Pokemon Gold, Silver, & Crystal - Finding a Ditto with Shiny 'Genes' Legit - No Glitches! 

Thats awesome!! Glad you enjoyed. Let me know if you have any questions about Crystal . Pretty much making this entire channel dedicated to Gold Silver & Crystal!

@@MasterRoninR I got that ditto now! dose it have the same odds as a shiny ditto when it comes to breeding? I hope so, breeding for shiny cyndaquil is not gonn be fun otherwise haha

@@snuff3577 Yep!! As long as the Ditto you caught, when you deposited in the daycare with the Red Gyarados (or any other shiny) gave the message "It's brimming with energy" than that means it has the shiny genes, and any Pokemon bred with that Ditto will have a 1/64 chance of the egg pokemon being shiny ! Good luck on the Cyndaquil, I hope you get a quick one! I just hatched a shiny Aipom in 5 eggs, took less than an hour. Most of mine have been about 3-4 hours total.

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Awesome- good luck with the Ditto hunt!!!

@Master Ronin R Thank you! Looking forward to your content :D

@chase2527 I appreciate it! I've been mixing up my hunts. Doing some Entei/Raikou, wild encounters in Rt.35 for Ditto, and the egg breeding. Gligar is next on the list to be shiny bred!

​@Master Ronin R That's awesome Gligar is one of my top 5 Favorite pokemon! And that hunt sounds crazy! My goal is to play through breed/Shiny hunt save some mons on here and transfer some for the gameboy emblem 😊 nerding hard feels Nostalgic 😋

@@chase2527 especially in this game, enjoy every second of the nostalgia 🫡

Thanks for stopping by and the comment! It could be, but the same assumption could be made that someone already has Gold/Silver ready with a master ball + Red Gyarados caught and doesn't need to play about 3 hours to do that. But what you mentioned also requires trading. This was a more 'non-trade friendly' version. Lastly, and not that I care, but some people in the pokemon "community" (I use that term loosely) are hell-bent on not glitching, so this is a glitch free method too.

​@@MasterRoninRAhh, yeah, the method I mentioned would be glitch free as well if you just had one Master Ball and saved it for the end. 5 was simply there to make catching more of them faster, and I assume the same would be for your method if you glitched 5 Master Balls so you could have 5 Dittos at once. Even so, it would still require trading from Gen 1 to Gen 2, which shouldn't be too hard to manage nowadays, which is indeed a bit more work to set up.

I might be able to help you out with this. I just need to dig back into my old JP. Crystal save files. I'll comment back this weekend and let you know. If I do have the save file, I'll make a quick video clip for you to see what the message will look like! edit: sorry checked everywhere but I don't have my old JP Crystal save file. If I playthrough again in the future, I will report back.

The Ditto's defense needs to be exactly 10, and the Special needs to be either 2 or 10. It's because when breeding if one parent is a Ditto, it will ALWAYS pass down its defensive stat, in this case 10. It will have a 50% chance of passing down its Special or otherwise it will pass down that number +/-8. That's why it can be 2, because there is a 50% chance it will pass down 2+8= 10. When you have two Pokemon with the same Defensive DV's and the same Special or if the Special is different by 8, then they won't breed by design b/c they are considered too closely related internally. Then the other 10 needed for an egg is in the Speed stat out of 0-15. Attack can be one of 8 different numbers out of 16 total options between 0-15. Thus, [1/2 chance of passing a '10' stat in Special] x [1/2 chance of passing one of the 8 correct Attack stats] x [1/16 chance of getting exactly a '10' in the Speed stat] = 1/64 total chance a Ditto produces a shiny egg.

Any shiny! The Red Gyarados is suggested since its a freebie essentially.

@@MasterRoninR thx for the response, I already caught mine

Hey great questions! "Brimming with energy" means that the two Pokémon in the daycare share the same DV # in Defense and either share the same DV # in Special, or otherwise has a difference in that # of +/- 8. Since Gyarados is shiny, that means its DVs in both Defense and Special have to be 10. All shiny Pokemon in GEN2 have DV's #'s of '10' in Defense, Special, and Speed. The Attack can be the 10, but doesn't have to be. Attack can be one of seven other different numbers between 0-15. If you have a Ditto that is brimming with energy when placed in daycare with a Gyarados then that means that Ditto also has Defense DV's of 10, and a Special DV of either 10 or 2 (10-8). This is important b/c when breeding the Male Parent OR Ditto always passes their Defense DV, and a 50% chance of passing their Special DV (the other 50% chance is always +/-8 of that number). So a Ditto that was brimming with energy with a shiny Gyarados when breeding will always pass down 1 shiny DV gene, and a 50% chance of passing down the other. So the only DV stats left that need be '10' for the egg when breeding is Speed, which is a random number between 0-15. So, there's a 100% chance of getting a '10' for Defense, 50% chance of getting a '10' for Special, a 50% chance of getting one of 8 different shiny DVs out of 16 for Attack, and 1/16 chance of getting '10' for Speed. So 1/1 x 1/2 x 8/16 x 1/16 = 8/512 chance of a shiny egg, which simplifies to a 1/64 chance (~1.5%), when you use a Ditto that is brimming with energy with a shiny Gyarados (or any breedable shiny, but that's typically the universal easiest one to get).

​@@MasterRoninR Great info. Do u have to catch the ditto before it transforms?

@@youngmachosavage You do not, you can catch it after it transforms and it won't effect anything

Baby pokemon can't breed in Gen2 that's why, unfortunately!

Bro can shiny cleffairy would be work

@bhagavativinubhaivasava6718 yes once it's evolved it can breed as a Clefairy

@@MasterRoninR thank bro for information keep it up 👍

Yeah exactly, in this file I had multiple master balls, so it just speeds up the process a tad not having to battle or wait for it to pop out of an ultra ball, etc.

Yes, it will work no matter which system you're playing on!

@@MasterRoninR thanks bro for reply 👍

@@Pokemonlover114 sure thing, enjoy!

It's hard to tell right away since it's at such a low level. However, you can hunt for one in Pokemon Yellow in the Cerulean Cave. Go to the basement level (where Mewtwo is) with just a level 63 to 65 Pokemon, a bunch of repels, and a Master Ball (or more if you glitched them in). With the repel in effect, you will only encounter level 65 Dittos, so the shiny genes you want to look for are 80 in Defense (DV of 10) and either 70 in Special (DV of 2) or 80 in Special (DV of 10). If none of the five you caught match those stats, you can just soft reset and try again.

Defense DV of 10, and a Special DV of 10 or 2

Was anything confusing ?

@@MasterRoninR All you show is catching two Ditto. As I wrote, without any explanation what is supposed to happen.