The Rarest Events in Every Pokemon Game 

Have you ever encountered any of these rare events? Were there any I missed? Let me know!

When I first played Pearl when it came out, I had a Snorlax with Metronome and it actually called Dark Void! Easily the rarest thing to happen in any of my playthroughs because it would be a while until Darkrai was even in the game

I remember having a cheat code book and it said that if you beat the pokemon league 200 times then you would get the aurora ticket to fight deoxys. Needless to say I'm probably one of the few people who actually had all the dolls in Lorelei's house...

I did the Yellow In-Game Trade for the Muk named Sticky. The randomly assigned Trainer ID was 00000. When I used Sticky on Stadium 1 and it earned a spot in the Hall of Fame, the game misidentified Sticky as a “Rental” Pokemon. All of the Rental Pokemon in Stadium have the Trainer ID 00000, so that must be the only requirement to label it as a Rental in the Hall of Fame. Unlike any other Rentals in the Hall of Fame, Sticky’s name was on its Hall of Fame listing instead of the generic species name. I have never heard of anyone else noticing this minor occurrence before as I suspect that it is pretty rare to have any Pokemon with the 00000 Trainer ID.

In Ruby I managed to get onto Mirage Island even though I didn't know what it was at the time. I hoard stuff so I started growing more Liechi's later on. Later on my friends at school mentioned how it is basically impossible to get them. I still remember their faces when I showed them how many I had and then gave all of them some to grow. Also won a Masterball once. To this day Ruby and Sapphire are my favorites.

I spent SO MANY HOURS playing Sapphire and Emerald versions, like A LOT, and i myself have only seen the mirage island ONCE. It was an unreal experience, let me tell you…I had thought it just an urban legend. It happened on a Saturday while i was at my grandparents (what sucks is that i wasn’t even due to be there that weekend…my parents had to go out of town. Had it been the usual weekend i could have run over and shown the kid next door for some EXTRA credibility, OR if it had been a weeked i USUALY go to my grandparents, i could have shown my cousins), so I was sadly the only one to witness it in person…come Monday recess, The only reason anyone believed me that i had been there was that i had the berry.

Fun fact about Diamond Dust: It has no in-battle weather effect ties to it. This rarely factors into much, but you can use this to your advantage to make the Red battle in HGSS slightly easier.

12:18 I’ve, uh, actually found a Gold Bottle Cap from the Digging Bros. It actually has unique dialogue related to it, effectively bringing attention to the rare find. Learning it was 1/10k was pretty insane, as Serebii simply lists it as “Rare”

A couple of years ago I was messing around in Pokemon Emerald, only to randomly win the master ball in the lottery despite not having any traded pokemon. When the game first came out I tried the lottery all the time and never won so as you'd expect I was rather shocked.

That Lorelei one... that is hands down one of the most insane I've seen to date. You gotta grind out countless Elite Four victories... just for one extra toy to be added to her house.

You forgot the hidden grottos in Black 2 and White 2! That's the only legal way to obtain rare pokemon with hidden abilities, such as Vulpix with Drought, Dragonite with Multiscale, or Heracross with Moxie. The encounter rate with these are only 1%, in other occasions you get a random item such as great ball or find a weak pokemon with their own irrelevant hidden ability. And each grotto refreshes after 256 steps, that means you have to run 25600 steps on average to find such a rare pokemon with a desired hidden ability!

I remember going to mirage island not even knowing it was such a rare event and leaving immediately since there was only a berry and a wynaut 😅

There's actually an even rarer one in gen 3. It's basically a variation on the 1/256 glitch from gen 1, but it's only for the first turn of Protect and instead of 1/256 it's 1/65536.

One thing that is kind of rare in platinum (I say it's rare because I feel like the odds of it happening naturally are pretty low) is the "acid rain" glitch. Basically, if a pokemon got knocked out by pursuit while there was weather, trick room, uproar, or gravity active, it would trigger a glitch making multiple weather conditions active at once. Also, if castform was on the field while this glitch activated then it would switch forms forever and you'd have to turn the game off. Just putting this out there if you ever decide to do a "coolest glitches in each generation" video (wink wink nudge nudge)

Was confused and researched further and yeah apparently if you go to Zekrom/Reshiram with no Pokeballs but not a full PC it does not go to dragon spiral tower. Apparently there are plasma grunts in the castle that both teleport you to the league center and shop (though I do wonder if you have to retry the elite 4) and one that just gives you 1 ultra ball and will give more any time you have 0 ultra balls. But still seems convoluted

I only ever saw Mirage Island once as kid! Wish I could’ve appreciated the odds back then lol And I also remember totally thinking I hallucinated the little hiker guy

I have a very distinct memory of this one time when I was playing the battle factory in emerald and a shiny rental pokemon came up (I think it was a breloom) even though it's probably not much rarer than finding a shiny normally, it still took me by surprise when it happened because I had no idea that it was even possible for rentals to be shiny.

I remember catching a Chansey with the lucky egg back in leafgreen, I didn't know how rare it was till some years afterwards but it sure made the game easier lol

That buizel side quest WAS a doozy! It took me so long that at one point I wondered if I was doing it wrong. I’d constantly get a buizel that was one inch smaller than it was supposed to

5:50 There are actually rarer shiny pokemon. Due to the way Unown are generated in FRLG and how it overlaps with the generation of shinies, you can get certain shiny Unown at a rate of 1/18432, twice as rare as the normal shiny odds

10:35 you have awoken a memory that I forgot I had. I remember having the Mimikyu show up after I played around for like 5 minutes at the trailer. Then just getting confused why he wouldn’t talk about it. I never realized it was that rare.

In Ruby,when I was healing my Pokémon in Lilycove City..the nurse told me that one of my Pokémon was infected with the Pokérus…I was really surprised!!!

I actually have all the dolls in Lorelei's house. I used my Firered game as a child to train all the Pokémon I liked back then to Lv100 and beating the league over and over was just more interesting than spamming vs seeker on the Chansey trainer on Island 7.

My mind is blown at that Lorelei Pokedoll thing. Every time I think I know every mechanic of these games, there's something new. I did catch a Chansey with a Lucky Egg in LG, it took me a solid week or so of searching and like 25 Chanseys caught. I've heard of people finding a shiny before they found a Chansey w/Lucky Egg, I did not get lucky enough to find a shiny however.

6:15 "we'll stick with the 1/1000, wynaut" as a wynaut is on screen was cheeky

Man that big buizel side quest was a pain. The one I finally caught that was big enough was also a shiny, so it was kind of cool to have a shiny buizel standing with him.

I remember watching that one video of the wild Phantump joining the team from the camp and I swear if I was still in any way interested in playing SwSh, I would be trying to fish for it. It's just too adorable.

3:50 I can confirm this. A week ago I was hunting lucky eggs in Silver and I found a shiny Noctowl before I found a Chansey holding a lucky egg. I already had 2 shiny noctowls but I caught that one too because it was more organic than the shiny egg method.

I've definitely found an eviolite in a trash can in Kalos, but I also definitely dumped a LOT of hours into that game and didn't even know that it was a rare item for the game because I was not building anything around it at the time. Kind of weird to have an extra item that's difficult to obtain when you don't realize the actual odds of getting it tbh...

Despite ORAS replacing Mirage Island with the wormholes with the legendaries, Mirage Island will still be something really intriguing to me in RSE, despite it only being useful for getting the Liechi Berry. The one with Chansey and the Lucky Egg is interesting, not to mention Chansey being the hardest Pokemon to catch in the Safari Zone. And despite some nowadays catching a shiny Chansey from there, back then, a lot of people failed except for one at the time. And DPPt with it only having one way getting a Munchlax in game, with 19% of the indistinguishable honey trees having a 1% chance for a Munchlax that can't be reset every time you slater honey.

Actually, a fact about gen 1 that is not well-known, is related to the Safari zone, but not Chansey. I don't know if people know, perhaps this fact is not as mysterious as I thought it is, but I'm gonna share it anyways. There's a very little chance, the Safari zone guard will let you in, even if you don't have enough money for the entrance (500 poke-dollars). I don't know how you'd end up in a situation that dire, with so little money, or even worse, none at all, but it can happen, if you insist. The first few times he'll tell you to leave, cause no cash= no entrance, but if you keep insisting, like a lot, the dude will eventually concede and allow you entrance with whatever little money you may have. This was done, to not cause a soft-lock I think? Cause you need to go to the Safari zone to get Surf, and you can't progress without that tm, cause you kinda need Surf to get to Cinnabar Island and challenging Blaine. Really impressive.

An incredibly rare event from gen 3 is Wally killing his Ralts with the lended zigzagoon. It requires very specific IVs and natures but the chance is 1/8574. On the topic of Wally, there's also a vid him catching a shiny Ralts during a speed run. It even stays shiny for the rest of the game

Fun fact, I saw mirage island twice, as well as getting two different pokemon with pokerus before ever getting my first shiny in gen 8, and that even took me hunting for it.

I had no idea that the Delibird was a rare event, since it happened to me on my first playthrough. I tought that was just a regular cutscene.

Still the most bullshit thing to happen in a friendly match with my friend: We used to battle a lot using his XD game and my Emerald game. One time, as I was winning, he tried to use his Fissure Snorlax to beat my Alakazam. Naturally, it missed. Since I was ahead, I decided to have fun and use Metronome for some laughs. You can guess what move appeared AND hit. Glorious.

I had no idea that hiker was a random event. I remember as a kid I found him a few times on that mountain and didn’t think twice about it until I went back over the years and never found him again

(4:53) Actually, the ID numbers ranged from 0 to 65535 back then, so the odds of hitting the Master Ball jackpot were 1/65536 x the number of different ID numbers you had available. Interestingly, I actually did manage to win the jackpot one time in my Gold game back then. There was one week where the winning number was the exact same as my brother's trainer ID, and he was playing Silver, so I just did a quick trade with him and claimed my Master Ball!

And I thought never encountering a shiny in the wild was bad. Impressive stuff

That Buizel side quest being hard really surprised me XD I had just caught the one buizel earlier in the game and just used that one. Worked first time, didn’t even know it was rare until people complained about it.

Wowza! I had no idea about the pokedolls whatsoever that's so cool! Thanks for the awesome video and the hard work you did to find some really unknown facts :D

Hey cool video! I think for Fr/Lg, the rarest event would be finding a shiny 1% Dragonair in the safari zone (1/819,200 chance).

I never realized the hiker thing was so rare in gen 3. Happened to me all the time.

Oh wow! I didn't t think getting Lucky Eggs in Gen 2 was that rare, I got one in both Gold and Crystal within an hour.

I've got a theory that the Buizel quest in PLA was to teach you about random wild Alphas that just wasn't handled very well Because I feel like the only way any of us got that quest out of our logbook, was with an alpha Buizel lmao

So about the master ball. I swear I remember, in fire red, throwing a master ball at a zapdos and it said that the throw missed. Maybe it's a false memory, but I remember it clearly.

They said I was crazy when I said I saw that hiker… Then again I’d call anyone crazy if they said they been to the mirage island in Gen 3

I saw the hiker a few times in RSE and the Diamond Dust in DP, but otherwise most other things I gave up on. I remember being so disappointed when Mirage Island wasn't in ORAS. I was hoping to finally visit.

I managed to get two shiny zigzagoon encounters within about 10 restarts of one another when starting an emerald game with the intent of getting a shiny starter, meaning I couldn't catch them because I had no pokeballs. Even if they weren't back to back encounters, that's still pretty close to a 1 in 67,108,864 chance I'd think. Also because of that, I came to the conclusion that pokemon RNG wants for me to suffer and I stopped right afterwards.

I will never forget my 1% shiny Dragonair on my original Fire Red. I charged my Gameboy all night that night and throughout school the next day on the catch screen so I could show my friend next door. I was able to show him luckily however; it fled.

Bro you have reignited my deep love for this franchise. After Legends Arceus I became excited for the future of the game but YOU JPR have reignited my love more my old Pokemon games. I want to join a battling/trading discord for the games can anyone help me out?

I actually got a safari ball from the cram o matic when I was trying to get a moon ball. I didn’t know the odds until looking it up the next day and I was blown away!

You're so positive and upbeat and cheerful! Great job!

Great video, maybe one of these things happened to me, keep it up!

So glad you're still making content love your channel underated

I honestly thought the lucky egg was introduced in Gen 5, never knew it even existed in Gen 2

I had a natural pokerus infection occur to my starter in the first month after Pearl (the OG one) was released. Gladly, some folks on the internet had already deciphered what the PKRS status tag and its effects were so I got a Bidoof, got him infected as well, and benched that mon in the PC to spread the effect around. Had it going through the whole Pearl, Platinum, Black and Black 2.

I saw a shiny Rhydon run past me on the Celestica Trail when I was doing the balloon quest in Coronet Highlands. I instantly stopped my run and went back to where I found it. Sure enough, it was there and I caught it. I didn't have the Shiny Charm.

I thought mentioning spinda and it's pattern forms would've been something worth mentioning but then again... it's spinda

I actually have about 250 Hall of Fame wins in Pokémon Diamond. Sadly there's no reward for that besides the PC entries (which cap out at 30...).

Ive found mirage island once by complete accident when I was a kid and more recently I actually had one of the digging brother dig up a golden bottle cap, feels pretty cool knowing how insanely rare those are lol

Has anyone else in G/S ever encountered the Professor Elm aid that gives you the Togepi egg in the Pokémon center just before the community cave instead of in violet city? It only happened to me once and it was on my first playthrough.

If getting pokerus isn’t here… 👀 Played so much Pokémon in my life I’ve got it twice (as in billion EV training and got it thru random encounters not traded over one and infected a box) And in Gen 4 SS and platinum 🔥

I've gotten a camp visitor in swsh before! I was really confused, because I'd never heard of it happening before, but it's only ever happened once despite me using the camp to heal my pokemon constantly on long hunts or grinding sessions. it was really neat having a little guy come up and join my party :D

Wow, I had no idea about the Lorelei dolls. I actually train a bunch of pokemon up to lv 100 in my spare time, and Fire Red's elite 4 is one of the better sources of XP, so I already have 12 of the 14 dolls. Just missing Lapras and the Pidgeot (Or Pidgeotto?)

Speaking of rare events, earlier my bro was in the Safari zone, encountered a shiny Nidorino and it flew, that sure was anti-climatic as hell

I know shinies are cop outs, but in gen 1 specifically, I think it's okay to mention it, as you can actually find Pokémon that become shiny when sent to either Bank or GSC

1:50 I thought the master ball has a small chance of missing, especially on mewtwo because of the feature in gen one where sometimes you can miss your throw.

I remember catching a munchlax from my first honey tree in pearl. Had no clue how rare it was, but was excited to be able to use snorlax!

2:25 When I was a teenager I decided to start farming Chansey to get a lucky egg. It took over 30 Chansey, I think around 35-40. For sure one full box of them. And then when I couldn't transfer it to the ds games I was devastated

To be honest.... The master ball failed to capture a Caterpie, BUT ONLY AFTER I MADE THE MISSING.NO GLITCH, WHICH MAY CAUSED A RANDOM EFFECT IN THE LINES, since it's a glitch (most of the time it's caused by a glitch)

You def earned my sub💜💜 great video, brother!!!!

when you said you didn't have 200k subscribers yet I was SHOCKED. idk how I didn't notice but I thought you had at least a few million!!!! I love your vids, keep it up!!! you def got a new subscriber:)

Great video! I was able to get a random Sport Ball out of the cram-o-matic.

I’ve had an eggecutor appear in the first cave in red. My guess is there’s some memory leakage thing that might cause a bit to change, but it was cool to see

Just gotta say, I love the Jeff Gordan stuff in the backround. That's my boy!

The first glitch is also called gen 1 miss in the speedrunning community as far as I'm aware. Nice video, happy that you didnt stretch the video into oblivion and instead decided to give us great content packed into a 14 minute video!

The only rare event I had happen to me was a wild Pokémon coming up to me when I set up the camp in SWSH ^^ it was a snom, which isn’t a rare Pokémon but an absolute cute one nonetheless

WTF were they thinking with the FRLG milestones? Who's gonna fight the Elite Four 200 times? Or hatch 300 eggs before competitive battles were a thing? Or win 100 link multibattles (yes, *multi* battles, with 4 different people, as if it wasn't complicated enough), which needed _physically meeting_ with other people?

As soon as I win the master ball lottery my dad will come home with the milk to tell me he's proud of me.

I remember flying everyday to pacifidlog city to talk to the man as a kid. Hoping he would say that the island is here today. Didn't even know at that time if it was even possible or triggered with an event pass or something. Never saw it.

My first tree encounter in Sinnoh ever had a Munchlax and I cant prove it hehe

I had the Delibird encounter. Never knew it was so rare

Such an awesome video premise. nice job.

Hi I’m in the future. This is the first video of yours I have seen. Congrats on the 200k subs! Good video!

what about the "horde of 5 Spinda and they all have the same spot pattern, are shiny, have pokerus, have the same nature, same gender, and perfect IVs"?

In black and white 2 imposter ditto had a 1% chance of spawning in the hidden grotto in giant chasm which given how tedious the hidden grotto mechanic was made the whole ordeal a massive pain.

Fun fact: the diamond dust weather is also at the top of Mt. Silver in HG/SS. If you battle Red while there is Diamond Dust, the battle will be hail free

I didn’t know the mimikyu exiting the trailer was rare!! I remember just repeating it a few times and on something like the 3rd time the mimikyu appeared and when the new dialogue option appeared I just assumed it was scripted

Once I was just grinding in my Pokemon Heart Gold to make my Togetic stronger because I like him. I was just using extrasensory or some other sort of moves. And then, for fun, I used metronome. And my boy Togetic uses the freaking SPACIAL REND. I think Dialga was breaking bad in the bar when it saw some eggy boi destroying some random Stantler with some godlike magic.

When I was a kid playing gold for the first time I was surprised when I had an encounter with if I remember correctly a level 40 Pokémon after the first gym. I was going through the trail that leads to the cave that takes you to Bugsy’s town. I didn’t know it at the time but I ran into Entei way before I ever triggered the event at the burned tower. Really threw me off as a kid because I had no idea what was going on lol

FR/LG was one of my fav Pokemon games growing up. So I was surprised to to hear about Lorelei's doll collection. Can't believe I'm just learning this now.

Definitely saw the hiker going up the mountain as a kid. Never knew it was a rare chance until this video after playing through the game a few times and noticing he wasnt there

Im surprised how many times I got mirage island as a kid. I legitimately thought it happened every week because I luckily got it 3 times over 3 weeks. My friends were confused and I just showed it to them one day. I did not know it was so rare back then.

personally i didn't know mirage island was suppose to be rare. I guess I was just lucky to always end up with an ID that triggered the island since almost every play through i did of Sapphire had the island show up.

I actually remember seeing Mimikyu on my 2nd play of Sun/Moon! My playthroughs were years apart and until now, I had no idea it was a rare event... o: And I did get a little laugh at the thought of "A RED SPY IS IN THE BASE?!" xD

I thought all those years ago I imagined that hiker during the cable car ride! That's actually a huge relief! You have no idea how glad I am to know that was real.

For Heart Gold there’s this very rare event where the pokemon following you can have a golden leaf stuck on its face. It then shows in its bio

6:36 I always told my brother this and he never believed me. I also saw a both a camper and a hiker do it too

Here is an "event" that happened to my cousin around 14 years ago while playing Pokémon Pearl. At exactly hour 60 (actually not sure about the hour anymore, but it was an exact one) he was in the Safari zone went a little bit into it and a Deoxys appeared. He couldn't catch it the first time, so he restarted the game and Deoxys appeared again at around the same place at the exact same hour. This time he could actually catch it. I was there when he restarted the game and Deoxys appeared. It was legit. Sadly nobody in the internet believed us back then and probably today you won't neither.

I remember getting Pokerus on one of my pokemon. Easiestly one of the most memorable rare things that I recall