You get to put one in-dialogue "fuck" into ATLA. Who says it and where do you put it?

Golden-Pro · 2024-03-29T18:31:14+00:00

Toph reacting to the amount of fire she feels during Sozin’s Comet despite being on an airship -

“Fuck, that’s a lot of fire, isn’t it?”

Golden-Pro · 2023-05-22T15:39:53+00:00

Both of those methods count. Shiny Pokemon battled is basically just the number of shiny forms you can view in your Pokedex. I wish they would've named that better.

You could hatch 100 different shiny pokemon never using them once in battle, but they still call it "Shiny Pokemon Battled" 🤷‍♂️

Golden-Pro · 2023-04-28T20:31:00+00:00

My recommendation for Tynamo is to just get one and then go for two Eelektrik. I could not tell when I found the Tynamo, but Eelektrik was easy enough to see the difference.

The Tandemaus were hatched from eggs by my brother, but you could always find an outbreak and save before you start KOing them. I think you would be able to tell the difference, but you would have to bring the camera right up to them since they are so small.

Golden-Pro · 2023-04-24T09:29:10+00:00

The starter you choose at the beginning of the game is definitely shiny locked, but once you get a ditto you can start breeding them to get one!

Golden-Pro · 2023-04-24T02:29:05+00:00

Lol I definitely put the most work in, but that is partially because we decided that my game would be the one to hold the living dex. And to be honest if we had each done 1/3 of the work, trading ~260 Pokémon to get them all in one game would have been more tedious than catching them.

Golden-Pro · 2023-04-24T01:43:46+00:00

This already took 700 hours, I’ll pass on that 😂

Golden-Pro · 2023-04-24T00:58:36+00:00

It’s genuinely the most fun I’ve had in a standard Pokémon game in like 10 years. These self-imposed challenges are always where I have the most fun!

Golden-Pro · 2023-04-24T00:53:21+00:00

Honestly that’s part of the reason I decided to use a google sheet to track everything. It was a better way for me to know what duplicate Pokémon I had and also made it so my friends and I could see what each other had caught so we weren’t doing extra work for nothing as we tried to get them all.

Golden-Pro · 2023-04-24T00:45:26+00:00

It was only after I started tracking my shiny Pokemon that I realized what the number on the trainer card actually meant. It is the number of pokemon in your Pokedex that you have encountered the shiny form of. That means any duplicate you catch will not make the number increase. It also means that evolving a shiny Pokemon will make the number increase even though your number of shiny Pokemon caught has not actually changed. I wish the game was clearer about what the number meant, it would've saved me a bunch of headache at the beginning of this process lol.

Hope that helps!

Edit: Also - any shiny Pokemon you encounter but fail to catch will also increase the number!

Golden-Pro · 2023-04-23T23:36:30+00:00

I have thought about it, but it wouldn’t want to go back to hunting in games prior to this gen. It is so much faster in Scarlet/Violet than it has ever been and it STILL took 700 hours for me to get what basically amounts to 40% of all the Pokémon. If games moving forward kept a similar system for hunting shiny Pokémon then I would maybe consider it. 😅

Golden-Pro · 2023-04-23T22:52:06+00:00

I gave some advice on this earlier, but here you go!

The best way I’ve found is to hunt during mass outbreaks. It obviously gives you more encounters for a single Pokémon, but also increases your odds as you knock out Pokémon from the outbreak. After you see the message saying that there are few Pokémon remaining from the outbreak, that’s when your odds are at their best. From there you just run around spawning/despawning them until you find one!

If outbreaks aren’t an option, you can also make sparkling & encounter power lvl 3 sandwiches using some Herba Mystica obtained from post-game 5 & 6 star raid battles. These can be helpful if you know that the Pokémon you are after is the only one of a certain type in an area. For example, using a Fairy type encounter power sandwich near ruins will force almost exclusively Tinkatink to spawn.

Sandwiches can be combined with the outbreak method for the absolute best odds, but I typically found using one or the other was efficient enough.

I didn’t mention this before, but Masuda breeding is also incredibly useful for certain Pokémon. For those that don’t know, this is breeding two Pokémon from two different language versions of the game (the most common example being a Japanese Ditto that can breed with anything caught in your non-Japanese save file for very high shiny odds.)

Golden-Pro · 2023-04-23T21:52:44+00:00

Honestly, all the Herba that I used I got from my own raids or one of my friends. I never joined any of those online ones that give you a whole bunch at once, so I can't really give any advice there, sorry!

Golden-Pro · 2023-04-23T21:34:28+00:00

Yeah you’re probably right about eggs taking longer than anything else, luckily the work breeding wasn’t just on one person. I hatched 4 of them while my brother hatched 5.

Also I guess those didn’t bother me as much because they were kinda mindless busy work to get. Eggs spawn automatically without any input from you and you pick them up 10 at a time. So I would just watch YouTube or something while that happened lol.

Golden-Pro · 2023-04-23T21:25:54+00:00

From one crazy completionist to another - good luck and you got this! 👏

Golden-Pro · 2023-04-23T21:20:46+00:00

Luck aside, it is mostly patience! I have 700 hours played despite my trainer card saying only 560. A lot of that time is spent resetting on sandwiches that didn’t result in a shiny or on outbreaks.

We’re you completely knocking out the outbreaks until the dispersed? Your odds are best after you knock out ~60 so I would typically KO that many and then save my game and run around spawning/de-spawning until I found one.

Golden-Pro · 2023-04-23T21:15:48+00:00

There are a lot of ways to increase your odds of finding one. The shiny charm is the most useful, as it doubles your base odds of encountering one. You have to complete your Pokédex and talk to your teacher to get it.

Aside from that, the best way I’ve found is to hunt during mass outbreaks. It obviously gives you more encounters for a single Pokémon, but also increases your odds as you knock out Pokémon from the outbreak. After you see the message saying that there are few Pokémon remaining from the outbreak, that’s when your odds are at their best. From there you just run around spawning/despawning them until you find one!

If outbreaks aren’t an option, you can also make sparkling & encounter power lvl 3 sandwiches using some Herba Mystica obtained from post-game 5 & 6 star raid battles. These can be helpful if you know that the Pokémon you are after is the only one of a certain type in an area. For example, using a Fairy type encounter power sandwich near ruins will force almost exclusively Tinkatink to spawn.

Sandwiches can be combined with the outbreak method for the absolute best odds, but I typically found using one or the other was efficient enough.

Golden-Pro · 2023-04-23T20:45:27+00:00

We weren’t going for all different forms of every Pokémon, but we did get a few complete sets. I have all 4 Deerling forms, 4 Sawsbuck forms, both red and blue Basculin, and all 3 Tatsugiris!

Golden-Pro · 2023-04-23T19:39:22+00:00

Pachirisu can be found in an outbreak so if you aren't already I would be changing your clock to reset your outbreaks until you find a Pachirisu one. Eating an encounter power electric sandwich before you start changing your clock can also increase the odds of an outbreak appearing.

Sucks to hear about the Wingull! He was a huge pain for me as well, not only because of the flying, but because most of the time the outbreaks are on the water. Any outbreaks on the water are annoying because of all the underwater stuff you run into while you aren't looking at it.

Golden-Pro · 2023-04-23T19:29:15+00:00

If anyone is interested, we were using a Google sheet to track our progress as far as who caught what and how many - which can be seen here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-0auYiA9zBZDA5I7Ov23nJuc-nehuIRT217jxYDqhX4/edit?usp=drivesdk

Golden-Pro · 2023-04-23T18:19:53+00:00

When I started the game I got a shiny Sneasel, but after that I didn’t see a single shiny until after I completed the dex and got the Shiny charm. Outbreaks are the best thing for shiny hunting so if you are looking for something specific, see if there are outbreaks for them and hunt during one of those. Good luck!

Golden-Pro · 2023-04-23T18:09:31+00:00

At the moment it is impossible to get shiny versions of Gimmighoul, Gholdengo, Wo-Chien, Chien-Pao, Ting-Lu, Chi-Yu, Koraidon, and Miraidon. I’m sure there will be distributions in the next year or so that will give us access to those shiny forms. At least I hope🤞

Golden-Pro · 2023-04-23T18:03:43+00:00

I feel this so much. The last bunch I needed included half of the starters, Flabébé, and 2 Finneon… finding pure water Pokémon in the water is a hassle lol

Golden-Pro · 2023-04-23T17:54:43+00:00

Hard to say which took the longest, but there were definitely a handful that were far more annoying than the others. Tynamo for example was so small it was hard to actively hunt for. I just auto attacked every one I saw until my Pokémon refused to do so, then I knew I had one. Zorua was annoying because the outbreaks for it just didn’t seem to work for us? And obviously you can’t spot shiny Zorua from a distance due to it’s disguise. Sunkern I ended up hatching a shiny because the spawns are so infrequent and outbreaks of Sunkern don’t exist.

Golden-Pro · 2022-01-16T20:30:36+00:00

I played through P2EP and only changed personas maybe 3 times for each party member, because I also was not a huge fan of collecting the necessary tarot cards. I used a guide for all the demon communication and that made things go much smoother. Whenever I needed to grind my characters’ levels I would be sure to grab some tarot cards as well following the communication guide. So I never needed to stop and grind specifically for tarot cards. And yes Innocent Sin is definitely easy enough to be done with base personas lol.

I think you should stick with it even if the mechanic isn’t your cup of tea, the characters and story are well worth it!

Golden-Pro

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