It’s rare to come across a Shiny Pokémon in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining pearls. It was even rarer to encounter two in a row in the same battle. In fact, several thousand times rarer. But that’s exactly what happened to a Twitch streamer when he least expected it.
Mitchell “MitchOG” Versari is after a shiny Turtwig, Pokémon BDSPgrass starter. Streaming to his viewers on Twitch, he restarted the game several times to wait for the glitter color variation to appear. On its 107th attempt, it eventually succeeded, but only after a Shiny Starly appeared in battle with it. The player has a one of 4,096 their starter Pokémon’s ability to be Shiny when it first appeared. They have one one of 16,777,216 the chances of both the beginner Pokémon and the first Pokémon it fights are Shiny.
“What?” MitchOG continued to scream as he fell out of his chair. “Fucking Merry Christmas Boys!”
Although the Shiny Pokémon does not have any special characteristics other than its sparkling appearance and remarkable rarity, it has become a common practice for some dedicated players at least wait for a Shiny to pop up before starting a new Pokémon game in earnest. But it’s practically unheard of to see two Shinys in the opening moments of the game.
“I can’t even handle what I’m looking at honestly,” MitchOG said Kotaku. “It wasn’t until that night after the stream that I realized I’d never seen this happen before. I started looking for other people online who found both an unfinished shiny Starly and a shiny starter Pokémon at the same time but I couldn’t find anything.
The moment to light up in a bottle comes in MitchOG’s latest Challenge Run to beat Pokémon BDSP using only a team of the first six shiny Pokémon he can find. Before that, he streamed a level where he beat the entire game with just one Bidoof. Longterm, he’s trying to catch one of every shiny Pokémon in the series’ current Pokédex. There are over 800, and he says he’s halfway there.
Meanwhile, he has achieved something even rarer. To put the probability of what happened to him in perspective, the average person is 1,000 times more likely to be struck by lightning during their lifetime.
“It’s safe to say I can say goodbye to the shiny hunt because the rest of my life’s good fortune was used up yesterday,” MitchOG said.
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