Shiny Hunt THESE POKEMON Before Bank SHUTS DOWN!

[@ThedomiNATION]

It has been brought to my attention that I completely overlooked shiny spinda. While you can hunt it on the switch (BDSP) due to a mess up with how its patterns are determined, you cannot put them into Home from BDSP. Hopefully the next game has spinda with the patterns working correctly…

[@anineedles4276]

didn't you also forgot the alolan forms? has far as i know you cant shiny hunt for alolan rattata/raticate raichu and marowak in the switch games can you?

[@ThedomiNATION]

@@anineedles4276 you can hunt all the alolan forms in Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee via the npc trades!

[@anineedles4276]

@@ThedomiNATION I actually didn't know that. Cheer mate thanks

[@jonniefast]

i caught shiny spinda in XY era its quite rare but hoards make it a bit easier to sniff out VERY NICE collection, i have a legit living form dex going but im around 600 shinies and lack the OT on many of them ;_; i do have the complete dex on GO which is probably the most annoying\worst way to do it lmfaoooo

[@thisisabackupemail2264]

I want to make it apparent that despite April 8 being the time that 3DS and Wii U are being shut off Wi-Fi wise, Nintendo is still planning to keep the Bank / Transporter on the 3DS active post-shutdown indefinitely.

[@bigmemvb]

Furfrou fans rejoice, Legends Z-A will almost definitly feature Furfrou and it's forms, as it was shown in the trailer

[@KaiserJek]

Even the Egypt exclusive Pokémon go trim?

[@bigmemvb]

@@KaiserJek I mean, I obviously don't know, but we can only hope

[@KaiserJek]

We can only hope

[@BigCats-o8u]

​@@KaiserJek We can only cope

[@Crantzo]

I really like how you included Pokemon Go in this video to at least show if it’s possible there or not. So many people completely exclude Go when it comes to these types of videos but I really appreciate you including it

[@timeless9517]

Pokemon go is rubbish... really don't want to act as the hater but it's nothing like the real games.

[@huntercrow9553]

it is a great way to get shinies downside is for Legendary\Mythical Raids if your area is dead you cant get them easily and personally i hate the Go origin stamp

[@shinycollector7]

Pokémon transferring is unnecessarily complicated. I wish they’d just let everyone download Pokémon Bank (it’s free after all) and add (at least) all digital Pokémon games that were in the 3DS eShop to the Switch one

[@ThedomiNATION]

Nintendo likes to make a lot of strange decisions. It’s constantly memed on how they shut down ways to legally purchase their games but then have huge issues with people pirating their games when there’s no way to actually purchase them legally

[@JC-xq2qe]

@@shinycollector7 Can still do so if you install cfw which is pretty simple.

[@JJ_cooks]

If its not for sale, its not illegal to pirate! ​@@ThedomiNATION

[@Twiddle_things]

​@@ThedomiNATION yarr harr harr you didn't hear it from me!~☆ If you download an .nds rom onto your homebrewed 3ds/2ds it'll work the exact same as any other game yarr harr!

[@Twiddle_things]

Answer: 🏠☕️

[@JP-dz5oj]

Something else worth noting that wasn’t mentioned in the video is the Pokémon Gold/Silver coin case glitch, which can be used to obtain the shiny form of any Pokémon available in those games including Celebi and I think Mew as well. There are also rng manipulation methods that can be used to make the hunting process in various games much faster.

[@AzureFlute]

Great video! It's definitely beneficial to spread info right now about Pokémon that collectors might want go make sure they obtain brfore it's too late, with Bank being on borrowed time. Shiny hunting is already challenging but like you said if you want to hunt in older games and transfer up, legitimate means to do so are coming to an end. Really is an end of an era coming.

[@ComedicFoxBoi]

I feel like they should've added a patch to bank/home that allowed you to move Pokémon via Infrared since both the switch joycon and 3DS have it so Gamefreak no longer has to supply online servers to transfer Pokémon from Gen 3-7 to Switch kinda like how you could trade Pokémon nearby using it

[@ThedomiNATION]

That would be a cool solution! I think you would still have to make bank supported locally though as you wouldn’t be able to send straight from the cartridges. And making bank a local program that has the data stored on your 3DS would solve the issue as well!

[@jakeplaysyt8000]

@@ThedomiNATIONWhile not an elegant solution, there is (presumably) the option of updating the 3DS games with transfer functions since updates can still be downloaded despite the E-shop shutting down. Honestly, if TPCi wasn’t so greedy, this probably would’ve already existed. Pal Park and Poke Transfer worked just fine on lesser hardware, so there’s no reason why PokeTransporter and Pokémon Bank needed to even exist. And of course there’s the even less elegant solution of creating a peripheral that plugs into the 3DS and Switch, similar to the GBA-GC link cable. Which I’d honestly prefer, as I like having additional hardware for these exact scenarios. Much better than relying solely on software.

[@H8MyM8Botbi]

@@ThedomiNATION you could also just make it work like poketransporter and make it automatically transfer up the pokemon from the first box of your gen7 game then you at least wouldnt need to store the pokemon on your sd card but only on the game cartridges

[@Regooba]

Time Stamps - See video for further details Gen 1 Pikachu 3:00 (partner cap) no shiny model Mew 3:58 Mew glitch via RB via virtual console Gen 2 Celebi 5:13 Crystal via virtual console or Pokemon Go Gen 3 Jirachi 5:38 Ruby/Sapphire version with Colosseum bonus disk or Pokemon Channel Deoxys 6:08 Emerald, Firered Leafgreen with Aurora ticket Gen 4 Manaphy 6:38 Diamon/Pearl/Platinum or Heartgold/Soulsilver Darkrai/Shaymin 7:36 Platinum Gen 5 Patrat Line and Elemental Monkey 8:41 Black/White, Black/White 2, X/Y - Bred in Sun/Moon, UltraSun/UltraMoon Genesect 9:16 Pokemon Go Gen 6 Furfrou 9:55 Natural only unless sent from Pokemon Go, as it will revert from the alternate forms once transferred to HOME, X/Y, Sun/Moon, U.Sun/U.Moon Gen 7 Type Null/Silvally 10:48 Sun/Moon, U.Sun/U.Moon Poipole 11:36 U.Sun/U.Moon Meltan 11:52 Pokemon Go MISC 12:20

[@LPcrazy_88]

After stumbling across your channel I've been working on my living dex as much as I'm going to be able to. I'm almost done with Gen 3 and already caught all legendaries/mythicals in Gen 4. I hope I can at least make it to Gen 6 before April and get a couple weeks of shiny hunting some legendaries. Really appreciate all the high quality content man.

[@ThedomiNATION]

Thank you! And good luck on your living Dex and shiny hunts!

[@jamesc7894]

Good luck with your hunts

[@khoringrimault596]

Was this a shiny living dex?

[@LPcrazy_88]

Thanks y'all, never came close to even filling out a regional dex except for OG Red and FireRed back in the day. This is hella fun and satisfying. @@khoringrimault596 Nah, just a normal dex. I've only ever even seen one shiny (Murkrow) and it was in a HGSS ROM hack with I think unadjusted shiny odds.

[@LPcrazy_88]

Thanks y'all, this all is pretty new to me. I only ever completed a Regional Dex back in OG Red and FireRed. I can say I finally get it now, this is fun and satisfying! @@khoringrimault596Nah just a normal living dex, the only shiny pokemon I've even seen was a Murkrow during I think a HGSS rom hack with I believe unchanged shiny odds. I hope I will have time to do proper shiny hunts before the deadline, but I'm prioritizing normal living dex first.

[@AbsolBlogsPokemon]

It's sad to see how much of a clutch Pokemon GO has on obtaining so many of these shinies - I have a feeling it's going to be the first way that some of these shinies (especially starting with the Gen V mythicals) will *ever* be released shiny. Also, for Manaphy, it's hacky, but I personally endorse using 3DS cfw to totally clear the Ranger games' save files!! If you can delete the entire .SAV from the cart, any cart can be reset to distribute Manaphy again!

[@ThedomiNATION]

That’s actually so cool about the ranger file! I had no idea! And yeah I think you’re right about GO. I think our first time getting like shiny victini, meloetta, volcanion, etc. will be through that

[@MagiCarson08]

Hi Matt!

[@edxander7169]

Omg it's Mr absol blogger!!!

[@ericluna1314]

I used to be against trading shinies from go but man you gotta do what you gotta do

[@teivu5292]

One thing I like about Go's shinys is that it really takes effort to get them. In Go, shiny mythical are mainly from Masterwork Research and they often require more than a year to complete. Whereas the mythical in main games often are "Here's a code, use it before the end of October and you'll get a Volcanion".

[@Livvvid]

Its absolutely insane that they're going to cut 7 gens like this.... And ill never forget the little ad on youtube when crystal VC came out and the pokemon company was like "finally, all the games are linked!" And like 4 years later dexit happens lol. And the worst part is I dont buy for a second this whole argument about server costs. That is a drop in the bucket for what the server would actually be doing and how many people would use it. Nah, this is about money. They dont want even the few of us that would actually take the time to transfer from gen 3 up to debate ever getting one of their remakes over playing the old games. Even if those remakes are outsourced and extremely lazy....

[@LovJinxx]

I’m hoping a company or group of fans take over the online services if it gets shut down, kinda like how the gen 4 and 5 have the event Pokemon available and the dns exploit stuff

[@ThedomiNATION]

I’m honestly counting on it! I just hope of it isn’t an official way to do it, there won’t be any additional hoops to jump through and it’s seamless!

[@Livvvid]

This is what ive offered as a solution but I highly doubt they'll allow it. In fact I believe they'll do an update on home that entirely removes transfer functionality. But if they somehow allow it, then that'd be amazing. I dont buy the server cost argument. It wouldnt be that many people using it. The vast majority of the pokemon fanbase are casual players who just focus on the most current gens. Those of us with the old games AND the will/knowledge to transfer are a very small group and its not like we're in need of servers to support FPS levels of connectivity. We're setting kilobytes of data lol. But, I dont think this is about practicality or costs. This is about them wanting to kill the past so you feel compelled to buy their extremely lazy remakes instead of playing your superior older games. Even if we are just a fraction of people who would actually play an older game over a remake, they still want you to buy the new one to nostalgia bait you.

[@DogeCoinInvestor]

@@Livvvidkinda late, but I think less use is seen as worse when it comes to running servers. Servers have high base cost, so using up a whole server and paying for maintenance for only a few people is probably not appealing.

[@doomsdoor]

Pokemon bank being shut down is why I always hated the idea of it being a online only transfer method, at least I can hope 3rd party servers allow the transfer so 6th and 7th gen game are saved

[@ThedomiNATION]

Yeah it’s a sad reality we must face. Same thing will happen to Pokémon home some day… maybe next console or so they will make the storage/transfer system a physical game or offline product so we don’t have to do this every few years

[@alexz31]

Great vid man, dont forget about spinda which has only been catchable in bdsp but cant be sent to home from that game, so the shiny would have to come from the 3ds

[@ThedomiNATION]

Oh my gosh I completely overlooked that! What a shame they never fixed that issue with spinda…

[@TheDarknash]

Does it really can’t? Like Not at all?? I think hear about it only having 1 pattern in home but not that it couldn’t be transferred at all :o

[@gobbagoo]

@@TheDarknash its specifically bdsp that has a bug with spindas patterns that does not allow it to transfer at all, and because bdsp is the only switch game with spinda currently, that means you have to hunt it on an older console

[@pablovelasco4270]

I don't know if you just decided to ignore it, but there was that event where people from all over the world had to beat the Zeraora Dinamax Raids to get a shiny one.

[@ThedomiNATION]

As I stated at the beginning, I would not include event only Pokémon!

[@pablovelasco4270]

@@ThedomiNATION Oh shoot, totally forgot! So sorry. Oh and great video.

[@icewizard3664]

@@ThedomiNATION I relate to having being told something similar when I forget to do a problem in Calculus lol

[@porygonzgaming1806]

i have one from those :)

[@NilsEggers-gx2iq]

Piece of advice: Don't try hunting Shaymin or Darkrai in D/P. Shaymin just won't transfer at all if caught in those games and Darkrai only works under certain circumstances if caught in those games. Just use Pt to hunt them, it will save you a lot of trouble.

[@ThedomiNATION]

Yep! Like it’s possible to get a shiny darkrai from Diamond that can transfer but I didn’t want to complicate things so I just only specified platinum!

[@magnawaves]

That would explain some things about mine...

[@justabean5869]

During the initial outbreak of covid, I full odds hunted a shiny darkrai in diamond because that was the only gen 4 game I had on hand. TLDR; transferring him was honestly pretty simple, all you gotta do is delete/teach him moves so that his moveset matches his platinum event counterpart then level him up to the same level as that counter part, the whole process took 10 minutes and wasn’t really painful at all.

[@ThedomiNATION]

@@justabean5869 it’s a simple process for sure. But a lot of people get confused about when you can give it the right level/moves as a lot of people think you can do it in gen 5 but it needs to be done in gen 4. Just more info would’ve have to explain and I didn’t want to make this video 30 minutes long lol. I actually originally included the gen 8 and 9 mons that couldn’t be shiny hunted but it seemed kinda pointless and unrelated!

[@NilsEggers-gx2iq]

@@justabean5869 Yeah, the problems are mostly with Shaymin. And from what I heard, Darkrai from Pearl doesn't work, so it's just easier/safer to hunt in Pt

[@JaceGarrdok]

I'm currently speedrunning both my USUM copies just for the shiny Poipole. I really am not much of a Shiny hunter by any means but these two look incredible and I kinda want those.

[@ThedomiNATION]

Good luck! That’s how I got into shiny hunting. I wasn’t fond of the idea but my friend convinced me to shiny hunt dratini as dragonite is my favorite Pokémon and just the idea of having my favorite Pokémon shiny was enough to motivate me! After I got it, I was hooked lol

[@magnawaves]

Godspeed friend! I'm doing the same thing right now too lol

[@Warriorcat_Youtube]

Wrapping up my Nuzlocke and having to restart my other game to do the same

[@whyhesoears]

the way i cant even afford to move my pokemon from bank to home so they're just gonna chill forever in sun ig

[@chrisrasmussen7631]

Bank will be free after Mar. 27

[@gregninja89]

After hearing the news about Bank, I set myself up for the Manaphy hunt. I started back in October with 4 eggs. Currently at 1996 eggs hatched thus far. Praying to RNGesus it shines for me before the inevitable 🙏. Still need to do mew, deoxys and partner cap pikachu as well 😢

[@ThedomiNATION]

Good luck! I’m counting on there still being some way to transfer Pokémon up whether it’s official or unofficial!

[@nightigal]

What's your current time per reset? I managed to get it down to 15 minutes with a flame body pokémon and always picking Chimchar

[@gregninja89]

@@nightigal It usually takes me on average of 20min per run. 12-15min to get to the point of trading, the other 5-8min trading and hatching. I just mash A button and picked Turtwig every time lol. I've stopped at 2004 eggs hatched so far. One uncatchable shiny Starly at the Pokemon selection battle and I've managed to catch one random encounter shiny bidoof. How about you? How many eggs have you gone through so far?

[@nightigal]

@gregninja8986 I made a successful hunt at 15267 eggs hatched after 4 years. I found three uncatchable shiny Starly, no shiny Chimchar, and a corrupted one copy of Platinum.

[@gregninja89]

@@nightigal damn 4 years 🥲 I'm happy to hear you finally obtained one though! That'll keep me motivated for sure!

[@nathancrest3674]

You missed something. It’s a bit complicated but it’s definitely worth it. It is actually possible to get shiny Deoxys in Pokemon Sword and Shield. There’s an event distributed every July 20. All you have to do is go to NASA and ask the astronauts to take you to the moon. Thats how I got my shiny Deoxys in all forms.

[@ThedomiNATION]

Oh my gosh I totally forgot about that! I heard you can also get shiny jirachi if you wait enough days to get a call!

[@ThedomiNATION]

Are there any hunts you're planning on doing before Bank potentially shuts down?

[@breadbugs]

seller bee crystal

[@VictoriousVulpix]

@@breadbugsyep, doing that at end of January if I don’t get my current hunt by then.

[@ThedomiNATION]

Good luck! I’m for sure gonna do mew and celebi this year!

[@VictoriousVulpix]

@@ThedomiNATION got one of each kanto starter and mew in gen one. Had planned to get one of each johto starters and celebi, but the April deadline felt too tight. Might go for the starters if they say we have at least six months after April.

[@johnmadden6521]

Manaphy and platinum mythicals for sure. Also need to transfer up like 20 competitive shinies I bred

[@10tailedbijuu]

and remember folks pokemon bank will eventually shut down, probably sometime this year to boot. so do whatever it is you want to before they go down for good and we are forced to wait for a long time before playing those games on new hardware.

[@thedankpotato6628]

For those trying to hunt shaymin on bdsp if you have a cartridge with the numbers 001 or 002 you can use the glitch to shiny hunt shaymin

[@jamesrgamesoffical]

What glitch

[@AnarickTheDevil]

where would this 001 0r 002 be located?

[@thedankpotato6628]

@@AnarickTheDevil it would be on the back of your cartridge the last 3 numbers

[@Suppermansam1hd]

as soon as im done speedrunning the living dexes for all the games before the switch im def doing some of these hunts before everything shuts down

[@ThedomiNATION]

Good luck!

[@Strashky]

i dont know if anyone wants to know this. but you can actually get multiple manaphy eggs from the same ranger cartridge by whiping the save with a modded 3ds instead of the in game way of whiping a save file and then beating the game again. it is also possible to backup a completed save that hasnt send over the egg yet, send the egg over and then restore this backed up save file. it will give you the ability to send one over again. this means every ranger copy is basically a multi use manaphy egg distribution cartridge which is pretty neat. I personally speedran the same ranger copy 20 times to get myself 20 eggs without having to buy a butt load of ranger copies with also risking the chance of buying a copy that had already send over the egg. (you can just whipe this save with a modded 3ds to reenable it though but at that point you might as well use your 1 copy and do this multiple times)

[@jocstar3746]

Bank not shutting down anytime soon, just letting everyone know.

[@ThedomiNATION]

I guess you work for Pokémon company then? Bank will be shutting down. We just don’t know when. And from a business side of things, it’s crazy they’ve even kept it up this long considering they only lose money by keeping it up since Nintendo forced them to make it free

[@jocstar3746]

@@ThedomiNATION 3Ds store being close and Pokémon bank it’s free do the math you eventually get it.

[@JJroks543]

The mythical hunts are cool, I just wish they weren’t so expensive or hard to set up. The DNS glitch for Gen 4 games to get the old events in Platinum is notoriously hard to do because of the original DS’s poor wifi security protocol (meaning you can’t use a modern up to date wifi network and need some kind of workaround to disable the password), and the Manaphy hunt is just ridiculous. I respect the people who go through the effort to do these hunts, I just hope there’s a decent alternative introduced in the future.

[@ThedomiNATION]

All you need for the dns exploit to work in gen 4 is a wifi connection with no password. McDonald’s wifi goes hard for this 😂 I personally use a feature on Mac to share internet from either a hotspot or from Ethernet but yeah if you don’t have that option you’ll have to either figure out how to change your internet so there is no password or go somewhere that has free WiFi that doesn’t require a password

[@The-Determined-Ninja]

As much as you said you didn't want to include GO in the discussion, I'm glad you did since I've been wondering what I might actually want to transfer to HOME from there- (*≧∀≦)

[@ThedomiNATION]

The sad reality is that some shiny Pokémon (and most likely more in the future) will be GO exclusives. We already have the meltan line and technically shiny genesect. I wouldn’t be surprised if victini, meloetta, and a bunch of other shiny legendaries/mythicals are first/only seen through GO

[@The-Determined-Ninja]

@@ThedomiNATION Aaah, yeah that's a good point-admittedly I hadn't really considered that amidst my overall perspective (；゜∀゜) That above all would be less than ideal; definitely not in the spirit of GO's role in the franchise I'd say-

[@jaystapes3086]

For those who do want some of these shiny, in SwSh Celebi was shiny for a movie event, Diance can be shiny in an old event, and Zeraora can be shiny through a HOME event.

[@ThedomiNATION]

But like, how does one get those now without hacking?

[@jaystapes3086]

@@ThedomiNATION I was just pointing out that you can get those shinies..may not be the most legal way lol but you can use a sysbot to gen them all into Sword or Shield and they all will be HOME compatible. To me that's no different than hacking in an event item to shiny hunt Darkrai or Mew, both are sketchy ways of obtaining them, but are still ways.

[@ub-06austin40]

Recently I’ve been on a grind to get Shiny Legendary Pokémon in USUM, as well as other elusive Shiny Pokémon that aren’t available on the Switch. I’ve gotten Poipole, Celebi and Type: Null, and I got a Mew through 8F in Red. I haven’t gotten Partner Cap Pikachu yet, but hopefully I can get it at some point. Other rare Shinies are ones I just won’t be able to get. I don’t have access to a Gen 3 Mew, Jirachi or Deoxys. I have the Ranger games, but I don’t know if I can even still get a Manaphy Egg, and even if I can that hunt just seems too torturous for my liking. I can hunt the other Sinnoh Mythicals in Gen 4 if I really want, but I’d rather do it in BDSP, since they have better odds and I have access to them. And as for Patrat, the monkeys and Furfrou, I don’t really care enough to look for them.

[@SeekerStyle]

Which method did you use for shiny Celebi?

[@ub-06austin40]

@@SeekerStyle I did soft resets for it in Crystal, though I do also have a Shiny Celebi in Go

[@ub-06austin40]

Update: I just got Shiny Partner Cap Pikachu. The rest of my 3DS Hunts are Legendary Pokémon I can get on the Switch if I really want (but I’d rather do it on the 3DS)

[@mickjay933]

Luckily, most of these shinies have been distributed via Events so I’ve collected and transferred most of those up *without* the need to shiny hunt.

[@LyricAndCompany]

Love your videos, this is a great reference point to use. The whole Manaphy egg thing is wild, it's so weird they would just make it a completely static number of eggs per hoe many cartridges are printed. If I could make a suggestion, I'd see if you can tweak your mic settings a bit. Your voice gets kind of scratchy sometimes and it sorta sounds like you're yelling through the speakers all the time. It's not the end of the world, but it can make binging your videos a little headache inducing 😅

[@ThedomiNATION]

I’ve actually tried to mess with my mic settings a bit. You can hear it at the end of the video a bit. I haven’t found settings that sound good just yet. Either that or I might need to get a different mic

[@clementepokevideos]

It would be awesome to show a complete ribbon master quest on some of your pokemon =) I like to doing it with shiny alpha pokemon (sadly, i only have nintendo switch)

[@ThedomiNATION]

I want to do a full one with a shadow shiny heracross to get a shiny with every possible ribbon, but I don’t even own colosseum and with this whole limbo on if bank shuts down or not, it’s probably something I won’t get to in time 😔

[@clementepokevideos]

@@ThedomiNATION That would be cool, but you could do it with almost any pokemon captured on Gen III =).

[@trynnicus]

@@clementepokevideos shadow pokemon from colo/xd get an extra ribbon for being purified

[@TKnHappyNess]

Game Freak needs to realize that some Pokemon will be trapped on Home with nowhere to go

[@ThedomiNATION]

I’m hoping they’re working on a solution for it. The Pokémon company has been pretty strict on keeping the games compatible with each other. The tried really hard to get gen 2 and 3 to connect but couldn’t get it figured out and eventually allowed the gen 1/2 games to connect to bank from the virtual console. I can’t see them just throwing in the towel and locking away most of the franchise from the modern games

[@johnmadden6521]

Great video again man, thanks for doing what you do.

[@Hotchefmice]

Personally i think it would be an entirely avoided issue if they just did another generation of ds consoles, had it backwards compatible with 3ds with some sort of good way to play old ds games. They had patented a model for what looks to be a new ds handheld and honestly, theyve made this exact mistake in the past between gen 1 and 2 and gen 3. They know people will hate it so why ruin it for people? The ps3 was backwards compatible to ps2 and ps1 so it isnt out of the ordinary at the slightest, idk just bugs me the games from then may die out

[@ThedomiNATION]

Even if they did make a new console that was backwards compatible with 3DS games, the issue is bank is still needed to send Pokémon off into home. Unless they were to update XY ORAS SM and USUM to just communicate with the new system but that’s really unlikely. What I would love for them to do would be to just allow us to download all data from bank onto our SD cards in order to store bank locally instead of use their servers. The only issue is that it still wouldn’t help people that missed out on download bank before the eshop shut down. But hey homebrewing is an option I guess

[@Nathan35077]

It’s also really important to shiny hunt these because unless they port these games to the switch, some may never be huntable again! Even through remakes. Gamefreak has clearly done away with soft reset hunting. They apparently HATE IT. That’s why if you notice, (with the exception of BDSP because they didn’t make it) any Pokémon encounter that would require a soft-reset to hunt is shiny locked! Starters, static encounters, etc. all shiny locked. It’s not that they don’t want you to have them shiny. You can still breed for starters. But you can’t soft reset for them. Look at gen 9 DLC, they added a bunch of old legendaries we’ve shiny hunted before. But because they were static encounters they shiny locked them because it would require soft resetting. So hopefully they stop being fucking lazy and just stop making static encounters! That way we can get shinies, and they get to not allow soft reset hunts. Win/win! I’m not sure why they hate it so much though. I hate it too, but for different reasons. But if they make the hunts fun, nobody will miss soft resetting. But just simply shiny locking it as an answer is lazy.

[@Chickpezz]

Hey just letting you know you can send Darkrai from Diamond (Not Pearl for some reason) but you need to level it up to level 50 and get rid of Pursuit. I did it with my Shiny Darkrai that I hunted in October and it worked. Got the time travel certificate and everything.

[@ThedomiNATION]

You probably got that info from my old video lol. I decided to not include that because it would’ve made the video a lot longer with me explaining that. It also would’ve caused a lot of confusion with the fact that it only works for Diamond and not Pearl

[@infernape100]

It seems with Z-A we'll have furfrou hunts, it'll be good to see the fashion dog return

[@ThedomiNATION]

Yeah I’m really excited for forgot to finally come back!

[@The_Phoenix_Saga]

Chances are someone'll figure out how to make a server and so forth to keep this going. They always do.

[@ThedomiNATION]

I’m counting on it! I’m just worried the Pokémon company will remove the option to send Pokémon from bank on the home menu!

[@The_Phoenix_Saga]

@@ThedomiNATION Make us proud, man. There's bound to be a way.

[@PkMkPresto487]

I got shiny Zygarde 1st encounter!

[@ThedomiNATION]

That’s awesome! Congrats!

[@drosskills]

Great vid! Shiny Surf Pikachu is a nice one to hunt as well 👍

[@ThedomiNATION]

It’s a cool one but starting in SWSH surf is just a normal tm move pikachu can learn

[@Loch32]

i'm planning on doing poipole as part of my ultra moon badge quest, and then afterwards doing lock removal necrozma. thank you for the information!

[@ThedomiNATION]

Good luck!

[@thealmightysting1115]

What's lock removal

[@Loch32]

@@thealmightysting1115 a hack to remove the shiny lock on a pokemon

[@anistar6011]

Making the legends shony huntable. Although gen 7 legends are available in dynamax adventure if you have sword and shield DLC. ​@thealmightysting1115

[@Aaron-hv4hr]

Hi to me in two years watching this video again because KZbin randomly recommended it

[@SygnaAlex]

Im actively going for that Pikachu only cause its funny to see a glow for a non-shiny looking Pokemon. I already scanned the QR code before saving in front of the guy who gives you Pikachu. Does that mean I can soft reset without worry?

[@ThedomiNATION]

Yep just a normal soft reset hunt! I would just recommend using 2 games to hunt it as there’s a 1/4096 chance it’s properly shiny locked for you! Very unlikely but you can’t be too safe!

[@SygnaAlex]

@@ThedomiNATION Absolutely, thanks! Thanks for the video. Also actively hunting for Celebi as Im saved right in front of the shrine.

[@williambaldwin6674]

As the first remake game will come in I think it should be Johto and it should have a shiny huntable celebi like one per se file after the post game for a Johto remake I feel like a lot of pokémon fans would like that since the only way to get celebi is through the 3DS

[@ThedomiNATION]

I wish but I just can’t see them doing that with all the shiny locking they’ve been doing as of late 😔

[@doublewoofwoof]

I wouldn't be surprised if eventually all the go-fest mythicals are released as shinies in masterwork research in Pokémon go

[@ThedomiNATION]

Yeah unfortunately it seems like most of not all legendaries and mythicals will soon be only available in GO due to the fact that they can monetize them 😔

[@GamerJoseKun]

I'm doing some hunts before they decide the shut down Bank (Really want to hunt Kyurem on Gen 5 and Type Null and Poipole on Gen 7 soon), but actually today I got my shiny Celebi on Crystal after like, 15 minutes of hunting, I was shocked , I think I SR less than 10 times XD Counterpart to that, Darkrai on Platinum been some months hunting and no luck at all.

[@ThedomiNATION]

That’s crazy about the celebi! And hopefully darkrai shows up soon!

[@devonstewart760]

actually remember in Sword and Shield pokemon did a event where if the community defeated like a ton of Zeraora raids they gave everyone a gifted shiny Zeraora

[@ThedomiNATION]

Yep! I still have mine! But I purposely left out event shinies as there’s so many it would’ve made the video so long and most you cannot obtain anymore!

[@liamdell6319]

Shiny Victini, Meloetta, Keldeo, Genesect, "Battle Bond Greninja", Diancie, Hoopa, Unbound Hoopa and Volcanion do have a QR codes in SM/USUM, so you can at least get them to display in Bank and, by extension, Home.

[@ThedomiNATION]

You wouldn’t be able to display their shiny forms though unfortunately

[@liamdell6319]

@@ThedomiNATION They do display in Home, I've done it. When sending things across from Bank to Home, Home updates to display all the forms that have been seen in Bank, as long as you have had that Pokemon in Home at least once. You can even hack in Shiny Cosmog and Cosmoem, send them to Bank, and synchronize the two. Just don't send the Shiny Cosmog/moem to Home.

[@thrift272]

I nearly forgot about this. glad you posted this

[@Leto85]

I just hope that Bank will become a program compatible without the need internet, but with just infrared for example.

[@ThedomiNATION]

That would be the best solution but I honestly can’t see them doing that unfortunately

[@MorganMoogle]

*Laughs in shiny form of most of these event Pokemon I was around for and rinsing GO since release*

[@alter6243]

A backwards compatible Switch is the only solution I see. 3DS and DS have a massive catalog of games.

[@ThedomiNATION]

That would be crazy but I can’t see the next Nintendo console offering that unfortunately

[@pjsa146]

Update: shiny meloetta is now a shiny reward for completing the paldea dex in Home.

[@ThedomiNATION]

Yes but even then I would still count is as an event shiny which I decided to not include anyway in this video as this video is about shinies you can hunt I’m older games only

[@maxgomez6966]

Already have a few but there are some pokemon lines that i need to do. Really hope I can get them all before we're eventually locked out of sending them over to the switch

[@ThedomiNATION]

Yeah. I’m still holding out hope that there’s either gonna be some official or unofficial way to still send Pokémon up because even outside of these there’s so many hunts I want to do in older games and I don’t want to feel fomo!

[@Tristan_Shuler]

Dang, when you realize how many Pokémon are still shiny locked and/or shiny locked in a future game when they were available before.

[@ThedomiNATION]

Yeah. I’m hoping the constant complaints they’re getting from shiny locking the dlc legendaries opens their eyes and causes them to realize they shouldn’t do that anymore… but I doubt it

[@Tristan_Shuler]

@@ThedomiNATION they haven’t listened to fans really the last few generations. No expectations lol.

[@jamesc7894]

Thanks for the helpful video! Going to enjoy trying some of these out.

[@ThedomiNATION]

Thank you! And good luck!

[@keithpalacios9417]

I have a question. I'm sure everyone knows about the past Mystery Gifts for Generations 4 and 5. You simply modify your setting on your DS and you can unlock them. Do you think it's wrong? I love the Shiny Entei. It's not technically cloned or created in some lab. I look at it as a legitimate Pokémon. Thoughts?

[@ThedomiNATION]

I personally like to hunt for my own shinies but imo if it legally can be sent into bank and home then it’s fair game!

[@Nelsito99]

9:13 small thing to point out but still relevant is meloetta's alt form where it swaps normal for fighting after using resolute/relic song iirc

[@ThedomiNATION]

I only included Pokémon that can have separate physical forms in home. Meloetta does have 2 forms, but the pirouette form is only available temporarily in battle and isn’t permanent.

[@Nelsito99]

@@ThedomiNATION fair but that's also not the case with ash greninja as it works similar to meloetta in that it can only be in that different form during battle

[@ThedomiNATION]

@@Nelsito99 battle bond greninja is a separate form of greninja. The ash greninja that it turns into is temporary but home classifies battle bond greninja as a separate form. Same goes for own temp rockruff!

[@Nelsito99]

@@ThedomiNATION like the mon itself or what I'm a but confused about tgat last part

[@ThedomiNATION]

@@Nelsito99 greninja with the ability own tempo are classified as an alternate form of greninja. Same goes for rockruff with the ability own tempo. And you can have those forms of Pokémon physically in home

[@Termina_]

My 3DS's thumbstick is currently broken and I haven't been able to play it for a while. I'm afraid of bank shutting down before I get a chance to fix it, but hopefully fans will make a way to transfer even after it gets shut down

[@bread6271]

Thankfully when online feautures shut down they said that StreetPass and Pokemon Bank are still staying

[@ThedomiNATION]

Yeah but inevitably Pokémon bank will shut down at some point later. Pokémon company only loses money keeping bank’s severs online ever since they had to make it free when the eshop shut down. We just don’t know how long they’ll remain online. Could be a month after, 6 months, years, who knows. But bank will have to shut down some day unless they find an alternative way to keep it up/allow us to transfer Pokémon up. I’m hoping there’s some sort of announcement for it on Pokémon day this year…

[@willieharrison1359]

If you have Pokemon red vc on the ds and Pokemon blue vc ,when it comes out, on the switch do you think Nintendo will make it so you could go to the Pokemon center and trade between devices? That would be a good way to go around Pokemon bank and getting your Pokemon on the switch if they have downloadable vc for each generation

[@ThedomiNATION]

That would be really interesting! But that wouldn’t solve everything as I still have a bunch of physical gen 3/4/5/6/7 games I want to continue hunting on! Also hoping they can keep them compatible like they are now for ribbon master quests!

[@willieharrison1359]

@@ThedomiNATION if they make VC for gens 3-7 and make them compatible to Pokemon home you could hunt on the DS games and go to the Pokemon center to trade them on thd switch and then put them in home. I guess that wouldn't work for Gen 7 because they didn't have that function in sun and moon or usum. I hope they figure out something

[@TheRandomYTDude]

Thank you for talking about platinum, it's one of the few carts I have and even though my ds is hacked I can always have someone else send it up. Missed my chance on bdsp sadly.

[@hellothere7456]

Darkrai and Shaymin can be got on the switch still in 2024, if you have a custom firmware switch or are playing on an emulator. You can use a save file editor to edit the items into your game. Likewise you can get Darkrai and Shaymin in Diamond and Pearl via void glitch but only Darkrai in Diamond (pearl can work but people have complained about it not working, I'm just saying this now because I have no clue myself) can be sent to Pokémon Home.

[@ThedomiNATION]

I think it should be obvious that this video is referring to Pokémon you don’t need custom firmware or mods to obtain

[@hellothere7456]

​@@ThedomiNATIONoh shit ye my bad

[@jinga9862]

I think a monthly subscription to convert your own PC into a legal Pokemon Bank server that can transfer to Home would be a Big Brain idea as it 1) removes the cost from Pokemon to host that server 2) allows the community to continue growing despite aging tech limiting accessability

[@ThedomiNATION]

That would be great but there’s no way they’re gonna do that

[@CaptainDan318]

There's also Spinda! You can shiny hunt it on both Go and the DP remakes but due to a programming error they can't be transferred to Home!

[@ThedomiNATION]

Yeah I completely overlooked that! It’s too bad they didn’t just fix them in BDSP

[@blueberrypitbull87]

Keldeo is able to be caught in the wild in Sword and Shield but he is STILL shiny locked! It is ridiculous. I have been waiting since Gen 5 and they still refuse...Also, that Absol Pokedoll is a bootleg...

[@Elantien]

Well i didn't even could download pokemon bank on my 3ds anyway ^^

[@ThedomiNATION]

You can still get it… If you mod your 3DS

[@PokeArtistAce]

I’m currently hunting manaphy myself as I wanted to do that before the servers went down. I also am trying to get a full living dex from the game they originated from like you and have ever game to do it. Gotta work on it fast!!

[@ThedomiNATION]

That’s awesome! Good luck!

[@PokeArtistAce]

Thanks dom! Though I just wish it was forever. And it would be great it the fans managed to have a way to permanently have the servers up IF they go down

[@redjack2629]

God, thank you for letting me know Type:Null is huntable in normal Sun and Moon, and that I don't have to catch 960 pokemon before I can start farming it... I have like 9 boxes full and have been trying to actually play through games to get as close to a living dex as possible before mindlessly farming wild pokemon to fill the boxes...

[@randomSTARPlays]

I think as soon as its possible to obtain the last few regular pokemon on the switch, like patrat and the elemental monkeys, thats when the bank servers will shut down. If the unova remake rumours are true then that means bank will most likely be closed by year's end

[@ThedomiNATION]

I’m personally thinking the next games will be johto remakes as HGSS are older than BW! But who knows it could somehow include those Pokémon, or maybe they do another dual release like BDSP/PLA and the game immediately following is a unova game!

[@xiiithegod]

I wish they would give us an exact date when bank will shut down.

[@ThedomiNATION]

I’m sure they will but I don’t think they’re ready to yet. I think if they don’t announce an official date (or a solution) by Pokémon day (February 27th) then we will have a while before it shuts down

[@makerviewr1cn356]

I booted up my copy of Ultra Moon yesterday and saw I didn't get the Poipole. Definitely want to get that

[@ThedomiNATION]

Good luck!

[@makerviewr1cn356]

I got the shiny Poipole

[@KazeBlack]

I just managed to reset myself a Shiny Type:Null which I actually wanted to use for a UM playthrough. I totally forgot about Bank being near the end of its lifespan so I'll transfer it over now, since they have shinylocked it the past 2 gens it may never be free again. Rushing through UM now to get Poipole and another Null for Silvally.

[@ThedomiNATION]

Congrats! And good luck on the second one and Poipole!

[@JamFusion.]

Thank you for this :) a few weeks ago I got myself my poipole!

[@ThedomiNATION]

Congrats!

[@Septor-xc4xr]

Im shiny hunting celebi rn lol, just scrolling through yt and found this, glad to say i at least have a shiny melmetal

[@ThedomiNATION]

Good luck! I’m hunting mew now and I plan to do celebi sometime soon!

[@Superfart2024]

Im also shiny huntint celebi, good luck!

[@Septor-xc4xr]

@@ThedomiNATION GL to y'all as well

[@abyssal14]

working on shaymin right now. hunted celebi, poipole, mew and deoxys. But need to reset my games for type null. Also trying to get all legendaries and ultra beasts in usum, about 80% done with that. great video as there were a few i didn't think of!

[@ThedomiNATION]

Good luck on your hunts!

[@victorvance13]

1/100 for Dynamax adventures feels worse than full odds hunting sometimes, Zygarde is so painful to hunt there due to how hard the fight is.

[@ThedomiNATION]

Yeah. It’s looking very unlikely with how scarlet and violet was handled but I really wish they make those dynamax adventures exclusive shinies huntable via resets in a future game

[@SalvaLP22]

Mentions that Pokémon Go won’t be accounted… then procedes to mention Pokemon Go mons everytime there is a chance.

[@ThedomiNATION]

Because if I included go, this video would not have much information. And if I don’t mention that some of these Pokémon are available from GO in some way, I’ll get lots of comments of people saying “but you can get this Pokémon from GO.” There really isn’t a perfect way to go about it unfortunately

[@Mimiyan_or_Pikapikafan]

I actually managed to get a shiny Poipole via SRs recently in Ultra Sun, so after I get all the Ribbons it can have in gen 7 on it (Ribbon Master stuff) I'll be transfering it to Switch so it alongside all the other Pokemon I'm currently trying to prep up ribbon master challenge wise can be handled whenever I want instead of there being a time limit

[@Akanisen049]

Thank you so much for this! I was already working on some of these but didn't know about patrat and the monkeys (the heck gamefreak?), so thank yoy

[@majincringe110]

ive been looking for a video like this been hunting celebi and partner cap pikachu just in case

[@ThedomiNATION]

Good luck with those shinies! I definitely want to hunt celebi soon!

[@thatonemechanicalskull]

So many hunts I want to go for, but I still need to finish up kalos’ and alola’s living dex before it’s too late 😔

[@ThedomiNATION]

Hopefully it isn’t for a while after April if it shuts down but maybe we will know by Pokémon day

[@than_487]

Doing a living dex myself and am currently in Alola as well, with only Johto left after it (out of the games I own). Have so many things I want to do but prioritized the dexes... Even though I'm not worried for the shutdown and being able to move Pokemon (due to... very legal means), I feel you as I would want to prioritize legal means as well. So best of luck! You've got this!

[@bookie6884]

If you need super-sized pumpkaboo for your Kalos living dex, let me know. I should still have a couple bred down in Y.

[@bookie6884]

That and white flabébe!

[@thatonemechanicalskull]

@@bookie6884 I do appreciate the offer, but I’m going for some “rules” of my own to make it a little more challenging, trying to get everything self caught in the wild with a pokeball for example, but again, thank you for offering to help!

[@mehdihabibi9400]

Another way to get shiny darkrai through legit means requires a lot of work for it, Only works for diamond and pearl but it CAN transfer to pokemon home, You need to perform the void glitch though, Although it requires you to glitch and POTENTIALLY risk your save file if even one thing goes wrong. If done right, all you need to do is reset until you get it, Get it up to about level 50 ( Or keep it level 40 idk if it will pass pokebank ) And you have it there.

[@ThedomiNATION]

You need to level it up to level 50 and have it forget the move pursuit before transferring it to gen 5 or else it won’t send up

[@SSJBlueWaldo]

I really hope we don’t have to rely on Pokemon GO to get these shinies once Pokemon Bank shuts down

[@RioIII]

Just realized I still have to unlock my Shiny Jirachi from Pokemon Go

[@YouArePointless4]

Ayo how

[@theportabletoilet]

Same, that stupid buddy thing and the kecleon thing really took me some time

[@ThedomiNATION]

Good luck! The kecleon can be rough but eventually you’ll get them!

[@YouArePointless4]

Nvm I just realized I have the Wish quest, also this won't affect transferring pokemon from Go since it's going directly from Go to home 👍

[@brandonlhanks]

Great vid! Can you not simply transfer up a normal Patrat and the elemental monkeys to Scarlet/Violet and then Masuda method breed for their shinies? Same with Spinda?

[@ThedomiNATION]

Those Pokémon are not coded to be in scarlet and violet (or any switch game as of now) and spinda is the same as can’t take it out of BDSP which is the only switch game it’s coded in

[@brandonlhanks]

@@ThedomiNATION Oh I see. So, you could just move those guys to home in hopes that they'll be coded into a future game to then Masuda, but otherwise, get the shiny now in the old games. Thank you for clarifying! :)

[@DrEnzyme]

I think you can legitimately get shiny Mew from gen 3 as long as you know how to do some *SERIOUS* glitching. The mew itself will be legit but the method to get it is pretty crazy.

[@ThedomiNATION]

That’s what I’m doing lol. I used a crazy set of glitches to unlock the mew and deoxys events and I’m currently hunting shiny mew from that!

[@DrEnzyme]

@@ThedomiNATION That's awesome. If I ever get back into serious glitching again I'm going to try out SID manipulation in gen 4 for sooo many free shinies...

[@Nathan35077]

Poipole is the only one I really want to do. I hate soft reset hunts though, as it’s so tedious and not enjoyable whatsoever. I’ve only accomplished one… celebi in Gen. 2. But I have a device to clone Pokémon in USUM, so it does make the hunt more appealing. As I can do it once and get both evolutions. But I have to restart my save to do it, and haven’t bothered yet.

[@cadsop]

honestly destroying the connectivity would be a horrible move, I hope there'd still be a way to transfer pokemon forward.

[@ThedomiNATION]

I really hope so too! I’m hoping that’s why they are giving a soft warning but not really saying much about it yet! But who knows though I’m very worried about it

[@squeebosh8525]

I'm seeing this just after finishing my 2 Type Null Hunts in original Sun & Moon. I'm gonna go for: the virtual console Mew and Celebi, Ash Hat Pikachu, Poipole ×2 and Type Null ×2. I like to keep my shiny Pokémon in the games I find them in and only transfer up duplicates so I'm gonna hafta deal with Ultra Sun & Moon's shenanigans to get a second set of Type Null. I was fortunate enough to get the event shinies for Poipole and Silvally so in the event I have to rush and transfer something up, I'll just move up my event Silvally and my Type Null from Moon. For everything else, I'm not gonna bother because I don't have access to those games and for two, the non-shiny locked Pokémon are most likely gonna get put in gen 10 or something.

[@thornyland3991]

well I hope bank just doesn't properly shut down or a method to move up without its online feature is done

[@charcolttheone3492]

Hopefully people who run Wiimfi will figure out how to emulate pokemon bank and home's servers so we can transfer Pokemon up to the switch games.

[@ThedomiNATION]

I hope so too. I’m really hoping the Pokémon company finds some way to make bank useable locally and not online but I don’t think they’ll do that

[@uknshop]

bro I somehow stayed here for 2min40sec but now it's time to leave after you said "before starting....". time to step up the attentiongrabgame much love

[@ThedomiNATION]

Man just couldn’t wait another 5 seconds lol. If I’m not thorough in explanation a lot of people get confused or have more questions that I could’ve just answered in the video. KZbin does have a scrubbing feature if you don’t want to wait a couple minutes though!

[@lucanicoletti]

Shiny Celebi was available with Dada Zarude via code as well

[@ThedomiNATION]

As I stated in the video, I didn’t want to include events as it can be hard to keep track of all of them and none of them are available anymore. For example there was a Japanese only event for shiny diancie. It would’ve been too much to include all of those

[@Grckle]

working on RNG shiny hunting in gens 4, 5, and 7. skipping 6 because that's practically impossible, though I am taking the HG mewtwo I've caught and doing ribbon master quest with it so I'll be revisiting gen 6 as well. Having said that, I am in a constant state of panic and I will remain as such until I manage to get a full shiny living dex of everything I possibly can :)

[@ThedomiNATION]

Good luck! I’m gonna do some hunts like poipole, type: null, mew, and celebi, but I don’t want this hobby to be taken over by fomo so I will pretend bank isn’t shutting down

[@MohammadAli-fu3bb]

wtf man, i thought theyd keep ot open for ages but that sentence is so ominous just like you said

[@ThedomiNATION]

Yeah. We really don’t know what’s gonna happen. I’m expecting some sort of announcement on Pokémon day this year. But I was it trying to complete some Pokémon home challenges last night and man so many of them require Pokémon bank… makes me wonder if they intend to keep the transferability some way or another

[@The_Jzoli]

Should probably have mentioned that Gen 5 legendaries are a 1/8000 chance in gen 5 instead of 1/4000 gen 6 onward. So hunting in gen 6 is recommended.

[@ThedomiNATION]

I feel like most people know that already as I discuss it in almost every one of my videos that cover shiny rates or full odds. Also as someone who has done many of both 1/8192 and 1/4096 hunts, I can confidently say that they really aren’t much different from each other

[@fernando_cravo]

Great video! It will be very useful, thx!!