[LIVE] 3 Shiny Spearow after 28,124 (collective) REs in FireRed

Three Shiny Spearow down, another three needed for the ultimate Dream Team Quest. In all seriousness, I found these three while phasing for Ekans (40%) so I got quite unlucky phase-wise here. It's a bit annoying but hey this is a shiny I don't have yet live so it's another video plus it's the price you pay for hunting in FireRed/LeafGreen. I remember reading somewhere that there isn't a more widely distributed Pokemon in any game (aside from Magikarp) than Spearow in these games. It is literally everywhere.
I don't mind Spearow but Fearow is my least favourite shiny of all time. The Pokemon itself isn't too bad though and they look interesting in Colosseum for sure.
Thanks for watching as always!
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[@muzzyLimon]

Nice

[@AradhyaHimself]

E

[@reazlo5911]

OwO

[@ZappGD]

Nice2

[@B_A-tr]

What do you use to coint the encounters

[@ayanchowdhury6703]

“35% Spearow that I don't wan't” Spearow: I am inevitable

[@Sonikks]

Spearow > Thanos

[@flotechno3920]

Sonikks my theory is the shiny spearow scared away all the shiny ekins and made a nest there

[@MZGamez]

@@Sonikks Where do you live stream?

[@Sonikks]

@@MZGamez I don't

[@MZGamez]

@@Sonikks oh, thought you did.

[@sapphicmystery2734]

"Spearow, I don't want that." Shiny Spearow: Let me introduce myself Sonnikks:"ugh, I guess thank you." Shiny Spearow: Let me introduce myself Sonnikks: Again? Damn it Shiny Spearow: LMAO, thats what you get for saying you dont want me. Sonnikks: --.--

[@SnipeMD]

I think everyone takes for granted how much work these videos take to make. Sonikks has to be live recording, be paying reasonably moderate attention to the game and play patiently for hours on end just to get one shiny Pokémon. 28,000+ encounters isn't something you can just do on your lunch break, it takes a ton of effort and dedication.

[@PinkEXP]

For sure. I'm on 1,898 RE for a feebas on phase 2 (2,778 in total) and even that has taken me a few weeks to get to since it's on and off. Dude has so much dedication for shinies it's insane! Love to see his hunts tho. They're nice

[@ZappGD]

This is wholesome... I love the full odds shiny hunting community!

[@isaiah1867]

Robotic Duck the full odds community is awesome!

[@ZappGD]

At the beginning when he said he didn't want a spearow, he messed up. The shiny gods heard him and said here's three. Shiny Gods do be like that tho.

[@reazlo5911]

That’s way too true XD

[@ZappGD]

@@reazlo5911 Did you draw that picture of your profile pic? Looks awesome! Better than anything I can draw that's for sure.

[@reazlo5911]

Robotic Duck yes I did, it’s one of my new hobbies to draw shinies. :)

[@keenanlarsen1639]

"35% Spearow, which I don't want" Me: Oh no

[@worldsboss]

The foreshadowing was so real 😂

[@benjaminclarke1951]

All your luck was used on the gen 2 shiny entei😂 Decent finds tho!

[@krystallia33]

Yes mine was too but I got shiny spearow in soul silver by trying to catch roaming entei

[@seanthegrim9900]

"I will probably get several of these of my career as a shiny hunter" 'Gets several over the course of 28,000 encounters" hmmm thanks game

[@WhimsicottTCG]

"I'm bound to get a few shiny spearow over my shiny hunting career" Spearow: I'm about to end this man's whole career.

[@ZappGD]

Technically they continued his career since he was bound to get a few during his career. He wasn't wrong tho...

[@reazlo5911]

Spearows shiny is really good in gen 3, not going to lie.

[@ZappGD]

True that

[@cromatick3173]

Yea

[@seanthegrim9900]

"35% Sqearow which I don't want " (28,000 encounters later) "Well then I mean a shiny is a shiny but this is ridiculous"

[@doesalittledance]

What if you, Wanted a shiny olive snake, But Fire Red said, *HAVE A FLOCK OF BIRDS.*

[@ShinyGolduck5]

As the owner of 5 shiny pidgeys i sympathize with you on this, congrats anyway.

[@geekzer713]

you mean 5 zajebants xD :D

[@TOMCARDIER]

you are so determined probably the most determined i have seen. Congrats to you!

[@B_A-tr]

This is the spearows revenge

[@lindseystumpf2169]

I totally didn't know that you started a DTQ on Firered! The nostalgia is real!

[@muzzyLimon]

Congrats! Shiny spearow is not as bad as I thought it would be. Hope you get your ekans soon

[@tristan_sparks]

Getting some of the “Jinx hunt” video vibes- good luck my dude!

[@hunterswanson7787]

I actually really like spearow personally, but phasing 3 times from it has to be brutal. I feel for you, mate I did see from your twitter that you got ekans tho, so congratulations! :) You earned it from what we saw in this video

[@pokeretro7730]

Congrats Man 🤘

[@descendng]

Congrats, but also my condolences LMAO at least it wasn't the roaming Spearow

[@greyvibezz2723]

Congrats love your content

[@Seiazen]

Goodluck on getting shiny ekans! I finally finished obtaining a shiny form of every alcremie! This shiny hunt was so annoying since all of the shiny alcremie variations of one type of alcremie looked the same!

[@davidhernandez-alonso8940]

Kinda unlucky for you getting 3 phases, but glad you were able to get the Evans. Spearow was actually my first ever shiny. I found him in soul silver while being bored and just going around. I was fairly young, but I did notice that it was weirder than a normal spearow, and normal Pokémon at that, so I was able to catch it and evolve it. Anyways, good luck on finishing your dream team!

[@cromatick3173]

GG and good luck for ekans !

[@Porygon2ning]

This reminds of three years ago when I was playing Pokémon Silver on my 3DS and I found a wild shiny Drowzee on Route 34 and 30 minutes later a wild shiny Graveler at Victory Road. Thankfully, the shiny Graveler did not Self-destruct!

[@kitkatboard]

I just got my 8th Oddish trying to find Roselia in Alpha Sapphire, so I know that feel lol. Happy that you finally got the shiny snek !

[@duckgrow]

Congratz on the shinies even though you they weren’t your target

[@tab_t3452]

STONKS

[@reazlo5911]

E

[@ZappGD]

More like SKNOTS

[@tab_t3452]

@@ZappGD No STONKS

[@ZappGD]

@@tab_t3452 *SKNOTS!*

[@tab_t3452]

@@ZappGD STONKS

[@B_A-tr]

Thats a 4.29% chance of 3 shiny spearows in a roe

[@thekoolkrab3226]

They weren’t in a row

[@vinylgamesASMR]

@@thekoolkrab3226 he means without finding a different shiny.

[@thekoolkrab3226]

They Call Me Natsu oh ok

[@IDKMUFFINKID]

I feel your pain. I’m doing a shiny badge quest in Black 2 and I’m currently in phase 4 for Venepide. I got 3 shiny Patrat.

[@semicolon3245]

Spearow is my sleep paralysis demon

[@amrutamogal149]

Me: *watches this* "I don't want a shiny" *Literally doesn't get it* Also me: ._.

[@kuatro_as]

Look at those FPS, the quality of the recording is just satisfying! Also, I'm in love with that ID, I mean, what are the odds of getting a palyndrome? I'm getting a Pokemon Sapphire soon and I'd want to SR in order to get a nice ID, specially a palindrome! And about the spearows, you know, my first full odds were 2 male combees wich had a 10% encounter ratio. It sucks to have 3 shiny spearows, but at least you can evolve them! 😂

[@B_A-tr]

Im so sorry for you

[@Andrewsk19]

Love this game , good old days

[@Hobnob21]

Still hunting in my white version. Nearly 40,000 encounters

[@ZappGD]

What are you hunting? I'm hunting tepig in pokemon white rn. At 3052 SRs so far.

[@thatonegirlinfandoms4452]

Still hunting for snivy in black started like two or three summers ago

[@Hobnob21]

@@ZappGD random encounters double grass on route 15

[@ZappGD]

@@Hobnob21 Good luck on whatever your target shiny is then.

[@Hobnob21]

@@ZappGD pupitar

[@pattymelt401]

This was my first ever shiny!😅 Congratz!!

[@B_A-tr]

I am so so sorry

[@brucelau2023]

Wow , what a shiny , great find Steve 👏👏👏👏👏👏 but yeah I know u didnt want to get this personally

[@Pmass89]

Sucks no Ekans but glad to see you back on fire red. Im still SR for shiny charmander on mine

[@aura-chan4845]

I think I take it back on your shiny luck xd but still I think people overlook these Gen 1 shiny birds, they need love too

[@dontgetsentalink]

Imagine having to do 4 phases for a 40% spawn...

[@almightyonion]

Yesterday I was poke radar chaining in renegade platinum (rom hack with 1/4096 of finding a shiny) and I ended up finding a shiny slowpoke in what I believe wasn’t a shiny patch, then while training my mons about five encounters later I found a shiny teddiursa. What I’m trying to say was that I will transfer my shiny luck onto you with all my might. Good luck on the ekans!!!

[@katrinhafthordattir7497]

Spearow is a gorgeous shiny in gen 3, not gonna lie. I raise and breed birds in real life as a hobby, I'm probably biased so take it with a grain of salt xD Best of luck to you on finding that shiny Ekans soon, Sonikks!

[@Sonikks]

Thank you! That's awesome. I have a question if you don't mind. We have a pigeon that can't fly. We think it has a broken wing. We found it in the back garden in a corner near some plant pots. No vets will look at it, they just want to put it down. Do you have any advice on what to do? We don't know for sure if it's broken but we've tried to release it twice now and each time it just tries to fly but it can't.

[@katrinhafthordattir7497]

@@Sonikks I don't mind it at all! I'll try my best to help. It's sad but it's pretty common for a pigeon mother to abandon a sick child as to prevent her other children from catching the disease. I imagine the poor little guy could have previous issues besides his wing. I've been through situations like that with vets as well, it's sad they don't take birds seriously. Does he have any symptoms besides the wing? Is he eating well? Sleeping well? My recommendation would be vitamins to try and help him recover a little strength. I found that half a boiled egg once a week is pretty good for protein intake. It's important to monitor his behaviour and see if there's anything unusual. Let me know how it goes! Cheers.

[@hderijk3187]

Hi Sonniks! I love your DTQ’s and I would love to know how you compose them :)

[@panda_phat]

Shiny Fearow looks surprisingly good in colosseum. It looks gold

[@AradhyaHimself]

Fearow has a Mohawk

[@championglitchy6821]

This reminds me of my Shiny Oddish, I went over to the safari zone I’m Ruby to get SolarBeam for my Sceptile so I could abuse Groudon’s ability with it. My first encounter was a little Oddish, and I said I specifically did not want an Oddish. I get Solar Beam, and on my way back out as I look at a map of the safari zone on my computer. I get an encounter and turn to my Ds to run away and it’s a friggin shiny Oddish. Caught him in one Safari Ball and he now sits in the pc as my Sceptile is a great Grass type and I never replace my starter!

[@idlikeanumbernine9844]

I’ve never heard a more depressed Sonikks

[@ZappGD]

I have. The shiny Jynx, shiny spheal, and shiny meowth videos.

[@idlikeanumbernine9844]

Robotic Duck did I ask?

[@ZappGD]

@@idlikeanumbernine9844 *YES*

[@idlikeanumbernine9844]

Robotic Duck you’re not gonna get more views by begging for them.

[@beastly3739]

Nice!

[@AradhyaHimself]

no

[@BvsGustavo]

Im also hunting ekans in that route man i hope i dont find 3 spearows but hey good luck on ur hunt

[@edmundbrown4158]

Spearow looks kinds cool in its shiny form, however not so much for fearow :/ Good luck on the Ekans!!

[@shiny3832]

Well, that’s a tad disappointing. Still nice finds though! I hope you get your target soon!

[@geekzer713]

Trollbirds are everywhere :D

[@Johndavidson4]

Not only 3 misfires, but 3 of the same dupe. Ouch, hope you find the shiny snek soon

[@brettkeenan8367]

The only time I've ever heard someone so distraught over finding a shiny Pokemon lol

[@UltimateBlobrex]

Congrats, Congrats, Congrats, F

[@3DTyrant]

Bad birb! Birb isn't wanted, snek is!

[@kennynakawaki]

Are you really lucky or really unlucky? 😂 A shiny is a shiny. Congrats on all 3 and best of luck praying that Ekans will shine soon 🙏🏻 love all your videos, the only shiny hunter I don’t mind watching

[@sethbessinger2025]

Wow, I haven't even gotten a shiny in my FireRed! Congrats!

[@ZappGD]

Have you ever considered doing it? 3rd gen is the best place to hunt because of the fast encounters!

[@sethbessinger2025]

I have, I tried to get Shiny Spearow. I have a repro cart, which could affect shiny rates.

[@ZappGD]

@@sethbessinger2025 Repro cartridges dont effect shiny rates, don't worry. It still generates shinies as an emulator or the actual game would; 1/8192

[@sethbessinger2025]

Back on March 20 of this year, I randomly found a Shiny Meowth. I have a video on my phone of its capture.

[@JetzerOG]

Currently hunting a Chimchar in Platinum and Smeargle in Heart Gold, have watched all your vids again for motivation, so this video could not have come out at a more perfect time. Still streaming on twitch at all?

[@ZappGD]

No he doesn't stream on twicth anymore. Nice targets! I usually don't hear about too many people hunting in 2 4th gen games at a time. Good luck on the shinies!

[@jonmartin9687]

Hey man I have footage of a shiny Darkrai and Giritina that I wanna upload but I’m not sure how to edit what software did you use?

[@Waddyy]

4:57 omg wow she got it right

[@erickaxolotlpants4135]

lol the thumbnail looks like they are doing the kirby dance

[@ShakaRule]

i feel you man. i got 3 shiny spearows while looking for nidoran in this game :'( i also got a shiny fearow hunting for ponyta...

[@anouaressanoussi]

That's hilarious

[@ShakaRule]

@@anouaressanoussi 😥

[@notspencerrr3217]

You’ll get the ekans!!

[@B_A-tr]

Nice id you got there

[@PainandSimple]

Yay another dtq Hunt! To bad it was 3 spearow though

[@B_A-tr]

Snekpls is an adorable nickname

[@AradhyaHimself]

Hotdog bees🙏

[@ZappGD]

@@AradhyaHimself The what?!

[@AradhyaHimself]

@@ZappGD Hotdog bees🙏

[@ZappGD]

@@AradhyaHimself Ok thanks. I misunderstood the first time. Have a great day. *SQUARE!* 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@dateintokyo]

3 phases, and all the same? Spearow to Boot? Haha woooow. Hope you get Ekans soon!

[@rayandaou9779]

I was hunting a shiny 85% hoot hoot in heartgold, but after 6k sr got a 15% rattata instead :( stopped the hunt for a while to recover from that! Haha.

[@kiwifruit2004]

Even though you have three spearow its not too bad of a shiny

[@DH-Dorado-Horizonte]

I feel you I been hunting a shiny dratini or Dragonir on the safari zone and that fishing mecanic sucks lol, I have been trougth five faces already 3 goldens and two seakings lol, so I can top your luck man, it sucks when you dont get what u want, but today I manage to get an aron on rubi doo.... so I gues sometimes the RNG can be nice doo.

[@MokyCho]

Actually got a random shiny ekans a few years back in a normal playthrough before misty's gym.

[@MajesticPale]

Definitely sucks phasing on birds, GL on your next phase hopefully it's Ekans

[@plsbshiny2533]

massive F but the rest of the team is gonna be a lot more fun I bet :)

[@RandomPopcultureNewsFreak]

Don't worry about it Sonikks man you'll get that rare shiny beautiful golden green Ekans soon my guy .Anyways just this past week Thursday after putting it away for 2 months and getting back to it 2 weeks earlier this month . After 3,421 soft resets i got a Shiny Kyurem in my ultra sun copy (since i got the older one back in 2018 in ultra moon that one for Kyurem was way longer i think it was 5,900 or 6,000 soft resets and without shiny charm this one i had the shiny charm .Next time im gonna go after the last final legendary pokemon i still need in the ultra worm hole and its landerous then after that im gonna soft rest for Shiny surfing pikachu afterwards then maybe shiny hunt soft reset for porygon or Aerodactyl from the gift side of ultra sun ultra moon peace out don';t give up on that ekans shiny my dude!

[@ianlange132]

Unwritten rule of shiny hunting: you will get at least 1 shiny from the spearow line before your target lol. Good luck on the rest of the team

[@MA-km3rr]

You know it's ironic, Fearow was my first ever shiny hahaha, so I have a soft spot for it Met it in the battle area thing of Platinum :P

[@edkianevanbaldove418]

💚

[@sunnyla-bear8265]

I know how you feel, while encounter hunting in glimwood tangle for shiny sinistea I found three shiny shiinotic instead

[@TKnHappyNess]

Celadon City will be for the next two unless the Dratini is from the Safari Zone instead of the Game Corner

[@BAM.33]

Current hunt I've gotten 3 spearow in a row headbutting for Heracross in HG. This video hurt my soul.

[@RandalfElVikingo]

I like shiny Fearrow, he looks like he is made of wood.

[@bard4uu]

im currently at 5,500 srs for giratina in platinum and i rly hope i get it relatively soon, i wanna start re hunts!

[@kaiju4702]

How do you shiny hunt in emerald? I hear that you need the internal battery for shinies to appear?

[@ayanchowdhury6703]

TNT Yeeter Emerald has broken RNG, shinycollector98 explains it well in his video.

[@EnderSlayer1301]

I’m pretty sure you can still do random encounter hunts

[@ZappGD]

Only for SRs, but those are complicated but I do still encourage that you get the game if you want to. Emerald is definitely an interesting game tho. Not plotwise that I know of but with how Soft Reset hunts work.

[@supersayin4606]

A dead battery doesn't effect shiny hunting at all in emerald, emeralds rng is always broken

[@Sonikks]

It's just as simple as doing random encounter hunts only and avoiding reset hunts. The battery is useless in Emerald aside from Berries & Real-Time events such as Shoal Cave/Lottery. I've done a few Emerald hunts on my channel so check those out if you want to.

[@LordKatana]

On which page are the Shiny versions of the Pokémon available with percentages for the route?

[@Blubberous]

github.com/AngefloSH/PokemonEncCalc/releases its a downloadable app for pc

[@lilylarimar2762]

Spearow is my second favorite kanto Pokémon! It’s so sweet yaaaaas! I still hate fearow tho.

[@ZappGD]

Why do you hate him?

[@Cameron-el3jd]

Maybe some day I'll have the balls to do a gen 3 hunt... The odds are just not ever in my favor.

[@MOCHIRO28]

My first shiny was shiny Aron in pokemon emerald

[@SleepyTaylor]

Have you heard about our lord and savior RNGesus? Because son, you need him. Jokes aside congrats? Lol the only Pokémon I would think might rival spearow encounters is rattata. However I didn’t look that up or anything. The only time shiny fearow looks good is stadium 2 haha.

[@Fakeditto]

Now you have to get 3 more and make a full shiny fearow team 😂

[@JH_x3]

7.8/10 Too many birds

[@goldengryphon3103]

I've been hunting spearow in soulsilver

[@waryful3]

i've been trying for weeks to get a shiny charmander on my gameboy.... any tips.. on keymashing or anything else?

[@Sonikks]

Keep going until you find it. It's that simple my friend. Keep resetting until it's shiny. Make it a background task, hunt while you do something else and it becomes mindless.

[@guillermo7342]

Yeet

[@shinymagiicarp]

Do you do multiple hunts at once? How are you able to get so many shiny hunt vids out so fast?

[@Sonikks]

I usually double hunt yeah. Most of them are just backlogged from a few weeks ago. Twitter is a good place to follow me to keep more up to date.

[@shinymagiicarp]

Sonikks sounds good!

[@asteria4996]

Nice Ekans hunting. What about shiny Spearow hunt next time :)

[@AS34N]

"...guesses 'Kenya 🇰🇪'" Lol did I hear that right

[@comicfire]

It's a reference to a gift Spearow in GSC that comes with the name Kenya

[@AS34N]

@@comicfire haha thank you good sir

[@User-co6dv]

lmfao I remember encountering a shiny pidgey. I caught it cause I thought a evolving a gold pidgey will give me luck lol.

[@Tunder-vu7gu]

Congrats? Lol.