Maybe a Pokémon from an old event, a rare shiny, or a Pokémon from some sort of glitch.
What do you think the rarest Pokémon in your collection is? Tell me the story!
A couple examples from my collection:
Shiny Safari Zone Chansey: just a 4% encounter with a 19% chance to catch with the bait Strat. It took me 304,000 encounters to find and catch! It’s a 1/800,000 chance though so I was under odds!
Shiny Flamethrower Alolan Ninetales: came from Pokémon Go when home first came out and got its Kantonian moves instead
Legit VC Mew: was only available at two in person events: the Sun/Moon launch party in the UK and at toys r us in Japan. You had to trade to get it.
Shiny Lugia from the PCNY distribution machine: a 1/200 chance shiny from the actual machine used to distribute Pokémon at the Pokémon Center in New York
Edit: [here are 10 of my rarest :)](https://youtu.be/MQ3wDI6Z7zY?si=GfkRB8FNBgqGHMbI)
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When I was leveling pokemon in White in order to evolve them for the full dex completion, I’d always grind in the Giant Chasm, which required me to repel through the cave in order to get to the crater with lvl 60 Audinos
As I was repelling through that cave for the millionth time, a dust cloud spawned in front of me and I ran into it, which started a battle with a Shiny Excadrill
Here’s pictures of it: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FrRAXJFX0AIW6xq?format=jpg&name=large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FrRAXJBWYAEaEr7?format=jpg&name=large
Back in 2007 I got the Aura Mew on Emerald, which was available only for two days at an in-person event
* Shiny Johto Starters from XD (Got all possible shinies in XD but the Johto starters would be the rarest due to how they’re obtained).
* Shiny Special Eggs from Pokemon Box. Grinding enough pokemon to get all of them also resulted in me getting 3 shiny spinda.
* Luxury Ball Shadow Lugia. Might not sound like a big deal but in XD you only get 1 Luxury Ball in the whole game, plus SLugia’s battle will not even let you attempt a catch if you’re not properly prepared.
Rarest thing i own is anevent mew with 6 perfect IVs, apparently from some old as hell event i know kothing of, i had several people check its legitimacy and it checks out as one of the very few left im existence, best part is i dont even remember how i got it…
my full odds shiny female salandit. in scarlet i was just existing when she walked toward me. i could hardly tell for a second because the shitty reflections, i almost thought she was just reflective. i have the opposite (of average) experience now, where i’ve never had a male shiny salandit.
My rarest are *probably* the shiny legendaries I picked up from GameStop over a decade ago. They weren’t particularly difficult to get, but between their age and method of obtaining they’re irreplaceable.
Rarest in-game find is either my shiny alpha Spiritomb or my shiny, rare-marked Slowpoke.
Mine might be the Lv 50 Dragonite event from Toys R Us for Diamond/Pearl. It’s not as interesting as something like the Deoxys event they did beforehand, I’m guessing fewer people got the Dragonite. And it was special since it was the only legit way to get a Dragonite legal for Lv 50 competitions.
I don’t really have anything like that, never went to events or anything as a kid because I didn’t live near any and I’m not a shiny hunter, but my Shinky Duskull is probably my luckiest get (even though it isn’t rare).
I didn’t encounter it in game, I got it through a shiny raffle with a twitch streamer almost a decade ago at this point. I was just a casual viewer so I didn’t have a whole lot of points built up on his stream, but I tossed one point in to try and get it since Duskull is one of my favorites. Had something like 0.1% odds of getting it with my single point and somehow the wheel landed on me.
I have a mew on Pokemon blue that I got at the millennium dome Pokémon league tcg finals (in London)when I was like 11. They put my game cart in a machine queued for like an hour to get it
In a recent ORAS playthrough: full odds shiny Feebas on the 2nd encounter who is now a Milotic.
I got the shiny Pikachu from the last Vegas tour that was a error. I have the male
Pikachu wearing the girls outfit
Lost the cartridge, but in Diamond I got a full odds shiny Weavile that ended up getting pokerus.
My Gen 3 shiny spinda
Shiny shadow legendary beasts from Colosseum. An absolute pain to get, but I just had to do it when I learned Colosseum’s shadows weren’t shiny locked.
I have a shiny Manectric from Sapphire around the time that the game came out. I caught it as a blue Electrike in that patch of grass right above Slateport. All these years later, I’ve transferred it and still have it in Pokémon Home. It’s not particularly rare, but I find it to be rare considering it’s a wonder that I still have it and I don’t even know where the Sapphire cartridge is anymore.
1. Fancy Vivillon to celebrate 1 million GTS trades.
2. Pokeball Vivillon to celebrate the pop-up Pokemon Centre in Paris.
Probably my Battle Bond Greninja from the Sun & Moon event.
Nothing super rare. I have stuff from XD and Colosseum, so they have the ribbon for being purified. That’s about it.
I’ve got a few event Pokemon preserved in my Pokemon HOME, nothing particularly impressive, but the one that sticks out the most to me is the Keldeo I got from trying out the DNS trick on one of my Gen 5 saves to get old event Pokemon. I only got it to work once, and it was a Keldeo, a Keldeo pre-Crown Tundra was pretty rare. I think it was the Level 50 one, not the Level 15 one that was distributed as a Black/White 2 launch bonus.
I recently caught a shiny eevee in a friend ball (the only one I had) that I didn’t realize until now had the destiny mark because it was my birthday. thats one of my favorites of all time now. even though its not crazy rare.
I also had back to back shiny one male one female heracross masuda method.
and I caught a shiny kangashkan when I was SOS calling for cubones I think which was a rare spawn.
Im sure there is more but those are some of my favorite rare shiny hunt experiences
My shiny 3 segment Dudunsparce.
Xxxs or is it xxs? The smallest version possible of unpainted magnerna, the reward from completing the home Pokédex. Getting the small ribbon from the npc was like a holy shit no way moment. I only wish mythicals showed size now.
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When I got her and when I ribbon mastered her. Its cool cause its the unpainted version which is infinitely harder to get and then to roll Teeny? Woo!
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Editied cause I said painted cause I didnt look for my tweets till I sat down.
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Edit x2: Honestly what is it even called? Painted? unpainted? Pokeball? God I hate this naming stuff. Its the home magerna! From the pokedex completion.
Still got my spiky eared pichu from HGSS. You needed a shiny pikachu (the one specifically given at gamestop I beleive) to do the event to obtain it. I wish I could trade it to other games because it’s so cute..
I may not have caught it, but i found a shiny Chansey in the Firered Safari Zone while looking for a Nidoran male.
https://preview.redd.it/4hg36o9pf9xc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=52c1509af7bc83d293dd427e8bdd74f1b7882b27
Gen 3 Milotic, no cheats. I hope nobody else went through that.
Mine would be my legit event Mew – back in the 90s, there were official convention events where you could get a genuine Mew loaded onto your Red/Blue Gameboy cartridge. Sometimes you’d even get a physical certificate of authenticity, though they tended to run out of those pretty quickly. Back then it was the only way you could get a real Mew and it was the rarest of the rare, for the time.
Aside from that, I’ve also got a legit collection of all Vivillon forms, which live with the rest of my Living Dex (of that era) collection on the 3DS. I never wanted to risk transferring any of my Living Dex off handheld, so there they will stay, where I can manage my own backups and data preservation without having to worry about Nintendo Switch servers someday erasing my entire collection.
Also, while it’s more a matter of brute force and less rarity, I do have a complete collection of all forms of Alcremie and Minior, including a Shiny variation. Still took me a lot of time and effort to get them all (I destroyed the Wonder Trade in a meteor shower getting rid of all those non-Shiny Miniors I bred out), so I’m counting them as rare in my own manner.
Does Surfing Pikachu from Pokemon Yellow count? I have that too.
While I’m not sure if they actually count as rare or not, I’ve also got a ton of the GameStop event Pokemon they handed out as codes – it ranges from Mythics and Legendaries, to just special edition versions of Pokemon like Salazzle. They were running those events every month for a year or so and I made a habit of visiting all my local shops to collect as many cards as they were willing to give me, especially on the last day of distribution when they just wanted to get rid of the stock. I’d keep one for myself and pass out the rest online to whoever I could, especially folk who were in other regions and didn’t have access to GameStop stores.
So when I bought pokemon sword, I transferred a pokemon from sword to pokemon home to get the 3 hidden ability galar starters. After about 20 minutes, I realized that the scorbunny I received was shiny! As if that wasn’t lucky enough, but when I transferred him to pokemon scarlet, he also received the mini mark! Scorbunny was my starter in pokemon sword and I just felt so happy that the mystery gift I received was also a shiny scorbunny. Ofcourse he is a cinderace now. 😊
My 1st target hunt that wasn’t GO was Celebi. After 10 SRs from Pokemon Crystal VC, I got Bubblegum the shiny Celebi!
Recently, I did a 6400 or so SRs and got a shiny totodile in Heart Gold.
I have 2 accident shinies in White 2. One was Shieldon as I was completing the pokedex. I only found out it was shiny when I was forced into a triple battle and heard the shiny noise.
My second happy accident is White 2 was a Lopunny I hatched to chip away at the pokedex!
I love these shinies, but my favorite non-shiny pokemon I have is Marshadow from Pokemon Moon. I got them during the distribution event (I think it was Gamestop code) when I was getting into the pokemon game series for the 1st time.
Most of mine are event exclusives:
-Wishmaker Jirachi from the Pokemon Colosseum Bonus Disk. I’ve had it with me since 2004. I also have the Jirachi they gave away to get that one exclusive Pokewalker course for HGSS
-Shiny Legendary Beast Trio giveaway leading up to the release of black and white, as well as the Zorua and Zoroark from that time period.
-Ho-oh and Lugia from Navel Rock. Folks in the US could only get them via the Pokemon Rocks America Tour in 2005.
-The Shiny cherish ball Pichu from the HGSS Ilex Forest Event. (I’ve since evolved it into a shiny Alolan Raichu)
-The event Celebi for HGSS that allowed you to access the Time Travel side story in Ilex Forest, as well as the shiny Celebi from the Jungle giveaway.
-Several Manaphy from all the Pokemon Ranger game events, as well as the Riolu and Darkrai that came from them.
-The shiny Dialga and Palkia giveaway they did that one time back in Gen 4 (bringing them into Legends Arceus and into their Origin Formes was a trip)
-Shiny Xerneas and Yveltal giveaways
-The shiny Zeroara and shiny Eternatus giveaways
Back when I was doing my first diamond play through at 10 or 11 years old. I came across a shiny dialga first time through. I was able to catch it but the game got destroyed when I dropped my ds in a lake. Still bummed about it
Mew from the Mew Machine.
My rarest Pokémon ?
It’s the one that everyone has, it could be the same Mon or not but he is the only one and can’t be 2 in the same collection and heart..
My favorite and first partner ever : my Chesnaught from Pokémon Y ♥️🥹
My husband caught me a shiny gastly, it’s also my most treasured.