What are the top 10 rarest shinies?
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) that are obtainable to date, and reasoning of why they’re so rare, please and thank you (including odds)
Like female honey tree sinnoh combee, for example, where the odds are astronomically low but possible. I want to know what the rarest hunts are and why they’re so rare basically (so that I can do them)
This might be for you krlw?
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Ok so I’ve kind of been waiting for this question because I love this topic. I’m not going to count spin off games.
We should start off by saying that the chance of a Pokemon being shiny is never below 1/8192, at least in the main series games. There are glitches in GSC that can cause shinies of specific Pokemon to become much much much much rarer, but I won’t be talking about that either. I also will be completely disregarding Masuda Method as a viable option to get shinies.
This means we will be talking about the chance of finding the Pokemon in the wild and multiplying it by the shiny chance to find our odds of finding this Pokemon. I will also be taking time into account, especially for number 2.
2 is Pokemon Ranger Manaphy. Even though it is a guaranteed encounter, it takesan average of11 hoursto have one single encounter, not even counting how long it takes to trade and hatch the egg, (which takes an extremely long time.) This means it takes approximately90,000hours of gameplay to reach shiny odds for this hunt. So even though it has base odds for a guaranteed encounter, I think most people would agree that this is the hardest shiny hunt besides Mr. spinda.
3 is a DPPt Shiny Munchlax. This is pretty self explanatory. 4/21 trees have a Munchlax in them, and youcanfigure out two of them without cheating, but still, it’s a 1% chance every six hours. A 1/819,200 chance of finding a shiny, when you get 8 encounters, (two known trees) at maximum per day is ridiculous. This means it takes approximately 281 YEARS if you’re just using one DS.
6 is Bonus Disk Jirachi from Colosseum. This hunt is nearly identical to Manaphy, except it takes about 20 minutes instead of 11 hours. So it takes about 2730 hours to get this one. This is only behind Combee because Combee takes a lot more time.
7 is a Void Glitch Arceus. I’ll let 16ferraran from Reddit explain it for me.
In DP, there exists a glitch involving the tiles. A specific combo of movements will cause nearby tiles to load incorrectly and there will just be a void of blackness. By walking thousands of steps in the void, the player will be able to encounter Arceus. (If you have questions, please search on YouTube) But then you ask, why can’t you use the glitch to get to the Hall of Origin and unlock the event?? Well, once you arrive there, you’ll get stuck on the edge and you won’t be able to get to where you need to go without using the walk through walls cheat, which then ends the legitimacy aspect of the hunt. The only way to encounter a legit Shiny Arceus nowadays is to save the game during of the steps in the void (Please research on your own as this is very difficult to explain). Saving in any other area of the void will have unpredictable effects, and could erase your save file. After saving, another movement combo involving a few thousand more steps will need to be performed before you can actually encounter your legit Arceus. The soft reset takes about 5:30.
So imagine doing about the second half of the void glitch 8192 times before reaching odds for this Pokemon. That’s about 751 hours to reach odds. Not to mention the fact that messing up the Void Glitch just one out of your thousands of encounters could ruin your save file permanently.
And finally number ten is a Gen 1 shiny. I put this one at the bottom of this list, because there are plenty of ways to manipulate this, but without outside knowledge/manipulation, it is incredibly difficult. This is a Gen 1 shiny. You know how these work. But this is the kicker. The ratio of shiny to non-shiny IV spreads in Gen I is 1/8192 (it’s technically incorrect to say this is the “chance” of finding a shiny due to how the RNG works, but it’s close enough). However, due to a quirk in the Gen I RNG, normal wild encounters in grass, caves, or water will never have an IV spread that results in shininess, and so only static and fishing encounters, in-game trades, and gift Pokémon can have shiny IVs in Gen I. On top of the fact that you can’t tell if it’s even shiny unless you transfer it to Gen 2.
Sheeeeesh that took some work.
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