Why These Shiny Pokémon are IMPOSSIBLE to Find

[@Psychadelicss]

Kevdog openly uses modified switches sadly makes me question the legitimacy of the sharpedo clip ):

[@JFlash727]

Ah, you’re very much correct it sadly seems. He has other star shinies on his account. Well, as far as others go they seem to be the real deal!

[@Psychadelicss]

@@JFlash727 luckily that was the only questionable one on the list! Nothing to be but proud of this video you did a lot of research and executed it well don’t even worry :)

[@OmniSaiyan-dd5bo]

I have KevDog's Shiny Scizor

[@OfficerPorkchops]

@@OmniSaiyan-dd5bo Everyone does. He's a serial cheater and constantly hands out cheated shinies

[@raddrew42]

As open I am to emulating and hacking older pokemon games, hacking in shinies just kinda takes the fun out of getting them, so I never do it.

[@DespairMagic]

I love how they were like "how can we make shines more rare? Let's add different sparkles!!" Then they fucked it up and then completely discarded the idea in the following games...

[@athena5172]

Marked shinies exist so not really

[@theminecommanders8013]

I have a rare mark shiny Sandy Shocks ​@@athena5172

[@TheMasterBlaze]

I'm glad they did ditch it though. Another layer of rarity on top of shinies would drive me insane. Marks are the best solution because you can modify their odds seperate to the shiny odds instead of boosting your shiny odds with a chance of faliure beyond not finding the desired shiny.

[@thatoneuberedsoldier4505]

Glad they did, the squares animation is hideous and i hated that most of my finds in swsh had ugly sparkles

[@markerssmellgood7289]

time to find a star sparkle, wild shiny, full odds, authentic, sinistea, with the Rare mark, no mark charm, and pokerus!!!!

[@markerssmellgood7289]

so i (think i) found the odds to said theoretical pokemon - ~1 / 39,321,000,000,000,000

[@markerssmellgood7289]

which is 1 in 39.321 quadrillion

[@mobious01]

@@markerssmellgood7289 well, get started

[@Youraveragenub]

bro is NOT finding that shiny

[@Psychadelicss]

Coming back in 2078 to see what phase you’re on.

[@radiocaf]

Gotta admit, I thought this video would be clickbait because I completely forgot that star sparkles were so rare in certain encounter methods. Such a well produced and informative video that feeds the information slow enough to not cause anyone interested to be turned off from watching through to the end. Bravo.

[@JFlash727]

So glad you enjoyed it! What you explained was exactly what I was going for, so I'm glad to see my efforts pay off. Click-baiting doesn't do anything but hurt a channel, so anything I make, I try to meet the expectations of my thumbnail and title as much as I can. Thanks for watching! =)

[@kohenkalkbrenner8585]

👏👏👏👏👏 good to know you don’t do click bait

[@georgehs3386]

This video is just what I was looking for for years! I suggested several times on different forums that square sparkles in the wild were either impossible or just rare as hell, and everyone was so sure that they did exist (and some even dared to say that the odds were 1/16... ¬¬), but no one ever posted evidence. I tried to look for clips myself, but given than no one realizes how incredible rare they are, they don't mention the star part in the description of the video or anything that could be helpful to identify them. You gave me peace, thank you so much!

[@CraftyMasterman]

HE FINALLY USED THE THUMBNAIL!!!!

[@JFlash727]

I DID 🔥🔥🔥

[@HaraldHD]

Next video: building Pokemon shield in minecraft (can I get the one in 6 million shiny?) 😂

[@Jelly_shy_guy_man]

A Minecraft KZbinr? What this is Pokémon

[@lasercraft32]

Okay who at GameFreak decided "hey, we should add an alternate form of shiny to make certain shinies even rarer?"

[@Jelly_shy_guy_man]

You rift raff and Chad gorrusaurus are the same

[@Yellowmankey]

I believe people were complaining that shinies were getting easier to obtain, which is why gamefreak added a different shiny effect and marks, as well as rare forms of pokemon like Sinistea. The only problem was the shiny effects being completely broken leading them to be even rarer than they should of been

[@ShadedAkumu]

THANK YOU i have been wondering about this for YEARS, ever since i first saw the datamines on the topic back in (i think) late 2019, but i never knew for certain how it worked because the topic is so niche and not many people know about it, so i couldn't actually find anything about it back in 2020 when i was researching the topic! glad to see a well-informed video on it

[@lazyrainysoul]

My shiny Trapinch I found accidentally during my first playthrough has star sparkles... Someone calculate the odds for me -Found it on Route 6 at a 1% spawn rate -No charm -Star sparkles I thought I was lucky enough..!!

[@JFlash727]

Do you have a video of it by chance?

[@lazyrainysoul]

@@JFlash727 it was on my switch lite which i've sent over for repairs right now! when it's done i'll see if i've recorded it or not, which i'm pretty sure i did

[@JFlash727]

@lazyrainysoul Sweet! When you do, let me know if you upload it to KZbin and to what channel. Just don’t post the link as a comment because KZbin is smelly and will probably block your comment.

[@Aivo382]

Imagine being so bad at programming that you can't make a rare version of a shiny to be rare as supposed.

[@Zoime14]

I just wanna say this is a great video and explains how shines are generated and then generated with square/star sparkles really well you did a fantastic job making this video

[@JFlash727]

Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed the video!!

[@SekanderThe]

I like those odds. Time to start a hunt for one

[@BlueLoveYT]

I don't like Sword and Shield as games, but learning about this deep shiny mechanic makes me appreciate those games more

[@MarkMugiMad]

never would i ever think about these Odds. You explained it so well for me to understand 👍 this is insane information

[@bxnette_x]

I finally found shiny Cobalion today after hunting on and off for 7 months. The moment I saw the star sparkles I immediately remembered your video. Thanks for your research, I probably would never have known that this is now my rarest shiny Pokemon

[@bxnette_x]

I uploaded the clip in case you're interested to see it. I also have a clip of the catch but I don't know how to include it

[@JFlash727]

@@bxnette_x very cool! Out of curiosity, do you have a modded switch and or have modified your game before? If not, congrats on this super rare find!

[@bxnette_x]

Thanks! No my switch has never been modified or been connected to a pc Edit: I meant physically connected (is that the only way to mod a switch? I have minimal knowledge on this topic). The video was transferred by qr code to mobile phone

[@JFlash727]

Dang, yeah so that’s legit! Now all we need to do is find a star shiny Terrakion!

[@DylansLapplandSimping]

so basically a wild star shiny is a double shiny

[@n7x]

Shiny²

[@umbreongaming9606]

Yes. But Virizion is a Static Spawn, which is almost always Star

[@dr.drakofly756]

So what about authentic Sinistea in grass pop ups? What the odds of those having stars instead of squares? I want to see the big number!

[@Catgirlwalmart]

It’s like whatever 0.00368690569181% is as a fraction (I forgot the shiny charm odds so I used full odds for this)

[@schaffs2]

It would just be 1/18,000,000 times 1/8, so about 1/144,000,000

[@ShinyBuzzwole]

This is extraordinarily helpful information, and the video is incredibly well made. Well done, and I thank you for uploading this absolute star of a video.

[@JFlash727]

And thank you kind sir for supplying the clip of the curry shiny Abomasnow 🫡

[@MontKing4455]

Bro you have the editing and content of a 3M+ subs channel. Keep going bro.

[@JFlash727]

I appreciate it man! Trying to be the best I can! More content is for sure on the way!

[@yallclowns]

missed one that has 15/16 star rate, thats pokemon transferred up from previous generations

[@JFlash727]

I had purposely not included the star/square sparkle rates of Pokemon from other games. If anyone is curious: The following Pokémon from past generations are more likely to be square shinies (65521/65536): - Fateful encounters (events, Virtual Console (VC) Celebi, etc.) - LGPE overworld shinies - Virtual Console Gen 1/2 shinies - Gen 7 wormhole shiny non-legends - Pokémon Go transfers Every other past generation shiny Pokémon has a 1/16 chance of being a square shiny in Galar when imported. Additionally, fateful encounters and Pokémon GO transfers have a visual override to always display as a square shiny even in the odd circumstances that they fall in the 15/65536 chances. This was sourced directly from Skadiv's Smogon guide, which you can find under resources in the description.

[@PonytaBestShiny]

​@@JFlash727what about legends and scarlet/violet?

[@JFlash727]

Great question! For Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, Pokémon Legends, and Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, they all retain the normal 1/16 square sparkle, and 15/16 star sparkles chance, as far as I am aware!

[@expo_pkmn]

​@@JFlash727 While Fateful Encounter Pokemon PIDs do point to Square or Star sparkles (RNG Reporter confirms this), it seems that the Fateful Encounter flag itself overwrites this check and defaults to Square Sparkles. This was likely supposed to make event shinies feels special and rare, but we all know how Square Sparkle rarity ended up lol.

[@AlexDayz]

I still find it hilarious that SwSh introduced the whole square/star sparkle difference only to never use it again. 10/10 troll GameFreak!

[@KittenKit1]

this just made me relise the hattrene i caught midway thru my sword gameplay had star sparkles? I never saw it again in the game other than on her so I thought I was hallucinating everytime i saw hers

[@JFlash727]

If you have a video of it, I'd love to see it!

[@ShinyQuasarDragon]

This video is really informative for a feature that is mostly only seen in SwSh, which motivates me to try to find a star sparkle mon! I'm a shiny hunter and I've never found a star sparkle wild encounter before, so I will share my findings if I ever find one. Thanks so much for this video.

[@shrimpidimpii]

im watching this at the end of a night shift andi have no idea what these words mean but i like the shiny noises

[@jacknaserum7466]

Pokemon sure has some crazy rare events

[@CatKat4008]

I love how YEARS later we finally find out just how these shiny odds work! thank you so much for the insight as it's been such a common misconception (I myself included)

[@kharma296]

Oh hey that's me at 14:52 lol, I might go back to that post and let Phillip know their Vanillite is famous. Amazing video btw, here's hoping more of these crazy star shinies pop up every now and again, it's an interesting part of Sw/Sh that no other game has, and i'd hate to see it die with gen 8 not being the current gen anymore.

[@JFlash727]

Haha whats crazy is Philip has actually already commented on the video too, and another one of the commenters mentioned as well. Every person from that reddit thread I mentioned has found their way to this video, which is so cool!

[@banana9494]

No lie, i got 2 back to back. And then i woke up :(

[@azurebluegames]

I've played SwSh without ever knowing about this! I'll keep this in mind when I revisit these games~

[@ScubaShark8857]

Imagine someone getting a star shiny antique sinistea.

[@Silly_Goose12]

Bro my first shiny was a star sparkle eevee I found in a raid and evolved it into an umbreon that’s actually crazy

[@JFlash727]

Raids commonly have star sparkles. Unfortunately, yours isnt rare.

[@Silly_Goose12]

@ oh. Still I got an eevee so I got 9 options :)

[@TheMasterBlaze]

I immediately spotted the difference and I'm sure it's explained right away, but I'll take a crack at it. Overworld Random Encounter and Static Encounter shinies are biased towards the Square Particle effect for their shiny. What was shown in the Virizion clip was the Traditional Shiny effect or as the community dubbed it "Star Shiny" which is more common in pokemon transferred into SWSH, Max Raid Encounters or Hatched from eggs.

[@Hutch2Much]

why on earth did they do it this way lmao

[@illusionofquality979]

Wait, that means that a random shiny I got was also impossibly lucky. I am working on a living dex so I bred a few pokemon to fill in the numbers, one of them was a Galarian Corsola. The first was normal but the other one was shiny, a square shiny. Pity that the ability is wrong but it is wild.

[@asherscottL]

Yaknow... I thought the squares were more rare. Explains how I got two wild encounters with square sparkles LOL. I just thought I was cracked

[@Silvershirley]

very informative video! this is something i always wondered about

[@silver_moth]

Firstly, congrats, this is amazingly done video! So well edited, informative and resourceful. Square and Stars sparkles have always been an interesting subject to me and I wish this information was more spread So, if I understood correctly (and I'm sorry if I didn’t), the game has a completely different approach to determine if those type of encounters are shiny or not, that doesn’t take into consideration the traditional TID/SID/PID formula. What is this approach, exactly? Is it similar to BDSP, where the shiny value for static encounters doesn’t depend on your trainer info at all? Does the same thing happens in ScVi?

[@JFlash727]

That is right, it is a different approach. This approach, however, was in no way further elaborated on by data miners, so all I knew was what I said in the video. Baseline, what we know is there is some system that predetermined a Pokémon to be shiny at whatever shiny chance you may currently be using before the traditional TID/SID/PID formula, and as for why specifically? We have yet to be told.

[@rinus915]

me immediately going to check all of my shinies lmao

[@RoostBR]

Why did it take me 4 Justins to realize this was NOT Minutes. 💀 💀

[@videogamegooners]

Imagine how many people have found a star sparkle and just thought nothing about it

[@Just-in22]

Why did it take me 4 mins to realize this was NOT me 💀💀

[@GavinPoggins]

Yoooo I know this guy!! Sick video man!

[@SporadicV2]

Wonder what the calcs are for an authentic shiny Sinistea with Pokérus, Star sparkles, and a rare mark are lmao. Add perfect IVs too, why not.

[@yallclowns]

0% with perfect IVs because from what I remember, wild perfect IV is impossible on non brilliant aura

[@balyt6384]

BRO YOU BROUGHT ME LUCK. Finally found my shiny mewtwo in let’s go at 2:29 :)

[@JFlash727]

Let's go!!! So happy you had this on the side while hunting, glad the section talking about how shinies work got you your shiny haha!

[@noahsarchangel]

I found a shiny square Regidrago in May. Does that count, then?

[@JFlash727]

Square shiny Regis have a 1/16 chance! They’re usually star sparkle at the 15/16 chance. Not as rare as the star shinies I’m talking about in this video, but still pretty rare! Congrats!

[@ArceusOfTheTacos]

I loved the editing in this video! Can't wait for the upload next year! I really like having Star and Square sparkles! Although really unlikely, I really hope they come back for future Pokémon games. Is it bad that I'm now considering hunting one after seeing the 1/6m chance with Shiny Charm and 1/2m with Brilliant Aura? It might seem a little bit more manageable than 1/17m... although, I should maybe finish that second Alolan Sandshrew Square Shiny hunt first before even considering that, hahah.

[@EvosDumbStuff]

Video so good i eated 3 ice creams

[@ThatPurpleWurmple]

I remember hearing on release of sword and shield that the square shiny odds in wild encounters are actually bugged and that the brilliant Pokémon are the ones who have the increased shiny odds. Idk if this was true or just some placebo effect many people were speculating on the game’s release.

[@JFlash727]

Yep that’s correct! This was actually confirmed way after the fact!

[@HiFolksImAdam]

Without full video context surrounding a Star Shiny encounter, late 2021 is really the latest these rarities are 'accurate' as well, because it was about that point that overworld RNG manipulation in SwSh became tooled, documented and accessible. Case in point, I RNG manip'd the three Swords of Justice to be Star Shiny using a basic YT tutorial that wound up in my Recommended feed (nothing more to it than logging a string of menu animations as 0 or 1), and had no idea they were quite so rare until years later!

[@JFlash727]

While you’re technically right, getting this shiny randomly without the use of exploits like rng manipulation is pretty much next to none. The inherit rarity of shinies is subjective to many anyway.

[@Altamos0023]

the first bit being shiny verizion gave me bad memories of hunting that lady myself. 6 months of hunting and I think like almost 10k camp resets it was a NIGHTMARE lmao. but at least cobalion was nice at 350ish resets. (and thankfully verizion was nice and was marked for me)

[@Michtochoco]

Wait three years ago I had my shiny Regirock in like 3500 encounters in Pokemon Shield and it was a star shiny so what was the rate?

[@JFlash727]

They have the normal star and square sparkle chance. The Regis are very commonly star.

[@Michtochoco]

@@JFlash727 so is it like the same chance as the egg?

[@JFlash727]

@@Michtochoco yup

[@Michtochoco]

@@JFlash727 oh nice thanks!

[@RamboTurbo-Diesel]

What would be the rarest fish in the game? 🎣✨

[@JustMeTheGuy]

Why did it take me 4 mins to realize this was NOT Justin 💀💀

[@La_cabine_de_Cabine]

The math behind all this is pretty cool, thanks for the trivia... but the square shinies are prettier tbh lol, and they didn't even transfer this to the next games

[@Aftonsparv90]

so i got a question what about transfering shinies from older games, can that affect sparkles?

[@JFlash727]

Yup! There should be a comment about me answering that if you dig a bit.

[@sleprvrru6y-lin-92]

uh , Hello, ex shiny hunter here! I used to be really into shiny hunting for many years since 2011 actually. i stumbled upon this video in my feed and i happened to click on this. back in 2020 i remember running into a star shiny Arrokuda, I sadly transferred it to generation 9 and ended up trading it...... i had the shiny charm and i was looking for a shiny chewtle at the time.. of obtaining it. i vividly remember questioning why it had star sparkles to a friend of mine and they said "eh they're the same as squares" :p if i knew how rare it was, i wouldn't have done that!!! im actually in MASSIVE shock at the moment, i thought my 5IV shiny random encounter full odds feebas was my rarest find... i scoured both of my SD cards to see if i can find the clip. but sadly my older SD got corrupt .. :( I named her Barraskrewya, cuz i actually really despised barraskewda for the longest time haha.

[@chompchomp8759]

I remember how disappointed I was when I found a full odds shiny Clefairy in BW2 without even knowing what shinies were.

[@pulcio2046]

I’m a shiny hunter since gen 2, I hate how shinies are common nowdays, my fav pokemon is mewtwo and I’m so proud I hunted my shiny in fire red❤

[@RE0XY]

So square shinys captured in previous games are still rarer than star shiny ones? The truth is that im still somewhat confused

[@JFlash727]

It's quite odd yup, but yeah, everything transferred from older games like Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire for example are all rarer to be Square Shiny, at the 1/16 chance.

[@tylerboyd378]

Square sparkles were just in sword and shield right

[@JFlash727]

Yep!

[@pkmniacradish]

wait so if im getting it right, does this mean that theres a greater than 1/4096 chance of shinies? because the game can force a pokemon to be shiny before even doing that calc => calc comes out says no this isnt shiny => predeterminism says yes it is => high chance of a forced shiny? pls correct if i am not getting that

[@JFlash727]

The predetermining system uses whatever shiny chance you may have at the time. So if you have shiny charm, there is a 1/1365 chance a Pokémon is forced shiny, or if you don't have charm, a 1/4096 chance it is forced shiny, etc. Hope this helps!

[@n7x]

Also, shinies that are not predetermined and still roll the shiny value are most likely reverted to non-shiny, which counters the game’s ability to force a predetermined shiny

[@marioipod]

That's funny, I found a shiny Virizion in Black 2 many years ago by accident.

[@Origamigryphon]

I can't say that I've gotten a wild star shiny in Pokemon SwSh, but what I CAN say is that I've encountered double starter shinies in Soul Silver, with a whopping 1/67 million chance of happening! The video is in my channel!

[@SweetTaleTeller]

I wish they kept different sparkles

[@TheBulbasaurKid]

I may still have a game clip of a wild star shiny. I have caught one or two in SWSH within the first year it came out

[@Lucky_ditto]

Hi! Would the star sparkles from hatching eggs be the same odds?

[@JFlash727]

1:47

[@Its_MnD]

So after watching this i realised I have a star sparkles wailord that I got from the static encounter that's the 1/18million chance isn't it?

[@Kana_Minomafu]

Wait im really confused... i caught a shint litwick at the motostoke gym and its star shiny . Does it count as a wild encounter or not ? Please help

[@JFlash727]

@@Kana_Minomafu like mentioned in the video, Pokemon caught in the Motostoke gym are commonly star shiny 15/16 of the time. They are static encounters. Your star shiny litwick is common.

[@Kana_Minomafu]

@JFlash727 ah few

[@meta13gaming]

I’ve transferred my shiny Jumbo Golurk from SV back to Sword for a ribbon, and he was a star shiny, is that anything notable?

[@mobious01]

lol no, thats just a regular star from SV

[@meta13gaming]

@@mobious01 so all SV shinies that can be transferred to Sword and Shield are automatically programmed to be star shinies?

[@JFlash727]

@@meta13gaming Either star or square at the normal star and square sparkle odds!

[@HayLeesHomeMade]

Matt (absol) mention, subscribed

[@JFlash727]

Ofc, we love Matt

[@angelgarza4949]

Awesome and very informative video ! Most rare shiny I have is a Square Hatched Female Combee at no more than 200 hatched It’s like the only video I’ve uploaded to my channel

[@FSUincRS]

I have a square hatched shiny charmander, and honestly i think multiple star shiny RE gonna boot up my sw/sh and check should note i do have shiny charm on there (i have every dex filled from sun through to violet even ultra sun idk why)

[@pinklikemizutsune3336]

I see that static encounters had star sparkles, though i may be mistaken

[@JFlash727]

Yup. Static encounters would be Pokémon like the Regis.

[@pinklikemizutsune3336]

@@JFlash727 arent the sword of justice considered static though?

[@JFlash727]

@@pinklikemizutsune3336 Nope! They are actually considered an Overworld Spawn. The only difference they have from regular strong spawn Pokémon is that they respawn if you leave the vicinity and come back, or enter Pokémon camp and leave, unlike how strong spawn Pokémon you have to wait 24 hours. The Sword Trio, and Spirtomb share this trait, and have the rare chance at being star shiny.

[@pinklikemizutsune3336]

@@JFlash727 interesting! Been a long time since ive touched swsh, so my memory’s a bit foggy

[@ImSpaceBoomy]

I have come back to this video, but my first time watching it made me fasinated by sw/sh all i think about now when i hunt wild pokemon is if it will be star shinies, im going for the full dex now just to see if one of them will be shiny, im only doing all the mons in the wild ofc

[@Benzinilinguine]

I have a star shiny Obstagoon from SwSh!!! It was in a dyna raid. 3 other people somewhere in the world have the same one since I opened it to public. So cool.

[@JFlash727]

1:49 This is not rare. Raid dens commonly have star shinies at the 15/16 chance.

[@lilicat9687]

Not sure if it’s on the same level, but I have a hatched shiny impidimp with square sparkles. All my other egg shinies have star.

[@JFlash727]

Thats a 1/16 chance! Congrats! (Multiply this 1/16 by whatever the shiny odds you used were!)

[@Psychadelicss]

I have a square regidrago clip, Isn’t that just as rare as that virizion?

[@Psychadelicss]

I always thought it was weird it was the only regi I shiny hunter that didn’t have stars.

[@JFlash727]

Your Square Regidrago is a 1/16 square shiny. With the 1/16 square sparkle chance, and the 1/4096 shiny chance, by contrast, that's about a 1/65,536 chance. Very big difference from 1/18 million.

[@Psychadelicss]

@@JFlash727 I had commented to early and found that out after finishing the video! Great video also luckily I still have the swords of justice to hunt in that game and I wanted to get a curry shiny before i officially move off the game outside of dynamax so there’s still hope!

[@Psychadelicss]

@@JFlash727 1 in 65k is pretty cool tho!

[@JFlash727]

@@Psychadelicss Best of luck!

[@sergioin3D]

I think you sort of just explained how the social networks formula on the window works with these pokemon I’d

[@Paarth1660]

So in the video you mentioned that the Regis pretty much only have star shinies, correct? Well recently I shiny hunted Regirock, with the charm, and I got a square shiny. How rare is that?

[@JFlash727]

They have the normal star and square sparkle chance. Your Regirock is a 1/16 square shiny, multiply that by 1/4096 shiny odds and that’s about 1/65,536! Congrats!

[@Paarth1660]

@@JFlash727 wow okay, thank you!

[@fertileplanet7756]

Do the many star shinies I've found in Let's Go, PLA, and SV count lol? I have actually found a full-odds shiny Espathra in SV with a mark on it. It's not a star shiny, but it's pretty rare itself. Also, imagine getting two identical star shiny wild encounter Spinda

[@Serious5GamingS5G]

I may not have a star sparkle shiny wild pokemon, but I'm okay with my random full odds 1/4,096,000 shiny rare mark Masquerain from Pokemon Violet

[@MageSkeleton]

8:50 would had been neat if you had swapped the "Forced" and "Natural" to emphasize the point, as you were explaining there's no way of knowing while also almost contradicting yourself by implying that the one is a "forced" and the other is a "natural."

[@bobjouns2910]

That's cause the odds for stars and squares sparkles were switched for random encounters by mistake i believe

[@elbloopper96]

And yet I thought getting a random shiny overworld star sparkles Tyrunt wasn't that special lol

[@zeusthefox1585]

I see why they removed the Star and Square shiny sparkles in Paldea

[@Starwars4J]

I know you use Virizion as an example but would the same apply to the two new Regi of the DLC? I got one star and the other square. Well I originally got both star and failed one...the reclaimed was square. It was a first encouter Regieleki and I was not prepared! I was just doing a test run

[@JFlash727]

@@Starwars4J 1:38

[@Petertran9717]

1:51 Regina Trades who’s Regina??

[@JFlash727]

Regina is an NPC on the Isle of Armor! She can trade you regional variants of Pokémon in exchange for the opposite regional variant (i.e. trade get a Kantonian Marowak, she will give you an Alolan Marowak). These trades are unique as they are not Shiny Locked, which is different from the main Galar island, as all gift trades are shiny locked there. The chance of finding one shiny is 1/4096 even with shiny charm, and star sparkle chance is 15/16 and square sparkle chance is 1/16! Hope this helps!

[@Lizred18]

Whoa im in your video😮

[@JFlash727]

Welcome! Small world! Had to double check, but you’re the one who posted some comments on the Star Shiny Vanillite video on Reddit! Hope you enjoyed the video! 😊

[@thefinalduane]

hi liz!

[@Lizred18]

@@thefinalduane hi duane👋

[@radishman]

its a shame they didnt carry the star and square sparkles to scarlet and violet :((

[@zeusthefox1585]

How do Shinies from past games fall into this?

[@JFlash727]

There's a comment by @yallclowns somewhere in the comment section where we talk about how past games work with these sparkles :)

[@wkey4dub]

Literally the only thing I can possibly think of that is more rare than this is a wild shiny with pokerus in the old games. 1/178,956,971 odds

[@ToastieStrudel]

Looks like I have a new shiny Hunting goal, find a star shiny in the wild

[@Voltage2561]

So, question I did a dynamax adventure and I got a shiny from there. I was wondering what type of sparkles it has and it has stars does this count?

[@JFlash727]

1:56

[@ShinyHunterSolyu]

Is it possible for a Pokémon caught in another game that’s compatible to SWSH, could it be square and if so is that rare?

[@joshuajefferson347]

I found a 10 percent encounter star shiny critical capture applin and lost my mind when it happened

[@joshuajefferson347]

Also full odds

[@JFlash727]

If it was from a tree, then it's the normal 15/16 star sparkle odds. Otherwise, if you have a video of it, I'd love to see it!

[@Earthworm_Jon]

Im pretty sure i found a shiny excadrill in Sword with star sparkles. Ran at me when I tried to avoid it

[@joshchavez8614]

Now I have to check if any of my shines have stars

[@novaduck_iv]

I think a better question is "why tf is this even a feature?" lol

[@diegocadas13]

Usually stars are rare on wild encounters. On the other hand squares are rare on hatched Pokémon. But are square eggs also this rare?

[@CookieCrisp0903]

I got lucky with a square shiny Regirock in the DLC

[@blumenkohldaddy5972]

if you transfer a star shiny into another game and transfer it back will it be the same animation?

[@JFlash727]

Yep!