Pokémon Legends: Arceus: How to farm shiny Pokémon in Mass Outbreaks

Pokémon Legends: ArceusThe shiny hunt has only been available for 24 hours and many players are already dissecting it. Naturally, Some players have had more than a few hours to check out the game — Pokémon Legends: Arceus The game was leaked on Monday, and the early adopters have started to disassemble it ever since.

Shiny Pokémon are rare iterations on Pokémon that spawn in the world. They’re rare — if you’re not looking for them, you might not ever spot one. Shiny Pokémon have the same stats as the regular counterparts, but they come in unique colors: like a Gyarados that’s red instead of blue, or a Chancey that’s light yellow. Since years ago, people have been looking for shinies. Pokémon Legends: ArceusIt is an entirely different experience than the mainline game. Shiny hunting is possible with new techniques.

Pokémon Legends: Arceus has an in-world event called Mass Outbreaks: Basically, they’re relatively large clusters of the same Pokémon. Earlier last week, players on Reddit began speculating that this is a good way to shiny hunt, pointing to an NPC interaction: “I could’ve sworn one of the Pokémon in that mass outbreak was a different color from the others …” In Mass Outbreaks, shiny Pokémon rates are upped, which make them ideal for hunting.

The players began to experiment from that point. A few days earlier, Pokémon Legends: Arceus’ Reddit user PatMan15 shared a way to take advantage of the Mass Outbreak to search for shinies. The steps basically allow players to “chain” together outbreaks using fast travel and saves from the village and outbreak locations. Reddit provides a detailed description, and some Reddit users even created video tutorials detailing the process.

PhillyBeatzU posted a Thursday video on YouTube describing three methods he prefers for shining Mass Outbreak hunting. You can see all of the steps in this 21-minute video, along with several demonstrations.

“The biggest takeaway that I would recommend before heading into shiny hunting is to learn about the behavior of the Pokémon they are planning to hunt,” PhillyBeatzU told Polygon. “Knowing if the Pokémon will attack, runaway, or not react at all to you will help you prepare to bring the right items to each Mass Outbreak.”

Polygon hasn’t independently confirmed that this method works, but there seems to be ample evidence of it working for people on social media, on YouTube, and across Reddit. If you want stats on shiny rates, the internet’s got that for you, too.