Shinies Aren't The ONLY Rare Pokemon Thing! 

The fact I’ve had more random Pokerus encounters than Shiny encounters will never not bother me

So hypothetically, getting a Shiny level 1 Gyarados is the ultimate flex? Just gonna file that away for later use if I ever feel like shiny hunting in the older games

Imagine if you will, a Magikarp that is so angry that it breaks all the rules and evolved immediately after being hatched

The best ones were in Pokémon X and Y when some Pokémon would glitch and be purely white and black. People thought they were “albino Pokémon”.

Fun fact: If you get Pokerus in a gen 3 game where the internal battery have run dry or been affected by the berry glitch, then the Pokerus never goes away, as in it never gets cured. However, you don't gain the boosted stats either. Source: My copy of Pokemon Emerald!

The fact I got Pokerus almost immediately after starting Brilliant Diamond but have never seen a shiny in-game is hilarious to me.

As someone who owns a Shiny Crobat with Pokérus on SoulSilver, I must say I probably used all of my luck on it

About the Gyarados fact, Let’s Go Pikachu & Eevee are such cracked games I walked into Viridian forest and my first encounter was a level 3 Beedrill lol

When I lost to Totem Lurantis in Ultra Moon, my playthrough team got PokeRus, and I still have a Grovyle to pass the virus around!

Bro, when you get a marked, Pokérus, shiny Pokémon from a TOTALLY LEGIT DEFINITELY NOT SCAM SITE. 😮‍💨

When I started playing Ultra Moon, one of my first Pokemon I caught (a Pikipeck named Hubert) got Pokerus and spread it around. Unfortunately I didn't realize he did and accidentally cured it before I put an infected Pokemon in storage. Which sucks because I only had two of my permanent members of my team on me at the time.

I had Pokérus running rampant through my party/box like a decade ago and it stayed for so long without me knowing what it is. I never really acknowledged it and thought it was a weird sub-thing like markings.

I remember playing Saphire and being told my pokemon had Pokerus. The way they described it made it sound like it was a bad thing. I got worried so I started a new game. Years later, not only was it actually a good thing, but also rare.

I wish that Pokérus was in Scarlet and Violet.

I've gotten Pokérus multiple times. It is exciting when you aren't expecting it, especially back in the day when little was known about it. I remember looking in my handbooks for GSC and the only mention of it was in a small paragraph that just said that there's a chance your Pokémon could catch it and that it helps your Pokémon grow stronger and that was it.

Wait wait, so let me get this straight. This game outright refused to give me a Shiny Goomy in Gen 6. Yet it looked at my level 72 Zygarde after fighting a trainer and said “..Yeah we’ll give you Pokèrus which is an even more rare thing to occur.” This is an injustice on so many levels.

I know someone who has fished a shiny level 1 Gyarados but accidentaly lost it. He wanted to replay the game and forgot to trade the Gyarados away

Sword; refuses to give me shiny Wooloo Also Sword; "Have some Pokerus."

RIP Pokérus. You will be missed.

I always thought that Pokérus generally just killed your PKMN, like a Nuzlocke, which jumpscared me 😭.

While Shinies have gotten a lot easier to obtain, granted they'd added some challenges. Like authentic sinistea or 3 segment and family dudunsparce and maushold. The red gyarados is technically hard work for a shiny. Since you gotta get past the first 3-4 gyms (Idk if your gotta beat Marty first been awhile), meaning you have to put up with and win against Whitney's miltank first.

That lvl. 1 Gyarados must be a reference to the lvl. 100 Karpador from platinum.

The level 100 magikarp in platinum: finally a worthy opponent

I’ve always found underleveled evolved forms extremely interesting. First one that comes to mind personally is Jellicent you can find at level 5-20 in rippling water on Unova Route 18 (Frillish evolves at level 40). Found one at level 8 when I was a kid.

Another thing is you can find a magikarp in Pokémon black and white that is naturally lv 100

_"THEYRE IN THE GOD DAMN WALLS"_ - me after finding my first shiny pokemon's head sticking out of a cave wall (rare mark female gible)

One of the more fun events in my time of playing Pokemon was back in Black 2, where I was hunting for a good (right nature, above average IVs) Zubat for my story team. I finally got one that was to my standards, and it turned out to have PokeRus. I was quite pleased. The eventual Crobat was a fun addition to my team, and the PokeRus was super helpful for EV-training.

I . . . . Thought Pokerus was common. My team always caught it no matter what game i was playing. My team in Pokemon white has it right now too

Man. I got 4 shiny male salandits… and if you thought that was bad enough, they ALL HAD MARKS.

Now I may have boxes upon boxes of shinies, but I remember very clearly the four times I have seperately encountered Pokerus. My first time was on a random Electrike in Omega Ruby, my second was the Sudowoodo in Pokemon Crystal, the third was hatching the Eevee egg you received in Paniola Ranch in Ultra Sun, and the fourth was hatching Buneries for a Shiny Mega Lopunny. Not the shiny but a Pokerus was fun too!

Oh yeah, this reminded me of that one time my older brother was playing Black 2 and his Terrakion had Pokerus. We had no idea what is was…

imagine shiny hunting that level 1 gyarados O_O

Fun fact in one of the gen nine games, in booklet hill, the place where the water totem is, if you fish up a magikarp, it has a chance to call for help for a gyarados under level 20

32:25 Ah yes, the ultimate final boss for the reunited Primarchs: Confronting their paternal trauma 😂

Paldea: Oh. Pokérus was beneficial?

I have two rare marked pokemon orginally caught in Shield, A dreadnaw and a Noivern. I’ve also gotten Pokérus in two games.

That gayrados was the magikarp James kicked

I won't forget how happy I was when my Pokémon caught Pokérus, back in Diamond. I made sure to keep a Pokémon with it in my PC so that I could easily spread it to as many of my Pokémon as I possibly can.

I remember getting Pokerus as a kid in Pokémon Silver. I think there was an in game explanation of what it was with someone calling you or something. But I had it for a short while before I had to go to the poke center to heal up.

You can get a lvl 1 gyaradoas in gen 1 games using the ditto glitch / trainer fly glitch after you do trainer fly you go to the east of fushia city where you can encounter a ditto now you want the ditto to transform into the Pokémon that has the same special stat as the index number of there Pokémon you want in this case that’ll be *22* we then growl at the transformed ditto 6 times and then kill the ditto then go back to where you performed the trainer fly glitch and you should encounter a lvl 1 gyarados. Using this glitch can also get you trade evo Pokémon like gengar , machamp , alakasm and even legendaries and also MEW and Missingno. And like some other weird glitch Pokémon (the Johto Pokémon that were never added) If you want the index numbers , you can use a list form bulbapedia.

I got a rare mark on my Keldeo from Sword. I wasn't going for any marks on it, it just had it when I caught it

“and Wynaut because why not?” got me💀

I once found a horde of shiny Spinda with identical spot patterns in Alpha Sapphire and I’ve been chasing that high ever since

It’s so crazy that Pokerus is that rare. I’ve found it countless times.

I remember when I first played Pokemon White 2 a year ago (I freaking love that game), I managed to capture Pokerus Purrloin very early in the game. I was very surprised when that happened

Ah, the dichotomy of the Gyrados line: A level 1 Gyrados A level 100 Magikarp

I got PokéRus on my team from a Ralts I caught in the Grand Underground in BDSP. In case you didn't know, the ability to spread Pokérus only lasts for a couple of days if you leave the infected Pokémon on your team. If all of the infected Pokémon lose the ability to infect others, you will have to try and find another one, so keep one of the infected Pokémon in the boxes, then it will retain the ability to spread the disease. Also, if a Pokémon has Pokerus, it retains the buffs, even after it wears off.

Besides the Boost to the shiny right in the mainline games, which when you consider it's open world and you have an opportunity to actually miss them now makes a lot of sense, Pokemon go has totally broken the shiny rate. Their Community days are often 1 in 10 or 1 in 25 chances, and some raid days even have 1 in 6 odds of shiny.

A Magikarp was born into a world it hated, and evolved instantly

Ironically my only rare mark shiny was found on accident without a sandwich, and is now my breeding buddy for eggs because of it's flame body ability

My game file of Pokemon ultra moon was so sweaty that I had the I Choose You ash cap Pikachu with its special z-move, had multiple shinies, was starting up the regional dex, beat red and got mega stones at the Battle tree, and my level 100 halutcha had pokerus. Absolute sweaty Pokemon file

I own a shiny Ninetales I caught as a Vulpix in a Hidden Grotto in White 2 years ago. I moved it it all the way to Scarlet and Violet only to notice just how small it is. I took her to the size lady and turns out my Ninetales is the tiniest

i feel oddly special with NewSteevie using gulpin in this seeing how I got a shiny gulpin in pokemon sleep

Level 100 Feesh:Allow me to introduce myself

Now imagine a lvl 1 shiny garydos with rare mark and whatever the pink thing was called

“Oh and of course wynaut because why not” Actually got me there a bit

If I ever saw that rare lvl Gyarados I've probably just run away 😂

the fact that XY gave me my first Pokerus infection makes ZA mean that much more to me

There's also catching one of N's Pokemon in Black and White 2.

To get a shiny, rare mark, pokerus level 1 gyarados with perfect IVs and nature, if it took you 1 minute per encounter, it would take you 25 times the current age of the universe to find it.

My first ever playthrough of pokemon on Pokemon Crystal, I ran into pokerus. I think, since then, I've run into it twice.

POV finding a level 1 shiny gyarados with pokerus also having the rare mark:

Thinking back is funny how in the old games Nurse Joy points out the pokerus on the team yet I never realized the importance or rarity of it until way later.

Almost every poke ytber uses Scarlet/Violet music, This music hits hard

"so what can we find on this mythical island?" Uhhhh well, probably like, a Cataliszt at least

And the one time I was an oblivious child almost a decade ago, I got a Pokerus Latias on my blind normal playthrough of Alpha Sapphire.

Forgot the level 100 Magicarp

Shinies in Pokemon Violet are a joke lol. I was just chilling showing my cousin the game once and a shiny hoppip just floated by right next to me. And i was like, wait. Your suppose to be pink. Yesterday i caught a shiny Buizel while decimating some psyducks and today i caught a shiny Skowet. I haven't even fought the first gym or did the mystery pokemon quest yet. I've just been viving and finding random shinies. I now have six shinies on me. None of them intentionally.

I remember playing Pokemon ultra sun and out of nowhere my team was infected with pokerus and I didn't even know what it was or what it did until now. I beat the game years ago and now I'm here discovering that it's actually rare 💀

I found an Ekans in USUM that had Pokerus, named him Lucky, and use him till this day to spread PokeRus. Since if you store the Pokémon in the Box, the Pokerus won’t fade.

During the Milcery outbreak event, I found a shiny Milcery with a Rare mark! That was before I had the mark charm. I haven't caught another rare mark pokemon since then, but that felt like some pretty crazy luck.

Blox fruits players after seeing MERAGE island: 😮

In sun and moon you have a very small chance of getting a salamance on the first island by making a bagon cry for help if you keep grinding it out you can get a low level salamance

I got pokerus in a play through of Pokémon moon a few years ago. I went to the center to heal and the nurse was like “oh by the way, you have pokerus”. So my jaw actually physically dropped because this was like the only time I ever got it in over 15 years of pokemon, and probably several millions of wild battles.

With SOS battles being introduced in Sun and Moon, Bagon has a 1% chance of calling a Salamence. I saw a guy on Reddit hunt for a shiny Salamence through this method, while killing off any shiny Bagon they encountered. In a SOS chain there's a 1 in 315 chance of finding a shiny Pokémon without the charm (which I believe he didn't have), meaning there is a 1 in 31,500 chance a shiny Salamence will appear in a Bagon SOS chain!

I remember actually getting pokerus on crystal as a kid. Didn't realize how rare it was until several years later. Never got it again.

I worked so hard for my shiny Pikachu, but I didn’t expect that it will be a bit darker of a shade, so I was pretty disappointed LMAO

As a kid i remember finding my first shiny in pokemon gold... i panicked thinking my game glitched and immediately turned off the power.

that one friend getting a level 1 shiny gyarados with the rare mark, and getting pokerus after the battle, all in a casual playthrough

Wow, learned something again after being my complete life a pokemon Fan. Thank you!

I stayed catching that virus...as a kid I thought I was so unlucky

I only got a single pokerus encounter and it was a shiny ditto in sword and shield. I named it schlorm and it has been with me ever since.

You're telling me Mirage Island wasn't an event island? Now I feel better for checking in constantly with the old man to see if it had spawned, back in middle school.

that moment when you got pokerus more often than shinies

pokerus being rare: also getting pokerus from random trade in SwSh:

Just gotta wait for those gen V remakes for the ultimate level 1 shiny, with pokerus and rare mark gyarados

I have a pokerus Graninja on my 3ds and never knew what it was.

Shiny, rare mark, pokerus Pokémon be like 🤫🧏‍♂️

I play gen 2 alot and I get PokeRus more than I probably should. It's crazy. It's too a point I hunt it as soon as I fill my party for he first time

So an island of Wynauts? Worth the wait.

the level 100 magikarp in scarlet/violet dlc is funny cause it surely matches the level 1 gyarados-

I dare someone to shiny hunt a level one Gyarados cuz that would be pretty freaking amazing

imagine getting a shiny wynaut with a rare mark and pokerus but you reset over it 😢😢😢😢

My whole gang with pokerus be like:

One time found a shiny pokemon in the middle of nowhere and I didn't even know it was there.

Bro, I still vividly recall the day I changed my battery in my Pokemon Crystal cartridge and started up a new file and had pokerus on my Chikorita after the first gym battle.

Just Glalie holding a bottle of Tylenol as its held item. Nothing to see here... (whistles suspiciously)

My pokemon caught pokerus when I was little. (HGSS) I had no idea what was going on, and was so thrown when Nurse Joy told me my pokemon caught "a rare virus". The professor calls you shortly after and reassures you that while very rare, pokerus is nothing to worry about.

I like the idea of making a mini regigen with pokerus in it

Got a shiny kabuto first try in Let’s Go Eevee yesterday without even hunting, made me feel special and I called it lil guy. Lil guy is now a big guy