The Best and Worst Shiny Hunting Methods in Pokemon

Shiny Hunting sucks, but sometimes it doesn't. Idk.

[crazyeeveelady]

As a kid with an eevee obsession I really liked the SOS Method because I could use a pokemon with cute charm to bump up my odds of finding a shiny female eevee

[smackjack]

When I first learned how to shiny hunt through chain fishing, I felt proud about getting something out of it. Horsea became my first shiny I got via a hunting method

[RPCJose_]

If im not mistaken, theres been new information about catch combos in the Lets Go games. That the increased odds are only applied to the next pokemon to spawn from the combo. So instead of catching then waiting. You have to keep catching, otherwise youre just at regular odds.

[Sideqazxsw]

It never occurred to me before that repeatedly rebooting your console would be dangerous.

[kirbothememe]

Sad that you didn't mention one that gets the lowest shiny hate in like ever : Ultra-Exploration
Back in USUM you could go through Ultra-Wormholes and play a minigame when the further you went the rarer th pokemon it can be, and if you don't find an Ultra Beast or a legendary, you can go up to *36/100* chance to get a shiny Pokémon

[Jackson_DevVito]

One time I was hoard training for EV’s in my Y and wasn’t paying attention, then I ran from a shiny swablu

[MajorMimik]

JPR logic:

Resetting the console over and over to get a certain shiny: Unfun and Braindead

Fishing in the same spot over and over, doing nothing in between: Fun and Engaging! 👍

[danielferrieri]

The Pokémon Game with the best Shiny Hunting Method is Pokémon Sleep

[theraycat]

I remember when I encountered my first shiny in Gold. An orange Machop outside Mt Mortar. I thought it was a glitch so I turned my Game Boy off when the battle started, and lived with the anxiety that my game was broken.. Until I learned about shinies years later 😂

[kartiksaraf]

I LOVED SOS hunting. Thinking about your sets to counter all the crazy things you can get, taking care of weather, hidden abilities, random higher level mon with different moves, 'allies' fainting the pokemon you are hunting. It was all great and setting up the chain and hunt was almost more enjoyable than getting the shiny

[sagawahx]

I accidentally soft reset on a full odds Shiny Deoxys on Pokemon Emerald. My greastest mistake ever.

[Firescizor]

I recently started shiny hunting with SOS chains for the first time ever in USUM. I realized that, if set up properly (you need an Exeggcute with Harvest and Bestow 👀 btw), it requires near zero attention. It's almost the perfect background activity. I started doing it while studying and it feels surprisingly rewarding to do! 😊

[madprophet]

I remember when chain-fishing was first discovered and there were more shiny Relicanth on the GTS than there were regular ones.

[SweetBananaDigital]

My experience with PokéRadar was infuriating, because as far as I’m aware you could do everything 100% correct and still have your chain broken at max shiny odds.

[Volkaroar]

I have PTSD from the horde encounters from X & Y. I randomly got a horde of seviper and 1 zangoose in a playthrough and it just so happened that of all of them, the zangoose was the shiny. So I basically had to frantically defeat as many seviper as I could so that the zangoose wouldn't be knocked out. Unfortunately for me, I wasn't able to knock them all out in time lol

[pjpyrah]

My personal favorite is one that you didn't even mention: Ultra Wormhole hunting from Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. Shiny Charm included, your shiny odds for getting as far as you can in the mini game go from the base chance to a whopping ONE IN THREE. And that includes the Legendary Pokemon and Ultra Beasts found there. And the odds stay even after a soft reset. As for the static encounters like Lombre, Altaria, etc. If those aren't shiny you just have to redo the mini game again. But I actually enjoyed the minigame. XD

[jakemcgoldrick]

That let’s go method has been found to be wrong a couple years ago. When you catch a pokemon in a combo, it only increases the shiny rate of the *next spawn* of the particular species you have a combo of. Your combo is doing nothing if you just sit there and wait. You have to continually catch the pokemon in your combo.

[MartinFelice]

there´s another method, by breeding in gen 2 and depositing the eggs in the Pokemon Stadium 2 boxes, the eggs containing a shiny pokemon will appear with a different color, TamaHero has a video explaining this with a lot more details

[arininquotes]

In some ways, outbreak hunting in Paldea is my favorite and least favorite. It's fun, but even with sandwiches and the shiny charm I have just absolutely terrible luck with it. I have never seen any shiny spawn in area zero despite how much I've hunted most of the paradox forms.

[josegonzalez-sxxe]

I remember getting really lucky in s.o.s method and got a shiny Mareanie in under 30