the distortion mons if anything but without looking at encounter rates I can’t say for sure

[@Onyx_TheyThem]

9:06 Group A, Group 2, and Group C, an iconic trio 😂

[@RayHosterMusic]

Came to newest to find this 💀

[@exiaR2x78]

I just remember the nightmare of trying to catch Chansy and Kangaskhan in leaf green

[@Amelia4111]

Left off the E in Chansey!

[@michaelpease2103]

I have been replaying sapphire and emerald and caught a surskit two days ago. I had no idea it was so rare. I just thought, "hmmm I've never caught him before". Crazy

[@cheeseorbacon]

Can we talk about getting a Weavile in Alola (Sun and Moon). The Item you need for your Sneasel to evolve, the Razor Claw, is only obtainable from wild Jangmo-o (and it's evolutions). Jangmo-o has a 5% spawn rate at least but then it has a 5% chance of actually holding the item you need. Yes Kommo-o has a 50% chance of holding it, but it only spawns from SOS-calls in an Jangmo-o encounter. And yes Weavile isn't a wild encounter either.

[@Amelia4111]

We don't use the word its as a pronoun if there's an apostrophe in it!

[@psycholuigiman]

I actually learned about Mareanie through the Pokedex and figured out how to spawn it from that NPC in Pokemon Moon. It took me like, a full day, but it was kinda exciting to intuit all that stuff. Almost made me feel like I wasn't playing a game for babies. Was super worth it too, cuz I had a ton of fun just being a toxic tank. Possibly the most fun I ever had in a mainline Pokemon game.

[@Kambyday]

JPRpoketrainer: zen mode galarian darmanitan might just be the hardest Pokemon to get ever Ho-oh in Pokemon Colosseum: hold my beer (I count it because it's the only way to get ho-oh in gen 3)

[@therealtosis]

As I (obviously) went for Bulbasaur, i did encounter Entei and it used Roar on me.. But using a Pokemon that is the same level as Entei and then using a repel can make it a lot easier to encounter it again as you just have to find a grass patch that is close to a route changing border and just keep running back and forth until Entei comes to the route you're on.. All in all, i don't think it comes close to Chansey in difficulty

[@thebigbean8783]

I was trying to get a tauros in red for my pokemon stadium R-2 team, and GOOD GOD it was so difficult. That's been the toughest pokemon I've had to catch

[@Jayfy3]

2:38 which gave is this & what system is it on ?

[@jaredbarker9515]

Actually, Chansey is not the rarest Pokémon in Generation 1. This is up for debate between three Pokémon. Scyther, is quite rare, and is also not in Blue version. There is a workaround by buying it at the Game Corner. Tauros is also a contender, because it is just as rare in Red and Blue, but more common within certain areas while playing Yellow version. While Tauros is easier to capture than Scyther, it cannot be bought in the Game Corner, meaning you HAVE to find it in the Safari Zone. Porygon could also be argued as the rarest as it is 1000 coins more expensive than Scyther, and you HAVE to buy it from the Game Corner. Pinsir and Kanghaskan are honorable mentions, but miss out on this distinction by being 3000 coins cheaper at the Game Corner, and more common than Tauros in Yellow version. As for Chansey, it can spawn at a 10% rate on one of the floors of Cerulean Cave, does not run away, and can sustain damage and status effects. Chansey has an 8.1% chance of being caught in an Ultra Ball at full health with no status, compared to the 6.2% chance of being caught in a Safari Ball on the first turn.

[@Leto85]

Once in Diamond, Pearl, or Platinum you have found the right tree with Munchlax in it, save the game and play it in another 3DS. This way the tree will not respawn and you can shiny hunt this Munchlax.

[@Tomn_n]

As a kid I encountered a Feebas in Ruby randomly while fishing and I never knew how annoying it was to find until years later. Also, has your avatar always had crocs on? Or am I just now noticing

[@joshernsteen2066]

Feebas tiles are decided in the game based on certain phrases that are decided by talking to a guy in a specific pokemon center. The tiles also do not change every day like it in Pokemon Diamond and Pearl. There is even a cheat code to highlight them on the route for you. I found the website enough times to know that it is actively being maintained as well. I found the website enough that it made me want to find out how to acquire the device to actually be able to cheat the game if I wanted to.

[@TheOGPokemonGirl]

The one that got away from me was Latias in Pokémon Sapphire. I was young and stupid and decided to use my master ball on Kyogre, thinking that it would be impossible to catch it without one. Add in the fact that walkthroughs and access to information on the internet was nothing like it was today, and then you have 11 year old me chasing this Pokémon all over Hoenn that I hadn't even known existed. I tried bloody everything to catch that Pokemon. I got it's HP down to the lowest without killing it, used every status lowering move under the sun, and even taught my Sableye mean look so it couldn't flee. I played that game until the internal battery ran dry, and I never got to catch the darn thing. When Alpha Sapphire was announced, I was so excited to be able to finish what I had started in the OG game, but of course they made it so that Latias just magically joined your party without a problem. I was so salty that I never actually got to catch the darn thing!

[@Sleepingfishie]

Goes back to ORAS to catch the final regi now

[@ZackaryPlumley]

I got so lucky with my feebas. I was going for a full living dex as a teen, and put off getting feebas for the longest. I happened to get it on the first tile.

[@douglastaylor4562]

You think you've really got the odds figured out? It took me *hours* in the safari zone in Firered to catch a Chansy. But no....I didn't stop there. I'm very much a completionist, and I wanted everything. I wanted the Lucky Egg. The only item in all of Pokemon that can actually *boost* EXP gains. And I got it on my first successful capture.....The only time I've been luckier is when I got Pokerus in Sapphire from a wild Mightyena I caught on a whim outside Lillycove.... I will forever treasure that stupid egg lol. If I hadn't gotten on that attempt, I'd have literally just bought Pokemon Colosseum/XD and gotten it that way.

[@robertlupa8273]

:O

[@nublulz]

Would have been a win/win either way. Colosseum and XD are absolute bangers 🔥

[@Galdr]

Ultra Moon Salamence is probably one of my recent “flexes” I’ve gotten so far. The Bagon summoned it in SOS the first round and I’m like “huh…” and eventually caught it. Didn’t know it was rare, lol.

[@FoxxyFire-HellFrost]

He didn't mention Legends Arceus! The hardest spawn for me was Magby. I remember that, aside from Spiritomb, Magby was my last missing Dex entry. It just refused to spawn. When I finally found it, I took a million precautions to make sure it didn't run since they are skittish.

[@yvng7947]

yep, Magby was a pain.

[@mp8550]

Mine was Cherubi!

[@bathrobe4015]

Baby Pokémon in general were such a pain to get to spawn

[@Dante02d12]

I found Magby without even looking for it. Second or third time I went to the volcano, it was here. Bonsly is the one that I struggled to catch. That Mfer didn't want to appear to me. Luckily, the solution for these Pokemons is the same as Eevee : go to the tent, change the time of day, go back to the spawn, go back to the tent if it's not here, change the time of day, go back to the spawn, .... Now, Cherubi... that one gave me nightmares, lol. The Distorsions-only Pokemons are also a pain in the *ss if you haven't catched them during the adventure. I mean, you literally have to _wait_ for the distorsion to happen. Without pausing and without fighting, because those actions stop the timer for the distorsion. And since the distorsion is limited in time, you might not find all your targets, so you'd have to wait for another distorsion, again...

[@AnagramGinger]

Safari pokemon in red and blue were easy to catch. Just walk around in a patch of grass where it spawns, get out and move to the east coast of cinnabar. You’ll only find safari pokemon instead of Missingno(when doing old man glitch). You can put the pokemon to sleep and weaken them, or you throw one of your master balls

[@nickintellect6431]

The most for me in gen 1 was Scyhter or at times it was Dratini

[@iamnoteanerd]

I at least expected an honorable mention for Sinnoh's Spiritomb back in the original DPPt days. Those days of underground multiplayer grinds were a pain in the ass

[@a_cup_of_joe540]

Ho oh is a pain in the ass to get in crystal since you need all the dogs to encounter it

[@angelofthedead5589]

I really appreciate when people put their sources either in the video or description. Good stuff 👍🏼

[@TiomesTheOne]

Love this channel. Hard work and unique stuff. Bell always on 👍

[@ThatVia]

I actually found my Dreepy in a raid. I thought it was adorable and caught it. Level 30, and I was baffled why it hadn’t evolved yet before I found out it was the pseudo.

[@TerenceGrimstone]

I caught a mareanie and had a merciless one in my team. It wasn't that tedious. My brother told me how to find it. It took me around 10 mins and I found it.

[@ryuuronin9852]

Don't know if raids would have made it easier, but one of the toughest pokemon for me to Catch was Duraladon. Only shows up as a 1% spawn in snowstorms (at 3 locations admittedly), but always knows dragon tail at the level it shows up at. With it's catch rate, it is just shy of basically being a roaming legendary that knows roar! Not to mention it's a non ice type that only spawns in hailstorms: meaning if you don't get knocked away, it could still faint from the battle just going for too long, or you whittling it's health too low to help the catch. Some advice, bring something that can put it to sleep!

[@Amelia4111]

Duraludon is spelled with 2 U's, not 2 A's!

[@dorkenspache8353]

I think Dreepy should be the real hardest one because you can easily do Dynamax Adventures for Dynite Ore and buy an ability patch and give Zen Mode to your Galarian Darmanitan. that is the ONLY other way to get Galarian Darmanitan with its Zen mode. Breeding a Unovan Darmanitan will not produce Galarian darmanitan. If the parent is from Galar, it will breed the Galarian form.

[@jrlaps521]

If you breed a non Alolan or non Galarian form in either Alola or Galar, the baby will be the regional form regardless. Though if the non regional form parent holds an everstone the baby will match the form of the parent. So if Unovan Darmanitan wasn’t holding an everstone the Darumaka will be Galarian Darumaka, and if it is holding an everstone the Darumaka will be a Unovan one

[@zinzolin14]

I found a Dreepy that had Pokerus on my playthrough of Sword. I didn't realize it until it evolved into Drakloak and my whole team was infected. I was pretty stoked.

[@mikeybalboa7520]

You need to get Mew in this video, b/c technically he is the rarest Kanto and rarest Pokémon to find and get.

[@chuckharris4855]

If you want chansey in red and blue there is an easier way to catch it. Go to the grass area (in the safairi zone) just like in the video. But then exit the safari zone with an escape rope or by running out of steps. Then fly to cinbaur island and surf on the coast to the right. The pokemon that will appear will be the pokemon in the last patch of grass you were in. Now when a chansey or tourous appear you can use a master ball or put it to sleep.

[@PeterLiuIsBeast]

But in SwSh, if you have the DLC, you can just trade Dynite Ore for an ability patch. That would make it so that you can switch a Pokemon's ability to the hidden one