Pokemon Gamer Purposefully Hunts Down Uncatchable Shinies

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The Pokemon franchise features a wide variety of adorable, awe-inspiring, and sometimes creepy pocket monsters. Each individual Pokemon has its own stats, size, and abilities, and some of them--dubbed shiny Pokemon--even have alternate color schemes. Generally, gamers who find a shiny will try to catch it for bragging rights, but one Pokemon gamer is purposefully hunting down uncatchable shinies.

Shiny Pokemon are rare, although catch rates vary depending on the game being played. This rarity gave rise to the hobby of shiny hunting, where gamers play Pokemon games for the specific purpose of tracking down shiny Pokemon. Generally speaking, they do this to catch the shinies and gather a collection for clout or bragging rights, but not all shinies can be captured.

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Twitch streamer Oliver_MKP is an avid shiny hunter who seems to have been having a streak of bad luck recently. He repeatedly ran into uncatchable shinies while trying to gather shiny starter Pokemon in Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl. After finding a shiny Starly as his first uncatchable shiny in about 15 years of shiny hunting, the streamer appears to have become interested in hunting uncatchable shinies. Now, he's taken a break from his usual shiny hunting activities to specifically track down shiny Pokemon he can't catch.

In an 18-minute-long YouTube video, Oliver_MKP shared his encounters with 10 uncatchable shiny Pokemon found across multiple games. This includes the uncatchable shiny Starly that was his very first uncatchable shiny. Oliver_MKP encountered six more uncatchable shiny Starlies while trying to catch his shiny starters, which seems to