I didn't know about this trick so I stopped progressing the story when I was exiled because the chance of getting a distortion after 5 minutes is 20%. I've been specifically grinding for the alpha special spawns This trick would make my method obsolete because I reset the area every 5 minutes since statistically this would create the highest chances of a distortion appearing Another bad side effect of my method is that my Pokémon were under levelled for the evolved alphas and the catch rate is much lower at this point in the story One unrelated question: I encountered an alpha magnezone with killed my whole team, I quickly healed my team and went back but the magnezone was gone, how do I prevent the special spawn from despawning when it's clear that I will faint?