Pokemon Let's Go Player Finally Gets Shiny Magikarp After Three Years of Trying

Pokemonplayers can spend ages and tons of pokedollars inPokemon Let’s Gojust to get their hands on that shiny Pikachu or Charizard, but one fan in particular has just completed a three year quest to obtain a shiny Magikarp, the water typePokemonthat is widely considered one ofthe most useless Pokemonof any generation.

For the uninitiated, Magikarp is a fairly common catch in most of the mainlinePokemongames, but once the fishyPokemonis caught it is more or less useless until it reaches level 15 and finally learns an attack that actually does damage. That’s not hyperbole, either. Before level 15 the only attack Magikarp knows is Splash, and it literally does zero damage. For Reddit user GimmeDatGrimoire, however, obtaining a shiny version of the Pokemon from a notorious NPC inPokemon Let’s Gobecame a matter of principle.

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To break it down, the NPC stands in aPokemonCenter and offers to sell the easily obtained, low level Pokemon to the player. If the player actually purchases a Magikarp from the salesman, the game is not shy about letting them know that they’ve basically just been scammed. Well, after first being scammed by the NPC three years ago, GimmeDatGrimoire decided to turn the tables and farm the salesman until the transaction resulted in the transfer of a shiny Magikarp. Fortunately, unlike the player whose100 hour quest to catch a shiny Mewtwoended in disappointment, GimmeDatGrimoire’s journey was a successful one.

In order to reach their goal, the Redditor saved the game in front of the NPC and spent 375 hours approaching him, then resetting the game when the NPC was not selling a shiny Magikarp. It took three years before the shiny Magikarp finally showed up, at which point GimmeDatGrimoire still had to pay 500 pokedollars to complete the transaction. TherightPokemoncards can fetch a pretty pennyin real life, and a shiny Magikarp was the onlyPokemonGimmeDatGrimoire was going to spend more than a few digital bucks on in the virtualPokemonworld.

After they finally got their hands on a glorious, shiny Magikarp, the game’s text box told GimmeDatGrimoire that they had spent an outrageous amount of money on the fish, but the Redditor knew their journey had finally come to an end. “Was it all worth it?” they wrote. “Absolutely.” As the player who spent six yearsbeatingPokemon Rubywith nothing but a Magikarpwould likely agree, sometimes itisabout the destination, and GimmeDatGrimoire got their Magikarp and bested the notorious NPC.

Fans who want their own shiny fishPokemonmight have an easier timecatching a shiny Magikarp inPokemon Go, the franchise’s mobile game, but anyone who also wants to best the scamming Magikarp salesman inPokemon Let’s Gowill simply have to clear their calendar for the next three years.