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Hunting shiny Pokémon has gotten easier over Pokémon generations, and Pokémon Scarlet and Violet make it the easiest it's always been.

While the rate at which shiny Pokémon appear is initially very low, using things like the Shiny Charm, shiny sandwiches, or the Masuda method (which involves using strange Pokémon to brood) volition help you lot snag your desired shiny in no fourth dimension. Using the communicable methods beneath, we've been able to find shiny Pokémon in less than 30 minutes.

If you're new to shiny hunting, we listing out the best methods to do this below, including using Mass Outbreaks, picnics, shiny sandwiches, and breeding.

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Shiny Rates

The base charge per unit for finding a shiny Pokémon is 1/4096, which is miniscule. All the same, with sandwiches, the Shiny Charm, and Mass Outbreaks, the chances ascent dramatically:

• Base shiny rate: 1/4086
• Shiny charge per unit with Shiny Charm: 1/1365.67
• Mass Outbreak rate (afterwards defeating at least 60 Pokémon): 1/1365.67
• Mass Outbreak rate (later 60 Pokémon) with Shiny Charm: 1/819.6
• Shiny charge per unit with Lv. 3 Sparkling Power sandwich: 1/1024.38
• Mass Outbreak rate (later on 60 Pokémon) with Lv. 3 Sparkling Ability sandwich: 1/683.08
• Mass Outbreak rate (after 60 Pokémon) with Shiny Charm and Lv. 3 Sparkling Ability sandwich: 1/512.44
• Shiny rate when convenance with Masuda method: 1/682.6
• Shiny rate when convenance with Masuda method and Shiny Charm: i/512.44

If you lot put in the effort to catch Herba Mystica from raids (to make Sparkling Power sandwiches) and get the Shiny Charm, you volition end up with lots of shiny Pokémon.

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How to become the Shiny Charm

To get the Shiny Charm, you have to consummate the Pokédex, which means you have to have at to the lowest degree one of each of the 400 Pokémon of Paldea in your possession at one point (trading Pokémon back and forth between players is fine). Some regional Pokémon that are obtainable in Scarlet and Violet don't count toward the Pokédex, such as Charmander, Quagsire, or Perrserker.

Once yous complete your Pokédex, you tin talk to Jacq in the biology room of your corresponding academy to get the amuse.

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

Completing the Pokédex isn't too bad, as you can catch most Pokémon — even evolutions — in the wild. You can also get version-exclusive Pokémon fairly hands using specific trade link codes (though this method requires Nintendo Switch Online).

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Shiny sandwich recipes

If y'all're trying to notice shiny Pokémon in the wild, using sandwiches is a must. You'll demand Herba Mystica, which you can but go from loftier-level raids. Using specific ingredients in "Creative Style," you can brand sandwiches that both heave the encounter rate and the shiny rate to find specific types of Pokémon.

There are ii types of recipes we recommend using for shiny hunting:

One ready (which nosotros'll refer to as the "uncomplicated recipe") uses specific Herba Mystica (more often than not Salty), so if you have lots of Herba Mystica, then you can employ these recipes to make the sandwiches quickly without fear of the sandwich tipping over or losing ingredients.

The 2d prepare (which we'll refer to as the "complex recipe") uses almost whatsoever Herba Mystica, and then if y'all don't have many, you can employ these recipes. That said, this set of recipes has lots of ingredients inside, so it'south piece of cake to make a error while building if you lot're not careful.

You can also make these recipes with friends in a Union Circumvolve to share the buff. Once you make the sandwich, anybody will take the buff, and then information technology's a great way to minimize Herba Mystica usage. We recommend disbanding the Union Circumvolve later on making the sandwich (which won't remove the vitrify) in order to maximize Pokémon spawns.

Regardless of which sandwich recipe y'all use, make certain to save before you lot make the sandwich. This manner, you tin can merely restart your game if you mess up or if you don't find your desired shiny Pokémon.

Minimizing your game by pressing the Nintendo Switch abode button does pause the time on the sandwich powers, simply endmost or restarting the game will make the effects of whatsoever agile sandwich stop immediately, which is why you should salve before you lot make the sandwich. You can check how much time you lot accept left on the sandwich by pressing right on the D-pad.

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Sparkling Power sandwich recipe list

Recipe type	Pokémon type	Base ingredients	Specific ingredients	Herba Mystica
Recipe type	Pokémon type	Base ingredients	Specific ingredients	Herba Mystica
Complex	Normal	One cucumber and one pickle	Iii tofu	Any two except one Sweet and ane Sour, two Sugariness, or 2 Sour
Complex	Fire	One cucumber and 1 pickle	Three cherry-red peppers	Any two except one Sweet and 1 Sour
Complex	H2o	One cucumber and one pickle	Iii cucumbers	Any except i Sweet and one Sour or two Sweet
Complex	Electric	One cucumber and 1 pickle	Three yellowish peppers	Any two except 1 Sweet and one Sour
Complex	Grass	One cucumber and ane pickle	Iii lettuce	Whatsoever two except i Sweet and one Sour
Complex	Ice	One cucumber and one pickle	3 Klawf sticks	Whatsoever two except 1 Sugariness and 1 Sour or ii Sour
Circuitous	Fighting	Ane cucumber and one pickle	Three pickles	Any except i Sweet and ane Sour or two Sweetness
Complex	Poison	One cucumber and one pickle	Iii dark-green peppers	Whatsoever 2 except i Sugariness and one Sour
Complex	Ground	Ane cucumber and one pickle	Three ham	Whatever two except one Sweet and one Sour
Circuitous	Flight	One cucumber and i pickle	Iii prosciutto	Any two except ane Sweet and one Sour
Complex	Psychic	One cucumber and i pickle	Iii onions	Any two except one Sweet and i Sour
Complex	Bug	One cucumber and one pickle	Three cherry tomatoes	Any 2 except one Sweetness and one Sour, two Sugariness, or two Sour
Circuitous	Rock	Ane cucumber and ane pickle	Three bacon	Whatsoever ii except 1 Sweetness and i Sour
Complex	Ghost	One cucumber and one pickle	Three red onions	Whatsoever two except one Sweet and one Sour or 2 Sour
Complex	Dragon	I cucumber and one pickle	Three avocados	Any two except 1 Sweetness and one Sour, two Sweetness, or ii Sour
Complex	Nighttime	I cucumber and one pickle	3 smoked fillets	Any two except i Sweet and ane Sour
Complex	Steel	One cucumber and one pickle	Three hamburgers	Whatever ii except 1 Sugariness and one Sour
Complex	Fairy	Ane cucumber and one pickle	Iii tomatoes	Whatsoever two except ane Sweet and 1 Sour, two Sweet, or two Sour
Simple	Normal	-	Ane chorizo	Two Salty
Simple	Fire	-	Ane basil	One Salty and one Sweet
Simple	H2o	-	I cucumber	2 Salty
Simple	Electrical	-	1 yellow pepper	One Salty and one Spicy
Unproblematic	Grass	-	I lettuce	One Salty and i Sour
Simple	Water ice	-	Ane Klawf stick	2 Salty
Simple	Fighting	-	One pickle	2 Salty
Unproblematic	Poison	-	I noodle	Two Salty
Uncomplicated	Footing	-	Ane ham	Ii Salty
Simple	Flying	-	One prosciutto	2 Salty
Simple	Psychic	-	One onion	Two Salty
Simple	Bug	-	Ane red tomato	Two Salty
Elementary	Rock	-	Ane jalepeno	Two Salty
Uncomplicated	Ghost	-	One red onion	2 Salty
Simple	Dragon	-	One avocado	Two Salty
Simple	Night	-	Ane smoked fillet	One Salty and i Sweet
Simple	Steel	-	One hamburger	Ane Salty and 1 Sweet
Uncomplicated	Fairy	-	One tomato plant	Two Salty

Complex recipes courtesy of tak2525tak/Twitter and simple recipes courtesy of I_Kissed_Cereal/reddit

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How to find a shiny Pokémon using Mass Outbreaks

Shiny hunting in Mass Outbreaks is advisable (if you have an outbreak of involvement) equally shiny rates are higher. To exercise so, you'll need to do the post-obit.

1. Observe the Mass Outbreak that you desire to shiny hunt. (You can change the date on your Nintendo Switch to go a different set of outbreaks. They also modify at midnight.)
2. Salvage your game in case something goes wrong.
3. Defeat 60 of the mass outbreak Pokémon. There is no manner to 100% track this in game, so yous'll need to manually count and proceed tabs on it. There volition be messages that note that the number of Pokémon in the outbreak is decreasing every twenty-30 Pokémon defeated, then you can utilise this to help keep rail. When it says the number of Pokémon is "definitely getting lower," that means y'all've knocked out at least 50 Pokémon. Be careful not to overhunt the Pokémon, as this can cause the outbreak to finish. This typically requires you to defeat over 100 of the Pokémon. (Restart your game if this happens.) Annotation that this is not a "concatenation" as used in previous Pokémon games. You can boxing other Pokémon betwixt the 60, run from battles, leave the outbreak and come back, etc. There is no "concatenation" to suspension.
4. Salvage your game again in one case you're certain you've defeated at least 60.
5. If you have Herba Mystica, make a sandwich for the outbreak Pokémon's type using the recipes to a higher place. Rates are quite high fifty-fifty without the Sparkling Power sandwich, so don't stress if you don't take any Herba Mystica.
6. Run in and out of the outbreak expanse to despawn and respawn the Pokémon, refreshing for shinies. If you're hunting for a Pokémon where it's difficult to tell if information technology'due south shiny, y'all tin can use the automobile-battle feature, as your Pokémon will turn down to fight the wild Pokémon if it'south shiny.
7. If the outbreak ends (from accidentally defeating too many) or if your thirty-infinitesimal sandwich window expires, close your game and repeat steps 5-7 until you lot get your desired shiny.

If the Pokémon is in a place where it's convenient to prepare a picnic, yous tin can ready up and and then speedily have downwardly a picnic to despawn and respawn all the Pokémon in the area, allowing you to speedily wait for shinies. This method is referred to equally the "picnic method," merely it evidently doesn't work in water or on some inconveniently steep cliff sides.

Nearly every Pokémon can have an outbreak (excluding legendary Pokémon and Paradox Pokémon) co-ordinate to Serebii.internet. However, we noticed that some Mass Outbreaks seemed to exist more mutual than others. For example, we've never seen a Zangoose or Mareep outbreak, only we've seen tons of Flittle and Drifloon outbreaks.

If you don't desire to look for an outbreak of your target Pokémon, you can attempt the method below (which we've had tons of success with).

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How to detect a shiny Pokémon in the wild (without Mass Outbreaks)

This method is almost the same every bit the above method, just without the Mass Outbreak. You lot need to make a sandwich for this method.

1. Discover an surface area with your desired Pokémon. Information technology'due south best if your Pokémon has a unique type in this expanse. For example, shiny hunting Klawf (a rock-blazon) in the rocky canyon expanse may be hard considering at that place are other rock-blazon Pokémon in the expanse. Finding an constructive spawn location is non possible for every single Pokémon, only practise your all-time.
2. Save your game.
3. Make a sandwich that attracts and increases the shiny rate of your desired Pokémon'due south type using the recipes above.
4. Either auto battle the target Pokémon or despawn/respawn them (past using picnics or past merely leaving and reentering the area) until you notice your desired shiny.
5. If you do non detect your shiny within the 30-infinitesimal sandwich period, restart your game.

This method is a bit easier depending on the Pokémon, as you don't have to worry virtually the Mass Outbreak going away and you're a bit more than complimentary to choose whatever Pokémon you want. This method volition also piece of work on Paradox Pokémon, only you'll need to make the sandwich before heading to Area Nothing.

Notwithstanding, this method can still be cumbersome depending on the area. For example, shiny hunting Finizen in the ocean can exist a pain, every bit it's but water-blazon, and using a water-blazon sandwich will heave the appearance of many other Pokémon in the sea also. (Also, our frame rates consistently tank while in h2o, so it makes shiny hunting in the water extremely unpleasant.) If you don't want to deal with that, you can e'er attempt to breed a shiny Pokémon.

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How to breed a shiny Pokémon

The "Masuda method" is a shiny breeding technique that involves breeding a foreign Pokémon with your own. This ways that the Pokémon comes from a game that uses a unlike language, which information technology volition say on its profile as seen below.

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

The best fashion to use the Masuda method is to take hold of a foreign Ditto, which you tin practice somewhat quickly by using the link merchandise code 4448-4448. There are lots of English speakers searching for strange Ditto, so information technology may accept a few tries before yous get a non-English language Ditto. You tin effort trading belatedly at night or early in the morning time, depending on your time zone, when players in other countries may exist more bachelor in order to go a non-English language Ditto faster.

Once you have the foreign Ditto, all yous need to practice is breed the target Pokémon with the Ditto. Withal, to avoid having hundreds of dud eggs, we specifically practice the following:

1. Set up your party to just have your desired shiny Pokémon and the foreign Ditto.
2. Head somewhere that's easy to travel around. Medali is proficient, as we oasis't experienced too many frame-rate drops in that location and it's squeamish and flat.
3. Open your boxes and find a completely empty box. Shut your boxes with the empty box selected. (This will be where your eggs will get.)
4. Save your game.
5. Open a picnic.
6. Make any Egg Ability sandwich. We normally apply the Neat Peanut Butter Sandwich (#17).
7. Expect by the picnic basket at the terminate of the table.
8. Cheque on information technology periodically until you have 30 eggs total. In one case the handbasket has 10 eggs, information technology won't go any more, and then make certain to clear information technology out.
9. Take the Ditto and Pokémon out of your party and replace them with a Pokémon that knows Flame Body (which hatches eggs faster). We utilize Talonflame.
10. Use the minus push button to select an entire column of five eggs at once and put them in your party.
11. Run around until all v eggs hatch.
12. If y'all did not get a shiny Pokémon, echo step 10 until yous hatch all 30 eggs.
13. If you all the same did not get a shiny, restart your game and start again from pace 5. If you don't mind having lots of Pokémon to release or trade, yous can only start over again without restarting your game.

Whether or non an egg will hatch into a shiny Pokémon is decided when the egg is created, not when it is hatched, so you demand to make sure to create 30 new eggs, rather than saving and hatching the same 30 eggs.

We found that it took almost exactly thirty minutes to breed 30 Wooper eggs and hatch all of them, allowing us to employ the Egg Power from the sandwich to both decrease the fourth dimension it takes for egg cosmos (lol) and egg hatching. However, Pokémon that require more than steps to hatch, similar Bagon or Goomy, may take longer and may crave multiple sandwiches.

Note that if yous want specific stats, natures, or other things similar that on your bred Pokémon, yous'll need to take some other measures. Cheque out our breeding guide for more specific information there.

Source: https://www.polygon.com/pokemon-scarlet-violet-guide/23521399/how-to-shiny-hunt-sandwich-recipes-sparkling-picnic-mass-outbreak-masuda-method-ditto-breeding

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