How to Random Encounter Shiny Hunt Like a Pro 

KarateCas1002 thanks so much for that correction! I tend to lack info a little bit when it comes to gen 6&7 sometimes. It’s hard to be 100% accurate on these 😅

420 should do the trick

Mete cyclone Idk no

No

Mete cyclone Idk 409 is enough

No

RIP

nauka isn’t there a 1/~6000 chance for a chance of a shiny. Even after encountering a shiny, the chances will reroll

@@milkman9314 idk but I got a shiny rattata with 1/30000 chance of getting a shiny (I was playing on pokemmo so the chance is 1/30000)

@@milkman9314 it's 1/8192 in any games before XY

@@mertensiam3384 I know. I played that game from when I was 6 until I was like 12

hanielstoners glad I could help spread it!

thunderwriter awesome! I’m glad it helped! Anything you plan to hunt using this?

Not yet but I'm currently hunting giratina in pearl and have around 1200 encounters. :)

thunderwriter good luck on that! It has a great shiny form

Thanks. And first non legendary is probably vulpix cause it's my favorite pokemon. :D Which one are you hunting?

thunderwriter ive been hunting Larvitar in the Safari Zone in Heart Gold for a while. I failed one at 5781, and then failed another after 30110 more. Currently at 27100 for my third, and hoping this is the one I catch!

twhippy xox that’s what I do with most of my shiny hunts haha

@@shinycollector like catching a torchic? i mean its cute but also powerful af

Mystic Rayquaza yuh

haha same

Saaame

It happens more often than you’d think, I’ve always felt like swarm should have that effect

At least Swarm makes more overworld cries play. Still mad about the lack of bugs tho

super konijn98 I left it out because then you’d also have to cover information about the cute charm glitch and changing odds of shinies with it, I felt it would really confuse a lot of people. But the encounter calculator does have that included if people want to mess with settings and check it out

Fair enough, the Cute Charm glitch is...something else, lets say that much. Prehaps you could make it a video? it is an interesting topic in itself and a fun piece of shiny hunting trivia. In fact with more and more ways to shiny hunt, prehaps having a video that covers all of those areas in one video could be a good way to group all the different methods together.

super konijn98 I’ve thought about a video for all the methods, I might do that some day but it would be a very long video

@@shinycollector i can watch u for hours

You’re a genius! Thank you so much! Trying to hunt for a female horsea so I can name it Queendra, and I’ve only been fishing up males, lol.

BlueBisharp28 really? I didn’t know that, how odd

/!\ Warning probably bad english ahah ... :c It's because Gen 5 Swarms are not the same as Gen 4. On Gen 4, Swarms replace the two 20% Encounters Slots to have 40%. In Gen 5, Swarms add 40% to the 12 Encounters Slots. So here you have 40% of Swarms and 60% of the normal encounters slots (20x0.6 - 20x0.6 - 10x0.6 - etc.). Normally it's the same with Gen 3 Swarms, but it's 50-50 and not 40-60. That's why you don't have (for the moment?) the Swarm option on gen 3 and 5.

Gen 5 is hot dookie so it's all good

@@FinalConsensus It's really not but ok.

Kurt Harrison no problem, glad I could help!

Lovania AKA Sans's Gengar yeah random luck works too I suppose. But if you want a shiny and want to hunt for it, randomly playing won’t get one fast.

Melted Spades is that an extra mechanic or just something you’ve noticed? I haven’t heard that before, I’ve always thought it was just speed based unless a specific ability says otherwise (like runaway)

1991birthday good luck! I know a lot of people have done that hunt, it’s a very cool shiny!

It is, I tried multiple times over the years trying to get it by Masuda Method but no such luck so I figure, might as well do this method given I've never actually successfully found a full odds random encounter shiny before & figure this will be a good warmup for the big hunts I plan to do so I have a better idea what I will be in for. I recently started an adventure in Black 2, never actually played a gen 5 game before because I was playing gen 4 games during that time & have been enjoying it more than I expected to & wanted to shiny hunt in it so I probably will do magnet pull for a shiny Magnemite or something. A huge hunt I plan on doing isn't random encounter but it still is full odds & it's a lot harder than soft resetting, I actually plan to shiny hunt Wishmaker Jirachi, I have the bonus disc, I just need to get the other things I require for it so I'm saving up money to do that & I figure might as well do some easier hunts than that but harder than what I usually do so I can prepare myself for this but I plan to invite over a friend & use both a copy of Ruby & Sapphire, have us both go through & alternate getting the Jirachi so it will be a little faster & more fun but I'm expecting this hunt to go on through the span of a year, possibly longer.

1991birthday I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news on this one, but it’s better than not knowing. Although that Jirachi can be shiny, it cannot be shiny hunted. This is because the specific RNG that decides it can be problematic. I’m assuming you heard it’s huntable through SCF3’s video, but that is misinformation. Yes it can be shiny, but only through purposeful RNG abuse. Which at that point you’re guaranteeing it is shiny and it is not legitimate nor a “hunt”.

Yeah, I read up on that & a good portion of it, I didn't understand which is why I'm going to ask a friend of mine who I know gets this sort of stuff if he'd be able to explain it in full to me. If I still don't understand, I figured I'd just take a regular Jirachi but thanks for letting me know, originally I was just going to mess around if I still didn't understand it & hope for the best, now I know I'm not going to go through all that nonsense. Man, I was hoping it would be possible to hunt since I want to shiny hunt a legit mythical Pokemon but it seems that would be impossible unless I stick to hunting Celebi in Crystal, the hunt everyone & their brother is doing & I was excited to do when the virtual console of Crystal came out but seeing everyone else get a shiny Celebi just made me get less motivated which is strange since the more I see people get shinies, the more motivated I get for my hunts. Just today a member of a shiny hunting group I'm apart of got shiny Giratina so it caused me to pick up Ultra Moon & continue soft resetting, I've been doing that for about three weeks now & the more I see people getting it, the more excited I am to get it. When it comes to Celebi, the more I see people get it, the less I want it.

1991birthday well you do have a couple other options. You could do Manaphy (which is ridiculously hard) or Phione, although that one is iffy. Some people say it’s mythical, some don’t

Congrats! And good luck if you keep going for your target

StuffOfMine I’ve never heard of that problem before. I’ll let you know if I find something

Andrew Harris no problem, glad to help! And from what I’ve heard no, it doesn’t effect island scan

SomeoneOnTheInternet well Durant is a steel type, so ye

Yep! Furthermore: lightningrod increases electric types, flame body increases fire types, and steam engine makes eggs hatch quicker

No problem, glad I could help!

Yeah kind of, in a regular playthrough you only see about 100-200 Pokémon that can be shiny though, and that’s even fewer if you use repels

That’s awesome congrats!!

Of course!

SupernerdScrawl thanks, that really means a lot! I look up to both Dallas and Matt, they’re amazing people as well as amazing RU-vidrs!

Happy to help!

The best way to get a shiny mareep in this game would from the coin game thing. You can get multiple n Sr

CardinalExeroth I’m glad this video could help inform you! Good luck on future hunts!

Mateesery 44 strange, I’ve tested it before and it worked like that, but that’s why it’s good to have the calculator, corrects where I may be slightly wrong xD

/!\ Bad English Warning It split not equally with the Pokémon but with all the Encounter Slots : 20% Joltik 10% Joltik 5% Joltik 4% Tynamo 4% Tynamo 1% Joltik So you have 6 Electric Encounters Slots, so 50/6 = 8.333333333333etc. Then you had that % on every Electric Encounters Slots (after divided them by 2 because Static) 18.333% Joltik 13.333% Joltik 10.833% Joltik 10.333% Tynamo 10.333% Tynamo 8.833% Joltik ------------------------ 51.332% Joltik and 20.666% Tynamo, and voilà ! :)

Cool. I was having a hard time understanding how exactly the static splits but you explained it quite well. Thanks.

Nerd but good job that’s something I would never think of correcting

No problem, glad to help!

Good luck!

@@shinycollector The fact that you replied on a video this old... Not most RU-vidrs would do it. Thank you.

Glad I could help!

That’s crazy, congrats!

Omg you replied to me thank you!! Ohh yeh I’m subbing now

Good luck! You can repel trick that one a tad!

@@shinycollector thanks for all the tips

BatofDestiny yeah they can be easily missed, glad I could help inform on that!

Congrats!!

@@shinycollector Thanks!

TheMLPandSuperMarioFan I recommend checking my 10 fast hunts video then if you’ve never gotten a shiny

Juan Carlos Quintero thanks so much!

ShinyCollector98 your welcome dude keep the vids coming

RegiceTomb glad to be back, thanks!

Quinn Grey well I’m glad I could get this new information to you as well as inspire you to want to hunt! Although, if I may recommend some hunts from another video I made ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YPqv3BccmzY.html these are very fast hunts for beginners or people with not as strong of patience. And it also happens to be my most viewed video, so it’s probably entertaining too, but who knows lol Yeah I sometimes forget that not everything I know is common knowledge too. It wasn’t until Twitch Con back in October that I realized these tricks aren’t known by everyone. I’ve been hunting for about 7 years, so these are just as easily known to me as it is for someone to say grass is green. And then of course I have to pass it on when I can :D

It’ll use static/magnet pull, white flute, repel trick, and no illuminate. It needs to be first spot you cannot stack

TotemRotom definitely! It’s super useful!

ItzYaBoiMysticMaxx It doesn’t need to be the same level, they can be lower or higher, but if it’s lower you’ll have a hard time running. Also, it’s not just any electric type Pokémon, it needs to specifically have the static ability, which Pikachu can have. If Luxio is the only electric type Pokémon on the route, then it will occur over half the time.

I'm using the Island Scan Method, and lets say the Luxio is Level 20. If I have a Level 20 Static Pokémon, and it's the only Electric type on the route, will that make it easier to get the Luxio?

ItzYaBoiMysticMaxx just having a level 20 pokemon doesn’t do anything unless you use repels. In that case, repels and static in combination would make it make Luxio super common. I recommend giving your Pokémon a smoke ball though to escape easily. I believe Luxio would be about 85% at that point

ShinyCollector98 okay, thanks!!

ItzYaBoiMysticMaxx no problem, good luck!

They’re chillin

This is so extra

Glad I could help, good luck on the vulpix!

Congrats!

The odds for a shiny are 1/8192, HGSS get about 180 encounters per hour with good pacing. You’re probably around 1000 encounters total, it’ll most likely take a lot longer. Keep it up though, you got this

Tate Roland awesome! I’m glad I could help :D

Gardewolf awesome! Ralts is the best Pokémon haha

Gardevoir is my favorite pokemon so I spent all night finding it, when I found it I noticed that it was about an hour to get up for school lol. That was way back in SoulSilver haha.

Gardewolf oh cool! So it was probably the Swarming Ralts then! I tried to hunt that once and got an Abra, I’ll eventually go back for it

I remember shiny hunting for an Abra but I just gave up to easily, I would probably do it again one day. I really love psychic Pokemon, so I was really happy that the first shiny I ever caught was Ralts.

Yep, that would explain it haha

Ye, added that to the description

White flute keeps effect until you: -Soft reset -turn off the game -leave the route/area

You normally can’t do both for one same exact Pokémon. They get different Pokémon

Yeah but that’s not worth it because then I’d need to dive into the topic of cute charm glitch and that’s a headache and a half

🤷🏻‍♂️

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That’s so vague. There are many games and many areas to hunt Ralts. This is the basic info you need, you can do the rest of the research on your own if you have a specific target

I don’t think it does? Maybe android idk

Good luck!

Nope! Still 1/8192

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Thank you!

SkyDragoon no problem!

Yeah that’s already in this video

Yep! I love that addition!

Kalos Best is that your fetish?

Yep, sure does 👍🏼

Okay good, I was running out of super repels more than what I was encountering. I think lm gonna stop using repels and just random encounter. Thank you though!

Good luck

Orlando Rosa Jr. nope, main series games

That’s pretty insane!

@@shinycollector thanks. That was one of the most surprising shiny pokemon encounters i ever had.

Emerald, yes. R/S no. I even used static to hunt Pikachu in the emerald safari, got it in one phase with no fails. If you want to hunt Hoenn SZ here’s a guide on a glitch that can help! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AQGK6VmdST4.html

They’re the lowest level encounters on this route, so you can’t repel trick They’re not steel or electric so you can’t magnet pull or static. Sorry bud, out of luck if you hunt them on this route, but it’s worth checking out their other locations and just toying around with the encounter calculator

@@shinycollector damn, oh well

Yeah, and?

That's how it's pronounced my dude

@@bradyp8868 its pronounced rat-ta-ta. and i love how pissed the guy got from me saying it lol

@@wordscrambled uhm...it's pronounced "Rat-at-ah" my dude, and all he said was "Yeah, and?" And the most that could be seen as passive aggressive, not sure why you'd think he got pissed

Brady Pickard it’s a snarky remark and he pronounced it rata-tata. This argument is futile seeing as it was 9 months so when I said it.

Good luck!

@@shinycollector Thanks!

Neat

Well no, steelix is the only Pokémon that appears at that level, so it would be 100%. But it’s a 2% slot so the speed is 2%. And then magnet pull halves and adds that to steelix so the rate, or speed, of encounters 51%. So you’re only seeing steelix, but the speed is 51% of the original encounter speed. It’s slowed because repels cut out Pokémon. You can still use white flute too though to make that speed about 75.5%, pretty solid!

@@shinycollector Ok thanks for the exact math it was a bit confusing to calculate, i'll send a picture in the discord when it arrives! :D

He records with capture cards

Ayy glad I could help

@@Jarheadtorben yep! Even though you don’t throw a pokemon out to battle, the abilities and repel trick still work 👍🏼

You can’t, even if one is fainted, the first slot takes priority always. You can’t combo. However you can use white flute along with static

Just static

@@shinycollector yes sir thank you

It’s not a legitimate Pokémon so I have no idea

You cannot stack abilities, no

Probably mt moon

Alright thanks man

TheICTLiker4 yes however farming held items doesn’t really pertain to shiny hunting

Nope

How many hours would you recommend hunting at a time if you turn off your system?

Akistic no problem! I’m glad it helped you!

ShinyCollector98 not gonna lie the trick got me a shiny pichu in Pokemon Sun

Akistic already? Sick! Congrats!

ShinyCollector98 heh thanks

Pressure reduces the chance of encountering lower leveled Pokémon. It doesn’t really have much use aside from fishing since you could repel trick for other encounters and that just cuts lower leveled Pokémon, which is more efficient

@@shinycollector ah I see, figures. Since cleffa shares the patch with multiple higher prob mons, in both grass and caves, I may have to settle for cleffairy- level difference isn't too steep anyway. Thanks for the response!

Unlikely Specimen no problem, you could always test setups with that encounter calculator and see what works best!

Yep! It’s the only out of battle ability to work prior to emerald

@@shinycollector thank you. Always played pokemon games since the first ones ever released, but never tried shiny hunting till now. I recently went back and rebought older games and now im embarking on this shiny journey lol

Nice!

playermaxx1 there is no progress. It’s full odds every encounter has the same odds as the one before

@@shinycollector oh! I see. Thanks for replying man.