15 Obscure SHINY Pokemon Facts You DONT Know - 2

When I was a kid I had a shiny suicune in my Pokémon crystal but I didn’t know what shiny was so every time I sent it out and the sparkles happened I just thought they were ice crystals for some reason. I didn’t realize until a few years ago that it was indeed shiny. It’s probably gone by now but I’ll always remember it as my, possible, first shiny.

I love how these are actually Obscure facts. Like I’ve been shiny hunting for almost a decade and I didn’t know most of these.

I've got some shiny trivia I found out while playing that probably barely anyone knows about: Boldore and Gigalith's special attack animations involve their red crystals glowing more orange. In the 3DS games, shiny Boldore and Gigalith's crystals, despite being blue, still glow orange on the inside in the animation, causing almost a kind of salt lamp effect. This seems to have been an oversight as it was changed in Sword & Shield so that the shinies now just glow a brighter blue.

I am currently 29 and have been playing Pokemon since the Western release. When you were talking about treasuring shinies I am immediately reminded of the shiny Natu I found in OG Silver at the Ruins of Alph. This was before I had even made it to the Lake of Rage so it was my first shiny. I didn't catch it but I will never forget it.

I “wrote a letter to Nintendo” as a kid (in quotes since I don’t know who it actually went to) asking for them to make a light blue-colored Mew. So when I learned that was Mew’s shiny form many years later, I took all the credit XD

Regarding the shiny spinda fact, in Pokémon Go there are 9 spinda forms, all of which can be shiny and rotate every month. So theoretically if you transferred two of the same form to Pokémon Home, you'd have two mons which would be impossible to get in regular games! (Come to think of it I don't know if these forms are even available in regular games) Also the one available in February has a heart form just above the right eye, but in it's shiny form its a broken heart! o_O

the way you wrapped this video up gave me chills. thank you for the nostalgia trip, this really resonated with me. i regret not subscribing sooner, keep up the amazing work 💜 edit: it's the mew under the truck man... that mystery and charm could never be replaced

Thank you for your ending message. My cousin gave me crystal and gold when I was a kid and I’ve been hooked on Pokémon ever since. I actually replaced the internal battery in my crystal version so that I could play it again. When I booted it up again the first wild Pokémon I encountered was a shiny Ledyba. Unfortunately I didn’t have any poke balls as it was too early in the game, but I’ll always remember it.

One of my all time favorite facts about shiny Pokémon: Arcanine and Ninetales were actually the first ever designed shiny Pokémon by GF. The golden shiny Arcanine exclusive to the Pokémon Gold version and the silver shiny Ninetales, exclusive to the Pokemon Silver version. Another incredibly great video Phin! Keep up the hard work!

Didn't expect the ending to be so beautiful, well done

Actually, if you catch spindas, the odds of getting two are significantly higher. Because shininess and spot pattern are both based on personality value, shiny spindas will only have about 500,000 different spot patterns on a particular save file.

Bedew was my first shiny I ever ran into on my own and it was during the main story. I nicknamed him Special Bob and we had a wonderful journey together!

Here’s my fun fact: the normal and Shiny variants of Vaporeon, Jolteon, and Flareon, when properly aligned, openly represent the main six colors of the rainbow 🌈 Normal Flareon 🔴 Shiny Flareon 🟠 Normal Jolteon 🟡 Shiny Jolteon 🟢 Normal Vaporeon 🔵 Shiny Vaporeon 🟣 Furthermore, the normal variants represent the three primary colors while their Shiny variants represent the three secondary colors.

Here's one for ya: the Wishmaker Jirachi that was distributed on the Pokémon Colosseum Bonus Disc could produce a shiny Jirachi, but Poké Transporter (at last report) rejects any shiny Jirachi as a legitimacy check. To my knowledge, it's the only legitimate shiny Pokémon that you can't trade forward from the gen 5 games.

2:42 I have only one thing to say. HAIL YEA

My first Shiny was a Zubat in Diamond. The Strategy Guide had a section for "Pokemon of a different color" with their own Shiny Zubat, so I figured it was added in Gen 4. I also had no idea the odds were so low at the time.

Your closing thoughts hit me hard, brother. I’ve been in a little bit of a rough patch so I decided to do a Sapphire Nuzlocke. Lo and behold, within a week of each other, I get a shiny Oddish and Seviper in that same file. The sense of wonder and excitement I felt is one that’s hard to recapture. It turned two pretty derelict days into days I’ll never forget. All because of some pixels in a game that weren’t their normal color. All because it reminded me of a time where I was happy, carefree, and had no expectations placed on me and I’d not been exposed to how broken this world can be at times. I love your content. I always only know about a third or less of what you show and that hooked me, but your personality will keep me coming back. Thank you for what you do. Cheers my man.

I still remember catching my first shiny pokemon. It was carvana and I caught it because I thought it was a mistake in the game "a bug". When i caught it and looked it up I really thought the colours would be changed back to normal and to my surprise it wasn't. I went over to my friends house and he and his brother were in shock. His brother wanted to trade my carvana for whatever I wanted but I liked my little fish guy and I knew it was special. And I was damn right 😎

Here I am, 10:30 at night, sobbing from the outro for no good reason. Damn that was unnecessary deep. Earned my sub hands down.

I almost never hear people talk about that machine in the NYC Pokémon center. It’s a rare piece of Pokémon history that I can say I was actually a part of! I happened to be there when the Pokémon of the week was a Shiny Suicune and I still have it on my Silver version to this day. I digress though, these facts were great and I look forward to future videos!