Pokemon Legends: Arceus How To Find Shiny Pokemon

Find out in Pokemon Legends: Arceus how to find shiny Pokemon during your Nintendo Switch adventure.

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Pokemon Legends: Arceus How To Catch Shiny Pokemon

How to catch Shiny Pokemon in Pokemon Legends: Arceus?

You can catch shiny Pokemon more easily by increasing the 1:4096 shiny base rate to 1:158 during Mass Outbreaks, indicated by that Pokemon’s icon appearing on the map after you cross the bridge between Aspiration Hill and Deertrack Path. Those much higher shiny appearing rates even happen if you only have Research Level 0 for the Pokemon that appears there. At Research Level 10 it’s 1:152 chance of a shiny. And at Max Research Level it’s 1:141 shiny odds! Once you find a shiny Pokemon, turn off auto-saving in the game settings and save your game, in case a shiny Pokemon runs away from you or gets killed forever this allows you to reload your save manually by restarting the game, which can be done as many times as you want and the shiny Pokemon will always re-appear for you to catch! Handy!

How do you easily encounter Shiny Pokemon in Pokemon Legends: Arceus?

You can spot Shiny Pokemon in the overworld, especially a lot more shinies during the earlier mentioned Mass Outbreaks. Spot sparkling shiny Pokemon more easily — you’ll see yellow stars surrounding them when they first come into your view to stand out from the crowd as well as an audio cue can be heard — by using a ridable flying Pokemon to reach a higher-up vantage spot from which to detect them from afar. Examples of ridable Pokemon are the Hisuian Braviary for flying high or new Hisuian Sneasel evolution Hisuian Sneasler for climbing steep slopes and mountain to get to a higher lookout spot. After unlocking Braviary in-game, you can summon the ridable Pokemon using the + Button at any time.

The Timeline for all the Pokemon Legends: Arceus shiny hunting methods is shown here:

  • 00:25 — Shiny Locked Pokemon
  • 02:21 — Base Shiny Rate
  • 04:56 — Outbreaks
  • 06:54 — Compounded Rates & Shiny Charm
  • 08:33 — How to Not Fail a Shiny
  • 14:21 — Spotting a Shiny
How To Get & Not Fail Shiny Pokemon in Pokemon Legends Arceus

Huge thanks to Austin John for the guide video and tips.

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