Game Theory: Your Shiny Pokemon is DOOMED to Die!

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We all love when a shiny version of our favorite Pokemon shows up, right? It is a welcome surprise to any video or card game! Except, those shinies are not as great as we all think. Don't get me wrong, they LOOK amazing but they are lacking one very important thing in the Pokemon universe. That thing, Theorists, is POWER! Shines are WEAK! Not only that, but they are DOOMED! Why? You will have to watch to find out!

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Writers: Matthew Patrick and Justin Kuiper
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[Patterrz]

As a Shiny Pokemon Hunter this concerns me

[logicalwren]

As an albino person I can confirm that the sun is a deadly lazer

[StrawberryDemon]

Shiny Hunters placing the foreign Ditto in the daycare: *Don't forget. You're here forever.*

[lachiedawae]

It’s crazy how more true that is now with legends arceus, it’s probably why shinies are so much more common until humans hunted them to extinction

[NukaKappa]

This blessed intro: *Exists*

Schaffrillas Productions: *Appreciation*

[JediPlays]

Wait no Matpat, I spent 48 consecutive hours grinding for my shiny mewtwo you don’t mean....

[FancyManTheth]

Game Theory: “Your shiny Pokémon is DOOMED to die!”

The shiny lv. 100 magikarp that I got from wonder trade that’s been rotting away in my ORAS box for the past 6 years: My time has come...

Having 1k+ likes on a comment for a game theory episode is my new favourite flex

[dimitriossarigiannidis]

Matpat has taught me more about biology and science than my high school could even dream. Have been a fan and sub for years and thank you so much for this 🙏😁

[BitGamers]

I didn’t know blue lobsters were that rare. I remember I was swimming on a town beach when I was a child and I reach down and picked up what I thought was a rock…not a rock. But it became a flying type that day

[icantanimate]

“Real life shiny animals usually don’t survive to adulthood”
Everstones: *yesnt*

[GippyHappy]

You know, I've become pretty desensitized to the weirdness of the internet, but I won't lie- Crabpat singing his own Pokémon rendition of "Shiny" from Moana was pretty weird for me.

[casseroledragon]

This was an awesome video! Another neat thing about some shiny pokemon- I mean animals - is that some of them may not survive well in the wild because of their different coloring, but that coloring may help them be more likely to survive in urban areas. There is a bird, I think the Cooper's Hawk, that has a "shiny" version that makes up only like 25% of the population and that population tends to live in urban areas because their lack of browns blends better with buildings than trees.

I also got a pic of a shiny Canadian Goose like 2 days ago. I wish I could share pics here lol

[permafrost]

Him saying shinies are “doomed to die” like everything else isn’t

[HandleThatIsNotTaken]

Matpat: “Your shiny Pokémon are doomed to die!”
Me who has loads of revives: “So?”

[Enby_Wendigo]

Matpat: your shiny pokémon is doomed to die
Me: yes, death comes with this little thing called life

[bobthetitan]

I clicked on this video having never seen this channel before, thinking it was another pokemon video like into and was very confused when I saw an albino badger and a blue lobster.🤣🤣

[culperson_]

He’s surprisingly still killing everyone’s childhoods.

[yphoenix]

Moment of silence for every Shiny Pokemon hunter that landed a critical hit first turn. EDIT: Need to keep telling kids this was *Before* False Swipe was widely available!

[GG-zbuy]

Alien: Check this out
Shows shiny human
Everyone: Nice

[imapotatouwu]

The “or you’re gonna wind up blue… da boo dee da boo die” had me rolling 💀🤣