I Tried to Hunt The Rarest Shiny Pokémon 

They say you can't have it all in America, a full time job, a kid, a shiny Manaphy...

-Be JWittz -Take a year haitus to be a responsible member of society and a good dad -Break the haitus to shatter the notion of the impossibility of shiny Manaphy -Refuse to elaborate

The best part of this is that, in my opinion, shiny Manaphy isn't even that great of a shiny.

This is the best explanation of hunting Manaphy i've seen, also did not expect to be jumpscared by my own face in this LOL 1:53

The Prodigal Son has returned. We missed you, Josh

JWittz, I’m 21 years old and have been watching you throughout my life. Been a on and off shiny hunter throughout the last 9 years. If this is your final video, I just want to thank you for everything. You’re the OG Pokemon RU-vidr and I hope the newer generation of pokemon fans discover your channel. Feels like your history of mewtwo video was uploaded just yesterday. Thank you for everything you’ve done for the pokemon community, for pokemon content on RU-vid, for shiny hunters, for gaming in general. You’re a true og of this scene and we all truly appreciate the entertainment you’ve put out for us within the last 15 years. We do and always will love you man.

Somehow JWittz returned

0:02 Yeah, Agumon probably would be a hard Pokemon to shiny hunt

I took a student led college course for actual units on Pokémon. The student instructors would give us homework and assign Jwitzz Pokémon videos as assignments and it was pretty awesome. He’s been someone who I’ve always watched growing up and to watch him again in my adult life was a full circle moment

God I've been watching the Wittz since... 3rd grade? 2nd? 1st? I'm an adult now? And his RU-vid videos still make me just as happy. Glad dude is still kickin online

It makes me happy to see one of the OG Pokemon RU-vidrs of my childhood come back after a whole year. Even with his new responsibilities he still likes making videos and it shows

A friend of mine has a living shiny dex, meaning a shiny version of EVERY SINGLE POKEMON including every form, and I continue to be amazed at that dedication.

As a Manaphy hunt success, I felt every. OUNCE. Of your pain. Played through 4 copies of Ranger... spent 2 years Hatching eggs. I have said it before, "never again" :) but I have my baby.

The end of this video actually made me tear up. I've been watching your channel for over 10 years. Seeing you grow as I did is awesome. I'm a dad now & have a full-time job too. You're awesome, man. I appreciate you.

Jwittz: I BROUGHT THE MILK! Us: DAD?!? IT'S BEEN A YEAR! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN???

WELCOME BACK! _- Hunting shiny Manaphy: ❌️_ _- Explaining how to hunt shiny Manaphy: ✅️_

Small note about "overcooking" the eggs. In gen 4 and before, the game doesn’t store the exact amount of steps required to hatch; instead it stores a number of "egg cycles". This counter is is ticked down by 1 every 256 steps, (by 2 with magma armor/flame body), giving an effective number of steps to hatch each egg. This is why it will always take a few hundred steps between egg hatches in the older games, even if you store them in a box immediately after receiving (so that all the eggs have been in your party the same amount if time) and hatch them later. Gens 5+ store the exact step count, so you can get eggs hatching on consecutive tiles (which very much surprised me back in the day!) For how the effects things with the hunt. I believe the gamewise egg cycle ticker (which counts steps and subtracts an egg cycle from each egg when it reaches 255) resets back to 0 when you soft reset. Assuming this is the case, you shouldn't ever need to worry about eggs hatching in only a few steps and the worrying here is unnecessary, it will always take at least 256 steps to hatch from power on. That said as I type this up I realise it's entirely possible it doesn't reset and that the shiny hunters (who are no doubt more knowledgeable than me) know this. Regardless I hope you found this interesting, random internet stranger. :)

I've been waiting excitedly for so long to see this video and you did an amazing job on it like you always do. I'm glad my Pokémon Ranger footage was able to help you with those capture card issues you were having on it.

Deeply appreciative that my Autism/OCD hasn't ever demanded I got super into Shiny hunting.

You were the first RU-vid creator I ever considered myself a fan of, and the fact that you're still around, making videos when you can, makes me very happy. It's been almost 15 years since you first started making content, and even though I wasn't there for all of it, you never forget your first. I pray for your sanity on the hunt, by the way.

JWITTZ BACK FOR THE WIN!

Weirdly enough, a new JWittz video is exactly what I wanted for Father’s Day

Welcome back, JWittz! Good health to you and your family!

I used to watch you all the time years ago. Favorite poketuber. I actually forgot you existed but when I saw the thumbnail and heard your voice, I felt like a teenager again. Glad you’re back (even if it’s just the one video) thank you.

As insane as this whole journey is, the new method at the end actually sounds easier LMAO

Nothing tickles me quite like knowing 13 years have passed and I still click JWittz videos when they pop up

And this is why I’ll NEVER unsubscribe from you. I never know when you’ll spook my notifications and bring me back to the golden era of RU-vid. Glad to see you again. And I can shed some light on the Manaphy Egg hatching that you mentioned at 10:07. How eggs work: An egg is generated with a set amount of cycles, depending on species. The game will take one cycle away from every egg in your party, going consecutively from slot 1 to slot 6, every 256 steps (two cycles will be taken if your lead Pokémon has Flame Body/Magma Armor). In Gen IV, when an egg reaches 0 cycles remaining, it hatches, and all other eggs in the party after that egg will not have a cycle removed (to prevent multiple eggs from hatching at the same time). Where the 1-step hatch can occur is this: the 256 step requirement for taking away a cycle is tracked independent of eggs, it starts as soon as the save file is generated, and it persists with saving (i.e. if you’re 10 steps away from a cycle occurring, save, turn the game off, and come back later, you will still be 10 steps away). And it can (and often will) be different between different games. You can be 10 steps away from a cycle occurring in one game, but if you trade a ready-to-hatch egg to a different game that’s 240 steps away, it will still take that 240 steps to hatch. So, with all that said, if you trade an egg with only one cycle left to a save that is 1 step away from completing a cycle, that is how you can get the dreaded 1-step hatch that will ruin a Manaphy egg. Source: I hunted this dang thing…daily…for six months straight.

As someone who has been watching One Piece for the past 20 years, putting the number of hours in context of One Piece episodes was a really good way of framing it

Over several months of hunting, I recently caught a shiny Dialga after 6000+ resets, with each reset taking only 20 seconds. Now imagine that, but HALF AN HOUR between resets. If Dialga took months, you can easily assume Manaphy would take years of active playing. You also can't just press a button and put a movie on to watch, you have to be actively paying attention to the game. It's truly just not worth the time investment

I am absolutley not built for this type of hunt, but I'm glad I got to learn so much about it. Pokémon's weird timed events and limitations can be such wild roadblocks sometimes, it makes for fantastic stories, despite being a little frustrating sometimes LOL.

A legend returns.

Years ago, I remember Josh talking about wanting to move away from a regular upload schedule to one where he can higher-quality videos less often. This may be much less often than he meant at the time, but you still always know it's the good stuff when TheJWittz comes through your Subscriptions tab.

Welcome back!

This hunt is absolutely brutal and ridiculous... BUT the idea of a shiny Trainer instead of a shiny Pokemon is really cool. It is truly a 'Chosen Hero foretold to save the world' moment. Happy to see ya again!

HE LIIIIIIVESSS!!!

"thin as a stunfisk" is my new favorite phrase :D

"Let's see whats in my sub feed" "IS THAT A NEW JWITTS VIDEO?!?!"

You should've done a stream where you ask people to finish Ranger and send you the Eggs. Have everyone else complete the games for you and we all band together to see if our contribution is enough.

The promised day is here, JWittz has returned to us

I’m not even invested in Pokémon anymore, but I never miss a Jwittz upload. I’ve been watching this guy since elementary school. He’s like that one cool older cousin that teaches you more about your favorite video games

My boyfriend unintentionally got a Shiny Manaphy when we were kids. We had no ideas what Shinies were. We both got Shinies during are first time playing a Mainline Pokémon. He had Ranger while I also Explorers.

Jwittz was a big part of my childhood. Hearing him say "I've already put out most of the stories I want to tell" was a surprisingly humbling moment for me... The older I get, the more I believe that we should not always be striving to one-up our past or trying to recapture lost magic. Life is beautiful in so many forms, and it will always continue to change. Jwittz used to share so much of himself with the public, putting so much of himself out there. And just because he did it for so long does not mean that needs to continue forever, nor should it. Endings do not make the journey obsolete. Jwittz has made his mark on my life, and I'm so happy to hear that his life has moved a satisfying direction where he feels no resentment for his past, no sense of failure or guilt for being away... Time moves forward. Things change. We keep getting older. And with some proper contextualization, that can be a good thing. A very good thing.

I really love hard hunts like this because finally finding one puts you in a really exclusive group of people that have hunted it! When I found Riley’s Riolu shiny in Gen IV, talking to the really small group of people who had already found it was super cool! It’s like being in that particular hunt’s Hall of Fame! Don’t blame you at all for not liking the hunt, hunts should be fun!!! Great vid JWittz!

i found you on my recc and there was an instant smile on my face because i watched your content 10 or so years ago, your voice TOOK ME BACK. glad to see you back! the king lives on🙌

Me when I argue online about the Legitimacy of a Non-Tangeble Childrens Video Game monster.

Pokemon Ranger came out when I was in like 4th or 5th grade and I beat that game through hard work and persistence. It brings me immense pride every time I think about it.

The prodigal son has finally returned!!!

The fact that this hunt in its original form will eventually be lost to time due to running out of fresh Pokémon Ranger copies is crazy too.

TheJWittz, this video is a w

23:28 LMAO adding the spongebob quote here was PERFECT

Hearing your voice over a pokemon video is nostalgic. Welcome back!

God you were one absolutely one of my fav RU-vidrs to watch when I was younger. You and ProtoMario. Like, I was elementary school young when I discovered you. Im graduated now. From high school. Time flies, huh? Good to see you around, hope life has treated you well all these years. Congrats on being a dad. ❤

Man seeing that Pokemon Ranger gameplay made me so nostalgic - I remember playing that game as a kid specifically for that Manaphy egg LOL

I love how this went from the hardest shiny to maybe one of the easier hunts with all the possibilities/options you gave.

Your Magnum Opus should be ALL the dark and creepy pokedex entries over the years

When the world needed him most, HE RETURNED.

The Go Rock Quads! 🎶 🎸 🥁 🎻 🪈

I literally was JUST looking at your channel last night and went "Hope Mr. TheJWittz is doing well, miss his videos."

Even if it's just going to be one video a year, it's always a nice day to see JWittz upload! Glad to see you again, Josh.

Dude I watched you as a kid and to see you still uploading is so awesome! Fastest sub of my life and glad to see your channel is still alive

We’re happy to have you back man. Even if you only post rarely. You got a job and family. It be like that. It costs nothing for me to stay subbed!

The ending made me laugh as a viewer and sad as a gamer.

Man, I remember driving my stylus straight into the couch trying the Charizard boss lmao

AYO JWITTZ MY MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

Ahh shiny Manaphy no wonder its been a year lol

With this hunt makes sense why we didn’t get upload for a year. WELCOME BACK!!!

It’s THE TheJWittz

I'm glad someone finally talked about the sequels wifi events. Back in the day that is exactly what I did to get a dozen eggs while the event was running. I was confused when people talked about only getting 1 egg per game.

When the world needed him most, the King returned. And with a prince in tow. ...Seriously though, welcome back! 🤗❤️

Dude I haven't seen you around since I was a kid! Hearing your voice again reminds me of those top 10 videos, I'm gonna cry from nostalgia

Hes back

Thanks for clearing this up! It was always annoying to point out you didn’t need to buy 4 copies of Ranger.

“it’s been a while”

JWittz, we love ya. Thanks for making time for us :)

Is this the third lord of the Rings movie cause the king has returned

Stuff like this makes me glad I opted for the easier option. Reverse engineer my TID/SID on the game recieving Manaphy, find out the Manphy's PID, and then figure out what TID/SID I need for it to hatch as shiny, and then use RNG manipulation to guarantee a new game will have the required TID/SID combo. I don't consider myself particularly lucky so I prefer it when I can influence the odds in older games.

now im deeply interested to see u do flying shiny moltres from LGPE

1 Year, 10 years, don't matter, New JWittz video is new JWittz video and we shall cherish it

Oh my goodness JWittz uploaded!! LIGHT THE BEACON!!!!

There was a community Sinnoh shiny hunt recently, and Manaphy was included. The lady who got it had an arbitrary code execution setup so that every time she spoke to an NPC, it would randomise her ID numbers. (Which is basically what you were doing with your few eggs, just cutting out a lot of time that would've been spent replaying the start of the games and trading the eggs over). And she had this setup on SIXTEEN different games, for a total of EIGHTY EGGS hatching at once. And it still took her over THIRTEEN CONSECUTIVE HOURS of hatching, soft resetting and changing IDs to finally hatch the shiny. A total of 11840 eggs hatched. ELEVEN THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FORTY.

He's back HE'S BAACK!!

It’s definitely a breath of fresh air to see you come back, you were my childhood throughout my days as an elementary schooler and now I’m in my twenties. When I saw this video pop up in my recommended I was immediately hit with a wave of nostalgia.

JWITTZ ♡♡♡

That was a rollercoaster lol

A few weeks ago, I was like "Hey, where's JWittz?"

This man is the goat, he focused on raising his kid rather than pump out the content we all rewatch. At least I think that's what happened

Dad???

12:23 Totally ethical. They were very mean to us with this. Slightly more drastic measures must be taken.

HE'S Alive AAAAALLLLLIIIIVVVEEE🎉🎉

I was and original gen 1 kid that forgot all about Pokémon until I stumbled on to your channel during the x/y let’s play. I haven’t missed a single game since and have loved every bit of it. It’s good to see you back, I owe you one

THE RETURN?

Youre back? Happy to see this!

It's been 3000 years...

Hearing JWittz for the first time in ten years is a part of my childhood I never knew I missed.

am i the only one who misses crazy technical stuff to get legendaries and mythicals? now we just go to mystery gift and a god is handed to us. only recently did we at least get a mythical event with pecharunt. that was great, sure, but i like the complicated adventure of playing a spinoff then finding a secret to do a sidequest to get an event to link 2 different systems together to do some other crazy thing to get the mon you're after. i guess there was melmetal, but that wasn't as cool as other quests and they just distributed a melmetal anyway.

It took me making a second channel to make JWittz appear in my feed. It's nice to see yo again, buddy.

Great to see you back 😃

Glad to see you again! I hope you and your family are doing well. PS: Please find a cypher to feature on. It's been wayyyy too long

0:02 bro that's a digimon

That togepi "but what if you DON'T?!" transition was smooth as hell man!