Shiny Hunting in Gen 2 is Broken

The 1/64 odds is beautiful and all, except for the fact that it can take 100+ eggs that require 8,000 steps to hatches

Time to be that guy and help those who are now hunting in GSC. The LOWEST shiny rate in those games via breeding is 1/64, but its a bit more complicated than just breeding with a 1/64 chance of a shiny. Because pokemons attack stat in gen 2 differs between genders (weirdly enough female pokemon of a species will always have a lower attack dv) some pokemon with different gender ratios have different chances. Theyre all still incredibly low, and some of them ARE 1/64 (ie genderless pokemon and pokemon who’s male/female ratio is 87.5/12.5 like the starters) but most others are higher like 1/256. Its also worth noting that the pokemon whos female ratio are 12.5 and are female can never be shiny because of their attack dv not being the right number for them to be shiny Yeah im a fuckin nerd 🤓

While in Scarlet&Violet you can hatch around 80 eggs an hour, in gen2 you can hatch around 8 eggs an hour

The reason that Ditto becomes shiny is because when it uses Transform, while already transformed into your shiny Gyarados, the Ditto copies your Gyarados's DVs onto itself, replacing its original DVs.

Ive played silver since relalease. I foundmy first ever fulls odd shiny last year. It was a damn hoothoot

In my younger years, I had a shiny Venonat in FireRed. I had caught a shiny Wingull in Pearl or Diamond. When HeartGold and SoulSilver was still new, I had caught a shiny Rhyhorn in FireRed in the Safari Zone. I did this without a shiny charm. I even caught more in Let's Go Pikachu without the charm than I did with it. I'm playing Silver and haven't seen one yet. I don't truly care since I'm grinding my Pokemon to level 32 for the Pryce fight since I have a Level 32 Eevee trying to evolve it into Umbreon.

The KK Cruisin intro, the Mario 64 swiping transitions, and Gen 2 Shiny hunting for the topic of the video. It's like this vid from a year ago made its way through my algorithm just for my hyperfixation at 7am. Thanks for this!

Thats cool and all but hatching eggs in gen 2 takes so much time. Like 15 minutes or so

I've been resetting for a shiny Rotom in Diamond and it's honestly a great hunt. I've seen success in Soul Silver, having found two shinies, so I'm ready for this Rotom to show up.

Love Pokemon Crystal, Gen 2 is best Gen. Thanks for the video, I never knew about this while Shiny Hunting.

Gen 2 is by far the easiest to shiny hunt in. Back when GSC came out on 3DS, I shiny hunted every non legendary in about a month. Very easy. Gen 3 is by far the hardest to shiny hunt in.

Very cool video and learned a good bit about gen 2 shiny hunting

Just going to throw a theory to why the shiny ditto glitch works. I believe transform creates a copy of your pokemon stats and DV's that it transforms into, however once it's used again on the same pokemon, it replaces the original transformed Pokemon's DV's to it's own, as it was never intended to be able to transform twice with the same Pokemon, or maybeit gets confused because the new pokemon DVs are the same as it's own since it transformed, so it takes the other set as it's own.

Discovered the method from an obscure youtube short. Still Takes a long time, but have managed to score a shiny Blissey and a shiny Eevvee from it so far!

I got super lucky in VC Crystal and found a full odds shiny Poliwag. I used my odd egg to breed a shiny Drowzee ✨

"We're gonna gaslight a shiny" killed me. Great video.

I start play again my Crystal after 15 years and when came out of lab prof. First wild pokemon apears is a shiny pidgey level 4.

So I’ve been doing the shiny ditto breeding trick for the past 8 months. I JUST now realized that you can use your shiny ditto in any Gen 2 game to quite literally turn every single wild encountered normal ditto into a shiny… once it uses transform twice on your shiny ditto it turns into a legit shiny ditto

haha I did that on the 00s. I also had an overclocked game boy color, which made breeding so much faster! That’s good to remember! Thx

The offspring joke got me