Massive congrats on one of the coolest shiny legends! Also I love how you're using a camcorder for your hunts, always brings me back to the old days of RU-vid where everyone recorded their consoles like that. And honestly? It's super cool being able to see your consoles as well. Perfect example that capture cards are not a "must have".
Excellent video! You’re one of the only RU-vidrs I know that can turn such a common shiny hunt into an engaging video! You do a great job building a story around all your hunts with things like the smeargle guide!
Oh yeah, that's a useful guide! I'm definitely going for Giratina in a cool ball when I get out of Eterna Forest. (Trying to get 1 shiny of each evo line, so I'll be a long time there.) I'm going to make a similar Smeargle, minus the false swipe or the super fang, replaced with trick + Leppa berry. It worked really well for me with Moltres in FireRed!
The thing that I absolutely love about your videos is that you take the time to explain your process and methodology with the hunt itself. This journey and setup could arguably be more exciting and thrilling than the outcome you ultimately are trying to produce. Its moments like this others get to see how your mind works. You’ve do an incredible job engaging the audiences that want to see and hear these types of break downs. I’m one such viewer that really appreciates it. As always, job very well done! And much congratulations on another well earned shiny.
The orgin Giratina is actually my fastest full odds hunt yet with it appearing after only 27 SRs!! Glad you got yours too this is definitely a shiny I want to hunt again someday.
Bro, I had this very similar setup all ready and going for the past 4 months, assuming I'd be the first on RU-vid to get in a non Master Ball back in January. And then I see that you beat me to it! Congrats on the awesome tutorial and catch. I'm glad someone can appreciate the craziness in this hunt without a Master Ball!
I’m a newbie shiny hunter but I’m hunting Giratina in BDSP rn. Your video appeared on my feed just as I was doing some resets, so I will see this as a good omen for me! Thank you for this great video, as always!
Congrats Matt, such a cool hunt! Glad you didn't succumb to the dreaded 'Supreme RK9' curse lol. Loved the Battle Revolution showcase as well, it looks so good in those games! Also, thank you for blessing us with being able to view "HILLBILLYPOOBALL" you truly are the Picasso of our generation.
YOOO MATT !!!!! man what an amazing video and yeah came for the shiny Giratina & absolutely legit for the Smeargle study but , congrats for the shiny hunt !!!!
The inclusion of Pokemon Channel brought back so many childhood memories for me. I have to agree with Smeargle, your painting is... splendid. (And so is Gladys!)
Nice one, Giratina is one of my favorite shinies! I spontaneously decided to hunt for it last year during my Ledian solo run and got super lucky and caught it in my last Quick Ball right before it was going to start struggling!
Truly an amazing shiny, congratulations on the catch, Matt! Also I wish I knew this Heart Scale tactic. I grinded three Smeargles up to 41/51/61/etc to learn Sketch again. I never considered using the move tutor. It took three because I messed up with the first two!
Kinda sad that I always end up missing your streams, I'd love to join the community! I've got a Smeargle in Shining Pearl with False Swipe, Spore, Mean Look, and Soak. In hindsight, Super Fang's a great move to help with wearing down health...
Currently trying to teach my Smeargle in Crystal some capturing moves, and I thought of that EXACT Ditto method to do it, thought I was an absolute genius...... yeah turns out that doesn't work in GSC,,, Should have realized that if it was possible for GSC someone else would have discovered and suggested it by now. Feeling bitter about it lol, but I'm glad to see it does work in later gens!! And congrats on the hunt!!!
@@thatdankguy5140 From what I can gather, there doesn't seem to be any reason except that it has been explicitly programmed to not work on Ditto, under any circumstances. I ASSUME they programmed it that way so Smeargle can't sketch transform, which could cause complications..... but why didn't they just program it so Transform specifically couldn't be sketched instead of making sketch fail on Ditto........ oh well,,,
Gladys the Giratina... Wow, I didn't know my Nana was a Legendary Pokemon, pretty cool- j/ It's so cool that you got this shiny though!! Looks gorgeous in this generation~
I come back to this every so often cuz I love these old-school hunts, plus Giratina's theme and shiny are both top-tier. Not entirely related but Ultra Sun was the first game I ever did soft reset hunts in, and that included a Giratina hunt. I was determined to catch that thing in a Beast Ball and I somehow did! ...I feel like I have no right to complain about bad luck ever again after that XD
My life has been a bit hectic, I have things I have to sort out soon but it's nice to see you fighting the good fight. Also, trying to knock out Kirby and the forgotten land since That's more recent
For smeargles I like soak over odor sleuth/foresight, because, it removes the ghost typing, it gives the net ball and increased catch rate, it removes the opponents stabs, and it allows grass types to be hit with spore
congrats! ive been hunting giratina in dynamax andventures since about a month before BDSP's release and still no shiny unfortunately, but i think it will come soon!
I had an epiphany the other day about the distortion world. The puzzle the three beings help you with mirrors their lake locations, in a triangle around the peak of mt coronet to bind the legendary there. Giratina's first portal happens at the top of mt coronet too. The distortion world really is a reflection of the real sinnoh region.
Absol the most ridiculously lucky thing that has happened to me in any Pokemon game happened I was doing a shiny badge quest in let's go like you and the first Pokemon that spawned was shiny the first
What a beautiful shiny, jealous as always, congratz Matt! One question (wich you probably already answered numerous times but I couldn't find any reasonable explanations): How do you Soft-Reset simultaneously on all four devices? Definitely want to try that hunt as well at some point, keep it up!
How do you keep track of moves used? I thought it was the last four moves they learned by level up but maybe that's just newer games? I wish there was a site that listed all legendaries and their movepools.
heck yeah! i’m planing to hunt this guy later :) i finally got a copy of platinum and i’m really liking it so far! maybe i will pick up that copy of heart gold that’s up in my city with the pokewalker for Peak Smeargleing
Congrats, man! Awesome shiny! And so quick! Where is that PP-Counter on the top left 10:00 from? If it is like a website, I would love to know how it is called, cause it could really help with the legendary hunts...
Seeing that battle revolution footage just makes me wish there was a battle revolution 2 where you could use gen 5 pokemon so I could see perma-glowing zekrom/reshiram again 😔
The fact that TWO major Giratina shiny hunts have screen froze makes me think that maybe the encounter style (The top down animation sprite style) may have something to do with how the sprite is loaded and causes that plus the shiny sparkles to… freeze? 🤔IDK. This isn’t based on anything legit, I’m just trying to figure out the correlation LOL. Maybe something to look into one day.
So, funny enough, I actually got insanely lucky and my first time ever seeing Giratina (Altered) was it being shiny, on my buddies version of Platinum. He didn't mind and knew it would be a fresh playthrough. When I got there, saw the sparkles, I immediately threw a masterball and called him to let him know that this was *my* copy of Platinum now, and that I would just buy him another copy lol. Even if I could just trade it, I kept that copy for good luck. This was some time in 2012, and that copy is still in my possession lol.
