The WORST shiny hunts in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet!

[@sunlizard9593]

It still baffles me that they took the shiny indicator sound off in the games where not only can Pokémon spawn out of bounds but they also introduced a lot of those “barely different” shinies.

[@THGMR-ox7sd]

It baffles me how they pick the colours and still make barely changing shinies on purpose.

[@fieratheproud]

​@THGMR-ox7sd
Subtle shinies can be fun and look great, but there's subtle and there's "I can't tell if this is shiny or not" (looking at the Charcadet and Maushold lines)
and then there's the Tinkaton line. A disappointing shiny tbh, why does only the hammer change?

[@Mystmon]

​@fieratheproud Shiny Tinkaton isn't really a Shiny form. It just attacked a Shiny Corviknight. The actual Pokémon doesn't even change.

[@Mystmon]

​@THGMR-ox7sd Agreed. They have so much new potential that is being wasted. Shiny Pokémon are meant to feel worth hunting.

[@oreos2653]

@@Mystmonthats not even true

[@Piggly8w8]

This video is just proof that we need some kind of indicator for a shiny Pokémon appearing

[@GigaGhostYT]

and the fact legends arceus added one but SV just... doesn't have it??

[@Sus-lo1ul]

And with such a big open world there’s a really big chance you miss a shiny without even realizing it especially with wall a shiny in the wall

[@shuriflwrs]

i think it should be a sound, but a visual would probably be better tho bc you dont always have sound on

[@Piggly8w8]

@@shuriflwrsVisual would also help with things like Persian and Phanpy where the shiny is very difficult to distinguish unless it's right next to a regular one

[@shuriflwrs]

@@Piggly8w8 maybe a subtle sparkle?

[@Thefishingpenguin]

I feel like you have to include Tandamaus and Maushold because they don’t change at all.

[@tangycoco]

Fr you should check one by one 🤣

[@Thefishingpenguin]

@@tangycoco nah, just analyze every pixel of it then you should be good 🤣

[@Fire_cyclops]

The clothing prints become white.

[@michaelnelson1127]

Absolutely. I managed to find one a couple days ago, and I had no idea it was shiny until my Pokémon refused to attack it.

[@TheMeanBean10673]

And the new tauros💀

[@ambitzz69420]

"How would you make it a better shiny?"
*Mega Evolve it.*

[@fryq]

The worst part about shiny Gengar is that the only reason it's bad is because normal gengar got extremely desaturated

[@angelthegamer__]

What I keep saying! The shiny was noticeable before the 3d models

[@crowqueenamps]

The Pokemon that got desaturated when they became 3D hurts me the most. Like my boy Gengar or Blastoise. What have they done to suck the color out of them!

[@ErosIRL]

The worst part of shiny gengar to me is how cool they made shiny mega gengar only to scrap that game mechanic the very next game

[@RedL1keRoses7]

@@ErosIRLI mean at least it was still present in gen 7. The only generational mechanic that made it past one single gen lol

[@fishsticks8834]

Maybe they should just turn him black in the 3d mods.. that’ll look sick as hell and you can actually tell

[@Togethicc468]

Riolu has still escaped me at this point. I have the shiny charm, COME ON RIOLU ITS NOT THAT HARD
Update I have a LOT of shiny Lucarios :)

[@somethingrandom08]

Same 🥲

[@ThatzBrie]

Fr I what been trying to get this little dude but I literally can't he knows I want him but he don't want me

[@RyanWasTakenToo]

you got this!

[@spencerorisi1735]

Same but with gible

[@notexxone5595]

I got 4 shiny riolus and a shiny pawmi in one sandwich

[@hostiledodo1150]

You'll never see me actively shiny hunt for Flabebe. Can't even see them normally let alone see if they're shiny

[@daraen673]

The current outbreak event of Flabebe actually have a better shiny rate than shiny charm + sparkling power + 60 kos, it's easy to hunt Flabebe with this event

[@hostiledodo1150]

@@daraen673 Thanks for the info, I might just check that out

[@diamondoge]

I like how spirit tomb had been reduced to just a normal pokemon

[@froztgamergamesreactionsan6298]

I actually found a fan comic where a gangar shiny was a phantom white color with yellow/blue eyes, I think that’s an improvement.

[@milonchello1643]

Thats his shiny mega

[@froztgamergamesreactionsan6298]

@@milonchello1643 I know, why I said the white gangar is from a fan comic, a fan made mystery dungeon one to be accurate

[@cebbygamer8598]

@@froztgamergamesreactionsan6298megas aren't fan-made. they are made by pokemon so he was right

[@froztgamergamesreactionsan6298]

@@cebbygamer8598 sigh it’s a fan mystery dungeon Pokémon comic by matchaghost, just look up the comic

[@888harper88]

@@cebbygamer8598 I think they meant that NORMAL gengar is white in a fan comic which was most likely inspired by shiny mega gengar

[@philozoic444]

Gholdengo: the pokemon which needs 999 coins and has a shiny with very minimum difference

[@c.s.joethedragon1311]

That, and the fact that you could only hunt it in a raid event, which is full odds no matter what.

[@OzTheBoss]

​@@c.s.joethedragon1311 best part is that full odds for raids is worse then full odds outside of it 😭

[@CaramelOnFire]

They were a celebration for the 1,000th pokemon to exist, then gamefreak BARELY put effort into making its shiny

[@malpercio123]

YES

[@NbLumineIzHere]

i wish they made shiny gengar like shiny mega gengar with the white body, it looks dope but when it reverts to normal its just disapointing:(

[@BlazerFox31306]

I swear when a shiny spawns it needs to do the shiny ping every like 5 seconds

[@liampleurodon8831]

Literally any Pokemon at lag lake 💀

[@TheSalamanderMenace4]

VELUUUUUUUUZAAAAAAA!!!!!!

[@megameme29]

Shinies can be the most rarest things yet the most common when you least expect it, no sandwich, no hunting strategy, full odds I found a Shiny Bellibolt in area zero today!

[@juliepenoyer3062]

Wow, that happened to me, but in lagtree thicket with a dunsparce

[@Ste-GAY-saurus]

I found a shiny hoppip on rout one within the five minutes of playing the game for the first time

[@MassiveMushroom]

Bro I got a shiny Mankey and capsakid on my first day playing. And not long after that a a shiny houndour

[@darlinghearts16]

I was just minding my own business and i managed to find a random shiny. Yet when i am actually hunting for one i can never seem to find it.

[@leonides1527]

Literally 10 minutes after booting up my violet copy. Ran into shiny raichu

[@JohnHarwood-xj8uk]

Props for Tynamo on this list. It's so hard to see normally let alone if it's shiny. Although it's absolutely worth it, Eelektross has an awesome shiny

[@frizzy_rhapsody]

Hot take: I LOVE how there isnt any big flashes or indicators for shinys in SV, it makes actually FINDING a shiny much more fun and earned, instead of a nuke going off whenever one spawns

[@atomicwrongs]

A lot of shiny gengar fixes suggest making it an eerie white, but I think pallid grey would be a nice look? The desaturated corpse grey with a blue tongue seems to be kind of the idea behind shiny haunter, so giving The Geng that treatment could work.

[@MystralThunder]

I feel like making it Red with Purple eyes, inverting the colors, would be super cool tbh

[@PlasmaDragon7]

Just continue to de-saturate gengar every game slightly so people don't notice until it's completely grey

[@daraen673]

Just white like the mega and gigantamax hmm

[@alphaareus]

I am so blessed that my one and only raid shiny so far is Eelektross. I couldn't even imagine how long it would have taken me to get that thing the standard way.

[@lennydickson8845]

Dude. Never try the tynamo outbreak. Worst mistake of my life.

[@THGMR-ox7sd]

I like the idea of shiny tynamo but it needs to be more saturated.

[@hollowknightdale4120]

Including the DLC, Cyndaquil is currently the most agonizing one to hunt for in SV in general due to it's dumb spawn area

[@striderhiryu713]

"I always thought that F in masuda stands for fun"

[@vettamarrero6839]

I do like Gengar’s gimmick that it’s shiny is white with every new form (Mega, Gigantimax) but I wish it would be more frequent, like in attacks, terraforms, and Z Moves

[@SSuser-go7jm]

Salazzle and Petill were the hardest ones for me this far, 13 phases for Salazzle and an extremely slow hunt for Petill.

[@SerothTalon]

I got a Shiny Salazzle in a wonder trade back in Sun. Someone had obviously rage traded it because it was Adamant. Then they introduced mints in the very next game and I got myself a great new toy!

[@c.s.joethedragon1311]

Omg, even with 2 outbreak hunts, shiny petlil evades me too

[@papyrusthegreat457]

The petilil spawn rate is abysmal, I had a hard time finding them simply to get TMs 😭😭😭

[@Decubitus]

For me, one of the worst hunt I've had was a Cyclizar outbreak. The entire outbreak was just me going "WHY ARE YOU RUNNING?" over and over again. Also Salandit outbreak in a cave that makes them ALL look shiny due to graphical glitches and in the end I could only catch male ones.

[@daraen673]

You could still get some rare spawns and oubreaks or Salazzle if you want to shiny hunt it directly

[@codev-oso4582]

I got extra lucky then. Borrowed my coworkers Scarlet/switch so we could have each other's exclusive and paradox. I went to catch him a bagon and encountered shiny salazzle. Not even 4 mins later..went back to get him a Shelgon, and I encountered shiny salandit 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

[@jaykirizz219]

Frigibax belongs on this list too!!! Trying to spot pink claws instead of Red in the middle of a snowstorm can be a complete nightmare!

[@shayf400]

“How would you make Gengar a better shiny”
That’s the fun part, I don’t evolve it

[@whitedragonzerureusu4480]

Now put an everstone on it and wondertrade it

[@spatial_rind]

@@whitedragonzerureusu4480 Woah woah woah, calm down there, Satan

[@shydog7276]

Lol I'm colorblind, I literally have to just spam eggs for a lot of shinies I want 😂 outbreaks I have to just save then nuke everything until either the outbreak dispersed (reset and repeat) or I find a shiny. Shroomish was my personal worst purely because I can't really tell the difference between the shiny and normal while they're on grass 💀

[@MrClean-wl9ne]

As a colourblind brother, I feel that. Although my favorite shiny hunt method is masuda bc I like breeding good ivs as well and I get money from Home for storing all the tries there

[@sarafountain5979]

It took me a bit to understand "The F in Masuda stands for fun", I get it now. :/

[@M30WST1X]

What if we just put stars floating around the shiny, that would make things a lot easier

[@aaronsierra4070]

Once i was in a magikarp outbreak, and after i ate the sandwich i actually found a shiny...
Luvdisc, nothing after that

[@marioponce8482]

The Paldean Tauros exclusive breeds are also pretty tedious to find

[@PlasmaDragon7]

Breeding is the fastest way

[@BeeTheBee]

​@@PlasmaDragon7not anymore

[@PlasmaDragon7]

@@BeeTheBee what do you mean? there is no outbreaks for 3 family or 3 segment.

[@LightBrownRecluse]

I found my shiny Paldean Tauros by accident by defending myself from a group of them.

[@moxaicx]

“I caught every gen 9 shiny!”
*Proceeds to show Spiritomb

[@fraticelli510]

I walked right into my Maushold 😅

[@Squirlox]

I hated the charcadet hunt so much, I really wanted armarouge for my badge quest and in the end I got my red MegaMan with blue eyes.

[@isthatajojoreference5108]

The Pokémon getting stuck in walls has got to be patched for the sake of fair shiny hunts.

[@BunniesOasis]

I wasn’t even focused on the fact that they are the hardest to catch, I was focused on how absolutely precious this man sounds. 😭

[@SunsetSpryzen]

Roaring moon took me a whopping 27 sandwiches and 2 months of hunting it off and on before I got one.

[@kurailockheart8099]

If I ever have to hunt shiny Hawlucha it'll be too soon, that hunt almost broke my sanity, you have to work with a small strip of land, one part against grassy places that spawn Croagunk and the ocean with Veluza jumping out at you on the other side! Not to mention that Hawlucha are hyper aggressive and can spawn in two separate walls! This one was a pain to hunt... So I named her Payne.

[@funjonny4957]

Quilfish was like tht for me. Took forever and was very frustrating to hunt, so I named it Bish

[@the_roman_emperor_fisheater]

I've never even found a natural roaring moon so your lucky

[@gigifabulous]

They only spawn in a hidden cave with a weird pattern on the floor.

[@Nosretep]

​@@gigifabulousNot anymore. They spawn in lower area zero now.

[@GamerZero-mn9gq]

I watched my friend get one for me yesterday in that exact spot, so idk what you're talking about :/​@@Nosretep

[@Nosretep]

@GamerZero-mn9gq Roaring Moon can now spawn in lower Area Zero now too.

[@GamerZero-mn9gq]

@Nosretep I understand that, it's just that you implied it couldn't be caught in the hidden cave

[@AyJOb10]

Gengar with a "blood moon red" skin color would make it super sick!

[@FrankD1396]

Artisan Form Poltchageist… what an absolute pain in the ass to see in the laggy Bamboo forest of Kitakami

[@barticgameoshawottsquad6149]

Hi

[@arcadiafree]

This is top-notch short quality! ❤️❤️❤️

[@gennix404]

I cant be sitting here listening to him say theres no sunkern outbreaks as im currently looking at it 😂

[@kasagure.]

Gengar's shiny is SO easy to fix, the game literally already generated a much better one with Mega Gengar. keep the white with pink undertones, and the red/blue eyes (i honestly cannot remember what color they are, but both are much better)

[@wildwind413]

“What shiny Pokemon was the hardest for you to find”?
Me with no shiny: 😐

[@NAcHO-wx5vg]

Dusk form lycanroc, that sliver of time you have to guess for when it spawns, only for like 6 minutes, and you need a sandwich for it. It was the biggest pain.

[@baolongleuc2588]

Flabebe. I can show you a picture of a Flabebe, and a shiny one, a lot of difference, huh? Now find me one among the Flabebe and normal flowers.

[@WartortleFanBoi]

Ditto not being in this list is a CRIME

[@TheFoxtabulousVixie]

Me, Who found a shiny eevee as my first spawn when I fast-traveled to the closest waypoint to enter area zero for the first time:
Sounds like a Skill issue to me. 😂

[@oryza_1973]

So fun fact, gengar's shiny is actually good! Always has been! But the NORMAL sprite used to be a much, MUCH lighter purple. The "bad shiny" is actually a degrading quality of normal sprite. This is not limited to Gengar, btw

[@shinyarchen_39]

Masuda method was my go-to way to shiny hunt before SV. Making you set up picnics for eggs just ruins the flow and now that we can just run around with sandwiches, it doesn’t even have the edge odds-wise.
It’s only worth it now if it’s your only option.

[@kurtiswalter1788]

Am I the only person to really enjoy Masuda hunting? Its a relaxing way to hunt for me

[@deepseacocoon]

It is relaxing I guess but also kinda annoying and monotonous. But honestly, what type of shiny hunt isn’t lol

[@asliceofteaa]

I got a full odds shiny dratini while just messing around and I was FLABBERGAST imagine my shock when I just see a pink noodle when I'm fighting a big ass fish

[@sunla]

I got extremely lucky with roaring moon. I ate one sandwich and found one without the shiny charm in 4 minutes flat. I was so, so happy.

[@GreaterGood258]

I don't really do much with Masuda breeding, but you definitely nail two of my top 4 most obnoxious shiny hunts in gen 9: Tynamo and Tandemaus, alongside Iron Valiant (Violet's equivalent to Roaring Moon;; here's a tip, if you save and exit while standing in the middle of the big glyph in that cave, when you load back in every pokemon that spawns on that glyph will have no pathing ai and just stand there), and Vespiqueen (I had half a box full of shiny MALE Combee before I got that one, just from sheer bad luck on my part)

[@LongLiver]

I was looking for shiny magnemite in an outbreak. It’s hardly gold anymore because it’s so reflective. I struggled to see it so much. Especially in the snowy mountains

[@lunalgaleo1991]

To make Gengar's Shiny better, I'd make the eyes blue and the body fuchsia.

[@daraen673]

Or white body like the mega and gmax

[@user-bx6vi3sj3c]

Mimikyu was a nightmare to hunt. It always spawns in places with lots of trees, so when they sit under the trees, the shading threw me off.

[@duchessofart2144]

That’s funny I found my shiny roaring moon on half a sandwich by sheer luck because that guy was IN THE GROUND

[@toonlink5399]

Any Pokémon whose shiny form looks almost exactly like it’s normal colors should be on this list.

[@jliu2003]

Spiritomb and Sunkern are an absolute pain to get! I've personally experienced the worst hunt for a Klawf, 15 sandwiches and not a single one...instead I found 21 Nacli.

[@FrostGlader]

I actually PHASED on a Sunkern.
It was in the literal weirdest spot you can imagine. There’s literally one Flower Patch in Victory Road that can spawn “Flower” Pokémon, and it only has room for one spawn batch.
I found my Shiny Sunkern there.

[@hubirye]

11 phases?
I got it with a normal encounter 2 sandwich in 20 minutes..
Roaring moon just kinda loved me

[@MamutaPWIP]

Iron Thorns, this one costed me 2 Shiny Sandwiches.

[@TheAngelBacon]

I had a hard time with iron valiant because not only can it be a wall shiny. But it dashes the moment it spawns, so I actually watched 2 despawn before I caught mine.

[@RyanWasTakenToo]

They ZOOM

[@BoaFushishi]

Gengar’s shiny is actually really good. Gamefreak just made the original Gengar’s purple much darker and muddier, even more so in S&V, giving Gengar the unrightful title of a bad shiny

[@brightonsimmons6011]

Applin. Nothing else, just Applin.

[@ratgaming5864]

I got 2 roaring moons, the 2 headed thing, and pawmo with one sandwich and 2 phases

[@The_Jzoli]

After the newest update, pokemon in walls cannot be targeted anymore, which means if one spawns in a wall now, it's impossible to get.

[@Rei_Uchiha_01]

Nintendo not keeping the overworld sound and sparkles from legends Arceus is a major fail. It was such a good way finding shinies. Plus the pokemon always had shiny sparkles the moment it came out of the pokemon in Arceus not in S/V.

[@toadtt1470]

I would love a green goo gengar as a ghost buster joke

[@Giddy_]

Everyone begs GameFreak to bring back shiny sounds from PLA, but we should really be asking for the shiny sparkles from let’s go

[@Lucarinabell]

One of every Eeveelution before one Eevee... 1st day into a new save I manage to find an Eevee outbreak and by a miracle got my Eevee x'D I will never have such luck again lol

[@Milo-pi7jc]

In the new Indigo Disk DLC it's definitely Minior. Same as always, Cloaked form until you manage to get it to yellow or less. Oh and don't forget about Self Destruct

[@user-by9rq9yt4n]

You are right the f in masuda stands for fun, just like in encounters

[@EndyTheArtist]

Bellibolt and tadbulb tbh. That mf being a rarer spawn along with the teeny tiny tadbulb being HARD to eyeball is disastrous

[@jonielmedrano9527]

so true about roaring moon i’ve spent so much sandwich resets on that big bird

[@The_Football_Nerd216]

“Hey what u hunting for?”
“Giratina💀”

[@SerothTalon]

Cetottle. I have caught every single Pokémon on that mountain as a shiny except the one that spawns most frequently.

[@MegaManDBZX]

So true story. It took me only ten eggs for shiny Sprigatito… and one for Quaxly… and the Quaxly wasn’t Masudaed.

[@asmodeus2ndcircle]

I thought the starters were s.locked, can you actually get a shiny version from eggs?

[@MegaManDBZX]

@@asmodeus2ndcircle Only the ones at the start of the game are locked. Breeding is fair game.

[@accuratememin]

It would need bew unique animations, but Gengar's tongue should be a violent light blue when shiny. Its bigass tongue is one of its most defining features.

[@Arknautikore]

I want a shiny fuecoco but I don’t want to deal eternal damage to my patience, my friends do that enough as is

[@MarshmallowGuy022]

ROTOM. My guy is going at the speed of light so good luck 👍

[@glutineclassico]

Zoura, Zoroark, and Ditto. They have no overworld difference between shinys, so you have to either fight or auto battle each and every one. The outbreaks are glitched so they don't spawn in to begin with, and while you can breed for the foxes, ditto can only be found the wild.

[@gamergirl209]

Roaring moon actually only took me about thirty minutes. Plus I got two zweilous shinies at the same time. Hunting for herbs tho, that sucks

[@Flamestorm16]

11 is child's Play, I have 15 on Sandyshocks in counting

[@RyanWasTakenToo]

My god flame, that's insane

[@Flamestorm16]

@@RyanWasTakenToo I did it, after 16 I finally have it that's 180 hours of my life

[@justinforever5873]

it took me four minutes for iron valiant💀

[@brianstear2333]

Every shiny that barely changes at all where you can't even see it

[@kamuymamushi5877]

Ahh shiny hunt for the starters... I still remember soft resetting my USUM until I get that shiny Rowlett before starting the game

[@Marcy_Addict]

Kinda funny how my roaring moon only took one shiny sandwich 💀

[@AvianZone]

My Shiny Female Popplio took 3 days. I only 'fought' like 52 shinies, but that one was my hardest and I'm happy :D

[@figueroatorett7776]

The fact I got two roaring moons on my first sandwich😂

[@swissycheese]

Wall shinies 😭 I got a wall shiny bounsweet and I screamed

[@C4A4S4H]

i felt in my gut the wall shinies, so i hunted and behold within 5 minutes! i found one

[@distractedartz]

roaring moon looks like a kecleon with ho-oh wings! 😮

[@xXGoblinZ]

Tadbulb would've been a hard one for me if the first one I saw in an outbreak wasn't shiny lol

[@Bugsnott]

Zorua. Had to kill almost 300 of those damn things before realizing i was in the worst spot to hunt them. Im just glad that once i went to the ideal shiny hunting spot for Zorua i found one on my first sandwich. 💀

[@Bugsnott]

Still love my (not so little anymore) dude. When i evolved him our hair colours matched!

[@apatheticAstronaut]

The entire charcadet line

[@harryasbury7567]

Roaring moon was my first shiny in Pokémon scarlet I went to the location just wanting one and I caught them on my way to leave it spawned ✨

[@aylia1221]

I got roaring moon only with the shiny charm while just running around