Pokémon Scarlet and Violet exploit makes it easier to hunt shiny Pokémon

I’ve never had the patience for hunting for shiny Pokémon, but luckily now I don’t have to.

Shiny Pokémon are super rare versions of Pokémon that appear with a different color scheme. Generally speaking, your odds of running into a shiny Pokémon are around 1 in 4,096. Now, fans are discovering a Pokémon Scarlet VioletIt is possible to capture one of these fish in less than an hour using an exploit.

It worked flawlessly when I used a YouTube tutorial from PhillyBeatzU.

Following PhillyBeatzU’s directions, I first went to a Pokémon outbreak, an event where a bunch of the same Pokémon spawn in an area. (You can find one by opening your map and looking for the Pokémon that appear on the map with a glowing red symbol behind them.)

Once you get to an outbreak, you’ll need to fight at least 60 Pokémon. You can do this with normal battles, but Let’s Go is way quicker, so I’d recommend just sending out your strongest Pokémon and clearing out dozens of Pokémon with auto battles. After beating more than 60 of the Pokemon in a battle, your shiny rate for spawning will increase up to 1 per 1,365 according to Shinyspawn. one shiny hunter’s math.

Image: Game Freak/The Pokémon Company, Nintendo via Polygon

Find a place within the outbreak for a picnic and pack it away. Each time you pack up your picnic, run around the outbreak area and check for a shiny; if you don’t see one, repeat. Basically, you are reseting the spawns for dozens of Pokémon at a time, refreshing your odds of getting one every single time. If you repeat this process enough times (setting up a picnic, packing it up, then looking around) you’ll likely find a shiny Pokémon.

You might encounter road bumps. Scarlet Violet don’t play a special jingle when you run into shinies in the open world, making it harder to spot them. On top of this, many Pokémon are really small, and their shiny form might look relatively similar to the original form. (This is the case with Pokémon like Buizel and Gastly.) Additionally, if the outbreak happens in a place where you don’t have space to camp, like a sloped mountainside, you might be out of luck.

Still, it’s stupid easy. It took me less than 30 minutes to complete the task from start to finish. I didn’t have the Shiny Charm and I didn’t use a sandwich to boost my rates at all. I didn’t have to prepare. It was easy. I just went to an Larvesta outbreak, killed 60 people, then set up my picnic and removed it four more times until I found a new one. I probably won’t get that lucky again, but it’s good confirmation that the technique works. Even 10 picnic respawns can cycle through roughly 100 Pokémon, so just keep at it!