What 1000 Hours Of Shiny Hunting In Pokemon Looks Like 

honestly i just wanted an excuse to show a ton of shiny pokemon with cool music lol subscribe for more, scarlet and violet are getting closer 💜

"And i hope to shiny hunt all the legendary pokemon in scarlet and violet" - famous last words

My first legit, non-event shiny was a Bulbasaur in Pokémon Y when breeding for IVs. Was not expecting it, but not complaining. Some other ones close to me are Drednaw, the first Pokémon I shiny hunted in Shield, Regieleki, one of the few Gen 8 legendaries not shiny locked, and Arceus in BDSP.

In Legends Arceus, I was literally in the first mission in the Obsidian Fieldlands for not even ten minutes and I already found a shiny Buizel. Named her Eiko and she was a staple on my team for the whole rest of the main story :) I also got a shiny Mr. Mime pretty early and I’ve gotta say, it has to be one of the most polite shiny encounters I’ve ever had. It doesn’t run away or attack, it just throws up a barrier and sits perfectly still for you. Heck, mine even walked CLOSER after blocking/escaping from a few balls. Tbh I like Mr. Mime a lot more after getting that one in PLA because she was just so chill. Hit like a truck in battles too so I can’t complain, lol

Sylveon and Milotic are just pure love. I can't stop having a Sylveon in my team whenever possible ever since gen6. Such an adorable cute Pokemon, absolute fav of mine

I just hatched my first legit shiny charmander today. Watching this makes me want to continue hunting shinies. Nice collection!

you've remotivated me to play pokemon. I preordered the games but I lost all my motivation but your channel and storytelling are so amazing that I felt like I needed to play again

Man your voice is just so great for this style of video. A nice mix of casual and relaxed. And shoutout to thinking Frislass has a good shiny. Still my favorite Pokémon after all these years.

If you're seriously getting into shiny hunting now, I recommend you go back to gen 6 to try all the different shiny hunting methods in it. And there are a lot! Fish chaining, dexnav chaining, horde encounters, friend safari, radar, on top of the usual soft resetting, random encounters and breeding. You're bound to find a method that you'll enjoy. Gen 6 was fantastic for shiny hunting due to how many methods there are available. I've started shiny hunting seriously around 3 years ago with SH, and this year I've started branching out to older games. I'm both amazed by gen 6 shiny hunting and sort of sad that even tho I spent over 800 hours on my X game, I never tried doing many of these hunts. It's been over a week now that I've gone back to gen 6 and I just can't stop, it's just that nice.

Love your forgotten masterball series, the editing on all the videos to make each pokemon seem so cool and mysterious and very well done. Good job!

My first shiny was a shiny magikarp in pokemon gold, 20 years ago. Ah the memories

Damn this is really impressive showcase! About two weeks ago, just when SV came out I decided to play USUM again cuz I can't get the new games rn, and on a whim I decided to try shiny hunting Yveltal. I gave up after a few hours, deciding to come back after I get the shiny charm. While I was searching for Yveltal wormhole, I found a whole bunch of shinys, tho those really don't count lol. HOWEVER, while trying to finish the dex, I ended up randomly walking into shiny Raticate and Digglett, which were my first full odds shinys I found, ever. I also managed to find shiny Clamperl with full odds as well cuz I misunderstood how SOS chaining works lol. Right now, I have completed my dex and got the shiny charm. I'm going to hunt for Yveltal now. Your channel has been very inspiring and fun watch while grinding, I hope you keep up the good work and good luck with your future hunts!

you're so right about how each shiny pokemon just takes a special place in your heart. my first two shinies were an eevee (later umbreon) and a fennekin back in X !! I bred for them and they were probably my luckiest since I got them both in somewhere under 30 eggs each I think. shiny fennekin and its evolutions are my favourite I think, the silver, purple and red combo looks so gorgeous! the rest of my time was spent trying for a shiny vulpix with absolutely no luck, lol. also as someone who's been playing a ton of a different hatsune miku rhythm game recently, that ending... jumpscared me, but in a good way haha

that is incredibly impressive. i kind of want to start shiny hunting again now lol. also your choice of background music is a huge w, rolling girl is awesome

You are very talented at making these videos, also your YT channel are going up like 5x faster than a normal YT channel, keep it up!

I love this video. Shinys are not only collectibles, the moments your capture or encounter them are truly magic. I once was on a pokemon day and got the pikachu there as a shiny. First i thought that was normal and everyone got it shiny, but it wasnt. I was just very very lucky. And even after all those years i still got that pikachu save on my Pokemon X ^^

bro so excited for this video! i’ve been trying to shiny hunt but never had motivation but your videos are what actually gave me motivation to shiny hunt as cringe as that sounds- keep up the good work noki!

the music choices + narration for your videos ... impeccable this might be my new fav pokemon youtube channel

Today I simply typed, "shiny hunting" into the RU-vid search bar. I was taken aback by how good this video is. This is the exact kind of thing I was looking for. Thank you for sharing the absolute journey of your shiny hunts with us. You've earned a subscriber. 👍

Man i just found your channel and I already love it..old school runescape music is an instant subscription and like from me

Props to you on all those shinies, must’ve been a great year ! Currently hunting shiny arceus rn, 8 days in, and first major shiny hunt (aside from pla) that i’m doing :D

I had 0 shinys prior to this year. In 1,000 hours now have over 700. Have around 630 in Legends Arceus, 42 in Shield, and several dozen in home mostly of Go shinys.

Keep up great work I’ve been watching you since 500 subscribers and you still making wonderful videos!

Noki literally all of your bdsp videos give sooo much inpsire to me and your legendary shinies and you posting that pokemon home update was a whole game changer for me and ive also gotten shiny arceus in LEGENDS arceus and your "i forgot my master ball" series are the ones that inspire me you have the best edits that make me laugh and sometimes wheeze ive liked all of your videos and am happy to support you sorry for the long comment btw have a great whole life❤

Noki the shiny snorunt whisperer Really nice collection my friend so great to see all those nice shiny collected all over the years ! And amazing video as usual (so jealous of the female heracross I need that alpha for my small penguin heart)

7:32 i had to rewind when I saw Sayaka and Mami in a row there just to check. . . Love the Madoka reference haha

I can honestly agree, back when I was first introduced to my first shiny, a random shiny sandile, that single encounter showed me that odds can be broken with enough persistence, and honestly lead me to finding more shines alongside that shiny-adrenaline surge... And maybe both forms of shiny goodra (Kalosian/Hisuian) + shiny-alpha-hisuian goodra because of being a wholesome favorite...

How is this guy not over a million subs. The editing, music and voice-overs are amazing. Keep this up man!

Your videos give me motivation to shiny hun Dialga in Brilliant Diamond and thanks to my friend I've decided to nickname him "Baja Blast" once I get him Over 3400 resets as of today though but thanks to you I'm not losing hope

Wow, all of these shines look amazing!

That end scene though 🤣 hatsune miko caught me so off guard Your videos are always so good!!! I’m glad I subscribed

You are about to blow up man, keep up the content love stuff like this!

man these shinies are so cool, can't wait to see more in scarlet/violet :) in the meantime... keep catching them!!

Your videos are a breath of fresh air for the shiny pokemon community. Keep being you, Noki!! 🙌

haha i remember my very first shiny. it has a story, though its not all that much. I was playing a first playthrough of Pokemon Diamond and i had just caught heatran at stark mountain and was leaving when i got a random encounter in the grass. My reaction was incredible when i saw it was my very first shiny, a level 52 male Fearow to be exact. After celebrating by doing a lap around my house, i went to go catch it and saw that i was lacking pokeballs after trying to catch heatran for so long, lacking so badly that i only had 1 remaining pokeball. a repeat ball. now i had never even caught a fearow in this playthrough before so i was very very annoyed when i saw it was all i had left. i threw it and it miraculously caught, i did no damage or gave it any status effect either. was very happy that day :). i love seeing other people share their shiny stories in videos such as these because they are all such a unique experience to listen to.

i got pokemon sword for the first time yesterday since not playing since i got pokemon silver when i was like 7.... just wanted to say you're my favorite pokemon YTer! I love these shiny videos they motivate me so much. Keep up these amazing videos!!!

Always amaze me the dedication that some people put in their passion, while you could have done anything else you choose to play pokemon for 1000 h to get shiny and i gotta say i respect that

When I finished the quick catching of bidoof starly and shinx. I got a shiny bidoof! I was sad because the shiny isn’t good but I loved it. My first shiny.

My brother and I used to play Pokémon a ton in our childhood together and even shiny hunt together (2010s about?), he passed away January and I stopped playing nintendo around then, I decided to get back into the game earlier this week but I was going to get a new switch 😅 your videos really encouraged me to get back at it!

Yoo your videos are so interesting and i love your music choices !!

I love shiny pokemon, not just for their colors, but the fun stories I get to tell to my father about how, when, and the climax of how I found them, for example, some of my most rememberable shinies: Lucie, she's my only Alpha shiny, an Alpha Luxray, found her while heading to a Bronsor outbreak, if I took a different path I wouldn't have found her Charlie, shiny Crustle in UM, my first shiny other than pokemon go shinies On my very first massive mass outbreak, a shiny Cascoon, once I caught it, another one spawned immediately right after, on the same massive mass outbreak, I went to check out a Krickatot outbreak, heard the shiny sound, none of the Krickatots were shiny, was about to dismiss it has something else, then saw a random shiny Krickatot staring at me, named them Benny, Kenny, and Denny A shiny Rufflet, on Valentines day, my first legends arceus shiny A random, shiny Carnvine, on my birthday, I named him Bday Phill, heard the shiny sound, checked the Gible outbreak, no shiny, looked for ten more minutes, then noticed the Magnezone flying above me, it had a blue eye. My first random shiny in a game with half odds, Cheese, my shiny Wurmple in legends, then found a shiny Drifloon I named big ballooon about 30 minutes later. Full Odds, my shiny Quagsire in Platium, found him before I found a random shiny in a half odds game, was training my Tangela for Crasher Wake, and I found him, knowing he was shiny, before he even shined, it felt like it took extra long for the options on what to do appeared on screen, I had like ten seconds to process I actually found a shiny instead of 5, it felt longer than ten seconds though. Speaking of shiny pokemon in older games, I finally got enough money to buy a ds I could play my dad's ruby and firered files on, booted up ruby, it wasn't my dad's, it belonged to someone named Sayori, she had a shiny Zagoose in her box. Last shiny that's worthy enough to mention, as soon as I got Nintendo online, I wanted to trade, so I hatched some old eggs I had, you see, some of these eggs where Indeedee, I had sheild, so Indeedee I find are always female, but I can breed males, I wanted both gender differences so I bread a female Indeedee, and was thinking about making it a shiny hunt, so I used the Japanese Pikachu that you get from pokemon home, the only pokemon from another language I had at the time, hatched about 3/8, and left the other ones in the box because hatching Indeedee eggs takes a while, and it was about 5 days away from being extactly a year later from when I got the eggs, ONE OF THE EGGS WAS SHINY And I bid you not, right after, I saw an advertisement for an Aromatisse raid, hoped in, AND IT WAS SHINY (I had wanted one for a while, I ran away from on I found because I had a Spirtizee in my party, forgot that Spirtizee evolves by trade, as soon as I get online a raid for it is advertised, and it was freaking shiny.) That's all

Man, shiny female snorunt was my first shiny ever! Congrats on all the shinies!

u deserve all the recent success on your channel, your production quality is amazing

These are all so cool! My first shiny was a Politoed, which I caught as a Poliwag after two chain fishing encounters in X years ago (I didn't realize how lucky I was at the time lol). My most memorable shinies are a Goomy I failed in X (which I have yet to reclaim

My first soft reset shiny was a shiny Zapdos and Ill never forget it

Each frame of this video and every Shiny Pokémon featured here is just how much pure dedication there is here! It's beyond immeasurable.

That Korikio Village soundtrack you put in there is dope. Full on nostalgia

That was such an epic video I loved it so much

Love your videos keep up the good work :D

2:54 the Sylveon running towards you syncs perfectly with the music

In the game list I noticed PJD and I was delighted to see that that was actually part of the video!

So much awesome Experiences! Thanks for sharing them with us Noki :)

I got my first "technically" full odds shiny a few days ago (not counting legends arceus... where I caught a mantyke without realizing which would otherwise be my first). I caught a ralts in renegade platinum (without the increased shiny odds patch) while trying to learn how to chain pokemon across a few days of attempts. I think I broke my 12th chain (longest I gotten was 29) and found the shiny patch at a chain of 8. I couldnt believe how lucky I got consideding I only encountered around 100 ralts. And it appeared to have 2 perfect IVs which was cool too. I say technically full odds because it was so close to the start of the chain that the odds were barely different from finding one without the pokeradar. I believe it was around 1/6000 compared to the normal 1/8000 in gen 4. I might try to make it legal using pkhex and try to trade it over to pokemon bank since I'm playing on an actual 3ds with twilightmenu++.... never tried it before but I think it should work... though honestly I never used pokemon bank before either so idk.

Love the runescape music in the beginning! The feels

I just love shiny hunting - it started with me checking my old Black file (which I played when i was like 9-10) and just seeing one of my favorite shinies chilling there, a Reuniclus. My peak was probably when I was on-off hunting the Mewtwo in Soul Silver, and I got it 2 hours into my birthday, literally my lucky charm for eternity

This video is really well made and makes me want to hunt

I always love it when Noki uploads. Are you going to go with scarlet or violet?

What an amazing collection you got there. My first accidental shiny was an Electrike in Emerald in Emerald back in 2006. I still have it in Bank and will transfer it up later after I will give it more ribbons.

Your cinematography skills are unmatched - you are brilliant !!!

My first shiny was also in the original Pearl, a seadra. Didn’t even know what it was back then and the save file is long gone and corrupted thanks to the discovery of action replay. I still want to go back and hunt it one day (phased on a gyarados two years ago)

I was not expecting that ending but I loved it

"We gotta pick up the pace let's play some music", proceeds to play one of the best ost of all time. goated video

I love the wowaka part at the end, now I know you have good tastes in Pokemon and vocaloid producers

My first shiny Alpha in this game was the Infernape on that little island. Never battled it before or caught it, so it was at base odds. I actually had no pokemon strong enough to catch it so I had to use all my EXP candies to level my Sneasler so I had a chance. After pumping it up to level 68, I was able to weaken it enough to catch it. One of my favorite shiny hunting memories (I also got another one in an Massive Mass Outbreak, which was less thrilling, but neat still) Can't wait to make more shiny hunting memories in Gen 9!

Lol this is amazing I definitely understand your addiction I actually got serious about shiny hunting in Pokémon sword and shield too after dynamax adventures was announced and was on a mission to get every single Lego in there shiny. I was almost done after 1000 plus hours of runs but when the pro came out I didn’t properly transfer my data to my switch pro and lost it all 😭 so I’m back in sword and shield grinding (almost done again tho thankfully), still have yet to be BD so I can get Arceus, Darkrai and Shamin shinies, then Arceus so I can get alpha shinies 😂 so my whole TL is off by the time I get to Scarlett x Violet unfortunately but I get to live through you for what I’m grinding for. Also another great game for random shiny hunting is Go as well lol I’ve gotten a couple cool shinies from there

I remember playing alpha sapphire when it came out and was going towards fallarbor town when i was thinking i needed a fire type, ran into a shiny numel. Shiny camerupt is still one of my favorites to this day

i didnt expect the intro music be something like 'Infant Queen Bee/Midorigo Queen Bee/Eiji Kuinbii or whaterver you call it but seeing you play a rhythm game it makes sense

I had a similar experience my first time in the Icelands. The very first pokemon there was a shiny Aipom, which is dope cuz he's one of my favorites

im calling it now, Noki is the next big youtuber. his voice is perfect, funny commentary, good at games, charisma, and just overall fun to watch. he deserves way more subs than he has (which is still a ton!) keep it up. You're awesome. -Jax :)

My first shiny was a full odds, totally random metapod in pokemon sun. I love my little orange nugget. Still haven't evolved him. Great video!

Although I don't have it anymore I distinctly remember my first shiny being a shiny diglett in Firered before diamond and pearl were even a thing. It had a grey nose and I thought something was wrong with my cartridge. I caught it anyway because it looked cool to me. Sadly many of my pre Gen 5 saves are gone now along with my childhood pokemon but I still remember it to this day. Who knows maybe I'll shiny hunt Diglett sometime, hell mabye even in Firered for the memory of that encounter! I have mainly hatched shinies, few soft resets, but I do still have some really cool shiny stories. My first pokemon I ever tried shiny hunting was Zapdos in Firered in 2016. I was hype on Pokemon thanks to Gen 7 and tried to find whatever excuse I could to keep playing. Why I decided on a worse odds gen 3 game over a game like ORAS I have no clue, but man 4000 encounters later when it finally shined it felt so damn good which led me down this rabbit hole Probably my proudest shiny moment is my shiny Celebi which I got from Crystal VC. I love Celebi and I love Pokemon mystery dungeon EOS so I had to go for it. Right when I was about to give up I open the VC menu right as Celebi pops on screen it was pink! I just sat staring at the screen for a good minute! Lastly, a few years ago I decided I wanted to get all the gold symbols in Emerald battle frontier. I wanted a Breloom for a spore and focus punch combo. My plan was to catch a whole bunch of Shroomish, compare the IVs of each and go from there. Shroomish as a side note is a rare encounter in petalburg woods, not easy to get. WELL I kid you not the very first Pokemon I run into was a Shroomish...a red one! Not only is this insanely lucky on a 1/8000 something 5% encounter but besides from Rayquaza which I also have, Breloom is my favourite gen 3 shiny. Needless to say IVs be damned I took that thing and conquered the frontier! Currently I'm into radar chaining BDSP, so far I got Nidoran male, Budew, and mareep! Just this morning I got a shiny staryu in SWSH through the enounter method. I expected it to take hours, 33 encounters! Sorry for the long comment, I really liked this video, haven't seen many like it and I wanted to share some of that with you!

my first full odds shiny was an alolan raticate in moon that i caught while grinding and trying to finish my pokedex lol. when i got my hands on legends arceus i found a shiny skorupi within minutes of stepping into the cobalt coastlands and i've been super into shinies ever since. slowly building my pla and violet collections at the moment :)

The osrs music makes it so much better keep up the work 😅 I got all the tapus shiny working on shaymin

I love it when you use a runescape theme songs 😍.

I had the exact same experience with Snorunt, I knocked out the first Snorunt in my walk-through and the second was blue, I wasn't expecting shinies would be this easy to get in PLA at the time

runescape and nier automata music jeez sounds good my man atleast i think it's nier not 100 percent sure haha good vid my man keep it up!

Love the background music on this video!

I know I'm late but it's so cool yo see someone else's journey through shiny hunting while suffering through my own personal experience in starting to shiny hunt... wanting to get a shiny female eevee is not fun, with a male counter of 8 to null :') but still awesome to see you go through such a journey even if I'm newer to the channel, will definitely be watching more stay awesome! :]

My first shiny was a magmar I found randomly after opening up Pokémon Go for the first time in months out of pure boredom. Still have it in Sword after I transferred it and I use it regularly in competitive. Even tho I have more shinys now that magmar will always have a special place in my heart.

I know my first shiny was a Golbat from Turnback Cave in Pearl version that has since been lost to time, but I remember my first real meaningful shiny encounter (that I still have) was a Cottonnee in my first Pokemon Black playthrough from Pinwheel Forest, whom I dubbed “Blue Moon” (which made more sense when it evolved into Whimsicott). Since then, my luck was never particularly great outside of Pokémon Go, but just this past week I set out in PLA with the goal to obtain shiny Hisuian Zorua, and last night at 1:30 in the morning, my efforts were rewarded. I know that it’s easier than ever to obtain shiny Pokémon these days, but there is something insanely rewarding about both running into a shiny by accident AND setting a goal to find one and accomplishing it. Thistle the blue Zorua will be a treasured core memory for all of time.

"And don't worry, I will not be bringing my master ball." Literal Chills.

I remember my first and only legendary shiny. It was in a max lair in pokemon sword, and it was shiny Uxie. Some other shines I remember finding are Crobat, Walrein, Chatot and Swellow.

I'll always remember my first 2 shinies. My first was a shiny M unown in my first playthrough of Pokémon Diamond, while doing the story with my brother. My second ever shiny was a shiny Bibarel, this time on Pokémon Pearl (We had both games and switched around to do a new playthrough), on my second playthrough of Gen 4. We were in a night train coming home from a trip and playing on our DS together, and it took me a whole minute fighting this random Bibarel to realize it was shiny, because I wasn't looking at the screen when it appeared so didn't see the stars. It took me looking at my brother's screen because he happened to be fighting a wild Bibarel too (what are the odds), and I was like "Wait, why's yours slightly darker than mine ?" Mind you, I was just about to knock out my Bibarel at that point. I then realized it was shiny, and proceeded to catch it. Absolutely love that slightly lighter Bibarel

Damn, you have like the exact same number of Shinies total that I have in GO. I only recently started Shiny-Hunting in GO (like about Q3 2021), but I think it's funny it's the exact same number lol. You're so patient for the mainline game Hunting haha.

It's a great list, mate. But damn, that Johnstone living dex shiny stream looks even more insane now.

In Scarlett and violet, my first shiny was a shiny eevee from the Terra raid event. Evolved it into a sylveon and I love them :)

I had a similar experience to you bc I was farming for my pokedex in ultra moon and I encountered a full odds shiny salandit. Plus, the next day I got another random shiny, being a bewear.

I think my most memorable shiny is that small Litwick in White 2. I restarted my game not so long ago, and decided it would be super cool to have a Chandelure in my team as my second favorite Pokémon (the first being Aegislash, doesn't exist here) so I hunted for a Timid or Modest Litwick with Torch, and after like 10 resets, I got one with a small blue flame on its head. It was just wonderful because 1 chance over 8192 makes it absolutely insane, one of my favorite Pokémons being right here, being shiny and having a nice nature and Torch. Believe it or not but it also gave me Pokérus... I don't know what are the odds but I was happy as I've never been in Pokémon.

The RuneScape music towards the end 🔥🔥🔥

insanely good job on your vids

Nokimon: I can’t wait to shiny hunt the next legendaries. Gamefreak: We’ll you see the thing is-

My first ever shiny was a herdier in black, my first game. I was super young at the time and didn't even know what shinies were lol, I don't think I understood just how special the pokemon I caught was. my first shiny AFTER learning what shinies were was a wurmple in omega ruby, and THAT was a hell of a memory. I wanted to start officially hunting in SWSH but never really got around to it. I've been going CRAZY in arceus though, and I can't wait to start getting more official about it

Love the runscape music 😍

My first ever shiny was in USUM when I was going through the ultra wormholes and found a shiny Swellow, my most recent one was actually earlier today when I was in Legends Arceus and found a full odds shiny Kricketot.

First run on arceus, i got myself a shiny zubat in the cave with the onyx quest! Decided after doing some massive-mass outbreaks i’d go for a living dex since slamming balls at pokemon in hopes of a shiny showing up would be fun Im kind of regretting that goal since getting the individual letters of unknown as shiny through random encounter or mass outbreaks is. Going ti be hard, but i have gotten myself shiny ; Spiritomb Starly line Shinx line Buneary and lopunny Espeon An a shiny samurott as well! He looks great with the white ♡ This video makes me wanna focus on snorunt now! The blue looks so good

Thank you for making videos you encouraged me to start shiny hunting

Started in generation 3 (team mudkip), stopped playing that generation bc I got into the card collecting instead, stopped collecting cards in black2 and white2 generation, and officially came back when sword and shield came out, it took a lot of adjustment and learning new things but shiny hunting has been fun and I love that they took the chance from 8k to 4k bc when I played all the way back in gen 3 I never got one except for rayquaza.

My first ever shiny was a Donphan in ORAS on one of those mirage islands. I had played all of the games up to that point but just never got lucky. Definitely a fun memory. Haven't had the best luck overall though, randomly found a shiny Nidorino in the fire red safari zone and it ran away 😔

Froslass has always been my favorite Pokémon as well, and i was excited to find a female snorunt in Pokémon go. Unfortunately it wasn’t shiny but the hunt must go on!

I just finished my longest ever hunt the other day. Shiny Regirock in Shield. I started the hunt in Ultra Moon and failed due to struggle (no harvest set up like an idiot) resumed in the Crown Tundra and have been going on and off since it came out. This last week i was determined to get it and after thousands of resets, easily 10k+ it finally shined. 10 Luxury balls later and its mine. And i was rewarded for my patience with a Square Shiny with the perfect nature too. Love all your shiny videos dude, keep up the brilliant work.