Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen Player With Over 85 Hours in the Game is Just Now Leaving Oak’s Lab

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A player of Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen recently spent an incredible 85 hours trying to find a shiny starter Pokemon! These games have been available on Switch and Switch 2 for a month, and many fans are attempting to ‘shiny hunt’ – trying to find rare, differently colored versions of the starting Pokemon. Unlike newer Pokemon games, FireRed and LeafGreen let you repeatedly reset the game to try for a shiny starter, but it’s still a difficult and lengthy process.

Finding a shiny starter Pokémon in FireRed and LeafGreen is really difficult compared to newer games. While shiny Pokémon usually appear in about 1 out of 4,096 encounters, your chances in these older games are halved – only 1 in 8,192. Plus, there aren’t any helpful techniques like the Masuda Method or Shiny Charm to improve your odds, meaning it’s always a 1 in 8,192 chance. That’s why a player getting a shiny starter after 85 hours of gameplay is such a remarkable achievement, even if it took a lot of luck!

Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen‘s Starter Shiny Hunting Method

A Reddit user named EggsEggsEggTentacion recently shared their amazing luck on the Pokemon LeafGreen subreddit. After playing for 85 hours and repeatedly resetting their game, they finally found a shiny Bulbasaur! What makes this find even more special is that the Bulbasaur also has the ‘Modest’ nature, which boosts its Special Attack stat. This is particularly good because ‘Modest’ is considered the best possible nature for Bulbasaur in Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen, and even in many other Pokemon games. Unlike newer games where you can change a Pokemon’s nature, this isn’t possible in the Gen 3 remakes. Plus, because of how types work in FireRed and LeafGreen, a Modest nature is especially valuable for Grass-type Pokemon like Bulbasaur.

As a huge Pokémon fan, I’ve seen so many people, myself included, get completely stuck trying to find a shiny starter from Professor Oak! It’s really down to luck, though. Some people get lucky after only around 500 tries, but others play for over 100 hours and still don’t find one. It’s super frustrating because, unlike some shiny hunts, you can’t just keep resetting to try again. Unless you want to go way back and breed eggs in FireRed and LeafGreen after you beat the game, and honestly, that sounds like it would take even longer!

While 85 hours might seem like a typical amount of time for EggsEggsEggTentacion to achieve this, it’s actually a bit longer than expected. Considering a soft reset takes roughly 30 seconds and allows for checking two starter Pokémon each minute, the average shiny hunt usually takes between 68 and 69 hours. What makes this hunt stand out is that EggsEggsEggTentacion did it across two Nintendo Switch consoles at the same time, and they stopped counting after about 22,000 resets. This suggests a long period of bad luck, but they ultimately succeeded in finding a shiny Bulbasaur with the desired traits.

A Pokémon’s nature greatly impacts how well it performs in battle, so finding one with a good nature is a big advantage. It’s even more impressive to get a shiny Pokémon – which is incredibly rare, especially in the remakes of the original games. Hunting for shiny starter Pokémon in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen can be tricky because you can’t pause and explore without your starter. However, many players feel the time spent repeatedly encountering Professor Oak is worth it to get a rare, shiny starter with the perfect nature for their entire playthrough.

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2026-03-29 01:04