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the pokemon that made catching them all mathematically impossible.
back in 2003, ruby and sapphire introduced spinda on route 113. what players didn’t realize at first was that game freak had built an incredibly complex system behind it. every single spinda has a completely unique pattern of spots on its face and ears, decided by a hidden 32-bit number called the personality value.
this means there are exactly 4,294,967,296 different possible spinda in the game, over 4.29 billion unique individuals. if you caught a new one every ten seconds without ever stopping, it would still take you roughly 1,360 years of nonstop playing just to see every possible pattern.
the real nightmare for completionists is the shiny version. because shininess is also tied to the personality value, the chance of finding a shiny spinda with one specific desired spot pattern is around 1 in 35 trillion.
spinda remains one of the most statistically insane pokemon ever designed.