The FASTEST WAY to Find An Outbreak Shiny Pokemon - Legends Arceus V1.0 - V1.0.2

Pokémon Legends: Arceus has a new way to get shiny pokemon with Mass Outbreaks. This is the most optimized way to get a shiny from a Mass Outbreak in Pokemon Legends Arceus
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[@AustinJohnPlays]

This method ONLY works in v1.0-1.0.2. For 1.1 check here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/imKocqFql5eYetE

[@p0nypasta]

I’ve just been sitting in cobalt coastlands waiting for a distortion for over 20 minutes

[@Cragsly]

@@p0nypasta lol

[@lahapaapo3995]

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

[@xIGPxCaboose1]

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!

[@Snipeo1]

Wow Impressive

[@SabirTheHuman]

Cool

[@tburrrg2502]

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!

[@anthony7875]

so really the only difference is to not battle any pokemon?

[@_Professor_Oak]

@@anthony7875 Yep, took him 22 minutes to explain that

[@DJZLove]

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!!

[@tangizard2182]

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.

[@AustinJohnPlays]

🙃 perfectly describes how I think you feel while typing this lol

[@hacksawjimthuggin7411]

I spent 24hrs trying to get a shiny Eevee lol.

[@tangizard2182]

@@hacksawjimthuggin7411 oof

[@ofergvirsman4604]

I just got shiny braviary

[@justin07820]

Just got shiny shinx and dusclops on my first outbreak encounters on both 😄

[@Roardinario]

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.

[@elijahchandani1]

ORA

[@thekidlion]

That’s all of Austin’s videos

[@ThoseWhoStayUofM]

It's not RNG. And it's not easy.

[@mccrock2820]

@@ThoseWhoStayUofM It’s literally rng

[@ZaItan1]

@@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.

[@edgeofthesea]

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.

[@wyattdoggoking6225]

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 🙏🏻

[@siddarthdutta3974]

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 KZbinr look forward to the most when it comes to Pokemon tutorials! Keep up the great work man! - Sincerely, a fan

[@moldyzucchinis3251]

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

[@dylankamky]

Very informative and well explained on the method and theories. Keep up the fantastic work Austin!

[@PkmnMasterHolly]

Thank you for making this video!

[@Morgicious]

We miss your videos Holly, I hope all is okay

[@OdinVonD]

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!

[@checotaso]

Shiny hunting the starter that I couldn’t get in BDSP. This is going to make my life so much easier thanks Austin

[@kingnothing4848]

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!

[@nasserino3194]

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.

[@checotaso]

@@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

[@jbzoolander]

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!

[@elijahchandani1]

Ikr

[@sinnaro13]

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.

[@AfterTheHuddle]

I found a shiny wormpul and shiny krcketune in the wild randomly

[@gymleaderhasan]

Don’t evolve it, Shiny Hisuian Sliggoo and Goodra are so bad.

[@mira-71]

Can you write what he said to translate? Thanks

[@timothykostiuk3324]

I'm just mesmerized with the Flame, ice and thunder swords in the entrance to your room. Austin that is sick. Love your whole set up, love your knowledge and your videos. I've been following you for years and thank you so much for everything you do.

[@hayleytcg]

Super clear info and a great help as I was struggling so much with shiny hunter. Thanks Austin 😍

[@kylekane5870]

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 😅

[@saoirseguita]

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! :)

[@atrius97]

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.

[@saoirseguita]

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!

[@Nxth.1036]

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

[@dylanduke1075]

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

[@atrius97]

I was thrilled to help work on this video, and I'm glad accurate information is out there. For any "atypical" hunting method, you cannot afford to ignore the mechanics behind that hunt, because in this case, indiscriminately multi-battling things actually hurts your chances because it throws unique potential encounters away, and replaces them with potential duplicates. You waste by running into them multiple times, and no shiny hunter wants to hear they've been wasting time on something that had zero chance of being shiny.

[@_.go2hell]

Hello

[@sloththeshinobi3319]

What about alphas that won’t be caught

[@dadbodgamingxb1918]

Hey man, love your vids! Quick question. Has any methods like this been tested on shiny hunting set alpha spawns?

[@Tony-vl3lr]

@@zachjones4814 they don't care. KZbin drama between these Blaine and Austin/his friend. They need to get over themselves.

[@Cyberse-_-Wolf]

Thanks for explaining everything took me over 90 resets doing multi battles to get a shiny gligar and I could have had it on my first try

[@Kyaputhena]

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

[@SnazzyParesh]

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!

[@denimdavid]

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!

[@noyeezyy5188]

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

[@ninjaswithguns]

Sounds too good to be true tbh

[@WatchAndyNguyen]

You doing the Lord’s work, Austin. I’m still wrapping my head around this, but this video was helpful!

[@christophernelson94]

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.

[@williamtommartin-berry4011]

I found this very helpful. thank you so much for the information. the video has cut down my shiny hunting times to half compared to the previous hunts I’ve done. Again thank you.

[@TheJebus26]

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!!

[@neniv]

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.

[@soraisfinallyhere1305]

I am on my 30th adance an still no shiny eevee so yeah mileage def varies

[@KWallace1006]

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!

[@GR1MR34P3R420]

ive used this method and i’m half way to a full box of shinies its like a water pulse on a rhydon

[@KWallace1006]

@@GR1MR34P3R420 Lol. It is!

[@FernandesTiago]

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

[@GR1MR34P3R420]

@@FernandesTiago sweet my first was luxray it ran up to me and bit me so i knew it was fate 😂

[@FernandesTiago]

@@GR1MR34P3R420 LOL shiny luxray is amazing, nice catch

[@anthony6467]

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

[@schilduin]

Thank you so much, I immediately tried it out with a Finneon outbreak and had 2 shiny Finneon on my 6th advance :D

[@WittyPractitioner]

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!

[@fooliolaw]

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!🤠

[@Tobi202]

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

[@ababagail]

@@Tobi202 you can’t save for shiny Pokémon on previous games

[@Tobi202]

@@ababagail i know what he said in the video 😌 anyway thanks for the reminder still

[@ACZor86]

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.

[@bed-matt]

Thank you so much! I'm hunting for the new hisuian form shinies and it's a pain resetting over and over just trying to get an outbreak of one of them. This method REALLY is helping.

[@MarkBailey]

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!

[@MarkBailey]

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!

[@Willow4526]

I've had two shiny spawn on the first time entering a outbreak, so there's definitely a seed for that lol

[@frankloophole]

Me too. A Croagunk and a bidoof evolution

[@pathos7527]

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.

[@xM1ni]

Both of the shinies I have happened that way too

[@losersbecomewinners2043]

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

[@scarletrose2189]

Literally same this be crazy 😭

[@conconaflak221]

Dude those elemental Botw swords you have hanging in the back are too cool! Thanks for always making entertaining and informative video. You Rock!

[@punz20]

Thanks this guide really helped me understand the algorithm... appreciate it

[@arenmw]

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 :')

[@tlotpwist3417]

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

[@ki7roy]

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.

[@laisaelorable]

Thank you! Much appreciated for the info.

[@benjaminmauney1]

as of right now i think the newest update has messed with this method

[@DashKwiatkowski]

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!

[@Deathgaming_7]

I just wanted to say thank you for your very detailed and easy to follow portions on good methods in this game and all other games you do videos for. Because of this video I was doing resets on a rufflet outbreak trying for an alpha or shiny and managed to get 2 shinies and 1 alpha from the same outbreak.

[@thedutchboss8353]

Thank you so much! Your way of explaining just rocks. It's very very clear. Be sure I'll share this in appropriate socials!

[@Josh-md1bc]

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…

[@GoldenScizor]

I did the same method and I ended up finding a fair amount of shines

[@LilTheMyth]

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.

[@Hephaestus_God]

I probably saw that same video from some other popular KZbinr. 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.

[@wioli0687]

@@GoldenScizor Same, even Double Shiny roselia i got With the "Battle Method" but yeah catching is the best and onlyst

[@fozziemotoplays9881]

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.

[@kaitlynmurphyy]

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 😭

[@deyontahopkinsofficial9040]

Right to the point! Austin this is why I’m subscribed ✊🏽 Quality content! 🙏🏽🔥

[@doodguy4480]

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.

[@MrBriceside]

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.

[@chaosdragun1608]

Same

[@user-gh6jo1zl5b]

Same

[@whaggs_]

I’ve seen other videos covering this topic before Austin made his, but the way Austin explains stuff just makes it easy and enjoyable to learn what the method is. Starting watching years ago and haven’t looked back since

[@revolver2750]

Yea it's easily digestible content good stuff.

[@Wynters387]

That's because Austin tries to sound consistent. A lot of other youtubers tend to use extra filler that makes them sound like a last minute all nighter high school essay. Things like "we've got an amazing game changing tip..." "followed by "We're gonna get into all the juicy details of that amazing tip in a moment..." and that's followed by "and here it is..." Or some youtubers decide to not edit out moments they belch on camera... or any other easily editable awkward moment.

[@corales341]

Thanks professor Austin this was really helpful

[@bcollie9]

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!

[@melissajade3603]

These guides have been super helpful, Thankyou!

[@silverflamingegg]

Was waiting for this

[@erikmccambridge3348]

Every second of this video was super relevant, always amazed at how thorough your vids are 👍✨

[@Genesis30691]

Love the insightful information

[@kaiisstressed4671]

Love this series keep it up!

[@hazzard_destroyer]

Thanks for all the info you have been giving us I really appreciate it ❤️ keep up the amazing work

[@springlockproducts9589]

Thank you so much this was such a help and I finally got my SHINY luck back up and I got two using your method

[@giemethenight1001]

straight up calling out blaines XD you go austin! i come to you for the quality research and great explanations. thank you!!

[@accalya271]

You're the man Austin!! Literally the only source of information I need for my games. Spoiler free too. Much appriciated!

[@saucyllama1463]

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 👌🏼

[@notoriousnite]

Yeah including Blaines

[@momohinamori757]

@@notoriousnite nah racists don’t deserve respect

[@dakotaracine8842]

Blaine often posts misinformation in a rush for views

[@brandonwilliams8685]

@@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.

[@YourMomsAltAccount]

@@dakotaracine8842 ^^^

[@Swishyone]

Thanks so much for this, followed it and got my first 2 shinies within 10 minutes of each other following the guide. I'm 40+ hours in with no shiny luck until now

[@kamatz83]

This is great! Thank you so much!!🙌

[@stevent3676]

I wish I could've seen this yesterday when I got a zoroark outbreak :,)

[@AustinJohnPlays]

there will alwasy be more :)

[@huntermengel2683]

I wish you did too, but hey one day it will come again right ?

[@CorynSilver]

Wait Zoroark itself can get an outbreak? I thought only Zorua could.

[@jeangarcia6432]

I didnt even know this pokemon had an outbreak lol

[@advaithkrishna6329]

I mean if it makes you feel better I failed a Stantler outbreak because when I reset the outbreak disappeared :\

[@SonicaKP]

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.

[@silliercrayon9588]

Prolly just copypasted lol

[@Minudra]

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

[@nulifier47]

Did you miss the typo of advances? Haha now you gotta go back and watch it. We are all human 😁

[@knomigwen]

I was going to say the same thing! Is spell check no longer a thing? Takes less than 30 seconds.

[@KidBluu]

Much thanks for taking the time to not only upload this video with great intel but also for the hours of testing I'm sure you put in. I found shiny Staravia and Pachirisu in minutes. The Chimchar outbreak keeps changing to a different pokemon spawn when I reload the game and try to go back to the village and then back to the camp so I'm trying it without the relocating part

[@munkeesuncle]

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

[@StarlightNkyra]

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.

[@tamaradelsohn5493]

I needed this video. I've been hunting some more aggressive mons (I got Zoroark yesterday, and watched this video to find out how to optimize my Growlithe hunt) and it's good to know just how important stealth is against aggressive Pokemon. (I had a funny moment while watching the last part of your video - a Growlithe aggro'd on me, so I tried to call for Braviary to fly out of its range, forgot I had Wyrdeer selected, and promptly dashed off the cliff and knocked myself out before I knew what was happening.)

[@nickrussell8279]

This explains why I have yet to find myself a shiny Qwilfish in the mass outbreak. Thanks Austin John Plays, this is going to be a huge help to me now.

[@WellManNerd]

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

[@adamgrotto8163]

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.

[@jeffreybridges3210]

@@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.

[@CatDaddyJeff]

@@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.

[@alancarrillo8286]

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?

[@CatDaddyJeff]

@@alancarrillo8286 yeah, once you catch the shiny you're good to drop a hard save.

[@KatiaLilian]

Since day one I’ve done your method and gotten a shiny every single time with few resets so thank you Austin! 💪🏻💖

[@sukiyoki]

insanely helpful and informative

[@elizasimms2037]

Dude I can't say how awesome you are! Thank you so much for all your videos. They have helped me out in this game so so soooooo much!!!

[@jeffyramalhocardioworkouts]

I am gonna miss lots of shiny Pokémon, because I really love to battle in this game, because it fell so good, so fluid. 😔

[@Thibbs-vp6gm]

I’ve found four shinies today using this method. Riolu, croagunk, floatzel and basculin. So glad we truly know what we’re doing now

[@benholland1965]

I’m still looking for a riolu outbreak

[@annmariesnyder6443]

When I first saw a video like this I got 5 shinies that day

[@noah5664]

his energy seems to have mellowed out since the last time I watched a video of his, years ago. Nice

[@KenRyuguji-rg3ft]

Thank you for this video! I enjoy surprises but not when that surprise is you realizing you could have caught a shiny alpha zorua by now!

[@deeparrish2323]

Thank you for all your hard work and research 💪🏾👌🏾

[@YouTubeWatcher48]

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

[@Tarebear120]

Just used this method to get a shiny piplup during a mass outbreak! Just took one reset and I actually came right into the outbreak with the shiny in the first 4! Thank you for your videos Austin, you're the best!

[@DarthDestiny07]

Thank you so much for making this video for us! It allowed me to finally get the shiny I've spent too many hours trying to get.

[@Norcoo]

I am gonna use this to get Alpha Eevees seeing as they seem to advance like the shinies do. Thank you ^^

[@bones9171]

Austin! I got a shiny Arcanine! He’s such a good boy.

[@AustinJohnPlays]

THE BEST BOY!

[@logandickerson2105]

Thanks for the tips. I was just about to give up on trying to catch one in my buzil outbreak but had a second buzil outbreak spawn in another area so I figured I’d give it one more shot. Shiny first try.

[@coralienaze3760]

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]

Wow third attempt. I have tried for 6 hours for one pokemon. Yes im bitter sorry 😭

[@coralienaze3760]

@@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 !

[@Emerl53]

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.

[@conconaflak221]

I can't get the outbreak to return! :(

[@Emerl53]

@@conconaflak221 this method doesn’t work anymore.

[@conconaflak221]

Thanks for replying!

[@VenomSick66]

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?

[@MaiNurKoizumi]

Oh Almighty Sinnoh this was an amazing video. Spectacular information and it’s easy to understand. Wow

[@MandyMillermandyyymillerrr]

I have about 20 shinys from this method, now I’m getting them faster because I would shut off when the last 3 pokemon spawned, and I was fighting some here and there. Thanks for making this video!

[@dominicsacoolguy]

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!

[@Nronelove]

he mentioned this in the video

[@Qbular]

Backshot

[@mr.j4924]

Most Pokemon can be stunned along you to set up for a very easy back shot, except for alphas they cannot be stunned.

[@Qbular]

@@mr.j4924 they can be stunned with four sticky globs or a lot of mud

[@mr.j4924]

@@Qbular ah okay I always stopped at 3 thinking it wasn't gonna work ty.

[@melanitesong]

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!

[@Secoutal]

So glad I found this, I had a luxray spawn only giving me non-shiny because I was multi battling. Thank you to everyone who put in work on this method!

[@a_crispywafer8282]

Love your content man, been watching you for almost 2 years now. I was literally just watching this video following along, and I got a shiny in 5 Minutes!! Keep up the great work.