Everyone in the pokemon community seems to really, really like being right and I love how you aren't upset about being wrong or misinformed about something.
I feel like I already know what this video is going to tell me, but I'll still watch because I enjoy and appreciate the content Austin's been putting out for this game over the past few weeks.
That conversation with the Eevee 😂 I did know that having it collect items and breaking things raises friendship, but I didn't know about the exp stuff :) I'm learning all kinds of stuff from this, thanks Austin! My first shiny alpha was Carnivine when I was looking for pokemon I didn't have lol
HEY AUTSIN! I was also playing around with friendship evolutions and found that simply NAMING an Eevee also contributes towards increasing the friendship level. It wasn’t a significant increase but it’s something.
Another strategy that's slow, but mindless is to just put the pokemon in your party, lead with a lvl 100 pokemon that can beat anything with its first move, and then spam battles by just pressing "A" when talking to Ingo. If you have a turbo controller, you can afk farm experience and friendship. Great for multiple eevees (or those baby evolution research tasks) as you can do 5 pokemon at a time this way.
I’m so glad you posted this. I got my first shiny alpha. Chingling. Edit: I just noticed you didn’t mention Chingling as a friendship evolution. I’ll be honest, that’s how much I care the Pokémon, myself.
This could've been so helpful yesterday that I found a shiny Eevee during a mass outbreak... I was like Austin doesn't have a guide for friendship yet. Anyways, thanks for the awesome videos! I'm just in love with this game... and my shiny Espeon
HAH! I was right I found it easy to freindship evolve. My playstyle focuses on gathering all resources and I instinctively used the friendship evolvers on trees/ore etc. Also it seemed that catching pokemon was helping too!
Thanks for all these tutorials man! I love your work a lot. These tutorials and how there well said on how to do these things is great! I’ve been looking at your others as well and I finally got some stuff done. Keep up the great work! ^^
8:20 the zoom your music playing in slow-so (slow sound) was perrrfect lol I love it. That was exciting to see too cause I saw your tweet about it! I’ve done the screen recording to check for the shiny sound too 💀
From the looks of it, I don't think the actions of breaking rocks or giving candies give friendship themselves, rather a Pokémon gains friendship every time it gets experience or levels up, and the amount of experience doesn't look like it matters. So catching a Pokémon, battling a Pokémon, breaking things, and giving experience candy all give some amount of experience and also raised friendship. However, when you hit the tree but fled the battle, you didn't get any experience, therefore, no friendship. So I'd say the best way to level up friendship is to perform a bunch of actions that give some amount of experience. This does beg the question of how friendship would work for a level 100 Pokémon though.
The way this game works, i think you can still gather FP from the rocks and stuff and be able to evolve the pokemon at cap SWSH let you evolve lvl 100 pokemon by using a rare candy on them so why wouldnt this game let you evolve lvl 100 pokemon, too? especially since you can evolve them literally whenever
I gotta say since I've been watching your Legends Arceus videos, I absolutely LOVE how you talk to your Pokemon if they're out and about. It honestly makes my day/night 10x better.
I've got this video playing in the background while playing Legends Arceus, and I paused the video at 7:29 because I thought I heard a shiny Pokemon appear, then paused the game and took a capture. I kid you not, I found a SHINY ALPHA Staravia. First ever shiny alpha. What in the WORLD are the chances!? It's too bad this comment is going to be buried, this feels like such a crazy coincidence.
😂 you released this video with the best timing, right as I had been talking to my friend about how I had finally gotten Gabite and Electivire and just needed to find or catch an Espeon and I was good to go challenge God my phone went off with the video, I love your content man, keep it up 👉😎👉
I had a feeling that throwing my Pokémon at rocks and trees gave them friendship points while I was doing my playthrough. It should also be noted that the rocks and trees give experience points in increasing values as you progress to the different areas. If you start out with a low-level Pokémon, the levels you gain from that experience can also help raise your friendship.
2:20 I manged to find an Alpha Zubat, it was really hard to find without the glowing eyes I mostly heard a cry that sounded alpha-ish in 1st area but it looked like a regular Zubat till it knocked me off my mount, really easy to miss
I saw alpha Zubat lvl 29 near the grand tree arena area. Then the normal alpha Golbat lvl 35 spawn by oreburrow tunnel area. I caught both and worked to alpha Crobat x2. Caught the 3rd Crobat in wayward cave area. Was a good bat day 🙂
Perfect timing! Came back to see your shiny trick for an evee outbreak yesterday and I caught one in the first advance :D Now this is exactly what I was looking for my future shiny Umbreon. By far the best pokemon youtuber thanks for all your work.
I remember being this happy catching my first ever shiny natural gigantamax before DLC, knowing how awesome that was. And then pokemon said, you know what? SOUP!
I've been watching a ton of different pokemon videos and RUclipsrs recently and you are handsdown the most informative and entertaining one to watch. Thank you for these awesome regular uploads and please keep it up!
Ive never commented ever, love the videos so helpful, watch and like always, but honestly the genuine happiness on your face for the alpha shiny was amazing! Made my day!
Hey, I just had the luckiest day ever today in the game, I caught 16 shinies! All but five of them were random full odds, and the others were in the first bunch of their outbreaks. One of them was an eevee and I love shiny umbreon so I’m really glad that this video got released on my best shiny day ever!
Congrats on your first shiny alpha! I got a shiny alpha Eevee in my first mass outbreak very early in the game so I thought they were more common. Made to the post game last night and my misconception has been thoroughly debunked! 😅
My first alpha shiny was a alpha staravia that I couldn’t catch because of how low I am. I was devastated. My squad of Bidoof and my lvl 7 ace Oshawatt weren’t enough
For whatever reason I like to start my game out with an eveeloution team that isn't over leveled. I caught an evee at level 2 and evolved into Umbreon at 11 and a half by farming with it and only fighting level 2,3, and 4 level wild pokemon. That is lowest level I've had a friendship evolve
seeing how excited you get from the alpha shiny makes me happy Q_Q you put some much work into making content for us and with this many hours you still didnt have one... so finally seeing it is so awesome. cant thank you enough for all the work you do and making such incredible guides and stuff!
16:27 I know that feeling. I was farming grit, so I was going around and catching all the Alphas in the Fieldlands. I went to get the Alpha Scyther behind Kleavor's tree, and I caught the Alpha... but then I heard another Alpha Scyther, turned around, and BAM there was a shiny Alpha Scyther.
I did that mistake of not removing Baby Doll eyes when trying to get Umbreon. I was a bit mad when that happened. I found out online how it works and haven't made that same mistake.
i just wonna say, you are such a humble, sweet, funny and adorable humanbeeing i'm SO glad i found your channel, your videos just make me very happy and relaxed :) much love
Thank you so much and I appreciate these videos as well as the hard work that goes into them. The Wisp videos in particular, and another to help me catch Munchlax was very helpful. You have great advice and its easy to follow along, thanks again!
Something I've noticed about the Pokémon in trees, rocks, and crates; you have to defeat ALL the wild Pokémon in the battle for it to count, not just the one that jumped out. Gligar robbed me of a lot of items before I realized that
Um funny coincidence I was shiny hunting buizel in legends arceus wile watching this And right when you saw the shiny alpha staravia I encountered my shiny alpha floatzil
Thank you so much Austin, I was playing for hours leveling up my Togepi and after watching your video he evolved in like 10 mins of throwing him at stuff
"See, using items does not work in this--" Eevee can evolve! "... Wait." I burst out laughing. Btw, your video on Shiny hunting via outbreaks worked like a charm for me. I normally have horrible bad luck when it comes to Shinies, but it only took me five resets before I caught my first intentional Shiny (I'd caught previously a Glalie and Magmar just walking around, looking for resources). Thanks for the Shiny Goomy, dude!
Thank you so much for this guide! There is one method that you didn't address however: just walking around with the Pokémon in your party. In previous games this would gradually increase friendship after a certain number of steps, but you didn't mention it among the methods that do still or no longer work...
I'm gonna guess it doesn't, because I did the same, not doing much else bc I wasn't really trying to catch anything, and it took a really long time just to break alot of stuff. It definitely feels alot harder.
Dude you are the best. Very helpful and informative videos. Also like that you leave in your shiny encounters and all the things you find out for the first time. Very cool. Great job.
This literally could not have been timed better. Just last night I hit the point in the Pokédex where I need umbreon and espeon and was almost resolved to waiting for a distortion to give them
Amazing! The feels when you were doing recording and get accidental shiny was so satisfying. It happens to me with Shiny Alpha Torterra too. She was Adamant Nature even
Legend has it that if you like this video, you can find a Shiny Alpha too!
i found a shiny chimchar while watching this video! full odds! thanks for the shiny luck mr. AJP
My switch is currently dead
I FAILED A SHINY SPHEAL
I found a shiny Crobat within about 20 resets or so, though the Gallade has taken a lot longer.
I’m gonna need this considering I just found a shiny zorua outbreak
That perfect cut of the Eevee conversation though...😂
My favorite part of this video
@@qwerty_1946 same
I just got to that part in the video. My favourite also.
Bruh that had me dying XD
THAT BI-
Thank you SO MUCH for the help in this game
Also at 4:15 that was hilarious
THAT BI-
Lol tru
this made the video for me 🤣
Best part of the video
Everyone in the pokemon community seems to really, really like being right and I love how you aren't upset about being wrong or misinformed about something.
Really, this guy is a horrible person, see his twitter
Is he? Proof??
@@elberlopez6574 no?
You're right, he's just horrible to people when THEY are misinformed about something lol
Nothing new huh😔
“Oh yeah?…and then what?…oooh how interesting! And what did she say?…THAT BI-“ 😂😂 my favorite part.
I feel like I already know what this video is going to tell me, but I'll still watch because I enjoy and appreciate the content Austin's been putting out for this game over the past few weeks.
you sure there wasn't ONE thing new you learned? cuz I learned something new.
@@AustinJohnPlays i learned that you previously didn't have a shiny alpha ? If that counts 😂😂
Same lol just like how I can’t get the game but I’m willing to watch almost every video about the game to see what I’m missing lol
@@AustinJohnPlays i..I... didn't know you could remap the Switch buttons like that. :X
I somehow played up to the last Noble pokemon without knowing you can break cracked walls like that.......thanks. 😂
That conversation with the Eevee 😂
I did know that having it collect items and breaking things raises friendship, but I didn't know about the exp stuff :) I'm learning all kinds of stuff from this, thanks Austin!
My first shiny alpha was Carnivine when I was looking for pokemon I didn't have lol
What a coincidence, that's how I encountered my shiny alpha Ninetales
My first was [Insert Pokémon here]
Rapidash, was my first. I also got a Shiny Wurmple before the set Shiny (Spoiler) Pokemon you encounter.
im amazed how dedicated austin is. he's like a real life pokemon researcher. love you austin!
Love these videos, working on friendship right now. Also just had an eevee distortion so now I have all eeveelutions
Congrats on the shiny alpha! Mine was a shiny alpha Electabuzz when I was exploring Alabaster. I was so hyped because it’s one of my fav Pokémon!
Mine was the mamoswine at the avalugg ice thing
Ahh man, I would love to have a Shiny Elekid/Electabuzz/Electivire for my current team. I love Electivire from my Pokemon Diamond DS days.
Mine was a random Croat in wayward
My first static alpha shiny was the Scyther ( of course now kleavor) but my first random alpha shiny was an alpha Gastly while farming spirittomb 😁
Mine was the alpha rhyperior in the Coronet Highlands on my first visit to the area after beating Noble Arcanine
HEY AUTSIN! I was also playing around with friendship evolutions and found that simply NAMING an Eevee also contributes towards increasing the friendship level. It wasn’t a significant increase but it’s something.
I was just trying to build up friendship for my many shiny eevees. This is perfect
Another strategy that's slow, but mindless is to just put the pokemon in your party, lead with a lvl 100 pokemon that can beat anything with its first move, and then spam battles by just pressing "A" when talking to Ingo. If you have a turbo controller, you can afk farm experience and friendship. Great for multiple eevees (or those baby evolution research tasks) as you can do 5 pokemon at a time this way.
@@manguy01 I’ve done that strategy for exp, but not friendship. I didn’t know battling gave friendship to your whole party. Thanks!
I’m so glad you posted this. I got my first shiny alpha. Chingling.
Edit: I just noticed you didn’t mention Chingling as a friendship evolution. I’ll be honest, that’s how much I care the Pokémon, myself.
chimecho is a great shiny, especially as an alpha! W
@@brimstone9602 lol thank you, but I personally am not a fan. Glad I got a shiny alpha(my first too), but still not a fan.
@@Chtsht23 shiny chimecho is great, but to each their own
"and what did she say?"
"Eevee noise"
"THAT BI-"
that conversation between you and your eevee i laughed so hard! loved it so much! keep up the funny and great videos!
This could've been so helpful yesterday that I found a shiny Eevee during a mass outbreak... I was like Austin doesn't have a guide for friendship yet. Anyways, thanks for the awesome videos! I'm just in love with this game... and my shiny Espeon
Yeah me too with no shiny charm and evolved it to a shiny Male sylveon
Saving two tumblestones before Eevee evolved would have been interesting because you could check if some methods gave more than 1 friendship point
"oh? What did she say?"
*Eevee noises*
"That bi-"
4:03 my favourite part 😂😂😂😂😂
HAH! I was right I found it easy to freindship evolve. My playstyle focuses on gathering all resources and I instinctively used the friendship evolvers on trees/ore etc. Also it seemed that catching pokemon was helping too!
Thanks for all these tutorials man! I love your work a lot. These tutorials and how there well said on how to do these things is great! I’ve been looking at your others as well and I finally got some stuff done. Keep up the great work! ^^
8:20 the zoom your music playing in slow-so (slow sound) was perrrfect lol I love it. That was exciting to see too cause I saw your tweet about it! I’ve done the screen recording to check for the shiny sound too 💀
From the looks of it, I don't think the actions of breaking rocks or giving candies give friendship themselves, rather a Pokémon gains friendship every time it gets experience or levels up, and the amount of experience doesn't look like it matters. So catching a Pokémon, battling a Pokémon, breaking things, and giving experience candy all give some amount of experience and also raised friendship. However, when you hit the tree but fled the battle, you didn't get any experience, therefore, no friendship.
So I'd say the best way to level up friendship is to perform a bunch of actions that give some amount of experience. This does beg the question of how friendship would work for a level 100 Pokémon though.
The way this game works, i think you can still gather FP from the rocks and stuff and be able to evolve the pokemon at cap
SWSH let you evolve lvl 100 pokemon by using a rare candy on them so why wouldnt this game let you evolve lvl 100 pokemon, too? especially since you can evolve them literally whenever
The game can probably track whether or whatever you did would have given them experience, and thus give them friendship.
I gotta say since I've been watching your Legends Arceus videos, I absolutely LOVE how you talk to your Pokemon if they're out and about. It honestly makes my day/night 10x better.
Hell yeah GG on the shiny alpha! My first was heracross randomly. I almost missed it. No idea how I missed a giant pink beetle
I've got this video playing in the background while playing Legends Arceus, and I paused the video at 7:29 because I thought I heard a shiny Pokemon appear, then paused the game and took a capture. I kid you not, I found a SHINY ALPHA Staravia. First ever shiny alpha. What in the WORLD are the chances!? It's too bad this comment is going to be buried, this feels like such a crazy coincidence.
Congratulations! I know I'm late, just got Legends Arceus as a gift, and I have so much to learn. Wishing you the best shiny luck!
WELCOME TO THE SHINY ALPHA CLUB!!!
Man I was waiting for your video I have been waiting for soo long
😂 you released this video with the best timing, right as I had been talking to my friend about how I had finally gotten Gabite and Electivire and just needed to find or catch an Espeon and I was good to go challenge God my phone went off with the video, I love your content man, keep it up 👉😎👉
I was dieing of laughter at 4:25 when you talked to that shiny eevee!! 🤣🤣🤣
Keep up the good work on the videos man
4:25 is after the conversation between him and the Eevee. He was talking to it from 4:04-4:21. It was really funny though
What i found most interesting about this video was that i finally found out how to break the big rocks.
The conversation between you and eevee at 4:02 is the funniest part of the video 🤣
I had a feeling that throwing my Pokémon at rocks and trees gave them friendship points while I was doing my playthrough. It should also be noted that the rocks and trees give experience points in increasing values as you progress to the different areas. If you start out with a low-level Pokémon, the levels you gain from that experience can also help raise your friendship.
Exactly, evolution should be achieved with 3-5 level ups.
Austin talking to his shiny Eevee is the best
YAY you always manage to provide exactly the guide I need most. 🥰💕 Thank you!!! And congrats on your shiny Alpha!!
That eevee conversation cut-in was funny.
2:20 I manged to find an Alpha Zubat, it was really hard to find without the glowing eyes I mostly heard a cry that sounded alpha-ish in 1st area but it looked like a regular Zubat till it knocked me off my mount, really easy to miss
I saw alpha Zubat lvl 29 near the grand tree arena area. Then the normal alpha Golbat lvl 35 spawn by oreburrow tunnel area. I caught both and worked to alpha Crobat x2. Caught the 3rd Crobat in wayward cave area. Was a good bat day 🙂
4:12
"Ooh, how interesting! And then what did she say?"
**Eevee noises**
"That BI-"
I laughed way too much at that, not gonna lie
I love how he actually spoke to the ever 😂
Omg bro you had me dying when you were talking to eevee 🤣🤣 pure comedy 👏👏👏
Perfect timing! Came back to see your shiny trick for an evee outbreak yesterday and I caught one in the first advance :D Now this is exactly what I was looking for my future shiny Umbreon. By far the best pokemon youtuber thanks for all your work.
The bit of Austin talking to the shiny Eevee made me laugh harder than it should have. 😂
‘That Bitc-‘ 😂😂
I remember being this happy catching my first ever shiny natural gigantamax before DLC, knowing how awesome that was. And then pokemon said, you know what? SOUP!
I've been watching a ton of different pokemon videos and RUclipsrs recently and you are handsdown the most informative and entertaining one to watch. Thank you for these awesome regular uploads and please keep it up!
Ive never commented ever, love the videos so helpful, watch and like always, but honestly the genuine happiness on your face for the alpha shiny was amazing! Made my day!
This is perfect timing!! I got the notification for this when i got an eevee outbreak. Now I got a shiny one and going to Evo it to an Umbreon
Hey, I just had the luckiest day ever today in the game, I caught 16 shinies! All but five of them were random full odds, and the others were in the first bunch of their outbreaks. One of them was an eevee and I love shiny umbreon so I’m really glad that this video got released on my best shiny day ever!
Nice. I think the most I've ever caught in a day was like 5 from outbreaks lol
best thing about this video is austin talking to his eevee like it was spreading the juicest gossip lol
Congrats on your first shiny alpha!
I got a shiny alpha Eevee in my first mass outbreak very early in the game so I thought they were more common. Made to the post game last night and my misconception has been thoroughly debunked! 😅
2:09 sticky globs
My first alpha shiny was a alpha staravia that I couldn’t catch because of how low I am. I was devastated. My squad of Bidoof and my lvl 7 ace Oshawatt weren’t enough
Don’t you need at least 4 stars to even catch an alpha? Either way you wore unlucky
A good video idea is a guide for people who have beat the post game as in completed the “seek out all Pokémon” quest for post game content
For whatever reason I like to start my game out with an eveeloution team that isn't over leveled. I caught an evee at level 2 and evolved into Umbreon at 11 and a half by farming with it and only fighting level 2,3, and 4 level wild pokemon. That is lowest level I've had a friendship evolve
seeing how excited you get from the alpha shiny makes me happy Q_Q you put some much work into making content for us and with this many hours you still didnt have one... so finally seeing it is so awesome. cant thank you enough for all the work you do and making such incredible guides and stuff!
🔥🔥
I really don't know how you do this.
@@AustinJohnPlays You can call me a magician lmao
Congrats on Red Gyarados. Thanks for the content grinding. Videos are helpful.
"And what did she say"
Eevee: *eevee noises*
Austin John: "that bit-"
That mad me laugh hard
I just do the good ole throw em in the party and let them level up till they evolve 😂 it’s foolproof
I really enjoyed the simple way of you talking to you shiny eevee just like I do to my animals. And the cut was funny!!
16:27 I know that feeling. I was farming grit, so I was going around and catching all the Alphas in the Fieldlands. I went to get the Alpha Scyther behind Kleavor's tree, and I caught the Alpha... but then I heard another Alpha Scyther, turned around, and BAM there was a shiny Alpha Scyther.
That eevee conversation with the nice cut at the end really made my day 😂😊 thank you for the content austin! Much love ❤
I love how you talked to your Eevee cause I do the same exact thing to my cats when they meow at me lol
Congrats on almost 2 mil subs I appreciate how hard you work to inform the Community of thing we don’t find out alone
"I JUST WANT YOU TO BE MY FRIEND!" yeets Pokemon at rock.
I love how he actually talks to the eevee as if it’s spreading the eevee gossip
I did that mistake of not removing Baby Doll eyes when trying to get Umbreon. I was a bit mad when that happened. I found out online how it works and haven't made that same mistake.
i just wonna say, you are such a humble, sweet, funny and adorable humanbeeing
i'm SO glad i found your channel, your videos just make me very happy and relaxed :)
much love
I desperately needed a video on this, thx so much 😊
Austin talking to his Eevee is how I talk to my cat. I laughed so hard
Thank you so much and I appreciate these videos as well as the hard work that goes into them. The Wisp videos in particular, and another to help me catch Munchlax was very helpful. You have great advice and its easy to follow along, thanks again!
AUSTINNNN SO HAPPY FOR YOUR FIRST SHINY ALPHA HAHAHA GOOD JOB MAN!!!
Something I've noticed about the Pokémon in trees, rocks, and crates; you have to defeat ALL the wild Pokémon in the battle for it to count, not just the one that jumped out. Gligar robbed me of a lot of items before I realized that
I was on the floor laughing when he was talking to eevee lmao
Um funny coincidence
I was shiny hunting buizel in legends arceus wile watching this
And right when you saw the shiny alpha staravia
I encountered my shiny alpha floatzil
Lmfaooooo. I loved the Stream when you talked to Eevee. "That Bi...!"
Eevee: she said my fur wasn't up to par 😒
Austin: That Bi-!
We love you Austin 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The absolute joy on his face at 7:46 😂
Thank you so much Austin, I was playing for hours leveling up my Togepi and after watching your video he evolved in like 10 mins of throwing him at stuff
"See, using items does not work in this--"
Eevee can evolve!
"... Wait."
I burst out laughing.
Btw, your video on Shiny hunting via outbreaks worked like a charm for me. I normally have horrible bad luck when it comes to Shinies, but it only took me five resets before I caught my first intentional Shiny (I'd caught previously a Glalie and Magmar just walking around, looking for resources). Thanks for the Shiny Goomy, dude!
4:43 instructions unclear. Threw rock at Eevee. Eevee evolved into Flareon. melted neighbor's pet Bergmite.
also congrats on the shiny alpha at 8:18
Genius move to remap the Left Stick to the Plus button for fast mount!!!!
Thank you so much for this guide! There is one method that you didn't address however: just walking around with the Pokémon in your party. In previous games this would gradually increase friendship after a certain number of steps, but you didn't mention it among the methods that do still or no longer work...
I'm gonna guess it doesn't, because I did the same, not doing much else bc I wasn't really trying to catch anything, and it took a really long time just to break alot of stuff. It definitely feels alot harder.
Austin is a real life Pokémon Professor. Thank you for the great content!
As always, wonderful video!
Thank you for all your help John. I just got into the game this year and still going to sub cuz you are so helpful.👍
7:42 my first alpha shiny was a lickilicky
4:20 hahahahahahaha the joke *and* at that timestamp?! Masterful.
I just got this game yesterday and I remembered about your channel
Thank you! while i was using your guide to evolve my eevee into espeon, and right as you found the shalpha staravia, i found a shiny piloswine!
you know a game’s shiny luck is good when one pops off in a video that wasn’t even about shinies
Just when I am having trouble evolving Eevee you post this,thanks Austin
you forgot Chingling into Chimeco.
These guides and your videos are always so helpful and full of personality. Thanks for all the hard work!
Compounding is key! I did this for the past friendship evolutions as I worked on my Pokédex.
Thank you so much for keeping reading my mind and posting exactly the videos I need in every and each moment of my playthrough.
Dude you are the best. Very helpful and informative videos. Also like that you leave in your shiny encounters and all the things you find out for the first time. Very cool. Great job.
This literally could not have been timed better. Just last night I hit the point in the Pokédex where I need umbreon and espeon and was almost resolved to waiting for a distortion to give them
Amazing! The feels when you were doing recording and get accidental shiny was so satisfying. It happens to me with Shiny Alpha Torterra too. She was Adamant Nature even
That clip of you talking to Eevee I will never not laugh at 🤣
Past Austin was talking to future Austin while present Austin watches