The Best and Worst Shiny Hunting Methods in Pokemon 

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As a kid with an eevee obsession I really liked the SOS Method because I could use a pokemon with cute charm to bump up my odds of finding a shiny female eevee

When I first learned how to shiny hunt through chain fishing, I felt proud about getting something out of it. Horsea became my first shiny I got via a hunting method

If im not mistaken, theres been new information about catch combos in the Lets Go games. That the increased odds are only applied to the next pokemon to spawn from the combo. So instead of catching then waiting. You have to keep catching, otherwise youre just at regular odds.

One time I was hoard training for EV’s in my Y and wasn’t paying attention, then I ran from a shiny swablu

It never occurred to me before that repeatedly rebooting your console would be dangerous.

Sad that you didn't mention one that gets the lowest shiny hate in like ever : Ultra-Exploration Back in USUM you could go through Ultra-Wormholes and play a minigame when the further you went the rarer th pokemon it can be, and if you don't find an Ultra Beast or a legendary, you can go up to *36/100* chance to get a shiny Pokémon

I remember when I encountered my first shiny in Gold. An orange Machop outside Mt Mortar. I thought it was a glitch so I turned my Game Boy off when the battle started, and lived with the anxiety that my game was broken.. Until I learned about shinies years later 😂

The Pokémon Game with the best Shiny Hunting Method is Pokémon Sleep

I remember when chain-fishing was first discovered and there were more shiny Relicanth on the GTS than there were regular ones.

I LOVED SOS hunting. Thinking about your sets to counter all the crazy things you can get, taking care of weather, hidden abilities, random higher level mon with different moves, 'allies' fainting the pokemon you are hunting. It was all great and setting up the chain and hunt was almost more enjoyable than getting the shiny

JPR logic: Resetting the console over and over to get a certain shiny: Unfun and Braindead Fishing in the same spot over and over, doing nothing in between: Fun and Engaging! 👍

I recently started shiny hunting with SOS chains for the first time ever in USUM. I realized that, if set up properly (you need an Exeggcute with Harvest and Bestow 👀 btw), it requires near zero attention. It's almost the perfect background activity. I started doing it while studying and it feels surprisingly rewarding to do! 😊

I accidentally soft reset on a full odds Shiny Deoxys on Pokemon Emerald. My greastest mistake ever.

My experience with PokéRadar was infuriating, because as far as I’m aware you could do everything 100% correct and still have your chain broken at max shiny odds.

I have PTSD from the horde encounters from X & Y. I randomly got a horde of seviper and 1 zangoose in a playthrough and it just so happened that of all of them, the zangoose was the shiny. So I basically had to frantically defeat as many seviper as I could so that the zangoose wouldn't be knocked out. Unfortunately for me, I wasn't able to knock them all out in time lol

I remember getting really lucky in s.o.s method and got a shiny Mareanie in under 30

there´s another method, by breeding in gen 2 and depositing the eggs in the Pokemon Stadium 2 boxes, the eggs containing a shiny pokemon will appear with a different color, TamaHero has a video explaining this with a lot more details

What’s interesting is soft resetting for starters or legendaries is that the first starter you get and the box art legendaries tend to be shiny locked now. But that definitely wasn’t always the case.

My personal favorite is one that you didn't even mention: Ultra Wormhole hunting from Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. Shiny Charm included, your shiny odds for getting as far as you can in the mini game go from the base chance to a whopping ONE IN THREE. And that includes the Legendary Pokemon and Ultra Beasts found there. And the odds stay even after a soft reset. As for the static encounters like Lombre, Altaria, etc. If those aren't shiny you just have to redo the mini game again. But I actually enjoyed the minigame. XD

That let’s go method has been found to be wrong a couple years ago. When you catch a pokemon in a combo, it only increases the shiny rate of the *next spawn* of the particular species you have a combo of. Your combo is doing nothing if you just sit there and wait. You have to continually catch the pokemon in your combo.

In some ways, outbreak hunting in Paldea is my favorite and least favorite. It's fun, but even with sandwiches and the shiny charm I have just absolutely terrible luck with it. I have never seen any shiny spawn in area zero despite how much I've hunted most of the paradox forms.

I just got a shiny alpha gligar from soft resetting today, been trundling away at it since before ScaVi came out. 889 resets. Was so excited I forgot to take a screen recording of the encounter until 15 minutes later lol. Good method for when you want to watch movies etc and I’d take it over the dynamax adventures only because those things take way to long for MAYBE one encounter assuming you successfully take down the legendary if the npcs don’t faint too many times

Generation 8 with the leading Pokémon with Synchro with any neutral Nature is the best way to encounter wild shiny Pokémon. It also saves you time and money to not have to rely on Mints too much since Mints only change the stats, having no effect on preferred Kinomi flavors, encountering wild Pokémon, nor breeding Pokémon. Legends: Arceus would be the best because of the higher changes based on the outbreaks, and research level.

Thanks for including the friend safari 😂

I got about 8 shinies in Violet dlc since it came out and the worst was Tandemaus as it barely changes

That's not how Catch Combo's work in Let's Go- Anubis discovered that it was being implemented incorrectly and that you have to keep catching to continue that shiny boost

One of the best Shiny Hunting Methods, and one I'm surprised you didn't mention, is Ultra Warp Ride from USUM. That place, even without the Shiny Charm, is an absolute Gold Mine of shinies, with some of the most ridiculous boosted odds ever. Besides, it's such a fun minigame!

I outbreak hunt in Scarlet and Violet without using Herba Mystica, just KO 60 Pokémon and have the Shiny Charm. I just can't be bothered to get more.

I remember some of the cool things about SOS hunting, that was where I started shiny hunting a lot more often. Like, how in USUM, they changed it so that only the original calls out for help, so that you wouldn't get situations where a shiny would just keep calling for help. And how Skill Swap Exeggutor was actually super useful, because you could give the Pokémon Harvest and a Leppa Berry so that you wouldn't have any PP problems. I remember it quite fondly as a mechanic.

My favorite is the Poké Radar in Pokemon X, never failled when I did it right. The whole thing consists in going to pokemon village, with a bunch of repels, find the pokemon you want to shiny hunt and then use the radar to keep finding it in chain, until you hit the 40th. The 40th one you find will be shiny guaranteed. But since there are some rules such as, you can't equip the roller skaters when doing it and it must be in a grass patch that allows you to walk on it without touching the border grasses ('cuz if you touch them, the chain breaks), it limits its aplication not specifically to pokemon village, but it makes it the best place to execute the strat.

I love the different ways your avatar pops up each video.

9:30 I didn't expect Buttercupxo to show up. She's great ^^

Mine was PLA horde hunting. It was the first time I was actually able to really feel like I was making some progress. Plus the little sound and animation made life so much easier. I wish they had kept that for Scarlett and Violet

IIRC gen 8's random encounters method didn't even work, there was a bug in the code preventing the shiny increase from actually happening. So it's not only a boring and tedious method, it's not even functional.

I know it's not the focus of the video, but I love the Jellyfish Fields sign in the background @ 0:34. And also shout out to aDrive at 3:02.

Pretty much all of my shiny Pokémon have been full odds… my first one was in emerald, and it was a shiny wurmple. Literally the first one I ever ran into, and I just thought they came in purple. Caught it and then I caught the second one which was the standard color. I never questioned why I didn’t run into a purple one ever again until years later. She eventually evolved into a Dustox that I have still to this day. Her name is Lulu.

Gen 6 plus definitely made shinies more common my first shiny was a granbull in xy. Really helped me cope during the bank hype

Horde hunting until you encounter two shinies in the same one which has happened, forcing you to choose which one to sacrifice since you can't catch both

I have played Pokémon for over 20 years now, and I have never found a single shiny legitimately

Full odds random encounters only over here. Guess it can be favorite and not at the same time.

I used to enjoy the Let's Go catch combo, but I've been burned too much by it recently to want to touch it for a hot minute. I too also despise soft resetting. Which is tragic because I currently have a shiny darkrai hunt on my Platinum that's been ongoing for over two years now. My current favorite would have to be ScarVi sandwich hunting along with SoS/horde hunting being tied for second. Lately though if I've been having some rough luck I just go to one of my cute charm glitch games for pity shinies to make the serotonin flow a little easier some days.

Dex nav from oras, horde hunting in gen 6 and sos battle were absolute best for me. Sos being my fav

Nice to see Adrive in there I swear you poketuber's reference each other as he referenced Bird Keeper Toby in a recent video

My favorite is Sandwich/Outbreak hunting in SC/VI but I also really like SRs. You can just SR while you're doing ANYTHING work/household/streaming whatever which is amazing IMO. I do want to try horde hunting though but I didn't play during GEN 6&7

Brooo you had clips from the Justin Flynn omgg I miss that dude!!!! He got me into chain fishing in Xy I miss him soo much!! Glad folks got clips of that man!!!

Gen 6 was when I got into shiny hunting and I did it a LOT! I got so many shinies through DexNav and Chain Fishing (my favorites being my Eevee turned Sylveon and Carvanha turned Sharpedo) and I even got a shiny Charmeleon from a Friend Safari! Oddly enough I still haven't gotten a shiny through sparkling sandwiches in SV, all of my shinies on there have been either random encounters (some with and some without the shiny charm) or when I was doing outbreaks and would end up with a random shiny instead of the one I wanted

5:17 Garchomp's shiny's pretty nice. Can't believe people still rag on it, after it's clear improvement.

Masuda was my option in Gen 6. Getting a good shiny that was competitive was for sure one of my favorite pass times in that era.

Haven't done a whole lot of shiny hunting myself, but when I do it's usually the Masuda method

The only method I haven't gotten successful with is the Masuda method. I've hatched 2K eggs trying to get a specific shiny with no luck. I just wanted a cool Pokémon but instead I was tediously making my character run in circles

I get worried about such things, too, and with me, I tend to be worried about getting in trouble if I use a trick or glitch or something, so I tend not to.

With the shiny resting SmallAnt did it in one of his videos where he was only using shiny Pokemon and at one point reset on a shiny

There is actually a bug with Sword and Shield's battle combo method where the increased rates only apply, at best, 3% of the time. The article that says this method exists is lying to the player.

10:25 at least you can use adrenaline orbs to increase the chance of the call

Never been a shiny hunter until SV. I don’t have the charm yet but I shiny hunted iron hands and got him in about 45 minutes which was so exciting

Chain fishing was how I got my first a Magikarp bur second was a random Gligar and my Gliscor is to this day my favorite Pokémon.

I have a question about chain fishing in ORAS. Do I have to talk to a specific person to unlock this method like in X and Y, or is it unlocked right away?

My favorite definitely has to be Max Raid Adventures. Playing around with the RNG, making use of what you got, trying to plan out a route, and the surprise factor when you do get a shiny is very fun. Also just love getting a huge amount of legendries shiny. Managed to get Necrozma and Lugia so far from that method.

that candyevie clip never gets old

pretty sure the sword and shield mass catch method is utter trash because it is broken, its supposed to increase the odds by a decent amount but only raises it like 0.2% for catching or beating 500+ pokemon

Poke radar is actually really fun to use the only thing I don’t like about it is that your chain can randomly break

I used to use Sweet Scent to get hoards of Pokémon without having to move from the spot I was in - though I did tragically fail a shiny wingul with this method

I love shiny hunting in Gen 9, even though I don’t use the outbreak or breeding methods. I almost never get anything from outbreaks, even with sandwich boosts, and I admittedly can’t get used to the whole “wait around to get eggs” part of breeding since it feels like I need to do something that I’m not in order to get results. But that being said, I’ve gotten over 125 shinies from hunting in the overworld, whether it’s with a sandwich boost, or even just running around. A couple times, sandwiches have given me 5 shinies in the allotted 30 minutes, but I’m surprised I’ve found so many without a boost. In the first day of the dlc, I found 4 shinies, 3 of which were in the span of 15 minutes!

"You get so in the habit of soft resetting whenever you see a pokemon I know someone has accidentally reset after getting a shiny" *cries a little*

One of the best mehtods to me is chain fishing i got in a single day 6 shinies, one of the worst are the hordes due to the lack of variety i have a box full of zigzagoons and never found a shiny poochyena in my Alpha Sapphire !

My favorite method is Pokemon Go, lol. If you live next to a stop or gym and own a PoGo+ or Pokéball+, you can just stand there and hold the button down to farm endlessly. It's cheap, yes, but it works... on the Pokémons that are in season, that is.

My favorite Shiny Hunting methods are Dexdav Chaining and Horde Encounters. I tried SOS Chaining in Pokémon Moon but I never got the hang of it :\

I actually do like SOS chaining because after 40 knock outs you get 3 perfect IVs if I am not wrong. All shinies I caught with SOS have superb IVs compared to other methods

Correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t “chain battling” in SwSh broken for a while? Like it didn’t actually increase your odds at all? My personal favorite is sos chains because I’ve accidentally gotten two shinies from it when I wasn’t even hunting for them. One being Bagon since I was trying to get the rare Salamence spawn for my Pokédex and the other being Chansey since I constantly grind those to level up stuff (also usually for the Pokédex). Also hate to be that guy but you forgot the ultra warp ride. Got my first shiny thru that

Catch Combos in Let's Go and SwSh are not the same. In Let's Go after Catch Combo 31, all Pokémons has boosted shiny rate, but the Pokémon you combed appears more in the wild. So, to make it simple, you catch combo a Weedle 31 times, then you get plenty of Weedles, but sometimes you can encounter Pidgeys, too. Both Weedles and Pidgeys have the boosted shiny rate. In SwSh after KO-ing 500 of the same species, ONLY brilliant Pokémon (the ones that shine and give Watts when you defeat them) have the boosted shiny rate of 1/512

I never really got shiny hunting.. I think the fun of shinies is that they show up unexpectedly during your playthrough. Actively seeking them out for hours on end defeats the whole purpose of a shiny imo.

I'm a shiny hunter with hundreds of hours logged just hunting them pixels and I NEVER soft reset

Chain fishing is my favorite as I never understand that Pokeradar thing from Sinnoh it was the first that gave me shinies (after a full odds in LeafGreen when I was a kid and the red gyarados in Gold of course)

Sword and shield massacre Method (thats what i like to call it) does only increase the shiny odds of the sparkly mons, and if u chain kill the mons the chance of sparkly spawns increase aswell.

My favourite method of shiny hunting was the breeding mechanics in SM/USUM. Being able to sniff out which Pokémon was going to be shiny by breeding Magikarps as well as IVs, gender, and abilities just made it the best gen for breeding IMO.

9:16 I'm pretty sure it's glimmer farming but yeah that requires defeating so many of one it's annoying. I did it once...

Lol perfect music choice for your food sponsor

You actually missed a few things. For Let's go, you need to continuously catch mons unlike previously thought where you just sit around at a catch combo of 31. With SOS hunting you can easily simplify the issue by giving a Trevenant with the ability Harvest Skill Swap and Trick while its holding a Leppa Berry to give the caller infinite PP (like a very low chance of it running out completely). This also works with an Alolan Exeggutor with Bestow and Skill Swap. Last thing I will say is actually SRs in USUM for shiny legendaries I would say is by far better and more efficient than Dynamax Adventures, considering you can do one reset every 20-30 seconds meanwhile one encounter with the dynamax adventures is like 12 minutes, and that isn't even a guarantee to defeat the final raid den boss if you get unlucky with Pokemon selection. So assuming it takes the full number of encounters per method, it will be under 12 hours to get a shiny legendary from soft resetting assuming the least optimal resets vs 20 hours to get a shiny from Dynamax adventures (assuming it is the legendary you are targeting).

0:35 Did you move into a new house.

Sandwich hunting is my favorite since you can also make it so only certain Pokémon spawn. I tried so hard to get a shiny female Indeedee in SwSh, and using a single sandwich in SV I managed to catch TWO of them.

I remember in ORAS I wanted to horde hunt for shiny Sableye. Ended up getting two Zubat and an Aaron before… another Zubat horde showed up, but this time with TWO SHINY ZUBAT. Guys when people tell you that too much of a good thing is a bad thing they aren’t kidding. Sat on the screen of the last two Zubat for like an hour before finally knocking out one, catching the other and deciding that shiny Sableye wasn’t worth that type of heartache

Good Vid JPR :)

Gen 7 breeding system was absolutely broken. You can actually predict the RNG to guarantee when you get shiny, natures, or a High IV pokemon, Thanks PKHex for teaching me this

I went through over 2000 eggs hatching a shiny Fuecoco with the masuda method. I’ve had more than one MM hunt go over 1000 lol

As a gen 6 lover, I think it actually did a lot of things right, and the methods mentioned in the video are one example of that

I absolutely hated SOS battles in SM. Specifically because Politoed, an otherwise trade-dependent evo, could only be encountered in an SOS battle with Poliwhirl while raining. Having to catch one for the dex is easily my worst memory from Moon.

cant believe there is still content to make

sos hunting gets miles easier with a trevenant what you wanna do is find a phantump with harvest (friend safari and sosing, funnily enough), evolve it, then teach it skill swap and trick, then you give it a leppa berry do you see where im going here

I have a soft spot for chain fishing, it was the first one I did on an official game. Red Clauncher hype

I've always been concerned with the Switch's flash memory. Flash memory has a certain lifespan that is impacted by the amount of reads and writes it performs. With the amount of times games autosave now, I'm very paranoid that my Switch or other systems will die much sooner than expected, especially with soft resetting being taken into account.

You forgot -mystery gift shiny (technically a method since you get some shiny out of that, just need for the right day and for some, right locations) -Pokémon go events (some events in that game increase specific Pokémon shiny odds and they can be transferred to main games) -set shiny (gyarados in HGSS, haxorus gible or dratini in BW2, ponyta in LA & munchlax in SV DLC)

Sad that there are no mentions of Curry Hunting in Sword and Shield It can be tedious, yes, but you CAN get a Shiny out of it from what I can recall

Not counting Ultra Wormhole hunting from Ultra Sun/Moon? It was then and only then that I got my LONG SOUGHT AFTER shiny Altaria!

For me, the catch combo is the most fun and easy way to shiny hunt. Oh and also the sandwiches in sv is rlly fun to

My favorite would be the horde shinies, and the DexNav shinies.

ugh, yeah, i've soft reseted over a shiny before, a shiny bulbasaur in pokemon firered to be exact. :,) And I also have that fear. I have to say, horde hunting is one of my favorite shiny hunting methods. Soft resetting and masuda method are hunting methods i hardly have the patience for. after like,,, 80 eggs i just quit and forget abt it. SOS and pokenav hunting are decent imo, SOS in particular works well for me since its the method i've gained the most shinies from.

As someone who shiny hunts in Colosseum... one word; PAIN.

That sandwich "animation" is so horrible, that no matter how easy it is, it still feels wrong

As someone who has shiny hunted for years these are my list from best to worst 1. Chain fishing; easy and super fun 2. Soft resetting: very time consuming but easy to just do the background 3. Outbreaks; super fun and easy in legends 4. SOS hunting. Also fun and very interactive 5. Poke radar: a little pain to figure out but once you get the hang of it it is a fun method 6. Friend safari: super easy way to get shinies 7. Encounter hunting in sword and shield I’ve never actually done it 8. Dynamax adventures: are such a pain! Take way too long per encounter and it isn’t guaranteed to get the legendary 9. Dex nav hunting: man have I had the worst luck with this hunting style. Fun to sneak up on Pokémon though 10. Masuda method: the bane of my existence lol. It’s boring, time consuming and my least favorite method by far! Only exception to this is gen two with a shiny ditto while no way to increase the hatch rate the odds are fantastic. Oh and honorable mention I guess is the wormhole encounters from USUM. I’m pretty neutral as I have gotten some shines with it, the mini game can be kind of hard though. But yeah that’s my list!