How to Breed WITHOUT Shiny Ditto in Pokemon Gold, Silver, Crystal! Breeding & Egg Guide!

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Just repeating for the people that need more clarification. The female ekans that hatches from the shiny gyarados parent and mama ekans do not need to be a shiny Ekans to pass the shiny gene.

Important note for Pokemon Gold players: I'm pretty sure wild Ekans cannot be found in Johto in Pokemon Gold, and only in Silver and Crystal. However, you can buy as many Ekans as you want from Goldenrod Game Corner, which act just like a freshly caught Ekans and have a random gender. You can save before buying one and just reset and try again if the Ekans you bought is the wrong gender. It will cost a lot for the 700 Game Coins you need but it seems to work.

omg I just restarted crystal this week! Perfect timing for this video. Pretending it was personally done for me, so thanks! :)

It's been about a year since I sought to get a shiny Eevee with this method, and I finally got one today on the 39th egg. Thank you so much, this method was very helpful and interesting to try out

This was EXTREMELY helpful! As a visual person, I have a super hard time understanding all these notes, and text-based charts, but your graphics were so helpful! Whenever we strategise Pokemon, hubby and I have to work together to handle different parts of it we're good at, but this makes both our lives so much easier! Especially now that we're trying to play ALL of the old games and port them over to Bank/Home and resetting those games and doing it again for version exclusives before it's too late to do so!

The reason I like this method over the Mesuda method even though it is far more time indusive is the feeling of having actually properly breeding shinies compared to just a lothrithmic code, though I’m curious how introducing more shinies into the chain could potentially effect outcomes and probabilities. Also key feature is reading step ratios.

Bruh, literally so happy to find my shiny ditto yesterday in Crystal. Literally my first Ditto I’ve ever caught on my own from any Pokémon game :D

This light-hearted video is exactly what I needed today. Thank you

I already gave up on my quest of finding the shiny Ditto in Pokémon Gold. After 3 to 4 days of 8 hour sessions of looking for the shiny Ditto I tried the Shiny Gyarados and female Ekans breeding. However after that method gave me a box full of non shiny Ekans I gave up. I agree with you that you should not shiny hunt in these games. When I was trying to find videos on how to catch a shiny Ditto there were only videos on how to do the Ditto glitch. So I am glad you made this video and that it exists. So thank you from the bottom of my heart.

An informative, easy to understand vid, Steve. No dancing around the bush here ;)

Super helpful guide, thanks for making this!

This was some cool info to learn! Thanks Steve! Keep making content like this!

This was great information and easy to watch all the way through. Good content! I play GSC on my 3ds more than anything so I'll definitely spend sometime figuring this out!

Things I wish I had known 21 years ago...

This is really cool! You explained it really well, thank you Steve!

This video explains this method very well. I was confused before. Congrats on stantler

Thanks for the guide! I just hatched a shiny miltank!

It's been 3 years since you planned this! I'm glad we finally get that Crystal breeding video! Thank you for this guide! lol

Omg thanks for the guide! This will make stuff easier for me <3