Pokémon Scarlet/Purple has now been released a few days ago, and who says new Pokémon says new shiny hunt! These ultra-rare Pokémon in their original color are highly prized, and even harder to spot than in previous games. Indeed, there is no longer a sound or little stars that shine to indicate their appearance like in Legends: Arceus, now you have to be very vigilant, making the task even more complicated.
However, a technique exists to catch some of them more easily and it is explained in this video by YouTuber PhillyBeatzU.
Picnics galore
In Pokémon Scarlet/Purple as in Arceus, you may sometimes see Massive Appearances appear on your map, symbolized by the icon of a specific Pokémon or a question mark. These are areas with a very high concentration of a single Pokémon. Once in these areas, using the “Forward!” on the R trigger of your controller, you can send your Pokémon to battle and KO the Pokémon in the open. Finally, one of the novelties in Ecarlate/Violet is the ability to picnic on the map, resting your character and resetting the area around it.
The technique is very simple and abuses these 3 features in order to make the shiny version appear in the massive appearance. You will quickly understand. Here are the probabilities of encountering a shiny:
- 1/4096: Basic probability
- 1/2048: Once you KO between 30 and 59 Pokémon in the spawn
- 1/1365: Once you KO 60+ Pokémon in the spawn
Note that you can go down to 1/512 with the Chroma charm (obtained once the Pokédex is completed) and the shiny sandwich Lv.3, but let’s stay on our bases at 1/1365.
Once you have knocked down more than 60+ Pokémon in a Massive Appearance, you will picnic in a loop in order to reset the area until the shiny appears. Quite simply ! Appearing on average after about twenty resetsit’s the easiest and fastest way to get shiny.
To your binoculars!
For all the other pokemon not appearing in AM, the solution remains the same as usual: be patient and equip yourself with your best glasses, because you will have to travel the open world and observe carefully, due to the absence of notifications making a lot of players cringe.
Happy hunting everyone!
You don’t know where to find Théffroi or how to evolve Pohmotte and Charbambin for example? Here is Paldea’s complete Pokédex on Pokémon Scarlet and Purple with the list of creatures in 9G, their locations and their evolutions.