These are the HARDEST Pokemon to Shiny Hunt (Tier List) 

Ahh that’s a good point! However I really only made the free category specifically for shedinja as it’s the only shiny that is essentially a 2 for the price of 1 lol

@@ThedomiNATION doesn't that mean that every evolution is technically free too?

@@gabrielalves303 no because every evolution doesn’t give you a second shiny to go along with it. But for the most part every evolution is in the same category as the base stages with a few exceptions. Everything about my reasoning is explained in the video

@@ThedomiNATION might as well make it the two for one then to make it not confusing

@@kenrock7227 I explained it in the video why would it be confusing?

Yeah it’s mainly because genders didn’t exist in the generation one games they had to separate the nidorans as different Pokémon!

me but with volbeat/illumise

@@Amy-si8gq wait what

@@em1393 apparently if you breed illumise and Volbeat with ditto you can get the other one

And 2 shiny spinda with the same pattern

it is there he put it in when he put in the gen 1 pokemon

He's right next to Johtonian slowking?

yep

@@mannyadorno7968 The challenge was to find what pokemon was missing from the tier list from when I had to make a whole new tier list myself. This happened when I ranked the generation 4 pokemon not at the beginning of the video

That’s awesome! Funny enough I’ve actually never gotten a shiny legendary before but I’ve hunted for a couple shiny mythicals if those count lol congrats though those are great shinies!

@@ThedomiNATION same I had never gotten one until I shiny hunted kyurem in bw2 last month and got it under 20 SRs, luckiest pokemon experience ever only bested by when I first got bw many years back a while after it's release, around 2013, and my first wild encounter was a shiny patrat but once I got it my game crashed. This is redemption for that incident lol, black kyurem is one of my top 5 favorite shinies so I'm so happy I got it so earl, currently hunting the starters on my white 2 copy and hunting shiny eelektross on my black 2 copy that I got the kyurem (using the repel strat with static).

I got a shiny Ho-oh in 51 resets a few days ago

Took me forever to get em all but I SR'd for Ho-Oh, Lugia, Celebi, and Eon Ticket Latias

@@FatesxofxthexDead those are all so cool! Congrats!

Especially Vaporeon

@@imrandoesthings hey guys, did you know

@@imrandoesthings :(

Bruh

To be fair though 2000 eggs for a masuda method Shiny is very unlikely to happen and with egg hatches being slower you would probably get some full odds shinies doing random encounters in the time. So it’s all in perspective and not always about odds! Congrats on your litwick though I commend you for sticking with it as that’s brutal to go that far!

It’s a really cool one too!

same, I got 2 from the pogo event (1i caught one from a friend cuz its my favorite shiny) then i have one from the black and white event that’s been confirmed legit

That’s awesome!

I’m on 170 dynamax adventures :( still no shiny

That IS curious fact.

Congrats! It’s such a cool shiny!

I actually found a random shiny Luxray at Lake Verity a few days ago when I was just exploring. That was completely insane to find.

in let's go i was playing and i found a shiny metapod in veridian forest and in legends arceus i found a shiny wurmple like 45 minutes in or something

I found a shiny Budew near the beginning and I now have a Roserade on my main team! I was especially pleased because Roselia was the only pokemon I've ever tried to shiny hunt in Emerald. Got about 2k encounters but gave up :( but I have one now!

I ran into two shiny shinx and then a driftloon in arceus so ig I'm just cursed for yellow shinies unu

Yep I mentioned the Kanto tour mew in the video. As for celebi, all we know so far is that we can get an additional normal celebi for johto tour. I can see jirachi coming maybe next year but after get it could be an extremely long time before we see the sinnoh mythicals shiny in GO. They aren’t even available as normal forms yet.

@@ThedomiNATION I’ve done 86 raids for darkrai last Halloween and no perfect or shiny . Shi sucks cuz it’s one of my favorite mon

Cant be used in ranked tho so

Damn, I feel really bad about the fact that I got 2 shiny Genesects from (no joke) 3 raids then...

Looks like we got Shiny Jirachi as you said, but Shiny Shaymin instead this year in GO (still no Manaphy at all?) The shiny Celebi was released in a much easier quest actually

That’s insane!

Oh yeah I forgot about that. I haven’t really been including guaranteed shinies and honestly it would feel weird to put it in the Breedable tier lol

Yeah lol someone at niantic must’ve seen this video 😂

Thank you ^^ you saved me 5 minutes of my day kind stranger

Thank you! Not a lot of people are willing to take time out of their day to get the accurate time stamps. I appreciate it!

Good luck on those hunts those are both great shinies!

There’s a problem with hunting roamers, their shininess is determined upon the first time you encounter them (I believe) if it isn’t shiny no matter how many times you chase it it can never be shiny

@@dynastygirl2912 no there is a way to reset and do it, it’s just not at the encounter.

You’ll get it soon! My longest hunt with the charm was my authentic sinistea which too around 5,100 encounters!

@@ThedomiNATION I’m hoping to get it before my birthday on the 16th next month, let’s hope 😂

Thank you!

lol I put it there to reference another shiny hunter who’s been only getting golbat lately

My first ever shiny was a Zubat on shoal cave, back in Emerald. Never used it because I didn't like Golbat. Shame on me

@@AlbRomano dang! You could’ve used it as a crobat though!

@@ThedomiNATION I know, my favorite poison type nowadays. Back then sludge bomb physical. Good for Sydney.

That’s awesome!

That might be a little too specific as I feel my explanations for most shinies get the job done in the list. However I am gonna try to tackle a tier list where I rank every possible way to hunt for a shiny. Still unsure if I’m gonna rank it based on difficulty or my personal opinion though!

SOS chaining has a lot of initial setup but it's so fast

@@absollnk I would like SOS more if call rates were the same across all pokemon, but some of them are a massive pain in the ass to chain this way because it takes so long to call in a replacement. It's still less mind numbing than breeding, but I think pokeradar in gen 4 was the one I liked the most.

Yep I actually have tutorials for these on my channel that’s why I stated they arceus even though can be hunted in gen 4 it isn’t considered legal and can’t be sent into Pokémon bank without the use of 3rd party software

Yeah it’s great! My first ever hunted shiny was dratini and it was adamant nature! After sending it up to later generations, I managed to give it perfect ivs and I plan to give it its hidden ability when I get enough dynite ore!

It’s funny right after recording this video I thought of that! But after hours of things going wrong I figured I would just leave them there than record myself changing them 🤪

That ain't hardcore try the shiny spinda challenge you ain't a true pokemon master till you have all 8.5 billion variations

3 years ago I got a shiny Z unown from a wonder trade in pokemon ultra moon

Yeah I did not realize that when making the video. I think all I would do though would be to put the midday and midnight into Breedable and keep dusk in easy

Thank you! I also have a follow up video that includes legends arceus and scarlet & Violet shinies if you’re interested! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-e7TRTrrRc9c.html

You and so many people have had the same comment but the Breedable category should be treated as the easiest category. I intended free to only be for shedinja as it’s the one shiny you get simply for having another shiny. Plus gyarados is only a “free” shiny in certain games

Nope as that is simply a game exclusive distribution. Breedable is essentially the “easiest” tier but I wanted to make shedinja have its own tier as it’s the only Pokémon where you get two shinies after only hunting one!

That’s awesome and such a fitting name!

Good name

I did not include AZ’s flowette simply because you can’t even get the normal form currently and I didn’t have a home sprite for it. As for the gender differences, I elected to only include the ones that were actual form changes and not simply cosmetic differences as it would’ve caused a snowball effect of me including literally every gender difference and it would’ve gotten really messy. For the different alcremie forms, you can still get all the sweets at a battle cafe, cram-o-matic, and as a daily item from a watt trader in the crown tundra so they’re still obtainable! The pokeball and fancy pattern vivillon might be released shiny at some point but since they are not and no one can know how long it’ll be before may even be released, they will stay in unobtainable. As for going through different Pokémon across generations, that might get a little ridiculous because having to rank every Pokémon essentially 8 times seems tough 😅 however, I plan to go through every way to shiny hunt a Pokémon in my upcoming shiny hunting methods tier list video! So I will try to include nearly every way to get a shiny Pokémon and my thoughts on the methods!

@@ThedomiNATION Thanks for the quick reply lol! All good with AZ's Floette, one of those weird Pokemon sort of like spiky-eared Pichu. Has a shiny form, but can't be hunted without removing the shiny lock, I think it's the same with Ash Greninja. This time, just unobtainable in any form. I think of it more like a "anime/movie exclusive" Pokemon than anything. Would've been cool to mention since I don't think a lot of players know about them even having shiny forms to begin with lol. The Star Sweet and Ribbon Sweet were first distributed through a Max Raid Battle event for Milcery last year thereabouts, as well as through a Japanese gift Milcery celebrating Pokemon Center's birthday (not sure if a particular one or in general but it was a serial code in late 2020). So, they weren't available pre-DLC for SWSH. However, I didn't know it could be obtained randomly through the Cram-O-Matic. For some reason it's mentioned on Bulbapedia but not on Serebii for the individual item pages at least (which I primarily use for game data). Thanks for mentioning it so I don't die inside trying to eventually collect all the forms lol. Still, should be ranked higher than it is due to needing DLC and being based on chance. The five other sweets are far easier to obtain in comparison, with Strawberry Sweet being the only guaranteed item (found in Hammerlocke I believe). At the least, an honorable mention, but I understand it more comes down to preference. I understand how people would ask about the other gender differences, but I only mentioned those particular gender differences because of how different the shinies look between Frillish/Jellicent and Unfezant males and females, as well as the mane giving a drastically different silhouette for Pyroar males and females. Not much extra to add imo, and again, the gen 1-4 gender differences are really miniscule in comparison to gen 5 beyond. So, agree to disagree, but know it doesn't necessarily take away from your video here (more a bonus if anything). Yeah, I getcha, it would be quite the task. And again, I mention gen 2 and 3 specifically because they would be the most informative to go through compared to the others. So, you can keep this in the back of your mind in case you ever wanted to do it lol. But yes, you can easily go through the majority of hard encounters exclusive to different methods (the infamous honey tree Munchlax, for example). I look forward to watching it to see if there's any I haven't thought of or forgotten about.

I actually had no idea about the star and ribbon sweets. I just assumed all sweets had equal chance of being obtained. If I were to change it, I would simply put the ribbon and star alcremie in easy as opposed to Breedable!

Never fails. At least you ended up getting the one you want in the end!

@@ThedomiNATION Yeah. At least now the shiny Illumise has Alph, Louis and Sans to keep them company… I ran out of blue Pikmin characters once I got the third.

I wish keldeo could’ve been hunted in the crown tundra but my hopes are for victini and meloetta because they’re so cool!

Not shiny ones lol. They’ve had regular ones distributed but never shiny

Duuude, that's sick!

That is rare for a full odds shiny! My first was a bidoof in my original pearl copy but I don’t have that anymore 😢

I've been playing pokemon games since alpha sapphire and my first full odds shiny was a woobat in pokemon black last september

Yep which is why i paired it with legendaries in this list. On the surface legendaries seem very hard to obtain shiny but they really aren't at all and vespiquen has become a similar rarity to them in sword and shield!

Nice! I’m really hoping they release the darkrai and shaymin events soon! I’m thinking of rehunting them completely legit as I used action replay to get the event items back in platinum!

We can only hope!

@@ThedomiNATION I got more news, based on preliminary information about shiny locks. It appears that Manaphy is NOT shiny locked in Pokémon Legends Arceus so we may finally have an easier way to hunt it. Update: Actually it appears to be locked. rip the dream

@@bluemoon4546 dang, I had my hopes up. :(

Specific methods for obtaining shiny Pokémon are touched upon in my shiny hunting methods tier list video I posted the other day!

I did make this video long before that announcement was event made but you do have a point. That being said they’ve made shiny celebi available multiple times from GO, so who knows if it’s take considered too much harder. Also the odds are pretty much the same as they are for every other legendary. If you’re comparing the 1/8192 odds with the 1/4096 odds though, I’ve done plenty of hunts with both those odds and they don’t really feel any different. The only time the difference is noticeable is if you go way over odds for the shiny

That’s awesome! I’ve only seen a few people on RU-vid get it legit! I’m gonna try for it at some point as well!

@@ThedomiNATION best of luck it took a lot of time to be fair between all of us we had 5 eggs so that helped if you can get more then one egg do it it will save you some time

@@dragontamer-ot5jr yeah I actually started the hunt a few years ago and got 8 eggs to work with. I did about 160 hatches before putting it on hold but I plan to get 4 more eggs before returning to it!

There’s actually a ton they’re all in my unobtainable tier

Doesn't zarude and magearna not have any yet?

@@absollnk they all have shinies they just haven’t been available to get without hacking which is why they are in the unobtainable tier

@@ThedomiNATION yeah, that's what I meant Watching further in and there's a lot more mythicals with no released shinies than I thought

@@absollnk yeah it really is a shame

Breedable should be treated as the easiest category. Even though the Pokémon is in Breedable doesn’t mean there aren’t easier methods to obtain it than breeding but I didn’t want the list to have 30 different tiers lol. Also it’s only 100% in a few games not every game!

@@ThedomiNATION very good point! I agree! Did not think about the breedable option but just the encounter in Gen2/Gen4 remake.

Abuse if you want but I didn’t think I needed to explain that this list does not include that because similar to straight up hacking, it takes the whole point of shinies out of the game

@@ThedomiNATION How is that hacking? You aren't modifying the game in any way shape or form nor does it requiring the use of 3rd part devices on the game/system. You're simply predicting when it appears. It's no different than reading spawn statistics from a wiki page.

@@Mudkip971 I didn’t say it was hacking. I’m saying it’s similar to hacking in the sense that you’re manipulating the game to take the rarity of shinies away. The entire point of shinies is that they are rare. Take that away and they are simply regular old forms that no one cares about. Believe it or not most people would prefer to hunt for shinies without giving themselves extremely easy odds it’s more fun that way for a majority of people

@@ThedomiNATION Well I mean to be fair, considering it's legitimate and methods do exit, shinnies aren't really that rare to begin with. From my point of view the more valuable Shinnies come from those acquire in Gen 6 and upwards since those can't be RNG abused without the use of cheating devices or software on the system. But hey that's just how I view it *shrug*

@@Mudkip971 after being on RU-vid for years you gotta accept that legitimacy is solely opinion based. Some people are way more harsh than others on what is viewed as legit. Some people think that simple soft resetting for shinies is illegitimate. I would argue that because rng abuse is completely changing the way the Pokémon were intended to be encountered that it is illegitimate but I won’t hate you for doing it. But in the end, this is my tier list so I’m going to go off of my personal preferences 😅

Unfortunately each form will only be available for about 3 days each and not a week. However you can get up to two free raid passes each day!

This video was discussing the rarities of shiny species in general not specific methods to obtain them. I will be discussing methods of obtaining shinies in a later video though!

@@ThedomiNATION Gotcha!

Nice! I think it took me like 6 Sinistea encounters to get an authentic one for my Pokémon home so I got pretty lucky as well!

Crazy times we live in 😂

The reason I didn’t is that those are temporary forms and I would’ve had to include every mega and gigantimax Pokémon in this list when they are obtained through the same means as getting their regular forms. However I will say it’s completely ridiculous that you cannot use max soup on meltan or melmetal

Wait really? You can't transfer a shiny meltan from pokemon go to sw/sh and use max mushrooms on it?

@@mercury2c you can transfer a shiny meltan from go into sword and shield but the max soup doesn’t work on it

Even though they have high shiny odds in go, you have to take into account that niantic sometimes waits over years to rerelease them in raids and most of the time they aren’t for long enough to get a good amount of checks being free meaning you have to pay for a solid shot at them. Similar to say having to buy the dlc for SWSH in order to hunt for zygarde only zygarde you can hunt for any time

@@ThedomiNATION agree with you! It was no critique on your video. I managed to get them this way, because I missed the events in the past on the different consoles (or they were regio specific). I enjoyed your extensive tier list 👍 I hope that Gamefreak gives us more events to soft reset for them

And indeed, although darkrai re-releases around Halloween, I'm still waiting for genesect. I did not managed to get it with 40+ raids

@@ace_gaming6565 yeah it’ll probably be a while for genesect to come back as they still haven’t released the chill drive. So odds are they’ll do the first and have it shiny locked like the rest. I’m glad deoxys is coming back soon but I think it took them about a year and a half since last shiny release of deoxys :/

@@ThedomiNATION yes I am also afraid that it will take some time for genesect

Yep but that would still be a wild encounter. It’s still in easy category that doesn’t mean it’s hard to get lol

It is version exclusive in SM and USUM. I did however make the mistake in thinking that was true for SWSH but yeah it’s only day/night in those games

Yeah that’s part of the reason why it’s borderline. I think it would easily be hardest of them all if it didn’t have a really high shiny rate

Hey I can’t be actually showing the tier list in the thumbnail 😂

I do not believe that is available currently but I think it has been brought back at least once for those who missed it the first time. Very similar case to meltan and deoxys but celebi has a permanent simple method of shiny hunting it in Crystal making it easier by default in my opinion

Nice! It’s definitely an interesting way to get a Pokémon!

Deoxys is shiny locked in ORAS

For the most part that is true on this tier list. Which is why I have arceus as obtainable. Other shinies I put on this list as unobtainable are event only shinies that have never been released as shiny and also have never been released in a huntable manner.

That's only for dpp. I believe you could tweak in bdsp and it was even a popular speedrunning strategy but it was patched

@@Akumo69 well, it was something that abused the old systems slow load times, so I think it's something that was gonna be patched just by being a newer gen game

Nice! I got a few of those event ones as well! I’m hoping for a game where I can reset for it as I really don’t enjoy dynamax adventures 😅

Unfortunately deoxys is shiny locked in ORAS. Same goes for kyogre, groudon, and rayquaza

Yeah but I did not include it as the regular form has never been released and I don’t even know if it has a home sprite which is what I was using. I hope one day they’ll allow us to get that flowette

Oh no! This probably sounds no where near as bad but I got a random shiny bidoof on my original pearl copy when I was like 10 years old and I don’t have that copy anymore. I miss my bidoof 😢

@@ThedomiNATION :(

I made an update video when scarlet and violet came out! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-e7TRTrrRc9c.html I will probably not update it for only a handful of new Pokémon that get released with the dlc

@ThedomiNATION oh no way? I'll give that a watch then! And will look forward to seeing your future DLC videos too

Congrats!