We were WRONG about SHINY HUNTING in Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee!

[@aDrive]

Here we go again… crazy how this stuff comes out years later. Does this explain any of your crazy shiny hunts? Like and SUB!

[@dragoknight1832]

I feel like this cant be true. I nearly got my shiny dex complete too and I got an average of one shiny every 1-2h and I dont think I encountered 500 mons per hour

[@LayLow10]

@aDrive I forgot my password to my ShinyHunt account, and for some reason when I click on “forgot password” it doesn’t let me type out my email so now I can’t access my account. Hope you see this

[@TwoWorldsTWA]

@@LayLow10 The same thing happened to me. Are you on the app or website?

[@LayLow10]

@@TwoWorldsTWA app

[@aDrive]

​@@LayLow10 Go to Shinyhunt.com and reset password there?

[@froggaming783]

that explains why i spent hours sitting around for shiny nidoran male and couldnt get it but the second i started catching more and increasing my chain i got it within the hour, good to know i was actually planning on starting to hunt in these games again

[@matthewwood1965]

The exact same thing happened to me, I actually spent days doing it

[@shiny_lock]

Good thing I haven't shiny hunted this game lol. Probably should considering I want a shiny living dex eventually. Legends Arceus is just way too fun.

[@Heydenater8]

I was trying to do a shiny only play through challenge once and didn’t want to waste money on extra balls, I gave up on it after wasting around 30 hours with no shinys, not a really long time but I was doing online school at the time and it was really hard to keep motivation, i’m really salty and wish that these people actually spent some time to get there facts straight instead of rushing a vid on release date for views.

[@Heydenater8]

I know it’s early, but he also hasn’t taken down or even unlisted his original video with currently false information.

[@Heydenater8]

I feel kinda cringe but Ima keep defending myself, if this wrong shiny information bas happened MULTIPLE TIMES than wouldn’t you wanna double check your info?

[@flan6901]

feel a lil less stupid about going to a 200-something chain for my shiny vulpix now 😁

[@EnderGirls24]

LMAOOO i had roughly a 45 chain before i actually got mine. and. and then while i was waiting to break the chain i got two more shiny vulpix. i have 3 now…

[@mysteriousbeard9929]

Spent so much time resetting at a 31 combo trying to get a shiny Vulpix... was never successful 😅

[@EnderGirls24]

@@mysteriousbeard9929 i sacrificed 4 other shinies before i got mine

[@giovannicascamo8821]

I got a shiny Alolan vulpex in 20 minutes

[@bigtimechampbabyyoda2041]

I DID THE SAME AND TOOK ME 265 OF THEM AND I FOUND 2 SHINY VULPIX THAT WAY, I still have them in let's go after 2 years as well lol

[@TwoWorldsTWA]

Also in my eyes, it's not false information unless it was purposefully put out there as a lie, and no one knew about this until now, so no one better be blaming anyone in the community about this.

[@TwoWorldsTWA]

@@mrbubbles6468 It is false, but at the time of LGPE, it was unknown. My point is people see false information and treat it like a huge lie, was just told to them by the people sharing it, but if the information shared is believed to be true at the time, how can you blame someone? Also I do some coding, and datamining is really hard, so things may just be misunderstood or misread at first, so I don't think it's necessary to go out and blame people. And I don't see this as a major thing to miss, as people still got plenty of shinies in this game, and dataminers still did their job by revealing the information, even if its been years later.

[@TwoWorldsTWA]

I was more saying aDrive and the rest of the Poketubers should not be blamed for sharing the original false info.

[@wolfiemuse]

@@mrbubbles6468 the intent of the videos absolutely makes a difference. Doesn’t make it any less false, but when the intention is to get information out quickly for players, and your source is the handful of data miners who all agreed on something, it’s no longer Dan or any other poketuber’s fault. If anything it’s the fault of the people who mined the code, but it’s something they didn’t catch. It wasn’t malicious.

[@fivetales2672]

@@mrbubbles6468 ok. dig through 4GB of code WITHOUT knowing where your tiny piece of code that you are looking for is located and WITHOUT knowing what each variable (whos name may not even correspond to what is in letters) does and say that again. even profeshional coders can get confused in their own code from time to time. that gets amplified even more when you have to look at someone elses code, as different people take diffefent aproaches to coding and formatting that code. its rather difficult.

[@JaggyRS]

@@fivetales2672 “profeshional”

[@TwoWorldsTWA]

So after all this time, all of my shinies from LGPE are full odds, that's insane!

[@TwoWorldsTWA]

@@firestar9650 Yeah I didn't. But then again, each took several hours to get 😂

[@jillandjack7631]

My 3000 encounters for nidoran male finally makes sense!!! I thought I was just astronomically unlucky.

[@YmmijTortuga]

This still blows my mind. Off all the wrong ones lately, this one hit the hardest LOL

[@Cheaspie]

@@xboxswitch9457 can you help me?

[@SaskiaSketches]

This came at the exact right time for me lol, I just picked up Let’s Go Eevee and I’m an avid shiny hunter! I feel sorry for everybody that was hunting with the “wrong” technique, proud of you guys for finding those shinies anyway!!

[@Cloud_Fzee]

I’ve decided to do a shiny only run of let’s go eevee and was wondering why it’s taking ages to find a pikachu shiny

[@redrazor7903]

Oh my god. I have gotten like 40 shinies in lets go and I never once considered that method to be broken! It would normally take me a couple hours but I did remember times were I was like "How far over odds is this?" It all makes sense now.

[@ArtisChronicles]

Lol I had that happen when I was doing it the correct way.

[@KMartin1311]

I honestly never paid any attention to the "stop at 31 chain combo and wait" method and I just kept catching. I found more shinies by catching well beyond chain 90+ than by getting to 31 and waiting. Thinking back, I think I only found 1 or 2 shiny via "31 chain" method and oddly enough, they weren't even the species I was shiny hunting at that moment.

[@PoolKid75]

This explains why I had such a hard time shiny hunting the Kanto starters. I gave up and decided to breed them in Ultra Sun.

[@brainsreptiles]

I tried to get a shiny pidgey and geodude and got a shiny bulbasaur and charmander instead. Pretty good trade off. Unfortunately I lost the bulbasaur on my friends LGP when he sold it to eb games

[@PoolKid75]

@@brainsreptiles the save data is stored on the Switch, not the cartridge, so you could still get them back if you still have that Switch and the save data is still there.

[@brainsreptiles]

@@PoolKid75 oh so I should still have it, I would need to buy let’s go pikachu since I own eevee

[@PoolKid75]

@@brainsreptiles no, just use Pokemon Home to send it to another game.

[@brainsreptiles]

@@PoolKid75 the thing is I don’t own a copy of let’s go pikachu only eevee

[@PoolKid75]

I still consider the shiny hunting method in Sword and Shield broken because the boosted shiny odds *only* affect Brilliant Pokemon, and since Brilliant Pokemon only appear a maximum of 3% of the time it still means that the method is virtually unusable. If the maximum chance of a Brilliant Pokemon appearing was boosted to at least 20% that might make it a viable way to shiny hunt, but not at 3%.

[@davidtang2306]

In my opinion, random encountering shinies in Sword and Sheild is really not a good idea. Pokemon can be shiny as soon as they spawn but one cannot tell whether they are shiny until they are checked. Hovever, the game instantly spits out a new pokemon after catching/ defeating the previous so it is not farfetched to assume a lot of shinies were missed. So it is basically an exercise in paranoia. Just imagine biking in the wild area, the crown tundra and the Isle of Armor, how many shinies were missed?

[@samanthabackman1444]

tbh I think something being unusuable in the sense that there's no point in using the method and something being broken are two different things. The SwSh Brilliant Method may not be a viable shiny hunting method for most people but, unless there are still things that we're not understanding about it, that's just it. It's just not a viable strategy for use. Being broken would mean it wouldn't work at all imo

[@PoolKid75]

@ananananananananananananananananananananananananan It took me 2 hours to find a single Brilliant Galarian Yamask at maximum odds on the one route it appears in Galar. How is that insanely high?

[@PoolKid75]

@ananananananananananananananananananananananananan I said it took me 2 hours just to find one Brilliant Pokemon, I didn't say shiny. I think you're confusing the terms. Brilliant Pokemon are not shinies. Furthermore, if it takes 2 hours just to find the target you're trying to hunt then imagine how long it would take to actually find the shiny if the odds are 1 in 512. You clearly have never tried this method because you don't understand how it works. I have over 1400 legitimate shinies, so I know what I'm talking about when I compare different methods.

[@panda-phat]

Wait, so everyone getting a catch combo and then going to another area to wait for shinies to spawn was actually hunting at 1/1024 odds at best? And the catch combo wasn't doing ANYTHING???

[@poggersalt9899]

Makes me feel a bit better about my method. I figured if I’m getting a shiny I wanted it to be as strong as possible, so I kept catching to get species specific candies to give to my eventual shiny. Guess it worked out in the end!

[@KonaikoTsukiyomi]

Shoutout to the dude on reddit that faced the possibility of everyone being wrong (specifically Serebii) and received a lot of hate and bash. Turns out, the guy was right.

[@sleepymonkey6752]

This makes the shinies in let's go a lot more valuable because they are now more rare than what we previously thought Unless they were caught on that concurrent 31st catch etc..

[@foxley5374]

This is wild. Most of my hunts have been comfortably within the assumed 1/315 odds and a few off-target so I never questioned that the boost effected all spawns. I guess I've had way better shiny luck than I thought!

[@benniemorris4872]

Back in 2021, I was playing Let's Go Eevee and when I entered Viridian forest a shiny Caterpie just popped up out of nowhere.

[@xSteve1983x]

I think we’re wrong in PLA too because too many people are getting “full odds” shinies left and right. (Looking at your 9 shiny Mothims you got the other day)

[@inYourBackline]

no, we are just seeing a LOT of pokemon so more shinys makes sense

[@Electric4Pie]

Most of them are likely not "full odds" as completing a Dex page increases your shiny odds but many people weren't aware and just stated full odds.

[@crowborn666]

It’s not full odds if you have a complete dex page I think, people are just mistakenly saying full odds when it isn’t

[@JohnboyTheGamer]

@@crowborn666 No I think they could be correct. Even I got a full odds Machop. Like inYourBackline said we're seeing a lot of Pokemon. And it's more likely that in the first two weeks the Pokemon would be full odds. Not to mention for must dex challenges to get level 10 you would have to battle to see attacks or catch a handful of pokemon.

[@crowborn666]

@@JohnboyTheGamer oh no I get that, I was just saying like, if you have lv 10 on Pikachu, and then find a shiny Pikachu, it wouldn’t be full odds would it since you have boosted odds right? Now if you find another mon without the lv 10 boost, then it’d be full odds I think.

[@ganondad3483]

I remember getting into arguments on Reddit with Serebii Joe about this. Some community members pointed out that his formula may be conditional, and that odds didn't feel right. He was very angry and insistent that he wasn't missing anything and that anyone experiencing bad odds was an outlier. I'm just happy to know how it actually works. Always felt like something was off

[@Refnom95]

I was on your side in those particular arguments! It was my Reddit post that Joe got involved with

[@zackzimmer7167]

Unless GameFreak releases the rates themselves, you’re always wrong.

[@vladiator_2020]

This totally explains why it took 1003 encounters for my Shiny Charmander to show up despite having a catch combo of 31 for a different Pokémon with Max Lure and Shiny Charm

[@ShadyRK9]

1003?! 😱😱

[@RulerMichael]

I had a charmander chain of 68 so one Charmander popped every 10 seconds. I still shiny hunted for 30 hour+ before it popped and doing the math for that scares me xD

[@TheBangBang04]

Yeah I feel that! I had a catch combo of 1700 something for my Charmander. Took 9 days of around 3 to 12 hours a day depending on whether it was a work night or weekend

[@RulerMichael]

@@TheBangBang04 Geezus xP

[@BigBobby4]

I was looking for a shiny char and I got one within 50 catches so I decided to go for a Perfect Iv Charmander and I dead ass caught well over 2000 (only needed 2 of its stats to go to “Best”) and I picked up 14 Shinies before I got the perfect Iv, go figure 🤷🏽‍♂️. Meanwhile my mate got a perfect Iv Magnemite within 30 catches when looking for its shiny haha what the hell aye

[@Luco_TA]

I was always a bit suspicious of the 31 rule cos when I was like 12-13 not using yt I caught about 230 oddish and found shiny ones left and right and a year ago I started doing the 31 rule and I didn't get many shinies

[@Cj-wc9ry]

So I just keep catching after 31?

[@Vini-BR]

For one, I have always caught them all in very long chains. Caught so many candies that I haven't only caught every shiny there but also fully boosted all of them with the candies and leveled hundreds of Pokemon to lv100 while doing the chain hunts

[@TheBangBang04]

Yeah the candies became my income in game. I would max out the normal L and XL and sale them. To replenish my pokeballs and lures.

[@dannissen]

So when i soft reset for shiny mewtwo does the lure percist with the reset? And does it count with mons like mewtwo to have 1/1024 instead og 1/2048?

[@PavementXL]

I’ve been saying this for years! when I hunted pidgey I stopped at 31 and it took me HOURS to finally find the shiny, but when I hunted Growlithe I got the shiny on my 63rd encounter (second 31 chain) so easily! The other couple hunts I did afterwards all came within 100 encounters simply bc I kept on catching instead of waiting. Everyone I talked to said I was “just lucky” but I knew there was a good reason!

[@kittiilavender]

I just found a shiny eevee right after watching this video I was at a catch combo of 185

[@theyinyang1103]

Makes me feel better about going sky high on combos for species candies.

[@temporaryleadership]

At 4:13 Dan says “because the CHANCES…” and at that moment, a chansey appears on screen. Talk about a 1:4096 chance lol

[@Palkreuploads]

Can’t wait to get the gold and silver “we where wrong” video next month

[@ciofurinone4225]

This makes a lot of sense, most of the time, it took me around 200 catch combo to get a shiny (yes, I used to catch ALL pokemon I saw in front of me, as it was also a good form to farm a lot of candies). There was even one time I wanted 2 shiny paras, the first one took around 150 catch combo, and the second one all the way up to 950

[@muninn92]

I consistently captured shinies after doing 31+ of other species. Was my charmander spawning in minutes after I caught my shiny Gastly just a fluke?

[@mysteriousbeard9929]

Always appreciate you taking the time to go back on these older games to give us correct information!

[@alphtheor.879]

Shouldn't the best method with this new info be going to 30 and then sitting still since the 21-30 odds will effect all spawns rather than aiming for the 32nd spawn only having best odds?

[@kingaz8014]

this explains why it took me 2 weeks to get my shiny poliwag and never broke my combo of 31. Funny how we are just now finding this out, but better late than never

[@spamtonspamton8891]

wait, you're telling me i'm doing everything right, and my combo of 750+ bulbasaurs (with charm and lure) didn't yield a shiny based off of bad luck alone?

[@sonicshadowNT]

I guess I’m confused. My whole time shiny hunting in LGPE I only ever chained off of Caterpies to make it easy to get the chain, then would go search for the Pokémon I wanted. With that logic, is every shiny I found technically full odds minus shiny charm? Cause it absolutely felt like the 31 caterpie chain helped.

[@shovingston_bob5822]

That's what I was thinking too 🤔

[@saiyan4414]

knowing what you know now, any thoughts on reacting to some of your old let’s go shiny catches?

[@RulerMichael]

This could be a fun video xD

[@CaptainObliviousV]

This is simultaneously mind blowing and hilarious. The fact that we’re still discovering things about Pokémon games across the franchise is amazing. I remember my first shiny hunt in LGE, I was going for a Pidgey to use on my first play through, literally sat there outside of Vermillion for 3 days waiting with no luck before I just started catching again to kill time some other way and it popped up at a chain of (I think it was) 87 or so. It’s funny to think back that I actually experienced this first hand without realizing the correlation.

[@IceCream-qq1pu]

I'm still here shiny hunting on Christmas 2024

[@RulerMichael]

So my question is this. If we still had 1/1024 odds on practically everything after a 31+ chain, why did pokemon not chained appear shiny as much as they did with that low odds? I think I only chained the Charmander that I was looking for, everything else were random chains of a Pidgey or the like. Was it because there were like 8 pokemon popping on the screen at once rotating every 10 seconds (Viridian forest comes to mind) after the 31+ chain? xP

[@Yntruder46]

I feel the same. I think its just faster to encounter shinies with full odds when they are popping 8-10 in the screen (like we did on LGPE), than doing an infinite chain of captures even if the shiny rate was better.

[@Ptera_xd]

Yeah my friend was shiny hunting a Pokemon in Cerulean Cave on twitch and he was sitting at a 31 catch combo and saw 2 shiny pokemon pop up on the screen at once that were of a different species. I guess it's just luck?

[@g0tenkz673]

This couldnt be true. I use to chain pidgeys and find different shinies very quickly. There is no way it only applies to the next one

[@mockingjay478]

Pidgey is a super common spawn, so you're seeing heaps of them every time you re-spawn everything. As is the rattata someone was talking about in another comment. I got two full-odds shinies in the last 24 hours with no catch combo, no lure, and no shiny charm. A Pidgey and a Zubat. The Pidgey was during a catch combo of Pikachu, at that. Meanwhile: I caught a shiny Bellsprout at a catch combo of 78, with only the catch combo.

[@jarredah]

This contradicts every one of the shinies I’ve gotten in let’s go. I combo rattata every time and then I just do the ladder/building technique. It didn’t take long to find any shiny I was hunting.

[@TheEG13]

I remember heading through Mount Moon to get to the Cerulean Gym and went to the floor with Clefairy, I haven't encountered one yet and waiting for a Clefairy for my team. I never used Clefairy rather I found a Shiny Clefable accidentally. So I used it on my team.

[@rickmas2146]

You are saying that only the 32st spawn has the boosted shiny rate? Or just keep catching and then that next spawn is also boosted? 🤔

[@jjab7996]

I hate dataminings because they leave no room for surprises, a game comes out and we already know everything about it from a datamining, so this is actually awesome for me, the fact than that even with dataminings we still have things to discover some time after the games come out

[@PlushiePoogle]

I just picked up this game again and got really confused when I looked up the shiny odds and everyone kept saying the odds only apply to the very next spawn and nothing else, because that's definitely not how I remembered it. So we really do have to keep catching and catching? It's just.. I find it really hard to believe we all used to find all of those shinies full-odds.

[@shanehill9541]

So this also means, that us catching 31 of any Pokémon and then going somewhere else to shiny hunt a different Pokémon was also wrong? Or has that already been discovered? Haven’t played the game in a while just curious.

[@jennifer714714]

I'm still questioning this info. I started a new game recently and decided to shiny hunt Pidgey in the forest before the first gym. I had no lures and my Pokedex was at like 5, so no shiny charm. I got a catch combo of 32 and then decided to do the zone reset method just South of Pewter City with that one patch of grass. I kept zone resetting over and over till I got the shiny. If what you are saying is accurate, since I didn't catch the next Pokemon after I got to a 32 streak, that meant I had the base 1/4096 odds for every single Pokemon there. So the fact that I managed to get not 1, but 3, shiny Pidgey (the same Pokemon I chained) with in maybe 3 hours throws this shuny hunting info into question. According to your new info, again, I had a 1/4096 odds on everything. To me, this means I was extremely lucky to find any shiny, let alone the one I was hunting. But for me to continue on with this and catch 3 shiny, all the same species, all at 1/4096 odds, all with in like 3 hours in that tiny patch of grass I have to say throws this "new info" out the window. I will then suggest, if you new info is indeed correct, there is one more aspect that was not mentioned in your video. That is the zone reset. When you leave one area and enter another and the game resets all the spawns. When this happens, does the first "new spawn" of the now reset spawns of the Pokemon you chained have the boosted odds? If so, then getting to 31+ then just zone resetting is still probably the way to go for many. Plus it'll explain the 3 shiny Pidgey I got with no lure or shiny charm. Just a thought. Maybe worth mentioning if accurate.

[@RJD12345]

At a catch combo of 11 the spawn rate of that pokemon increases so you see more of that pokemon. That along with zone resetting would let you see so many pokemon in a short amount of time. So with all that and a little luck 3 shiny pokemon in 3 hours is very possible even at full odds.

[@TylerAndrews-fk7fk]

i agree, i do the same and get shinies allll the time. no way its 1/4096.. i think zone resetting is the way

[@RJD12345]

@@TylerAndrews-fk7fk you can literally see it in the code its 1/4096 with no charm or lure

[@TylerAndrews-fk7fk]

yes i can see that lmao i think zone resetting at 31 catch combo is the way imo. resets that first encounter after 31 combo... i encounter sooo many shinies doing it this way, doesnt feel like 1/4096 as i should of said

[@RJD12345]

@@TylerAndrews-fk7fk again there is no point of going to 31 if you are zone resetting you have to keep catching for the increased odds. The best resetting method is getting to 11 combo for increased spawns then resetting

[@mrgrogu3473]

i got a 500 chain of pidgey, didnt get a shiny and game crashed and lost it

[@CiroCarl]

Nice, I have a set of full odds Kanto starters. This info drastically increases the value of Let’s go shinies. Always felt like sth was up after resetting ponyta spawns in the thousands.

[@codyosborne7061]

I've got a 400 catch combo with a lure and shiny charm.... still no shiny...

[@codyosborne7061]

404 got it. Sounds like I just needed to complain. Lol

[@Hsmioe]

Here to complain as well. I’m at about 1400 Nidoran(m) catches. Catch combo maxed out at 999. I’m keeping track by how many I’ve sent to the professor. Still no shiny Nidoran(m), but I considered breaking my combo when a shiny spearow showed up. I didn’t .

[@JaceTackett-o2u]

Wouldn’t it technically still be faster to just wait because the time added to catch Pokémon or my Trippin because it only takes around an hour for each one of my shinies and I literally just tried this method when I was showing hunting ponytail and it took me three hours and 20 minutes so pick your pick

[@IAmMissingnoMaster]

Once the initial shock wore off, I thought back to some of my Let's Go Shiny hunts, and was like, "actually, this explains a lot." Now I'm thinking of all the times I got the Shiny I was after and then just roamed around Kanto until I found some other Shiny so as to "not let the catch combo go to waste", and it's like, I was letting my time go to waste instead! LMAO. I might actually dust off Let's Go Pikachu for one final hunt, just to be able to say I did one catch combo properly.

[@IAmMissingnoMaster]

Update- I did it and got the Shiny Grimer on a catch combo of 61! So much faster than most of my previous Let's Go hunts!

[@0lolplayer0]

I'm confused. This method isn't as broken as it seemed to be at the beginning.

[@hiimmijk]

Question, how do rolls work. Let's say i catch 11 pidgey's. Pidgey's will spawn more frequently than right?

[@ShadyRK9]

I've been kinda lucky with my Shinies in Let's Go Eevee. I've usually gotten Shinies within 20+ catch combos! My first Shiny was a Bellsprout I got with 45 Catch Combos before I even got my first gym badge! ✨ My longest Shiny Hunt was Drowzee that literally took me 5 months!!

[@ElTeeger]

Ironically, my first shiny was Drowzee and it was a random encounter lol.

[@ConnorsGameRoom]

Imagine working at GameFreak and seeing everyone realize they were wrong about brilliant pokemon in Sword/Shield knowing full well that they were also wrong about catch combos for the last 4 years

[@lagrima-hunter4112]

Adrive "uses lure and shiny charm" Adrive after he finds a shiny even doing it wrong "uuuhmm...I must have being doing SOMETHING right..." Dude LMAO

[@Joe_Boost]

Can you even transport your shinies from let’s go to another pokemon game?

[@Mimikyu_Lov3r]

Yes

[@Joe_Boost]

@ which game?

[@davidgodfrey9780]

I catch well into the 200+ for the pokemon specific candies as well look for the best potential.

[@Alex-ih9ev]

Well that explaines why i didn’t get a shiny charmander after a week of hunting it xD

[@iordanneDiogeneslucas]

Everyone: this is how to shiny hunt Gamefreak: ... Everyone: we fucked up Gamefreak: 🙂 ...

[@TheMarkusBoy]

Well, that's interesting. I have a question though: if the poke flees or I flee, does the chain brokes?

[@PoolKid75]

Does anyone else feel like Game Freak are kind of jerks for not explaining how the mechanics in their games actually work and just letting people do it wrong for years?

[@holybreadcrust]

Yesssss that’s how I shiny hunt in Eevee so they end up with really good ivs

[@augustus7434]

I remember having thousands of encounters for a shiny Charmander and being so baffled. I didnt use shiny charm or lures so I had a 1/4096 since I never actually had the 11 rolls from the catch combo. Its all making sense now.

[@AdamStuart-ow2yo]

i was just watching a Johnstone vid about lets go shinny's and wanted to see why the odds were so bad. i also want to do a shiny living dex in this game. man im glad i looked in to it

[@journeysilvers9838]

What if you encounter a pokemon and flee? Do the catch combo odds still apply to whatever else spawns in? Or do you have to catch the pokemon to get the odds to apply to the next spawn?

[@shockz2231]

This is really helpful. I'm gonna start shiny hunting on this again. Thanks 😊

[@CwBrendan6]

Does that mean stopping at 30 is the right play then so they all have great odds without resetting the odds? Or do you have to reset all the way and keep catching?

[@wolfiemuse]

It resets after the 31st spawns according to this

[@lanecornett6083]

Why are people still calling it "Arkeus" lol omg it kills me

[@spectre382]

The only shiny I struggled with was a Magnemite, took 2500 encounters. Now it all makes sense

[@Vini-BR]

Wow man, that hurts to hear! I caught every shiny there, often multiple times and maybe only twice did I have to go over 999 encounters, but you struggled twice as much as my worst there

[@JoseRocha4774]

I accidentally ran into Magnemite shiny

[@spectre382]

@@Vini-BR Yea it was pretty painful, completed a shiny dex but that was the only one I struggled with

[@XxMatth3wxX]

Reading this comment and I’m on a 451 combo with Magnemite! Catching the next spawn to make sure I get the best odds but still nothing . At least I’m not the only one 😂

[@Guideranger]

I tried once to find a golden magicarp. Found nothing after over one and a half hours and three hours lure afk. I ended up stopping doing shiny hunting after that horrible expearance.

[@duane1023]

I'm currently hunting for shiny Spearow. It's my fourth attempt since the first one ended with a shiny Charizard, the second one ended with a Moltres and the third ended with a Zapdos. No shiny legendary birds, but still awesome spawns

[@thatguybryan5065]

Can’t wait next year for the “we were WRONG in shiny hunting in Legends Arceus”

[@BrettGaertner]

Shiny hunting a special 1 spawn pokemon like Snorlax, do the catch combo chain Anything else with multiple spawns…. Which is more efficient?? Going to the catch animations or seeing five spawns at 1/1000 odds?

[@Kairos_Akuma]

Wait so the 31 combo only applies to the species and doenst do jack for anything else? So all Shinies from other species are basically as full odds as they get? Yikes...

[@HmmBird311]

Brings a lot more accomplishment to the shinies we got in the game

[@Ghost_556]

This explains why I spent almost 100 hours trying to find a shiny Dratini. Still haven't finished the hunt, but I don't know if I'll ever go back to it.

[@isabellapichardo1813]

Wait so every pokemon spawn after the 31st is 1 in 300ish instead if 1 in 275? Or is it back to 4096? Cause if it isnt thats not too bad at all, ill stick to not battling anymore after 31 if thats the case

[@pokemonpokemon2185]

4 years later “we were wrong about shiny hunting in Pokemon legends arceus “

[@Imamotherfreakingavocado]

Now my chain of like 200 Vulpix wasn't a waste lmao

[@jesselisansky3513]

I can just picture the Devs all around a desk years ago laughing and all saying "They don't know HAHAHAHAHA."

[@meganhein7563]

What about say charmander if you combo catching another species like spearow, does that only make charmander appear more because rare spawn does it not effect the shiny chances? I’m running through let’s go again and really want a shiny charmander but not having much luck any tips on that?

[@miguelcruzeta4890]

Wait, if in fact it only applies to the next spawn, is it considered the "next spawn" if you encounter, then flee and wait for another spawn? Being that you have actually captured it, that is.

[@cluelessari8329]

If this is true I feel less bad about my 800+ Sandshrew chain that broke to a Charmander, that means that Charmander was my first ever full odds

[@JeanKP14]

Not full if you had shiny charm and or lure

[@ryanlawson6411]

This IS hilarious!!! Not even close to false information. You didn’t know and didn’t do it on purpose. Keep up the awesome work!!!

[@ArtNoctowl]

I just got Pokemon let's go in December and have been playing it on and off between other games. I have been making it my first all shiny team playthrough. I did the 31 catch combo method for my two hunts so far they say everyone thought they worked. Ended up spending a good week trying to get a shiny Nidoran male and then like 7 hrs for a shiny Growlithe. It felt like they were taking a while for 31+ catch combos. Glad to know now that this exists because now I'll continue catching everything. Don't wanna essentially full odds shiny hunt my four other team members lol

[@robertterrile5432]

I wonder if we are wrong on PLA for shiny also. The reason why I say that is because I got a shiny alpha honchkrow and before I got it my dex lvl for it was at 2, so I think we might be wrong on shiny hunting in general.

[@zandrethegiant]

So what I'm hearing is just hit that 11 chain and boost the spawns and just hang out until the shiny arrives. And thr caterpie 31 chain method was a total waste of time 😭

[@rustynugs8089]

Well doesn't catching 31 cause alot of pokemon to spawn though?? Like with catching one there isn't much but catching 31 seems to have a lot more to spawn so doesn't it help then spawn in more?

[@shaggy3741]

Dam this is the earliest I’ve been on any video Good thing it was aDrive

[@mikedawes6019]

So I'm still a little bit confused here. Once I hit 31+ and that next spawn isn't a shiny should I A. Continue on to 42 so it gets me another 11+ reroll or B. Break my combo and start again from 1?

[@miserablledog]

wait so this means that one time i chained for a gastly, got frustrated after not finding one and then ran into the cave nearby & instantly found a shiny charmander was nearly full odds?? 😭

[@_WiZ420]

tfw you think back and realize more of the shinies were immediately after a catch…

[@ChaoticDvl]

So how does it work then. Do you just have to catch one more for the next one to have shiny odds, or a whole mother 31?

[@NerdbanditRS]

Nice maybe I’ll do another hunt one day, I just hate that you can’t close the app and play other games while on a streak in let’s go. So much sunk time

[@pokemonsnapsnap4852]

So doing a caterpie 31 combo then going else where to hunt a different species was 1/1000 odds??!??!

[@phobiawitch835]

I was just thinking of doing a Shiny Nidoran Only run in Shield or Sword, and for ease of shiny hunting was going to reopen Lets Go for the first time in a few years, lol. So this video is really useful. Good to see how it works!

[@lifeisabruhmoment6167]

200+ shiny hunt for growlth never got it