Ignore the 2+ year hiatus between phases 2 and 3 LOL I haven't hunted in Gen V in SO LONG and had to change that to hunt one of my all time favorites, this dancing cactus.
To answer a couple questions in advance: -Here is a video on the season glitch that lets you get rid of the sandstorm: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-taQBka8FrEI.html -Here is a video on how I control my DSes with one controller: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VEQyS4vuFBQ.html
I would love to see all the shinies youve accumulated in all your years of shiny hunting together in one video , maybe a scroll thru your pokemon home with all of them !
Even with all my love for the generation 5 games, I have never seen maractus's shiny before and now I feel obliged to finally go back and hunt it. Grats on another amazing looking shiny!
Awhile ago I mentioned how I started shiny hunting thanks to you inspiring me. Specifically black 2 Virizion. Well after a break I went hard on it Sunday. 998 resets later I got Blossom my pink Virizion. So I then went to ev train it for the first time in gen 5 for me. 24 encounters in a shiny Sandile. I went from 0 gen 5 shinies ever to 2 within a day.
Huge congrats on these shinies! I've been hunting the Darumaka here since December of 2021, going well over 40,000 REs. I guess I need some dogehype in my life. Good luck on Sigilyph when you decide to hunt it!
been tuning in in some of the maractus streams over the past week or two, love your streams and videos, best poketuber I've ever watched, nobody doing it like you.
Maractus is my second favorite Pokemon of all time! It was also the first Pokemon I ever shiny hunted, using the Masuda Method in Sword. I named her Bailey and she's my favorite :3
Congrats on the shinies! your hunts have inspired me a ton recently to finally start hunting full odds and i have to say it really is a nice way to hunt shinies.
Great video as usual. Definitely an inspiration to start hunting old gens for the first time. I’ve been hunting in Gen 5 a ton the last 2-3 months, took me awhile to buy all the ds’s and original legit copy’s of my favorite titles. Currently hunting sandile on route 4 and it’s been great. 1 Trubbish along the way. Keep up the great content. Love to see it
Youre videos all remind me of old school youtube and i love it. Keep the good work, every single one of youre new video is a blast of nostalgia! Wish i had so much patience with shiny hunting 😅
I loved the fact that you slowed down the footage for multiple encounters. I really got excited as the shiny showed up, because it was kind of unexpected
maractus is one of my all time favorite pokemon!! im so glad you like it alot too, it makes me feel happy knowing my favorite poketuber shares the same love for a obscure pokemon!
Congrats Matt! I remember being in Desert Resort on B2W2, even tho the weather effect glitch isn't present, I did do a life hack to 'auto-run' in the sands with the help of the trusty rubberbands on a B button.
I had no idea maractus' shiny was so pretty!! I need to try this sometime with the repel and the season trick. A few years ago, I actually found a shiny darumaka there in black 2. I was trying to catch every pokemon on each route and I ran into the shiny before I finally found a sigilyph. He's now in my Sun game where I'm trying to do something like a badge quest...shiny hunting in sun and moon must take a lot of patience. I also want you to know that you, plus a few others, have inspired me to start shiny hunting. And it's been fun enough not to finish story mode in scarlet yet. It's also been a nice way to spend time on days where I can't do much without hurting. So thank you!!!
Congrats dude!! Maractus has such a sick shiny. I haven't hunted in a long time, and now I kinda want to hunt again. Been too into the work grind and animal crossing.
Hey absol, just letting you know I respect your content quite a bit. It's also something I look up to a lot! You always stick to what you enjoy doing and I can really see the passion in your work. You are an inspiration, thanks for all of the great videos over the years!
i went into this video expecting a great shiny hunt, which i got, but little did i know watching this video would skyrocket me to stardom! thank you dogehype for your incredibly flexible and convenient order management panel!!! 😻
Congrats to finding Maractus! And about the visual glitch, when I started hunting Kyurem last month, I had these non shadow encounters a few times and checked if it was maybe an IV indicator, like the one in BDSP. Wasn't the case sadly. Would've been too good to be true.
honestly, listening to the 4 games music play at the same time reminded me of one of absol's experiences, gives me a headache and won't stop until he finds a shiny
Congrats for the shiny cactus! I didn't know that I needed a sword wielding Maractus in my life (although maracas would have been so funny!). What I find also funny is that in my White BQ I hunted for one shiny in Desert Resort, and, lo and behold, I found a Maractus (without Repel Trick). However, it was the longest hunt of that BQ (22k), and I would have really liked a Sigilyph. Oh well, at least Maractus is off my bucket list.
Hey Matt, had an idea for a gauntlet. Getting lvl 100 before the first badge in x and y. No rare candies through pickup. Just see how fast you can do it by stacking as many multipliers as possible. I think it would be foreign traded, affection, and eventually unevolved for the modifiers. My best guess would be bidoof, although zigzagoon may also be viable, as they are both in the fastest available experience group. With all the modifiers I think you could get a few hundred experience per encounter, which wouldn't be too bad
First I want to say gg's! For the shadow glitch, it's a very strange glitch. I only saw it on BW, never on B2W2. But the frequency seems to depend on the location and your ID/SID. I have a savefile with a lot of shadow glitch on some places. I hunted Ducklett on this savefile and I noticed this glitch around 1/500 encounters (so it may be more than that, and I did 16569 encounters to get it). On the top of Celestial tower, about the same amount of this glitch (and it was a long hunt too). On the Desert Area I don't see it as many as the other places, noticed it only 2 times in more than 15k encounters. But the more surprising was on my Virizion hunt, when I got a TON of shadow glitch. At a point I got 3 in a row. About 1/25 encounters I think, that's how I felt it. But on other hands, I don't see as many shadow glitch when I see people shiny hunt on these games. My savefile is very unique with this glitch
About the "out of the shadow" glitch that you saw on your Darumaka encounter. I shiny hunted Roggenrola in wellspring cave for at least 20,000 encounters and saw the same glitch often. I caught every one that had this effect and each one was holding a hard stone. Maybe wild Pokemon with held items can get this glitch but who knows.
Maractus is so underrated! It's adorable and has a really nice shiny! ✨️ Darumaka and Darmanitan are 2 of the only shinies I have left to collect for my full shiny living dex (I have about 25 left to get after around 7 years of hunting on many games with many different methods!) And Maractus is one of the few shinies in my living dex that I didn't find myself. I usually like to hunt everything myself but this shiny is special. :) Several years ago I starting dating a guy and he gifted me a set of tiny cacti on our second date. We ended up getting married, and Pokemon Sword and Shield released about a week after our wedding. He's not really a shiny hunter (he doesn't have the patience for it lol) but he spent a while hatching eggs and got a shiny Maractus in a Love ball for me 🥰 I called him Pumpkin and he's a very special shiny to me ^u^
@@mimipeahes5848 Thanks ^^ My husband does lots of sweet stuff like this x) Also a few dates in I made him a little Snorunt figure out of Sculpey clay (his favourite Pokemon) which was my first gift to him, so I hatched him a shiny Snorunt in Sword and Shield :)
Hey absol, not sure if you’ve seen I’m a blisy’s new video, but he makes a reference to the level 100 gauntlet and I just thought that was really neat. Best of luck to you on whatever crazy hunts you’re up too.
Nice!! Im currently doing a complete dex for all my games and right now im replaying black 2 (my first pokemon game) Im hunting in dust clouds for a water stone but im doin so many cave encounters so im counting them
