Why These Shiny Pokémon are IMPOSSIBLE to Find
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2024
- In this video, I’d like you to join me as we discuss the insanely rare 1/18 million chance a wild Shiny Pokémon in Pokémon Sword and Shield has Star Sparkles. You may be asking, “aren’t star sparkles more common, where square sparkles are rarer?” While you’re technically right, not every kind of Pokémon you find follows these rules, which we discuss in this video. We’ll go over the technical ideas behind how Shiny Pokémon encountered in specific ways, like by overworld encounters, grass encounters, or fishing encounters, have a 1/18 million chance to have star sparkles, and how a concept that you thought you already knew may not be what you thought at all. You may be familiar with other rare shinies, like a Marked Shiny Pokémon, but in terms of the 3D generations, this is one of the rarest shiny Pokémon you can find, which at a 1/18 million chance, may just feel impossible.
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0:00 Intro
1:16 Which Pokémon can be a “Rare Star Shiny?”
2:20 How Shiny Pokémon are Generated Normally
3:30 Star and Square Sparkle Chance
4:06 Why Wild Square Sparkles are More Common
5:31 Why Wild Star Sparkles are so Rare
6:56 The Chance at Finding a Wild Star Shiny Pokemon
8:22 Naturally Generated Wild Square Sparkles
8:50 Changing a Star Shiny Back to Normal
10:00 Every Wild Star Shiny Documented to Date
15:20 Outro
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Kevdog openly uses modified switches sadly makes me question the legitimacy of the sharpedo clip ):
Ah, you’re very much correct it sadly seems. He has other star shinies on his account.
Well, as far as others go they seem to be the real deal!
@@JFlash727 luckily that was the only questionable one on the list! Nothing to be but proud of this video you did a lot of research and executed it well don’t even worry :)
I have KevDog's Shiny Scizor
time to find a star sparkle, wild shiny, full odds, authentic, sinistea, with the Rare mark, no mark charm, and pokerus!!!!
so i (think i) found the odds to said theoretical pokemon - ~1 / 39,321,000,000,000,000
which is 1 in 39.321 quadrillion
@@markerssmellgood7289 well, get started
bro is NOT finding that shiny
Coming back in 2078 to see what phase you’re on.
I love how they were like "how can we make shines more rare? Let's add different sparkles!!"
Then they fucked it up and then completely discarded the idea in the following games...
Marked shinies exist so not really
I have a rare mark shiny Sandy Shocks @@athena5172
I'm glad they did ditch it though. Another layer of rarity on top of shinies would drive me insane. Marks are the best solution because you can modify their odds seperate to the shiny odds instead of boosting your shiny odds with a chance of faliure beyond not finding the desired shiny.
Gotta admit, I thought this video would be clickbait because I completely forgot that star sparkles were so rare in certain encounter methods. Such a well produced and informative video that feeds the information slow enough to not cause anyone interested to be turned off from watching through to the end. Bravo.
So glad you enjoyed it! What you explained was exactly what I was going for, so I'm glad to see my efforts pay off. Click-baiting doesn't do anything but hurt a channel, so anything I make, I try to meet the expectations of my thumbnail and title as much as I can. Thanks for watching! =)
HE FINALLY USED THE THUMBNAIL!!!!
I DID 🔥🔥🔥
Next video: building Pokemon shield in minecraft (can I get the one in 6 million shiny?) 😂
A Minecraft TH-camr? What this is Pokémon
Okay who at GameFreak decided "hey, we should add an alternate form of shiny to make certain shinies even rarer?"
THANK YOU i have been wondering about this for YEARS, ever since i first saw the datamines on the topic back in (i think) late 2019, but i never knew for certain how it worked because the topic is so niche and not many people know about it, so i couldn't actually find anything about it back in 2020 when i was researching the topic! glad to see a well-informed video on it
I like those odds. Time to start a hunt for one
missed one that has 15/16 star rate, thats pokemon transferred up from previous generations
I had purposely not included the star/square sparkle rates of Pokemon from other games. If anyone is curious:
The following Pokémon from past generations are more likely to be square shinies (65521/65536):
- Fateful encounters (events, Virtual Console (VC) Celebi, etc.)
- LGPE overworld shinies
- Virtual Console Gen 1/2 shinies
- Gen 7 wormhole shiny non-legends
- Pokémon Go transfers
Every other past generation shiny Pokémon has a 1/16 chance of being a square shiny in Galar when imported. Additionally, fateful encounters and Pokémon GO transfers have a visual override to always display as a square shiny even in the odd circumstances that they fall in the 15/65536 chances.
This was sourced directly from Skadiv's Smogon guide, which you can find under resources in the description.
@@JFlash727what about legends and scarlet/violet?
Great question! For Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, Pokémon Legends, and Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, they all retain the normal 1/16 square sparkle, and 15/16 star sparkles chance, as far as I am aware!
@@JFlash727 While Fateful Encounter Pokemon PIDs do point to Square or Star sparkles (RNG Reporter confirms this), it seems that the Fateful Encounter flag itself overwrites this check and defaults to Square Sparkles.
This was likely supposed to make event shinies feels special and rare, but we all know how Square Sparkle rarity ended up lol.
My shiny Trapinch I found accidentally during my first playthrough has star sparkles... Someone calculate the odds for me
-Found it on Route 6 at a 1% spawn rate
-No charm
-Star sparkles
I thought I was lucky enough..!!
Do you have a video of it by chance?
@@JFlash727 it was on my switch lite which i've sent over for repairs right now! when it's done i'll see if i've recorded it or not, which i'm pretty sure i did
@lazyrainysoul Sweet! When you do, let me know if you upload it to TH-cam and to what channel. Just don’t post the link as a comment because TH-cam is smelly and will probably block your comment.
So what about authentic Sinistea in grass pop ups? What the odds of those having stars instead of squares? I want to see the big number!
It’s like whatever 0.00368690569181% is as a fraction (I forgot the shiny charm odds so I used full odds for this)
so basically a wild star shiny is a double shiny
Shiny²
Bro you have the editing and content of a 3M+ subs channel. Keep going bro.
I appreciate it man! Trying to be the best I can! More content is for sure on the way!
I just wanna say this is a great video and explains how shines are generated and then they generated with square/star sparkles really well you did a fantastic job making this video
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed the video!!
never would i ever think about these Odds. You explained it so well for me to understand 👍 this is insane information
This is extraordinarily helpful information, and the video is incredibly well made. Well done, and I thank you for uploading this absolute star of a video.
And thank you kind sir for supplying the clip of the curry shiny Abomasnow 🫡
Pokemon sure has some crazy rare events
This video is really informative for a feature that is mostly only seen in SwSh, which motivates me to try to find a star sparkle mon! I'm a shiny hunter and I've never found a star sparkle wild encounter before, so I will share my findings if I ever find one. Thanks so much for this video.
im watching this at the end of a night shift andi have no idea what these words mean but i like the shiny noises
very informative video! this is something i always wondered about
Imagine being so bad at programming that you can't make a rare version of a shiny to be rare as supposed.
me immediately going to check all of my shinies lmao
I loved the editing in this video! Can't wait for the upload next year!
I really like having Star and Square sparkles! Although really unlikely, I really hope they come back for future Pokémon games.
Is it bad that I'm now considering hunting one after seeing the 1/6m chance with Shiny Charm and 1/2m with Brilliant Aura? It might seem a little bit more manageable than 1/17m... although, I should maybe finish that second Alolan Sandshrew Square Shiny hunt first before even considering that, hahah.
Video so good i eated 3 ice creams
Firstly, congrats, this is amazingly done video! So well edited, informative and resourceful. Square and Stars sparkles have always been an interesting subject to me and I wish this information was more spread
So, if I understood correctly (and I'm sorry if I didn’t), the game has a completely different approach to determine if those type of encounters are shiny or not, that doesn’t take into consideration the traditional TID/SID/PID formula. What is this approach, exactly? Is it similar to BDSP, where the shiny value for static encounters doesn’t depend on your trainer info at all? Does the same thing happens in ScVi?
That is right, it is a different approach. This approach, however, was in no way further elaborated on by data miners, so all I knew was what I said in the video. Baseline, what we know is there is some system that predetermined a Pokémon to be shiny at whatever shiny chance you may currently be using before the traditional TID/SID/PID formula, and as for why specifically? We have yet to be told.
Why did it take me 4 Justins to realize this was NOT Minutes. 💀 💀
Why did it take me 4 mins to realize this was NOT me 💀💀
Yoooo I know this guy!! Sick video man!
I wish they kept different sparkles
Wonder what the calcs are for an authentic shiny Sinistea with Pokérus, Star sparkles, and a rare mark are lmao. Add perfect IVs too, why not.
0% with perfect IVs because from what I remember, wild perfect IV is impossible on non brilliant aura
Why did it take me 4 mins to realize this was NOT Justin 💀💀
I immediately spotted the difference and I'm sure it's explained right away, but I'll take a crack at it. Overworld Random Encounter and Static Encounter shinies are biased towards the Square Particle effect for their shiny. What was shown in the Virizion clip was the Traditional Shiny effect or as the community dubbed it "Star Shiny" which is more common in pokemon transferred into SWSH, Max Raid Encounters or Hatched from eggs.
the first bit being shiny verizion gave me bad memories of hunting that lady myself. 6 months of hunting and I think like almost 10k camp resets it was a NIGHTMARE lmao. but at least cobalion was nice at 350ish resets. (and thankfully verizion was nice and was marked for me)
Awesome and very informative video !
Most rare shiny I have is a Square Hatched Female Combee at no more than 200 hatched
It’s like the only video I’ve uploaded to my channel
Looks like I have a new shiny Hunting goal, find a star shiny in the wild
Cool, cool, video!
I can't say that I've gotten a wild star shiny in Pokemon SwSh, but what I CAN say is that I've encountered double starter shinies in Soul Silver, with a whopping 1/67 million chance of happening! The video is in my channel!
And yet I thought getting a random shiny overworld star sparkles Tyrunt wasn't that special lol
I’m a shiny hunter since gen 2, I hate how shinies are common nowdays, my fav pokemon is mewtwo and I’m so proud I hunted my shiny in fire red❤
this just made me relise the hattrene i caught midway thru my sword gameplay had star sparkles? I never saw it again in the game other than on her so I thought I was hallucinating everytime i saw hers
If you have a video of it, I'd love to see it!
I think you sort of just explained how the social networks formula on the window works with these pokemon I’d
That's cause the odds for stars and squares sparkles were switched for random encounters by mistake i believe
What would be the rarest fish in the game? 🎣✨
I remember hearing on release of sword and shield that the square shiny odds in wild encounters are actually bugged and that the brilliant Pokémon are the ones who have the increased shiny odds. Idk if this was true or just some placebo effect many people were speculating on the game’s release.
Yep that’s correct! This was actually confirmed way after the fact!
Is it possible for a Pokémon caught in another game that’s compatible to SWSH, could it be square and if so is that rare?
I think a better question is "why tf is this even a feature?" lol
I got lucky with a square shiny Regirock in the DLC
Matt (absol) mention, subscribed
Ofc, we love Matt
Im pretty sure i found a shiny excadrill in Sword with star sparkles. Ran at me when I tried to avoid it
sparkle sparkle sparkle
So, question I did a dynamax adventure and I got a shiny from there. I was wondering what type of sparkles it has and it has stars does this count?
1:56
its a shame they didnt carry the star and square sparkles to scarlet and violet :((
Now get one with pokerus
Not sure if it’s on the same level, but I have a hatched shiny impidimp with square sparkles. All my other egg shinies have star.
Thats a 1/16 chance! Congrats! (Multiply this 1/16 by whatever the shiny odds you used were!)
Bruh the 3 people under this video saying that they have one must be trippin. With those odds everyone watching this video (currently 38k views) would have had to encounter an average of 1400 Pokemon for this to be probabel. And then not even replying when asked for a video
Hi, I found a sleepytime mark shiny terrakion, does anyone know how rare this is?
i think i had like 2 rare shinies in swsh and i loved them lmaoo
So in the video you mentioned that the Regis pretty much only have star shinies, correct? Well recently I shiny hunted Regirock, with the charm, and I got a square shiny. How rare is that?
They have the normal star and square sparkle chance. Your Regirock is a 1/16 square shiny, multiply that by 1/4096 shiny odds and that’s about 1/65,536! Congrats!
@@JFlash727 wow okay, thank you!
I found a 10 percent encounter star shiny critical capture applin and lost my mind when it happened
Also full odds
If it was from a tree, then it's the normal 15/16 star sparkle odds. Otherwise, if you have a video of it, I'd love to see it!
wait so if im getting it right, does this mean that theres a greater than 1/4096 chance of shinies? because the game can force a pokemon to be shiny before even doing that calc => calc comes out says no this isnt shiny => predeterminism says yes it is => high chance of a forced shiny? pls correct if i am not getting that
The predetermining system uses whatever shiny chance you may have at the time. So if you have shiny charm, there is a 1/1365 chance a Pokémon is forced shiny, or if you don't have charm, a 1/4096 chance it is forced shiny, etc. Hope this helps!
Also, shinies that are not predetermined and still roll the shiny value are most likely reverted to non-shiny, which counters the game’s ability to force a predetermined shiny
Would you believe me if I said my Shiny Virizion has the Rare Mark?
For sure! Though rare, I've seen it happen many times before!
Whoa im in your video😮
Welcome! Small world! Had to double check, but you’re the one who posted some comments on the Star Shiny Vanillite video on Reddit! Hope you enjoyed the video! 😊
hi liz!
@@thefinalduane hi duane👋
I got a full odds shiny star shuckle on sword! 😮
If you have a video of it, I'd love to see it!
i got some videos that i had star shinys from hatching some egg's around 2020 now i know i have some rare star shinys for sure
In the video I mention that Star Sparkle shinies from eggs are not rare. They are the common sparkle for egg shinies.
@@JFlash727 alright then mate
Wait three years ago I had my shiny Regirock in like 3500 encounters in Pokemon Shield and it was a star shiny so what was the rate?
They have the normal star and square sparkle chance. The Regis are very commonly star.
@@JFlash727 so is it like the same chance as the egg?
@@Michtochoco yup
@@JFlash727 oh nice thanks!
I’ve transferred my shiny Jumbo Golurk from SV back to Sword for a ribbon, and he was a star shiny, is that anything notable?
lol no, thats just a regular star from SV
@@mobious01 so all SV shinies that can be transferred to Sword and Shield are automatically programmed to be star shinies?
@@meta13gaming Either star or square at the normal star and square sparkle odds!
Do these star/square sparkles happen in SV? Or are they all one sparkle kind
Only one sparkle in SV!
@@JFlash727Oh good, so my shiny empoleon is still special XD
Does anybody know if it's one of the REALLY rare Shiny pokemon if it's a Star Shiny from the Mushrooms in the Glowing Mushroom Forest? I'm looking at some of my old footage from my shiny only run and my Impidimp that I found when interacting with the Mushroom was a Star Shiny
That Impidimp is a Static Encounter, and works the same as the Regis. Those mushroom encounters have a 1/16 chance at square sparkles, and a 15/16 chance at star sparkles. So to answer your question, no, it is not the really rare star shiny. In the video, when I put up the list of "normally star sparkle" shinies at 1:48, Glimwood Mushrooms are listed.
I see that static encounters had star sparkles, though i may be mistaken
Yup. Static encounters would be Pokémon like the Regis.
@@JFlash727 arent the sword of justice considered static though?
@@pinklikemizutsune3336 Nope! They are actually considered an Overworld Spawn. The only difference they have from regular strong spawn Pokémon is that they respawn if you leave the vicinity and come back, or enter Pokémon camp and leave, unlike how strong spawn Pokémon you have to wait 24 hours. The Sword Trio, and Spirtomb share this trait, and have the rare chance at being star shiny.
@@JFlash727 interesting! Been a long time since ive touched swsh, so my memory’s a bit foggy
The swords of justice arnt effected by the shiny charm so the virision is extra rare
That’s incorrect. The swords of Justice are in fact effected by the shiny charm!
I need to search my game..
11/10 Regina trade mention
Still gotta do this hunt cause it's just THAT peak
1:51 Regina Trades who’s Regina??
Regina is an NPC on the Isle of Armor! She can trade you regional variants of Pokémon in exchange for the opposite regional variant (i.e. trade get a Kantonian Marowak, she will give you an Alolan Marowak). These trades are unique as they are not Shiny Locked, which is different from the main Galar island, as all gift trades are shiny locked there. The chance of finding one shiny is 1/4096 even with shiny charm, and star sparkle chance is 15/16 and square sparkle chance is 1/16! Hope this helps!
Why is it looking at me like that?
So the Virizion I have is perfectly fine? A slightly better than average one that's a star shiny, I kinda assumed Game Freak would be idiots about it
I have a shiny star Lucario
I got a shiny star sparkle Pokemon
WHY IS VIRIZION MEWING
He’s just built different 🤫🧏♂️
But WHY is it predetermined shiny? You don't explain that
There is some system that determines it. This was in no way further elaborated on by dataminers, so all I knew was what I said in the video. Baseline, there is some system that predetermined a Pokémon to be shiny, and as for why specifically? We have yet to be told. Hope this helps!
@@JFlash727do we know the odds are definitely 1/4096 with this system?
@@Wario64100 they’d be whatever your shiny odds are, boosted by charm or brilliant aura, or full odds.
I have a square regidrago clip, Isn’t that just as rare as that virizion?
I always thought it was weird it was the only regi I shiny hunter that didn’t have stars.
Your Square Regidrago is a 1/16 square shiny. With the 1/16 square sparkle chance, and the 1/4096 shiny chance, by contrast, that's about a 1/65,536 chance. Very big difference from 1/18 million.
@@JFlash727 I had commented to early and found that out after finishing the video! Great video also luckily I still have the swords of justice to hunt in that game and I wanted to get a curry shiny before i officially move off the game outside of dynamax so there’s still hope!
@@JFlash727 1 in 65k is pretty cool tho!
@@Psychadelicss Best of luck!
Square sparkles were just in sword and shield right
Yep!
Reason Virizion can have 1/16 squared and 15/16 stars since it’s a special/static encounters
This is incorrect. Virizion is an Overworld Encounter, not a static encounter.
@@JFlash727 it is, it’s spawned by getting the 50 footprints so it’s not any ordinary “random encounter”, just because something is static doesn’t mean it has to be full odds
@@pupyulu You’re correct in a way. Static Pokémon are those like the Regis and the Impidimp in the Glimwood Tangle. The Swords of Justice and Spiritomb fall into their own special category of Overworld Spawns, as they have their own unique behaviour. This doesn’t negate the fact that the square are star sparkle odds are 15/65536 for stars and 65521/65536 for square respectively. If you are still under the impression that the Swords of Justice and Spiritomb have a 1/16 chance for squares and a 15/16 chance for stars, look at any Shiny reaction on TH-cam of those Pokémon, and you’ll quickly come to find they all have square sparkles. Hope this clears up the misconception.
me: it's in spanish??
and why is it that the game "predetermins " that a mon is shiny ?
If it doesn't go through the calculation , how ?
There is some system that determines it. This was in no way further elaborated on by dataminers, so all I knew was what I said in the video. The predetermining system uses whatever shiny chance you may have at the time. So if you have shiny charm, there is a 1/1365 chance a Pokémon is forced shiny, or if you don't have charm, a 1/4096 chance it is forced shiny, etc. Baseline, there is some system that predetermined a Pokémon to be shiny, and as for why specifically or how specifically it works?
We have yet to be told. Hope this helps!
Why did it take me 4 mins to realize this was you Justin 💀💀
That would be my brother 💀
To anyone who sees this, the J does not stand for Justin 🙏
But if you wanna know who Justin is, go sub to my brother on TH-cam, @Just-in22!
@@JFlash727 omfg why did I tell myself too “isn’t JFlash his brother” have I been absent THAT long from VCs 😭
8:50 would had been neat if you had swapped the "Forced" and "Natural" to emphasize the point, as you were explaining there's no way of knowing while also almost contradicting yourself by implying that the one is a "forced" and the other is a "natural."
Who wants to tell him shiny star virizion is a static spawn guarantee a star shiny as the common
You think I would make a mistake as simple as that for a video I’ve researched for months? Before commenting, please fact check yourself. Static Pokémon are those like the Regis and the Impidimp in the Glimwood Tangle. The Swords of Justice and Spiritomb fall into their own special category of Overworld Spawns, as they have their own unique behaviour. This doesn't negate the fact that the square are star sparkle odds are 15/65536 for stars and 65521/65536 for square respectively. If you are still under the impression that the Swords of Justice and Spiritomb have a 1/16 chance for squares and a 15/16 chance for stars, look at any Shiny reaction on TH-cam of those Pokémon, and you'll quickly come to find they all have square sparkles.
@@JFlash727 yeah lol I would
At least you took the time to reply I see you care so I’m subscribing 😁 ps you pasted the vibe check
Also um yeah all 3 of my shiny sword trio was star so I guess I’m lucky lol I can’t wait for ZA to come out especially with the new Hexagon shiny sparkles 🤣
Gotta make sure there’s no misinformation out there, so I try my best to correct where necessary. Since you commented, that means you took the time to actually watch the video as well, so I appreciate that!
square shiny mons are such a useless thing that can only be seen in one game, talk about weird
😍🥰😍🥰😍
I reuploaded my Shiny Regice Star Shiny to my channel. if you wanna take a gander at it.
Shiny Regice is normally star, so it’s not particularly rare. Congrats though!
@@JFlash727 so when hunting the regi's in SWSH its more rare to get the square shiny?
@@SupraDeluxx-ro1qg Yep!
OMG I LITERALLY GOT THIS LIKE 2 HOURS AGO
Why is the chance multiplicative? It's confusing since I thought it would be 1/65536
I don't think the chances should be multiplicative either. It should be just the base odds of 15/65536
@Da1FooGuy 15/65536 is the chance that a shiny has star sparkles, but the multiplied chance is the chance that any pokemon is a shiny and also has star sparkles, you have to hit 2 different odds at the same time hence multiplication
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Everyone always thinks the "727" is from OSU with 727WYSI, but I SWEAR it was just an accident, i just like the number 727 😭
The way i learned about 727WYSI was on a game of Valorant I kid you not LOL
@@JFlash727 I can't fucking take it. I see an image of a random score posted and then I see it, I fucking see it. "Oh that looks kinda like the Blue Zenith 727 score" it started as. That's funny, that's a cool reference. But I kept going, I'd see a clock with time that showed 7:27, I'd see that I'm on the 7/27 page on my school homework, my last notice to pay my electricity bill is 727$ , I'd notice that it's been 727 days since the last time I touched a woman. And every time I'd burst into an insane, breath deprived laugh staring at the image as the number 727 ran through my head. I'm scared to look at the time when someone asks me what time is it. It's torment, psychological torture, I am being conditioned to laugh maniacally any time I see an 3-digit number which is anywhere close to 727. I can't fucking live like this... I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't! And don't get me fucking started on the words! I'll never hear the phrase "when you see it" again without thinking of 727. Someone does pretty cool and respectable score and I can't say anything other than "WYSI." I could watch a man Fc hard underweighted map I love and all I would be able to say is "WYSI" and laugh like a fucking insane person. And the phrase "when you see it" is ruined. I can't live anymore. 727 has destroyed my fucking life. I want to eject myself from this plane of existence.