This Shiny Hunt TESTED MY LIMITS!!

[@ThedomiNATION]

What's the hardest shiny hunt you have ever completed?

[@Haineko5]

The ones that hardly change

[@minishman9128]

It took me 1365 random encounters (~5 days) to find a shiny Patrat in Black 2, the only problem was that Patrat wasn't my target. My target was Sewaddle. Flashforward 7600 more encounters and I still haven't found it.

[@Sniwott]

My hardest shiny hunt completed was Miltank in Sword, took me more than 2000 encounters (including shiny charm and 500 ko's) to find I was so relieved afterwards haha

[@ThedomiNATION]

@@minishman9128 hopefully you’ll find it soon!

[@tapuchris-cb9jy]

@@ThedomiNATION Blacephalon in the Dynamax Adventures

[@thatrandomguy1677]

Nobody will probably believe me but my hardest shiny hunt ive competed was manaphy

[@ThedomiNATION]

I believe you! With all the optimization that’s been discovered in the past couple years, I’ve been seeing more and more people find it! Definitely a shiny I want to go for one day!

[@TheEmeraldTyrant]

I believe you. I hunted and got shiny manaphy too! Along with two sinjoh ruins shinies. Dialga and Giratina to be specific. And this isn't a joke or to mock you I actually have them posted on Instagram

[@minecrafthacker9973]

I also have shiny hunted manaphy and completed it, I also shiny hunted all the roaming legendaries in gen3 and it took me less than 3 months

[@ItsSilver58]

I'm considering hunting eventually but I want to use an action replay to spawn the eggs in and trade it to another copy. I'm still manually going to hatch them

[@BroseidonLive]

So cool that you got the rarest mon by far and you were hunting on only one game! Huge congrats!!!

[@ThedomiNATION]

@@BroseidonLive it didn’t feel real seeing it!

[@PlaguedByEarth]

You're a very good artist and the gen 1 style is very cool.

[@ThedomiNATION]

Thank you!

[@EasterIslander13]

Congratulations man I am very happy for you to get such an amazing shiny on what I consider one of the best games in the series. I loved colosseum and XD and I use to play those all the time. You have some really good shiny hunts under your belt and I look forward to seeing what you get next

[@PokeToT]

i still havent found a shiny in colo or XD but i GOTTA try this one day! honestly some of the coolest shinies you could ever get!!! ALSO you got the rarest thing there! huge congrats dude!

[@ThedomiNATION]

You gotta try it! I definitely would love to do a shiny shadow in colosseum but I still down own the game! 😅

[@leifalley7167]

i'm still in the process of doing my most tedious hunt which is the xy starter soft reset. been hunting that pale frog for 4 years on and off...

[@ThedomiNATION]

That’s a brutal one I wish you the best of luck!

[@leifalley7167]

@ThedomiNATION thanks man, I'm hoping it finally shines soon cuz it was supposed to be for an all shiny team. I completed an all shiny run of OR faster than getting the single shiny froakie

[@L3m0n_Ju1c3]

i went for fennekin myself but greninja is an amazing shiny, good luck man!

[@leifalley7167]

@L3m0n_Ju1c3 thanks! Delphox doesn't have a bad shiny either haha

[@slysylveon]

Best of luck. It took me 5 months with almost 24k srs to get my fenniken in my run. Currently doing the story latias in oras, at 5922 for it rn

[@Tristan_Shuler]

Dude. Your art at the end is absolutely amazing.

[@ThedomiNATION]

Thank you!

[@G1eatShad0w]

Well, due to hunting in games with the shiny charm and ways to increase the odds I haven’t had any super egregious hunts thus far but a marked shiny Fletchinder with 11 phases did take me a while. A marked shiny Dragapult hunt only had 4 phases but I had neither the shiny charm nor a lot of herba mystica on my Violet copy so that was quite the wait as well.

[@Tonkaonaja]

My hardest hunt is a tied between Quaxly in SV and Galarian Farfetch'd in SWSH both took around a thousand eggs each

[@ThedomiNATION]

Congrats on getting them! Egg shiny hunts can be brutal!

[@ShinyCrazed]

Always awesome to see someone get a shiny from the Gamecube games! Congrats on your Trapinch what a crazy find!! Also my hardest (ongoing) hunt probably is the Violet city Slugma from Primo in HGSS. With my current set up a reset takes 10 minutes (pre badge 1).

[@ThedomiNATION]

Thank you! And I have never even heard of that slugma hunt! That sounds crazy! I’ll have to look into it! Good luck on it!

[@ShinyCrazed]

@@ThedomiNATION Yeah I believe that, it's really niche, only found one french website saying that it's huntable and one spanish video of a guy RNGing one. And thank you!!

[@MM_Sky521]

This is probably a crazy story. I got a shiny wooper in XD. Which is the rarest spawn from that Poke Spot. I wasn’t even hunting for it. I was just trying to finish up my childhood playthrough of XD.

[@ThedomiNATION]

That is crazy! I would’ve never even known they could be shiny without being as into shiny hunting as I am and seeing other people get them!

[@ismaelswaggie5564]

I can feel your pain with this hunt since it took me a while to get Haruko(Hoppip) in the Oasis Poke Spot. Although the hardest one for me would be either be Centauros(Dratini)/Ghotis(8 Goldeen and 2 Seaking) from the LeafGreen Safari Zone at 58670+ Fishing encounters, Dialga from Sinjoh Ruins at 4000 resets, or currently the Roaming Latias from Heartgold at 3000+ resets so far.

[@ThedomiNATION]

Those are some crazy hunts you have under your belt! Good luck on latias!

[@ismaelswaggie5564]

@@ThedomiNATION Thanks and nice job with getting the Trapinch first try.

[@Mistabonp]

My longest, most tedious hunt so far has been for Cyndaquil, in Crystal on the 3DS' VC. Thing took 13,285 resets before I found it. About 40-50 of those minimum were premature resets and a handful were resets where I didn't even remember to check if it was Shiny before resetting. All cause I just zoned out so hard in the repetitive cycle of seeing if it had the right gender, then if it had the right HP, then checking, and resetting if any of the three were wrong.

[@ThedomiNATION]

Those gen 2 starter hunts are tough! Congrats on the cyndaquil it looks so cool in gen 2!

[@Mistabonp]

@@ThedomiNATION It really was, especially considering having to learn how Shiny Pokemon even generated in Gen 2 and what to look for. I do wish they kept the shiny colors for the Cynadquil line from Gen 2 as well. BUT I realized a bit after that they actually just swapped them! Mostly. They made the colors of the body swap, so gen 2's standard colors are now the shiny, while Gen 2's shiny colors are now the standard. Helps me appreciate the current shiny appearance more now. Grats on the Trapinch, btw, it's an awesome shade of green in XD.

[@thornyland3991]

well done ands it was an awesome shiny to get saw it live

[@QuiltedDusknoir]

Congratulations on the awesome shiny! Looks wicked in XD, the green makes it look like a bug. My hardest shiny hunt was Dusclops in Diamond. The PokeRadar didn't make anything easier, must've had 100 rounds.

[@Chrispy]

well it is a bug, it’s an antlion

[@Dolceandgabana]

Oh jeez. I hunted for that shiny marked cup for way too long. So much so, it was one of two natural shinies i got on sword and shield.

[@JanaJnns]

Just subscribed cause you seem to be a dragonite fan just like me (I kinda wanna know from where you got these posters in the back haha) and gg on this cool shiny

[@ThedomiNATION]

I actually made the posters behind me!

[@JanaJnns]

@@ThedomiNATION Then you did a great job they look amazing!

[@jamesstone404]

Your artwork is amazing!!

[@ThedomiNATION]

Thank you!

[@jamesstone404]

@@ThedomiNATION I love to draw, but I don’t have a lot of experience with digital art. Can I ask what program you use & what device it is that you draw on? Also, congrats on trapinch!!

[@ThedomiNATION]

@@jamesstone404 I use procreate on an iPad Pro 12.9 inch! It’s the first generation iPad so idk if you can still buy it but if you can I’m sure it will be way cheaper than the current gen iPads!

[@ItsSilver58]

What was the rarest for me to hunt was a 5% Hydreigon in Pokemon XY which was 2 and half years ago. It took me 4 months to hunt nonstop. It was over 32k resets (37 phases) with three 3DS

[@ThedomiNATION]

That’s Crazy hunt!

[@ItsSilver58]

@@ThedomiNATION Usually I don't have crazy reactions when I get shinies but Hydreigon was an exception. I was like a monkey screaming

[@hitavi4965]

I was about to click off thinking nothing could be harder than low encounter rate re's or sr for a shiny legendary, then I saw the cursed black lugia and immediately realized the insanity I was about to witness...

[@ThedomiNATION]

It was no lie! This hunt was definitely the toughest I’ve attempted!

[@a.m.theshinyjohtohunter4287]

At over 6000 eggs, shiny chikorita in soul silver drove me nearly over the edge. All it took was hatching a different shiny and then it shined in 98 eggs) And at over 1000 eggs in white, Druddigon is starting to get on my nerves.

[@ThedomiNATION]

Hopefully you get druddigon soon!

[@Regiultima]

Fun Fact: The Johto starters you can get from beating Mt Battle from 1-100 with the same party can also be shiny.

[@ThedomiNATION]

@@Regiultima yep! The only shinies you can get in XD are the pokespots, the mt battle johto starters, and the npc trade Pokémon!

[@Regiultima]

@@ThedomiNATION don’t forget the starter Eevee too!

[@ThedomiNATION]

Ahh I always forget the eevee! And the uncatchable salamence! 🫣

[@mr.gamewatch6165]

Wow, that shiny is a deep dark green, considering shiny Trapinch is a rusted bronze color 🤔

[@ThedomiNATION]

Yeah it’s so weird that most shinies in colosseum and XD are different from main series but some are the same!

[@ShuckleDoesGaming]

Timid nature would make me scream

[@ThedomiNATION]

The massive attack started going to waste 😔 but I was told you can easily run special attacking flygon which is cool!

[@toxicflame2650]

I love your videos!

[@ThedomiNATION]

Thank you!

[@aisardi]

Hatched a shiny shroomish white watching this video 👍 Name suggestions for that red breloom ?

[@ThedomiNATION]

Congrats! I would say name it Power-Up as I normally name non shiny breloom 1-Up!

[@studiopercy8994]

Congrats, that's surely quite the bucket list shiny for any shiny hunter! Any intentions on doing more xd hunts in the future?

[@ThedomiNATION]

I have considered doing totodile in XD and (if I ever buy colosseum) shiny shadow heracross! But idk if I’ll ever get around to those 😅

[@cullenmaynard3893]

And then the first Milcery phase goes over 2x over odds

[@ThedomiNATION]

Over 10,000 now…

[@PkMkPresto487]

Not completed but shiny Mewtwo on leafgreen is my hardest

[@ThedomiNATION]

Good luck! I definitely want to hunt that soon!

[@tapuchris-cb9jy]

Congratulations 🎉

[@ThedomiNATION]

Thank you!

[@tapuchris-cb9jy]

@@ThedomiNATION You're welcome 🤗

[@Mimiyan_or_Pikapikafan]

In relation to what is a shiny lock, aren't the Shadow Pokemon meant to be like traded Pokemon except you just take them, and then they have your OT? Traded Pokemon after gen 1 except in Let's Go have set IVs ect, meaning traded pokem are pretty useful. At least whenever they decided to have them have perfect IVs

[@ThedomiNATION]

I’m actually unsure what about them is set tbh. But to me, I see them as just trainers Pokémon that you can catch. So it was a crazy oversight that they rerolled the shiny value once you caught them as opposed to intentionally shiny locking them in XD

[@Mimiyan_or_Pikapikafan]

@@ThedomiNATION yeah 100%. It's like if a traded Pokemon could be shiny. Feels like an oversight

[@ThedomiNATION]

@@Mimiyan_or_Pikapikafan yeah! Obviously there’s no clear cut correct answer but I see shiny locking as taking a Pokémon you can encounter normally and making it so it can never be shiny. Weird ones like the manaphy egg and the shadow shinies feel like they weren’t programmed the same way

[@RealSkello]

It’s not that bad but I’ve been dual hunting Celebi in Crystal for like 2 years on and off

[@ThedomiNATION]

It’s such a good shiny! Good luck on getting it!

[@dennisneubauer9222]

My hardest shiny hunt (still not finished) shiny groudon pokemon sword

[@ThedomiNATION]

Good luck on completing it!

[@seanydog]

But coliseum has shiny locks Non shadow pokemon in colo are locked So, yes colo did have the first shiny lock

[@ThedomiNATION]

If you’re referring to the starter umbreon and espeon then you may have point but outside of those you can’t catch non shadow Pokémon in colosseum!

[@seanydog]

@@ThedomiNATION gift pokemon are shiny locked in colo

[@Haineko5]

Not what you asked but my easiest shiny was Alolan vulpix I got it in 6th egg.

[@ThedomiNATION]

@@Haineko5 that’s so lucky! Congrats!

[@riceeatr4205]

is the manaphy egg not shiny locked on the original trainer who received the egg in gen 4? being properly programmed for the shadows to not shine sounds like a design choice from the devs to actively not give you the option to shiny hunt a pokemon you re allowed to collect, therefore a shiny lock

[@ThedomiNATION]

The shadow Pokémon are trainers Pokémon. In colosseum it was an oversight that allowed shadow Pokémon to get rerolled as different Pokémon upon catching them. It simply got fixed. As I stated in the video, if you call it a shiny lock, then you may as well say shiny locking started in gen 2 because all trainers Pokémon are “locked”. As for the manaphy, I think it’s a similar case. It’s a simple event pokemon that’s supposed to be predetermined a certain way but didn’t take into account the way shinies are generated from eggs which can allow it to be shiny on separate save files. The reason it can’t be shiny on the main save is because that’s the save where it gets generated. That one is a little more up in the air though on whether it was an actual intended shiny lock or just the way the event was distributed. Because again you could just say “all of these event Pokémon are shiny locked” like all the other event distribution Pokémon that aren’t shiny. But then what does that make the event Pokémon that are always shiny? 🤔

[@zaidmoreno395]

hi!

[@ThedomiNATION]

Hello!

[@Mojaveknight17]

I do not like Gen5😂

[@ThedomiNATION]

Oh no they’re back 😭

[@Mojaveknight17]

@ThedomiNATION great safari stream