🌟||Blog dedicated to shiny Pokemon hunting and other useful Pokemon tips|| 🌟||Methods used: 7||🌟||Shinies captured: 65||🌟||Shinies caught in PLA: 76||🌟
Ugh just now thinking about this but one super easy way they could have made it easier to spot wild shinies in scarvio, would have been to just give them a massive sparkly effect in the overworld. Like just have them surrounded in a shroud of sparkles. That would have been so freaking cool and a lot easier to see and notice too.
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I was hoping Minior would be included in the DLC for this reason. You can't have a type based on stars and galaxy stuff without Minior... Deoxys is another one I think about a lot. Maybe Jirachi too... Lore wise it would make sense for Arceus, Palkia, and Dialga to get it, maybe even Giratina too. Solgaleo and Lunaala, and Necrozma was basically light type incarnate...
I think, mechanics wise, it could be an opposite of Dark type. Light type, or Star type, Galaxy type... Makes me think it'd be super effective against Dark types, but maybe weak against Ground and Rock types? Like gravity pulls it down in a way, and rocks like meteors clash...
I know this is a terastal gimmic only, but I wonder, if they had to make the Stellar type a canon "regular" type, what strengths and weaknesses would it have? What pokemon could be recconed as stellar type?
Shiny Hunting with the Synchro Machine: The "Herding" Method
WARNING: the Synchro mechanics WILL autobattle and KO a shiny pokemon! Please read this guide thoroughly and carefully check your gameplay while hunting!
Big news all across the shiny hunting stratosphere: The Synchro Machine mechanics actually suck for shiny hunters??? Due to the lack of shiny indicators and now outright massacre of shiny pokemon through the Synchro Machine's auto battle feature that KOs shiny pokemon without even so much as a wail, many people are being warned about the dangers of straying too far from your physical body while using this mechanic! But thanks to a guide on Reddit, we have a strategy for using the Synchro Machine to actually speed along shiny hunting mass outbreaks in the Blueberry Academy Terrarium! Please note that this method does not apply any odds rate increases, it just simply makes the encounters run more faster and is just a cool neat little way to shiny hunt. Here's how it works:
💜 Unlocking the Synchro Machine:
🟣 Speak to Synclaire at the Terrarium Central Plaza. She is the scientist first found standing beside the Pokeportal area.
🟣 After speaking to her she moves to the bottom corner of the Central Plaza near the entrance to a secluded beach in the Coastal Biome.
🟣 Talk to her twice to unlock all the features of the Synchro Machine.
🟣 After testing the Machine twice she then gives it to you for free use.
💜 Synchro Machine mechanics:
🟣 Press and hold the L button while also pressing the R button to start the Synchro Machine
🟣 You will then be synched to your lead Pokemon, much like Auto Battle
🟣 While you are synced, your physical body stays still while you are now moving and interacting as your lead Pokemon
🟣 This means, if you wander too far from your body then any Pokemon you encounter along the way will despawn once you end the Sync
🟣 You can pickup items (A), fight auto battles (Y, also by directly approaching), dash (press the left analog stick down), and fly (B, B again to land) as your pokemon.
🟣 Your pokemon will auto battle any Pokemon you "run in to"- meaning if you get too close to the Pokemon, or if a Pokemon charges at you, you will automatically attack-- and KO-- even shiny Pokemon
🟣 Sync will automatically end if your pokemon touches water and it cannot swim
🟣 Press and hold L while also holding R to manually end the sync
🟣 Please remember this mechanic only works in the Blueberry Terrarium
💜 Shiny Hunting: what is "Herding"?
Some players have found an interesting work around for this shiny despawning debacle. Here's how it works:
🟣 While you are synced with a higher evolved Pokemon, most lower & second stage Pokemon will run away from you out of fear
🟣 Using this mechanic we can sort of "herd" or "push" lower stage Pokemon across short distances
🟣 This works out so that if you encounter a shiny you can "herd" it a short distance back to your physical body so that it won't despawn
🟣 BE CAREFUL NOT TO RUN INTO THEM OR LET THEM GET TOO CLOSE-- AUTO BATTLE WILL KO SHINIES.
🟣 The trick is to keep your distance and have a little patience in using your Pokemon to cover the direction opposite of where you want to herd them
🟣 This is why it is recommended to sync near the outbreak so your body will not be too far away
🟣 While synced you can also "herd" the extra Pokemon out of the way to clear encounters much faster, though auto battling is also much easier while synced as well
🟣 Once you end the sync the shiny will be there for you to battle and catch like normal
🟣 Any sandwiches made before syncing are still active during the sync. So you can totally cook up some Sparkling Power lv 3 Herba Mystica sandwiches (we have a guide for sandwich recipes) and combine this with mass outbreaks and use the sync machine to have a little fun while you hunt!
So there you have it, a neat little way to hunt some mass outbreaks in the Terrarium! What do you guys think of this method? Would you use it?
[special thanks to Reddit user Rath_Brained and the Pokemon Scarlet and Violet subreddit for compiling this information]
One of my favorite things in the entire franchise is the way they keep the rivalry between Zangoose and Seviper alive with each game lol absolutely brutal