How To Get Eevee & Shiny Eevee in Pokemon LeafGreen FireRed

How to get Eevee (and shiny Eevee) in Pokémon FireRed / LeafGreen

This guide summarizes the video instructions for obtaining the gift Eevee in Celadon City and soft-reset hunting it for a shiny.

Main points

• Location: the gift Eevee is given on the rooftop building at the back of Celadon City (the video spells it “Seladon City”). The Eevee is in a Poké Ball item on the roof.

• Shiny odds: 1 in 8,192 for the gift Eevee (the same odds apply if hatching Eevee from breeding).

  Note: the game determines shininess the moment you receive the Eevee into your party — that is the single roll you are soft-resetting.

• This is the earliest obtainable Eevee in FireRed/LeafGreen. Additional Eevees can only be obtained by breeding the gift Eevee with a Ditto at the Daycare (the video states this is available after obtaining the National Dex).

• Other single‑receive/mystery gift Pokémon (for example, Hitmonchan/Hitmonlee) can be soft-reset hunted the same way.

Step-by-step: soft-reset (shiny‑hunt) the gift Eevee

1. Make sure you have at least one open slot in your party to receive the gift Eevee.
2. Go to Celadon City and climb to the rooftop building at the back where the Poké Ball gift is located.
3. Position the cursor/highlight on the Poké Ball and save the game (the video recommends pointing to the Poké Ball while saving).
4. Receive the Eevee. The game determines shininess when it is received into your party — this is the roll you are re‑rolling.
5. Open the Pokémon summary to inspect Eevee (the nature will typically change each reset; the video uses that as confirmation the reset is re-rolling properly).
6. If the Eevee is not shiny, soft-reset the game by pressing A+B+X+Y simultaneously (this returns you to the title screen), reload your save, and repeat.
7. Tips while repeating:
   • Press B to skip the recap screen (you cannot turn the recap off entirely, but B speeds it up).
   • Optionally avoid nicknaming to save time per attempt.

Additional notes and tips

• The nature shown for the gift Eevee changes each time you receive it after a reset — visible evidence that you are re-rolling.
• Breeding with Ditto at the Daycare gives additional chances to obtain Eevee with the same 1/8,192 shiny odds for eggs. The video mentions obtaining a “foreign Ditto” may not be possible in these titles.
• The method works in both FireRed and LeafGreen.
• The same soft-reset method can be applied to other single-receive/mystery gift Pokémon in the game.

Sources / people featured

• The information is summarized from a video; the host/narrator is unnamed in the subtitles. No other gamers or external sources are named.