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My first full-odds shiny ever in a Pokemon game was a shiny zubat on Pokemon Emerald in 2004. I'll never forget how confused I was when I saw a green version of Zubat. I legitimately thought something was _wrong_ with my game. Didn't help matters that I had also recently gotten PokeRus around that time and thought all of my Pokemon were going to die lol
Pokerus had me scared asf as a kid fr
my first shiny was an unown in fire red, the most recent one was a shiny poochenna in my most recent emerald game but i had no pokeballs because i just started it
Mine was also a zubat, and I accidentally killed it
Ran from my first shiny bc it was a zubat and i was Just grunning on autopilot
mine was also zubat in emerald aswell but guess what , it knew whirlwind for some reason then i found a shiny hariyama in victory road and it also used whirlwind
The thing about mirage island is too, the fact that a lot of people probably saw it their first time going through and didn’t even know it’s rarity or even stopped to look at it
“a lot of people” 💀
@@BeyondMagical you and everyone understood what he meant...
"first time going through" 💀
I played hundreds of hours and saw it one day. I was a kid and thought something was wrong with my game-especially when it was just full of Wynaut lol
I definitely remember going there as a kid thinking it was just part of the game… crazy I played all Pokémon games from red to platinum and have yet to catch a shiny!
I will never forget when I found a shiny Quagsire in Pokémon soul silver in the ruins of of alph, the problem was I didn’t had a single ball with me. I literally stayed 30 minutes looking at the screen in suffering knowing that I would not be able to capturing it, still breaks my heart to this day
I am so sorry, that is pure pain. :-(
Same here. Blue Venonat in Crystal. I had just made the choice to not buy any balls since I was just level grinding.
I had a woofer run in the sinnoh safari zone
I still have screenshots of finding a shiny spinda and having 0 balls. I stayed around too, sad I had to kill it lol
My first shiny was a quagsire a long time ago, but I did catch it and it's still in my Pokemon Home :) Edit: Actually it was a Wooper, but it's a Quagsire now
When I was like 7 I found a shiny gold caterpie in my copy of leaf green in the grass across nugget bridge. I killed it on accident because I had just reordered my Ivysaur’s moves and switched sleep powder with an attack. I still remember this vividly almost 20 years later. None of my friends believed me, it was before any of us knew shiny Pokémon were even a thing
I remember the first shiny I caught while playing Pokemon Gold back in the day. It was a Red Gyarados just sittin' there in the middle of the Lake of Rage.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂 lmafo underrated comment, you caught me off guards lmao
No way, I got one there too! It must be a common, because they put it in the manga too!
This is great 😂
You can CATCH Red Gyarados?! Surely it's an uncatchable story encounter like Marowak in Red and Blue...
Shiny Golbat at Mt. Silver (outside) in Gen 2 was my first, besides the red Gyrados.
Playing Legends Arceus brings back some good memories. Especially shiny hunting, just seeing them while roaming or hearing the chime and not knowing where the Pokémon is. I still freak out lol.
No matter how often you find shinies, how much of an avid hunter you are, seeing that sparkle- hearing that twinkle- you always pause to remember the moment. I’ve caught well over 100 shiny Pokémon at this point in the main series games, but my heart always skips a beat whenever one appears. Nothing in video games is quite like it.
Fun fact I completed the main storyline and also became 10 star rank on pokedex but I still didn't get a single shiny Well except for the shiny ponyta (rapidash now) but that was because of a request
@@manhalrahman5785 that's insane. Did you do mass outbreaks often? My first bidoof mass outbreak had a shiny lol
I have found around 60 shiny's in pokemon legends. Every single one feels like my first
@@cryoentertainment9109 Ran into a shiny Beautifly on my current playthrough of Legends while in the 3rd area. First time in 10 years finding a shiny without hunting for it, with the exception of Let's Go Evee which I don't count
RIP to my first shiny, a Snover from Platinum. I knew it was special, even when I didn't know what shinies were. Unfortunately, when I reset my game, she was one of the Pokemon I did not transfer over. RIP to my shiny Snover, I will never forget you.
Hey, I have a shiny Abomasnow in my Brilhant Diamond. If you want, I can trade with you.
@@victorcmoreira I haven't played BD/SP since launch, so I'll pass. They were awful games.
she would forgive you after all the pokemon you are kind too will always love no matter what
I dont have my original starter Torterra from Platinum
this puts into words perfectly why pokemon is so special, and why ive been obsessed with the series for almost my entire life.
❤
Slugma when I was a young child ❤️ I was scared, not understanding what happened to my game. I threw my one ultra ball I had (my only ball) at full health.. and caught it!! I stared at it forever, wondering. Kids on my playground explained what it was and begged me to trade it to them. I still have it as shiny macargo and it will always have a special place in my heart ❤️
Me too!! I found mine on Route 113 in Emerald and asked my friend Emma why the Slugma I found was grey!
Trade me your macargo. I'll give you a plain lvl.5 shuckle. It's a good deal trust me, I'm a copter.
Same happened with me but it was a koffing 😑
I had something similar happen with a ditto but I wasn't able to catch it
@@Qtoyghs same here lol 2006ish time.
This video goes so hard. My first shiny was a Butterfree in Pokémon Gold Was so sad I couldn’t transfer it up ;_;
yea h whyd they do it like that
@@bidoof367 Lack of technology really, and they weren't going to rebuild the entire GBA just for Pokemon.
If you still have it (stored on Stadium 2 for example) you can send it over to a GSC card with a new battery, then transfer it to VC, then into home.
so weird that both top comments are ab their first shiny being a butterfree in gold
my first was swsh magikarp from the shiny raid event havent found a legit shiny since(not from trading)
My first shiny was a shiny female horsea that I fished for in an area that only had horsea and wailmer available. I spent hours chain fishing and hoping for a horsea. It’s now a lvl 100 kingdra chilling in my Pokémon home ❤️
My first shiny ever was in pokemon black. I had already beaten the game and was just grinding levels against wild audino in giant chasm. Low and behold a shiny mamoswine pops up and blew my mind. I still have it in pokemon home to this day. Ill never forget that moment.
Mine also was from black 2 after elite four. I was looking for a female combee and got a shiny sewaddle. My only favourite bug type in gen 5. It was on emulator, but still, one of my favourite memories. The second one was random shiny tentacool in heat gold
Back when I was young and had hope my first shiny was a Metapod in Gold I evolved into a Butterfree. I shiny hunted Caterpie in USUM just to have it again.
Caterpie was my first shiny in Gold as well. I found it while trying to find a Pineco.
@@lucideirune1635 Glad your shiny was a Caterpie and not a Pineco so you didin't have to worry about him self-destructing
I also shiny hunted Tangela in Platinum because my first shiny was on my silver edition and my brother catched it for me. But someday, the battery died.
Random encounter flaaffy was my first shiny in heartgold Bc it was my brother and cousins finding shinies in the 1st-2nd gen games for me haha
Mine was also a Caterpie, but in Fire Red. I had just started a new game, and I was just passing through Viridian Forest while in the backseat of my grandparents' car. But I also just remember my disappointment that shiny butterfree wasn't pink like in the anime.
I must admit, this video made me cry. I love this franchise so much! My first shiny was found on Mt coronet in the snowy bit. It was a Snover. This was like 15 years ago but I'll never forget sitting on the couch in the family room in front of the TV. it was early afternoon. I was trying to find spear pillar but I was lost. While wondering around i stumbled into a weird Snover. It's hands were blue and it had a weird sparkly animation. I had no idea what a shiny was at the time but I remember thinking "I have to catch this!". I only had 3 Ultra balls and it broke out of all of them. Since then I've spent thousand of hours looking for these sparkly monsters and I have over 1000 in my Pokémon home and a few hundred in Pogo. A few years back I retuned to Mt Coronet in hopes of finding my long lost snowman and was able to reunite with him. He was all grown up and put on some weight but sparkled just the same.
beautiful :')
Absolutely wild ride
That was a beautiful story one of my more recent memories was I was hunting a shiny shinx while I had never hunted anything before in bdsp once I found my shiny I named it after my cat the week after my cat died and this is only way I keep him alive
Better story then twilight tbh
I had a similar story. I found a shiny bellsprout in soulsilver and had run out of poke balls since I had just started the game. 10 years later I found a shiny bellsprout in Pokémon gold on the virtual console. I named it sparkles.
My first and only shiny I've ever found was a Rosalia in Platinum. I remember I was so surprised and excited. I had played through FIVE Pokemon games previously and had never seen one with my own eyes, other than a couple random ones my friends had. I still have that copy of Platinum, and I will cherish it forever.
I remember the first time i found that super rare island. I remember being like "oh what, i didnt know this island was here" i explored for a bit i caught a wynaut, then was like "i need more balls so i can see whats in the grass here" so i leave the island never to see it again despite much effort to find it. When I told my friends at school they laughed at me and made me think I dreamed it up. I thought I did for years.
I came to this video expecting some basic thing to entertain myself and my god, I came out of it crying. My first shiny was a karrablast in bw2, route 11, when I saw the sparkles I jumped and screamed "shiny", scarIng some family members who were there, following that the people present became calling me shiny for the next 2 years. I loved remembering that, thank you Phin💛
My second ever shiny was a shelmet in bw2 while grinding up my team cause clay was giving me trouble, luckily I realized what I was looking at and caught it. The first was an onix in heartgold's victory road on the way to the league.
@@TheKabuto90 you guys should trade them
As rare it is to be recognized by you, it's almost the same as encountering a shiny, and as a shiny hunter, I'll give it a shot. Upon watching this video and getting emotional at the end, I booted up Pokemon GO, sitting next to my garden, only to have my first encounter of the day be a Shiny Hoppip. I cherished every second of it, grateful for you to bring back the importance of rarities to me. Thank you.
Ah but you see believe that was hoppip community day.
@@Thecloaker_ Still.
ewwww pokemon go
@@toilet-papergaming6384 its not full ewww, its just oh
@@skorupigo5544 eww for playing Pokemon Go
You've hit the nail on the head here. This goes beyond shinies as well.. The encounters that were so rare you'd end up giving up were exactly what made the pokémon games feel so alive. No matter how many hours you'd put into your game there was always more to be uncovered. The feeling i got when i finally found a honey tree Munchlax in Diamond will forever be ingraved in my memory. Used to look at Cynthias Spiritomb and Milotic and think those pokémon were so rare they were borderline unobtainable. Thats how it should feel. You are only rewarded with these cool Mons if youre willing yo put in some ridiculously hard work and the feeling you get when you finally achieve it will stay with you forever. Hate how much easier shiny hunting is now they've completely lost thier value..
The first Pokémon I ever caught was a shiny geodude in Pokémon crystal. I ended up losing it soon after, as I was playing on an emulator and the tab got closed (I didn’t have a proper console yet) but I always remembered it, and literally the same day as I’m typing this was actually the day that I found it again on the DS version of Pokémon crystal! I’ll finally be able to evolve it into the golem that it was always supposed to be
My first shiny was a Marill in Pokémon Sapphire. It was in the pond near the Winstrate family, I was in the hospital recovering at the time from an appendicitis, and as physically weak as I was, I remember how excited and energetic it made me feel. Someone's first shiny is extremely special, and I love to hear peoples shiny Pokémon stories.
Bro my first shiny was a Marill too!!! Found it in the grass patch just before rustboro, behind the flower shop. It was on my VERY FIRST! Playthrough of Emerald, playing on my older brothers semi-broken GBA. I had just encountered and caught it and before i could save... the GBA somehow broke down. Losing the shiny Marill. In every monthly playthrough of Emerald i play nowadays i always spend the first hour trying to find that marill again. No luck, sadly enough.
My most recent shiny was a shiny azurill. I love Marill. I did evolve it into Azumarill though because the yellow is cute. I would have kept the Marill if it was also yellow, although the green looks fine, I just thought the water yellow Pikachu is just cuteee
Mine was a trapinch on Y. The first one I remember. In childhood days i remember a shiny pidgeon on a silver playthrough but that memory is fading.
My first shiny was an igglybuff and it went to the box but yeah I still remember
Mine was an alolan dugtrio in the Poni cave near the kommo-o totem battle.
I’ll always remember the pain of a shiny Baltoy using explosion first turn and then running into a shiny sudowoodo and catching it that same day
Sounds about right.
You are absolutely correct. Not only do I remember exactly where I was, and which Pokemon was the very first shiny that I saw (Pokemon silver version, fishing near midnight by the daycare center caught a shiny Krabby). But I also remember vividly spending hours looking for a fabled golden Ekans that my buddy swore he saw on a certain route.
My first full odds shiny was a Scatterbug in Y version, on route 2 right before Santalune forest. I thought it was a special reward for becoming Champion as I had just beaten the game. It's long gone now, but I will never forget it. It was shortly after the game came out so somewhere around december 2013.
I remember my first shiny was a Shiny Zubat on Emerald. That Pink Crobat ending the battle against Wallace is something I can still vividly remember to this day.
Mine was also a shiny zubat, but in ruby!
My first shiny was also a shiny Zubat from emerald! I stumbled upon one while looking for a Bagon in meteor falls
My first shiny also was a Zubat in Emerald when i was like 9 years old and i really didn't know what was going on and accidently killed it and moved on with my day 😪😅
Hey, I know this video isn't performing as well as the others, but this was a beautiful essay. You've earned yourself a subscriber.
You're absolutely right, what a cool shared experience we all have! My first was a golden Geodude in LeafGreen, I was so lucky to have caught it without it self destructing (I didn't even think about it in the moment either)!
Brilliant video! So many people have questioned my sanity over my devotion and persistence when shiny hunting and this video and how you explain it are 100% on the mark! Thank you for finding the words I have never been able to
I caught my first shiny when I was a freshmen in High School back in '11. It was a shiny Boldore in Pokemon White. The sheer joy I felt, imagine hearing something only in rumors, but then one day experiencing it first hand. I didn't knew that Boldore was a trade evolution so I trained it until it almost reached 100. Because of this, I thought shinys couldn't evolve. I lost the game a few years later, must've misplaced it since I stopped playing it after finishing the game. I wish I could find it again so I could see my Shiny Boldore one last time.
Thats beautiful, man
if you were playing on a 3ds, the save data might still be accessible via sd card
i feel like this video really brings back the memories of what it's like to play pokémon as a kid. even if i did have access to the internet, it was still such a special experience and i can never forget what it was like the first time i played gen 4 and 5. my first ever shiny was a patrat in pokémon black, at some point after i beat the main game and was just walking around route 4. i may have screamed a little and my brother thought i saw a spider... but it was just a patrat :) even as my memory gets worse over time i'll never forget the memories i made playing pokémon.
You know that's crazy bc when I think about it, I think a shiny low level patrat was actually my first shiny in pokemon black as well. But the thing was that later that day I turned my game off without saving it and lost it forever LMAOOO.
My first was a orange zigzagoon in emerald going right past watts gym and at the beginning of the road going to moss deep. Thank you for reminding me of this beautiful and memorable time.
My first shiny encounter was a shiny Tentacool more than 20 years ago on Pokémon Silver. I went to see if I could Surf on the little pond inside the Day Care Center in Goldenrod, the moment I started surfing on the pound that Tentacool with blue blobs instead of red ones appeared. I thought there was something wrong with my Gameboy, so I turned it off. Spent months surfing on that same little pond to see if I could see the shiny Tentacool again, but it never appeared.
The moment you talked about "getting your first shiny" I felt like the memory slapped me. I play Pokemon 10+ years and I got my first shiny in Ultra-moon. (Shiny Scarmory). I was so happy
So, Mirage Island was actually mind blowing for me as a kid. Not only did I have no idea about it prior, but rather I stumbled upon it on my way to find Rayquaza on my first playthrough of Emerald. Ever since then, I still haven't found it again, but I will always remember what a really life Lychee is because of the rare Liechi Berry I found that day. Also, other than the obvious Red Gyrados, I didn't see a shiny until Diamond where I stumbled upon a Geodude, and promptly named him Nugget.
Are we the same Person? I as well managed to get to Mirage Island on my First playtrough of Emerald on my way to catch Rayquaza, i was 6 years old at the time, then i found a shiny geodude in Pokémon diamond, It was in the cave After the route with budew, the encounters if i'm not wrong are psyduck, geodude, zubat and onix for that small Path of cave, catched It and named goldie
@Nicolas Turetta That's funny, I'm pretty sure that I caught my shiny at Oreburgh Gate, and the area you are describing sounds like it's might be Oreburgh Mine due to the mention of Onix, though, it could have been the same location as mine due to the Psyducks. What a coincidence, huh?!
@@ThunderToast97 you are actually right! It was Oreburgh Mine!
@@nicolasturetta7959 Maybe there is something currently undiscovered with the code, like that one weird Safari Zone Graveler fact he covered or something. Like, I have seen so many shiny Spearow across multiple titles that I am convinced that something fishy is going on behind the shiny rates for certain Pokemon, possibly in certain locals as well, like Orebourgh...
My first shiny was in platinum it was also a Geodude !
In all my time playing Pokémon, from Silver to White 2, I still remember catching that shiny Fearow on the slopes of Stark Mountain and that shiny Clefairy in the Giant Chasm. Memorable moments indeed!
I had a Diamond and Pearl strategy guide when I was younger that displayed a shiny Golbat, and I remember flipping to that page so many times just to admire it. When Black and White came out, I got my first shiny. It was early autumn morning on the school bus, probably a Monday since my birthday usually falls on a Friday, so I was playing pretty consistently for the weekend and I came across *the* first shiny, a shiny Purloin. I remember being so scared to lose it that I almost cried, but I caught it first try, and it stayed with me the entire game. That cart is now lost, along with the DS I played it on, but I won't forget that Purloin, and no matter how many more shiny Purloin I catch, they won't be her.
My first ever shiny Pokemon was a Ditto in Pokemon silver that was blue and I remember thinking it was the most insane exciting thing to get because that ditto could transform into every single other Pokemon and turn them completely blue, it was an incredible moment and I'll never forget it and this video is absolutely right that the rarity of Pokemon is at its core a life force for the series
2006 Pokemon Emerald. I remember laying in my bed as a kid late one night messing around in the Safari zone, I came across a Sunkern that showed a little sparkle. I've never seen or heard of a shiny Pokemon before this point. I just remember that feeling of warmth that I just stumbled across something amazing. I sadly lost the game in a move but like you said, it's all about the memory. I will miss you CornBoy (It was female).
The shinies I've lost are so sad. The Platinum with my random shiny Ponyta that was sold by my parents behind my back, the three shinies from my Pearl Oak's Challenge recently lost to the game itself getting destroyed by a careless ex and some soda.😭 Pokémon is just as much a game of love as it is loss. It's just data, but if I lost any of my other games I'd be aching for a long time. RIP to Blazerpone, Goldirocks (1% Onix), Nugget, Meddatit, and CornBoy too.
rip cornboy (even tho its a girlo)
@@Solaceon your parents sold Platinum without asking you? I would been an orphan in your situation
@@Solaceon your parents sound horrible for doing that I would probably not speak to my parents for a 1 month if they did that
I never got a shiny as a young child other than gift ones but I will always remember my beloved Chansey. I cry thinking about it because I loved Chansey so much because she has a cool egg move and was pink and really squishy looking. Lol. I evolved her into blissey much later. Then I set her free and I made a new account, I have an affinity for all Chanseys though, and my first Chansey is forever in my heart 💖 I still remember teaching her shockwave and thinking it was so cool 🤣 (pokemon diamond)
Mirage island appeared on one of my first treks through the island area. When I was kid and still familiarizing myself with the area. So I got to the island and spent very little time there. Thinking it was just another island, since I hadn't even seen half of them yet. Left the island and kept going around to get a feel for the area. But because the island disappeared, I was left so confused direction wise. I am good with directions and having it disappear on me just left me lost in the area for a while. The game pretty much gaslit me in the worst way for me. It wasn't one of those OMG moments for me, since I did not even find out the island was a real thing until like ten years later. (No internet as a kid.) I had assumed I just remembered the island area wrong since there was nothing special about it. The only reason I even remembered it from when I was a kid. Was because of how frustrated I was. I guess now it is a cool memory but yeah...
I'll always remember my first shiny as a bitter memory. It was when I was like 10y/o, playing Pokémon Platinum. I've been never interested in "catching them all" so when I had my full team with my 6 favourite pokemon I'd stop buying pokéballs. One day, while I was running around for whatever reason I passed through the Mount Coronet passage between Oreburgh City and Hearthome City. And then it appeared, a brown machop. I didn't know what shinies were at that time but I knew for sure machops weren't brown and that that one was special (also because of the stars animation). I quickly looked through my bag... x2 Pokeball. I had my party full of +50 lvl pokémon with all damaging moves (I was 10 :c) so I would oneshot that lvl 15 Machop with anything. I threw my first Pokeball, he got out, and then my second one, same. At that point I had to choose whether to flee and say goodbye to that Machop or Flare Blitz the shit out of him. At that point I really don't remember what happened, probably because I was having a hard time handling my emotions. I just wish him the best and hope he's happy in Mount Coronet. :(
My first is also not a happy story. I WAS trying to catch everything in pokemon gold. I was hunting down all the forms of Unknown. If it wasn't a letter I was missing, I ran away. I was in a groove and almost had all of them when I mechanically ran away from yet another letter T and only as I was successfully fleeing it registered in my brain that it was a weird color
Kramen, only issue is in Pokémon gold and silver only 2 letters could be shiny the letter I and V
But I’m aware story would be years old and foggy memory from that long ago
@@kylewhan1358 thats kind of cool in a way. I V
My first shiny was a shiny arbok I found in victory road in my first playthrough of fire Red I looked all over the internet I saw some thumbnails and titles saying catching this shiny Pokemon I was too dumb to understand what they were talking about sadly that savefile is now gone (i actually caught it and used it in elite four because I thought it's something special it is but only because it's rare not that it's strong)
I still remember my first Shiny. Back when I was a kid, I didn't believe Shiny Pokemon actually existed until my brother showed me his Shiny Tentacruel, and I saw some of them on the anime like Red Gyarados or Ash's Noctowl being a bit different than the others. It wasn't until playing Pearl that I found a Shiny Bibarel. It was amazing how it had some sparkles around and seemed like a golden Bibarel instead of the regular brown one. I was so excited I called a classmate to brag about it! Then I found many other full odds shinies on Platinum (Shinx, Starly, Quagsire) and I was always looking for more. I still remember soft resetting for Cyndaquil and Lapras in Silver VC, or for Totodile in Heart Gold, and getting a Solosis when I was looking for a competitive one in Pokemon Black. Remember back in 2013 when XY launched? There were reports of "monochrome Pokemon" which ended up being regular Pokemon but with a texture error that made them look colorless. I feel that Gamefreak should bring them as an actual mechanic, but without following the Shiny rules (no increasing rate methods, not showing their forms on the Pokedex, not even mentioning them in-game outside of a rare NPC dialogue or something; not even distributing them in events) and having the original 1 in 8192 chance of appearing; or even a lower rate.
i fully agree on the bringing back monochrome pokemon as a feature idea, full odds shiny hunters would go crazy for it
remember back in the day when ruby and sapphire came out one of my friends traded me a "ugly" tentacruel and i never knew about shiny pokemon but i kept it and then maybe about a year later i figured out what shiny pokemon was and linked both together lol
When I played ultra moon back in 2018, I had no idea what a shiny was. I liked the ultra warp ride a lot and did it constantly and ended up finding a few shinys, including a Alteria. I either noticed it’s different color or noticed the shiny sparkle for Pokémon I have never seen like stunfisk. I am glad I caught them then and have gotten a few more shinys in ultra ride since then, sitting at 13 right now. Glad they exist, it is fun to find them
I found my first shiny, a combee, in gen 6, and though my luck ran out and it was male, I still remember it and love it. I still have the combee today, it kinda means a lot to me your talk of how moments are special brings me back to when I finally got the Riolu egg in Pearl and hatched it. I was so excited that I freaked out and showed my grandma, who had no real idea how special it was but encouraged my enthusiasm anyway. it was my favorite Pokemon at the time (and still one of my faves now), and getting to finally own one was so exciting to me. ofc now its like clockwork that I get the Riolu egg anytime I replay the games, but back then I had no clue you could only get one that way and was ecstatic over it. that's my *moment* with the games.
I’ll never forget when my cousin found a shiny drowzee in Pokémon silver back when we were kids. At first we thought there was a problem with his game pallet as the color pallets used to switch back in red and blue. But after doing the duplication glitch and sending drowzee over to my gold version the color remained. It was such crazy cool feeling when we later found out it was a shiny. Definitely a moment I’ll never forget
Damn, this video was an insane nostalgia rush. I feel so overwhelmed by how relatable everyone's experiences and emotions are when encountering their first shiny. I recall catching my first shiny like it was yesterday. I was about 13 and I launched my Nintendo DS first thing at the break of dawn whilst everyone was knocked out. I was trying to find a Pikachu at the back of the Pokemon Mansion for my team. I would run in that patch of grass for hours just figuring out all the possible Pokemon's I could encounter. However, one Pokemon didn't look different but the sparkling animation and audio had me very confused. I'd never heard of a shiny Pokemon nor was I aware I had found one. I paused, debated, and hesitated on whether I should knock it out. Thankfully, I caught it and left it idle in my Box. Until one day I traded it to a friend for an Action Replay Arceus and Mewtwo. In hindsight, I am gutted. However, after reliving those memories I've began a shiny playthrough on Brilliant Diamond and Legends Arceus. Legends Arceus doesn't have the same novelty as a full odd 1/4098 but it's still a great feeling. I am proud to say that I have encountered a full odd Shiny Spiritomb on BDSP. Feel free to check it out on my channel. My comment may get washed away but I am glad I've left my footprint on the internet of my Shiny Story :)
i remember the first shiny i found in my time of playing pokemon games, the shiny was a shiny pinsir from pokemon go before i even knew what a shiny pokemon was, it was during some difficult times during my family as we were trying to get help from insurance after getting into a car wreck, i remember seeing it normal on the map, i showed my cousin (who is roughly a month older than me) when i was waiting in the car (i was around 11-12 years old) i remember being very confused and chose to hang on to it (it was during july) and i found it very special to me.
I still remember my first shiny. I didn’t grow up with Pokémon and only recently started to properly play it these last few months. While playing heart gold and heading towards a patch of grass outside the safari zone, I had to go through some water first. I found a shiny tentacool, my first ever shiny and a nice one at that. I got so excited at finding my first shiny that I shouted so loud everyone in my house heard me, including my brother who I dragged into Pokémon and quietly said ‘they’ve found a shiny.’ But I accidentally one shot it with my main and never found another shiny (ignoring the garadose in the lake) despite having 60 hours on my save and grinding a ton (I’m currently working on a living dex). I know the shiny odds are gunna be high in this game since I don’t have any item to help me and they hadn’t been lowered permanently yet but you’d think I’d find another shiny after playing for about 30 hours
I will never forget my first shiny. In Greece we called them Golden Pokémon (Χρυσά Πόκεμον). I had just finished with Blackthorn City and was climbing down the Route 46. Then suddenly a Shiny Gligar appeared. It's been so many years since then. But I will never forget my first "Golden" Pokémon.
That's fun to know...I was playing Pokemon from a young age but I'm from a small town...so my first real experience with the community was way later in life, when I already knew shiny pokemon by name and.....so i never had the "oh we called them x" moment. Till this day, all Greek fans I interact with just say "βρήκα ένα σάινι"... Hope your Gligar is still alive and well.
My first shiny was a Gligar too! I was just wondering around on Legends Arceus looking for any pokemon I hadn't caught yet and I just randomly saw a little sparkle and realized it was a shiny. I was able to catch him thankfully and he remains as the only shiny I've legitimately caught in my many years of pokemon (Besides the free shiny Ponyta they give you in Legends Arceus).
First shiny was a Zubat in Sapphire. Most recent one was a full-odds accidental Golduck in Scarlet, which itself was only days after finding a shiny Mudbray entirely by accident in the same playthrough after a shiny drought of years. Something about shinies makes them so incredibly memorable and precious
Hearing that pokemon trading card game song in the background brought back memories!
My first shiny was a shiny wurmple, I was screwing around on route 101 obliterating level 3 Pokémon with the green noodle dragon and then it appeared
This video made me feel very happy and proud of my first shiny. Thank you for expressing what I could not put into words that magical moment I had only just 3 years ago.
Dude I absolutely loved this video!!!! I couldn't have said it better myself on hunting full odds. Comparing it against shinies in PoGo was the perfect analogy for anyone wondering why we hunt full odds. Love seeing how much your channel has grown in the past year, can't wait to see you hit 100k!!
Dude this video was AMAZINGLY well done. Felt like watching a documentary
God I still so fondly remember my first shiny and how I tragically lost it, I just uploaded the story as a short on my channel for anyone who's interested but I'm so glad it at least had a happy ending haha, rip shiny Machop you will be missed 😇.
this is one of the best videos I've seen about Pokemon, truly captures the essence of being a kid and discovering a whole new world inside a cartridge. I do remember the first shiny I found, in my first run of Platinum, back when the game released, just short of the waterfall to victory road, its really something I'll never forget. Going even deeper, I remember no one believed me when I told them I saw a npc climbing Mt. Chimney, way back when I was in like, 3rd grade. It was only 2 or 3 years ago that I discovered I was, in fact, not crazy. Pokemon is the best.
Hoo boy, my first shiny Pokémon was complicated. I didn’t like the fact that my first shiny ever caught was a Roselia on a GBA emulator of Ruby. I started playing Pokémon during the X/Y days, so that’s why I was using an emulator for the older games. But anyways, I never got a shiny from X/Y, S/M, US/UM, or SW/SH. After playing Ruby on the emulator and encountering a shiny Roselia, I thought to myself “I should probably make this my first official shiny in a Pokémon game that I actually own.” So after 1262 eggs in SW/SH, it officially became my first shiny. And the fact that Budew was the first shiny I found in Legends Arceus just makes this story even more memorable to me. Having another shiny Roselia/Roserade as my first shiny in a game just confirmed how important this shiny Pokémon is to me.
I remember on X and Y launch day I was looking for flabebe for my team. It was right after the first game, I had barely owned the game for 2 hours (counting travel from store to home) and it had been out for less than 24. I found kept finding budew and my brain like Budew 1: oh cool budew *runs Budew 2: another budew... *runs Budew 3: oh ffs just give me flabebe *runs Budew 4: ...um....wait...did they all have a purple collar? *catches is. Needless to say I completely forgot about hunting Flabebe.
Did I ask?
@@blob4477 No, but Phin did.
My very first shiny was a wingull in Pokemon Diamond, I was 8 years old back then and had 0 balls on me. I also thought it was a glitch since its wings were green and not blue. Many years later I learned about “shiny Pokemon”
Love that you had stickerbush playing in the backround
I still remember my first shiny, the Octillery I caught in X when I learned what chain fishing was. If we're talking about random shinies, Mienfoo on Route 8. Still have it to this day, and I love it.
Look man, you make some really good videos. This video, however, may be your best yet. It’s not every day that I hop on KZhead and find something so completely relatable and perfectly honest, so thank you. This perfectly articulates how I feel about Pokémon in general.
This is such an amazing video. Thank you for making it I started shiny hunting much later compared to many other people. Thanks to the red Gyarados in HGSS I kinda knew about shinies, which is why I always treasured that Gyarados no matter how many times I played the game. However I only became a hunter in late 2021, with my firsrt shiny appearing on Christmas Eve (techincally). I was hunting for Piplup in Brilliant Diamond and about 400+ resets in on Christmas Eve I found the shiny Starly.... I regret not battling it now to get revenge, but literally the next day, Christmas Day, on the way to a family gathering, I found my target. Shiny Piplup! At 531 resets! It brought me so much joy that I still use that same one, as an Empoleon to this day in that game. I will need to get another Empoleon to put into Home since that one is certainly not gonna rot in there. Last Christmas I found a few shiny Pokemon in Violet so I guess it's my personal Christmas tradition for the time being 😁
My first time was blitzle literally on route 3 and i didn't understand what was different at first just that when i looked at its summary it had a red star. It was awesome and started me down the path to get a shiny of my favorite pokemon from thst point forward.
My first shiny experience was in pokemon diamond, I encountered a shiny hoot hoot, and it blew my mind, I didn’t even know shiny Pokémon existed, sadly I accidentally fainted it with a critical hit, but that experience has stayed in my mind as one of my personal most mind blowing gaming moments.
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my most insane shiny memory was finding 2 shiny nidoran females back to back in Fire Red. it was in Route 3 in the last grass patch right before Mt. Moon. I still have them in my Soul Silver game :)
My first shiny wasn’t even on my own game, I was showing my friend where an item was in Pokémon black by the town on the bridge. While I was surfing across the river a shiny sharpedo showed up. Still my only full odds shiny to this day and will always remember it
My first shiny was in gold version on GBC.. a few days after getting the red gyarados I fished a green magikarp. At the time I thought it was a bug of the game and was so happy to catch it, thinking it could evolve in a green gyarados… but nope, became a second red gyarados 😂
A shiny Caterpie that I found back in 2009 playing heart gold. I named it Goldie, and had absolutely no idea what a shiny was, but that Butterfree became my best friend... My cartridge sadly went missing, but I will never forget you Goldie the Butterfree. Thank you for taking down red's Venusaur! (Oh and Koga, Bruno, and Jeanine)
I love the way you present your videos, shiny Pokémon mean so much to a lot of people and in your intro of this video you did an excellent job of showcasing that, I got goosebumps when you played your reaction and other creators reactions to finding shiny Pokémon. I reacted the exact same way today when I caught my all time favorite shiny Pokémon, hisuian Growlith in arceus! I love being able to relate to that feeling with other Pokémon enthusiast.
I don’t remember my first shiny I caught, but I remember the first shiny I stumbled across. A shiny Spinda before ever knowing what a shiny was, before ever seeing a Spinda, and thinking the sparkles had to do with the ash from the tall grass. What I do remember is hatching a shiny Deino and finding a wild shiny Druddigon on the same day which blew my little mind.
I remember vividly catching a Shiny Ho-oh in Pokemon Go on my birthday through the breakthrough research. I think the year after that i caught a shiny ponyta the week of my birthday. I honestly thought that Pokemon Go gave you a shiny on your birthday. I later found a second Shiny Ho-oh and traded it to a friend for a shiny Rayquaza. My first shiny in "Legends: Arceus" was a shiny Buizel (that I didn't realize was shiny until i turned it in). I was just catching all the Buizels for rhat silly "Biggest Buizel" quest. My second one was a shiny drifloon. All this was before the shiny ponyta they just give you. Ponyta is one of my favorite Pokemon so no complaints!!! I afore your content! Keep up the amazing work and have a great day!!!
Amazing production value, and an excellent narrative. You brought a tear to my eye when you showed all the reactions to getting a shiny. My first shiny was a Zubat back in 2004 on Pokemon Sapphire, and I'll never forget that moment.
That was before I was Even born 😆
Mine was a shiny zekrom wasn’t even hunting for it was in omega ruby alpha sapphire
Shiny zubat in heart gold was mine. I caught it and lost the cartridge 😢
I remember my most recent shiny was a Gligar in Legends Arceus by outbreak. When I saw the thing I went dead silent until it stayed in the ball! I distinctly remember wanting any shiny and unloading/Reloading environments until an outbreak appeared; I just got lucky with the Gligar. As for my first shiny ever, counting Go it was Scyther (Yes, I was lucky enough for my first ever random shiny to be a freaking scyther. Im a bug type fan so this was awesome) but In the main series it was Trapinch, by masuda method. The guy (named Ace) was hatched while watching a video on shiny Pokémon, I think it was ADrive, In my old dining room. I still have them; They’re a lvl 100 full EV shiny Flygon with Pokerus now. I got the dang thing in like 9 eggs!
My first shiny was in black, saw a cool yellow frog and caught it. Looked back years later and realised that palpitoad is blue by default.
There are a handful of shinies I will never forget encountering. A shiny budew in a replay of Pearl, which was my first ever legit shiny after years of action replay "100% shiny chance" codes. On that same file i got a shiny Shinx hatched after only 12 eggs, which was unbelievably quick compared to the time i expected to lut into that hunt. The other big one for me was an Abra i found in X during my playthrough, and managed to catch. Each one of them helped cement the idea of wanting to find as many as shinies as I could possibly manage, and each one remains a magical moment for me when i look back on this franchise. It's genuinely amazing what some recolored pixels can do to the brain
I got a shiny Zubat when I was a kid, but my sibling accidentally deleted my account on my DS, but when I got BDSP, on my third day of playing, BOOM! SHINY ZUBAT! It came back
That one was meant 4u
Shiny Magikarp, about 8 years old and in the car with my family going south for our holiday. Still remember seeing that golden fish popping up out of nowhere. I remember saving the game ( fortunately) before evolving it to learn it turns into a red gyrados. so kept it as the golden carp, still got it to this day! (18 years on)
My first shiny that wasn’t Gyarados happened in Mt. Silver, when I was playing the original Gold. It was Steelix, I don’t remember how old I was, but I was a child and I had lots of happy tears 😅
Forgive me, for I shall poop on thy party. It was an Onyx. Same thing lbh but someones going to... eventually. Steelix aren't wild in GSC :c
My first shiny was a geodude on leaf green, second was a tentacruel on emerald, but my absolute favorite has to be my shiny dragon dance tyranitar I hatched on the same leaf green copy. Was trying to hatch a dragon dance tyranitar with a good nature, but ended up getting a shiny before getting one with an adamant nature
You’re absolutely right. I remember my first shiny like it was yesterday, playing my fave game Sapphire. I didn’t even know what shiny Pokémon were then, I just knew that this Roselia I found on route 117 was different than the rest and I had to catch it! I spent forever comparing it to my normal one in the PC. This video captures exactly that, the feeling of something special that makes you feel like the only player in the world for just a moment.
I think another thing that makes Pokémon special versus other games is that even if you encounter a shiny Pokémon, it does not guarantee you will catch it! The excitement of finding a shiny is mixed with anxiety, like “I just found one of the rarest things in Pokémon and what if I kill it and miss this rare opportunity?!” (unless you have false swipe haha). You either have the forever joy of catching it, or forever dread of killing it.
1000 shiny in Pokémon go, I remember my first one. I remember my first shiny in PLA and scarlet. I never got one in sword or any game before that. It still makes me so happy. Freaking out when I see the serotonin sparkle is an amazing feeling.
mine was snover near the peak of mt coronet. i remember feeling so quiet and happy as if i was actually laying in snow letting it slowly cover me. crazy feeling
My first shiny that I remember at least was a shiny Cubchoo in White. I was riding the bus to the mall. I could literally show you the exact spot in the street when it happened. It's why Cubchoo has a spot in my heart.
Yo that ending gave me chills. I definitely remember my first shiny. It was the ice cream cone in pokemon black. I was hype for my first legit shiny. I evolved it and it barely had a color change and I felt regret, but I still remember that moment 14 years later. And I have a bad memory lol
I remember my first shiny it was a full odds poochyena i caught in ruby this year and it was by random chance in route 102 and honestly it was a wonderful feeling as not only was he shiny but also my favorite pokemon and at time of writing going for a shiny groudon
I vividly remember the Pikachu in Veridian Forest, I didn't know it was so rare. I don't remember if it was my first playthrough or one of the many times I replayed it when I was a child
This video made me feel so emotional. My first shiny was a shiny zubat in the Lost Tower back in Pokemon Pearl. It was the first game I ever played, I was 8 years old. I had no idea what a shiny was, but I was so intrigued by the fact that it was green and I caught it. After talking with friends I realized it was a shiny and it was incredibly rare. I was so excited. No one else I knew had a shiny and it felt so special. My nephew who was a few years younger than me found his first shiny a few months later in pokemon ruby, a shiny Taillow. I saw him encounter it and freaked out telling him how rare it was. He lit up and got so excited. Now him and I shiny hunt in scarlet and violet together all the time, and I swear we get 1-5 new shinies a day. However, no matter what the shiny we obtain is, it'll never compare to the feelings we got when we got those full odds Zubat and Taillow back when we were kids.
My first shiny was actually fairly recent. I didnt have access to the older games so it was a shiny Skiddo on Violet. Though it's not as rare as the old ones, it's still really important to me.
That's all that matters.
While I fully understand the point, finding a shiny is not a pinnacle of videogame enjoyment, there are moments lived through skill that are equal if not even more memorable, like beating a boss hitless or stuff like that Sometimes I feel Pokémon fans are a little too trapped in a bubble
They are especially with the shiny stuff. God...
Waaay back in 2003 on my way to flannery's gym I got a shiny numel. I never used him but he never left my box. I think the fact I still remember it pretty much proves your point. Good shit
I was on a trip back home and found a shiny butterfree in the bug catching contest in heart gold. Easily one of the best moments of my young life.
This video is so well made Phin!! I’m going to have to show this to my friends whenever they ask why I spend hours shiny hunting haha! It’s so cool to see your work improving so much and I can feel the passion in all of your videos. Keep up the good work man!! ❤️
My “first”shiny. It was Pokémon diamond, I was standing in line at McDonald’s with my grandpa. A shiny geodude pops up on route 210 above Solaceon town. My ds died and that memory stuck with me 16+ years later.
Beautiful essay, my first shiny encounter was in Crystal. It was the baby egg where I got a shiny Magby and as a kid I didn’t know or care about the boosted odds, an unforgettable moment. It made the Magby line my favorite Pokémon from that day forward!
Great video! I love shiny hunting, having experienced my first shiny two years ago (A Sandshrew in Union Cave in HG) after playing for over a decade which led me to start hunting consistently. Also, I can feel a Summoning Salt/Emp Lemon influence!
that intro music is pretty on the nose for the summoning salt influence lol. Good vid
My first shiny was a shiny eevee in Pokemon Moon on May 5th 2018. I evolved my precious Opal into Umbreon and it had been significant to me ever since. I lost my Moon cartrige for about 2 years and although I had 21 other hunted shinies in that game. I only missed Opal. My first shiny. He meant everything to me. Right before I found my game again, I named my full odds Shiny Umbreon (which can I just say finding an Area Zero Shiny Umbreon was absolutely amazing) Opalite as a tribute to Opal even making a whole backstory to connect them.
My first ever shiny was a shiny chansey in Pokémon platinum (route 209). I lost it unfortunately but I fully intend to shiny hunt one on the same route again as soon as I find my copy of platinum.
My first shiny was a hoothoot in the grass just below ecruteak city on route 37 in soul silver. I remember it so clearly, I was 11 or so and was at my best friends place for a sleepover and we were just playing around for ages on our ds's and then it suddenly happened, I didn't even know what it was at the time but my friends reaction was something I never forgot. That's when I learned what shinies were, and that's when my story became unique. I will never forget it.
I remember my first shiny was a Farfetch in the safari zone in HG. I was so excited about it as it was so random but I was sad bc I couldn’t catch it. Still it was quite unforgettable