Very happy this showed up in my recommended videos. Watched it last night and was playing just now and saw there was a Mime Jr. outbreak. Did everything in the video. First wave no shiny pokemon. Restarted the game went back to the outbreak. As I was approaching I saw the shiny stars animation pop out from the grass and then a split second later I saw the animation again. Since this was my first time seeing the shiny animation I just assumed the second animation was still part of the first. To my pleasant surprise when I approached the outbreak I saw two shiny Mime Jrs and caught them both!
Finally! A video about this that not only breaks this method down in an easy to understand way, but also gives credit to the people who have put in the hours to figure out the RNG in this game. 👏🏻 Thank you for making this video and mentioning the RNG discord. I don't think enough people know how much work has gone into these findings.
@@ThoseWhoStayUofM RNG is "random number generation," not randomness. Randomness is a supposedly "easy" or skill reducing element in games. The argument being that it presents outcomes even a skilled player can't perfectly control. But less control doesn't necessarily mean less skill-testing. Now, RNG is actually pseudo-randomness. An approximation of something we're not supposed to be able to predict. But in this case, like many others, the RNG is exploitable. Austin does light RNG manipulation to *ensure* with 100% certainty a shiny will show up in the first N advances, where 1/N is the supposed chance of a shiny (it's not really because we're actually pulling from the advances *without replacement*). I forget what N is for mass outbreaks. 150 or something. Yes it's non-trivial, but actually it IS rng. EDIT: you are sampling the pool of advances WITH replacement when doing weird things Austin mentions like battling multiple pokes.
Just want to say I can confirm, if you get a shiny from an outbreak and then leave before finishing the outbreak, you save at camp and reset it. If the outbreak is there after you go to the village, you can farm the same shiny to fill a whole evolution chain. Or for example, farm an eevee outbreak to get enough Shiny eevee a all the eeveelutions shiny!
I’ve tried this a few times and I haven’t been able to get it to work. I catch the first shiny, go back to the village, go back to outbreak and there’s no shiny when I come back to it
Really appreciate everyone who put in the effort for this! After watching this video, I figured I’d try it out, and I lucked into a Goomy outbreak. I didn’t track the exact number of advances I took, but within 10-15 I got my shiny Goomy! So excited to finally understand how this works so I can better shiny hunt! Thanks!
Agreed! I'm not as far as many and have been progressing slowly, but I managed to get a shiny Shinx last night using this method! I love my little yellow boy.
I 100% vouch this video. Based on my experience so far playing this game with over 60 shinies. You should ALWAYS just catch. I watched the video about killing 5 and I’m actually upset with how many shinies I probably missed due to a long hunt…
I went through 50 some resets just catching to get my shiny growlithe. The video about killing 5 was more of an example that it is possible to replicate shiny from battling and that battling is in a set order. You watched the video you saw monfernape respawn for him. That means is Austin technically wrong about how battling works in this video. But Austin is 100% correct on the fact just catching is faster and easier then battling and you should just catch for the fastest shinys because of how long battle animations last and if you fail the shiny it is harder to replicate.
I probably saw that same video from some other popular TH-camr. I even commented on that video to not listen to it and to just catch them (nobody listened to me of course). Not only is it slower to battle 5 of them than just jet ball all 15 that show up in an outbreak, but you are just not even checking the ones you skip. You are purposefully slowing down your chance for a shiny and lowering your odds. It is stupid. And with a shiny charm and 10 in the Pokedex you have a pretty high chance for a shiny to show up in an outbreak (way more than past games). Yet people just believe them because they are popular. Without proper testing, knowledge of basic statistics, and randomness it should have been obvious from the beginning that 5 kill method is flawed. Worse is the video I saw they got a shiny in 5 attempts. This could have been edited (we have no clue how many actual attempts it was), if it wasn't edited then that just means they got lucky. That doesn't prove a method works faster than another. It made me mad Getting shinies in this game is really easy and fun. Don't screw your life over with convoluted random chance methods.
The other guy...blaines....corrected his info way before this video came out...and explained himself....both he and Austin are great for content..and both are right with their info.
Thank you Austin John. I just caught my shiny Growlithe with your help. Before, my mass outbreaks would keep disappearing because I was saving at the outbreak. But now that I’m only saving at the camp, they won’t despawn. Keep up the GREAT content!!
SAME. This morning I wanted to hunt for shiny Piplup cause I spent so many hours trying to get one in BDSP. After like 30 minutes of hunting I found one! Good luck to you on your hunt!
Same, I spent about a hundred hours trying to get turtwig then I just gave up because of being very burnt out and ultimately decided to just play the game and then literally the first turtwig outbreak I did in legends arceus I got a shiny turtwig.
@@Straight_White_Fatherly_Figure I also watch him. It’s decently easy no tutorial needed. Blaine’s also has some misinformation though because you should catch bot kill the Pokémon even Austin states it at some point in the vid
Man this video definitely helped explained what happened when I found a shiny voltorb. I was originally knocking out voltorb's through battles and ended up finding the shiny after a couple KO's. Unfortunately it decided to blow up but thankfully I had saved the game at camp. Unbeknownst to me, knowing I had just saved I wanted the shiny asap so I decided to catch all the voltorb's and not battle any of them. I was so shocked to not see the shiny show up that I decided to reset and go back to the original method of knocking the voltorb's out until the original shiny one appeared again. Great vid of help explaining what happened!🤠
I was so confused yesterday when a shiny Barboach spawned in my outbreak. I quit the game and reloaded from camp because they killed me with mud before I could catch it, and I expected to just encounter it again, but it didn't show up.. This is likely why - I was sometimes battling the spawns, and sometimes catching. Thanks for clarifying this! :)
If your behaviour is consistent, the spawns are consistent. Your only option for recovering a failed Outbreak shiny is: "Repeat your exact actions prior to the shiny spawning." If you just catch all of them in the overworld, that's an easy sequence to repeat. But if you did some combination of catching and battling and multi-battling, you better hope you had been recording so you can replay the footage and match it.
For sure, knowing that behavior will affect spawns in this way is huge. I definitely would have tracked the event sequences had I known, and I will only be dealing with them one at a time from now on. Luckily, I found another shiny pretty quickly after proceeding per the video :) Thank you for your efforts in developing this method!
Absolutely LOVE THIS. I've been trying to get a shiny Scyther for the past 2 days. Came across this video and took some tips, BAM, shiny Scyther in less than 20 minutes. It's super effective!
Yeah whatever is in the first batch is definitely pre-seeded. Currently hunting an Alpha male Zorua to evolve and I got an Alpha finally but a female unfortunately which was in the first group on that particular outbreak check. Zorua is one of those Pokémon that doesn’t have 50/50 gender split, only 11.86% to be female. Reset and rechecked the same outbreak. Alpha female in the initial group again. Those odds speak for themselves.
I had this for Magmar! I thought to myself, “i don’t need a Magmar, but i’ll check out the mass outbreak anyways” when i got there, i heard the shiny sound (shiny magmar is pink so i had trouble telling a difference from a distance) i only saw three, and one looked different, but then the fourth walked out from behind a rock, and it was shiny too XD i got 2 shiny’s out of the 4 beginning spawns XD
Just wanted to say that using this method I caught two shiny eevee and an alpha within 15 minutes of each other at the same outbreak in Alabaster Icelands. The alpha and the first shiny spawned together, I caught them, left back to jubilife, and then back to snowfields camp. Saved, checked the outbreak, no shiny's, went back to jubilife, and back to camp to save. Repeated two - three times before the second shiny.
When he said, “If it isn’t one of the first four, don’t save when the shiny shows up…” My shiny Zorua felt that and the fact that I don’t have one almost made me rage quit
I'm confused. If the shiny shows up, why wouldn't you save before attempting the catch? I watched the whole video so maybe I'm just slow, and I missed something... This is a genuine question.
@@adamgrotto8163 im not exactly sure but i think if you save mid outbreak it messes things up. You're guaranteed to still get the shiny in that outbreak by just reloading your most recent save at camp.
@@adamgrotto8163 So that was the general idea when the game first launched, however I lost a shiny by doing this. I was hunting Qwilfish and towards the end of the seed a shiny spawned. I popped a save and then went to engage it. Well like a dummy I used slash instead of false swipe and knocked it out. I hard reset, loaded back up and was at my above save point, however all the Qwilfish, including the shiny were gone. However if I hadn't dropped that save, I would have loaded at the camp and all of the same Qwilfish (including the shiny) would have still been there. Since I switched to this method I've not lost a shiny.
A genuine follow up question: Is this implied to avoid having the shiny run or "lose it"? What happens if I catch my shiny during the outbreak, can I just keep moving forward with my game and save after catch?
Hey Austin, I just want to say that I had first come across your channel when I was playing Sun & Moon and needed some tips on Pokemon locations, and I subscribed IMMEDIATELY. Followed your journey since then and you're the TH-camr look forward to the most when it comes to Pokemon tutorials! Keep up the great work man! - Sincerely, a fan
Took a huge break from pokemon outside of playing colosseum/XD every couple years and came back for ultra moon. This man singlehandedly carried me in that playthrough
So, now that the update has seemingly undone the method of reseting the seed, I'm wondering if intentionally double battling things to advance the code before saving and checking the outbreak will work. Though I'm guessing whatever this new Mass Outbreak of outbreaks is, there's going to be new shiny hunting methods
I was wondering if this was the case, I noticed that after updating to version 1.1 im having issues getting the outbreak again after restarting the game.
@@adronikos7822 do you get different results if you save in jubilife village? For example if there was a Geodude outbreak in Obsidian Fields, save in Jubilife, enter fields, clear outbreak, then reset, would that give you a different set once you enter again?
The typo on Height being repeated 11 times in the table hurt my head. That being said - I love how informative this video is, so much collated info from trustworthy sources. And explained in a very intuitive way.
Just updated and can't use this exploit anymore. It won't let me return to the mass outbreak after returning to Jubilife. Anyone else with the same issue?
I appreciate the effort the community puts into understanding the mechanics of the game. Thank you everyone 🤙🏼 Let's continue to refine everyone's understanding in a tactful manner, and build each other up. Including other creators. Great video 👌🏼
@@dakotaracine8842 He posts experiments that show new information the community isn't aware of and encourages the community to experiment themselves and try to figure out the actual truth. This video is Austin admitting he and the rest of the community weren't entirely right before. Blaines proved you can experiment and produce different results within the same outbreak which was believed to not be the case before then. Atrius just hates him apparently. So they made a video to bash him while admitting he was right without accepting they admitted he proved them wrong. And the 1v1 battles don't generate different spawns from catching or fleeing pokemon. It's only multi-battles. It's going to be interesting to see the experiments continue to see if you can be guaranteed a shiny in one outbreak encounter without going back to jubilife or not via progression by 1, 2, 3, or 4 spawns at a time because doing the same outbreak 4 times would still be faster than going back to Jubilife 14 times. And nobody fully knows the seeding besides the makers of the game. Everyone is still guessing.
Thank you for the video! Definitely seems like something fun to do in the post game. The way this method seems to work in my head is similar to the old days where you save before a legendary and then reset until it you see a shiny. My understanding is that when you exit to jubilife, you reset the spawn tables from square 1. Maybe that’s not how the code works, but essentially what we’re doing is that While typing this comment it clicked for me. As an example, let’s say a shiny bidoof is set for the 23rd seed/spawn. We go see 10 bidoof on the first run, reset back to Jubilfe. Then since we know 1-10 will not be shiny, the tables is now spawns 11-20, and when we see none of those are shiny, we go back to jubilife and now see 21-30, one of which being a shiny bidoof. You explained this in the video but after trying to think through it again, this makes sense Really awesome job to everyone involved to figure out that’s how it works. Thanks again, and good luck everyone!!
I found a mass outbreak of carnivine, then went right to this guide. Everything was going well until I accidently saved at camp before reloading or shutting off my game, so I knew I was screwed. I went back to end the outbreak, but found out that I missed the shiny that appeared in the initial outbreak... Funny story.
The TH-camr he’s talking about is Blaine and I feel like he’s not really giving Blaine enough credit. In his video he explained everything on the dot except that one part where he said you could battle 5 and check those and reset . He should’ve said individually battle because if you individually battle it doesn’t change the next Pokémon that spawns. He just didn’t specify one thing but Austin doesn’t really seem to paint it that way.
even if you did battle 5, 1v1 you're only seeing 9/15 of a possible outbreak pool. reducing your chance of finding it by 40%. And also what if the first advance with a shiny is advance #10, slot 10? you would miss it. then the next time it generates is advance #67. you could've just made your hunt 6x longer. But also what if that one is slot 12? see where I'm going with this?
@@AustinJohnPlays could you clarify? Do you end up seeing less Pokémon total in the outbreak by battling vs. catching? Also I see where you’re going with battling multiple Pokémon randomizes the spawn order in the seed to a degree, but since we don’t know when it will appear in the sequence, doesn’t it have equal potential to speed up your shiny encounter as it does to slow it down? I can see other reasons why catching would be more convenient vs. fighting, but I don’t understand the way you explain it as if you are guaranteed to get one shiny spawn in your outbreaks and multibattles can skip over your one chance and then you are SOL. From reading the comments I suspect it’s something like battling makes you encounter duplicate Pokémon sometimes but I am unclear
Really glad I saw this today! I got a shiny Braviary from a mass outbreak (my first one with the shiny charm!) and I definitely understood the spawning thing differently. I was fighting all of them 4 at a time, so it's a miracle that my shiny still showed up. Thanks for the info!
pro tip: since single battling works to advance properly, starting a battle with a backshot will always result in a single battle! This can really help with aggressive pokemon, since getting ganged up on can make catching them all difficult. Edit: You can also get a backshot for a battle while the pokemon is aggroing you! If you can get good at dodging, you can guarantee a backshot!
Your video explains entirely the weird stuff i've witnessed in my first outbreak hunts. I went there with little knowledge, thinking every spawn after the first 4 were determined on the spot, so i saved at a distance in the patch of grass and after an outbreak was cleared, i'd reload the game. Doing all these outbreaks in proper order with only catching 1 by 1, i should never have had a shiny after a reload since it's supposed to respawn the same pokemon. But i got some shinies that way: a gligar, a rufflet and a sneasel. Then i heard more about the back and forth to camps after each wave and i could verify it with a Yanma outbreak were the alpha always popped at the same part. What i actually did in these first outbreaks was messing up the order of spawning because of battles, and advancing a shiny who'd come in the next outbreak in the one i was doing
Super interesting info about the spawn mechanics going on behind the scenes! Since I've not been hunting aggressive species yet, I've been using this catch all method you explained in a previous video anyway. Now, for when I eventually do get to the aggressive ones, I'm so glad to know for sure that it's definitely still best to stick with it! Thanks for the great content and thanks to everyone else involved in the research too :D
i’ve gotten a shiny piplup and shiny drifloon thanks to this method, thanks for making it extremely simple to understand. the fact that if i see a mass outbreak for a pokémon i like i can guarantee getting a shiny (even if it takes 2 hours like my drifloon did) is so cool to me.
Looking back it's so obvious that my hunts for aggressive pokemon took so much longer than the ones for mild and timid pokemon, thank you very much for the info Austin and everyone else mentioned. I really appreciate the research that you all put into these to help the community!
Thank you for the solid info, this will make hunts much easier being able to visualize that data table. I got my first Shiny alpha from the hippopotas outbreak it was one of the first 4 spawned and I didn’t even realize it was shiny until after catching it 😅
Hi Austin! How do the seeds function when it comes to Spacial Distortions? Are those determined when the distortion comes into existence? Or do possible distortion tables load in in advance when you come into an area? I'm trying to shiny hunt Oshawott and I can't find a ton of information on distortion spawns. Thanks!
Idk if this happens to anyone else, but sometimes when I do this my outbreak changes. Same map, just different outbreak. I also am having a hard time with new Pokemon spawning in when I'm hidden and instantly aggroing me when they aren't even looking at me
Same I do everything right! Save at camp. Go to outbreak catch till none spawn. Close game. Load back up. See same outbreak there. Go back to town. Then when I go back to map to load in its a different outbreak?
I want you to know I've been watching you for a looong time and your content is always fun to watch and done incredibly well! So thank you! Also because of you and this video I got a shiny Turtwig and I can't wait to get my shiny fire monkey next. :) Everyone have a good day today and a great Monday tomorrow.
Thank you so much Austin, I got my first ever shiny in my entire history of playing Pokémon! I enjoy your videos so much since BoTW and have been hooked ever since. Love the work you do, and only hope for the best for you
Thank you so much for this! I tried shiny hunting while watching this video and got a shiny Eevee from a mass outbreak. One step closer to shiny Umbreon :')
Caught a shiny piplup, Syther, goomy, and yanma since I watched this video last night. Thank you Austin and everyone else who worked on the amazing technique!
Took about 20+ resets and I started doubting I was doing it correctly but I got a shiny Chimchar while rewatching this. Really appreciate the video! Fun fact: I got a random shiny Wurmple while doing runs to check Chimchar.
I’ve just been doing the method you showed previously when the game was released. Prep, save, go to mass outbreak, if it’s not a shiny then I Reload, enter the village, go back to the zone with the outbreak, and repeat. I was able to catch three shinies on stream last night while explaining the method and it has never failed me. From doing this method/your methods, I’ve captured almost a box full of shinies. Great work as always John, keep up the amazing content!
Dude, this is the best guide. I've gotten so many shinies from outbreaks the last couple days doing this. It takes an average of 30 - 45 minutes for non-aggressive Pokemon. The aggressive ones take longer since I have to run away so much from failed catches, but still. Thanks for explaining things simply and thoroughly. Awesome job and a big thank-you to everyone who worked on figuring this out.
As I was watching I finally found the shiny Rotom I was hunting. Thanks Austin for the help and info even if this was just some huge coincidence Edit: Just now found and caught a shiny Hisuian Zorua this method is actually magic
Hello, yall! I am super excited, because I caught TWO shiny Happinys! They were at the same mass outbreak, spawned in same time. I really want to know how lucky I am now!
i really appreciate that you give credit to everyone who helps out with this. you also do such a great job explaining these really complicated spawns; idk if i would have understood without the letters and colors part.
A very good video with all the details you could need about shiny farming. Glad you recognized those who helped and kept the ones you had mouthed anonymous from Twitter. I still think you owe an apology for not just trying to correct but take away from someone else's work/video
I figured out this method myself and I've been slowly shiny hunting an Alpha Bidoof. I've encountered over 15 shinies (perfect dex entry, no charm) and close to 6 Alphas. The most I've had at once is 3 shinies, and I play tested that particular hunt several times and figured out that battling them in multiple formats completely messed up those guaranteed shinies. Thank you for doing this video and bringing more research into this! Also!! You CAN catch any pokemon in the area AND SAVE, as long as you do not encounter or load in the outbreak, it will not mess up the method. I've encountered 4 shiny swinubs and saved, and still had different outbreaks.
Fun fact- you are guaranteed to get a shiny from any method as long as you try for long enough. (Before you waste your time, this excludes shiny locks).
if you were to do a method of not looking at all the slots of an outbreak's advance, you can be skipping pokemon. and while the seed is infinite, there is a near-impossible (but still possible) chance that EVERY shiny will be the last slot. If you see every slot, it is impossible to miss.
@@AustinJohnPlays ok, I’ll correct myself. Correction- you are guaranteed to get a shiny from any method as long as you try for long enough and do the method fully- so not resetting before the encounter in soft resets. (Excluding shiny locks).
Really helpful! I'd been randomly battling / catching previously and getting little to no results. I prioritized catching by chance but for more aggressive ones I just battled if the first catch failed. It's obvious now I wasn't making much progress and probably missing a fair few!
Explaining this to my kids this morning after watching last night. Fun example in game as my shiny Cascoon popped on the second load 🤣 Man those Cascoon are aggressive for no apparent reason and attack in a pack! First shiny from an outbreak!
I’ve tried yours and Blaine method. I get the whole skipping part if you battle but for some reason I usually need 2-4 resets on battle. Seems always faster then catching
By the time you battle 4 times, I'd be at my 20th reset minimum. Safe to say I'd have my shiny. It feels faster because it doesn't feel as repetitive, but trust the math: more encounters=more shinies
@@zacharyleduc5392 on what kind of crack are you? 20 times restarting the game would take sooo much longer.But yeah catching and resetting is faster then just battling.
I got 3 shinies in one outbreak doing this. Gotta say a huge thanks to Austin and the community for all the testing on this method. I was already a week and a half into a hunt on a monferno outbreak with no shiny luck. I was following the steps exactly except for battling to get rid of some pesky staravia and few monferno that would would get aggressive and approach me. I watched this video and it couldn't have been more than 10 reloads with no battling at all + catching every monferno. I approached the outbreak and there was a shiny monferno, finally! I caught two others for the hell of it and I jumped when a second shiny popped up. Caught that one too and kept catching the rest of the outbreak. I was floored when the last monferno appeared and it too was shiny. Really don't know what the chances are of that but I was super happy. It made all the time spent hunting worth it. And you can bet I'll be following this method again in the future plus whatever updates come up! Thanks again Austin, you the goat. Happy hunting everyone.
This man is not lying I tried his method on shiny hunting like this, and while I kept forgetting how to actually do the method when I actually figured it out I caught a shiny scyther on my third try. My first shiny ever in any pokemon game thanks to this man.
I love watching these while I play through the game, almost finished the vid when I headed over to a Sudowoodo outbrake.. encountered an alpha shiny, I’m blown away right now lmao thinking of naming her Jolly Green, open to more name ideas! 😂
Was waiting for this. Always top quality. I saw a lot of people constantly commenting about your consistent quality and I always thought they fanboyed but I’ve followed now since sword and shield and you’ve just been so consistent
I don't know how many people know this, but I'd also like to add that if you encounter a random shiny on your way to your outbreak Pokémon, you can catch it. Return to camp and save. It won't affect the respawn of your outbreak. I've seen allot of TH-camrs who've encountered said shiny and said "oh well, I guess this is my last outbreak for this Pokémon" it really isn't! But ONLY if you have not yet seen your outbreak pokemon
Its kinda funny bc i assummed this is how it worked before hearing this method, i always just catch every Mon in an outbreak and have had really good results getting shinys, and wondered why others werent getting so lucky, thanks for the video this clarified my assumptions of catching vs battleing & should help a lot of people get their shinys faster.
Your videos are always full of Information, yet straight to the point. I’ve been using your guides since sword and shield and I was able to score a shiny Pachirisu with this method! Thanks for all the hard work you do so I don’t have too lol
I never did shiny hunts previously but I decided to do my first one the other night and succeeded thanks to this video! Granted it wasn’t originally the Pokémon I started the hunt for (Gabite) but the hunt reset to Zorua instead and so I got my shiny Zorua in 3 or 4 resets. Again thanks for the great explanation and thank you to everyone else who worked on this research!
I want to add that it's possible to get 2 shinies in 1 mass outbreak, I managed to get 2 green mint bears in one spawn. As a personal. So now as Rule I clear out the spawn regardless of shiny.
A good video idea would be how to deal with more aggressive outbreaks. Aggressive mons always overwhelm me when I try to do outbreaks of them, it'd be nice to see your tips and tricks on how to handle more aggressive outbreaks! Absolutely adore all these videos!
Smoke bombs, sticky globs, stealth spray, and berries to distract them are all your friends. Use the tools the game gives you for stealth and crowd control.
Thanks man. Your content is truly awesome. Like I just went to a Gyrados outbreak and found a shiny. My only other one is Combee, and it's not my favorite, so thank you for all your Arceus content.
Tbh im just gonna come back here and comment every new shiny to A. Help you out with that TH-cam algorithm and B. Flex on my 2 shiny petilils from a single outbreak like 30 attempts in. I've gotten shiny Gengar, Eevee, petilil (x2), luxuray, and a Mr. Mime off this method. Big props Austin!!
I’m at about 5 hours into hunting shiny growlithe and I want to die. It’s such a long walk. Me and Alpha Purugly are homies now. She watches me walk by like “oh lawd not again”.
I finally caught my first mass outbreak shiny, after a third attempt, today. Thank you for this great explanation, it was very interesting! Before today, I had only found random shinies, but being able to boost chances with outbreak and target specific pokemons is a real game changer!
@@pastelberru Yeah that's a long time, I'd be bitter too. You'll find him soon I think, this game is more fair when it comes to shiny encounters, if you put in the work you're usually rewarded. Before this one, I was never interested in shiny hunting because it was so difficult and you could spend so much time, days upon days, without finding anything. I still haven't found the one I really want though (shiny buneary) but I'm not giving up yet !
Austin John Plays, I did exactly what you said to do here with no shiny charm. I just caught shiny chimchar on my 12th advance!!! Thank you for your help to this community! I hunted gible for 86 improper advances, quit, looked at this video and boom. The only shiny I want more than Gible, chimchar.
This method ONLY works in v1.0-1.0.2.
For 1.1 check here:
th-cam.com/video/T1EAn4b2eDo/w-d-xo.html
I’ve just been sitting in cobalt coastlands waiting for a distortion for over 20 minutes
@@p0nypasta lol
Very happy this showed up in my recommended videos. Watched it last night and was playing just now and saw there was a Mime Jr. outbreak. Did everything in the video. First wave no shiny pokemon. Restarted the game went back to the outbreak. As I was approaching I saw the shiny stars animation pop out from the grass and then a split second later I saw the animation again. Since this was my first time seeing the shiny animation I just assumed the second animation was still part of the first. To my pleasant surprise when I approached the outbreak I saw two shiny Mime Jrs and caught them both!
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Finally! A video about this that not only breaks this method down in an easy to understand way, but also gives credit to the people who have put in the hours to figure out the RNG in this game. 👏🏻 Thank you for making this video and mentioning the RNG discord. I don't think enough people know how much work has gone into these findings.
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That’s all of Austin’s videos
It's not RNG. And it's not easy.
@@ThoseWhoStayUofM It’s literally rng
@@ThoseWhoStayUofM RNG is "random number generation," not randomness. Randomness is a supposedly "easy" or skill reducing element in games. The argument being that it presents outcomes even a skilled player can't perfectly control. But less control doesn't necessarily mean less skill-testing.
Now, RNG is actually pseudo-randomness. An approximation of something we're not supposed to be able to predict. But in this case, like many others, the RNG is exploitable. Austin does light RNG manipulation to *ensure* with 100% certainty a shiny will show up in the first N advances, where 1/N is the supposed chance of a shiny (it's not really because we're actually pulling from the advances *without replacement*). I forget what N is for mass outbreaks. 150 or something.
Yes it's non-trivial, but actually it IS rng.
EDIT: you are sampling the pool of advances WITH replacement when doing weird things Austin mentions like battling multiple pokes.
I haven’t watched it yet but I’m already thankful, seeing you tubers get shinies in 10 minutes while it takes me 10 hours. Yes I’m doing it right.
🙃 perfectly describes how I think you feel while typing this lol
I spent 24hrs trying to get a shiny Eevee lol.
@@hacksawjimthuggin7411 oof
I just got shiny braviary
Just got shiny shinx and dusclops on my first outbreak encounters on both 😄
You’re the man Austin!! I got a shiny eevee in FIVE MINUTES!! Thanks a bunch for making such fantastic videos- you are a great resource!
so really the only difference is to not battle any pokemon?
@@anthony7875 Yep, took him 22 minutes to explain that
This guide is so good, I've been doing the process for a little over an hour and have already gotten 2 from the 2 outbreaks I did
Just want to say I can confirm, if you get a shiny from an outbreak and then leave before finishing the outbreak, you save at camp and reset it. If the outbreak is there after you go to the village, you can farm the same shiny to fill a whole evolution chain. Or for example, farm an eevee outbreak to get enough Shiny eevee a all the eeveelutions shiny!
I’ve tried this a few times and I haven’t been able to get it to work. I catch the first shiny, go back to the village, go back to outbreak and there’s no shiny when I come back to it
Sounds too good to be true tbh
Really appreciate everyone who put in the effort for this! After watching this video, I figured I’d try it out, and I lucked into a Goomy outbreak. I didn’t track the exact number of advances I took, but within 10-15 I got my shiny Goomy! So excited to finally understand how this works so I can better shiny hunt! Thanks!
Ikr
Agreed! I'm not as far as many and have been progressing slowly, but I managed to get a shiny Shinx last night using this method! I love my little yellow boy.
I found a shiny wormpul and shiny krcketune in the wild randomly
Don’t evolve it, Shiny Hisuian Sliggoo and Goodra are so bad.
Can you write what he said to translate? Thanks
I 100% vouch this video. Based on my experience so far playing this game with over 60 shinies. You should ALWAYS just catch. I watched the video about killing 5 and I’m actually upset with how many shinies I probably missed due to a long hunt…
I did the same method and I ended up finding a fair amount of shines
I went through 50 some resets just catching to get my shiny growlithe. The video about killing 5 was more of an example that it is possible to replicate shiny from battling and that battling is in a set order. You watched the video you saw monfernape respawn for him. That means is Austin technically wrong about how battling works in this video. But Austin is 100% correct on the fact just catching is faster and easier then battling and you should just catch for the fastest shinys because of how long battle animations last and if you fail the shiny it is harder to replicate.
I probably saw that same video from some other popular TH-camr.
I even commented on that video to not listen to it and to just catch them (nobody listened to me of course). Not only is it slower to battle 5 of them than just jet ball all 15 that show up in an outbreak, but you are just not even checking the ones you skip. You are purposefully slowing down your chance for a shiny and lowering your odds. It is stupid. And with a shiny charm and 10 in the Pokedex you have a pretty high chance for a shiny to show up in an outbreak (way more than past games).
Yet people just believe them because they are popular. Without proper testing, knowledge of basic statistics, and randomness it should have been obvious from the beginning that 5 kill method is flawed. Worse is the video I saw they got a shiny in 5 attempts. This could have been edited (we have no clue how many actual attempts it was), if it wasn't edited then that just means they got lucky. That doesn't prove a method works faster than another. It made me mad
Getting shinies in this game is really easy and fun. Don't screw your life over with convoluted random chance methods.
@@GoldenScizor Same, even Double Shiny roselia i got With the "Battle Method" but yeah catching is the best and onlyst
The other guy...blaines....corrected his info way before this video came out...and explained himself....both he and Austin are great for content..and both are right with their info.
Thank you Austin John. I just caught my shiny Growlithe with your help. Before, my mass outbreaks would keep disappearing because I was saving at the outbreak. But now that I’m only saving at the camp, they won’t despawn. Keep up the GREAT content!!
I think they patched the outbreaks with the new update. I can no longer get my outbreak back after traveling to the village to reset it.
Same
Same
Shiny hunting the starter that I couldn’t get in BDSP. This is going to make my life so much easier thanks Austin
SAME. This morning I wanted to hunt for shiny Piplup cause I spent so many hours trying to get one in BDSP. After like 30 minutes of hunting I found one! Good luck to you on your hunt!
Same, I spent about a hundred hours trying to get turtwig then I just gave up because of being very burnt out and ultimately decided to just play the game and then literally the first turtwig outbreak I did in legends arceus I got a shiny turtwig.
@@Straight_White_Fatherly_Figure I also watch him. It’s decently easy no tutorial needed. Blaine’s also has some misinformation though because you should catch bot kill the Pokémon even Austin states it at some point in the vid
Man this video definitely helped explained what happened when I found a shiny voltorb. I was originally knocking out voltorb's through battles and ended up finding the shiny after a couple KO's. Unfortunately it decided to blow up but thankfully I had saved the game at camp. Unbeknownst to me, knowing I had just saved I wanted the shiny asap so I decided to catch all the voltorb's and not battle any of them. I was so shocked to not see the shiny show up that I decided to reset and go back to the original method of knocking the voltorb's out until the original shiny one appeared again. Great vid of help explaining what happened!🤠
I'm sad because this didn't work for my tyrunt in shield my box were full went to my last save did everything the same and encountered a non shiny one
@@Tobi202 you can’t save for shiny Pokémon on previous games
@@Scramb1edEggz0 i know what he said in the video 😌 anyway thanks for the reminder still
I was so confused yesterday when a shiny Barboach spawned in my outbreak. I quit the game and reloaded from camp because they killed me with mud before I could catch it, and I expected to just encounter it again, but it didn't show up.. This is likely why - I was sometimes battling the spawns, and sometimes catching. Thanks for clarifying this! :)
If your behaviour is consistent, the spawns are consistent.
Your only option for recovering a failed Outbreak shiny is: "Repeat your exact actions prior to the shiny spawning."
If you just catch all of them in the overworld, that's an easy sequence to repeat. But if you did some combination of catching and battling and multi-battling, you better hope you had been recording so you can replay the footage and match it.
For sure, knowing that behavior will affect spawns in this way is huge. I definitely would have tracked the event sequences had I known, and I will only be dealing with them one at a time from now on. Luckily, I found another shiny pretty quickly after proceeding per the video :)
Thank you for your efforts in developing this method!
Glad about this because I was just playing now and found a shiny Zorua from a mass outbreak by doing what this vid says thanks 🙏🏻
I dont understand i know I’m late but whenever I re-zone the outbreak is gone and no matter how many times I do it it’s still gone
Absolutely LOVE THIS. I've been trying to get a shiny Scyther for the past 2 days. Came across this video and took some tips, BAM, shiny Scyther in less than 20 minutes. It's super effective!
ive used this method and i’m half way to a full box of shinies its like a water pulse on a rhydon
@@GR1MR34P3R420 Lol. It is!
Bro, I got my shiny scyther 2 try, it was my 3 shiny in the game the first 3 I got in less than 30 min, the fouth started to take a wille
@@FernandesTiago sweet my first was luxray it ran up to me and bit me so i knew it was fate 😂
@@GR1MR34P3R420 LOL shiny luxray is amazing, nice catch
I've had two shiny spawn on the first time entering a outbreak, so there's definitely a seed for that lol
Me too. A Croagunk and a bidoof evolution
Yeah whatever is in the first batch is definitely pre-seeded. Currently hunting an Alpha male Zorua to evolve and I got an Alpha finally but a female unfortunately which was in the first group on that particular outbreak check. Zorua is one of those Pokémon that doesn’t have 50/50 gender split, only 11.86% to be female. Reset and rechecked the same outbreak. Alpha female in the initial group again. Those odds speak for themselves.
Both of the shinies I have happened that way too
I had this for Magmar! I thought to myself, “i don’t need a Magmar, but i’ll check out the mass outbreak anyways” when i got there, i heard the shiny sound (shiny magmar is pink so i had trouble telling a difference from a distance) i only saw three, and one looked different, but then the fourth walked out from behind a rock, and it was shiny too XD i got 2 shiny’s out of the 4 beginning spawns XD
Literally same this be crazy 😭
Just wanted to say that using this method I caught two shiny eevee and an alpha within 15 minutes of each other at the same outbreak in Alabaster Icelands. The alpha and the first shiny spawned together, I caught them, left back to jubilife, and then back to snowfields camp. Saved, checked the outbreak, no shiny's, went back to jubilife, and back to camp to save. Repeated two - three times before the second shiny.
I am on my 30th adance an still no shiny eevee so yeah mileage def varies
as of right now i think the newest update has messed with this method
When he said, “If it isn’t one of the first four, don’t save when the shiny shows up…” My shiny Zorua felt that and the fact that I don’t have one almost made me rage quit
I'm confused. If the shiny shows up, why wouldn't you save before attempting the catch? I watched the whole video so maybe I'm just slow, and I missed something... This is a genuine question.
@@adamgrotto8163 im not exactly sure but i think if you save mid outbreak it messes things up. You're guaranteed to still get the shiny in that outbreak by just reloading your most recent save at camp.
@@adamgrotto8163 So that was the general idea when the game first launched, however I lost a shiny by doing this. I was hunting Qwilfish and towards the end of the seed a shiny spawned. I popped a save and then went to engage it. Well like a dummy I used slash instead of false swipe and knocked it out. I hard reset, loaded back up and was at my above save point, however all the Qwilfish, including the shiny were gone. However if I hadn't dropped that save, I would have loaded at the camp and all of the same Qwilfish (including the shiny) would have still been there. Since I switched to this method I've not lost a shiny.
A genuine follow up question: Is this implied to avoid having the shiny run or "lose it"? What happens if I catch my shiny during the outbreak, can I just keep moving forward with my game and save after catch?
@@alancarrillo8286 yeah, once you catch the shiny you're good to drop a hard save.
Hey Austin, I just want to say that I had first come across your channel when I was playing Sun & Moon and needed some tips on Pokemon locations, and I subscribed IMMEDIATELY. Followed your journey since then and you're the TH-camr look forward to the most when it comes to Pokemon tutorials! Keep up the great work man! - Sincerely, a fan
Took a huge break from pokemon outside of playing colosseum/XD every couple years and came back for ultra moon. This man singlehandedly carried me in that playthrough
Thank you for making this video!
We miss your videos Holly, I hope all is okay
oh my god i was shiny hunting as watching this and when you found that shiny hippo i thought it was my game. got so excited for the rilou 😭
So, now that the update has seemingly undone the method of reseting the seed, I'm wondering if intentionally double battling things to advance the code before saving and checking the outbreak will work.
Though I'm guessing whatever this new Mass Outbreak of outbreaks is, there's going to be new shiny hunting methods
I was wondering if this was the case, I noticed that after updating to version 1.1 im having issues getting the outbreak again after restarting the game.
I’m having the same problem
Try saving before you enter an area with an outbreak, I tried this and I seem to be getting different results.
@@adronikos7822 do you get different results if you save in jubilife village? For example if there was a Geodude outbreak in Obsidian Fields, save in Jubilife, enter fields, clear outbreak, then reset, would that give you a different set once you enter again?
I was looking for a comment explaining this issue, I'm glad I'm not the only one having troubles to find the same outbreak after reseting...
The typo on Height being repeated 11 times in the table hurt my head. That being said - I love how informative this video is, so much collated info from trustworthy sources. And explained in a very intuitive way.
Prolly just copypasted lol
I had to stop the video as I found I had not heard anything he said for a good 30 sec as I was like looking at the typo
Did you miss the typo of advances? Haha now you gotta go back and watch it. We are all human 😁
I was going to say the same thing! Is spell check no longer a thing? Takes less than 30 seconds.
Just updated and can't use this exploit anymore. It won't let me return to the mass outbreak after returning to Jubilife. Anyone else with the same issue?
I appreciate the effort the community puts into understanding the mechanics of the game. Thank you everyone 🤙🏼
Let's continue to refine everyone's understanding in a tactful manner, and build each other up. Including other creators. Great video 👌🏼
Yeah including Blaines
@@notoriousnite nah racists don’t deserve respect
Blaine often posts misinformation in a rush for views
@@dakotaracine8842 He posts experiments that show new information the community isn't aware of and encourages the community to experiment themselves and try to figure out the actual truth. This video is Austin admitting he and the rest of the community weren't entirely right before. Blaines proved you can experiment and produce different results within the same outbreak which was believed to not be the case before then. Atrius just hates him apparently. So they made a video to bash him while admitting he was right without accepting they admitted he proved them wrong. And the 1v1 battles don't generate different spawns from catching or fleeing pokemon. It's only multi-battles. It's going to be interesting to see the experiments continue to see if you can be guaranteed a shiny in one outbreak encounter without going back to jubilife or not via progression by 1, 2, 3, or 4 spawns at a time because doing the same outbreak 4 times would still be faster than going back to Jubilife 14 times. And nobody fully knows the seeding besides the makers of the game. Everyone is still guessing.
@@dakotaracine8842 ^^^
Thank you for the video! Definitely seems like something fun to do in the post game.
The way this method seems to work in my head is similar to the old days where you save before a legendary and then reset until it you see a shiny. My understanding is that when you exit to jubilife, you reset the spawn tables from square 1. Maybe that’s not how the code works, but essentially what we’re doing is that
While typing this comment it clicked for me. As an example, let’s say a shiny bidoof is set for the 23rd seed/spawn.
We go see 10 bidoof on the first run, reset back to Jubilfe. Then since we know 1-10 will not be shiny, the tables is now spawns 11-20, and when we see none of those are shiny, we go back to jubilife and now see 21-30, one of which being a shiny bidoof. You explained this in the video but after trying to think through it again, this makes sense
Really awesome job to everyone involved to figure out that’s how it works. Thanks again, and good luck everyone!!
I found a mass outbreak of carnivine, then went right to this guide. Everything was going well until I accidently saved at camp before reloading or shutting off my game, so I knew I was screwed. I went back to end the outbreak, but found out that I missed the shiny that appeared in the initial outbreak... Funny story.
I’ve found four shinies today using this method. Riolu, croagunk, floatzel and basculin. So glad we truly know what we’re doing now
I’m still looking for a riolu outbreak
When I first saw a video like this I got 5 shinies that day
The TH-camr he’s talking about is Blaine and I feel like he’s not really giving Blaine enough credit. In his video he explained everything on the dot except that one part where he said you could battle 5 and check those and reset . He should’ve said individually battle because if you individually battle it doesn’t change the next Pokémon that spawns. He just didn’t specify one thing but Austin doesn’t really seem to paint it that way.
even if you did battle 5, 1v1 you're only seeing 9/15 of a possible outbreak pool. reducing your chance of finding it by 40%. And also what if the first advance with a shiny is advance #10, slot 10? you would miss it. then the next time it generates is advance #67. you could've just made your hunt 6x longer. But also what if that one is slot 12? see where I'm going with this?
@@AustinJohnPlays could you clarify? Do you end up seeing less Pokémon total in the outbreak by battling vs. catching?
Also I see where you’re going with battling multiple Pokémon randomizes the spawn order in the seed to a degree, but since we don’t know when it will appear in the sequence, doesn’t it have equal potential to speed up your shiny encounter as it does to slow it down?
I can see other reasons why catching would be more convenient vs. fighting, but I don’t understand the way you explain it as if you are guaranteed to get one shiny spawn in your outbreaks and multibattles can skip over your one chance and then you are SOL.
From reading the comments I suspect it’s something like battling makes you encounter duplicate Pokémon sometimes but I am unclear
Hey everyone, unfortunately this method NO LONGER WORKS after the Daybreak (1.1.0) update!!
Really glad I saw this today! I got a shiny Braviary from a mass outbreak (my first one with the shiny charm!) and I definitely understood the spawning thing differently. I was fighting all of them 4 at a time, so it's a miracle that my shiny still showed up. Thanks for the info!
As of version 1.1.0 this is no longer viable
pro tip: since single battling works to advance properly, starting a battle with a backshot will always result in a single battle! This can really help with aggressive pokemon, since getting ganged up on can make catching them all difficult.
Edit: You can also get a backshot for a battle while the pokemon is aggroing you! If you can get good at dodging, you can guarantee a backshot!
he mentioned this in the video
Backshot
Most Pokemon can be stunned along you to set up for a very easy back shot, except for alphas they cannot be stunned.
@@mr.j4924 they can be stunned with four sticky globs or a lot of mud
@@Qbular ah okay I always stopped at 3 thinking it wasn't gonna work ty.
I wish I could've seen this yesterday when I got a zoroark outbreak :,)
there will alwasy be more :)
I wish you did too, but hey one day it will come again right ?
Wait Zoroark itself can get an outbreak? I thought only Zorua could.
I didnt even know this pokemon had an outbreak lol
I mean if it makes you feel better I failed a Stantler outbreak because when I reset the outbreak disappeared :\
You doing the Lord’s work, Austin. I’m still wrapping my head around this, but this video was helpful!
I’m trying to do this, but my outbreak keeps disappearing when I go back to the city. How do I make the outbreak stay when I reroll?
Your video explains entirely the weird stuff i've witnessed in my first outbreak hunts.
I went there with little knowledge, thinking every spawn after the first 4 were determined on the spot, so i saved at a distance in the patch of grass and after an outbreak was cleared, i'd reload the game. Doing all these outbreaks in proper order with only catching 1 by 1, i should never have had a shiny after a reload since it's supposed to respawn the same pokemon.
But i got some shinies that way: a gligar, a rufflet and a sneasel. Then i heard more about the back and forth to camps after each wave and i could verify it with a Yanma outbreak were the alpha always popped at the same part.
What i actually did in these first outbreaks was messing up the order of spawning because of battles, and advancing a shiny who'd come in the next outbreak in the one i was doing
Super interesting info about the spawn mechanics going on behind the scenes! Since I've not been hunting aggressive species yet, I've been using this catch all method you explained in a previous video anyway. Now, for when I eventually do get to the aggressive ones, I'm so glad to know for sure that it's definitely still best to stick with it! Thanks for the great content and thanks to everyone else involved in the research too :D
Very informative and well explained on the method and theories. Keep up the fantastic work Austin!
I am gonna miss lots of shiny Pokémon, because I really love to battle in this game, because it fell so good, so fluid. 😔
i’ve gotten a shiny piplup and shiny drifloon thanks to this method, thanks for making it extremely simple to understand. the fact that if i see a mass outbreak for a pokémon i like i can guarantee getting a shiny (even if it takes 2 hours like my drifloon did) is so cool to me.
Is going back to the village necessary? I've been trying to get past that step for half an hour now, and it always despawns the outbreak.
Looking back it's so obvious that my hunts for aggressive pokemon took so much longer than the ones for mild and timid pokemon, thank you very much for the info Austin and everyone else mentioned.
I really appreciate the research that you all put into these to help the community!
Thank you for the solid info, this will make hunts much easier being able to visualize that data table. I got my first Shiny alpha from the hippopotas outbreak it was one of the first 4 spawned and I didn’t even realize it was shiny until after catching it 😅
Hi Austin! How do the seeds function when it comes to Spacial Distortions? Are those determined when the distortion comes into existence? Or do possible distortion tables load in in advance when you come into an area? I'm trying to shiny hunt Oshawott and I can't find a ton of information on distortion spawns. Thanks!
When I talk to the professor and go back to the village and back to the area…. The outbreak isn’t there no more, what am I doing wrong?
Idk if this happens to anyone else, but sometimes when I do this my outbreak changes. Same map, just different outbreak. I also am having a hard time with new Pokemon spawning in when I'm hidden and instantly aggroing me when they aren't even looking at me
Same for me, I was shiny hunting Zorua but the outbreak is now a Gardevoir outbreak
Same I do everything right! Save at camp. Go to outbreak catch till none spawn. Close game. Load back up. See same outbreak there. Go back to town. Then when I go back to map to load in its a different outbreak?
I want you to know I've been watching you for a looong time and your content is always fun to watch and done incredibly well! So thank you! Also because of you and this video I got a shiny Turtwig and I can't wait to get my shiny fire monkey next. :) Everyone have a good day today and a great Monday tomorrow.
Thank you so much Austin, I got my first ever shiny in my entire history of playing Pokémon! I enjoy your videos so much since BoTW and have been hooked ever since. Love the work you do, and only hope for the best for you
Thank you so much for this! I tried shiny hunting while watching this video and got a shiny Eevee from a mass outbreak. One step closer to shiny Umbreon :')
Caught a shiny piplup, Syther, goomy, and yanma since I watched this video last night.
Thank you Austin and everyone else who worked on the amazing technique!
So how do you get a shiny?
Austin: "Well, gotta catch 'em all!"
Took about 20+ resets and I started doubting I was doing it correctly but I got a shiny Chimchar while rewatching this. Really appreciate the video!
Fun fact: I got a random shiny Wurmple while doing runs to check Chimchar.
I can't get the outbreak to return! :(
@@conconaflak221 this method doesn’t work anymore.
Thanks for replying!
Thank you so much, I immediately tried it out with a Finneon outbreak and had 2 shiny Finneon on my 6th advance :D
I’ve just been doing the method you showed previously when the game was released. Prep, save, go to mass outbreak, if it’s not a shiny then I Reload, enter the village, go back to the zone with the outbreak, and repeat. I was able to catch three shinies on stream last night while explaining the method and it has never failed me. From doing this method/your methods, I’ve captured almost a box full of shinies. Great work as always John, keep up the amazing content!
glad to hear it! now you just know some refinements to make it even better!
Where do you stream?
@@panch9960 Twitch, it’s my Username, just not trying to self promo on johns video.
@@AustinJohnPlays Exactly, all thanks to you homie, been following your content for awhile now as it’s easy to follow and super informative!
Dude, this is the best guide. I've gotten so many shinies from outbreaks the last couple days doing this. It takes an average of 30 - 45 minutes for non-aggressive Pokemon. The aggressive ones take longer since I have to run away so much from failed catches, but still.
Thanks for explaining things simply and thoroughly. Awesome job and a big thank-you to everyone who worked on figuring this out.
As I was watching I finally found the shiny Rotom I was hunting. Thanks Austin for the help and info even if this was just some huge coincidence
Edit: Just now found and caught a shiny Hisuian Zorua this method is actually magic
Hello, yall! I am super excited, because I caught TWO shiny Happinys! They were at the same mass outbreak, spawned in same time. I really want to know how lucky I am now!
Austin! I got a shiny Arcanine! He’s such a good boy.
THE BEST BOY!
You're the man Austin!! Literally the only source of information I need for my games. Spoiler free too. Much appriciated!
i really appreciate that you give credit to everyone who helps out with this. you also do such a great job explaining these really complicated spawns; idk if i would have understood without the letters and colors part.
A very good video with all the details you could need about shiny farming. Glad you recognized those who helped and kept the ones you had mouthed anonymous from Twitter. I still think you owe an apology for not just trying to correct but take away from someone else's work/video
I figured out this method myself and I've been slowly shiny hunting an Alpha Bidoof. I've encountered over 15 shinies (perfect dex entry, no charm) and close to 6 Alphas. The most I've had at once is 3 shinies, and I play tested that particular hunt several times and figured out that battling them in multiple formats completely messed up those guaranteed shinies.
Thank you for doing this video and bringing more research into this!
Also!! You CAN catch any pokemon in the area AND SAVE, as long as you do not encounter or load in the outbreak, it will not mess up the method. I've encountered 4 shiny swinubs and saved, and still had different outbreaks.
Fun fact- you are guaranteed to get a shiny from any method as long as you try for long enough. (Before you waste your time, this excludes shiny locks).
if you were to do a method of not looking at all the slots of an outbreak's advance, you can be skipping pokemon. and while the seed is infinite, there is a near-impossible (but still possible) chance that EVERY shiny will be the last slot. If you see every slot, it is impossible to miss.
@@AustinJohnPlays ok, I’ll correct myself.
Correction- you are guaranteed to get a shiny from any method as long as you try for long enough and do the method fully- so not resetting before the encounter in soft resets. (Excluding shiny locks).
Really helpful! I'd been randomly battling / catching previously and getting little to no results. I prioritized catching by chance but for more aggressive ones I just battled if the first catch failed. It's obvious now I wasn't making much progress and probably missing a fair few!
Explaining this to my kids this morning after watching last night. Fun example in game as my shiny Cascoon popped on the second load 🤣
Man those Cascoon are aggressive for no apparent reason and attack in a pack!
First shiny from an outbreak!
Poketuber: Don't fight the wild Pokemon.
Poketuber: Now them's fighting words.
his energy seems to have mellowed out since the last time I watched a video of his, years ago. Nice
I’ve tried yours and Blaine method. I get the whole skipping part if you battle but for some reason I usually need 2-4 resets on battle. Seems always faster then catching
How many times did battling work for you?
By the time you battle 4 times, I'd be at my 20th reset minimum. Safe to say I'd have my shiny. It feels faster because it doesn't feel as repetitive, but trust the math: more encounters=more shinies
@@zacharyleduc5392 on what kind of crack are you? 20 times restarting the game would take sooo much longer.But yeah catching and resetting is faster then just battling.
@@revolver2750 Fighting 3 waves of 4 pokemons 4 times takes a really long time
1-4x
THE NEW UPDATE BROKE THIS NOOOO
Nah bro, you worked WAY too hard on this video for me to skip to 16:00. Get your view time king, thanks for another amazing video!
I got 3 shinies in one outbreak doing this.
Gotta say a huge thanks to Austin and the community for all the testing on this method. I was already a week and a half into a hunt on a monferno outbreak with no shiny luck. I was following the steps exactly except for battling to get rid of some pesky staravia and few monferno that would would get aggressive and approach me.
I watched this video and it couldn't have been more than 10 reloads with no battling at all + catching every monferno. I approached the outbreak and there was a shiny monferno, finally! I caught two others for the hell of it and I jumped when a second shiny popped up. Caught that one too and kept catching the rest of the outbreak. I was floored when the last monferno appeared and it too was shiny.
Really don't know what the chances are of that but I was super happy. It made all the time spent hunting worth it. And you can bet I'll be following this method again in the future plus whatever updates come up!
Thanks again Austin, you the goat. Happy hunting everyone.
This man is not lying I tried his method on shiny hunting like this, and while I kept forgetting how to actually do the method when I actually figured it out I caught a shiny scyther on my third try. My first shiny ever in any pokemon game thanks to this man.
Love this series keep it up!
9:15 even in a 4v1: as long as you only kill/catch one and then run, it will achieve the same result
No because there’s still a chance of a jump when battle is initiated..
@@dylanduke1075 i did so many testings. from what i have experienced: it don't happen.
but maybe i just have to play lotto
@@prixtn how are you sure it doesn’t?
@@dylanduke1075 idk if you're joking rn
@@prixtn what??
I love watching these while I play through the game, almost finished the vid when I headed over to a Sudowoodo outbrake.. encountered an alpha shiny, I’m blown away right now lmao thinking of naming her Jolly Green, open to more name ideas! 😂
Was waiting for this. Always top quality. I saw a lot of people constantly commenting about your consistent quality and I always thought they fanboyed but I’ve followed now since sword and shield and you’ve just been so consistent
Ah, such an informative video. And here I was purposefully aggroing 4 skunktank at a time to go through them faster
Thanks for all the info you have been giving us I really appreciate it ❤️ keep up the amazing work
I’ve been following all the steps, but when I reload I never get the same outbreak right after.
I'm also getting the same result. If someone could @ me of they have an answer?
@@elgordo2162 I looked into it. The recent updates ruined this method. So newer methods are needed. You can find a newer method on Austin’s channel.
@@clowncarnival6208 which video, sorry? I can’t seem to find it
@@rodrigomejiarodriguez1197 it’s the pinned comment on this bid
I think they patched it
Love you
Love you too, Noah, who was first :)
This is the first time a shiny hunting method ever worked for me, in like 20 years of playing pokemon
You're the Road Dogg of the Pokemon community!!! Big ups to you for this video!
I don't know how many people know this, but I'd also like to add that if you encounter a random shiny on your way to your outbreak Pokémon, you can catch it. Return to camp and save. It won't affect the respawn of your outbreak. I've seen allot of TH-camrs who've encountered said shiny and said "oh well, I guess this is my last outbreak for this Pokémon" it really isn't! But ONLY if you have not yet seen your outbreak pokemon
this explains why i keep getting shinys every other outbreak i never battle just throw balls wildily and try and catch as many as possible.
My outbreak isn't coming back after I re zone and after I reload. Anyway to fix this?
Its kinda funny bc i assummed this is how it worked before hearing this method, i always just catch every Mon in an outbreak and have had really good results getting shinys, and wondered why others werent getting so lucky, thanks for the video this clarified my assumptions of catching vs battleing & should help a lot of people get their shinys faster.
Your videos are always full of Information, yet straight to the point. I’ve been using your guides since sword and shield and I was able to score a shiny Pachirisu with this method! Thanks for all the hard work you do so I don’t have too lol
This also means that if you catch a shiny before the outbreak is over if you battle 2+ Pokémon of the outbreak you might proc the shiny seed again.
I never did shiny hunts previously but I decided to do my first one the other night and succeeded thanks to this video! Granted it wasn’t originally the Pokémon I started the hunt for (Gabite) but the hunt reset to Zorua instead and so I got my shiny Zorua in 3 or 4 resets. Again thanks for the great explanation and thank you to everyone else who worked on this research!
I want to add that it's possible to get 2 shinies in 1 mass outbreak, I managed to get 2 green mint bears in one spawn. As a personal. So now as Rule I clear out the spawn regardless of shiny.
A good video idea would be how to deal with more aggressive outbreaks. Aggressive mons always overwhelm me when I try to do outbreaks of them, it'd be nice to see your tips and tricks on how to handle more aggressive outbreaks! Absolutely adore all these videos!
Smoke bombs, sticky globs, stealth spray, and berries to distract them are all your friends. Use the tools the game gives you for stealth and crowd control.
Thanks man. Your content is truly awesome. Like I just went to a Gyrados outbreak and found a shiny. My only other one is Combee, and it's not my favorite, so thank you for all your Arceus content.
Tbh im just gonna come back here and comment every new shiny to A. Help you out with that TH-cam algorithm and B. Flex on my 2 shiny petilils from a single outbreak like 30 attempts in. I've gotten shiny Gengar, Eevee, petilil (x2), luxuray, and a Mr. Mime off this method. Big props Austin!!
I’m at about 5 hours into hunting shiny growlithe and I want to die. It’s such a long walk. Me and Alpha Purugly are homies now. She watches me walk by like “oh lawd not again”.
I finally caught my first mass outbreak shiny, after a third attempt, today. Thank you for this great explanation, it was very interesting! Before today, I had only found random shinies, but being able to boost chances with outbreak and target specific pokemons is a real game changer!
Wow third attempt. I have tried for 6 hours for one pokemon. Yes im bitter sorry 😭
@@pastelberru Yeah that's a long time, I'd be bitter too. You'll find him soon I think, this game is more fair when it comes to shiny encounters, if you put in the work you're usually rewarded. Before this one, I was never interested in shiny hunting because it was so difficult and you could spend so much time, days upon days, without finding anything. I still haven't found the one I really want though (shiny buneary) but I'm not giving up yet !
The only part I'm confused about is, outbreaks don't last forever. I sometimes can only go back to town 2 times before they vanish.
Austin John Plays, I did exactly what you said to do here with no shiny charm. I just caught shiny chimchar on my 12th advance!!! Thank you for your help to this community!
I hunted gible for 86 improper advances, quit, looked at this video and boom. The only shiny I want more than Gible, chimchar.