Top 10 RAREST Shiny Pokémon in Scarlet & Violet

UPDATE AS OF SEPTEMBER 2023:
As of the Teal Mask update outbreaks can spawn forms other than the base form. This means outbreaks can include other forms of Pokémon like Tatsugiri, Tauros, and Floette.
Additionally, Authentic Sinistea outbreaks are now possible.
This update also fixed the off by one error that stopped authentic Sinistea from spawning with encounter boost sandwiches meaning Shiny Authentic Sinistea can be hunted with encounter power 3 ghost now.
What is the rarest Shiny Pokemon in the entirety of Paldea? Since Shiny Koraidon and Miraidon are shiny locked along with Chien-Pao and Gimmighoul... I guess we have to look elsewhere for rare shiny pokemon. Join Professor Rex as he dives into the craziest shiny hunts Gen 9 has to offer! What might we uncover? Maushold? Dudunsparce? Ditto??? Or something rarer?
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Slakoth Footage by ​⁠​⁠@rinimt: • Pokemon Scarlet and Vi...
Shiny Slakoth Raid by ​⁠​⁠@Zurocko: zurocko/status/15...
Tauros Shiny Hunting by ​⁠​⁠@shinycollector: / shinycollector
Shiny Tera Jigglypuff from ​⁠​⁠@OliverMKP: • When the First Tera Po...
Breloom Tera Guide ​⁠​⁠@Sephira’s Zafkiel: / 1596020885370306560
Shiny Rate Research and Assistance: / sibuna_switch
3-Segment Dunsparce: www.tiktok.com/@bennettplaysp...
Script Review & Research Assistance: ​⁠​⁠@LolLemonz
NOTES:
Important Note for Ditto: "If Ditto transforms in battle into any non-base-form Pokémon such as Fancy Vivillon, it is impossible to catch except with Heavy or Master Ball." Sibuna_Switch/sta...
-Own Tempo/Dusk Lycanroc should have been on this list
-Sandwiches will help with forcing tree spawns to be a specific type of Pokémon but I haven’t been able to get a Slakoth to spawn with one yet since most of it’s range has many other normal types
HARDEST POKEMON
00:00 Intro
00:43 Roaring Moon
01:53 Tatsugiri, Floette, Basculin
04:40 Zorua, Zoroark, Ditto
06:52 Spiritomb
07:44 Slakoth
08:58 Blaze & Aqua Breed Tauros
09:51 #4
11:24 Honorable Mentions
11:55 #3
13:05 #2
15:35 #1
19:17 Outro
Assets: www.serebii.net/scarletviolet/
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[@Yoshafon]

I found a white Tatsugiri in the wild randomly and thought it was just one of the color variants, but when I ran into it I freaked out when it sparkled and caught it lol

[@aeon87]

Same here. I was just looking for the ominous stakes lol

[@simonvries8571]

I had the same thing lmao

[@emmareiman64]

I have this sinking feeling that I've seen one in the wild too, but because the area had high level pokemon I didn't want to encounter it & just thought it was one of the different colors it had and not a shiny I hope I'm wrong and misremembering, but god, imagine

[@RunOnGasoline_]

same, and i was so happy. was semi hunting it and it was full odds for me

[@sorachitheeggo4440]

I definitely saw a white one before but passed it by because I wasn't aware it was the shiny form

[@LolLemonz_]

1% evolution forms: "Mom said it's my turn being the rarest!"

[@ProfessorRex]

1% forms at home: ITS STILL A TEA LOVER'S WORLD

[@braedensimon8023]

I was under the impression that those forms were a 1/25 probability, that would make it 4% chance instead.

[@supasneak]

@@braedensimon8023it’s been confirmed to be 1/100 or 1%

[@sanga1380]

Rod of Discord: “Am I a Joke to You?

[@braedensimon8023]

@@supasneak ah ok. Good to know. Thank you :)

[@charizard7666]

I spent a couple sandwiches hunting roaring moon, and found zweilous, gible and sneasel before roaring moon finally appeared. What was really great about this is that It was on my birthday, and this shiny roaring moon had the birthday mark. Definitely the rarest pokemon I own in scarlet.

[@deli9247]

YO THATS INCREDIBLE

[@Noone-hk1vf]

Dayummm, nice!!

[@86Kathi]

I caught my very first shiny Dunsparce ever in an outbreak on christmas eve and it evolved into a 3 segment Dudunsparce. I was so happy.

[@ProfessorRex]

Wow! Congrats!!

[@SillySausage543]

@@ProfessorRex I also got a shiny white tatsugiri

[@namelessone502]

Pokemon gave you a Christmas present

[@Gorgosauruslibra]

Damn bro gonna be famous

[@DragonMaster1818]

Merry Christmas!!! Seriously this rare evolution is the only thing interesting about dudunsparce

[@CannedWolfMeat]

Feels weird having to upskirt a teacup but if it works, it works.

[@sinfizz_]

i mean, we gotta see the special thing..

[@exipixile]

no we don’t

[@TheGAMEGod_YT]

Dear Rex, Congratulations on years of hard work paying off. Proof good things happen to good ppl. Be smart, save, invest, and enjoy buddy. You deserve it.

[@Luxxcia]

teaussy

[@psnLoneWulf14]

You have to do it to see shiny flittle as well. Naughty Game Freak

[@strikerx9720]

I just wanted to point this out for anyone who didn’t notice, but Alfornada is a town known for its pottery lifestyle with kilns and buildings made out of tile everywhere, so where would authentic Sinistea spawn if they’re actually made from pottery? Small details like this are why I love these games with all my heart!

[@ProfessorRex]

Interesting!! Thank you for this insight!

[@chromehearted]

Woah! What a fine detail

[@G0ldfishOnFyre]

Couldn’t tell the graphics are poop

[@ProfessorRex]

@@G0ldfishOnFyre how is that relevant?

[@G0ldfishOnFyre]

@@ProfessorRex relevant? It’s a flaw that deserves to be pointed out, I wasn’t able to tell that this was even a thing to the poor quality of character and graphics the buildings in this game have. Relevant af if you ask me. Oh no are you going to start blindly defending this heap of garbage of a game? Go somewhere else with that please

[@Zurocko]

Hey! Thanks for sharing my Slakoth clip. I appreciate the love! We were both shocked. We had just started the game a few hours before. Thanks again!

[@ProfessorRex]

Congrats on the Slakoth! I did my best to make sure you were credited. I hope you enjoyed the video!

[@ChristopherG1990]

Shiny Dratini is pretty hard to find in Violet. It’s the same problem Roaring Moon has where if you use a sandwich for dragon Pokémon, Dreepy and Drakloak will spawn with the Dratini in a pool that only Dratini spawn in, in Scarlet.

[@warailawildrunner5300]

Irony being I don't have a shiny charm and found one on the lake at random... no sandwich, no boosts in Violet

[@nicholabell6805]

I got one at a vapereon outbreak

[@theforgeryttv6449]

Ironically, I was only looking for a shiny Dreepy in an outbreak but instead of that, I found a shiny Dratini just lurking around in the water. I freaked out hard and after a little while of calming down when it went underwater, I managed to catch it.

[@stormym.1973]

I found one with sandwich but no shiny charm and no outbreak

[@Daniboii-me8hb]

I found one while hunting slowpoke without any boosts at all

[@jeanlucbertumen8687]

If you want to shiny hunt a Zoroark, you can use a Dark Sparkling and Encounter sandwich then go to the Groundblight shrine. It will only spawn as Isolated Mabostiffs and Honchkrows. Regular Honcchkrow and Mabostiff spawn in packs so its easy to tell. Zoroark will also spawn more than every other pokemon. Then from there you just auto battle everything until you find one you can't auto battle. Did this and got my shiny Zoroark in one Sandwich after 28mins or so.

[@marianne9303]

Thank you so much, I literally tried this and got two shiny zoroarks in the same sandwich, i am in disbelief

[@TheGundamDude8045]

Outside of Medali also works, so many illusion Mabostiff spawn there too.

[@spiritedaway0tutu]

This is so helpful, thank you! I’m masuda breeding for a Hisuain shiny in an apriball right now, but as soon as I get it, this will be my next hunt. I wonder if there is an equivalent spot for zorua? Hunting for it in Lagtree thicket isn’t ideal, for obvious frame-dropping reasons.

[@stormym.1973]

I also got my shiny zoroark in one sandwich with 16 minutes to spare

[@DragonMaster1818]

Great strategy!

[@pipachu6516]

The funniest part about the authentic sinistea hunt is you HAVE to get a wild one, the authentic stamp doesn't pass down through breeding

[@samreddig8819]

I didn't think it COULD breed. Isn't it genderless?

[@pipachu6516]

@@samreddig8819 It is but most people masuda method where the pokemon there hunting is bred with a ditto from a different language, since ditto is able to breed with all pokemon capable of producing eggs

[@samreddig8819]

@@pipachu6516 I know the masuda method. I have a ditto for it back on sword. I just thought genderless pokemon couldn't breed. Can the new string cheese lookin guy breed?

[@pipachu6516]

@@samreddig8819 no since gimeghoul and it's evo are in the undiscovered egg group, any pokemon in it are unable to breed, this includes legendary/mythical Pokemon, baby pokemon, special pokemon (ie. Cosplay/ash hat Pikachu, Ash Greninja, paradox pokemon, and the gimme line), and surprisingly Nidorina and Nidoqueen

[@imrathion5086]

but doesn't it work if we give the sinistea an everstone? It works for the regional forms as well as the Tauros forms (tested it myself), so is there data that says it doesn't apply to an authentic sinistea?

[@cyberwolf2l967]

I got really lucky today. I saw a Varoom zooming around like they do. I thought might as well catch it as I haven’t yet. Imagine my surprise when it turned out to be shiny.

[@stormym.1973]

I had something similar there was a outbreak of them and without even killing a single one no shiny charm no sandwich like just arrived to the outbreak there was a shiny just sitting there I want to say it was full of odds and to be honest I do say that but I'm not certain as it was an outbreak but like I just arrived didn't kill any and it was there

[@BroadwayBrittany]

Somehow, I managed to randomly stumble upon a white Tatsugiri. What’s funny is that moments before, I quite literally was telling my friend that if I were to ever encounter a shiny Tatsugiri in the wild, I probably wouldn’t even notice it because their shiny forms look so similar, lololol. Imagine my surprise when I had to stop and turn back around when I saw that bright white little dude just chilling there. Even I couldn’t miss him! :D

[@wuppado]

I never seen the shiny tatsu forms until this video. It hurt me so much to realize I missed their shinies multiple times.

[@The_Viridian]

Word of warning for Dunsparce hunters in area zero: it has double edge

[@tobysceptiman7058]

Solution: Ghost type.

[@Kkubey]

Ceruledge can learn false swipe

[@Slaking_]

@@Kkubey Scarlet players in shambles

[@zekrom2359]

@@Slaking_ ngl i kinda wanna start grinding out shiny authentic sinistea just to surprise trade a bunch of breedjects holding malicious armors, just cause of that

[@julezz2970]

@@Slaking_ well they're easy to come by in 6* raids, I already have a few on my scarlet Version from raiding online

[@brebre208186]

I spent about 6 hours shiny hunting for Roaring Moon and I managed to get it. Such a great shiny.

[@ProfessorRex]

Just an absolutely fantastic Pokemon and shiny form! Congrats on your shiny! :D

[@Sinon09941]

I consider myself lucky and managed to find more than 2 so I gifted my friends one. I guess some people are just lucky than others it kind of sucks and a bit unfair tbh

[@themeow-sician1664]

I killed the first shiny roaring moon in the most sad way I sent in my Gardevoir and chipped the roaring moon with a few attacks until it was in the red then it hit me with flamethrower and it burned me and my Gardevoirs synchronize kicked in killing the roaring moon

[@IceMano]

I randomly got 1 my first time in the cave, then used a sandwich to get another. I also found a shiny Gabite while hunting the second one. To make up for that good luck I then spent a few hours trying to get a Flutter Mane. Shiny hunting is so much more fun in these newer games!!

[@wanderingtyphlosion7332]

I'm about to start my hunt for that, too With the extra challenge of getting it in a Moon Ball

[@paulwalker3758]

I got both shiny female salandit and shiny female combee in the same 2 hour session 😆 Combee was full odds with shiny charm. Salandit was with the remaining 2 minutes on a fire sandwich after collecting an Iron Moth. Must have been my luckiest run ever!

[@ProfessorRex]

Update as of The Teal Mask: Roaring Moon can spawn with Dragon Sandwiches in the same place as Iron Valliant Outbreaks have been updated to support other forms. This includes Tatsugiri, Tauros, and Authentic Sinistea. Additionally Authentic Sinistea can now spawn through encounter power boosted spawns Please go check out our newest video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5CuoqSjh9mYnpY If you enjoyed this video please remember to like & subscribe! 👍💙💜 It really does help since the channel is still pretty small & these projects take a lot of work! If you have extra time be sure to check out the other videos we have on the channel! I have videos documenting broken shiny math, my rarest Pokémon and more!

[@ivikpetersen506]

the Tera Raid i was Lucky to Find a Random Shiny Shroomish and Shiny Blissey. ✨ i was Not Even Shiny Hunting in the Tera Raid. But when i Finish Battle Them i First Notice Why the Collor Looks abit Odd ❔ like Why is Shroomish Orange? and Why is Blissey Looks abit Lighter ❔ when i Catch them Both i see the Stars. They Both Just Like Surprise Buddy! ✨

[@ProfessorRex]

@@ivikpetersen506 congrats!! I’m jealous of both :’(

[@chadwhite3025]

Btw i think if the sinistea was super small it would be rarer because it would be even harder to notice the antiec form and shiny. So i think that is the rarest

[@SkyEevee]

After watching this video, later today I found a Tatsugiri that looked different and I remembered the shiny forms from this video. I screamed so loud when I caught my first shiny in Violet. I love my shiny droopy Tatsugiri. The full white is so cute

[@ProfessorRex]

Aweeeee! I’m so glad I could help! There’s a link to our discord in the description, I’d love to see a picture of it! Or you can tweet it at me!

[@tealmandala632]

I just got one too! I named it Tofu.

[@ILoveAllEeveelutions]

Indeed... I caught mine today

[@ProfessorRex]

@@ILoveAllEeveelutions very nice!! What nickname did you go with?

[@thoniobob8381]

Capper

[@flopps1051]

I remember I wanted to mark hunt Tatsugiri, but they kept using Memento. So I went to get a Sinistea to evolve it into Polteageist because it learns imprison and memento. So I caught one, went to the Socarrat Trail to get the Cracked Pot, went to evolve it and... it didn't work. The one Sinistea, the very first one I caught, was authentic.

[@ProfessorRex]

I wish I had been in that boat. Stupid cup took me so long

[@MisterSleep1123]

Just get a gimmighoul, and evolve it to gholdengo

[@Firecat0]

Same, just happened to catch an authentic sinistea for my first one and didn't find out until I went to use the pot on it.

[@CursedXyster]

When I tried shiny hunting a Zoroark with just my Level 2 Dark-type Encounter Power Sandwich and no Shiny Charm, I was excited to actually find one but I didn't realize just how rare it actually was. The fact that I found it in one sandwich makes it even better.

[@wolfincrocs6284]

I didn't see any tera raids that interested me one day and went random, which was Cetoddle. I thought the lighting in the carvern was making it look weird, turns out it was a full odds tera shiny. Also Cetitan's Shiny is imo one of the best of the new pokemon!

[@ProfessorRex]

Congrats! That’s sick!

[@tinyt.w.i.m7291]

9:13 I caught my shiny Blaze Tauros today. First, I tried the fighting sandwich, which spawned a whole lotta regular ones. Then, switched to the fire sandwich, which only spawned groups of Tauros with the elemental variant in them. Took me 3 overall resets for it to appear. I love this subtle shiny, partly due to it being fighting type. I named him ‘96 Chicago, after the Chicago Bulls winning the championship in ‘96. Great hunt that requires some paying attention. Well worth it.

[@Slaking_]

The fact that Roaring Moon has a nasty tendency to just start flying and never come down makes the hunt even harder. I can only imagine how heartbreaking it must be to see a shiny one take off right as you spot it and then just hover out of reach forever

[@BeepersMister]

Or throw your Pokémon at them?? They don’t go that far up

[@caiusdrakegaming8087]

@@BeepersMister Yeah if you're able to lock onto them with ZL, you can hit them.

[@rimzul9466]

Mine was found in the air, a quick lockon with ZL followed by throwing a PokeBall at it with ZR works just fine

[@acrobaticvideos6178]

I was lucky enough to find two shiny Roaring Moon in a single hunt. Was hoping for a shiny Zweilous after I got my first Roaring Moon, but I was pretty happy with a second.

[@pikapat321]

Found a Random Shiny Droopy Tatsugiri today, caught in a Premier Ball Also you don’t need to use a Master Ball, the summary says what level a Pokémon was caught and where it was caught or if it hatched from an egg

[@ProfessorRex]

It’s true, I just like to look ahead to moving through home to new gens. The caught location can be lost and the level obtained is updated. So the Paldea origin mark, balls, and marks are pretty much all we get

[@chaosstripe9446]

@@ProfessorRex Use apricorn balls for that real 500k value

[@funny5704]

@Chaosstripe you could always breed an apricorn ball one though, but you can't breed down the masterball! though I agree the apricorn balls are cooler

[@chaosstripe9446]

@@funny5704 Wait I thought all bred ones got the regular pokeball?

[@funny5704]

@Chaosstripe they either get the pokeball of the mother if you're breeding two different species iirc, either mother or father if breeding the same, or just whatever ball your target pokemon is in if breeding it with ditto ! (I always breed with ditto so sorry if I got the first part mixed around) unless you breed something caught in a masterball, then the offspring Do get put in regular pokeballs edit: it's also why apricorn ball pokemon are so sought after on the GTS! so people can breed their own

[@MoomoIII]

I feel SUPER lucky to have had a random shiny zoroark 5* terra raid in my world. I only knew it was shiny when he was defeated because i couldn't see the colour difference through the crystal coating. The raid was shared with randoms c:. I hope they caught it too.

[@ProfessorRex]

That’s so freaking cool! I’m massively jealous!

[@sablestormbreak3541]

apparently Terra raids are Guaranteed catches,

[@kimcho773]

@@sablestormbreak3541 offline yes, online for host only.

[@sablestormbreak3541]

@@kimcho773 oh it just said terra raids were guaranteed it didn't say anything about it only being offline/host on serebii though they might have updated that since i read it.

[@huskymusk315]

@@kimcho773 lies

[@tristanmoore4664]

I found a white Tatsuguri randomly and almost ran past it, realized what it was, went into it without saving, used a quick ball that it decided to break out of, it used memento and killed itself. RIP😂😭

[@ProfessorRex]

Memento do be like that, I regret writing the memento part out of the script tbh

[@tristanmoore4664]

@Professor Rex my buddy was next to me when it happened and I didn't even know what memento did at the time so it was a learning experience. Noivern with Taunt did the trick though😆👍

[@SwedePotato314]

Are all wild tera Pokémon in the wild (not raid dens) fixed encounters? Or are there also random ones? Or do I just reset hunt the fixed tera Pokémon that always spawn every day in the same location?

[@robthatbin127]

Got all Scarlet Paradox shinies, including Roaring Moon. I feel cool now. Love these kinds of videos from the professor!

[@ProfessorRex]

You feel cool because you ARE cool! ;)

[@gamester512]

I'm still annoyed that the Paradox Pokemon from Violet all just become Chrome as Shinies. How lazy do you have to be to just be like "Oh, let's just make all of the Future Pokemon Chrome as Shinies! That's a good idea, right?" ....That's probably how they also came up the the incredibly lazy Shiny for Charcadet/Ceruledge/Armarouge too, where the only difference is their freaking *eye color* and nothing more....

[@Not_An_EV]

@@gamester512 I'm just convincing myself that it's a reference to the spongebob episode where they go to the future and everything is chrome. It's the only way I can even remotely get behind those shitty shitty shinies!

[@katiecakesl4691]

I thought I was the only one having Zorua outbreaks just not spawning. This honestly is a relief I thought I was doing something wrong.

[@ProfessorRex]

Thanks Gamefreak 🤗

[@pixellord2370]

I had Ditto outbreaks too. Nothing showed up.

[@pandapajamas2532]

Most my outbreaks glitch...

[@Ageman20XX]

Hi! I'm pretty new to your channel but I just wanted to say, "wow"! Like really, genuinely, good job man! I just finished watching some of your videos from about a year ago, then some from several months ago, and then this one, and I just thought you deserved some kudos for how far you've come. The editing has always been really really good, but it got even better over time, but more importantly YOU got better over time. You look at the camera more, you talk faster with less pausing, you sound more confident, and overall it just feels like you're really coming into your own and it's been impressively quick! Also, you're very cute, very smart, and clearly very talented, so I think you're going to do super well as the years go on. Subscribed, of course, and I look forward to more videos. :)

[@ProfessorRex]

Thank you so much for the kind words! I’m glad you enjoyed the videos I’ve worked so hard on! There’s a new one coming in a week so stay tuned!

[@Yellowdigigod]

Thank you for the honorable mentions as in my first playthrough on Scarlet, I ran into a *male* shiny combee

[@Bearded_Bream]

The second shiny I've encountered in Scarlet was a full odds blue Basculin. No hoards. No sandwiches. Just total dumb luck that I saw my first blue Basculin and thought "hey I've not seen a blue one yet." Was totally surprised that it was a shiny once the battle started. Definitely one of the most underwhelming shinies, but I feel a little more content now knowing it's one of the more rare ones.

[@itakuko]

I somehow managed to find a random Female Shiny Salandit in Alfornada Cavern on my 2nd day playing the game and it was my first non-PLA random Shiny Pokemon in a main series Pokemon game in more than a decade. What made this shiny even better was that this was the first female wild Salandit I had found. It's an amazing shiny and I love it!

[@theforgeryttv6449]

Nice. I couldn't even find a regular female salandit or salazzle until many hours after I beat the game.

[@kstiemsma]

Congrats on big views man, that’s awesome you got such a big hit

[@ProfessorRex]

Thank you Kstie!!

[@steelvenom2003]

I spent hours and hours running around that stupid cave, found 5 shiny Zweilous, a shiny Vaporeon, a shiny Greavard and a shiny Houndstone before finally FINALLY Roaring Moon showed up, and then 90 seconds later I immediately found a second one. x_x

[@ProfessorRex]

It do be like that some times

[@erickavarney3957]

I caught a shiny Goomy in a raid last week. I kept looking at it the whole time I was fighting it, thinking that I was crazy because I’m never that lucky. But I caught it and flipped out when I checked it’s summary and seen the shiny symbol

[@ProfessorRex]

That’s amazing!! Congrats!

[@Bytezor8]

When I saw Sinistea in #1 I felt immediate pain, not because I’ve hunted an authentic, but hunting a Sinistea in general in this game is so harsh because of how tiny it is, and during night the Sinistea spawns are almost entirely taken over by Banette, my Sinistea hunt took me nearly twice as long as Roaring Moon

[@Nathan35077]

I had an authentic shiny in SWSH… and I didn’t know. I didn’t even know there was such a thing at the time. I never cared for the Pokémon, and I got one in dynamax adventure during just normal playthrough, and I offered it to someone on discord. And they told me after it was authentic. But I thought he meant it wasn’t hacked. So I was just thinking “well, duh, I know. I caught it….” Just gave it away for nothing 😂 still hurts.

[@gylfie2529]

I had a Sinistea outbreak near Alfornada. I checked every single one of their little butts for like an hour before I gave up on finding even a regular authentic one... It took me two more hours after that to find the shiny. That whole hunt was pain, they are t i n y.

[@lillysol4196]

My roaring moon took 60 hours lol

[@Nathan35077]

@@lillysol4196 60 hours? LOL. I got shiny celebi in crystal after 18,727 resets. Over a year hunting it off and on lol

[@flysoup3607]

The Ruins beside the psychic gym town don't spawn Bannettes around it, but you do have to deal with the occasional misdreavus.

[@countchubula5609]

8:39 what’s that second game app you have with the ‘#1 Aniv’?

[@ProfessorRex]

That’s Pokémon Unite!

[@LostTomorrows]

I have a shiny Roaring Moon, named it Eclipse. It’s my pride and joy, was trying to get it for nearly a full week and got 5 (FIVE!!) shiny Sneasel in the process, then a sparkling dragon sandwich netted me 6 shinies: Flutter Mane. 2 Greavard, 2 Zwellous, and the Roaring Moon with about 20 seconds to spare on the bonus. I was so happy.

[@ProfessorRex]

Wow! That’s quite the journey! Love the nickname! I think I’ll steal it when I find mine!

[@sylvieshuu]

Glad I'm not the only one experiencing outbreaks with no spawns! I was very confused for a while; thought maybe they only spawned at night or vice versa so I'd wait until the other time but still no spawns. Hopefully that's a high priority patch.

[@benjamincooper358]

Could it be that the outbreak is occurring in a cave beneath where you are?

[@sylvieshuu]

@@benjamincooper358 That actually was it with a few of them I figured out later lol. A few didn't have caves underneath though

[@OrfFlo]

ye I feel you, I've had a couple of these, but the one that had me the most confused was the dondozo outbreak I got on land... not even close to the water even...

[@OliverMKP]

Very great video, Rex! Really enjoyed your list and thoughts about those rare shinies! I think my favorites might be the Zorua line - it's just how I always imagined them to behave naturally!

[@ProfessorRex]

I think I’m in the same boat. It’s just one of those things that “makes sense”

[@pokemondan6938]

Had no idea they made the authentic Sinistea hunt even more agonizing than it already was in Sw/Sh. May Arceus have mercy on your soul.

[@jareddavulture58]

That’s cool, Red tatsugiri was my first shiny this gen. Saw the little white guy dragging around so it was cool

[@scornrose]

Tatsugiri is the only shiny I’ve found so far. Showed up when I was looking for the false titan, I just saw a white one and I figured since they’re so colorful that it might be a shiny. I was right! Didn’t know it was rare 😁

[@Nakia11798]

Same here. Caught the stretchy form earlier randomly.

[@LittleMsJester01]

My son has had the craziest shiny luck. So many random encounters…he was looking for a zorua for his Pokédex and the first one found was shiny. I’m still at the start hatching for a shiny starter but he’s gotten 9 shinies. Very jealous 😂

[@giovanni545]

Dont be jealouse be happy for him

[@Langodan]

I have about 3 days worth of play time, and I have 4 shinies. The first was an Indeedee that was kinda just hanging out by the pokemon center. Literally 3 feet away from me. The second was an almighty Wooper. Was EV training in the area and came across him, what a little dude. Now I have a purple Clodsire named Tofu. The other two are both paradox forms, I got them in one night while playing with a friend. We couldn't see each other of course, but we had to communicate our locations so that we could get exclusive spawns for each other. I had just finished the base game and so we went into Area Zero to explore, and so that I could snag some of the future mons, since we had different versions, I had scarlet. I was waiting for them to 'arrive' at station no.1, when I went around the back and found a shiny Slither Wing. Afterwards, we went down into that one cave with dark sandwich power and oh my god i still get shivers thinking about that Roaring Moon. I spotted it while gliding a split second before they did and engaged it in a battle. Got it down to critical hp, and after a lot of ultra balls, i caved and used the master ball on it. So now i have a Roaring Moon in a master ball. In terms of being hard to capture, out of all the ones on the list, this might be one of the hardest. The others are rarer/harder to find, but may not be as difficult to actually catch. I named the Slither Wing 'Apollo' and the Roaring Moon 'Hyperion'. Seemed fitting. But now Ive vowed to help my Violet playing friend get one. I _did_ kinda steal it from them.

[@tempestjusttempest1815]

hey, I know this is an out there comment and a stretch but I just realized one of the most time consuming and least accessible shinies for Scarlet and Violet might by Colosseum shiny shadow Dunsparce transferred up for three-segment Dudunsparce.

[@ProfessorRex]

Youre insane

[@beediaper3076]

Can confirm with the new update all forms of Tastugiri can appear in an outbreak, I got the red/white one thankfully

[@HeyHeyChey]

I am a fan of Blue Basculin so i guess thats good news for me too

[@diegodoesstuff86]

Well, I guess I'm about to go looking for a pink teacup with a stamp then

[@theresanarrator2927]

I never planned on trying for a shiny Authentic Sinistea, just any shiny Sinistea as I find it cute. But wow I had no idea you could only find authentic in one area. That's crazy. Especially if boosted spawns don't give us authentic ones.

[@SuperPewdiepieLover]

Funny enough when you mentioned salazzale and vespiqueen I immediately shouted out "dONT FORGET FROSSLASS"

[@ProfessorRex]

The difference is that Snorunt has a 50/50 gender ratio as opposed to the 12.5% female rate of the Salandit and Combee

[@Furykerbecs9689]

I actually did learn something new-- Never knew dunsparce could have three segments.

[@kwstasapostolou6823]

For all the fellow scarlet players out there who want to get a shiny roaring moon do the dragon boosting sandwich it will still spawn other dragons but will also spawn A LOT of roaring moons got mine in 15 minutes after the first sandwich after about 10 failed attempts with the dark sandwich

[@ProfessorRex]

Dragon is definitely the best sandwich for that hunt. I will be suing dragon 3 for the hunt when I get to it

[@melloweyyy4923]

Didn't know that raids are the same odds the whole time! I was sitting here wondering if my shiny charm was even working! 😵‍💫 Great video as usual though Rex 👌

[@ProfessorRex]

Raid bosses are mean. They really should take our feelings into consideration!

[@masmurdermonkey9233]

11:46 fantastic. I found a shiny female combee outside Cortando after like a minute of resetting using the town respawning. Wasn’t even looking for it specifically. Since it was a fairly new save, full odds, very happy with that one.

[@jeffrifou]

The charmander... The scream !!! Was so good 😂😂😂

[@kolby6189]

One you might have overlooked is Dusk form Lycanroc, which requires an elusive Own Tempo Rockruff. I ended up giving up and going for eggs instead because Rockruff seeimgnly only spawns with Own Tempo sometimes, and only while the game is in the sunset time which is about a 90 second window it seems like. I thought this might be easy enough, I'd save right before sunset and make a sandwich and search in short increments but the game doesn't seem to keep the time of day when you save so every time I would reload it would be at a random point in the day and I'd have to wait up to 30 minutes to get it back to the time of sunset. Ran into 4 or 5 shiny Rockruff this way, but not a single with Own Tempo since that seems to be a pretty rare spawn.

[@ProfessorRex]

Yeah I think I might to an update video and dive into the Rockruff. TBH I just didn’t know that Own Tempo was something that you couldn’t use an ability patch for because I thought it was a Hidden Ability! The comments here have taught me something new (which is always cool)!

[@kolby6189]

@@ProfessorRex That was my thought two as I smugly wasted an ability patch followed by two capsules on my first shiny dog 😭

[@guybrush20X6]

@@ProfessorRex Matter of fact, if you look at an Own Tempo Rockruff's summary, it doesn't have a Pokedex number. In terms of coding, the game considers it a different mon, the same way that the Johtonian Wooper and Galarian Meowth don't have Pokedex numbers.

[@ProfessorRex]

@@guybrush20X6 that’s really weird

[@daamazingfireman5566]

Tree spawns aren’t that bad in my opinion. If you head to Tagtree Thicket, you can just set up a cycle of running into trees, going to another tree that’s further away, and then going back. For Slakoth, if you find a group of trees, that would probably work. Using the method I mentioned earlier, I found two Applin in approximately 5 minutes.

[@monaliareal]

I searched two hours for Applin. Tegtree Thicket, ran into every tree.

[@gylfie2529]

I refuse to believe Slakoth actually spawns in the wild. I checked every tree near where he's supposed to spawn for two hours just for the pokedex entry and ended up having to breed a Slaking instead.

[@mediocreotaku759]

I managed to find a full-odds droopy Tatsugiri as my first shiny in Scarlet. I honestly probably wouldn't have noticed either of the other forms.

[@corey2232]

Wow, I didn't even realize the white Tatsugiri was shiny until this video... I found it the first time I stumbled across that lake with Tatsugiri everywhere & looked to catch 1 of each color 😅

[@ArcLegend777]

Wow did not realize that taseguri (the sushi fish dragon) had three other shiny forms, just amazing and thank you for the information

[@ProfessorRex]

Glad you learned something! Keep your eyes out for them in the wild!

[@Zynnix]

It's easier to get white form Floette in the wild because all the Floette in Area Zero are white for some reason. So you could just run around there and eventually find one if you're lucky. (Unfortunately encounter power fairy--in Scarlet at least--makes all the spawns Scream Tails and doesn't really help)

[@ProfessorRex]

I did want to mention this one but time limits just didn’t allow for it. You’re definitely bringing up a strong point here. Was literally just a like cut from the script

[@treasure4091]

4:09 this makes me even more proud of my shiny florges that I fought when it was a floette

[@cactus_pot]

Great video 👍 happy New Years 🎉

[@CatKugler]

I've only gotten two shinies. One was a Skwovet... and my other was a tera-raid Mimikyu. I couldn't even tell the Mimikyu was a shiny in the raid. It wasn't until I'd checked its summary afterwards. I've never used it before, but I guess it's time!

[@ProfessorRex]

That’s awesome! Such a cool Pokémon to get a shiny on too!

[@spencerlivermore2933]

I'd like to add that I hunted for a shiny applin in Tagtree thicket with a dragon sandwich and it DID affect the spawn rate. Every other tree I checked out had an applin in it.

[@Kkubey]

I found the most just west of artazon. No sandwich needed, they were in every second tree.

[@RextheHunter10]

Hey Prof. Rex. Fellow Rex here (I go by Rex to my online friends). I saw this video about a month ago when I caught a shiny Tatsugiri (the common orange and brown one) and wanted to find videos on shiny Tatsugiri, and I found this awesome one. Now, about a week and a half ago, I got a shiny Roaring Moon! Was only my 3rd sandwich, I only beat the game recently. But I’m so happy, I never imagined I’d find such a beautiful shiny. Keep up the awesome content and I’ll see you around man.

[@ProfessorRex]

Thanks Rex!!

[@RextheHunter10]

@@ProfessorRex You’re very welcome!

[@mckeandjones5823]

I have the white tatsugiri and got it on accident. I didn’t even realize it was a shiny until battle😂

[@ProfessorRex]

What a great way to learn the shiny variant!

[@OG-PranksterCat]

I have the White Tatsugiri and I absolutely love it, it's my favorite new shiny 100% I just need the Yellow Shiny form to complete the whole Shiny Tatsugiri set

[@krimzonguardianx358]

I got lucky with a blue flower flabebe on complete accident, barreling through the grass on koraidon beating down chansey and accidentally ran into it in a flower patch 😂 didn’t even see it

[@ProfessorRex]

Sometimes the rarest shinys are the ones we almost murder because they are tiny and unnoticeable

[@jennifer714714]

To help with Slakoth, or trying to find any outbreak mon, use at least a level 2 encounter power sandwich that matches the type of the Pokemon you're after. Then be sure to be at a location in which the Pokemon spawns. While the sandwich is active and at a spawn location, simply keep date skipping by GOING BACKWARDS 1 MINUTE at a time. You should get your targeted mon after a bit.

[@oliviaterumi9124]

When I first started doing 5 star terra raid battles I somehow stumbled my way into finding a shiny Dondozo. Thankfully Gamefreak was nice enough to lock in a pokemon's shiny status even if you lose the raid battle, which I did... a lot. Thankfully I had my friends with me and after 4 hours of attempts because we were very underleveled and didn't have a lot of answers to it's typing, all three of us got a shiny ghost terra type Dondozo! Definitely one of my favorite pokemon experiences I've had, now I just gotta find a shiny tatsugiri to go with it.

[@ProfessorRex]

That’s an awesome story! Congrats! I’m glad you managed to finish the raid!

[@masterduck6834]

For Ditto, i've found 2 of them randomly while shiny hunting for Meowth, They can be found easely, it just take a little bit more time, but they are not that much rare

[@Ichigo1057]

Eevee is actually pretty damn hard to find in this game too. I've managed to get an outbreak eventually but I had to change the date for so long to get it. I lost count but it was at least half a year or more near the Normal type gym town.

[@giovanni545]

Please know damn is a curse word

[@MearaSeGraves]

I have all the shiny eeveelutions plus eevee in shiny form, and it only took a bit over a week. But yeah, those were 7 hour days ;-;

[@foxdemon0045]

Found a full-odd shiny Vespiquen when I was doing outbreaks for Eiscue near the Fairy team Star base, still to this day, my rarest shiny.

[@bellsswanson3461]

You telling me how hard these hunts are just makes me want to do them more

[@jaxii3001]

Great Video! Currently 1,000 encounters into a shiny glimmet hunt

[@ProfessorRex]

Good luck! I think glimmora that spawn on walls are really neat!

[@jaxii3001]

@@ProfessorRex thank you! And I totally agree, seeing them just living life and chilling is honestly amazing

[@DemonicOtaku]

hello Professor Rex! I just wanted to say that your video was super helpful! 😃 I had no idea that iron valiant Spawned in the crystal cave, I thought it could only spawn in the secret cave near research station three. 😮 and now it makes perfect sense why I've been having trouble finding the white shiny sushi dragon! 😅 I had no idea that it was THAT rare! so I really wanna thank you from the bottom of my heart 💗 you definitely have yourself a new subscriber! 😁 and now I shall be off, let's see if I can finally catch myself a shiny valiant!

[@ProfessorRex]

Good luck with your hunts! If you need background noise for the rest of them be sure to watch the rest of the uploads on the channel!

[@TheRealTakoOrder]

POV: you’ve got a 2 segment Dudunsparce

[@Venty179]

Fantastic video Rex, I learned so much! (including that my eventual Shiny Iron Valiant hunt will be easy as fuck lmao) EDIT: LITERALLY GOT A SHINY MARKED IRON VALIANT IN LESS THAN 10 MINUTES USING THE STRAT IN THIS VIDEO, THANKS SO MUCH REX! 😂

[@ProfessorRex]

CONGRATS BBY

[@applescruff88]

Came across my first shiny in Violet totally by accident yesterday. I was in the middle of EV training when I saw a Gabite that looked a little bit different. I ran into it and sure enough, there was the sparkle animation. I ran because I didn't want to mess up my EV training and all the Pokemon on my team were level 100 and would have made it faint... thank goodness it was still there after switching my mons around lol.

[@toku6815]

I was just vibing letting my family play scarlet when one of them just walked into a shiny white Tatsugiri

[@kingboo0897uli]

I got a shiny white tatsugiri while hunting for a dratini outbreak. I guess i got extremely lucky 😅

[@ProfessorRex]

I think it’s a really cool shiny form too! One of the better shinys in Gen 9

[@Nakia11798]

I got my stretchy one right after a wingull outbreak. I bet outbreaks raise your chances.

[@AsassinoSilenzioso]

Shiny Roaring Moon is mine! I hunted for it some day ago and got it after only 7 phases

[@ProfessorRex]

That is awesome! Definitely a hunt I will be trying at some point!

[@AsassinoSilenzioso]

@@ProfessorRex I used the Dragon Sandwich, because there are far less Dragon type that can spawn and the only "family" spawn are Gabite and Gible

[@Lyrakrosis]

Shiny Roaring Moon was one of the first hunts I did. It took about an hour and a half of sandwich boosted hunting to get. So worth it. He's beautiful

[@twilightjoltik3151]

Great video! I’ve been doing some rare Shiny hunts where I can, they’re a lot of fun! Of the list, I have: Roaring Moon (absolute nightmare) Wild Blue Florges Zorua and Zoroark (caught both since they both have such good shinies) But the worst wild Shiny hunt by far I’ve done wasn’t on the list, it was Igglybuff! The fact it’s so tiny and has no difference and its outbreaks are so rare made it an absolute nightmare to hunt, but Jigglypuff is my favorite Pokémon so it was worth it!

[@ProfessorRex]

It's also super cool to have Igglybuff in the wild! Unless I'm forgetting something it might be the first time! Edit: Trophy Garden

[@twilightjoltik3151]

@@ProfessorRex It was also in Sun and Moon on Akala Island!

[@cosmocloxxy]

I was able to get a shiny female Combee on my first phase, so I got really lucky ☺️

[@elijahsimmons9712]

I got one too

[@jaycijadee]

I WAS LITERALLY WATCHING THIS VIDEO PLAYING VIOLET AND FOUND MY FIRST SHINY IN THE GAME! Shiny SQUAWKABILLY! 😂 it was epic

[@ProfessorRex]

That’s amazing! Congratulations! Which colour?

[@TheAntagonistHero]

I have a shiny roaring moon that I caught in violet while playing multiplayer. Being able to get the opposite version exclusive shinies with your OT is super cool.

[@joshhigh693]

Just subscribed, never knew about the sinistea thing at the end, I got two shiny in one outbreak and quickly with patience, what's the difference between authentic and phony? 🤷‍♂️

[@ChicagoMel23]

I found a random shiny female Salandit. And it’s dra- kloke

[@ProfessorRex]

My first Salandit raid in my playthrough was a female dark Tera. Mommy (the Salazzle) carried my through my first gym (psychic)

[@sophieketels839]

Very nice video, I learned how to hunt iron valiant (thanks). And I got to be very lucky because I found an authentic tea cup without the sandwich after 5 captures ^^'.

[@Blu3B3rryGxchx]

I found a white Tatsugiri in the background randomly, I ran into it and saw the sparkles, I just kept yelling 'Shiny!' Out of shock

[@pc-u-18]

I have the droopy and stretchy shinies for Tatsugiri. The stretchy one has a mark too! My method was go to the island with a Dragonite, make a dragon power sandwich, and loop around the island. I actually did find the curly form but it used Memento and I didn’t save before encountering, so I have yet to capture that one.

[@jtothemaurednik]

“keep your eyes on disguise” amazing.

[@Chris-re3lv]

A little late to the party here, but i caught three shinies in one single sandwich boost. An Iron Thorns, then Iron Hands, and then a Pawmot, all basically back to back. Then, when i went to try to repeat it with another sandwich boost, I could only find another Iron Thorns. Still a great hunt.

[@tyrantneptune3202]

So, in my first-ever run, I had saved in front of a (non-shiny) Tropius, in case it knew Whirlwind (it did), so that I could keep trying until I got it. When I restarted, the Tropius was gone. Does the restarting only work with Shiny Pokemon?

[@GamingEelektross]

Not only did I spend so much time hunting for Shiny Moons for myself and some others to trade for Violet's shinies, but I despawned one after seeing it for half a second.

[@benny1118]

I didn’t know you couldn’t catch 3-segment Dudunsparce in the wild, damn

[@k1ngsw0lf41]

I Found an absolutely random shiny Maushold when I was running around the League building. No sandwich, just crazy good luck😂

[@xandir1lover]

I was lucky enough to run into a shiny droopy tatsugiri as I was passing the lake area :) I didn't think it was that rare tbh since I wasn't even looking for it when it happened