[LIVE] Shiny Ekans after 9,740 REs in FireRed (DTQ #2) 

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Man after 3 spearows you got it and the reactions was so wholesome congratulations!

“It’s really hot here, it’s like 32 degrees...” For a second I forgot Celcius existed and I was just sitting there like, “Damn, how cold do you keep your house?”

I'm so glad for you, after those Spearows I would be pretty much done. You have the patience of a god.

Always loved the shiny Arbok line, and it’s always going to be a memorable one for me because I thought “aw heck, let’s go for one in LGPE”… over 600 individual Ekans encounters, about 4-7 (I don’t even remember) shiny Rattata, Spearow and a couple Charmander, and about THREE LEGENDARY BIRD SPAWNS later, I’ve finally gotten one. I’ll definitely be DV breeding/maybe Game Corner SR for an Ekans in VC GSC, as part of my growing affection for its shinies? So many are wildly different and I’m actually super fond of the older sprite art using high contrast that’s lost in later games (using Serebii look at Gen 2 Mantine sprite vs later gens for a good example, the bright blue pops so much more against black). Arbok is one of those I really wanna get bc for the only time in its history, it followed Ekans’ colour scheme and its GREEN. Ekans green and purple, not gold and blue. I like both but man that’s fascinating to me. I even recall going “why does it go green to yellow?” and was shocked to discover this semi-recently. I have similar feelings for some of the Stadium/Colosseum Shinies, sometimes they’re trashy but sometimes they’re arguably NICER. If GF were ever to put in some extra love and even more RNG in the game, I’d cry with joy and amusement if they considered alternate Shinies. Not only would it be a treat to see hunters tackle that, it’d be an extra bit of joy and customisation (and pain lol). I think it’d actually be the right time to do so now too as we go into Gen 9; at least from I’m deducing from the trailers, I think non-overworld Shinies might truly be behind us now. I think of a Lechonk encounter shown, there’s no harsh cut-away which could reveal a shiny, it’s more like PLA. Speaking of that, that’s the other reason - crowd-pleasing, essentially, bc for the vast majority of kids and casual players, who haven’t had the chance (resources, time, patience, etc) to properly “shiny hunt” before, PLA really opened up the daunting barriers, even for “full odds” Shinies, bc it’s overworld sprites. So I think having potentially rarer, wildly different shiny variants (kinda like how they tried to make the square/sparkle thing pop… didn’t entirely take off, it’s too subtle). You could even make it more challenging, making certain methods the only ways to get certain variants (like an ice-type’s shiny being locked to REs in its natural habitat, one species only through breeding with another species of mon, finding a shiny of an avian species ONLY in the sky, etc) TDLR, give me my shiny GSC Arbok alongside the glorious gold baby Sonikks managed to find. I think that way it’d really breathe some new life, excitement and challenge in the community; I know I’d go nuts to find some alternate Shinies.

GG! Would love to see your whole Gen III collection on Pokemon Box someday, if you didn’t bring them to recent games.

Shiny arbok looks really cool, good job on this golden snake!

The snake was definitely a sign. As a fellow UK person I understand this notion. I got shiny ekans in GO and you're right...it is a lot greener in other games. Congrats :)

Ahhh you deserved this so much after the 3 unlucky phases. Happy for you man 😊

Yay! I was happy to see this in my feed this morning

it's a shame we'll never get to see another game combo like R/S/E/FL/LG and CLS/XD, i was born to late to play pokemon back then.

Someone give this man a million subs already. Best shiny hunter on RU-vid.

You are right ekans’ and arbok’s sprites look great in this game, much better than some of the later versions haha. Congrats on not getting another spearow! I think it would be sick if you showed off all the eeveelutions before keeping it a jolteon. It’d also be cool to show how FrLg stops evos of Pokémon with a gen 2 evo, since I’m sure not everyone has seen that. Just a random thought, though it would be out of place haha.

congrats on the snek. I love that shiny! ...so I know it would be a major pain but I would love to see all the eeveelutions in colosseum... if you didn't do it I would completely understand, but I think you should! I've been loving that you show it in your 3rd gen dream teams, something I look forward to every upload. keep up the great work!!

Hyped to see Shiny Jolteon. Good Luck!!

yo sonniks is this hunt still going on? i really love your vids man and your attitude too! I'm hoping to look forward to seeing you continue this shiny hunt much love

Congrats on the sneaky snek

Congrats Ekans is a nice shiny and glad you didn’t get another spearow!

NICE ON! Lol can wait for the shiny Eevee man keep it uppp

Congrats on finding your snek!!

Congratulations

Awesome find, congrats! What do you usually do to keep yourself busy while hunting?

Oh yes ! Congrats man, love the shiny and love your content !!

F I N A L L Y. the best dtq continues

It would be awesome to see all of the evolutions 😀

Sweet hunt! This was my very first shiny... Totally a cool shiny in gen 3.

Congrats!

hi dude👋 amazing content, very respectable. what do u think about hunting magmar in LeafGreen?

Man feels like a good time for shinys I just got my shiny Deoxys in emerald on Sunday which was awesome

Arbok was the first shiny I've ever found. I found it in victory road in fire red. Although I didn't like its look so I just boxed it lmao.

It was my first shiny, I didn’t know why it was Brown but I caught it and checked later that it was rare so I was happy

Great, yesterday I also got a shiny arbok though it was in pokemon x with horde encounter 😊

Does anyone know where you can buy gen 3 games still?

I hatched a shiny magikarp in sword right as you got your ekans! I was competitively breeding and only had native Pokémon and no shiny charm!

Great video like always!

Wait how do you get the White Flute in FireRed/LeafGreen? By my knowledge you can only get it by trading it from Emerald, but you can't trade with Hoenn games until u beat the E4 so how did u get it in there..?

Anybody know how srs a starter hunt in diamond in an hour?

Awesome im shiny breeding in gen 2 for shiny ekans with the male gyarados. No luck yet . But i got goldeen a few weeks !

Congratulations on your new shiny ekans, I’m actually looking for a roggenrola in pokemon white I’ve been hunting for over a month

Damn, how lucky, you get shiny easier than I thought. Welp, goodluck on the next shiny!

Which emulator do you use? I want to use an emulator to play (on the phone) but I don't use save state (I don't want to auto save either) I want to be able to play honestly, play as if I were using the gameboy.

Congrats

Introducing the Sonikks template when encountering a shiny: Shiny _____yes! Oh my god Yes One sec I’m gonna go barricade my doorways and windows brb

Thought you would of got 3 more shiny spearows

Honestly think these games are the best shiny arbok looks

Can I found shiny pokemons now or no ?

Hey guys , i play fire red edition on my emulator (android) , can i get shinys on emulator? I never see anyone

Can you explain to me how you make a beatifull dream team picture like yours?

Are you playing these gen 3 games on emulator or with the real consoles and cartridges?

Nice one Steve. #NoMoreBirds

You had to see an Ekans in real life before you could find your shiny Ekans, lol Congrats on the shiny!

I play FireRed, Emerald and AshGray in 2020.

:D yay new vid

If you sacrifice three shiny spearows the all mighty snake will raise from hell \_(>:v)_/

I remember accidentally catching a shiny Numel in pokemon ruby. So here's the story so what happened was i was getting ready to head to Flannery's gym but Maxie the douche that he is stole some orb and i was ordered to get it back so i as was heading to Maxie's location i ran into a shiny Numel my jaw dropped and immediately throw my 1 great ball and thankfully i caught it

Arbok was my first shiny :D

It would be cool to see all of Eevees shiny evolutions but it might be a lot of effort if you don’t want to do that we understand

Yo congrats on the ekans! I am trying to hunt every shiny Unown...

Back sprites in leaf green are so good

I would love to see every shiny Eeveelution if you can.

“As an Englishman from England” aha yes I think he’s from France

i got my shiny Spiritomb on platinum yesterday. it is absolutely beautiful walking behind me in HG! you should hunt a spiritomb. it is so so so worth.

i tried to shiny hunt my first fucking time in diamond. i had a 42 bidoof chain but never saw the shiny patch even after 40 repels+ did i do something wrong?

Lol, I just caught a shiny ekans today in pokemon go.

Who can trade me a ditto in pokemon bw2 for a french ditto

Show all the eeveelutions

Amazing shiny😄

Hmmm. I think showing each eeveeloution would be cool but maybe do it as a separate bonus video?

Ekanssssssssssss 💖Sperow💖

Showing all the Eeveelutions would be pretty cool!

Glad to see you finally got the ekans!

Congrats

Yo Sonikks I respect you. You spend a lot of time getting shines. Especially the sinjoh ruins Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina. You deserve lots of respect.Congrats on the ekans.

Such an underrated shiny

Grats on the golden snek! Very cool sprite in FR :) And I would say, just show the Eevee and the Jolteon and save the other evos for later :P

I almost died from an Arbok trying to squash me but I had a gun

Shint arbok is one shiny that has actually been changed in the later games. That blue mouth which is one of my favorite parts of that sprite was changed in b2w2 onward

Currently hunting this in the HG game corner ! Shiny looks amazing, congrats!!!

i'm doing a DTQ right now on oras, starting with my fev starter treecko, wish luck me guys and may you all have shinys update the shiny treecko has been hunted

Was about to go to bed, never mind then. Congrats on finally getting your long boy! (Correction, long girl!)

Yo my respect for you Sonikks is off the charts. You are such an underrated shiny hunter. You only do full odds shiny hunts and will do anything it takes to get the shiny. I love that mentality. Keep up the great work bro 💪🏽

Ive been playing Pokemon my whole life and I just now realized Ekans is just Snake backwards

Hmm... showing all eeveelutions is indeed awesome, but at the same time a bit overkill? Besides all the work that requires it (especially Umbreon and Espeon) Idunno, it's really up to you. Just Jolteon is fine too, maybe someone else ever goes for the other evolutions. Anyhow, congrats with the Arbok. It is stunning.

Congrats! Had to be coming after three birdies in a row. For the Eevee-lutions: I don't really mind either, as log as you show shiny Umbreon in 3rd Gen, because this is an absolutely amazing shiny imo

I’ve always wondered why shiny arbok is so dark in this gen

Every time, every time sonikks takes a long pause in an encounter before running, the next mon will always be shiny. P.S. he also has a higher chance to find shinies when he's about to stop recording. Thats his irl shiny charm

Amazing shiny, congrats! Can't wait for eevee ;)

Sonikks where you see this pokemon odds table?

Hey I feel ya on not getting the target you want, I been hunting Dratini or Dragonair on the Zafari Zone on Fire Red for over 2 months. I have seen over 10,000 Dratini's and Dragonair's(Not counting the golden's, seaking's or Psyduck's I have seen and thats should be over 30k). I have gotten 6 shiny and they are 4 Golden's and 2 Seaking's arggg is anoying lol, that's why I say, I feel ya. But hey you finally got it good for ya!!

How do you record your gameplay? It’s very good

I’d like to see you show off all of Eevee’s evolutions in Colosseum!

Congrats! Currently shiny hunting eevee in XD, though I don't plan to evolve it

Wow! This was fast! You just posted the 3 Shiny Spearow video a couple days ago! Congrats! Love it! “There’s a normal Spearow, so you can go away!” 😂

congrats!! well deserved after those spearow..... shiny arbok is definitely a dream shiny, especially in firered/leafgreen. and i think it would be cool to see all the eeveelutions in one video!

32 (89 Fahrenheit)That’s a nice day in Arizona, where it’s 50 (120 Fahrenheit)every day

I hope you get more shinies, so we can see more of this content. :)

Congrats! Im currently hunting shiny Ralts in Ruby. 7th phase currently.

Arbok is one of my 2 favourite pokemon. I hunted for shiny ekans with masuda method in omega ruby and got it under odds if i remember right, but i cant imagine full odds hunting. I tried full odds hunting in soul silver for onix (because onix was the first shiny ive ever seen and i ran out of pokeballs when i found it in my diamond version) but i gave up full odds hunting for onyx. (I got shiny onix in legends arceus though).

I feel like I have the worst shiny luck. I'm shiny hunting in sword and shield because I've never hunted in that game before. I've been using he masuda method but I don't have the shiny charm yet so the odds are 1/680 which is still pretty good. So I've been shiny hunting a hawlucha and I have hatched over 13,000 eggs and still no shiny. I'm thinking I should just give up

Arbok is a wonderful mon, both in his normal and shiny. Just simple and badass design. It is not very strong but it can still be useful because learns some nice moves