Understanding the Appeal of Shiny Hunting 

Shiny hunting has allowed me to embark on a seemingly endless task, which is also mindless. I listen to podcasts or watch shows while I shiny hunt. It's something low effort that is incredibly rewarding and gives me that boost of dopamine, like you stated in your video.

As someone who's gotten lucky enough to find a first encounter shiny legendary, aDrive's Palkia reaction wasn't over the top. I was vibin by myself, got a first encounter shiny Dialga on my birthday in 2017 or 2018 and that's exactly how I reacted lmaooo shits exciting when your prepared to spend days, weeks or even months hunting, only for it to be done immediately.

and yet you can never truly understand until you get your 1/8192 shiny after reseting for ~70 hours

Shiny Hunter colleagues, we did it. A new recruit. 🤓 A new guest to our asylum.

I just wanna say, that Palkia reaction wasn't over the top at all, first encounter is crazy.

As an avid shiny hunter with 17 shiny Pokemon, I like them because they're neat. Also in 2017 before I knew what shinies were I found a shiny Audino and didn't know why it was different colored so I just fainted it and one day a few years later I was laying on my bed one day and realized what I did and almost fell off my bed

this guy is underrated lol

I feel personally attacked

When I started playing Legends, I got TWO shiny starly before knowing much of anything. I kept one in the party and went from there. It was such a good feeling.

I have been shiny hunting a lot in Scarlet and seeing uniquely colored Pokémon among the normal ones is so exciting like uncovering treasure I now have 4 boxes for shinies I have caught in date caught order :)

As someone who shiny hunts A LOT, it’s definitely fun to do and the end result is always thrilling. At the same time, it adds life to a competed game and gives me something to do while I’m watching a show or doing something else depending on the hunt!

i’ve been shiny hunting since 2014 and i’m glad more people are getting into it! it’s a great pass time and you’re rewarded for it!

Shiny hunting is golf for people who are neurodivergent

It was only after gen 6 when game freak actually chose shiny colours instead of rather random or algorithm-based sequences. That was the same generation to have 10+ ways to increase shiny odds significantly.

I've been hunting a Lugia in soul silver for nearly 9 days and I've just been going just to have the satisfaction of seeing him sparkle

I believe about 90% of shinies were chosen by an algorithm in gen 1-5 and ever since gen 6 every shiny has been manually designed

I only ever hunted for shiny in SV. I would never be able to sit and run into something thousands of times. Not for a color change. I like the colors for some. Glad they made it easier

For me, I like to shiny hunt because for me it rewards patience and I like to use my shinies in battle, the best example is my first shiny legendary Suicune, I loved using it in the battle tree and in online battles

Really enjoyed this, super well made 👌🏼

Man I'm always glad when people find the love for shiny hunting and hearing the stories of how they got there ty for the vid and I hope you post some hunts to your channel

I really love shiny hunting, I understand that its not for everyone but it's very mind numbing and I like passing the time by singing or doing it with friends

This video is great. I used to be skeptical about shiny hunting too, especially because of my low attention span thanks to my ADHD. However, once I tried it, I got hooked. To date, my longest hunt ever is almost 50k soft resets on Bill's eevee in soulsilver. Took me two years, but now I treasure this eevee. He is my son.

Very underrated editing, loved this!

I can’t believe you have less than 1K subscribers! Loved this video! Shiny hunting is something I’m just now becoming interested in thanks to pogo 😭

Congrats on blowing up into a million pieces! Also great video ~

I love this guy keep up the good work.

Really good video mate. As someone who is ALWAYS shiny hunting, I understand how addictive it can be 😂

One of the best videos about Shiny Hunting I have ever seen! You explain it really well. Just bought Omega Ruby two months ago just because of Shiny Hunting. But then, finishing the game and starting to really shiny hunt is just.... Not so fun when you want to do it quickly. You need to sit down, relax and take the time for it, I think....

WOW, was not expecting a slowmara cameo in this lmfao, im already rewatching that series currently for the 6th or 7th time, great video by the way

It should be noted that Marshadow DOES look different... there is just a shadow covering him... And I think custom Shiny Pokemon became more common only in later generations...

Great video dude! Hope this gets more views, I really liked it!

Shiny hunting in Legends Arceus is so satisfying. I just love the shiny sound when one appears.

"Maybe I'll go insane - my weekend's pretty free" I felt that 💀

Nice video, really enjoyed it

we started the same, i didn't see it until i got a few shinies, now i need more xD, hope to see you doing shiny hunts on live!

Great video dude ❤

For me it's a fun hobby to do plus it's a huge stress relief. Especially after the past few years with COVID and all. I currently have a couple hundred shinies and counting. Awesome video!

I also came here from the algorithm. Great vid! Shinies are sought after so much because of their rarity and beauty for sure. :)

When you showed Shiny Noctowl as an iconic Shiny, I knew whose you were specifically talking about: the one that belongs to our boy from the anime

The rush of dopamine getting a full odds shiny makes you want more and bragging rights

Dopamine gets released when you “Use some sketchy Pokeblocks that someone’s been selling out the back of a contest hall” I’ve never laughed so hard in my life

Great video!

awesome and very entertaining video!

What a great video! I love that you used Cold Ones' green screen clip😂

Shiny hunting is a good outlet for my gambling addiction. Instead of "oh just one more spin" its "oh just one more egg"

I've been shiny hunting for 10 years, nearly 900 species in, its a personal challenge that epitomizes the "gotta catch em all" mindset 😁

Nice choice on going the Shiny Lotad!

Pokemon has always been one of my favorite game series and shiny hunting became something to relax to and keep the game going after completing it. Finding the ones I like most first then do random encounters for the rest of a living shiny dex just as a challenge. Not all shinies give me the OMG OMG OMG feelings, but those few moments of one you want that you weren't expecting just so happens to appear give me so much joy.

Cool video dude!!! Especially since I started getting back into shiny hunting recently too🎉🎉

As someone who’s been shiny hunting since the start, I’m glad to see other people enjoying shiny hunting as much as I do

i think the appeal for me is still getting things to do in my favorite game, also the feeling of really completing the game- i got over 300 in violet so far, and its so fun seeing each games' different methods

honestly my favorite hunts are full odds gen 3 hunts, between the extra excitement that comes with the higher odds. the ability to do anything else for entertainment due to the simplicity of the hunt, the higher speed encounters happen at, and just the nice 2d shiny sprites. it really just makes for the nicest experience for me. as someone who has hunted some of the worst hunts, methods, full odds, all gens. it’s just my favorite every time (and if i really feel like showing them off in later games, i can always pop em over to emerald to clone them without having to give up the nice 2d sprite)

Never seen and/or heard of this guy but this was a great video. Also great shinies

Shiny hunted in a bunch of games on the DS and switch. My most successes have funnily enough been in X and Y and then in Violet. I have 4 boxes full of shinies in Violet either from Masuda Method, Outbreaks, or just random encounters! It really does give the happy chemical, as well as a GREAT time pass for almost no brain power, or hyper focus when you need to distract yourself. (Depends on the method ofc.) But I'm glad you understand how fun it is! Plus getting to share and compare with your friends is a always a good time!

simply put its both relaxing and exciting at the same time

I'm glad you havent heard about Mark Hunting, cause as someone who is more avid about combining the 2 activities, I feel like a lunatic. And for anyone curious, starting in Sword and Shield, all wild Pokemon have a chance at having mark, or title that can appear before battle. There are a large variety of them, and if you ever have the time, just check your PC, look at the space where the ribbons for your older pokemon to have. I'll highlight my favorite Marks so far I have Chocobo the Feisty, my Marked Galarian Zapdos, keep in mind, this is before I was aware of marks, and I was merely hunting for an Adamant one. Phixie, my Shiny, Thunderstruck, Brilliant Aura Yamper. It's more of a common mark for the hunt I was on, and the Brilliant Aura for Sand Attack egg move was alright to say the least. I didn't count encounters, but I have the shiny charm, and let's go with around 300+ encounters. Esperou, my Anxious Shiny Espeon. Got this fella as my first famous Mark in Scarlet. Was interesting to discover this title, and it's made all the better that my green lad was in I think my only Friend Ball. I just love Espeon, I saw the outbreak, and a few resets later, I got him under my first sandwhich.

I’ve been shiny hunting since around the release of x & y. It’s definitely not for everyone but it’s a fun time killer. I always recommend shiny hunting while watching youtube (how I do most of my hunts) or with friends. Finding a shiny with other people is one of the most incredible feelings you can have playing a Pokémon game.

I really appreciate the research done on this video, you nailed a lot of the rates for the different games! Can't wait to see you do a full odds 8192 hunt 😈😈😈

Seeing as there's no better shiny than a green shiny, glad to see that they got their own category in this video. :D

I’m glad you didn’t just call it a day after one, and kept going until it clicked! Congratulations, now you’re insane like the rest of us 😂😂 On the real tho, great video! I’ve been a shiny hunter since 2017 and I’ve done a number of hunts, my most proud hunts were in sapphire, my shiny Treecko then shiny Kyogre on the same play through! Full odds babyyyyy. My worst shiny fail was full odds Groudon in Soul Silver…haven’t been the same since then 😅

Gave you a sub mate good stuff

I started shiny hunting this year and already have half of the Pokédex shiny shiny and it honestly really fun way to pass the time

such a good vid!!

Gotta appreciate and respect the TFS Gaming reference/callback. Chef’s Kiss.

Great video which explains a lot of things. Idk, there's this rush everytime a shiny pops up on screen The first time I tried for a Shiny Cresselia in ORAS it took a month and I literally bawled like crazy then I tried again for a Giratina in ORAS and it took 6 WHOLE MONTHS and after I got it, I still felt like I needed more It really gives a different feeling but I agree that just like gambling, its really hard to stop once you start lmao

It's also an alternative to going out and getting into trouble 😊

I enjoy shiny hunting cause it feels rewarding when your hard work finally pays off,and I believe if no effort if put it nothing is worth it

The shiny Being AI was proven wrong long ago because of the way color sliders on Gameboy works. Someone chose to make some of these shinys bad concisely

Shiny hunting is so much easier in Scarlet/Violet with the introduction of the sandwich mechanic and the mass outbreak mechanic. Date skip until you find an outbreak of the pokemon you want or find a spot where the pokemon you want is the only one of its type in the area. SAVE YOUR GAME. Then set up a picnic, make your sandwich, and then kill 60 of the pokemon you want in the outbreak. After that, run around spawning the pokemon in and out until you spot a shiny sprite in the group, or you could release your lead pokemon to attack in the overworld. In Let's Go mode, your pokemon won't attack a shiny pokemon (super helpful with the ones who don't look much different than their non shiny sprite.)

It just feels good

The important thing to understand about shinies is that they're not for everyone. If you're the kind of person who puts down a game when you've beaten it, or you have a passionate hatred for grinding or any monotonous task in a game, you will NOT like shiny hunting.

I do shiny hunts cause it gets me dopamine, something to brag about ,and gambling cause u dk when u gonna hit a shiny (currently typing this while hunting gen 4 shiny suicune 2nd attempt)

I can say shiny hunting feels so rewarding especially when you get your target despite the number of Pokemon you could have gotten instead.

In Gen 2, where shiny pokemon were originally added to the game, you can get 1/64 odds if you breed using a shiny ditto, or 1/128 odds if you use a shiny who isn't a ditto. As somebody who's been shiny hunting on a single Crystal save file for over a year, and currently has 75 shinies under their belt, I can certainly say. Gen 2 is wild

I shiny hunt and the best way to do it is when you're watching something like a movie, Tv show or sports...hunt in the background and it wont get boring

haha shiny go brrrrr (great video btw)

Something else as well is when you find your very first Shiny Pokémon. A lot of Shiny Hunters, I'd say we're trying to recapture that feeling and we just don't know it. Some players ran into a Shiny as a kid and didn't even know what it was. Thinking our games were bugged or we got something super powerful. I remember when I caught the Shiny Garyados at the Lake of Rage in Heart Gold I thought it was just a really pissed off Garyados and it hit harder than most. But I'd agree with calling it gambling as well. Good video.

If you wanna understand my psychology, in arceus I got a full team of shiny cascoons led by a shiny alpha cascoon so I could be surrounded by giant peas

One of the big appeals for me is being able to have a special variant of some of my favorite Pokemon. It feels like a way to show my fondness towards a certain Pokemon

The shiny hunting community after hearing he understands: he's starting to believe

Personally, I love shiny hunting just for the satisfaction once you finally get it! I get a cool looking pokemon out of it and it always makes me really happy to see em :)

I would like to put my input in as a Shiny hunter myself I didn't go for Shiny Hunting at first, will not lie to you, got a Shiny Eevee in Crystal at random chance, got Shiny Magneton blowing up in my face, and got a Shiny Gogoat in XY from Friend Safari I named Asriel, but what got me into the whole thing was Sun and Moon. You see, like you said, some people fine it relaxing, some find it a challenge, me, I am both, but also, it fills something that I always have given how Autism and ADHD play a huge role in what I say next...I am a collector. Straight up, talk to any Shiny Hunter who does this as a thing as simple as breathing and eating, they will probably think about it before saying "I like collecting them" but if you ask them if they have Autism, ADHD, Anxiety, the works, they will probably be diagnosed with at least one of these things. Most Shiny hunters use it as an outlet or a way to reach out, to feel like we did something in a world where it seems doing something is just hard, and it gives us a way to reach out to others like us, or even those who don't, I know plenty of my friends don't play Pokémon, but they always smile when I show off a new Shiny because they know I am happy and that makes them happy, your video is well made and honestly, it gives a huge insight of what Shiny Hunters are in a sense that no one ever tries to question because well...Shiny Hunting is common nowadays, so thank you for this video

I just recently completed my first two shiny hunts: OmegaRuby Ho-Oh and OmegaRuby Reshiram. My cartridge is modded and basically had everything needed for the shiny charm since the start, so after beating the game, I went directly to the lab for my charms. I decided to go for the Shiny Ho-Oh first because it was one of the only shinies I really wanted that wasn't on my cartridge. Shiny Rayquaza? Check. Shiny Dialga, Palkia, Giratina? Check. Shiny Xerneas, Yveltal? Check. Shiny Ho-Oh? No. I like shiny hunting in OmegaRuby especially because it's passive. I can multitask while shiny hunting, but I also thought I'd never encounter that shiny Ho-Oh. But after 4-5 hours of encountering, my shiny came. I was really surprised to have finally gotten it and I was very thankful that I could make use of those 900+ Master Balls modded into my cartridge. Needless to say, the Reshiram took longer, but it still took less-than 24 hours. It's not something I'd do all the time, but sometimes, I like diving into a passive activity like this, especially when I feel like I have nothing to do.

As a stall enthusiast i support this message.

My first shiny was an onix in soul silver, I was at a sleepover and had recently seen Chuggaaconroy find a shiny koffing in crystal. I've been hunting ever since, rn I'm soft resetting for a shiny sudowoodo in crystal, it's taking a while

I used to Shiny hunt in Pokemon X while on the bus to school. Over my time hunting I've found a Hoppip, Fenniken, Deino, Eevee (evolved into Umbreon), and my quickest hunt ever, a Carbink in 5 eggs. More recently, I bred for a shiny Hisuian Zorua for the upcoming DLC, but it took way longer than any of the above mentioned hunts 😅

10:51: you've... interpreted the sunk costs fallacy the complete opposite way you're meant to

I just went shiny hunting for a slowpoke so the thumbnail hits

Dude, I’ve been on a mission to complete my national Pokédex in black version 2 for like the past 3-4 years, so I can unlock the shiny charm. Black 2 was my first Pokémon game, and I feel like completing the Pokédex and getting the shiny charm (despite how hard it is), will feel like a massive accomplishment personally. The only shiny I’ve gotten in that game that wasn’t that static encounter Haxorus and Gible was a male shiny Combee, and I’m determined to get more. Plus, the whole process of just completing the Pokédex has been a lot of fun. (For reference, I’m only missing like 110 Pokémon out of the entire National dex as of right now.) (if anyone might have more, I’ve got plenty of extra legendaries I’m willing to trade. I still need multiple starters, and some exclusives) ---- Fair warning though, if anyone wants to actually get the shiny charm in that game, the process is EXCRUCIATING (if you do it without cheats). Just to complete the Pokédex, I’ve needed to buy both black and white, AND white 2, Emerald, Platinum, Soul silver, and I’ve had to trade over certain exclusives from my brother’s copy of heartgold, because what I have still doesn’t have access to all the Pokémon I need.

i do my shiny breeding in silver version, thanks to the shiny ditto glitch the odds are 1 in 64 to 1 in 124 depending on the species in scarlet version, i tend to get shinies by accident while trying to breed pokemon of specific sizes

The algorithm suggested this, so here I am watching this as I'm hunting

The interesting thing about the gambling aspect of shiny hunting is that the odds are so against you that you lose the main appeal of false hope in real gambling, because you either get that one lucky moment or it's just the same old failure 8000 times (think about how in all forms of "normal" gambling you have lots of small and medium wins to keep you from giving up), so in a way it's the most counter-intuitive and patience requiring form of gambling there is and arguably the healthiest

I remember growing up I always wanted to get into streaming my shiny hunts. Years later I tried it and realized I didn't have the patience for hatching eggs or soft resetting 😂 I think hunting in Legends Arceus is the most fun though since it's more of an open world experience and feels like you're actually hunting something

He joined the cult. He joined the cult.

It’s just fun and something to do. I don’t have anything to do after I beat the games I don’t do competitive battles or anything like that so it helps keep the game fun

30 hours in on my soft reset Palkia hunt in platinum - the longer it goes, the better it’ll feel haha

Me, 86% deep into my living shinydex in SV; Oh well I may have a little gambling issue

It's all about the grind.....

I used to love Shiny hunting, that is until the hacking community went insane with it to the point where the regular colored Pokémon became more appealing by contrast. It’s sad really.

Omg! This was so me when I started shiny breeding! It's so frustrating! Sometimes I wonder how do some players do it without losing their insanity! 😭