The Hardest Pokemon to Get in Every Region 

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I find it extremely funny that Barry, the guy who can barely sit still for 2 minutes, has two of the most rare honey encounters. Either Barry's extremely lucky or wanted to beat his dad so bad he played the waiting game for strong team members.

Larvitar wasn't available in gen 2 until after you got all 16 badges. Had a 5% encounter rate, and a max level of 20, so you'd have to level it up 35 times to finally get a Tyranitar. All just for 1 remaining fight against Red.

I encountered Raikou in Leafgreen when I was young and it used Roar on me to flee. Cue me spending the next two years trying to search for it only to give and now for JPR to tell me it was a glitch.

In regards to Regigigas. During the OG Ruby & Sapphire time, when Internet was still somewhat scarce, I heard the rumor that you could catch a pumpkin headded pokemon, with one whip and a regular arm, when the space center reached a certain number of launches. You would go up with the rocket to space and get to fight this mysterious pokemon. When I reached the end of the Delta episode, I let out a tear thinking back at those days and how insane it was they actually implemented something rather close to it in the actual game.

I remember playing Pearl and thinking ‘I want my water type to be Milotic’ and then spending tedious hours trying to find one of the 4 random squares with feebas, followed by more tedious hours looking around the park for pamtre berries. That sort of grind made those Pokémon special

I didn't know Chansey was that rare in gen 2 so I was getting frustrated at how long it was taking me to find one and I said to myself "I swear I'm going to find a shiny Noctowl first at this rate". I did.

In Post game in UM I caught the level 10 Sala in a beast ball. Real sense of achievement on that one. I also caught imposter ditto in B2 which was another tough hunt

My biggest rare encounter flex had got to be Salamence in Ultra Sun. Accidentally ran into a Bagon that automatically summoned an SOS Salamence that I managed to catch. Fully evolved Pseudo before Hala's battle was awesome, even had an attack-raising nature.

Some reason a Nintendo employee was talking about the exact reasons as to why Chimecho was 2% in Mt. Pyre. They did not notice until the game was about to be finished getting coded, and it was added as one of the last pokemon to get added into the game as a whole.

Props to the people that managed to get these rarest Pokemon shiny!

Having attempted them all, I can tell you that while Salamence was undoubtedly a pain, it is topped by volcarona in ultra sun/moon, which has the same 1%/1% encounter rate, but from a higher level pokemon with a recoil move. Even so, the real worst pokemon to get for all of alola if you don't have access to trading is definitely Politoed. The reason is that it must be night, raining (which only occurs naturally between 5-6pm in Ultra Sun and 5-6am in Ultra Moon, otherwise you have to set it manually) and seems to have a similar encounter rate or even lower from the SOS to salamence and volcarona. However, the crowning glory of this encounter is that the politoed naturally knows perish song, which it will immediately use and give you just 3 turns to wear it down sufficiently to capture (with a catch rate of 45, this is less of a given than you might think). While no Honey tree munchlax in difficulty, my drizzle politoed remains the most ridiculously difficult thing i have ever caught (and yes, I am including shinies)

I honestly didn't find out until really recently that regigigas was even in oras because all the guide writers at the time or release didn't even know about it lol

For the Darmanitan you can also get an ability patch from the Dynamax Adventures but it’ll take a bit of grinding to do but hey you can possibly get shinies out of it

I caught a Feebas in Ruby when I was 9 and didn't know how it's spawn mechanics worked. I screwed up the pokeblocks and it never evolved. I remember it getting to level 70-something, though. I think I was going for 100.

I instantly knew Feebas was gonna get the mention, it was stupid rare.

As someone who has completed a Professor Oak challenge in every pokemon game, I personally had the most trouble catching a wild Gengar in Sun. Twenty to thirty hours of having Haunter call out for help...

Will never forget going into Pokémon Black completely blind and encountering Cryogonal for the first time. I was completely shocked, and fainted it thinking it would be a common Pokémon to find. Boy was I wrong.

yeah, but you could visit the safari zone, then fly to Cinnabar surf the east coast, and the Pokémon that show up (aside from Missingno) are Pokémon from whatever "dungeon" you just went to, thus making Chansey and all the other Safari Zone encounters easier to get, since you can weaken them.

In Red and Blue, you can also use the MissingNo Glitch to help get Chansey. Just go to Safari Zone and the Zone Chansey is in, and after your time is done, immediately fly to Viridian, do the catching tutorial, then fly to Cinnabar Island and just surf like you do for the glitch. For some reason it changes your encounters for the last area that you were in to the last area capture table. This glitch can basically be done with all routes

I think my boi Volcarona deserves consideration for Gen 7, only found in the small cave section of Lush Jungle and only in the Ultra games. There it’s a 1% chance of finding a Larvesta, which unlike Corsola provides no chance of boosted encounter odds. Then on SOS chaining there is a 1% chance of it actually being Volcarona, 99% to just be another Larvesta. Bear in mind, this is the times it ACTUALLY summons something, at least half the time it will summon nothing. Purely from a math perspective, this Volcarona is more difficult to find than a shiny. I ought to know, I literally found a random full odds shiny Alolan Dugtrio before I finally got it. 💯 “But remember, if you can find an earlier stage in a line and evolve it, it’s not actually that rare. Why wouldn’t you do that instead?” Well here’s the catch: Volcarona normally evolves at 59, while these are underleveled similar to the Relic Castle static spawn in B2W2, in this case found at level 41-44. This matters because the Elite 4’s teams on first go range 56-57, and Hau’s for the Champion title defense match caps at 60. This means if you are going for evolving one of the Larvesta instead, you’ll basically be super grinding it at the very end of the game and overleveling the Elite 4 with it to have access to Volcarona for JUST that set of five battles. If you actually want Volcarona to be on your team for a good length of time, including your last handful of trials, Legendary fights and final rival battles, along with a ton of other Trainers along the way, then you HAVE to use this method after you first gain access to Strength on Poni Island. Though it doesn’t affect encounter odds, it’s worth noting that the Larvesta you have to deal with to find one of these Volcarona are a pain. Like any SOS hunt of something you want to get them in the red and use Adrenaline Orbs, but these Larvesta have Absorb so they can always heal themselves out of red range to where they won’t call for help nearly as often, or on the other side of things they have Take Down and could simply kill themselves while you are waiting for them to summon something so you can keep the chain alive as you work toward finding Volcarona. They also have Flame Body, so if you are weakening them with physical attacks like False Swipe, they’re likely to burn you and mess with your damage calcs. Handling this the right way takes a LOT of care and decent amount of strategy. So yeah, you can see why this thing is hard to find but still justified to hunt down. Getting one for me felt as satisfying as getting any shiny because it took that much work, but had a great payoff going on my team for the rest of my playthrough.

I had no idea those Hoenn Pokémon were that hard to find. They felt more common to find compared to Relicanth

I found the authentic forms of Sinistea and Polteageist harder than Zen Mode Galarian Darmanitan

I think that the only one of those I have tried to do, is the Marinie one, because I wanted to try to get into Competitive Pokémon, and wanted a Toxapex on my team...it took nearly an hour, once I got onto the Corsola, which I lucked out on, to get to a Marinie.

When I was a kid I was playing Pokémon Gold and I was just walking through the tall grass when all of a sudden a wild Entei appeared, of course he ran away but it was still one of the best things I had experience as a kid. Nobody believed me

As long as I can catch a growlith in the region I'm playing I never worried about anything else I base my team around him

The biggest offender of impossible to catch Pokémon is Sinnoh, this is mainly due to daily events such as the trophy garden, swarms, the great marsh, there are Pokémon that are exclusive to these. And the selections are random each day

I got the route 1 Salamence, a shiny female Salandit, and shiny Mareanie. My Pokémon Moon play through was good to me

No, the hardest in Alola is getting Gengar, without trading, you have a 1% or lower SOS encounter and it is grueling to catch if you dont have friends who play pokemon

I did a white nuzlocke and i actually got cryagonal as my twist mountain encounter. Granted i was playing with species clause and already had boldore, but still, when i went to check the encounter rates and saw it was only 1% i was hyped. Very useful for the dragon gym

I love the mention of the Route 3 Salamence, not because it's the rarest, but because it's my favorite Pokemon and I actually hunted for it and got it within an hour! He was my starter and is still my ace to this day!

I'd argue Milotic into the gen 3 mention. Not only do you have to catch the feebas, but you have to max out its beauty stat. That is easier said than done though, as every pokemon you feed pokeblocks to will feel full after a certain amount. If you fail to max the beauty before you reach that cap, you're stuck with a permanent feebas. So you also have to get lucky that the nature suits the types of pokeblocks required to raise beauty.

I've got a Surskit on my first playthrough of Pokemon Ruby as the first encounter on route 102 and never know that it was so rare until I saw a video about it some 15 years or more later 😆

I know some will not beleive me but it´s okay. In my fist run of Pokemon Moon I felt like sos chaining a Bagon UNTIL I found a Salamence to fill the dex. About 3 hours later, what I found was indeed a Salamence. A shiny level 9 Salamence. To this day, I have to say it´s the luckyest I have been in my life :)

Thought cryogonal was more common, I remember as a kid I found them alot often but maybe it was really the winter season that boosted them appearing lol Surprising that it's that rare

I’m still proud of my hidden ability Bagon I got from a hidden grotto in White 2. Probably the rarest Pokémon I have in my collection

Since the video said "get" rather than "encounter", I think that in Gen II and its remakes, Heracross and Beldum respectively are the hardest pokemon to get. Heracross will only show up in certain headbutt trees in the game relative to the character's ID Number, while Beldum (and Metang) are both only available in the Safari Zone after maxing out specific environmental items. Doing so, requires around 200 days to do so. And even after all of that, Beldum and Metang still only have a 3% catch rate at max health, 4.5% when acounting for the Safari Ball's enhanced catch chance.

JPRpoketrainer: zen mode galarian darmanitan might just be the hardest Pokemon to get ever Ho-oh in Pokemon Colosseum: hold my beer (I count it because it's the only way to get ho-oh in gen 3)

I had Aeroy (the trade Aerodactyle in gen 2) in my Gold save as a kid. I had no idea Chansey--and Aerodactyl as a result--were so rare.

Wow, with emerald and the hoene all 5 of those rares were what held up my pokedex. The feebas I literally searched over half that river for before i found 1! Ah simpler times lol

I remember when I was trying to catch a Salamence on Pokemon ultra moon (I guess) and I accidentally found a Shiny bagon, it was a happy day

I loaded up on Leppa berries and set out to catch myself an SOS Salamence. It took a long chain of SOS calls, but I did eventually get it. I consider it one of my greater achievements in the game series.

When I was young I thought Entei was unavailable in Crystal. I did 2 or 3 playthroughs where I caught Raikou and even one were I trained Typhlosion, Raikou, Suicune and Dodrio to lvl 100, but never caught Entei.

i think you shouldve included the ho-oh from pokemon colosseum, requiring catching every shadow pokemon, purifying every one, and then getting a 100-win streak on the colosseum mode 100-battle vs

I feel antique sinistea at an automatic 1% of sinistea encounters is worse than dreepy. I got dreepy quite easily multiple times. Antique sinistea however took quite a bit more work

I just remember the nightmare of trying to catch Chansy and Kangaskhan in leaf green

I’ve been replaying my Crystal game and i was about to be very confused why Snubbul was included in this. I’m tired of running into the stupid things 😂😅 Glad to know the encounter rates were changed.

Wow, completely surprised me to see my footage in this video LOL. Great video as always JPR

I got the lvl 10 salamence for my Ultra Moon playthrough and boy does it destroy the game's balance. It's so much fun!

I have to say having just played through Fire Red again, Scyther was much, much more difficult and time consuming to catch than Chansey.

Raising a Dratini from a younger level makes it stronger than a wild caught Dragonite

Funny, I remember encountering less wild Ralts in the Hoenn games than Dunsparce in Johto, even though Dunsparce has a 1% encounter rate if my memory is good. Glad to see FRLG Entei and Raikou on this list, that was a frustrating bug. God, I never realized nicknaming your Regice and giving it an item in ORAS to find Regigigas was not explained in-game. They really want players to buy strategy guides, don't they?

I remember catching my first Chansey on Pokémon Yellow. I was so happy. And it was only last year AFTER I spent my entire childhood trying to catch one.

My second playthrough of sun I did the bagon encounter. Shockingly didn’t take me as long as I thought it would. Took him FOREVER to call for salamance though 😂

Bruh I swore Dedene and Mimikyu had a 1% encounter rate in SM I had the worst luck finding either near the power plant or that grocery store

I really appreciate when people put their sources either in the video or description. Good stuff 👍🏼

The one that got away from me was Latias in Pokémon Sapphire. I was young and stupid and decided to use my master ball on Kyogre, thinking that it would be impossible to catch it without one. Add in the fact that walkthroughs and access to information on the internet was nothing like it was today, and then you have 11 year old me chasing this Pokémon all over Hoenn that I hadn't even known existed. I tried bloody everything to catch that Pokemon. I got it's HP down to the lowest without killing it, used every status lowering move under the sun, and even taught my Sableye mean look so it couldn't flee. I played that game until the internal battery ran dry, and I never got to catch the darn thing. When Alpha Sapphire was announced, I was so excited to be able to finish what I had started in the OG game, but of course they made it so that Latias just magically joined your party without a problem. I was so salty that I never actually got to catch the darn thing!

4:25 At least breeding is a thing in Gen 2 so you can have many Chanseys.

I've caught that lv9 salamance in route 1 Took a while but it felt good

2:01 - You can encounter Chansey EASILY in the Unknown Dungeon. Surely the correct option is a rare Pokemon which can only be caught in Safari Zone, say Kangaskhan or Tauros (4% encounter rate at best and no option to acquire anywhere else).

I'm glad you mentioned the Sos-encounter Salamence, because I spent so long grinding for that just because I wanted a level 9 Salamence

Can we talk about getting a Weavile in Alola (Sun and Moon). The Item you need for your Sneasel to evolve, the Razor Claw, is only obtainable from wild Jangmo-o (and it's evolutions). Jangmo-o has a 5% spawn rate at least but then it has a 5% chance of actually holding the item you need. Yes Kommo-o has a 50% chance of holding it, but it only spawns from SOS-calls in an Jangmo-o encounter. And yes Weavile isn't a wild encounter either.

wish Hisui as a region talked about, even though it is technically Sinnoh

Safari pokemon in red and blue were easy to catch. Just walk around in a patch of grass where it spawns, get out and move to the east coast of cinnabar. You’ll only find safari pokemon instead of Missingno(when doing old man glitch). You can put the pokemon to sleep and weaken them, or you throw one of your master balls

Honestly out of all of the times someones dropped their subscriber metrics this was the first time it was done in a clever way to actually convince me to sub xD

You think you've really got the odds figured out? It took me *hours* in the safari zone in Firered to catch a Chansy. But no....I didn't stop there. I'm very much a completionist, and I wanted everything. I wanted the Lucky Egg. The only item in all of Pokemon that can actually *boost* EXP gains. And I got it on my first successful capture.....The only time I've been luckier is when I got Pokerus in Sapphire from a wild Mightyena I caught on a whim outside Lillycove.... I will forever treasure that stupid egg lol. If I hadn't gotten on that attempt, I'd have literally just bought Pokemon Colosseum/XD and gotten it that way.

I was trying to get a tauros in red for my pokemon stadium R-2 team, and GOOD GOD it was so difficult. That's been the toughest pokemon I've had to catch

It’s so great all of the secrets and nuances of the Pokémon games. Admitted I only played red and blue as a kid on game boy, then Pokémon go and I would not be able to do 99% of the things these games hold

really fun video. loved this. you should do the non main series next video.

Goes back to ORAS to catch the final regi now

Love this channel. Hard work and unique stuff. Bell always on 👍

9:06 Group A, Group 2, and Group C, an iconic trio 😂

I actually learned about Mareanie through the Pokedex and figured out how to spawn it from that NPC in Pokemon Moon. It took me like, a full day, but it was kinda exciting to intuit all that stuff. Almost made me feel like I wasn't playing a game for babies. Was super worth it too, cuz I had a ton of fun just being a toxic tank. Possibly the most fun I ever had in a mainline Pokemon game.

He didn't mention Legends Arceus! The hardest spawn for me was Magby. I remember that, aside from Spiritomb, Magby was my last missing Dex entry. It just refused to spawn. When I finally found it, I took a million precautions to make sure it didn't run since they are skittish.

As a kid I encountered a Feebas in Ruby randomly while fishing and I never knew how annoying it was to find until years later. Also, has your avatar always had crocs on? Or am I just now noticing

Munchlax actually has a 100% chance to show up at the tree, he's fat he loves that honey. It's just that there's a 99% chance that Barry will beat you to the tree and yoink the munchlax before you even get there. He doesn't have time to put the honey down himself you know? He'd have to fine you for that.

Ho oh is a pain in the ass to get in crystal since you need all the dogs to encounter it

I caught a mareanie and had a merciless one in my team. It wasn't that tedious. My brother told me how to find it. It took me around 10 mins and I found it.

When i owned emerald years ago the way i found regigigas was through a prima “official game guide” book from gamestop. Glad i had it or i never wouldve known about half the events in that game

Munchlax took me 4 months to find in a honey tree in Platinum (thank you Route 206! I still remember which honey tree it was for that was the moment of all time). In comparison, my playtime of FireRed was only about 2 months. Let that sink in. Though I gotta say, Feebas in Gen 3 & 4 as well as Spiritomb in Gen 4 were also annoying to get.

You are a cool guy

You need to get Mew in this video, b/c technically he is the rarest Kanto and rarest Pokémon to find and get.

I remember back in the day I always asked for the old pokemon guide books for my birthday. I was maybe 8 years old when emerald was out? I remember reading the old regigas guide part of it and I thought it was a prank. But I ended up getting it! All of the kids on the bus thought I was lieing when I told them how and assumed I used a GameShark lmao

I had no idea Illumise was such a rare pokemon. one time years ago i accidentally ran into the grass and found a full odds shiny Illumise. I caught it and it's now in pokemon Home, level 100 and IV/EV trained, with pokerus given to me by my brother.

I think Dreepy should be the real hardest one because you can easily do Dynamax Adventures for Dynite Ore and buy an ability patch and give Zen Mode to your Galarian Darmanitan. that is the ONLY other way to get Galarian Darmanitan with its Zen mode. Breeding a Unovan Darmanitan will not produce Galarian darmanitan. If the parent is from Galar, it will breed the Galarian form.

I remember Latias in Sapphire could only be encountered randomly in the wild and every time you changed zones, so did Latias. So you kinda just had to randomly stumble upon it before having an entry in your Pokédex to track its location. I found it after a few hundred hours of gameplay lol

Hey now, I caught that Dragonite as a personal challenge to catch everything catchable in that game. XD On an unrelated note I now have a deep hatred of audino.....

Mew for Gen 1. I always caught Chansey most times. Isn't Chansey in The Unknown Dungeon too? Anyways...I just found out about that Mew glitch not all that long ago like a year or so back. Wish I would of known about it when I was 11 and 12 and not decades later.

I won’t lie - I’d love an endless loop of the first 5 seconds of that intro. That beat is tough asf

For all the max raid dens, you can not only force raids to reroll, but you can force the raid then to be rare, cutting down on time Also, pretty sure you can get some of the dreepy evos through the dynamax caves

I still remember the exact moment and spot I caught my first kangaskhan. Easily my favorite and hardest catch from the original.

Ultra Moon Salamence is probably one of my recent “flexes” I’ve gotten so far. The Bagon summoned it in SOS the first round and I’m like “huh…” and eventually caught it. Didn’t know it was rare, lol.

I thought it was gonna be Tauros for Kanto. Because I had caught every single pokemon in Red, including Chansey, and I had an amazing amount of trouble catching the last pokemon which was Tauros.

This was a fun video. Thanks for all the info! 😊

But in SwSh, if you have the DLC, you can just trade Dynite Ore for an ability patch. That would make it so that you can switch a Pokemon's ability to the hidden one

I have been replaying sapphire and emerald and caught a surskit two days ago. I had no idea it was so rare. I just thought, "hmmm I've never caught him before". Crazy

I spit out my drink at the Hash Slinging Slasher reference. Well done

With Chansy, and all other Safari Zone exclusives in Gen 1, I just used the glitch surfing along the coast of either Cinnebar or the Seafoam Islands.

Regigigas reminds me of glitching Mew in Gen 1. Tall grassy area right behind and to the left of nugget bridge.

GameFreak:- Remove the Azure Flute. It's too tricky for the players. Regi Quest:- Am I a joke to you!?