Topic: Pokemon Legends Arceus

Haha, my sister did the same thing ans then passed on the knowledge.

I just realized when you send Arceus into battle while surfing Arceus doesnt use the floaties. It walks on water!

@Gravitron Like the god it is!

Well that explains why most of these new Pokémon were absent from the wild, they saved them for this update.

After MMO in the Coastlands, Mai said she would be at the Cornet Highlands camp, but she’s not here. Did I miss something?

The best part for me of 1.1.0 update that they added 28 new Requests/Side Missions/Quests.

@DomGC I checked, she’s not there either.

@Laxus There's a request beforehand where she's by the Galaxy Team Building where you then go to the Alabaster Icelands. Have you done that?

Honestly just enjoying having an excuse to go back onto Arceus again, as I wasn't enjoying the significant difficulty spike in the existing end game, but so far investigating these outbreaks has been pretty fun.

Continuing on with the massive mass outbreak quest, I headed to the Alabaster Icelands and what do you know, I found a shiny Swinub in one of them (something I was hunting for a few days ago no less). Absolutely ecstatic about getting one of my favourite mons as a shiny, I ride back to the camp, only to hear ANOTHER sparkle next to me. A shiny Machop! I managed to get 2 shinies in the same visit to the Icelands. I HAVE 13 SHINIES IN THIS GAME. THAT IS MORE THAN EVERY OTHER POKEMON GAME I'VE EVER PLAYED COMBINED.

Actually three shinys is the most I ever got without trading, its great!

Still yet to find a single shiny that wasn't the sub-quest Ponyta and I'm at 35 hours! I have a friend who's in the first area and managed to obtain ~4 shinies though I think.

@Buizel Don't worry about it, I have over 85 hours in so I've had plenty more time to get shinies. All you need is perseverance (god I sound like a fitness instructor).

@Fizza Haha too be honest I'm whining for nothing as I'm certainly not a shiny hunter! It's just nice to find one once in a while when you're not expecting them, and it's been years for me personally

@Buizel I don't know how but I've been getting insanely lucky in Legends with my shinies. I got a shiny a day for three days at one point (a random Barboach, a random Staraptor and an outbreak Tentacool), it was that bonkers. I'm getting so many that I actively want to try (emphasis on try) and do a pseudo shiny living dex (a shiny for each stage of the evo line).

There's this website I've been using called Pokétch Shiny Hunt that catalogues all of the ones you have and, between all the Switch era games (except LGPE), I have over 40 already.

Is this idiotic and probably going to cause me a lot of pain? Yes. But is it satisfying as all hell to do? Also yes.

Anyway, I'll see you after I probably go for 5000 encounters for Shaymin in BDSP.

@Fizza I found her, thank you for your help.

@Fizza wow, that's quite a goal. Personally I find having a living regular Dex is challenge enough.

That said, my long-term Pokemon goal is to have a living dex for every Pokemon generation, so I've got plenty on my plate. So far I've only managed to achieve Sword and Shield and that was ruined when the DLC, BDSP and Arceus came out.

So as if to spite me, when the game finally does something I like, it does it in the suckiest way possible. So bad in fact, Reddit is full of people - myself included - who are concerned they are either soft locked or just out and out bugged.

Here is my PSA. DO NOT ENJOY THIS CONTENT. What I mean by this, is when the first Massive begins, you'll see icons all over the map. You'll want to go to each one, see what Pokemon spawn, see if there are any Shinnies, you know... have fun. But what the game actually wants you to do is Supermarket Sweep the three nearest to you, just one shot the first Pokemon you see and then move on in a mad dash.

Why? Well I dunno why they created it this way, but the Massive's only stay active for a VERY small window. And once they're gone, it just seems to be entirely based on RNG as to when they trigger again. If you don't clear three (clear conditions are to either catch or defeat a Pokemon in three of the Outbreaks in the collection, merely discovering it is not enough) of these in one Massive, you just cannot physically progress the game. Some people have made theories about needing to wait for it to rain, people have been resting and resetting their games for hours until it finally works. I am now in this position to.

Just baffling awful execution, I hope to God this gets patched. I cannot wrap my head around how they took something good and then just did it in such an awful way.

@Pizzamorg The fact that it's RNG dependent is garbage I won't lie (it caught me out in both the Mirelands and Icelands), but I really like them honestly.

I use a different method for my outbreaks: I give Munchlax his berries so he'll map out the Pokemon in the area so I can decide which one to go for between the ones I want as shinies, the ones with more Berries or the ones that will give me much needed evolutions for my dex. After deciding which ones to go for (since looking at the map pauses the timer), I go for those ones immediately and clear them out for the quest. If I have time left (which I usually do given the previous planning out), I then do each one closest to me to see if I can get them as shiny as well. I've gotten a shiny Luxio and Swinub using this method already along with completely cataloguing Dartrix, Decidueye, Ursaring and Ursaluna's catching/defeating requirements for the dex.

Could it be better? Absolutely. But what's here right now is something I adore.

(also, maybe don't say DO NOT HAVE FUN in your PSA? That's definitely more subjective than objective)

Sorry I should have said, don't have fun...

*unless your fun is meticulous planning to do something, because of a completely unnecessary, unneeded and arbitrary time and RNG restriction to progress a quest. Stealing the fun of discovery for a sweaty game of chance.

Hope that is better.

Edit: it actually gets worse, you have to catch or defeat EVERY Pokemon of that Outbreak that spawns to count it as a clear, so you can't even just mad dash it either.

***** this, I can't be arsed with this at all.

Just awful.

I hope they rebalance this with a patch.