Today I show a fun & fast Pokemon shiny hunt that you should try, in HeartGold and SoulSilver versions! This is a great way to pass time while waiting for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet to come out!
RIP Soft Reset. I remember when I got sword and shield I began to figure out what the soft reset button combo was, only to find out there was none lol.
2nd stupidest thing GF has ever done is not being able to see if starters are shiny until you pick it (for me it's happened with virtual console pokemon gold, pokemon x and y (I think), pokemon BDSP, USUM, and prob some other games too.
They never ✨ Locked the Starters. Oh! You meant, starting the game with a ✨ Pokémon? Yeah, that was a GREAT decision. Because while your First choice in Pokémon can no longer be ✨, you CAN still Breed them to get the ✨. You've been able to do that since, well, forever. But especially in the last few Gens- ⚔️ 🛡️, Arceus, and SV, you can Masuda Method to get ✨ Starters lol 😂
@@gabriellockwood2780 that’s one of the stupidest replies I’ve ever heard. People want to have the option of starting a completely new game with a shiny. Just because you just learned what the Masuda method is doesn’t make it the right answer for everything
Another easy shiny hunt I've found is the Spiritomb in ORAS, because since you need to pause the game and select an option that hides the overworld and when you unpause the game the battle will start, if you save after selecting the option (but before closing the pause menu) every time you restart the game you're immediately thrown into the battle! The only button presses are to reset the game! So it's an incredibly fast reset cycle!
I got a shiny chiko on my hunt twice in a row and just decided to use it. his name is Basil and as a Bayleef he actually stomped Whitneys miltank using Reflect to tank the rollout and a couple Magical Leafs for the kill - earned my respect real fast
Just for the record, just because there's THREE doesn't mean the odds are cut. Each one still has the 1/8192 chance. The shiny odds are not cut. The odds aren't changed in any way. That's like saying horde hunting changes the odds of 1/4096 to 1/819. It doesn’t. You're just getting more encounters.
This was my introduction to shiny hunting 5 years ago. After that I started streaming shiny hunting and really got to know the community. I quit bout 2 years ago, but damn that was a fun time in my life.
I’ve done this hunt before, I was looking for a shiny Totodile but got Cyndaquil. I really wanted Totodile tho and let’s just say after months of hunting I finally got my Shiny Totodile… and 4 shiny Cyndaquil
Is there any way to get the pokemon from your ds onto pokemon home? I don't have a 3ds. If there was a way to transfer it to my switch, I'd do this hunt
I did this one! It took me 5 days but I got my beautiful blue totodile. I’m at the base of mount silver now and Tanzanite is all grown up as a gorgeous feraligatr
i did this in my two copies of heart gold. one of them took about a week of soft resetting in my free time to get a shiny chikorita, and in my other game i got a shiny cyndaquil in like 80 resets
I would say FireRed/LeafGreen is also pretty quick. The one I dreaded the most was UltraSun! Although, they say Sun/Moon were much slower than the Ultra games.
You can just get lucky. I remember on my first playthrough of Emerald I got a shiny Golbat up in the RayQuaza tower just before I went and battled him. Which means I could have probably phased into a shiny RayQuaza if I had been a little bit quicker 😵 SV odds do seem to be higher, but it probably is just easier to spot since their shiny forms are visible in the overworld which we couldn’t determine in Sword and Shield. Who knows how many shinies we skipped over since their shiny forms weren’t visible
Hunted the totidile for 3 weeks, got the chikorita twice... still chances are much faster and better in the new games, but if you're going for classics this method works for all static encounters in this game other than the shiny locked pokemon.
Now that I think about it, I might go for this Shiny hunt, I tried to Shiny Hunt on Pokemon Crystal on the 3DS, but after a long time I thought that it wasn't worth damaging my "A" or "B" button for it. But considering that these are the same Starters, as long as there isn't much talk before the Shiny Check... Let's go.
got a shiny totodile in three soft resets after i remembered this fact and decided to try it out on a whim. named him Happy. totodile is still my fav mon to this day because of it. every game i play that has totodile available to get i always shiny hunt it in memory of Happy
good luck finding a copy, theyre getting expensive. make sure you research how to tell the difference between a real and a fake hgss because theres a lot of knockoff cartridges out there that have save issues and wont let you transfer your pokemon to later gens
I got this shiny in 680SRs, i'm doing a Shiny Badge Quest and am currently hunting a geodude/zubat before the first gym in the dark cave. i'm at 750 encounters rn and i'm not expecting anything soon lol
I’ve done this already, got my shiny cyndaquil a few months ago. Still one of my favorite shiny hunts. Fucker decided to shine for me at 4:30 am… I screamed 🙃😂
I’ve gotten 4 this way and my girlfriend has gotten 1 and working on a second. It’s such an effortless hunt that you can just vibe to. It can take a while but the odds are better than most starter hunts on account of 3 checks per reset. Can’t recommend this enough it’s probably my personal favorite hunt period. And my personal favorite gen.
I got a shiny cyndaquil on my 8th reset and i was just trying to get a modest or jolly cyndaquil and for my surprise it became a modest shiny cyndaquil
Personally the shiny hunt I go for in HGSS is at lake of rage and I love Gyarados so I wanted a shiny one and everytime I go it’s shiny my luck is godly
I mean this is DECENT but I wouldn’t say it’s the best. Definitely one of the easiest. But odds are split into thirds thankfully with the 3 options available. Your odds are halved compared to newer games with the 1/8000. And even if you got one, you’d have a hard time transferring them over to modern games All things to consider. All in all, I’d just get PLA or get Scarlet/Violet. Even just full odds random encounters get so much higher when you complete the base game Pokédex. I usually find one about every hour when I run around and do checks with that 1/1500 odds or whatever it is with the shiny charm
can you do the glitch were you can get all starters? If yes, then save after you get the first shiny, reset look for the next shiny starter, the last one will be hard but it might be worth it
I’m heart broken because I can’t find my original soul silver copy anywhere from when I was a kid, and every single one of my Pokémon gens are in my DS bag... Except my soul silver.. It’s a straight tragedy...
🤣 it's like people thinking a roulette number is due just because it hasn't come up. It's still 1:8192 shiny rate is for each of the 3 starters, you're just increasing your checks to 3 each time you do one.
@@YoKevdog not to be rude but thats still not how it works. you could have a 100 starters to choose from but it doesn't change the odds or time it could take.
If u want to make the shiny hunt easier, there is a way to manipulate the RNG of the game, I managed to get a shiny cyndaquil in around 2 hours, just looks it up on YT
If they leave this out when making a future Johto remake I’m gonna scream. This is literally the easiest starter shiny hunt ever and I wish we had more like it
My first shiny encounter was bulbasaur, I wasnt aware you could get them in game like that and assumed my game glitched out. So I reset my gba 😂 To this day I regret not asking anyone
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RIP Soft Reset.
I remember when I got sword and shield I began to figure out what the soft reset button combo was, only to find out there was none lol.
You can just press y instead of x(if you have more than one pfp then choose your own profile)
@@sultan_3864 that's not really the point the point is you can not SR in SWSH
They did that because switch games load faster than soft resets anyway
Stupidest thing Gamefreak ever done was shiny locking starters.
2nd stupidest thing GF has ever done is not being able to see if starters are shiny until you pick it (for me it's happened with virtual console pokemon gold, pokemon x and y (I think), pokemon BDSP, USUM, and prob some other games too.
They never ✨ Locked the Starters.
Oh! You meant, starting the game with a ✨ Pokémon? Yeah, that was a GREAT decision.
Because while your First choice in Pokémon can no longer be ✨, you CAN still Breed them to get the ✨.
You've been able to do that since, well, forever.
But especially in the last few Gens- ⚔️ 🛡️, Arceus, and SV, you can Masuda Method to get ✨ Starters lol 😂
@@gabriellockwood2780 that’s one of the stupidest replies I’ve ever heard. People want to have the option of starting a completely new game with a shiny. Just because you just learned what the Masuda method is doesn’t make it the right answer for everything
No the stupidest thing was shiny locking any pokemon
@@ryandrummond3794 couldn’t agree more. Would be even better if npc’s could have random shiny Pokémon too
My favorite hunt in this game is Gyrados in Lake of Rage! It’s always so challenging!
Red gyrados is the goat shiny. Silver and gold it was like wtf is this??? 😮😮😮
I once encountered a shiny gyrados but back then, I didn’t know what a shiny was so I didn’t catch it
Frrr
For a long time, I was so used to shiny Gyrados, normal Gyrados looked wrong
My version of Pokémon heart gold I have shiny gyrados
Another easy shiny hunt I've found is the Spiritomb in ORAS, because since you need to pause the game and select an option that hides the overworld and when you unpause the game the battle will start, if you save after selecting the option (but before closing the pause menu) every time you restart the game you're immediately thrown into the battle! The only button presses are to reset the game! So it's an incredibly fast reset cycle!
*sees shiny chickorita. Still chooses cyndaquil
Imagine being a new player and actually getting a shiny on first try you dont pick it because it looks off
@@thePokemonmaster141 that, or was set on getting a different starter than the shiny
I got a shiny chiko on my hunt twice in a row and just decided to use it. his name is Basil and as a Bayleef he actually stomped Whitneys miltank using Reflect to tank the rollout and a couple Magical Leafs for the kill - earned my respect real fast
@@TheRavaszEmber chikorita is underrated. Can be pretty strong if you use the right moves
Just for the record, just because there's THREE doesn't mean the odds are cut.
Each one still has the 1/8192 chance. The shiny odds are not cut. The odds aren't changed in any way.
That's like saying horde hunting changes the odds of 1/4096 to 1/819. It doesn’t.
You're just getting more encounters.
They’re not cut, but you are getting additional rolls which theoretically would give you an easier chance at getting a shiny starter quicker
This was my introduction to shiny hunting 5 years ago. After that I started streaming shiny hunting and really got to know the community. I quit bout 2 years ago, but damn that was a fun time in my life.
I’ve done this hunt before, I was looking for a shiny Totodile but got Cyndaquil. I really wanted Totodile tho and let’s just say after months of hunting I finally got my Shiny Totodile… and 4 shiny Cyndaquil
Exactly what I did wanted a shiny totodile to name it Godzilla and got chicorita.
Oof. This is hard if I wanted a shiny chicorita
@@ms.pirate I’m genuinely confused why I didn’t get a single shiny Chikorita
Lucky, I got my totodile after 6 cyndaquils and 4 chikoritas.
@@ms.pirateno way that's crazy
This is inspiring me to get a charger and pick up my old heartgold save
Somehow the charger is the only thing everyone misplaced lol
Is there any way to get the pokemon from your ds onto pokemon home? I don't have a 3ds. If there was a way to transfer it to my switch, I'd do this hunt
@@plank9456 I’m like 90% sure there is a way? I think it involves a computer and a cord???
@@plank9456 you can
@@soloquakez7441 how?
Step 1: Own Heart Gold or Soul Silver
*sigh.....
Ikr
Jus play on an emulator
@@DiaNne31 it's not the same, but an option
@@MilitaryMackesit is EXACTLY the same lmao
@@DiaNne31 Or you could use Twilight menu on 3ds
Me not thinking you were going to show shiny gyarados 😂😂
I did this one! It took me 5 days but I got my beautiful blue totodile. I’m at the base of mount silver now and Tanzanite is all grown up as a gorgeous feraligatr
Just got a copy of Heart Gold. Definitely going to try this out!!! Ty!
How did you get one? And where
i did this in my two copies of heart gold. one of them took about a week of soft resetting in my free time to get a shiny chikorita, and in my other game i got a shiny cyndaquil in like 80 resets
I would say FireRed/LeafGreen is also pretty quick. The one I dreaded the most was UltraSun! Although, they say Sun/Moon were much slower than the Ultra games.
I NEVER got a shiny in the older generations.
Apparently it’s so much easier now bcuz I’ve caught 2 on my brand new Scarlet playthrough
Takes for ages sometimes. 300 plus hours in gen 3 till I seen one.
You can just get lucky. I remember on my first playthrough of Emerald I got a shiny Golbat up in the RayQuaza tower just before I went and battled him. Which means I could have probably phased into a shiny RayQuaza if I had been a little bit quicker 😵
SV odds do seem to be higher, but it probably is just easier to spot since their shiny forms are visible in the overworld which we couldn’t determine in Sword and Shield. Who knows how many shinies we skipped over since their shiny forms weren’t visible
I found a female shiny totodile this way!
I got 2 shiny totodile for hgss on both copy's I want one shiny totodile and one shiny Cyndaquil
My soul silver copy is fake, just realized that whilst hunting for lugia then starters. 😭
@@KhaosDoomi got 1 shiny cyndaquil and 1 shiny totodile and they were both female it was insane
I DIDNT KNOW ABOUT THE SOFT RESET THATS SO USEFUL!!!
Hunted the totidile for 3 weeks, got the chikorita twice... still chances are much faster and better in the new games, but if you're going for classics this method works for all static encounters in this game other than the shiny locked pokemon.
Now that I think about it, I might go for this Shiny hunt, I tried to Shiny Hunt on Pokemon Crystal on the 3DS, but after a long time I thought that it wasn't worth damaging my "A" or "B" button for it. But considering that these are the same Starters, as long as there isn't much talk before the Shiny Check... Let's go.
Do it!! 😊
This was my first hunt actually, and it’s still why I don’t despise chikorita
yea it was so fast the time is still going right now it's been 2 days
Well done hope some gets some shiny Pokémon!!!
got a shiny totodile in three soft resets after i remembered this fact and decided to try it out on a whim. named him Happy. totodile is still my fav mon to this day because of it. every game i play that has totodile available to get i always shiny hunt it in memory of Happy
Heart Gold, I got the Sudowoodo as a shiny. Hope to keep him around forever and in my other games
I did this hunt a couple years ago! I ended up getting cyndaquil. I named him gus
Yep, these are the only games where I’ve reset for all three shiny starters and now I’m trying to reset to get a shiny female one
Great content! But let me just find my copy of these games. 😢 I wait I don’t have them
good luck finding a copy, theyre getting expensive. make sure you research how to tell the difference between a real and a fake hgss because theres a lot of knockoff cartridges out there that have save issues and wont let you transfer your pokemon to later gens
when i saw HGSS pop up for this video concept i was thinking it would be about the cute charm glitch! that cuts shiny odds a lot more im pretty sure
Once pokemon bank is free imma do this shiny hunt and replay soulsilver. I miss this game so much.
I just bought it online and it came in today! I’ve barely started it. Am I in for something special??
@@MitchWarren Yes there is just so much to do and all of it is amazing
For a second I thought this might have been a joke and you were just going to go to the Lake of Rage lol
My first shiny was my starter pokemon when i started pokemon shield 😅
How? those are shiny locked.
“Quickest shiny hunt” meanwhile I remember it taking me 2 and a half weeks to complete this hunt
SmallAnt did the first “shiny only “ challenge and legit every pokemon content creator started doing it 😅
This hunt took me around 5k encounters, not counter 3 for every reset so technically 15k mons seen
I got 4 cyndaquils and 2 or 3 chikoritas before I got my shiny totodile. Took over 12000 resets, so 36k "encounters" not bad definitely worth it
Right now I'm trying to hunt the eggs Mr Pokémon gives you and the slugma from primo... it's been two weeks I'm anticipating much much much longer ha
I got this shiny in 680SRs, i'm doing a Shiny Badge Quest and am currently hunting a geodude/zubat before the first gym in the dark cave. i'm at 750 encounters rn and i'm not expecting anything soon lol
It wouldn't be (1/8192)/3, the new odds would be 1-(1/8192)^3.
(1-(your chance of not getting each one as shiny)cubed)
damn i found shiny sneasel while watching this which is one of my favorites and one i was hunting
Wait till the indigo desk then we can catch them in the wild
And that's why starters are now shiny locked at selection
I've done this twice. Got shiny Chickorita and shiny Cyndaquil
Does it actually soft reset by pressing L+R+start+select? I always thought I had to go back to the home menu and reboot the game
Imagine getting all 3 to be shiny, the toughest choice to make
I got cyndaquill the one I wanted after one month fast af🎉
I’ve done this already, got my shiny cyndaquil a few months ago. Still one of my favorite shiny hunts. Fucker decided to shine for me at 4:30 am… I screamed 🙃😂
I’ve gotten 4 this way and my girlfriend has gotten 1 and working on a second. It’s such an effortless hunt that you can just vibe to. It can take a while but the odds are better than most starter hunts on account of 3 checks per reset. Can’t recommend this enough it’s probably my personal favorite hunt period. And my personal favorite gen.
Imagine you get 2 but you can only choose one
theres a video out there iirc, its happened before
I've stil got my original save on the DS of this where I got a shiny Cyndaquil first time, wasn't even trying for it.
Dope shirt bro 🔥
It took me about a year and 15k encounters but it was to worth it to get totodile. (The one I wanted most)
I got my shiny lugia after 4 days of resetting, worth it though. I love it so much.
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I got a shiny cyndaquil on my 8th reset and i was just trying to get a modest or jolly cyndaquil and for my surprise it became a modest shiny cyndaquil
I remember Wally caught a shiny Ralts in my Emerald
i got a shiny cyndaquil after 5 resets
Personally the shiny hunt I go for in HGSS is at lake of rage and I love Gyarados so I wanted a shiny one and everytime I go it’s shiny my luck is godly
Iv successfully hunted all 3 shiny starters even got a spare shiny totodile, and hunted ho-oh and lugia. Now im hunting Lapras.
Accidentally got a shiny chikorita like this cus i was resetting for a good nature totodile in soul silver
Tell that to aDrive who spent a month on this hunt 80k+ resets
This is an awesome hunt but this hold my record for longest hunt ever. 3 years and i don't have the exact number on me but It was around 92,000 resets
I got it fairly early before and it was the shiny i wanted totodile 💜
“Quick shiny hunt” this took me over a year of on and off attempts to find my shiny chikorita. Idk how people can be dedicated enough to shiny hunt
Got a shiny chikorita yearsss back with this method
Technically yes... took me 30k seen to get one, but it was one of the fastest 30k I could do
Wish I could do the same for the gen 1 oak gift pokemon you get after beating red but you have to pick before you see if it’s shiny 😢
My first ever shiny hunt
I mean this is DECENT but I wouldn’t say it’s the best. Definitely one of the easiest. But odds are split into thirds thankfully with the 3 options available. Your odds are halved compared to newer games with the 1/8000. And even if you got one, you’d have a hard time transferring them over to modern games
All things to consider. All in all, I’d just get PLA or get Scarlet/Violet. Even just full odds random encounters get so much higher when you complete the base game Pokédex. I usually find one about every hour when I run around and do checks with that 1/1500 odds or whatever it is with the shiny charm
Bro it's been two years, I think my games broken
Literally been playing this game recently
Did you save right before the pick or do you have to do the cutseen every time
can you do the glitch were you can get all starters?
If yes, then save after you get the first shiny, reset look for the next shiny starter, the last one will be hard but it might be worth it
I’m heart broken because I can’t find my original soul silver copy anywhere from when I was a kid, and every single one of my Pokémon gens are in my DS bag... Except my soul silver.. It’s a straight tragedy...
They go for a lot now
Those odds ain’t right chief
🤣 it's like people thinking a roulette number is due just because it hasn't come up.
It's still 1:8192 shiny rate is for each of the 3 starters, you're just increasing your checks to 3 each time you do one.
He’s saying the odds of getting at least 1 shiny out of the three starters is 1/2730, not for each individual one. The odds are also roughly correct.
This is the last time I’ll reply to this, I meant that it’ll take three times less to reach 8192 encounters
When I do get these games I will 100% shiny hunt my starter
You can get a started breakout in legends arceus
Probability does not work in that way.
First: you mean triple probability, not 1/3
Second: the real of obtaining a shiny is 1-[(8191/8192)³]
Yes. I meant it would take you 1/3 of the time to encounter 8192 pokemon
@@YoKevdog possibly
@@YoKevdog but Revenge killer searched shiny Lugia in crystak by 3 years
@@YoKevdog not to be rude but thats still not how it works. you could have a 100 starters to choose from but it doesn't change the odds or time it could take.
The math ain't mathin
I've been trying to get a modest Oddish in SS for weeks now. Maybe I should just do this instead
Quick this is has to be one of the hardest hunts excluding legendaries shiny rates are doubled in this game compared to the New games
I’ve gotten 2 shinies from this within a year chikorita and 2 totodile on hg and SS
Yoo how tf did i now know about this soft reset method ive fr been going to the homescreen and loading the game back up while Shiny hunting ho- oh
Got my first shiny starter that way
You should try hunting the big re- I mean blue thing in the lake of rage. It’s shiny is red btw 1/8192 chance
It would be awesome if a shiny appeared while he was recording
lol I know right!
This “quick” shiny hunt took me 14 months and my friend decided to start it after I finished and it took him 3 days.
I got a shiny totodile and my brother eventually got a shiny cyndaquil not long after
Based on the fact the masuda method exists, and starters are usually shiny locked these days, I gotta assume they don't want you doing this.
Oh dang, could transfer shiny cyndiquill to Hisui
So can you save in front and soft reset or does it have to be the long way and recreate your character?
In starting Pokémon Y I got a shiny Fennekin and was so stoked!!
i got a shiny cyndaquil like this a few months ago
It’s still full odds, you are just able to check 3 before resetting
If u want to make the shiny hunt easier, there is a way to manipulate the RNG of the game, I managed to get a shiny cyndaquil in around 2 hours, just looks it up on YT
I want to know if it’s not the cute charm glitch
@@toothless681 , it’s both the cute charm glitch and the shiny starter, I think it’s a video by ImABlissey or smth. Idk if u have to go both tho
I got a shiny Totodile in 501 encounters in HG
If they leave this out when making a future Johto remake I’m gonna scream. This is literally the easiest starter shiny hunt ever and I wish we had more like it
I did this hunt full odds 8,192 was looking for a cyndaquil found a totodile still have her
took me a year and a half with 9,750 resets for a chikorita
What are the odds of 2/3 being ✨
My first shiny encounter was bulbasaur, I wasnt aware you could get them in game like that and assumed my game glitched out.
So I reset my gba 😂
To this day I regret not asking anyone