I think a toggle would actually be the best option, either have it the way it is now or follow the Switch clock. Knowing how GameFreak is with options though...
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I think a toggle would actually be the best option, either have it the way it is now or follow the Switch clock. Knowing how GameFreak is with options though...
A bit late responding to this but you actually don't need to equip the leaders crest to evolve Bisharp, I was evolving my shiny one and just beat 3 of the Bisharp leading raids and levelled it up and that was it, I think the important thing is that it beats 3 Bisharp holding the item, not holding it itself. The item itself is useless
Edit: lol I was really behind on this thread and missed the whole discussion, ignore me
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I actually chuckled out loud that Arven showed no real aptitude for battling all storyline, and if you go battle him right after finishing up the Titan plot he just jumps up 15 levels from anything you've seen up to then
quite the short term glow up
I remember this being super cool back in G/S days (you even have trains that only runs on a certain day!) but yeah there's a reason it's not here anymore or not many games picked this mechanic.
Daily events would be cool, though. Like a beach party in Levincia every Sunday. But if there's a gameplay bonus tied to it people would just bitch and min-max it, and if there's none it's just another feature on top of an already crumbling game.
Can anyone confirm shiny hunting steps? My rates give me the feeling I'm missing one. I aim for outbreaks and get the 60 kills. Usually I'll save here and reset the spawns a good load of times to very little success. If I get sick of failing this way I reload the save and make up some herba mystica and I've still not even had a shiny with these either.
So far ive had 2 but one was a lucky find and the other showed up unreasonably fast on reset, but get the feeling my odds are still well over 1 in 2000 at this rate cause I havent seen one for a few days despite actively hunting them.
I figured rates would be closer to Arceus with no shiny charm if using mystica but im not really seeing any noticable difference. When I look up others using it theyre getting the target shiny with time to spare hunting others in the wild, often with success, so I figure I'm missing something critical here.
So far ive had 2 but one was a lucky find and the other showed up unreasonably fast on reset, but get the feeling my odds are still well over 1 in 2000 at this rate cause I havent seen one for a few days despite actively hunting them.
I figured rates would be closer to Arceus with no shiny charm if using mystica but im not really seeing any noticable difference. When I look up others using it theyre getting the target shiny with time to spare hunting others in the wild, often with success, so I figure I'm missing something critical here.
I thought the same as I beat the last titan around level 27, but apparently that one was supposed to be level 55. Essentially there should be no spike as the levels are appropriately matched, but the titan fights are disproportionately easy and can be cheesed beyond belief so it comes out as a spike regardless.
yeah the moment you go online it'll disappear
though I also thought the raids changed every day at 12:00AM
I've had my Switch on airplane mode and the Charizard raid keeps appearing. Once you connect online it'll go away.
Odds are 1/1365 if you beat 60, 1/683 with sandwich. Are you sure you've beaten 60? The prompt that shows up isn't always accurate. Pokemon Arceus shiny odds were the same, you could see/hear them which made the difference.
Yeah I count to 65 to be sure as that message seems to vary by how many pokemon a given spawn has too. Sometimes I'll push an extra 5 or 10 to be just before the final warning before they clear out too.
I do wonder if the shiny sound is part of the reason. Not just due to the easy cue but also, in this game in particular, I'm seeing a lot of these spawn behind me, and a fair chunk inside rocks when a cliff is nearby, so I'm wondering if I'm missing some that spawn too.
Thats interesting.
I guess its a few more chances to farm it
It definitely seems like Pokemon are spawning in rocks in some areas. Its also very frustrating doing the spawns in the water.
I can confirm it totally works eventually though as I got this little lad last night after doing my first outbreak spawn (no sandwich power but i have the shiny charm)
In that case it's probably just bad luck. Yeah, you might be missing some spawns. That's why I don't really hunt (I breed instead). It's often hard to tell what's part of the outbreak and what's a normal spawn, so you might not be hitting 60 in some instances.
You can even make a semi-decent build with Zard because it gets Belly Drum, and you can pair it up with Koraidon to get Solar Power going for some big damage.
But considering the average Charizard User, they probably just think "Fire Blast Good" and run with that alone. Oh voy...
You can always ask in the trading thread! I can help you in an hour or so but if you need one sooner, maybe Kyuuji is available to help out now.
oooh golden Forretress looks awesomeIt definitely seems like Pokemon are spawning in rocks in some areas. Its also very frustrating doing the spawns in the water.
I can confirm it totally works eventually though as I got this little lad last night after doing my first outbreak spawn (no sandwich power but i have the shiny charm)
Weird that they reduced the number of boxes back down from 40 in BDSP. Going for the shiny S/V Living Dex but not going to have much space left for the DLC.
Some of the shinies definitely seem like they've had some extra effort put into them. Golden Magikarp for example actually has a metallic sheen not present on normal Magikarp.
I can't seem to find the trading thread, but I can wait 1 hour without issues. Thanks for the generosity! Never traded I this game so when you're available, could you please send me the code to trade? Thanks!!
Yep! I actually caught one
It's got a really nice golden shader on it
For all the graphics issues with the overworld and the framerate, they went way out for the Pokemon textures and models this time. They all got awesome remakes compared to the old XY models and animations they had been using since the early 3DS
Yeah its really cool that some of the shinies have different textures to them! Offhand besides Magikarp I know that Rellor has an entirely different texture:
EDIT: Ninja'd by Razmos lmfao
Forretress is interesting because I never really thought about it being metallic. Here's my original PINED from Platinum that's in Home right now:
How good is Cetitan Considered for Raids? It's got Belly Drum, Sheer Force and Icicle Crash as mighty combo, might be worth trying to create one.
It would probably be pretty decent if you focus on HP and Attack. I'm building most of my raid mons with HP and the relevant attacking stat. It seems like it would work really well
The main combos seem to be...
1. A Way to build up Attack Stats fast (EIther with Belly Drum or moves like Torch Song and Charge Beam)
2. A Way to Heal Over Time (Either with health restoring moves like Drain Punch or Bitter Edge, or using the Shell Bell item)
Cetitan is an Ice Type which isn't great defensively... but then again, it's a Raid so you know what moves they'll be throwing out. So I'll look into it.
Even stuff like... Population Bomb?
Oh geez, if that's so, Maushold is pretty much going to be a VGC Staple this entire gen.
2000 spawns is at the higher end of expectations of an outbreak with shiny charm, but it isn't a given. You'd need approximately 6,000 checks for a 99.99% chance.
I pretty much exclusively do outbreaks since I never get herba mystica. Yesterday I got two finizen incredibly quickly, under a half hour; two flittle in a little over an hour; one sinistea in almost 3 hours with another two spent looking for a second.
It definitely gets frustrating when you keep track like that but it doesn't seem busted or anything.
Shiny hunting in this game is so boring. Overworld shiny hunting is as boring as Masuda Method now, except you can do Masuda Method while doing something else but overworld hunting requires your undivided attention so that you can tell if this one pixel is color #BCB9B8 and not color #BCB9B7.
Really, really hope they add the shiny sound/sparkle at some point. Makes absolutely no sense why that was removed from Arceuus and LGP/LGE.
Can you give an example of what you consider to be a fun shiny hunting method? Pretty much every shiny hunt I've ever done, regardless of method, involves some boredom and tedium. Probably the most "engaged" I've ever been in a shiny hunt was Catch Combo chaining in Let's Go Eevee, and even that gives way to tedium. I'd say overworld shiny hunting in Legends Arceus and S/V is probably the best time-to-effort ratio shiny hunt there's ever been.
Both different kinds of outbreaks in Arceus had much better odds.
I'd prefer something like LGPE or shiny chains like in BDSP. They may take more time and are prone to breaking your chain, but that introduces a risk/reward element (aka gameplay) and you usually get to use your Pokemon (more gameplay) and can involve elements of planning like picking the right chaining moveset and stocking up on supplies (more gameplay). Obviously anything you have to do 2000 times is going to involve some amount of tedium.
Between the two, PLA was the better form of this (clearing the outbreaks had more gameplay than using Let's Go Mode to count to 60 then resetting picnics, and the chime + glow helped).
I think this is way better than Masuda Method personally, though even that has improved in this game with the changes to breeding in general. I like looking for the shinies and then resetting with a picnic, but I don't think this was intended. I think you were just supposed to fully clear an outbreak and have fewer chances with the better odds. I think the picnic reset was an oversight.
I hate Masuda hunting but I've been digging this. Already got a box and a half full of Shiny Pokémon for my Living Shiny Dex. Getting as many as I can just in case they plug the Picnic bit like they did with resetting Mass Outbreaks in Legends 1.1
Just wish there was a notifier for the small Pokémon like Flabébé. Tried to hunt a Tadbulb but na
I definitely agree that they need to bring back some kind of more noticeable visual effect or a sound effect to help better spot a shiny in S/V. My guess as to why they took it out would be to avoid confusion with the overworld terastalizing Pokemon.
I do get annoyed from time to time by people that clearly haven't actually played the game (like there's plenty of stuff actually wrong with the game no need to make extra stuff up yo) but at the end of the day I stood back and realized they sold plenty of copies of the game so none of the devs are gonna starve, plus I feel like they have been really putting out some sub par full price games with obvious glaring issues that they should have known better about the last few years between Sw/Sh, BD/SP, and now this. They are sub par for wildly different reasons between the three, but it's a trend regardless. There haven't exactly been a dearth of refunded copies yet either (though I suppose a lot of copies could be unopened Xmas gifts, I digress), and the game can run super freaking smooth emulated from vids I saw. If this extra loud criticism is what actually causes GF higher ups to take a step back and really re think how they have been doing things regarding churning out their brand, then I feel like it will be worth it. I'm already hyping myself up about the theoretical next mainline game without these technical fckups.
Yeah its really cool that some of the shinies have different textures to them! Offhand besides Magikarp I know that Rellor has an entirely different texture:
EDIT: Ninja'd by Razmos lmfao
Forretress is interesting because I never really thought about it being metallic. Here's my original PINED from Platinum that's in Home right now:
in the year 2122 those reflections will be ray traced 🙏
Would anyone be able to help me trade and trade back a Slowpoke and a Haunter to get the Slowking and Gengar dex entries, respectively? Also need this Slowking for my comp team lol
I would take patching out picnic resets if that also fixed which Pokemon spawned in outbreaks each day. No more Froslass and Rufflet!!
Ah!
We think we've discovered the quirk around this
As you may know, Pokémon spawns on the map are displayed in a grid. It has been discovered that when new outbreaks spawn, there's a chance that each of them may appear as an Outbreak when the Outbreaks reset (typically next day's reload) and, as it's generated when you boot the game up, if you don't like them you can close the game and boot it up again in the morning to see what else you may get.
It's how I got my shiny Revavroom this morning
