[LIVE] Shiny Tornadus after 1,878 soft resets in Black (+ Therian Forme)

The second of the Kami/Weather trio in Black and White has been obtained. I went to 14,000+ for Thundurus so I was blessed with a much shorter hunt this time with Tornadus. I do think these are kinda underrated as far as shinies go. They’re really interesting Pokemon with a good amount of lore and creation put into them.
If you’re curious about hunting these yourself, I recommend you obtain the form before hunting as it’ll really speed up your resets. I used Johnstone’s video on the 3DS app Dream Radar, reverted them to their normal form using the Reveal Glass, and then sent them to Black and White. Here’s the video for that here; • HOW EASILY CAN YOU CAT...
Give John a sub while you’re there, please!
They really scaled down the roamer mechanics in Gen V with the community referring to these as pseudo-roamers. Their location is limited based on the time of day and you can see which route yours will be on and when here; bulbapedia.bul...
Sadly roamers have all but left the series at this point as they went even further in Gen 6 by near-enough removing them (and they’re locked in Gen 6 so who cares really…)
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[@mudkipman71]

I’m thinking of hunting thundurus in white. Do you think it’s worth hunting.

[@AbsolBlogsPokemon]

So funny how this thing can make it suddenly go from snowing to raining in the winter! Major congrats on the Tornadus - a hunt that's a perfect example of how genius the 5th gen UI is for letting you register anything

[@keshonquamina2356]

Same thing here it winter in the game I playing pokemon white

[@tyranitararmaldo]

Another addition to the "is this a shiny? I cannot tell..." club haha

[@abyssalcrisis]

Really? This shiny is so obvious to me.

[@drybowsermlg]

Admittedly I do find it tough to distinguish the regular and shiny as I never invested to hunt them before. I guess it probably is the shiny being lighter or darker vs the original

[@Blitzbrie]

I think it's just the gen 5 sprites, if you look at their newer 3D models the regular one's purple is considerably brighter, which makes it very obvious that its shiny is a totally different color

[@SkunkunkSocial]

I LOVE THIS SHINY- the navy bluish color is super nice compared to the purple for me. Congrats! You're definitely my favorite shiny hunter; you're so dedicated to your hunts, and it's honestly amazing. Once again, congratulations!! 💜💚💜

[@SkunkunkSocial]

Might not be navy blue, I just can't think of the color lmao

[@muzzyLimon]

Huge congrats! Looking forward to more gen 5 hunts

[@TheTropicanaMan]

Plowing through the roamers lol. Can’t wait to try out this hunt for Thunderus after I wrap up my DTQ!... maybe in a year or two 😅

[@mr.krustykrust]

DTQ?

[@juansalvadorfernandezespin7006]

@@mr.krustykrust Deam team quest.

[@TheTropicanaMan]

Mr. KrustyKrust As Juan stated, it’s a Dream Team Quest! It’s a shiny hunting challenge where you choose 6 of your favorite shinies to gather for your team as you play through the game, and by the time you face the Elite Four, you’ll have a team of rad shinies! In my case, I’ve selected Oshawott, Lilligant, Cofarigus, Galvantula, Mienshao, and Hydreigon as the team I hope to gather, but so far I’ve just got Oshawott 😅

[@mr.krustykrust]

@@TheTropicanaMan Ah. Thank you for the explanation. Gl on your hunts!

[@mainlyjm]

A quick shiny hunt is such a good feeling

[@chrispilavis5272]

I’m about to start my BW2 double hunt of latias and Kyurem today :)

[@JunaidWolf3]

Good luck

[@bankshot4192]

Good luck buddy wish I could shiny hunt I never have the patience I start it and do about 500 or so resets and get tired of it lol ive only found 3 shines in almost 17 years of playing (since fire red came out)

[@chrispilavis5272]

@@bankshot4192 I did end up finding shiny latias XD

[@ifyoureadthisv1]

Congrats on this! I’m planning on doing Landorus soon!

[@loulou3676]

After those crazy long roamer resets in 3rd/4th gen, seeing how straightforward this one is made me feel relieved for you lol. I thought everything was shiny locked in Gen 5, interesting the cloudy bois are not

[@niklasstg6957]

Only reshiram, zekrom and the event pkmn are locked. So luckily you can still hunt everything else

[@radiocaf]

I'm glad this hunt was a quick one for you after how long Thundurus took. Congrats on the shiny! Personally the weather trio aren't my favourite, but I can definitely get behind a shiny hunter getting their target, I'm a big fan of that!

[@zephra1675]

Dudddee, nice! Been watching you on and off over the years and it’s always neat seeing hunts on these ds Pokémon games. Major congrats on the tornadus, love the therian form^^

[@sunnymawile9981]

Therian Tornadus has a really cool cry. Congrats on the shiny!

[@kevinflores2011]

Congrats on the nice shiny and a quick hunt. I hunted this last year in June and got it near the end of August after 23,774 SRs and caught it in a Nest Ball which was kinda annoying 😅 One thing I always found strange was that it uses Thundurus' cry when in the Route 7 encounter.

[@naomiemorton5056]

Congrats! It was super surreal to see this roaming on stream, can't believe you've done this so many times in the roamer quest! ✨

[@UltimateBlobrex]

Congrats on shiny Tornadus!!! I plan on hunting for Thundurus in my DTQ for White when I ever start it, so I look forward to that day. Also I remember playing a randomizor for White and I battled a NPC who had Ice Burn on one of their pokemon, so that was when I found out some B2W2 things were still coded into W1B1

[@mitchboynunn]

Congrats man! Another great one under the belt. I'll get a copy of black and white one day and play through it!

[@Cameron-el3jd]

Congrats.. I got my torchic in ORAS one step closer to my DTQ up next tailow

[@TheDarkslayer0]

Congrats! ✨

[@Tootdaddy17]

Nice! Such a unique hunt. Seems like it'd be a challenge but I wouldn't mind trying this one day

[@ChozoEnPrime]

Congrats on this underrated shiny man. Tornadus is my favorite of the 3. 😁

[@MajesticPale]

Congrats on your shiny genie man Steve! Love this method of hunting these Pokémon, want to implement this method into either this hunt or gen 5 fossils someday.

[@Icemaire]

excellent hunt once again, youre really getting the most tedious ones recently :)

[@harv612]

These shinies are probably the most difficult to obtain in Gen 5 imo. Even by RNGing them. Congrats on a very well earned shiny tornadus, Sonikks! Edit:spelling

[@Sonikks]

Thank you. Not sure I agree though. Do you mean in the Unova dex? Even then, I don't think it's true. Zorua, Zoroark & Larvesta are egg exclusive. The genies have a very annoying jump-through-hoop setup of getting one registered in the dex before hunting it (for efficiency) but it's not too bad with the Dream Radar.

[@nebbynetwork2089]

Congrats good luck with your future hunts

[@dragavion1875]

imagen coming out not a house just to see a shiny nakid man riding a clowd

[@owonapikins]

I like how because of the scroll it sounds like a victory chime when you get it, congrats

[@reiniervanderhulst3375]

Congrats on another amazing shiny! I actually succesfully hunted the Weather genies last year, but all three in USUM (static encounters) and not filmed. So I guess it doesn't count? ;-)

[@jamesfidler1818]

I already did the dream radar to set up this hunt for when I reset my black and white copy and play through those again. Such a cool hunt

[@sircophagusthethird6936]

I see why people don’t like em, but I think the genies are really cool!

[@beefytheminer704]

Congrats on the shiny roamer! I've been working on Thundurus for a while so I'm a bit jealous haha

[@Foxtrot12345]

I actually really like these shinies, for some reason. Black and White were such underrated games... makes me want to shiny hunt in them again (to be honest I have terrible luck with the starters, and I really want a shiny Snivy or Tepig). Good luck with shiny Landerus! (pardon my awful spelling XD)

[@ruhenot6682]

The method itself looks really fun, love it

[@slashedentree9276]

Nice dude congrats on another roamer, I actually just got shiny Entei on soulsilver a few hours only 468 encounters

[@TanukiLeaf]

Good looking underated shiny

[@laurenz5460]

The best thing about such shiny hunts is that you can’t fail catching it. That’s what I’m most scared of when finding a shiny legendary.

[@Koda_200]

i love your vids man, and this is really cool because pokemon Black is my favorite!

[@kiyagarbutt2899]

Congrats on the awesome shiny steve, keep it up!

[@Axel-nr9ht]

Anybody else notice how in the cutscene you hear thundurus’ cry instead?

[@N-atalieee]

CONGRATS!!!

[@tapuchris3329]

Congratulations! I'm shiny hunting Snivy in pokemon Black

[@surajsood1258]

Memories of U-Turn/Hurricane Tornadus-T running rampant in Gen 5 rain teams

[@Sonikks]

Politoed was to be feared!

[@rhodri4940]

7:20 I totally agree man, I just really dislike the 3D sprites, they did them dirty imo

[@nicolaslambert6985]

OMG i'm hunting him too xD but i'm only on 200 SR's cuz i get shiny terrakion yersteday about 8891 SR's

[@SkunkunkSocial]

Congrats on Terrakion!!

[@nicolaslambert6985]

@@SkunkunkSocial thanks 😄

[@sammyk5356]

So cool!!!! I got this one last July, and I’ve been *unsuccessfully* hunting Thunderous.... since last July 😂😪 it just takes so long, and I’ve done 6600 encounters. Not a main hunt for me, just one on the side. Still under odds so I can’t be mad but STILL

[@georgiaobrien4267]

I love this therian forme more than any of the others

[@Frxxzy08]

Epic

[@sonanjamfa8845]

I’m trying to shiny hunt for tornadus as well. It’s my favorite out of the 3 🧞‍♂️. I’m trying to catch mine in a safari ball cuz I think it would look good with the colors. I hope u have amazing shiny luck for the next shinies u get, and I pray I’ll get mine cuz it’s been 6 months going into tornadus

[@ShadyRK9]

Congrats! Although tbh it's probably one of the worst Shinies of the Genie trio! ✨ With Thunderous being the best!

[@adamqjsmith]

Congrats Sonikks!

[@sheff4719]

Good thing you got it way before the 8000 odds, the cutscene is time consuming.

[@ValiantPixel]

This is the same guy who watched the Sinjoh Ruins cutscene over 28,000 times to complete his trio. He's on another plane of existence when it comes to patience.

[@cockerspanielfan56]

Good job and I know I’m still on my shiny hunt for tornadus I’ve been on it since last June.

[@carltonleboss]

Nice

[@spoom8333]

Congrats:)

[@Mark-ek8md]

Congrats!

[@Taser9001]

I hope my Tornadus is nice and fast too, when I get round to hunting it. 11 months for Thundurus was quite something....

[@Paggathovenaar]

Congrantalations!!🎉🎉❤️❤️

[@illusionmaster1946]

Nice Shiny :) Wish he was available shiny in the dream radar.

[@shogun1556]

What is the music playing at the end screen ? I love it. Also congrats on the shiny !

[@gloriousleader406]

Congrats mate

[@tylerday]

I did this hunt at least 5 years ago in both games to see which one I would get first. I got Tornadus and I don't think I'm gonna do it again lmao

[@Anfinity1206]

Planning to do Thundurus for White DTQ, might take a while being stuck at Litwick.

[@rotaugenandi]

Great shiny will do the genies too after i finish my gen 5 dtq

[@TheeSurfingPikachu]

Congrats on the hunt (:

[@leobosco9205]

congrats for the shiny dude

[@opxseekndestroy6021]

Congrats love ur vids big fan

[@BigBrodle]

was watching thus video and got a gen 2 starter shiny totodile!!

[@foolbait1139]

Do you need to have tornadus registered before you hunt or can you check the dex after the cutscene? If I do need it, where can I get one?

[@jamesfidler1818]

I’m at almost a year of gen three hunts I think this is proof I should expand to gen 5

[@solorazamexicanoful]

Personally they look like really neat hunts!

[@Venemofthe888]

Oh so thats how you shiny hunt these. I actually wasnt sure on how it worked before and hadnt risked it until i could find a definitive answer. Also i think people dont like them mainly because they look very similar and are essentially colour swaps with slight differences in design. Yet people still hate Vanillite for being unoriginal well look at these 3

[@riachu81]

pog

[@sneakysquid9917]

Heyyy I’m doing Thundurus now, got the Tornadus last year in about 4400 or so

[@-Tanooki-]

Question do you have to have one registered? Can you still do the hunt without one registered?

[@sekigan14]

Congrats! Doing the same hunt and I'm at 2585 Srs

[@matthyatt5350]

Can’t wait for Landorus keep it up

[@dutchmonchannel3812]

Therian forme is so much better than the regular form

[@tuxedobird]

Oh nice

[@jxnintendo4483]

GENIAL FINALLY

[@brunofernandes5513]

I have a video idea. You could show us all your shiny Pokémon in Pokémon home then go through how tough some of the hunts were

[@prityboity5076]

Hey I just found out that I had a fake Pokémon game that shouldn’t affect shiny hunting will it?

[@tommccarthy562]

You seem like a person that will have a shiny roamer and forget about it for a few months until you restart hunting

[@maskman3000]

nice

[@audreymcknight]

why use max potion instead of full restore? :(

[@Sonikks]

I don't understand Japanese

[@ilikehydreigon6690]

That rain looks lowkey painful

[@nuliex9305]

let’s go sonikks

[@Anonymous-mr4sk]

Hi, do you know if Togepi you get in Heartgold & Soulsilver can be shiny?

[@Masonio]

Shiny locks didn't exist until gen 5. HGSS is gen 4.

[@Cringe89563]

@Masonio trades are shiny locked in gen 4 from what I know however, eggs are not

[@lindsayhopper309]

Are you gonna start landorus?

[@potatoe123]

cool

[@questionquestion1]

These shinies have no business being so boring considering it's so hard to get em 😭 why would they do this. Thundurus is the only sorta good one imo, and that's only in its base form.

[@DarkBirgon]

Wait so you absolutely HAVE TO have had a tornadus before shiny hunting? It's not just to help you tell the difference?!?

[@Sonikks]

You need the dex entries.

[@DarkBirgon]

@@Sonikks Thank you. Well shit. I've just been wasting my time. :/

[@jav1er126]

Hola como estas? , quería saber si podes subir una guía de pokemon vega?

[@DoomsChain]

Can't you see if you spawned a shiny if you haven't seen a regular one already?

[@CesarIvan1]

I know this is months ago but no you have to register it

[@GhostrareStardust]

I wonder if this works for roamers in bdsp

[@Sonikks]

It does not. You need to track them down.

[@rayboyman]

is ir possible to check the dex without catching tornadus before

[@Laprisu]

It isn't and this would make the hunt a lot more tedious as you'd have to encounter it every time instead before softresetting. So it's possible but without the help of the Pokedex it just takes a lot longer.

[@rayboyman]

I see, I only asked cause I only got One copy of black. Thanks

[@KingDarkNova]

nice!

[@corbinmoore96]

Bruh where’s the Colosseum showcase 😡😂

[@nezukochanishereandconfuse9140]

I got my shiny lugia 6k encounters

[@alibaba3568]

Can you Synchronize their nature?

[@Sonikks]

I think so

[@suitinho]

Poor guy... i got it without any reset...