[LIVE] Shiny Lugia after 15,705 SRs in Silver Virtual Console 

I remember my zero SR when i got a shiny red gyaradous in crystal . good times

Belly flop Lugia! That sprite cracks me up every single time and I would've never thought Lugia was your secret target. Glad you didn't go double odds Steve and congrats!

Nice video! I shiny hunted Lugia about a year ago (April, May and June). I guess it took me about 6000-7000 SRs, so it wasn't that bad. Also hunted for shiny Ho-Oh fall 2017, and it probably took me about the same amount of SRs (which was my first hunt with full 1/8192 odds). What amazed me the most was that both shiny Lugia and Ho-Oh had an Attack DV of 15! And since the Attack DV was an odd number, the HP DV was 8. Those are the best stats a shiny can have in Gen 2 (8/15/10/10/10), so I felt very lucky then. Just to mention it, the Shiny Gyarados at the Lake of Rage always has the stats (0/14/10/10/10). As the Attack DV is an even number, the HP DV will always be 0. Its high Attack DV is also the reason it is always male (0-6 is female, and 7-15 is male for species with a 50-50 gender split). Thus, female Pokémon are generally weaker in Gen 2 (if they rely on Attack, that is).

Currently hunting celebi wish me luck

if I find shiny Lugia I will name it after you and transfer it to USUM

Soft resetting on the original 3DS is painful on the fingers. Like this comment to support and fund my finger transplant xoxoxoxox

Finally a shiny hunter that doesn't overreact as hell

Shiny Lugia is beautiful. It's not often you see it in it's gen 2 sprite.

Congratulations! Impressive. Most impressive.

Dude, I was hunting lugia in the same game, and I was almost succumbing to madness. I think I watched this video 2,3 or 4 times while hunting. Now that I finally got my shiny, I couldn't forget about you. Thanks for inspiring me , and good luck in all your hunts!

Dang, someone has finally given me hope to continue my Lugia hunt. If I get mine, I want you to know you helped catch a second lugia without even knowing it! Subbed :D

I've been hunting Chikorita since the release of the virtual console GS and even though im only just over half odds, my mental health has almost completely deteriorated due to the super slow text speeds, hopefully it wont take as long as that lugia. congrats btw, awesome shiny.

Soo pretty! Rose red is a great switch from blue!

Damn your so lucky you got to play Pokemon (Silver) as a kid, I didn't get back into Pokemon until the age of 17 so I kinda missed out on alot ;-; Good thing though is he Shined for me about 4 days ago in original Crystal in under 5'000 SR's. Not on Virtual Console, the first actual Crystal Version. I also was able to record and upload to my youtube account the video of when I encountered him and then caught him.

Damn I love the second generation's sparkles so much. Gg on this beauty !

I've been doing a Shiny Lugia hunt in the VC for around 7 days now. I'm an animator, so I've just been resetting while I work. How many days did it take for you to get this?

That Surf Music is so Calming to hear mannnn I miss my old GBC playing this and replaying this game is worth it what a masterpiece

This shiny is so amazing, especially in Silver... I think the most painful pokémon related memory was this particular hunt. I've hunted for shiny Lugia on Silver VC for about a year. And finally, at a Saturday night, the shiny appeared. I was amazed. But, then I found out the hard way how thorough preparations have to be in second gen: when I wanted to throw the Master Ball I got the message that my PC Box was full. That still hurts... I've tried to get it again in Silver or Gold, but it never appeared. Then I reclaimed it in Ultra Moon, and that was satisfying.

OMG!! This is my favorite Pokemon And it's shiny is so AWESOME!! A Pink shiny is not so AWESOME AS THIS ONE.

You are my favourite Shiny Hunter, best of RU-vid

Major Congrats on this Beauty!!

This must've been a PAIN to do pretty cool that you got it.

Watching this as im doing my lugia hunt on crystal, and im aproaching 15k SRs, hoping it shines soon

Congrats on the beauty! :) Shiny Lugia is really nice.

Steve, as always, fantastic content & a fun video to watch. Congrats!

Awwww man I know it’s 3 years old but seeing you have the original cartridges makes me happy. These games have to live on lol

This more impressive than finding a shiny in gen 6.

Currently on 1960 encounters. Wish me luck lol

Shiny Lugia looks amazing in gen 2! Major congrats, Steve :)

What did you use to count your SRs? Or did you keep track of them yourself?

Wow the gen 2 shiny animation really is amazing. Great job by the way man

Yess I got it today after around 1500 Soft Resets🎉

I’m resetting for shiny Chikorita on my GBC. 6,675 so far and no luck. These videos keep me going! ✨ Gorgeous Lugia 😍✨

When Sonikkts swears you know hes excited about a shiny lol. Also cloned master balls ftw

I was 3000+ soft resets in for Lugia when my cat knocked my 2ds off my nightstand and broke it... FML

Gratz, just hunted mine a few days ago. Was actually my very first hunt and got insanely lucky...took me about 4-5 hours and now I´m hooked :D Good luck on your next hunts

I have Gold, A Japanese version of Gold, and A Japanese version of Silver. Those are my games for gen 2. I’m really wanting to get English Silver and both Japanese and English versions of Crystal

15705 SRs and you got it so nice bro

Congratulations, Steve! I was so happy to see this beauty shine for you after doing like 50 since that second Absol. Lugia looks fabulous in this game. Hopefully your next shiny appears swiftly! Good luck!

Seems like this gen means as much to you as it does to me! Silver was my first gen 2 game as well,(with Blue being my entry to the series, best Christmas ever) and I absolutely adore the remakes. I just wish we got more use of the pokewalker. :(

I've been binging all your shiny vids for about a week now because it occupies me while I continue my search for a shiny Sudowoodo in Pokémon heart Gold. I've spent many days soft resetting and it just won't shine. Getting my shiny starter only took around 7 hours but this "odd tree" is really taking the biscuit!

Congrats, man. I'm shiny hunting for a Ho-oh and I'm at 10k right now. I was feeling a little bit down but now that I see you had more than 15k I feel a little bit better. Thanks for that!

Currently hunting for this lugia with SRs on an actual cartridge of Pokemon silver.... Been at it for a week now a few hours each day

One time I got a shiny cyndaquil in hgss and I played through the game and reset it at the end. I still regret doing that.

I remember I hunted Lugia in Ultra Moon once. I got it after six soft resets and it still is my quickest hunt to date.

I’ve been hunting my shiny Shiny Charmander in fire red since 2016 ... still haven’t got him

Gyaaas! congrats on this especially after so many SRs

Pink Lugia is so adorable...

I got Ho-Oh in Silver after only 1,000 resets. Been hunting Lugia on the same game so long now I don't even track resets. The odds giveth and they taketh away #pain

Fuck, i was trying to get s Shiny HO-OH, but i couldn't take the SRs so i just captured the normal and kept going.

I don’t know why but lugia is my favorite legendary Pokémon

isnt it 15k SRs a lot ? worth it of course but damn doesnt that kill the game boy ?

Currently hunting this in gold luckily I traded a masterball over from my crystal clear cart so I can masterball it when it decides to show up

Im not even joking I found one first encounter... And couldn't catch it

I use to think the shiny particles means it gave more exp.... I was a dumb boi

What a cool effect , especially for such an old game.. The animation of the newer Gens shinies are just meh imo

I am having trouble trying to get shiny pokemon.

14,698 more than SmallAnt

2nd generation was the best Pokémon game.

Congrats on Shiny Lugia

Is it me or does anyone else think gold and silver have the best graphics out of all the games. It’s just so original and so awesome but still very clear at the same time. I love it

Congratulations my friend, you have soooo Lucky, congrats for the great content.

how long did it take for u to get 15k resets

how do you soft reset without pressing the bottom screen?

Great shiny! You inspired me to hunt one and I got it in less than 500 encounters!

im trying to hunt for a shiny lugia right now!

65 and a half hours to find it sheeeeesh

Gen 2 sprites are unmatched, great job and hope you get more Gen 2 shinys!

Lucky number 15.705

amazing shiny! im so glad you got it dude, it looks awesome. huge congrats! love lugias shiny, and it looks even better seeing it in gen 2!

yaaaas GG this shiny slays

This must’ve taken days

Congrats I have been shiny hunting lugia for months I hope I get mine soon

Still haven't found a shiny in my Sliver version on the 3ds virtual console. Don't have time much these days. Have a 2 and a half year old son.

After that... clone time 😂

my younger brother one time came across a Shiny Lugia.. he was trying to catch it.. he kept on killing it, or he kept on dying.. even his game boy kept dying cuz he stayed on that one pokemon for so long.. I was playing .. pokemon Silver.. he was playin Pokemon Crystal.. I was tryin to find those starters.. but as a kid, I didn't know that.. all of a sudden.. I hear my brother scream.. "HOLY SHIT!! BRO! COME HERE! COME! HURRY!" i went running in there.. he shows me a shiny Lugia.. I tried to trade him my starter but.. nope..

Battery died on my silver cartridge .. I miss my shiny golbat 😞 GREAT FIND DUDE!!

Master save that boi on a sd

You reseted your emulazor 16,000 times? I though i have no life

My favorite pokemon

love your videos i been shiny hunting myself im shiny hunting in pokemon crystal

I wish I still had my original Silver cartridge. I had a similar experience to you. Silver was THE game I played 24/7 when I was young, and I've always cherished and loved all my Pokemon games. With both me and my brother's collection of games we had every single game up to Emerald between us but our bitch of a father got rid of all of our games and Gameboy Advance's without our consent...

Congrats on finding that epic Lugia shiny after a small drought of over 55K. Not even 475,373. Try again. :)

I recently bought a soul silver but the battery is dead, I even asked if the battery was alive and they said yes... I assume it was never replaced in that case, and they didn't turn the console off after testing it/they only soft reset the game to check if the battery was alive (saves will stay even if you soft reset as long as the console doesn't turn off)

My Pokemon silver battery became corrupted. That was my Pokemon silver that my brother gave me that he caught a shiny Entei on ):

Congrats

I remember my first time playing crystal I found a yellow caterpie right before mr Pokémon’s house. No pokeball that early in the game so I had to fail it. I think I’m gonna go reclaim that.

Shiny hunting Lugia on Soul Silver right now. I decided that my Soul Silver playthrough would be full of shiny hunting, purely because I hunted for a shiny starter and got a shiny chikorita. So basically i’m gonna be shiny hunting all the legendaries (except the roaming legendaries) and Charmander and Treecko.

how do you soft reset on Virtual Console ? would appreciate anyone who helps :)

So the best way to get a shiny HA Lugia and Ho-oh is to hunt in the VC? Sounds challenging. Lol congrats man I’m just now seeing this video. Can’t wait to get to the hunts myself.

Congrats 🍾🎊🎈🎉

Best aeroblast animation

Major congrats, cant wait to hunt this! :D

I feel so bad, my mum found my old DS games a few days ago so I wanted to give soul silver a playthrough and my Lugia was a shiny with modest nature. No resets since I don’t have the patience for it haha

Major congrats on the sea beast :)

Lmao I just got shiny lugia right as the video was loading only 92 encounters in crystal

I actually was hunting a shiny Lugia on Pokemon silver on 3ds just 2 months after he uploaded this and it only took me somewhere around 300 soft resets until I got it that blew my mind. I did record me getting it on my channel, but I didn't have it recorded when I encountered it.

Yikes 15,000 soft resets that's gotta be at least 12 hours I'm impressed that you stuck with it!

How many days did you spend with this? Or have you done this in just one day?

2nd Gen is my Jam