How to Choose Your Mass Outbreak in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet

[@AustinJohnPlays]

Followup: Encounter Power Affects Mass Outbreaks Appearing in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2Lci6uXYtx9mtk

[@xanimosityxgaming2664]

iirc when you throw your pokemon out in the "lets go mode" aka the auto battle mode they WILL NOT attack pokemon that are shiny, sooooo assuming your mon is strong enough you can just wipe everything while searching for even more rolls.

[@TiltedDolphin]

@@xanimosityxgaming2664 You gotta be careful though. Mass outbreaks will disperse when a certain amount of pokémon have been defeated.

[@sirnuggets9666]

​@TiltedDolphin you need to defeat the first 60 pokemon in a mass outbreak, no matter what it'll say the mass outbreak is reduces when you do this but I only noticed a few less spawn and it's best way to increase your shiny chance

[@Kawaiipotato8472]

I can't even express how grateful I am that you're trying to help us colorblind people. No one ever considers us when it comes to video games. You're doing real good work here

[@potato3.732]

Agreed.

[@Kawaiipotato8472]

@@bluehead310 good thing Austin John is a better person than you are. I don't really care about your opinion

[@CR7ThorntonHeath]

@@realphantom1 npc

[@AustinJohnPlays]

FYI, the troll that replied to this was blocked. Every release there's a new 11-year-old that think's they're cool.

[@tdbninjagaming]

@@AustinJohnPlays is that why it says 4 replies but only shows 2?

[@dubscatchum2126]

I love how Austin tells us in every video where to skip ahead to lol

[@christianwilke305]

Agreed but I always watch at least once all the way though

[@SparkyPlasma]

I just have to say, I have such a high respect for you organizational skills and data testing. As a software engineer with experience in data sciences, it’s really nice to watch someone do all this testing and organizing the data so cleanly. It is NOT easy to do, so yeah. That’s, all! All the respect in the world to you brother! Keep up the incredible content my friend!

[@tburrrg2502]

Same- I’m a PM and I’m always extremely impressed with his content!!

[@TheHustii]

Austin is and always will be the G.O.A.T. of Pokémon information. No one puts this much work into these things. Thanks Austin!

[@yommmrr]

There's alot of people that put in more work behind the scenes but don't make videos about it. They share with the community. But as far as big youtubers Austin is really the goto guy for digestible information.

[@bobdill4324]

yea bro legit didnt come up with this content. You can see vids like this from more than 2 days ago. He should reference the vids as they aren't originally his

[@AustinJohnPlays]

@@bobdill4324 you mean exactly like i did at 1:35? But then decided to test the numbers myself?

[@AceHufflepuff]

@@bobdill4324 how old are you 12?

[@Pudcup]

@@AceHufflepuff no im for

[@kylespencer3430]

Man, I've been watching you religiously since Sun and Moon. A play through on the new game isn't the same without you there helping us figure things out. I am colorblind and I love shiny pokémon. I can't thank you enough for putting effort into that part of the community. I'm very excited to see what you find!

[@tylerasada2908]

I always never understood what watching something or playing something religiously meant can you explain?

[@christianturner1687]

@@tylerasada2908 it suggests that you are doing it ‘devotedly’ just as you would commit to a religion

[@kylespencer3430]

It's an exaggeration. Anytime a new game comes out or is about to come out I definitely go check out his channel every other day or so. To stay updated with his finds and the statistics that he keeps

[@drewba7741]

This is a good spot to use the "isolated" method. Try and find an area where very few Pokemon spawn, including the one you're looking for, and use that to find your outbreak.

[@hampter6678]

Austin John is simultaneously incredibly helpful and entertaining

[@ToughLuckHaze]

I don’t think I’ve ever encountered someone as passionate about charts as Austin John is

[@MrRazielKOH]

Honestly, I'm not even colorblind, and even I appreciate the effort you're putting into that accessibility. Also, I always appreciate the effort you put into everything else. I started watching you back in PLA, and I look forward every day to new shiny hunting content from you. Thanks for all you do!

[@smallgator]

Love how Austin is helping the colorblind. I'm not colorblind myself but I want everyone to enjoy Pokemon as much as I do!

[@AustinJohnPlays]

Welcome to the FIRST Testing and Discovery video for SV!

[@BlizzardFruit-]

ditto raids don’t work for me

[@zakkujawa4950]

Location 100% influences it. Stuck to one spot and saw the same pokemon, never changed. Started chamging locale, and immediately started getting frequent new pokemon for that position. Thanks for bringing this more to light

[@AceHufflepuff]

God this is just the best time of year for the Fandom. We get endless amount of new content from all our favorite PokeTubers! From great informational videos, to competitive battling, nuzlockes, playthroughs, God. We eating out here. 😁

[@mikeleddyphoto]

I’ve been feeling the same way!!

[@AceHufflepuff]

@@mikeleddyphoto it's honestly inspiring me to get into content making myself lol

[@silentmies]

Austin is a legend. I was wondering why the outbreaks were always the same

[@lemyrrio]

Thanks, your detail is really useful and referential when I'm wondering as an old timer why I caught wo chien with one net ball (? Luck? And klumsy fingers) And thankfully turned off autosave before chien Pau struggled to its own demise more than ten times in a row. That ruined leopard is one of my mains now - if I hadn't watched likely I would be going back to sword for a bitter while. Maybe I haven't seen yet but it would kick mudbray to see a guide regarding those weird battle items in levoncia. Eject buttons and fat tails? I have theories but numbers are your forte -- so "let's go!"

[@AustinJohnPlays]

Im glad i was able to help! A lot of those items are only used for competitive and not really useful in casual gameplay.

[@MrRazielKOH]

Also, another note, I was literally starting to get discouraged and beginning to wonder how to get other Pokémon to spawn in outbreaks. Like, today. So, this is super timely and welcome. Thank you!

[@lasercraft32]

Honestly some shinies are borderline CRIMINAL with how subtle they are.

[@plasagna1312]

As someone whose colourblind I'm actually really grateful for thinking of us!! Thanks sm Austin, glad you are going out of your way for us!

[@ThatOneGuy-qw1xx]

simplified: if a pokemon can be in a mass outbreak (which you can check with serebii), go to a tile on the map where it spawns. then from there, timeskip 1 day forward and see if they spawn anywhere on the map

[@elijahnageli3202]

thank you so damn much lol, really not interested in watching 20 minutes of this

[@njdiscoverer9237]

Austin John teaching me more about analytics than the degree that I am doing

[@akaicedtea6236]

Data monkeys unite

[@julianrainone5821]

Being someone who is colorblind I have had such a difficult time trying to even attempt to shiny hunt in this game, at some point during my play through I even bothered stopping to check if Pokémon are shiny because I probably would not be able to see the difference. Thanks Austin for trying to help us

[@lynx4082]

Austin I just wanna say thank you so much for your coverage, Shiny hunting has now become my new therapeutic activity to help deal with stuff and your videos have been so helpful, I have literally managed to catch 6 shinies in 24 hours

[@randomstuffs7648]

woahh good job! one of my big things is catching 6 shiny togetic in 2and a half hours

[@callumblake3964]

Someone give Austin a medal, most organised dood on the planet fr

[@Totorellini]

I am shocked by how much you did for this. I’m assuming this is the type of work you put in to a lot of your videos. You weren’t kidding when you said you liked math in the video about the schools. This is crazy- thanks Austin!

[@rulbiem]

Not gonna lie I love the spreadsheet simulator videos. Idk if its because Austin make them look good, but there is something about it that is so satisfying to watch lol

[@brianorr308]

All other tubers: go to the spot and skip ahead dates. AJP: Let's actually figure out how this works. Great! Thanks for your dedication Sir

[@FairyFarron]

I keep noticing I'm getting the same pokemon in my outbreaks repeatedly, and I tend to get offline in one of two locations so this certainly lines up with what I was thinking as well. Thanks for your hard work documenting this.

[@MoreThanAGam3r]

It’s guys like you that keep the Pokémon video game community going. Love all of your videos keep up the amazing work. Someone has to do all the dirty work nd the number crunching to make things easier for us players that either don’t have the time to go in depth tryna figure things out on our own or the ones that are just too lazy to do the work lol. You are truly appreciated

[@C3DPropShop]

This man is doing Arceus's work here. The amount of work and understanding of data collection and analysis. Props man. You rock.

[@beatlesfan1990]

I say give Flittle a shot if you want one. I did its outbreak and the green pops really well and even from a decent distance despite being such a small part of its body.

[@Korok96]

Agreed. My fiancé got one it was noticeable

[@caydendelarm1079]

I literally watched n9kai's video yesterday and was hoping that Austin would also do some testing on this. Thanks so much for the grind. I really appreciate all of the hours of hard work for a 20 minute video. You're doing Bidoof's work.

[@RobBassCame2GetDown]

Bro, just imagine if you had been a long term poketuber! Either way, I’m grateful you’re here NOW! Thanks Prof. John

[@aym_Zougui]

No other youtuber has gone into so much detail and testing with this than you. Thank you so much Austin!

[@captswelterton1518]

very cool how you're trying to help us colorblind people. I checked my game recently and apparently I have battled multiple shiny pokemon but I had no idea due to my colorblindness.

[@Valkier_Kato]

Same! Fellow colorblind person here. I am absolutely fucked when it comes to some of these. Like the ones that are yellow and their shiny is just a light green for example. I can't see it. Thankfully I can tell Rookidee apart because of the drastic difference in color, Shinx too, but Magikarp was strangely difficult because of how metallic it is. To me, it catches the light the same as the red ones so that shiny hunt SUCKED.

[@darkcapper3]

A good way to know if a Pokemon is shiny is to send out your pokemon to attack it, if it doesn't attack it then it's likely shiny

[@cynopedous4208]

Yeah but there's only ~120 Pokemon per outbreak, so if you did keep attacking Pokemon you thought were shiny that weren't, eventually you'd kill the outbreak if you're Really unlucky. An ideal method (like a filter or smth) would be useful even if you go way way Way over shiny odds

[@ezdepaz4363]

@@cynopedous4208 Just put a save after fainting the initial 60 for odds, then keep on battling them. If they run out reset and repeat until shiny.

[@yagirlsimoneoof2831]

@@ezdepaz4363 yea I do that with the water outbreaks cause it’s super hard to see them sometimes and also I can just set down a picnic and reset them lol

[@tyrantv4121]

I'm subscribing just because of this video. I can finally hunt a specific shiny that I've been resetting for since the game came out. Thank you for your hard work!

[@Pokemon60660]

Just saw a comment on this video someone mentioning that in your videos you help others who may be color blind. It fills me so much joy that you help those who may have this condition through your videos. It actually made my day. ☺️

[@axolotlboi1341]

I love how you put so much informative content and also enjoyable content in each of you videos and you somehow always make them under 20 min long

[@amandagreene4990]

This is what I needed! I kept seeing mostly the same few Pokémon in the outbreaks like Rufflet.

[@ValunarTonix]

Something I hope to see in a DLC which we'll inevitably get is that there's gonna be a literal Mass Outbreak of Paradox Pokemon in the normal world. I mean, with the Zero Gate open in Postgame, they could climb up and leave "easily". Would be funny. In general I hope to see a lot of Area Zero related extra stuff. Rebattling/re-encountering the professor(s), deeper access to Area Zero for the eventual Dogs/Justice paradox, and perhaps even access to the time machine in the way Ultra Wormholes worked (so like, being able to go back.)

[@THEdarkkman]

I don't think that we will see one day the Paradox Mass Outbreak soon. The time machine shouldn't work anymore since both the knowledge (AI Turo) and the material (Violet/Scarlet book) to make it work are no longer present in this time, and most unlikely to come back. And by the Zero Gate being open, do you mean the gate at the bottom of the Area Zero where the professor was ? If so, since the time machine doesn't work anymore, so they're won't be any Paradox pokemon leaving and making mass Outbreak. But if the scenario was a little bit different then that would be awesome I agree

[@MGoBirch]

Props as always for your work on all things Pokemon to help those of us too slow or too busy to figure all this stuff out! And more importantly, props to supporting accessibility workarounds in video games!

[@jdz3394]

One of the best parts of a new game coming out is more austin john vids👌🏼

[@nasiersteven5164]

I was going for a Pawmo outbreak and got it in only 3 rolls! Thank you so much because this was so helpful!

[@crimsonodyssey8638]

I noticed this pattern a few days ago (was wondering if any youtubers would also notice it), was trying to hunt for shiny Axew or Fraxure and did over 200 resets while standing in/near Alfornada and Mezagoza. Never really saw any Pokémon I cared about going for and decided to start moving around the map when resetting. Ended up getting different Pokémon to start spawning once I started going to random places, then finally decided to stand in the specific habitat/encounter area with the Pokémon I wanted. Had a Fraxure outbreak spawn within 20-30 resets. I believe there are a few things that can be determined for certain just off of my subjective analysis: - Outbreaks per day are between 4 and 8 Pokémon. - Position on the map (possibly the Biomes in surrounding tiles like mentioned in this video) play a role in determining SOME of the Pokémon that will spawn with each reset. (I believe there maybe a specific # selected for Pokémon of the biomes and possibly some set as "random"). - Some Pokémon are significantly more likely to spawn as outbreaks, especially the pre-evolutions. (Flittle, Rufflet, Psyduck, Slowpoke, and many others). Best thing to do if you are hunting a specific Pokémon for an outbreak is go to an area on the map that Pokémon normally spawns in (habitat) and reset until you see the outbreak.

[@shinyhazza2224]

Austin is literally the most respectful and respected man on the internet

[@FrankieIpp]

It's actually nuts how much work you put into these videos, Easily the go to pokemon KZbinr

[@murlocmasher3368]

Hell yeah you just helped me get my shiny cyclizar, they storm in like crazy and just bounce. It was so hectic

[@MannyFool]

You’re da goat! I enjoy your vids bro thank you!

[@BeingBedlight]

As someone who is severely colorblind, I'm super stoked about the color vid coming. Shiny hunting has been really rough.

[@randinho8872]

Flitle was the first shiny I got in the game. Noticed that the underneath was a slight different colour to what I was used to seeing, it isn't that hard when you know you're looking for anything other than a pink "underskirt"

[@boredcommenter67]

Completed my first 6 star raid while watching this. Loving the coverage (and my brand new ceruledge :D)

[@ktmax33]

Love the colour blind support idea. When shiny hunting I specifically avoid certain pokémon just because I can't see the color difference in them lol sometimes if I think I see one and can't be sure I send my pokemon over in Auto Battle mode to check for me.

[@kidinc3649]

Am Speechless..... literally a full breakdown. You're amazing honestly.

[@king_croissant]

you are literally a legend! i really wanna shiny hunt pawmi and charcadet but i'm only getting outbreaks of older pokemon 💀

[@nakano8412]

This is incredible useful to know, been wanting awhole lot of different Pokemon, but only had Magikarp Sinsistea etc, now I might actually get something

[@LazyTurtle921]

Watching the process of this being tested is amazing, and I lobe how AustinJohn is working on helping those who have colorblindness with shiny finding, and that is amazing to see, since I havent seen anyone else doing anything like that, and its always cool the amount of effort AustinJohnPlays puts to help all of his watchers, with all the important info.

[@KamikazeGamerGuy]

Hey Austin, you don't have to actually change the date to change outbreaks. Just open the date change menu and hit the OK button and go back in game. Something about the system setting its date again refreshes both the outbreaks and the raids!

[@Mimi-eo2jh]

Huh. Neat. Now my date on caught pokemon wont get totally out of sync from reality. Thanks.

[@billcipher8645]

That's great! I'm not a fun of time skips since I prefer my pokemon to have the real catch date as well as it will mess up my Animal Crossing island even more than it is of a mess right now... so that information is fantastic thank you

[@__shoe__]

it doesnt work?

[@donutmon]

Sometimes i can envision editing Austin brawling it out with playing Austin for all the demands and work he gives himself hahaha

[@Chris_Nufc_2001]

I thought I was forever condemned to suffer countless Luvdisc and Magikarp outbreaks 😭😂. I thought wrong. Incredible work, keep it coming!

[@MrRazielKOH]

15:07 So excited to share this with us, he forgot to say 'Ar-see-us!'

[@aceofspades3533]

Hey. Colorblind person here. This game has been so frustrating for me where shinies are concerned. There are some I can see, but most of them I can't see at all and I wish so bad that they'll patch in an indicator to help us. In the meantime, though, it's just such a relief to hear you're thinking about us and trying to help. I'm eagerly awaiting what you've come up with.

[@kalethras8749]

Thanks for all your work and tests and whatnot, you bring so much to the Pokemon Community. And I get what you meant about "bad spots" for Mass Outbreaks in your other video about the subject ; I got a Charcadet spot that I'm doing rn, even tho the spot is half under the mountain bordering Area Zero, thus half of the Charcadets appear under it and I can't see them... Talk about a worse first Mass Outbreak shiny hunt :D

[@draconis17]

after I did my gym test for the water gym I checked the auctions again just to see and they were selling a set of 64 premier balls. Only cost me a few thousand to win too, I think I paid less than 100 per ball. Might want to look into that if you want to catch all your shinies in premier balls, if you haven't already.

[@AustinJohnPlays]

That’s exclusively where I buy them.

[@VGNaluri]

I love how you paused for a moment to say "Merry Christmas". 😄 Love your work Austin! Thanks so much!

[@sebastianhuggins7946]

Thanks for showing us the isolated shiny method. It is by far the best method that I used I shiny hunted for Orthworm and for anyone else who wants to shiny hunt for it, they are the only steel type Pokémon in the desert.

[@OswaldAurelia]

Except for in the ruins, where Tinkatuff and Bronzor also spawn

[@micah_jones]

I hadn’t had a Cetitan/Cetoddle outbreak until I went and reset the outbreaks on the top of the mountain. Got one first try!

[@rphil_]

Just started shiny hunting with outbreaks today and Austin John comes in clutch once again

[@sorrel691]

I’ve watched you so much recently that even my 3yr old girl is singing along to your outtro ❤

[@wysockifamily1747]

Aw🥺

[@heyitsAmethyst]

All the videos you’ve made thus far for shiny hunting in Scarlet/Violet have been sooo helpful

[@ZarBluestar]

My programmer brain is telling me that this is probably what’s going on: Active spawn/encounter tables are determined by your location on the map. Then when it rolls for mass outbreaks, it’s picking from active spawn tables instead of all possible ones (which leads me to believe this was an unintended bug that could be patched later depending on how much they care to patch something as minor as this considering the current state of the game)

[@Leszczuk23]

Appreciate all you do. They really should have a feature in game to zoom in extra. Especially since the shiny animation and noise is gone in this game and the mons vary in size and some shiny sprites be oh so subtle etc.

[@redapetfm2162]

One important thing I don't think you picked up on is the spawns that happen within your tile that are rarer than the common ones all over the map will ONLY spawn next to you. So the tandemaus for instance would have only spawned next to you and not far away from you. The other outbreaks all over the map spawn regardless of where you are. With this information, you save time by just looking at the spawns around and you and not panning all over the map

[@ra1der847]

everyone out here saying "oh thanks for the help" but none of you guys are pointing out the fact THAT THE MAN NAILED WHERE TO POINT TO FOR THE SKIP, Austin you are the goat (also thanks for the vid, you're a real one)

[@WorldEaterZero]

Your method is so precise and clear its interesting seeing 2 different youtubers thought process for these

[@jackmoran1451]

Been hatching scyther eggs for hours and hours, I wish I came across this video sooner. Amazing work! Thanks for the help🤙🏼

[@ashleyhuff206]

I love the ‘Merry Christmas’ when changing the days LoL

[@onetruegodhammer5048]

Respect the effort on your data analysis. It’s important to know how and why things work.

[@DthSprtn]

I very much respect the work ethic and elbow grease that was put into this.

[@ARDIZsq]

These videos have accidentally helped me find a shiny Pokemon before beating the game. My second shiny so far has been a Chansey I got while using a simple Normal Encounter sandwich to level grind Chansey outside of the Fairy Star Base, and on my first sandwich, I got a shiny. Gotta say, probably wouldn't have been bothered to do that if it weren't for these videos.

[@Pooochowpoo]

You've been pumping out these videos man!! Make sure to not burn yourself out! Keep up the great work!!

[@senpaiplayz5394]

Austin John is a great advertiser, I was not planning to get this game but after seeing a plethora of these videos, I just had to buy one and see what's up, 60+ hours in and it has been going great!

[@mistyaria09]

the fact im looking for a shiny psyduck and austin happens to choose psyduck for the example!❤

[@AndiDoubleV]

This is super interesting! Could you create a table that grids the map squares like Battleship and each pokemon can then be listed to which spawn squares. Then, it would be easier to figure out which pokemon would spawn in next and one over etc.

[@infinitygirl92]

I got a Sylveon outbreak to happen today because I was standing in Alfornada and got the shiny too. It took some date skipping but it worked.

[@Manpag]

This is really interesting, great to see it tested so rigorously! It does make me wonder what happens if you’re actually IN Area Zero, with that having a fair few exclusives and no mass outbreaks in the crater itself. I suppose the map always records you as being in the Zero Gate though, so there would always be some normal tiles bordering your position.

[@Anthony_C22]

I need me a herba mystica farming tutorial! I did 4 zard raids, and 8-10 other 5&6 star raids and got none so idk if I’m doing something wrong. But also I heard certain Pokémon drop specific herba mystica?!?! If that’s the case that would be huge! You always give more effort to stuff like this than anyone I’ve ever watched…the entire Pokémon community appreciates it tremendously!!!!

[@wolfdarkfang]

I think that there is another way to choose your outbreak with out date skipping, you save before the outbreak ends then when it starts you see what you have if you dont like the outbreaks you turn you game of then back on. the outbreaks will be different. Because of this you will be limited to where you last saved but you can still choose the outbreak by doing this without bate skipping. Also Keep up the awesome work Austin

[@davidl8620]

I appreciate that you tag the meat and potatoes on how to do this. Thank you!

[@tenglei2]

nice, you have my respect crediting kai for his video. i saw other youtubers just say the exact same thing but no credits

[@joshuagardner1679]

I cant confirm this because I haven’t tested to the levels you have, but I believe also eating a sandwich with encounter power influences the outbreaks that spawn. I have had really great success targeting specific mons with both the zone and encounter sandwich boosts

[@bobjob2514]

While I'm not particularly interested in manipulating mechanics QUITE this much... You, sir, are a champion of data collection and interpretation. Thank you.

[@MatsuyoRific]

Austin John: Here's where to skip to. Me, an intellectual who doesn't skip around videos willy nilly unless it's to skip a sponsored ad: Why would I do that?

[@jeanbean6118]

I've been doing a shinylocke since day one, all the information you give is amazing! Thank you man! :)

[@HoodlumCallum]

you’re doing gods work o7

[@AustinJohnPlays]

Cheers bruv

[@InvisibleInque]

Well I still haven’t found my beloved bounsweet, but now I’m definitely seeing outbreaks that I hadn’t seen yet even once!!

[@WolvieXXXZandalari]

Thanks for actually testing and explaining this. Everyones talking about it atm.

[@kanereynolds9521]

Nintendo/Game Freak should give this man a professor cameo in game lol. Man is a legend, great content and thanks for all that hard work!

[@AustinJohnPlays]

There’s a theory I already was a Master Trainer for growlith in LGPE. google it :)

[@BayouByte]

This came out at the perfect time for me, I was literally trying to find this info last night during an Eevee hunt. Nice one Austin!

[@MissFortune1000]

To whomever brought a Avalugg to the 6 star shiny volcarona raid I hope you shut you hand in a screen door.

[@TitanKaiju75]

Oof... Yeah screw that guy.

[@MissFortune1000]

@@TitanKaiju75 I didn’t even know you could get shinies in raids I thought it was a hack at first until I saw poketubers catching shinies in raids