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By the way, here is a table of all the Sandwich ingredients and their modifiers for the Sandwich Powers! Hope this helps you all find good recipes.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
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Outbreaks in SV grant 2 extra shiny rolls once you have cleared at least 60 Pokémon. At that point, you can simply despawn/respawn them until you get a shiny.
Combine with Sparkling Power for better results.
Walking works, but here's a demo of using picnics to purge the field.
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Here are the new Ribbons and Marks available in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. We don't know how to get all of them yet!
The original weather (for available weathers), time, and Rare/Uncommon Marks from SWSH are in the game as well.
Still no word on Destiny Mark...
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Tera Raids are entirely generated with cryptosecure PRNG, and future raids can't be predicted based on today's raids. This means the date skip shiny raid manipulation from SWSH is not in Scarlet/Violet.
However, rewards are fixed, so share good raid rewards with your friends!
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Good morning! Here are your Pokémon Scarlet/Violet shiny rates for version 1.0.1.
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I've been looking more into LGPE spawn mechanics over the last couple of weeks in the hopes of finding some shiny wild legendary birds.
It's important to understand how the game spawns Pokémon to shiny hunt effectively! Here's a thread of what I've learned.
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Beware! There's a bug in ALL Gen 8 Pokémon games involving maliciously-crafted Pokémon. It's possible to receive these Pokémon through trades in various games or HOME.
The games fail to correctly render invalid markings; BDSP glitches and forces a reboot, SWSH/Legends crash.
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Reminder that Legends: Arceus hasn't been updated to fix the issue where shiny Origin Forme Giratina using Shadow Force causes a game crash. Altered Forme works normally.
The animation is different between shiny and regular Giratina, so this is likely due to missing assets.
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I took a break from LA to finish up some old research on SWSH curry Pokémon. This is probably the least well-known and most tedious method of shiny hunting in Pokémon Sword/Shield. Here's a megathread with all the findings in one place.
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Most of my research in SWSH was because I wanted a shiny Antique Sinistea in Glimwood Tangle. Turns out there isn't a way to boost it past 1%, and the best shiny rate is 1/1365.67 with Shiny Charm.
Finally, after 438,031 automated encounters over 2 years, this chapter is closed.
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It feels like cheating to beat Arceus this way in the Eternal Battle Reverie for the Trainer Card mark at a streak of 50. Ice Shard never lets it move at all.
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Pokémon Legends: Arceus v 1.1.0 (Daybreak) introduces Massive Mass Outbreaks, which are widespread outbreaks across a map. They have a modestly higher shiny rate than regular wild Pokémon.
Here are the revised shiny rates for the new patch!
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Since everyone is keeping an eye on the weather while waiting for distortions, here's your weather forecast!
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Small detail that explains people waiting longer than 40 minutes for distortions...
If the distortion appear timer runs out while the weather is Intense Sun, Snowstorm, or Thunderstorm, the game skips the distortion and schedules a new distortion in 5, 10, 15, 25, or 40 minutes.
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Outbreaks can only have one alpha Pokémon spawned at a time. As long as the alpha remains on the field, no more alphas will be spawned.
It is advantageous to catch/KO random alphas so more can spawn. This applies to other spawners as well.
Video: ignoring vs catching the alpha.
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You can push a wild Pokémon in circles around yours during a battle, so I spent yesterday evening taking this outbreak shiny Zoroark all the way to Avalugg's Legacy and catching it with that met location.
I wonder how far you can go. Can Zoroark be dunked in the Hot Springs?
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I looked into LGPE's chain combo mechanism. It turns out the Catch Combo bonus only applies once to the next spawn of the chained species after one is captured.
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There's a lot of superstition about distortions in Pokémon Legends: Arceus. We looked at them in-depth and here's how they work.
Have fun waiting!
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There is a secret ribbon in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, the Pioneer Ribbon! We initially saw it in BDSP, but it wasn't available yet.
The flag for the Pioneer Ribbon is added by preparing a Pokémon for a photo. It isn't possible to see it in PLA. Maybe when transfers to HOME open!
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I managed to change this shiny Murkrow (night spawn) into a shiny Glameow (day spawn).
I found it at night, saved far away from it, rebooted the game, rested until day, then went back to the Pokémon.
Repeating the process for day to night changed it back into Murkrow!
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Pokémon Legends: Arceus pretty much saves all the spawns in the overworld when you're in a map. This means that if you find a shiny and die, you can go back to it and it will still be there!
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Shiny hunters will enjoy Pokémon Legends: Arceus! Along with the Shiny Charm, many new mechanics can further improve your chances of finding a shiny from the base 1/4096 rate.
Here are your shiny rates as of version 1.0.1.
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I told Cheryl we can't leave Eterna Forest until both Pokémon were shiny, and finally managed to RNG abuse this today.
I'm currently in the middle of a discussion over which one has to die, because if Wurmple dies, we'll never know what it would have turned into.
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Hilariously, you can legitimately get the National Dex and the Poké Radar with 1 badge.
The only requirements are to get to Eterna City and to have all Pokémon viewed in the Sinnoh Dex!
Ty to @QStheSLAYER for bringing this up and @mattyoukhana_ for looking into the script.
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I'm not much of a shiny hunter, but I think it's fun to RNG abuse BDSP. I got shiny Starly and shiny Piplup in the same battle!
It does show the trainer before the battle, but the Starly is 16/26/25/31/5/23... wonder what triggers it if it's not 2 IV.
my pokemon are cute ♥
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