Pokémon Scarlet and Violet keep ringing for the first week with some solid cooperation overshadowed by destructive glitch, but now there’s a new exploit in town. YouTuber PhillyBeatzU describes what he calls “The Shiny Picnic Reset Method” (it’s more prescriptive than descriptive) in a recent video—in which you constantly pack for Your picnic during the outbreak will trigger the same number of respawn Pokémon, increasing your chances of getting a shiny one.
A shiny Pokémon, we discussed before, is a normal Pokémon with a rarer color variant. One commenter pointed out that the shiny, serious Pokémon also have their own special sparkle animation when they go to battle. There are few things I care less about than the rare sparkle animations, and most of them Likely related to Charli D’Amelio, but if you want shiny hunting, i will give you shiny hunting. And according to PhillyBeatzU, taking advantage of bright red and VioletMining is easy.
“Step one is, open your map and pick any mass outbreak areas you can find,” he said. A Pokémon outbreak is probably the most pleasant repetition of the word you’ll come across—it means there’s a certain swarm of Pokémon gathering in an area and you’ll see that area marked on the map with a flashing red icon. Before digging in, you should make sure that one of your Pokémon there is a move Sai Swipe, says PhillyBeatzU, but once you do, you can start “killing Pokémon, just like a normal mass outbreak.” Brutal.
After knocking out 60 Pokémon, PhillyBeatzU says you have a 1 in 1365 shiny chance. He saves his game and set up a picnic table to make the outbreak disappear.
“When you come out of your picnic, all those Pokémon respawn,” he said. “Think of it like this: Instead of having one, one, one chance every time you knock something down, now [there are] all of those, such as 20 Drifblim in the background, all appear in there, giving me a higher chance of appearing shiny.” After 15 resets, he succeeds and comes across a glittering yellow and blue Drifblim.
“This is HUGE for me. Got a shiny Magnemite and Psyduck after 15-20 resets of picnicking,” one commenter wrote. “Thank you.” polygon recently confirmed This exploit also works, so I didn’t have to. HHey! But for the shiny lovers among us—gGet out there, and hunt while you can.
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