Shiny Pokémon You'll Fail in Scarlet & Violet 

As a colorblind person, I HATE that they got rid of the overworld sound and sparkle. It was a huge help in Arceus.

Magnemite and Magneton have this exact same problem, they have great shinies but the lighting is just evil at times

If a pokemon is shiny, your pokemon will not initiate an Auto Battle with it. It will do the "I refuse" animation

The fact that you didn't mention charcadet is a crime. That shiny is literally *identical* to its base outside of it's *VERY SMALL* eyes, while also being incredibly small and hard to see

"Heres some shinies you could miss if you're not careful"-Mikey Meanwhile Purplecliffe...

I found a shiny sunkern but didn’t even realise until I accidentally went into battle with it. It now permanently lives in my box and has done since the first gym

The anxiety I have every time I run around the wild in this game

The overworld sparkle for shinies they have had in Legends Arceus, was so useful. I don’t know why they didn’t add that feature back into Scarlet and Violet. Smh. Should be an easy fix in an update to add that feature.

This is how I ended up running into a Shiny Magikarp, NGL. It was in the water on the coast and the lighting and water effects made both it and regular Magikarp look like a muddy orange-ish from a distance. Didn't realize it was shiny until I was right on it.

Yea I hate that they didn’t put in the shiny sound cue and visual effect like they did in Pokémon legends Arceus. Makes shiny hunting more difficult despite the crazy high shiny chances you can get

Legends of Arceus in my opinion has made use of some of the best features for having pokemon appear in the overworld

Protip: for slowpokes shiny look at the tounge. It will be a hot pink vs regular slowpoke's light baby pink. Source: I have 3 shiny slowpoke. 2 found by accident.

Since I heard about this problem, I’ve been permanently terrified of walking past a shiny Pokémon without realizing it 😂

The easiest shinies to miss for sure are the Zorua line and Ditto. They disguise themselves as regular colored pokemon so the only way to know they’re shiny before battling is through outbreaks or the auto battle mode

Auto-battling helps for Shiny. At least Wingull was an easy one to spot on a small island.

You gotta be hawkeyed to not miss those subtle shinies, i had one experience with that noticing a Deerling with a pink flower in the corner of my eye

This is Fr a good tutorial. We need a part 2.

Game Freak need to fix this and add the ✨ sfx like they did with LA. Also, some time ago I booted up Scarlet and was at Research Lab 3 when I last saved. When I walked out I saw a shiny Venamoth. I thought it was the textured lighting but it was acting weird and didn’t do anything but stare at me. Then I decided to encounter it and, what ah ya know, it’s a shiny!

Mimikyu, it may look easy to spot when you look at it's shiny. But actually hunting one is extremely difficult due to most of the shading/lighting causing it to look similar to its shiny. The best way to spot it is to check the cheeks on every Mimikyu but even that is difficult and eyestraining since Mimikyu is so small

Tip for slowpoke: Go in front and compare the shades of its skin and mouth. On normal slowpokes, the skin is darker. On shinies, the mouth is.

Collectors anxiety intensifies

They should have added a sparkle sound for shines like in Legends Arkoos.

Not to mention other shinies like Tandemaus that even side by side you have to take a moment to figure out how they're even different.

I have a shiny Tadbulb, I was paranoid about missing one because Tadbulb is one of my favourite Pokémon, so I didn't want to hunt, but I actually managed to find one randomly in the wild and I was so happy, he's just a cute little guy

frigibax is also a hard one to spot if your not outright looking for it considering its hard to see the shading difference especially with the snow background. It does have the pink tassles but cmon they are tiny.

Can Confirm: Slowpoke Shiny Hunt was asking a Miracle... Only good thing is that your pokemon won't kill it in Let's Go... And now I got shiny Slowking. Also ANY shiny that's in grasslands and is smoll is NIGHTMARE.

I was talking to a friend about how bad Slowpokes shiny is while hunting for any of the Goodra stages, right after im done talking i instantly notice a Shiny Slowpoke and was able to tell it is one.

And this is why it takes me longer to do shiny checks. Not only are some shinies hard to tell the difference but there can be spawns behind you that could be shiny and you despawn them without knowing

Flashback to a couple days ago when I somehow managed to notice a shiny slowpoke just before I was about to despawn it

This is super helpful because I am actively shiny hunting sandy shocks

Gotta love how the generation with so many "what even changed" shines is also the generation to remove the overworld effect.

i found a shiny scyther entirely by chance when the only real difference is that its arms are pink and it's a SLIGHTLY darker green. my friend was floored that i managed to notice it lol

Set mode, being able to change time, and the Shiny noise are all gone. Gamefreak really likes to remove quality of life features

I wouldn't mind a full video going through all the shinies in Scarlet/Violet to determine hard catches and worth while catches.

Paldean Tauros was actually pretty visible when I saw mine off in the distance, I'd say it's harder to notice up close

It's already bad enuf that they arent fixing bad shinies, but they also didn't do the simplest thing of adding in sparkles (from LGPE) &/or noise (from PLA) to better help notice that they spawned in at all.

They need to have that chime come back. They also need to have the ability to pin the minimap to north. Idk why these two basic functions aren't there.

Honorable mention for Persian, which is a shiny that I failed. The only noticable difference is its ears, which turn pink in the shiny. Make sure you look closely at them because you could walk right past one like I did

Iron Treads has a similar story to Sandy Shocks. The regular form is so reflective that I need to pay close attention to spot the Shiny.

ive literally noticed 2 random shiny slowpokes from a considerable distance away and i’m amazed at myself

I actually managed to notice a shiny Slowpoke while running around near Casseroya Lake a few months back. I almost ran past it but another Slowpoke spawned in front of me and made me realize the one I had just passed was a lighter shade than normal. It even happened at night and everything; I'm so surprised I didn't miss it lol.

I love that I found a shiny slowpoke simply because I saw it look weird in the moonlight and wanted to take a chance and lo and behold, it was a shiny

Sandy Shocks was a pain to hunt for, I legit had to run right up to like half of them and stare at their bodies for a few seconds before I found the golden one

As someone who ended up finding one deerling is pretty hard to notice as outside of a slight color change the big difference is it’s yellow flowers become pink which is very small on its design

I was so proud when I found my shiny Slowpoke and somehow I noticed it immedatly. I was at a outbreak for a different Pokemon and when I turned my camera around to see behind me I see the brightest Slowpoke I ever did see. It was alone and the sun was on it but it was so light that i just turned around ran straight toward it. I thought it was shiny and I was right.

I almost failed a shiny Tynamo from an electric sandwich raid because it looks really similar to its regular form and it was underwater. Thankfully, my Quaquaval, Josuke notified me by not killing it.

What's even worse is that pokemon don't even sparkle in tera raids, so you can easily miss it, I nearly missed a shiny blissey over it.

One more shiny that’s very easy to miss is Tynamo. The little squiggly line on the side of its body barely changes color, and the same goes for its second evolution, Eelectrik. However it’s final evolution, Eelektross has a nice minty green color. I am not sure if Eelektross has an over world spawn, but I do know it spawns in Tera Raids, so you probably can’t miss it there if it’s shiny. It was conveniently the first shiny I got of my play through since I ran into it on accident. Other than that, it’s very hard to notice. Good luck to everyone hunting for it!

I was shiny hunting a dondozo and got it in like the first five minutes, so I decided to continue, it was torture having to stare my eyes out just to see if the slowpokes were shiny, but about TWO minutes I saw a slowpoke that looked weird, knowing its shiny I ran up to it, and after a Velez’s ran up to me I got in battle with the slowpoke and it was shiny.

I’ll never forget my shiny slowpoke, I was trying to compete the dex and I saw a slowpoke (which I didn’t have) so I go up to it and low and behold it’s a shiny

Honestly I accidentally bumped into a shiny Taurus and my reaction was from “god fluffing darn it” to “oh never mind good sir”

I got a shiny pichu in Violet. Pichu, one of the shinies NOTORIOUS for being hard to notice.

Thank you for posting this as it saved me from missing a shiny slowpoke :)

I found a shiny magnemite in the snowy area and the only reason I noticed it is because despite having awful vision due to ridiculous nearsightedness, I have two really effective qualities for shiny hunters; Very keen eyes for the absolute slightest difference between color shades and extreme paranoia that it's a shiny and not just the games lighting and the reflections. The magnemite to me had an ever so slight gold-looking spot on it but other than that looked completely normal. In the end, my brain won and instead of trying to catch and register a delibird, I yeeted Koraidon into the magnemite and sure enough, that ever so slight gold tint on its very reflective model indeed was not just the lighting and my brain being funky about it being a different color. So it ended up being my second shiny in the game despite being so insanely unnoticeable, lol.

Best difference for slowpoke, I found is the color of its tongue. Which is a noticeable darker shade of red. Otherwise the tone for the rest is too subtle in most instances.

I just caught a shiny slowpoke! I was like “huh, IS that one lighter pink?” Yes. Yes it was.

To this day, I’m still paranoid about if I ever missed a shiny Igglybuff

Also Flittle, almost missed that lil guy LOL

I’ve gotten the two slowpokes I need, because you can look at the tongue(the shiny one is red), but I m just stuck on phanpy. While pichu and mimikyu were very slight differences, once you look at a whole lot of them, you’re able to tell (pichu is slightly brighter with red cheeks, mimikyu is slightly darker with grey cheeks)

More of this, PLEASE. There are a LOT of shiny Pokémon that are obnoxiously hard to tell. I think I missed out on a full-odds Flamigo recently bc I couldn't tell at first...

Maushold in the corner laughing as it’s basically identical

Shiny story time. In Scarlet, my sister was playing and i was watching. We were walking through an area with a lot of Oinkalogne (think that's how it's spelled) to grind out some levels and i noticed that one was shiny. We quickly went into battle with it, but we had made a fatal mistake of not bringing any pokeballs except for ONE ultra ball. We got it to as low health as possible, but it wasn't enough. When the pokeball failed, we went to the VERY nearby Pokemon center thing to buy a pokeball, because we had no reason to think it'd despawn. We went back, but it was already too late, and it was gone. To this day, it's the only shiny we've encountered and we've almost finished the game. (We found that shiny sorta early in the game btw)

I found a Charcadet recently, and decided to auto battle it. All of my Pokémon just came back, and I couldn't figure out why, as they were all roughly 40 levels is above it. I got a little miffed, so I just ran into it, and as soon as the battle started, the Charcadet had the shiny sparkle! Literally the only difference was it's eye color, being yellow instead of blue. No wonder I couldn't tell.

Hoping to see more shorts, these were neat

my first shiny was actually one of those tauros, found it by random in a random group near a watchtower, full odds.. tbh i was getting fed up with them jumping me, so the fact didn't settle in til well after i'd caught it, still haven't found another to this day..

I love the changes over Legends Arceus who's totally ridiculous jingle combined with hunter's Outbreak exploits etc made Shinies actually more common than the Commoners. It didn't feel like an Acheivment at all, and part of the Whole joy in these newer games is observing the Wildlife just that little bit closer.

I actually found a shiny Persian tonight. I still had trouble figuring out what changed in the coloration after looking at it and the regular form side-by-side lol!

I dearly wish they had kept the overworld sparkles they introduced in PLA. Another thing i wished they kept was being able to move around the battle field during a battle.

The first shiny I've ever encountered was a Veluza. I had never seen a Veluza before then. If I hadn't figured to challenge it anyway (I was on land and it was trying to get to me from the water, to no avail), I'd have missed it entirely. My second shiny was a Garganacl, and I nearly skipped it because I thought it was just the lighting.

I have encountered 6 shinies in s&v but only caught 5 because, i was doing a random grass tera raid, it was a flittle, my dad points out that its pink layer is green, i think its just a form or gender thing, i didnt catch it, a while later i check my trainer profile, I had one more shiny emcounter but i didnt know when, it hit me like an 18 wheeler when i realised there werent any shiny stars in tera raids. I missed a flittle

Not to mention Corvinight in Area Zero. The lighting there is NOT a help at all because EVERY Corvinight that spawns looks shiny before it starts flying.

I don’t like the shiny sound effect, I don’t want to be notified when a shiny is near me since it takes the fun out of looking for them, but I feel like the sparkles (maybe something like the sparkly aura from Let’s Go) would please all parties.

for how badly they wanted to remove sparkles, they really just didnt wanna give Pokémon actual shinies

I was actually running around the team star fairy base area and saw 2 Floette next to each other but one looked purple and it was the shiny. Happy that I noticed that

I practically had a staring contest with a slowpoke to figured out it was shiny

Yeah, with such terrible shinies this generation, the lack of visual stars before encountering them and the sound effect really end up hurting the hunts. It's worse that Pokemon can spawn behind you after you pass a section so that makes it even worse.

Floette is especially hard to notice on handheld, since it's SUPER tiny. I only caught a shiny Floette because I was using the Let's Go feature and my Amphraros wouldn't attack her

They should bring the sound and spark back, there was no reason to remove it when it actually helped a lot in arceus

I have just seen that you have got 2 million subscribers. Well done it is very well deserved. 👍🏼

As someone who has a shiny belibolt: I genuinely nearly missed the shiny tadbulb and only happened to back track to a small group of them for the purposes of grinding when I found my shiny because of my gardevoir refusing to battle it in auto battles.

A really weird one is iron treads because the reflectivness looks the same for both of them and it’s kinda hard to see from afar

I hunted tauros, slowpoke and sandyshocks and was really anxious cause i thought i would miss them easily. only to dicover that you can see the shinys really well, no matter how bad the lighting may be

"Florges looks great!" ❌️ "Florges looks Gorgeous" ✅️

I’m color blind so some Pokémon become a pain to hunt. Wish they would’ve kept the notification from Legends

I've seen so many slowpokes off coloured like the shiny in the dark I just thought it was lighting💀

Yeah I know that struggle too well, found two shiny sandy shocks with the identifying the magnets thing, and yeah I got a shiny maushold through tandemaus outbreaks, it was a pain, it’s even less noticeable than slowpoke and being super small

After seeing TamaHero's video on the subject, I kind of get the lack of a sound (you're often riding your legendary, so running too far and knowing you made it despawn would be devastating) but the lack of the overworld sparkles from Let's Go baffles me. I had to double-take my shiny Buizel when I found it.

they need to fix that. also i was running around got trapped in a battle and said "that scyther looks like it got sunburned on it's neck. is it alright?" it was a shiny, i caught it, but i was surprised.

That sandy cheeks one is also true for Corviknight in the shade it looks almost the same so if you see a darker body Corviknight in the shade check it

I think the shiny sprites are sloppy. They really said if you're this color then your shiny automatically looks like this. They need to take more time and allow several combinations and maybe Stat boosts for shiny because they're so rare, but just to be basically be useless in battle

I haven’t found one myself but I’ve seen multiple people who have shiny tauros say that the body’s texture is different than a normal one’s so it’s easier to spot than you’d think. Hopefully will be able to find one someday so I can see for myself

Mikey trust me everything on this list is still easy if you consider the existence of shiny tynamo. (not only are they smaller than flabebe most of the time but they only spawn in water and the shiny barely changes and most of them go underwater so you dont see them and most pokemon except for varoom wont autobattle them)

When I was playing, I found a slowpoke and I thought it would be cool to use on my team, but it was actually a shiny

The only reason I managed to catch a shiny Paldean Tauros was because I spent way too long looking at the comparison. Its noticable if they spawn in a group close to one another, but still very hard and just a terrible shiny in general. I also managed to get a shiny Slowpoke simply based on a hunch of "you look lighter". In my opinion, shiny Starly and Staravia can be easy to miss in ScarVi. The shader and lighting effects make the shiny look so much more like the original colors. The colors look better in PLA. I can't speak fot Staraptor since I have not seen a shiny one in ScarVi yet, but Starly and Staravia both really got the short end of the stick

Nearly missed a shiny deerling one time. I only barely noticed the flower on its head being a different colour.

I always thought Area Zero's lighting seemed strangely bright. Sucks that it messes with noticing Sandy Shocks' shiny that much

One time I was auto battling a bunch of flabebe (the smallest one which is the hardest to tell it’s shiny or not) wouldn’t die from my Pokémon, I got into battle with it and was very happy that I found a shiny that was so small

I nearly walked past a shiny Komala because obviously, the first thing you look at is the actual Pokemon, not its prop. Thankfully, the birch white is eye catching. I’m just praying to Zekrom that the community is exaggerating how hard it is to tell shiny Gastly apart. I’ve spent the last few days looking for one (I expected it to take a while, it’s a full odds hunt), & the idea that I could be searching literally forever while accidentally passing shinies by just because I’m trying to spot the color difference instead of autobattling EVERY Gastly is honestly… ghastly. Can’t wait for the shiny Zorua hunt… maybe I’ll just Masuda Method that one.

Deerling and Sawsbuck. Missed one of each shiny and didn’t notice until I watched it back 😭

My first ever shiny was a Crabrawler in Scarlet that I named Puncher. I had another Crabrawler but I saw the red claws and wanted to be sure, and then said “OH MY GOD IS THAT SHINY!?” Learned from too many RU-vid videos not to pass up the chance and caught it without doing any damage to it.