These are the BEST SHINY HUNTING METHODS (Tier List)

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Video Description
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In this video, I am going to rank every shiny hunting method in a tier list based on my personal opinion about them. I will be ranking them from the best shiny hunting methods to the worst shiny hunting methods! Let me know if you guys agree or disagree with my opinions on these methods in the comments below and don't forget to LIKE the video and SUBSCRIBE if you haven't done so yet!
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[@than_487]

I have to say, as a shiny hunter and just in general collector (whether its dex or getting different versions of a pokemon), SOS is also super fun earlygame for the fact you either get a shiny or, if you have the right species, you can get a rare pokemon you might want to use. I was trying to get a Salamence in my latest Moon run and ended up with the shiny Bagon. Win win situation, for the playthrough portion. :)

[@Torpadorp]

"Masuda Method, going over odds sucks" I'm currently at twelve thousand Eggs for Dreepy. I wish I was kidding. I started the hunt in October and delayed it when Legends Arceus came out cause it was driving me mad. I'll go back to it when I feel it again, but I have never had a more painful Pokémon experience in my life

[@ThedomiNATION]

Yeah that’s terrible I’ve seen people go like 6,000+ for masuda method but never 12,000! Hopefully you get it soon!

[@jamestette2641]

How many did you get it at?

[@Torpadorp]

@@jamestette2641 I actually ended up coming back to it last month of all times. I'd ended up doing away with the counter for the sake of my sanity, but since I still had whole empty boxes, I can still probably estimate how many. It definitely was under 1000 after resuming, and I ended up getting a sick and twisted joke: I got the one early into a batch, and then got a second while hatching the leftover eggs. I'm not going for a living dex, so I only needed one, so I ended up giving it to a friend. As for my next target, no? At the very least that hunt burnt me out of shiny hunting for a while there, but I might go for one more before SV. Probably Masuda for Espurr since I've already gotten a number of my favorite Shiny already, besides Meowstic

[@jamestette2641]

Nice!

[@yamatanooroshikirin4001]

I didn't ever do much shiny hunting since I don't feel like I have the attention span for it, but the second time I defeated Zygarde in a max raid battle I got a shiny. No charm, too.

[@ThedomiNATION]

Awesome! Congrats!

[@zucchiniboi6306]

Love the outbreak method because of how engaging hunting in them are and the prep work, especially going after aggressive Pokemon and having to sneak and dodge them. I don't care about the easy odds because the act of going through them is rewarding enough. Also hunting for shiny alphas are really fun

[@legendaryspark56]

You should do a Pokémon ribbon tier list on the hardest to obtain ribbons

[@ThedomiNATION]

That’s a good idea!

[@icarlosct4596]

I actually like the dynamax adventures I got Lugia first try and getting Zygarde was challenging and super satisfying, I’m actually thinking on going back for Mewtwo and the Tapus. I prefer this method over the Masuda method in swsh

[@letsgetsomeshoes1239]

I love catch comboing personally (the 'correct' way I mean), I actually got a shiny Gloom super under odds (about 60) so that was nice. Though it's not for everyone of course. edit: I don't have a shiny charm either so yeh super under odds

[@ThedomiNATION]

Awesome congrats! I’m gonna try to use it as the main way of hunting mainly because it greatly lowers the odds of phasing!

[@jackrigby3090]

Such a fun video! Thanks for all the effort you put in to your videos 😁

[@ThedomiNATION]

Thank you! That means a lot!

[@SupThomas]

Keep the videos coming man! Very entertaining and informative :)

[@ThedomiNATION]

Thank you!

[@switch1e]

Legends Arceus has made things really really easy, debatably too easy. I have gotten like 4 shinies without even trying - one that wasn't even in an outbreak. That's really the only shiny hunting I've ever done, though. But recently I've been watching a lot of videos about the subject so I might try to get into it. Great video, by the way.

[@ThedomiNATION]

It might sound a bit hardcore but I would recommend trying to shiny hunt something that’s full odds! (Either a 1/8192 or a 1/4096 shiny) I started out hunting in fire red because it was the only game I had at the time and you easily get hooked after successfully completing your first full odds hunt!

[@switch1e]

@@ThedomiNATION The one that seemed the most appealing is the HG/SS hunt. I really like those games and starting them off with a random shiny starter would be super cool

[@ThedomiNATION]

Yeah that’s a really good one to do! They’re pretty fast even with the low odds!

[@randomviewer396]

Super fun tier list, your channel looks really cool. I subscribed :)

[@LaySuperMarioLover]

8:40 I can SO relate to this because I went through the exact same. I really started to like Pokémon at the end of Gen 3 and my first Pokémon game was Gen 4's Pearl Version. I haven't experienced Gen 5 at all until recently when my brother randomly installed a ROM of White Version on my iPhone so I could get a taste of what all that Gen 5 hype was all about. But anyway, I skipped Gen 5 in its hayday because I already had Diamond, Pearl, HeartGold and SoulSilver, and decided to go straight to Gen 6 with X version as some sort of Vacation Special for myself when we traveled to Valdés, Spain, I think back in 2022. X Version is still my most played mainline Pokémon game to this day, and I'm really sad the 3DS AND Wii U online servers are going to be shut down in roughly a month or so.

[@ToyaKasa]

I love the song you used for the background 💕

[@switch1e]

This just got in my recommended… I think you’re about to get a huge increase in views

[@SoftEndy]

Last night I got a shiny in an outbreak 5 outbreaks in a row and 4 of them were when I first encountered them, then I got two shinies in an outbreak a little bit later. Fun to collect on the way to a shiny dex but I hope the method doesn't return in this form in future games.

[@StarrNOM]

This video inspired me to hunt in Black 2 again and I just got shiny Cobalion in

[@ThedomiNATION]

Congrats!

[@ZebraWyvern]

As someone who is trying to complete the shiny living dex, the mass outbreaks are awesome. And I'm with you when it comes to easy shinies kinda killing the fun, so with LA I decided not to get the charm, and for the mass mass outbreaks, it also feels like random encounter which is fun!

[@ThedomiNATION]

I agree! And me personally I don’t need to go to outbreaks if I don’t want to. But I will say I love all the changes they made to shiny hunting in SV! There’s a lot more options instead of just janky spawn mechanics and super high odds outbreaks!

[@ThePrinceVon]

I remember I got a shiny electrode in Crystal during a regular play through in the rocket base as a kid.

[@ThedomiNATION]

Nice! It’s a real cool shiny too!

[@TurboPikachu]

Pokeradar in the original D/P was the only time in the series I had ever caught shiny Pokémon of my own, my first being a shiny Mareep (my prized possession of the entire series), then went on to get a shiny Smeargle, two shiny Ditto, and a shiny Growlithe. I still would like to have a shiny Shinx, but my time with the franchise came to a close shortly after Alpha Sapphire’s release and even despite the allure of Legends and Scarlet/Violet, I have no motivation to really return to the series

[@williamborough1576]

when i did the digglet method I noticed that I would spend as much time collecting 40 as i did encountering on average so it just was not worth unless you get with a bunch of people that are doing the same

[@ThedomiNATION]

Yeah that’s why I don’t like it as a shiny hunting method. There’s a few things they could’ve done to make it better but I feel like it was intended to work well with the shiny charm as you would be getting 1/1024 shiny chance doing it if the shiny charm worked properly… Also yeah it’s a little better when you’re online so people can help collect diglett but I’ve still found out that either way you gotta be the one doing pretty much all the work anyway :/

[@RealShylm]

Lmao, I literally JUST finished the shiny difficulty tier list

[@kittycat9375]

I did an underground hunt for houndoom for a shiny lock, and I just treated it like full odds with an occasional boost. Made the hunt a lot more bearable

[@ThedomiNATION]

I actually ended up going for shiny gible/gabite in the underground and I wanted to only do it when I had the boost and ended up getting it in like 500 😂

[@kittycat9375]

@@ThedomiNATION Oh nice lol!

[@Archon...]

Currently doing a SW/SH Regi runaway hunt, hitting all those lights every time is more tedious than I thought it would be lol.

[@shred3136]

Good luck on your regi hunts in sw/sh. I got regigias in 4,100. I got eleki in 2,400. and I got drago in just 89. Right now I am going for the shaymin event in bd/sp via the runaway method.

[@Archon...]

@@shred3136 may your shaymin shine soon

[@ThedomiNATION]

I would recommend doing soft resets instead of runaways for those. Unless you’re frame perfect hitting the lights every time, soft resets would be faster and more consistent! Good luck on your hunt though!

[@ThedomiNATION]

Nice! I’ve hunted shaymin in platinum using an action replay to get oaks letter but I’m gonna re hunt it at some point in BDSP to get it fully legit! Good luck on your hunt and congrats on your Regis!

[@shred3136]

@@ThedomiNATION Thanks. I am currently 1,600 deep into shaymin. Shaymin has my favorite shiny form of any pokemon. Somewhat subtle shiny, but so amazing.

[@ferreiraisabel1655]

there is something i do to make SOS and navi dex a little bit less boring, first of all i should say that i have the shiny charm so i don't realy know if it will realy work the same without but what i do is just choose my targets, fight them and every time the pokemon you have in battle loose all his PP go to the next target and repeat with the next pkmn in your party, variation will not make you wanna sleep and some time it's good to break the "chain" because the shinys could appear way earlier next time you hunt them, now i know it might be way to easy...but if you'r like me constantly depress and looking for a way to brighten your days or nights it kinda help

[@ThedomiNATION]

That’s actually a cool idea! It reminds me of when people reset for shiny starters they alternate the starter every time so they don’t know what one they’ll get!

[@ferreiraisabel1655]

@@ThedomiNATION he he, it's sure fun to have a little element of suprise ! i'm happy you like it 😁

[@noobay]

Opinion on rng manipulation shiny hunting? (Not really hunting but curious of your take)

[@ThedomiNATION]

If you want my honest opinion on it, I say it’s illegitimate and I would consider it very similar to just using a cheating device as you’re using an unintended method that makes shiny odds ridiculously high. It takes the rarity of shinies away and if you’re fine with using it then idk why you wouldn’t just use an action replay or game shark to put the shinies in your game. That is my take on rng manipulation than you for coming to my Ted Talk

[@giocaughtzzz]

Question about the DexNav shiny hunting method. I’ve done tons of research, but everything that I’ve seen on the method have all been different. So I need to know... what research levels boost odds? Do they boost shiny odds in general? It’s so confusing to me.

[@ThedomiNATION]

I’m not sure anyone really knows the answer as I’ve heard so many different things on it. I think it’s just the higher research level you have the higher odds you get but again not sure if that’s correct

[@giocaughtzzz]

@@ThedomiNATION I might just have to try a DexNav chain & see how it goes.

[@giocaughtzzz]

@@ThedomiNATION Broooo I was just DexNav chaining for a good IV Axew & I accidentally found a shiny one at research level 25, I wonder if that’s full odds or not but either way I’m not complaining.

[@ikeuwu]

3 weeks in for Latios in Black 2 after taking a month to get the shiny charm 😭

[@ThedomiNATION]

Good luck!

[@899kful]

Servers for 3DS go down in March of next year!

[@ThedomiNATION]

Do not spread false information please. Servers for the 3DS do NOT go down in March of 2023. The 3DS eshop will go down in March of 2023 but online play will still be available. No one knows when the 3DS servers will go down as of now

[@raigresham1298]

Dynamax Adventures and Outbreaks for me

[@razorfinger]

I like Dexnav and it's my favorite shiny hunt, you are now my sworn enemy

[@ThedomiNATION]

I didn’t even rate it that low! 😂

[@bigsalmon7973]

Do you have a link to this list? I checked the website but no list was as in depth as yours, from what I could see

[@ThedomiNATION]

Yes! Here is the link! I haven't updated the list in a while so it does not include sandwiches from Scarlet and Violet! tiermaker.com/create/hardest-shiny-hunting-methods-1481642

[@bigsalmon7973]

@@ThedomiNATION thank you, and that's alright still a good hefty list

[@Nalzir]

I will say tho I tested this if you want to move the shiny jurachi from the games to newer ones you can't use the corrupt glitch at least from my test of moving a pokemon from it to HeartGold.

[@ThedomiNATION]

Weird. If I go for the jirachi I’ll have to duplicate it a bit before trying to send it up just in case so I can make sure I don’t sent it do a file that can cause that

[@Dom_P1]

Masuda method in sv is different than previous gens but it’s still boring going back and forth for hours on end

[@ThedomiNATION]

Masuda method is awful in SV. You need to use egg power sandwiches to even get eggs, then just sit and do nothing while checking your basket every few minutes for eggs. Then when hatching, even if you put all the eggs in your party at the same time, you gotta walk a few steps between hatches at minimum! It’s super clunky and even more boring than before!

[@islamthegamer5418]

i did the npc trade in lets go twice one took about 1 week 10 days the other tho took almost 3 months you catch multiply of a pokemon then save before trading trade a big batch check the pokedex for the shiny no shiny reset wouldn't recommend honestly

[@ThedomiNATION]

That’s a good idea if you just want to do another hunt and not have to pay attention to the trades you get every time!

[@jamessalas7324]

me watching this video you know Why the hell not, gets a shiny totodile in hart gold in 17 minutes in the video, thank you for blessing me one like for you.

[@ThedomiNATION]

Congrats!

[@mattycraig1544]

I got all 3 shiny hgss starters with no repeats

[@ThedomiNATION]

Nice!

[@finnwatson-link4892]

Knowing now what we know about let’s go hunting would you put it higher

[@ThedomiNATION]

I would keep it about the same. I’ve tested the actual method and in most situations it wouldn’t be worth doing more than how we’ve been doing it originally but I still think it’s a pretty easy way to shiny hunt

[@adamkickface3776]

Poké Pelago shiny hunting is probably in a tier of its own

[@ThedomiNATION]

Yeah that’s like the one method I totally forgot about. I see people hunt using it all the time it would be cool to try it one day but it would be tough!

[@angelalzamora8194]

Chain fishing is one of my fav method as long with hordes 😔

[@ThedomiNATION]

And that’s great! These are just my opinions! This by no means is something you need to follow if you like chain fishing! But yeah hordes are superior lol

[@willieharrison1359]

You forgot to mention pokepelico on USUM in my opinion they would be on the Sucks tier

[@ThedomiNATION]

Dang you’re actually the first person to mention that even after both videos I posted! And yeah I would put it in probably one of the lower two tiers!

[@a.m.theshinyjohtohunter4287]

Kinda looking over the list and I notice Pokepelago on not on the list. Also as one who did a shiny dexnav only challenge in ORAS... Dexnav is a horrible hunting method! There! I said it!

[@Chtsht23]

Wooow. Although it’s your opinion, I felt disrespected by your opinion on Dynamax Adventures. Still cool video.

[@ThedomiNATION]

They just aren’t really for me 😅

[@Chtsht23]

@@ThedomiNATION lol that’s fair. I don’t like it, but that’s fair.

[@mattasaurus12]

Plural for electrode is electrode

[@ThedomiNATION]

I don’t think I asked

[@mattasaurus12]

@@ThedomiNATION never said you did

[@pikaplayer2870]

Cool

[@Mimiyan_or_Pikapikafan]

Dynamax Adventures shiny hunting is mid. Fun to to do with friends, but I don't have any that play Pokemon, or we just can't hangout irl or online, and Dynamax adventures are super long. I got like 6 Shinies before getting a Shiny Guzzlord (I nicknamed them Cheeto. They fwend) and getting something other than the legend usually isn't great after 3 or 4. Also exact date of EShop closure is March 27th. I'd recommend picking up any gen 1 game and Crystal specifically.

[@ThedomiNATION]

Yeah I just think it’s super tedious and some hunts are brutal if you can’t get anyone. Plus in a few years I’m sure no one will be doing them so it’ll be impossible to get shiny zygarde that way lol

[@Mimiyan_or_Pikapikafan]

@@ThedomiNATION TRUE. You'd have to have 3 or 4 friends with switches lol.

[@tylerpinniger9958]

You forgot distortions again

[@ThedomiNATION]

Didn’t forget them either time! They’re simply just like encountering Pokémon in a different route! Nothing much different than random encounters!

[@KateDoeFoe]

This guy talks so slow I have to put it in 2x speed

[@ThedomiNATION]

I just wanted to waste your time specially 😉