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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ธ.ค. 2022
- While hunting Vulpix for my Fire Monotype Challenge through Silver, I got just a little unlucky with my phase luck. 8 Shiny Pidgey in a row.
The hunt for Vulpix looked simple enough being a level 13 repel trick during the Day to make it 37.5% instead of 10%. Pidgey is 50%, Vulpix is 37.5% and Stantler is 12.5%. A coin flip for Pidgey and something else that I lost 8 times in a row. Insanity.
I hope you enjoy the eventual descent into madness with this hunt.
Thank you for watching as always.
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Imagine that there is a hack were the game automatically shiny hunts for you, but that would be considered as cheating for sure.
May i ask how many hours that took lol
"vulpix is only 37.5%. i could make it 100%, but..."
and so the saga begins
From the Vulpix video: I wouldn’t mind a couple of Pidgeys
Silver: *and i took that personally*
Steve … you _have_ to do a PTQ video now. I need to see six Pidgeys take on the Champion. They deserve the limelight.
*After 3rd Pidgey*
Sonikks: The pidgey deserves a showcase, even if its the third one. Hopefully no more though..
Narrator: There were *many* more
Man's finally completed his pidgey dream team quest 🙌
1 pidgey for every gym
That 8th Pidgey was a jerk waiting 25,000+ encounters just so you could get another Pidgey
You can really hear a part of him dying with each Pidgey lol.
He sounded so happy with the first one lmao, excellent video Steve!
The anguish when the 5th one appeared, I could feel that.
Alternate title: Watch English man slowly lose his sanity over wrong coloured virtual birds
Great video dude lmao, glad you finally got Vulpix, looking forward to that video!
"No way! Shiny Pidgey! Phaaaase oneee. Wow that looks really cool!" if only he knew.
merry chrysalis eve everyone and may your shiny luck remain pristine
Mary Chrysler!
Phase 5 and 8 were so brutal... I'm so glad you got Vulpix!!! 💖🙌🏼 Legend!
14:35 This reaction got me. 😂 Cannot believe how long that phase took too, wow. I'm glad you did finally get Vulpix, though.
You could hear your heart breaking more and more with every Pidgey. For what it's worth, friend, congratulations on your sparkling aviary!
I like how your first reaction is yay then as more shiny pidgeys appeared, your demeanor changes to "can you please gtfo?"
68,248 encounters, that’s some serious dedication
merry christmas man, hope you have a good one
This was such a long arduous quest Sonikks. Constantly seeing your posts on social media of all 8 Shiny Pidgeys and the jokes you made like “He sit. Good boi.” Or “Thanksgiving at my house this year” were hilarious 🤣 or all the “Shiny Vulpix today or we riot” or “it’s a skill issue”. Finally. Congratulations Sonikks! Merry Christmas! ✨
the story of the pidgeotto found on the playground is really nice, i can imagine how exciting that must have been at the time!
Bird keepers unite! 🐦
One hell of a hunt man. Gen 2 birds must be cursed right? Lol. Either way, congrats for sticking through it till the end!
can already tell this will be a banger
I was about to give up my Dreepy hunt (3060 eggs, masuda + charm), but hearing your pain and agony has inspired me to keep going
did u get it??
did u get it??
Nope, currently at 3300. I got one from an outbreak but I'm still determined to get one through eggs
@@mikejo4456 Godspeed
High encounter hunt and high phase count brothers. Lol! Super happy for you to finally end this hunt. Enjoyed watching all the birds! Looking forward to the Vulpix vid!
My first ever organic shiny was my second encounter in X, a female Pidgey who became the mvp of the team. I still adore her t thus day.
God watching this unfold real time over your social media was unreal, glad for you now that this is over good luck to everyone
Congrats on the PTQ (+2)! But more importantly, I'm so glad you got your Vulpix. Bright side, now that it's over, hopefully it can be a really funny story rather than just feeling like a seemingly endless onslaught of Pidgey...
Looking forward to seeing the Vulpix video soon, and Happy Holidays!
Not only did you get 8 pidgeys in a row, you got 8 female pidgeys all with the same stats Attack 19, defense 19, special atk 17, special def 17 and speed 23
i think you found the exact same pidgey 8 times
that's just how shinies work in gen 2 I think
@@Ganobrator Yeah shinies are tied to specific dvs. Every stat has a dv of 10 except attack, which can vary.
I've really enjoyed following this hunt on your streams, it's been a long one, but you found it in the end! Congratz!
Wonderful video as always! Your intro reminded me of my Dynamax Adventure Groudon hunt, which took 298 encounters with the charm and over 20 phases. I hunted it overe the course of a month, and even though it was a pain to hunt, it's a token of my sheer dedication and a very cool trophy especially in an apricorn ball.
The compilation of despair. Mad respect for keeping at the hunt after so much misfortune. Will watch your Vulpix video yet. I expect you to sound as happy and excited as a child on Christmas morning! 😂
The hunt that nearly broke me was doing 23,000~ resets for charmander in FireRed on a single system. No chance to phase, but god in heaven did it go on way too long.
The fabled shiny Pidgey badge quest, been waiting for this one!
Sonikks: Shiny Vulpix please! Shiny Pidgey: Lmao nope!
In a world where shiny hunting is becoming annoying for how easy it is I LOVE THAT SOMEONE STILL GOES THE OLD FASHIONED WAY P.S. my unluckiest shiny hunt ever was zapdos in fire red…. 7 months! But I love my zapdos, he was my first shiny legendary ever and he owns a special place in my heart
Congrats Steve. I’m glad it’s over for you. Pidgey team quest it is
Ah yes a full team and 2 extras in case of unseen releases. Good hunt mate!
Merry Christmas Steve, love the thumbnail lol. Glad this saga is over for you.
It was both fun and pain to watch this hunt live but still fun nonetheless!
Congratz!
Damn, half a box full of shiny Pidgey! I don´t know if you are lucky or not hahaha!
I've never seen someone so devastated to encounter a shiny Pokemon
Wow 8 Pidgey's. The sprites looks great in Gen 2 Silver. I hope Vulpix will shiny soon. Congrats
Kinda annoyed I barely missed the shiny vulpix, Twitch notifications don't work for me for some reason. Congrats on the Vulpix though! Can't wait for the video!
Merry Christmas!
Pidgey Number one: "Oh that looks cool!"
And that was the moment, disaster was summoned
Anyways, congrats on finally finishing the Vulpix Hunt Steve! May the other hunts bless you and treat you better! ^.^
I don't watch 100% of your vids, but this one looks like a banger.
My god, not even one Stantler phase......... so glad this hunt is over for you now ;;;
Happy holidays and congrats, i think, for the shinies!
363!
Been waiting so long for this!
I love the title - I remember chat brainstorming some great options, and it makes me happy to see one made the cut! Congrats, and merry Christmas :)
Good grief, you are the pidgey champion 😵
I’ve got 6 shiny druddigon in black 2 trying for zweilous… I feel your pain
thanks for your videos helps a lot got too shinys after resting its cool.
Now you need to do a play through of the pidgey
I'm doing my first legit hunt of a shiny rayquaza in pokemon emerald. I haven't gotten too far yet however I fixed the game battery and everything and it is thankfully a legit cartidge i've come to find out which is cool. I think i'm about 150-200 encounters. Good luck on your hunts you're on another level. I could never imagine getting that many shinys in a row that sounds like hell
Battery doesn't matter in Emerald. Are you doing Run Aways or Soft Resets?
I have like 1 swellow and 3 tailows from hunting for nincada on 116 right by rustboro city in ruby. Lol Congrats on the shinies
falkner was really onto something
I'm not ready for when this kind of hunt happens to me
“I’m going to guess ‘status ok’” 😂
love watching shiny hunting vids wilest i shiny hunt. i know gen 2 stats determine the shiny but the fact all 8 pigys were female is crazy that poor male shiny pidgy looking for his sisters were are they there all in sonikks box lol
"The Nightmare Before Christmas"
Merry Christmas everyone and may Santa bless your hunts
Lol damn I’m at Phase 10 for Growlithe in Fire red. I have 2 Ekans, 4 Pidgey and 3 Meowth. I took a massive break from that hunt.
I'm at 13,500 in my first route Just Get Anything Crystal run. I'd kill for a shiny bird right now. But I'm glad your Pidgey saga is over.
11:43 i was here kek, cant believe i thought 4 pidgeys would be the end
I had one of these, in dark cave in hgss its a 60% geodude, 39% zubat and i found 5 geodudes before zubat, not as ridiculous but definitely has the same energy
Shiny Pidgeot: "Very cool sprite"
I didn't know diarrhea green was in fashion
He said sprite, not color
Crazy 8 Pidgeys. Lol! So how long till Shiny Pidgey number 9, you wonder? Lol!
The eight stages of grief.
I’m going through this arc rn. On phase 9 for gen 2 shiny Clefairy and dear god do I want it to end. Always going for the more painful repel trick from now on. Good god I hate hunting this gen sometimes
Pidgeys... Pidgeys Everywhere
Cursed (Blessed???) PTQ video. So happy that Vulpix decided to finally happen.
some pidgey enthusiast somewhere out there is freaking out over this crying
also almost every single pidgey sent out into battle managed to be sent out against another pidgey, meaning you failed the coinflip twice as much when you got the shiny... mmm salt on the wound
Reminds me how i have gotten st least 26 shiny nosepasses snd 14 shiny yanmas going for horde houndour in pokemon x... I've lost count of the encounters and gave away several of the shinies to random people growing up lol
Ah this reminds me of my FRLG Meowth hunt where i went 6 phases and 70,000+ encounters for it
The Saga of Bird Keeper Steve ....
14:35 Shiny Pidgey....
NoOoOOoooOoo!!
9 phases for an almost 40%?????????? Bad game. Grats on all the baby birds! Too many
Oh, it's beautiful.
Gongrats🎉
Congrats.
Merry Christmas!
Pidgey best boi!
On my silver game as a kid I caught a shiny pidgey early. I evolved it to pidgeot and eventually leveled to 100. I realize now how lucky that was. I wonder if the save is still on the game or if the battery is dead….
I hope one day we get a video on getting a shiny electrode and naming it gurt! Obviously in gen 2
I started hunting for a shiny spiritomb in gen 8 a year ago. Gave up when gen 9 released. I will never see that damn thing in my life.
I can't imagine doing this kind of hunt. My worst hunt was for a roaring moon and I got 4 shiny zweilous before I found a shiny moon. This is so much worse, good lord
Gen 2 is so awesome 💛
Wouldn't this be the unluckiest hunt ever recorded holy moly
For phasing I believe that might be held by SH_Lucious who went a stupid amount of phases for Bronzor (55%) in BDSP. Hard to think of worse phase hunts than that.
@@Sonikks it's scary to even think there could be a worse one 😂
Bro you have the patience of a saint damn 6 duplicate shinies
Merry Christmas and happy holidays too all . Be safe. love your families and friends
flashbacks to the spheal hunt
Shiny pidgey chose you
The Pidgeyning
bird keeper steve
BIRD UP!!!
The degeneration of your tone of voice, I felt for you so bad!
I wonder though (just a hunch) if this has something to do with the combo of the repel trick and the stats? Maybe the luck is skewed for that EXACT pidgey if the repel trick is narrowing the stat margins. Seems more likely than the raw chance....be interesting if anyone has the ability to check that (I don't hahaha).
Great video nonetheless!!
Wooow 25646 encounters on that last phase, that's painful.
Well at least the Eevee will be easy to reset for
Dude, I feel so bad for you.
And I thought 5000+ eggs in heart gold for a freaking chikorita was bad...
And no I still haven't gotten the shiny yet...
You might be able to help me as I'm in a similar situation and information on Gen 2 is so scarce I'm struggling.
Basically, I want a shiny male Mareep, 15x phases and 4x are female.
I can backup my saves and look at them in PKHeX and every female Mareep is identical, female, 7 Attack IV's. This is actually a trend I've noticed phasing in the past, before this hunt as well, the Pokemon in the code are completely identical, the same exact Pokemon (by my understanding, there are 8x possible different Attack IV's, 4x are numbers between 1 and 7 = female, and 4x are numbers between 8 and 15 = male, so 8x possible different shiny Pokemon, but this time and in the past while phasing I get many of the same exact 1 in 8 shiny.
Oh, and every Gen 2 shiny Mareep on TH-cam is female, only helping fuel my paranoia.
I feel like there's something about Gen 2 RNG I'm missing but there's nothing on this that I can find. 8x phases in, I began turning on my console on 6x hours before I began hunting, after the 15x, I've now started sitting on the screen before you enter the save, thinking that might change something.
Basically I'm just asking if there's any information on this and Gen 2 RNG in general?
The only thing I've ever been able to determine (or strongly at least) is that the RNG is tied to the clock. Myself and a bunch of other shiny hunters phased a lot for a particular target. In some cases, people did a ridiculous and likely improbable amount of phases for something. I would agree there's something not quite right sometimes.
According to this video - th-cam.com/video/-x7xuYSb7Lk/w-d-xo.html - by leaving the clock as "unset" for time specific hunts, in my case Vulpix during the day, it would likely be causing you to go over the same frames. I think, anyway. Essentially, we leave the clock as "set" and every time we need to change it to restart the hunt, we put in the password, set the time again, save and then reset to begin the hunt. It seems to be the way as I got Vulpix on the 2nd phase after doing this.
As for your hunt, I don't know if this is applicable or not but that's what I have. I also got the same 1/8 Attack DV while doing this. I'm currently at 30,000 first phase for Magmar, so who knows if that hunt will be the same as this.
Sadly, RNG information is very lacking in Gen 2. People just want Celebi and to never touch it again. Hopefully someone figures it out someday. Good luck on your hunt, hope this has helped somewhat.
I'm on phase 5, 37k total encounters for a 53% Doduo in FireRed that I can only single hunt. I wanna give up
Sonniks, for fire type in this series why not go for a 1/128 egg hatch one, I know u love full odds but it's something new so why not? Love the video tho, I was in stream during in some of the pidgeys u caught, loved to be there 💖
He wouldn't do the 1/128 eggs because he's a full odds hunter, especially when it comes to quests like this. As a full odds hunter myself, I don't think hatching Gen 2 eggs would feel remotely rewarding for me compared with full odds - sure it would be easier than phasing eight times on Pidgey, but you don't hunt full odds because it's easy. Methods are a great option for those who want the shiny and/or don't have much time to hunt and there's nothing wrong with them, but those who choose full odds generally do so for the journey.
@@NinetyFiveFathoms I thought that idea cuz already hatching eggs in gen 2 takes so much time
What Ninety said covers it plus, this is Silver. The Odd Egg is Crystal only. I don't really hold much value in reduced odds shinies. Magmar hunt will be in Burned Tower which I'm really looking forward to.