 there we go we've got our first shiny this is awesome and our first shiny paradox pokemon in these games and you can see it works in today's video i'm going to show you the best method we've currently got in pokemon scholar and violet for shiny hunting there are a few prereqs before we get into this you're going to need to be in the post game and have access to five star raids to collect an item called herb amistica it is the item that we're going to be basing this whole shiny hunting method around so it is quite an important one and obviously if you aren't that far along in your story yet there are probably going to be a few spoilers bookmark this video and come back to it when you are but before we get into today's video please subscribe to the channel remember you can always unsubscribe later if you'd like to sandwiches play a big part within a lot of things you can do in scholar and violet they offer boosting powers to an array of different facilities within these games you can get hatching power egg power and counter power and experience power but the big one that we're going to be concentrating on in today's video is sparkling power now sparkling power is only obtainable by using a certain item we mentioned at the start of the video and that is herb amistica herb amistica is a specific item drop that is only available from five and six star terrorids once you beat one of these higher ranking raids you will have the chance for a herb amistica to be one of the items rewarded now i've done a full guide on the channel with how you can best approach farming herb amistica and the five and six terrorids so check the video out it will be linked up in the top right hand corner now it might be a lot of help for you in this process and because this item is so time consuming to get and it is a rare item it's not something that you want to waste so i'd advise every time before you start a shiny hunt using this method to save your game tick old or saves off so if your upcoming hunt doesn't produce the results you want you can always reset your game try it again and you're not losing those precious herb amisticas and just so you're aware if you do complete your pokedex and have access to the shiny charm this will only further increase the odds of shinies appearing as the sparkling power does stack with this item and the other ingredients that you're going to need are available at an abundance of deli stores around the pal dair region you want to look out for shokans which can be found in pretty much most towns around the pal dair region and the artisan bakery these two stores between them will sell each and every ingredient that you're going to need to create specific sandwiches for whatever your shiny hunting and there are five types of different herb amistica there are spicy herb amistica bitter sour salty and sweet and we'll be using this sandwich recipe that has been put together by the time is nigh over on the gba temp.net forums this will be linked down in the description if you want to use this for your own reference of sandwich recipes to get these sparkling power on certain encounters so for today's example i'm going to hunt for the dark type paradox pokemon that appear down in area zero because i know there are a lot of dark pokemon appearing down there it makes sense to create a dark encounter power sandwich with a sparkling boost on top of it this sandwich is not only going to boost the spawning rate of dark types but it will boost the sparkling power of these pokemon as well and there's one pokemon specifically in roaring moon that i would love to be able to catch if i am able to get this in a shiny form i can also get brute bonnet which is the amungas paradox form which is a grass and dark type as well as dino which appears and that would mean i can get a shiny high dragon so there are three pokemon that i can do with just one sandwich recipe so in game like i said the first thing before we do anything once we've got a herbomistica and our sandwich ingredients is just save your game just in case anything goes wrong and just make sure that you have your auto saves off so the first thing we're going to want to do is specifically if you're hunting in area zero you'll have to come out of area zero to set up a picnic so we're just outside of the crater and we're going to set up a picnic and we are going to make a sandwich so going off the herbomistica sandwich recipe list we want to first hit our x button on our controller and as we are going for dark types we want to use the dark type recipe which is smoked fillet one salty herbomistica and one sweet herbomistica and there's our smoked fillet so that's one of our ingredients that's the only ingredient we're going to need other than the herbomistica you want to press the plus button this will bring you to the next screen and then you want to come down and find your herbomistica so one salty herbomistica and one sweet herbomistica and then press next and this will take us to creating our sandwich as you say only one ingredient you can't really get it wrong just make sure that you don't drop any of these on the way to doing it because it will affect the sandwich and this is why it's also a good reason just to save before you start this process like herbomistica are super difficult to come across you don't want to get this wrong so there we go sandwich all done be that level three power so increased power you can see sparkling power vital power and encounter power all for dark which is exactly what we want for where we'll be hunting so now we'll just pack up our picnic and to check how much time that you've got on your sandwich and the powers that you've got you can hit the right directional controller on your d-pad this will bring up this screen and it'll show you the time you've got left until the sandwich powers run out the first place we're going to want to go is area zero we're going to go on to research station three because we're going to go after roaring moon which is the paradox form of salamence so we want to come out of here and salamence is kind of hidden is a paradox pokemon not super easy to find and you've got to know exactly where you're going to get it because it is hidden away and it will appear in only a couple of places down in area zero so we want to just come past these rocks here but we should already start to see more brute bonnets appearing and spawning in the wild and hopefully we do get a shiny pretty quickly there will be a plethora of dark types appearing in this area as well so we're going to get dino we're going to get sableye umbrion can appear here as well as a bunch of other things as well you're going to get access to bishop down in area zero and to kind of initiate or get started with kind of pokemon respawning you can use the let's go feature to knock pokemon out if you want or you can run in and out of the areas just to make more spawn that is not the shiny that we're after so what we'll do is we'll just leave the cavern and then we'll come straight back in and we'll see if that populates a shiny by doing this as well we can just run into this area to see if anything else spawns that we're getting lots of brute bonnets because we've got the dark encounter power active so that plus three you can see the amount of among us spawning as we're just running through the area there is really nothing else we need to do the amount of brute bonnets is absolutely ridiculous and every brute bonnet that does spawn has an increased rate to be a shiny so we're rolling the dice with every single spawn that we're getting in this area because of that sparkling power level three it means that the shiny chances for these pokemon are increased significantly and you can see here we've got two roaring moons here neither of these are shiny though so we'll just keep wandering through the cave system it is very early on in this sparkling power got dinos in here as well which are going to be potentially shiny as well as the sneezes and there we go we've got our first shiny it is a sneeze all and the dog part is working so we can get this nasal and there we go first shiny and there looks like a critical cap share and there's a first shiny so that didn't take long at all and that's the first one so hopefully we get some more and we'll continue just wandering around here respawning pokemon i'm using a combination of just wandering and then using the let's go facility just to kind of despawn pokemon to force more new spawns in because every time we do that you're going to get a chance of the dice rolling and a new spawn coming in in place of that one okay another roaring moon on the bank here and is that that's a shiny that's a shiny we've got the shiny hasn't even been that long and we've got the shiny this is so awesome the target pokemon that we were after hasn't been too long maybe about 15 minutes of hunting and it has spawned so the way to do this is basically just by despawning and respawning pokemon because of the encounter power you're going to get increased amounts of that particular type in this case it is dark type and we are just wanting to run around the area as you can see now and by doing so we're getting to a distance away from the spawned pokemon where they despawn and we're running into a new area where we're getting new spawn so we're continually doing this and despawning and respawning new pokemon and every time we do this like we've said we're getting a new dice roll for a shiny pokemon to appear and this method can be done for multiple pokemon down an area zero you're going to get a lot of pokemon that share the same types you're going to be able to take massive advantage of the ability of having something like herbomistica on a specific type and then hunting for those pokemon and lots of them appearing in particular we did a ground boosting sparkling power using this language recipe of ham and two salty herbomistica and although we didn't catch many shinies when we were down in the area we did manage to come across Paradox Donfan and get great tusks in its shiny form which looks absolutely incredible so that was our first shiny that we got down here we also had other runs where we've had brute bonnet and although most runs yield about two to three shinies for the 30 minutes sometimes it is only one and there have been a few cases where I've done a run and I've had no shinies pop up at all but this is why we say before we make this sandwich so you can just reset and then start again not wasting your herbomistica because they are such a difficult item to procure let me know down in the comment section below how your shiny hunts are going in game have you managed to start shiny hunting with the sparkling power yet are you planning on doing it very soon in your games I would love to hear if you've had success what pokemon you've gotten everything that you've been doing in regards to shiny 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