For those who may be confused, he did mis speak at the beginning there. For roaring moon, he meant to say dark and DRAGON, not dark and flying. Roaring moon isn't flying, and from what I can tell he's using dragon, since sneasels aren't popping up everywhere. Just came to the comments to clear that up :))) thanks Austin your videos are unbelievably helpful!
I have been struggling to get roaring moon for a while now, as soon as I saw the title, I knew this was gonna help me. Thank you so much austin for all the hard work you do
yo real talk I have done 2 to 5 attempts every day for the past week and couldn't get roaring moon to spawn, and just 2 attempts after this video I got my shiny. Thank you so much Austin!
This definitely changed how I hunt certain mons! You're way more involved than just running around, and passively killing wrong spawns give you loot so you always feel like you're making _some_ progress.
PSA: You can do a similar method when doing mass outbreaks. Sometimes you’ll notice if you drive into the outbreak too fast you will only see a few Pokémon but if you approach slowly or pan your camera slowly a bunch will spawn all around you. 73 shinies and counting, this method is effective.
They should make you the pokemon professor for gen 10 cuz you're one of the only poketubers to do research over and over before sharing the information you've accumulated. That is science, and we champion ranked trainers appreciate you a lot.
People probably already pointed this out, but if you're going for Iron Valliant, you can just head down to the underground cavern, the one that goes down to the lab encased in crystals. As long as you stay out of the very bottom where there's water (where it spawns Glimorra and Golduck I think), you will only and exclusively encounter Iron Valliant. Whether the fact that the area around you is less open than the cave in the video is better or worse is up to debate though
Prolly late as well, iron valiant (and some other paradox Pokémon, depending on sandwich and game version) can be caught at that rock located near research lab 4. Exit lab 4 and head straight down the path to the cliff. Jump down to flat crystal. The giant rock in front of you will spawn 15 Pokémon. Move away and walk back to easily despawn and respawn.
You can also hunt for Iron Valiant in the other massive cave system where research area 4 is. They only show up if you have a fairy encounter power as well, so I recommend the sparkling fairy level 3 + fairy encounter power level 3. They will legit be EVERYWHERE in the cave, its kind of nuts. I found that way more spawn in this cave system than the one shown in the video where you can actually find them normally
So my brother and I were co op paradox hunting in area zero, so we could get the opposite version paradoxes. We made the sparkling electric burger sandwich and went to the massive slope by the second lab. We each only got 6 or 7 iron thorns/sandy shocks at a time, but auto battling made things so much faster than running back and forth because those two have a very small spawn area. So this method, specifically the auto battle variant, may be very helpful in smaller areas, such as the various cave systems.
Heya, how do you manage to get into the others area zero? I tried to go into co op with my friend (who has violet), but we couldn't manage to get into one area zero together. We were still in one union circle, but each person was inside their own area zero, only getting the paradox mons from their respective game
Enter a union circle, the. Both go into area zero at the same time. As long as you two stay together, you will get each other’s spawns. Keep in mind you will not be able to see other players in area zero so you need to be coordinated. But it’s more than possible.
I love how you can hardcore hunt like this or also have fun just running around and finding random shinys. If this was more optimized and had more anti aliasing this would probably be the best game ever
When I was doing my Iron Valiant hunt I thought to myself "well, I need a shiny Greavard/Houndstone anyway so maybe I can multitask this hunt." When my shiny IV finally spawned, there were two buried packs of ghost dogs that spawned next to it and something told me to pop them up just to check and sure enough, one of the Greavard was shiny too. It was my first instance of double shinies, thankfully I had enough common sense to put down a hard save before going after either of them, haha. Hoping I can try hunting for the Scarlet paradoxes in a union circle sometime soon. I'll definitely use this strategy with my friends to speed things up! Thank you, Austin!
You know I had this realization while I was hunting Roaring Moon and got to my seventh sandwich, but I never carried that over to any other hunt. Thanks for this. Keep doing what you do best, Austin.
For Iron Valiant I just go to research station 3 and run into the massive cave leading to the bottom. With Fairy encounter they'll be the only spawn, so running back and forth between the floating platform and the main path keeps spawning a ton of them without having to worry about spawning other pokemon. Also, for roaring moon dark sucks, both zweilous and sableye are single spawns. Also its dragon/dark type not flying. Just use dragon sandwich you only need to "compete" with zweilous.
An easier place to hunt Iron Valiant will be inside the cavern area where Iron Treads and others spawn. With a fairy encounter boost, it'll spawn there, and you can find a shiny quickly.
@@AustinJohnPlays All over the bottom, I even got them to spawn inside the crystal that surrounds the buildings, afaik you just need Fairy boost, I found that out while I was with a friend from the other version, all I was seeing is Iron Valients
@@AustinJohnPlays just did this, and it's the lowest part of Area Zero, around Research Station 4. Pretty much the same way you woud do Iron Bundle, but with a lv3 Fairy Encounter instead.
One cool thing with this cave is you can get to the top of that waterfall from near Base 1 There's a weird water area that has no music, spawns or items directly above this (Paradox legendary spawn location for DLC?) that flows down into this cave Its really weird, but worth checking out - just nothing spawning like that is even eerier than area zero to begin with
Not sure if you're already aware or not, but if you go to Research Station 3 and go into the cave that's right in front of you, you can get Iron Valiant to spawn exclusively (a TON of them) with a fairy sandwich. I don't have Scarlet, but I'm assuming it would be the same with Roaring Moon.
Sorry for the necropost but I wanted to explain *why* it doesn't work for Roaring Moon. RM is a Dragon/Dark 'mon, but so is Zweilous, and they both spawn in that cave. So regardless of which sandwich you're using you're still going to get at least two species in that area. I found 3 or 4 shiny Zweilous before my shiny RM finally showed up. @@vibe6223
Shiny Slither Wing is literally going to be my next hunt, I didn't even know people were having trouble hunting it lol. Once again, your videos come through in the nick of time.
Slither Wing is deceptively easy appearing because it spawns just about everywhere green in Area Zero, but yeah. A lot of people just keep running or sprinting. I see it all the time on hunting streams.
I actually did this for Eevee outside of the bug town/soccer field! I found where the spawner was for the mass outbreak, walked up a hill to despawn farther away pokemon and used let’s go to knock out other spawns nearby. I would get around 12-15 eevee spawns and run into town to reset fully. the trickiest part was getting the right distance away from Eevee to guarantee i would spawn more when i knocked something out using let’s go.
I just arrived in Area Zero these days and I've now finished the story (it was a fantastice finale). When I first saw all the Paradox Pokemon, I knew I need the Shinies. Thanks for the helpful tips! By the way, talking about Raichu: I got a full odds Shiny about 10~15 minutes after my first arrival in Area Zero. That was a nice way to welcome me there :)
Something I learned about Iron Valiant (idk if Roaring Moon works similarly) but Area 4 (last Research station) also spawns Iron Valiant. Using a Fairy Encounter/Sparkling sandwich, the process is pretty fast and easy like Iron Bundle is.
I saw a clip from a JP twitter user who spawned them on top of one of the crystals and they could spawn/despawn all of them within seconds. I already got mine but that would be my place to go to now.
Pro Tip: CROUCH! when you are walking/riding your dragon, repeatedly pushing the joystick can wear your hands out. If you crouch, you can go full speed without getting sore hands. You dont go too fast and accidently spawn packs either. Crouching is the way of ensuring as many spawns as possible!
Iron valiant is MUCH easier to hunt in the crystal caves. Pop the fairy encounter sandwich and head into the caves from base #3 all the way down to the water at the bottom. It’ll show up there despite not being in the normal encounter pool.
Can confirm this works since I got 2 shiny iron valiants from doing this in the cave yesterday, its way easier indeed since nothing but iron valiant will spawn if you look in the right places while using a sandwich.
Awesome video it really does work quite well. I was able to reliably get several Roaring Moons to keep spawning instead of occasionally getting some to spawn here and there. I wouldn't have ever thought to do this and probably would still be shiny hunting Roaring Moon currently. I tried two times without this trick with no luck, but I tried it with this trick twice and got it the second time. I also had enough time to shiny hunt the other dragons in the cave and got myself a shiny Zweilous and a shiny Gible. Quite a fruitful harvest from that sparkling dragon sandwich thanks to you.
After watching this, I used this method to find a shiny Heracross in 4 minutes. If you keep to the cliff's edge northwest of the groundblight shrine and pace back and forth then it works extremely similarly to Austin's method for Slither Wing except there are no pack spawns to worry about, so you can move fast. Keeping to the cliff's edge makes the camera work simple. I was spawning well over 100 per minute.
This, as always, is incredibly helpful. I did the running around in big circles method and it took me 3 full hours to find Roaring Moon... I found 2 shiny Pawmi, and 4 Zweilous though lmao
i dont know if youll see this but i have a long travel from the UK to Australia next week and thanks to your videos im gonna be able to shiny hunt basically the entire time. Thanks for all you do.
Always love your content. If I ever wanna learn anything about these games, it’s straight to you! Thank you! On a side note, I think an All Cave Entrance guide would be SO helpful. There are some outbreaks I can’t find and I believe they are in caves, but can’t figure it out!
just did this tonight and got 2 shiny valiants in 30 minutes! Austin out here giving us all the best shiny hunting methods, this man is amazing! ty Austin for all that you do :D
Friendly reminder: Be VERY careful not to run away from pokemon you want to catch while in coop. I ran away from a shiny indeedee cause I forgot to save while in local coop, and she despawned. I don't know if saving before the shiny will keep it there if you reload from a coop game. Coop may be faster numbers, but the likelihood of failing the shiny also increases if you're used to running from them to save.
Im currently 13 shiny sandwiches and 9 shinies into my roaring moon hunt while ive been running around like crazy and losing my mind. Thank you for the method, I now have a glimmer of hope
I ran around in that cave last weekend because a friend tipped me off to the increased Chansey spawns in there and I got two accidental shinies while grinding. And now there's a video about just that area. Neat! Also, as a Violet player, let me just say how much I love Slither Wing's design. They look so much more appealing swarming the area than all the Iron Hands I've been getting. Though Iron Hands has certainly been amazing in raids.
This was an awesome guide! Thanks. It really is about controlling the pack spawns for these pokes. I got a roaring moon on my second sandwich, and a random houndstone right after I caught it. Slither wing I got on my first sammy. XD
Love your channel Austin. You make getting shinys look so easy lol. Despite playing every Gen of Pokémon, I’ve never completed a Dex and just got into competitive and shinys last Gen. I’m on day 3 of trying to hatch a shiny starter using a Masuda Ditto no shiny charm and no luck so far but watching ur channel gives me hope 😅 lol
Keep it up with the Masuda hunting, did that recently and it took me a week for that shiny cat. It's always a lot of fun to see the shiny finally appear after a lot of hard work.
@@myst2947 ur right and I’m looking forward to tht moment. I’m actually glad u said it took u a week lol most stories I hear of ppl getting them faster in this game than ever before so I’m glad I’m not the only one lol. Thanks I’ll def keep going
I know a lot of people complain about how easy the shinies are to get, but I've honestly had so much more fun with shiny hunting in this. It still feels just as exciting to me to find the shinies. And yeah, they aren't as difficult to get, but it still took me like a month to actually complete the Pokedex on both Scarlet and Violet and then it took me 3 hours to trade over all the version exclusives to and froe. As well as since I have to get two herba mysticas every time I want to shiny hunt a Pokemon, so it isn't like I still didn't have to put forth tons of effort into getting the shinies. The end result just comes about quicker, which if you have a job like me, you really appreciate, because when you play a game, you don't want to it to be literal months of grinding. The time I have off I want to be as much fun as possible not make me question why I am even playing the game as opposed to doing something more fun. I am glad you still have to put forth effort in shiny hunting, but not to the extent we did in previous games. It took me a literal year to get a shiny on one of the older games. A fooking year- I am not exaggerating. And I am not even factoring in the amount of time it took me to get the shiny charm.
Fun fact: If you use a Fairy sandwich for Iron Valiant, you can just go to Zone 4 and have a 100% spawn rate for Iron Valiant. It's spawn conditions is cave, but it turns out it doesn't have to be specifically the one you get it in normally if you're using the Encounter Power.
I 100% agree with what another commenter said the other day that you are the real-life Pokémon Professor. This video also explains how I got extremely lucky to get my shiny Roaring Moon on my first try. I always do shiny hunting slow-and-steady because I don’t want to accidentally despawn one. But, now I know that going fast is perfect for pack spawns. Thanks!!
Highly advise doing dragon sandwich if hunting Roaring Moon. If you use dark sandwich you’ll get tons of Sneasel and Sableye appearing on top of Zwelious and Roaring Moon. And the Sableye are small, annoying & like to chase you
@@jameswilliams8916 I finally found out that it was cause i was using the mix of "Sweet+Sweet, Sweet+Sour, and Sour+Sour" sandwiches. apparently encounter power don't work with those shiny sandwiches.
I rarely comment. But I want to thank you sir. I have been trying for 2 months to get a shiny Roaring Moon. I have tried running around, clearing pokemon, slowly running in wide circles and no shiny after 10 sandwiches. I managed to get a shiny sneasel, 2 gibles and a random pawmi. Your method paired with slowly clearing out Zweilouses, made more Roaring Moons spawn. I got it in 4 minutes after following your method. Thank you so much sir!
There is a spot in the deep layer of the Area Zero where Iron Valiant, Iron Wheel, Iron Juggulus, Iron Bundle and Iron Hands is incredibly easy to spawn and get as shiny which makes the ruins in violet much more useless since there are no pack spawns in your way while you reset encounters
Tip for anyone going for Iron Valiant: it’s much easier to take a Fairy sandwich and start at the bottom of Base 4 going up until the entrance of the cavern. It has much better spawn rates than the original cave, no other pokes and this exact trick works for Iron Hands using an electric sandwich as well.
Austin i don’t usually write comments in any video, but this was just amazing I tried the strategy and got 2 slither wing in less than 10 min! I just can’t thank you enough for all the content, tips and work you do to help us all! You are amazing keep rocking man!!!
I know that quick balls are op, but I really like matching shinies to the ball they're in. Would it be easier to breed for a shiny in an apricorn ball or reset? Does the shiny stay if you save and reload even if you find them via sandwich spawn methods? I'm currently breeding for a shiny salamance in a friend ball 💚🧡
From what I’ve done, a shiny will remain there if you save in front of it & close the game. I’ve done this so that I can catch some shiny Pokémon in specific Apricorn balls. If I use up the ball, I just turn my game off & back on, & the shiny Pokémon will appear again in the same spot.
Nall nailed it, but just a heads up to anybody just trying this out. You should turn off autosave and manually save before starting the fight. In the event you need to restart, you lose the remainder of what was on your sandwich power, but one sandwich for one shiny is still good.
Thanks ! It worked like freaking works ! I just use this method, just found 2 shinies. 1 Zweilous , 1 Roaring Moon. This method is the best possible method to shiny hunt roaring moon. Thanks a lot !
I was really struggling to find a shiny talonflame in area 0 and each time a run proved to be unsuccessful I grew more and more frustrated and impatient which lead to frantically speeding around like a speed demon. After watching this I decided to give it a try and with one run I found not 1 but 2 shiny talonflames! Thank you so much!!!!
It’s working, it’s much better thn me wandering around area zero for slither wing and getting one of it By changing my camera angle I got 3 at least spawns of shinning Pokémon in area zero. Nice tips 👍🏼
@@cheese7404 I just watched a video that showed me. It's basically the bottoms of area 0 before it turns into crystal cave area. There's a sharp left that leads into a cave system
I'll definitely be trying this out, especially for roaring moon! I want my violet friend to be able to catch one too, but im considering just sending them off to explore the rest of area zero while i hunt and then call them over to grab it once it shows up since it would most likely make her own mons show up and just be a bit of a mess in terms of amount of different exclusive mons.
If you find one you could just save in front of it, and close your game any time after they enter battle. Then the party will disband and you can reload in front of the shiny and catch it too.
When I was shiny hunting Sandy Shocks, I made a some of the same observations: 15 Pokemon appear in your given space and using Quick Battles helps despawn and respawn Pokemon in quickly. Eliminating pack spawns quickly was very helpful.
The way I got my shiny Iron Valliant was roaming around and going in a out, when the fighting sandwich I had (made by my friend shoutout to him) was running out I want to a research sation, teleported to another and came back and found the shiny in the cave. That took some time and I found the shiny with two mins on the clock left. Now I know this is a thing. Your videos always help out Austin. 👍🏼
Your tip with the overhead camera angles was absolutely clutch to mitigate the pack spawns. I sent out Roaring Moon and leveled up with Let's Go until finally finding my Shining Moon on the 2nd Dragon sandwich run (NO shiny charm yet)
@@vincemolina562 That was the only one I nabbed last night, hard to land more sans Shiny Charm. If I can get another and remember this comment, sure, why not?
I ended up basically doing this for Roaring Moon after many attempts otherwise, glad you've put a lot of thought into it and put it out there. This will help even me as I keep searching for marked Paras.
Thanks Austin! I was having trouble hunting Steenee between Artazon and Levincia with a grass sandwich, and was having some issues with Skiploom being a pack spawn, this method really helped, found my shiny in only a few minutes doing this!
I don’t think I’ll use this method during the entire hunt, but I did find a way to do it a little more efficiently if you don’t want to tip-toe around despawn borders like I do (and have OCD about your Pokémon’s levels and don’t want to auto battle) I found that if you do a circle around where the points of the ‘diamond’ in the center of the 4 circles is (with a little variation if one Pokémon is just slightly not on the border yet) you’ll consistently despawn 1-2 Zweilous/Roaring Moon at a time once you’ve isolated them from other spawns. It’s like herding sheep, except stragglers get snapped out of existence lol
You can also encounter Iron Valiant in the big cave system of Area 0 with the terra crystals (idk if Roaring Moon is also gonna be there), if you have Fairy encounter on. So that hunt is also relatively easy too! I got mine yesterday. :)
Went into the cave for iron valiant & used sandwich 81 for the fighting Lv2 buff. Caught 3 shiny iron valiants with my first sandwich use. I do have the shiny charm. Do everything the video says in terms of movement and this is literally a breeze. This was easier than tracking down a roaming legendary in older games.
This tech can probably work for a lot of the more rare spawns that are usually near a bunch of pack spawns, like how Eevee spawns near a bunch of Meowth/Persian packs
this is very helpful tbh, did 2 trial runs for roaring moon so far and I noticed the more pack spawn and less others too, so now I can avoid them, thx a lot
AUSTIN I LOVE YOU. ROARING MOON HAS BEEN SO ANNOYING. IVE BEEN SHINY HUNTING FOR 16 HOURS OR SO AND HAVE GOTTEN 10 OTHER SHINIES AND FAILED ONE CAUSE I DESPAWNED IT. THANK YOU!!
Pro tip: Your Let’s go mon will NOT fight against a shiny. It’ll do the “scared animation” where sweat icon shows up on it even if the level of the shiny is way below your let’s go mon’s level.
of course i see this literally immediately after getting a back to back shiny iron valiant, the exact same way you found the back to back shiny roaring moon, really useful video for when i play scarlet though! thanks!
I haven’t got one yet because of my terrible luck. But I have noticed about 3x as much roaring moons and I caught some others as well. Thank you so much , this was a huge help 😊
Thank you for this!! I’m on my 5th try for iron valiant. Watch all your videos and i was definitely of driving in a circle. Not boosted but still just going round and round. I didn’t think about the other pack spawns will have that much of an impact. I’ve been having the hardest time with this Pokémon! Literally been driving me crazy! Lol. I’m desperately hoping this video will help me out!
Yeah I did this on a ledge over the sea with a Gyarados outbreak. Could just slowly walk back and forth to despawn the other side. Ended up with 12 shinies in about an hour. And a shiny Veluza to boot. This was with no sandwich either. Just regular rate + shiny charm. Outbreaks are pretty good when you can get them in the right environment like that.
For those who may be confused, he did mis speak at the beginning there. For roaring moon, he meant to say dark and DRAGON, not dark and flying. Roaring moon isn't flying, and from what I can tell he's using dragon, since sneasels aren't popping up everywhere. Just came to the comments to clear that up :))) thanks Austin your videos are unbelievably helpful!
I have been struggling to get roaring moon for a while now, as soon as I saw the title, I knew this was gonna help me. Thank you so much austin for all the hard work you do
^^^^^
I know someone who can gen one for you shiny
@@juanibarra4927 ew no, that's gross
@@juanibarra4927 no
yo real talk I have done 2 to 5 attempts every day for the past week and couldn't get roaring moon to spawn, and just 2 attempts after this video I got my shiny. Thank you so much Austin!
This definitely changed how I hunt certain mons! You're way more involved than just running around, and passively killing wrong spawns give you loot so you always feel like you're making _some_ progress.
PSA: You can do a similar method when doing mass outbreaks. Sometimes you’ll notice if you drive into the outbreak too fast you will only see a few Pokémon but if you approach slowly or pan your camera slowly a bunch will spawn all around you. 73 shinies and counting, this method is effective.
They should make you the pokemon professor for gen 10 cuz you're one of the only poketubers to do research over and over before sharing the information you've accumulated. That is science, and we champion ranked trainers appreciate you a lot.
Nice idea! Turo/Sada are tough to beat as profs go, but if anyone can, it's Mr. John!
if they do made his apperance in game. imma throw my wallet away to buy game no matter what.
People probably already pointed this out, but if you're going for Iron Valliant, you can just head down to the underground cavern, the one that goes down to the lab encased in crystals. As long as you stay out of the very bottom where there's water (where it spawns Glimorra and Golduck I think), you will only and exclusively encounter Iron Valliant. Whether the fact that the area around you is less open than the cave in the video is better or worse is up to debate though
That area is great, I got mine in 2 loops of the route from the research lab and the bottom 👍💪
Prolly late as well, iron valiant (and some other paradox Pokémon, depending on sandwich and game version) can be caught at that rock located near research lab 4. Exit lab 4 and head straight down the path to the cliff. Jump down to flat crystal. The giant rock in front of you will spawn 15 Pokémon. Move away and walk back to easily despawn and respawn.
Of course this comes out right after I catch roaring moon 💀
Feel your pain 😫
same here! got it last night after 5 phases too…
Never to later to catch another. One to box. One for raids :)
Lmao same here got mine last night luckily did it on my first sandwich with 20 minutes to spare was scared I was gonna get shiny zweilous
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You can also hunt for Iron Valiant in the other massive cave system where research area 4 is. They only show up if you have a fairy encounter power as well, so I recommend the sparkling fairy level 3 + fairy encounter power level 3. They will legit be EVERYWHERE in the cave, its kind of nuts. I found that way more spawn in this cave system than the one shown in the video where you can actually find them normally
I got two shiny Iron Valiant doing this. It's so much better.
Huh? There's a different cave system near area 4? Where?
@@LowPolyPigeonjust the whole cave
What are the ingredients for this sandwich you're talking about? Thanks !
@@brettdavis5835 1 tomato and 2 salty herba or 2 tomato , 1 prosciutto ,1 red, yellow and green pepper and 2 herba mystica of any kind
So my brother and I were co op paradox hunting in area zero, so we could get the opposite version paradoxes. We made the sparkling electric burger sandwich and went to the massive slope by the second lab. We each only got 6 or 7 iron thorns/sandy shocks at a time, but auto battling made things so much faster than running back and forth because those two have a very small spawn area. So this method, specifically the auto battle variant, may be very helpful in smaller areas, such as the various cave systems.
Heya, how do you manage to get into the others area zero? I tried to go into co op with my friend (who has violet), but we couldn't manage to get into one area zero together. We were still in one union circle, but each person was inside their own area zero, only getting the paradox mons from their respective game
Enter a union circle, the. Both go into area zero at the same time. As long as you two stay together, you will get each other’s spawns. Keep in mind you will not be able to see other players in area zero so you need to be coordinated. But it’s more than possible.
That’s amazing! Did you guys more or less just stand in place and auto battle what was nearby?
I love how you can hardcore hunt like this or also have fun just running around and finding random shinys. If this was more optimized and had more anti aliasing this would probably be the best game ever
Saw that shiny Iron Valiant at 4:49 and was real worried you were going to miss it.
At 2:09 wasn't that also A shiny roaring moon?
Edit: guess not.
@@iamgoo nah that was a blue one
@@iamgoo no
He missed it the first time
@@fabainful haha but he still got it.
When I was doing my Iron Valiant hunt I thought to myself "well, I need a shiny Greavard/Houndstone anyway so maybe I can multitask this hunt." When my shiny IV finally spawned, there were two buried packs of ghost dogs that spawned next to it and something told me to pop them up just to check and sure enough, one of the Greavard was shiny too. It was my first instance of double shinies, thankfully I had enough common sense to put down a hard save before going after either of them, haha.
Hoping I can try hunting for the Scarlet paradoxes in a union circle sometime soon. I'll definitely use this strategy with my friends to speed things up! Thank you, Austin!
You know I had this realization while I was hunting Roaring Moon and got to my seventh sandwich, but I never carried that over to any other hunt. Thanks for this. Keep doing what you do best, Austin.
Bro why did u waste 7 sandwiches soft reset
@@jampape5165they could be saying like the seventh soft reset?
Just wanted to say thank you for all the work you put into these games. Everything you do helps me enjoy these games that much more. Keep it up!
Shiny hunting going crazy this gen
Loving every second of it.
For Iron Valiant I just go to research station 3 and run into the massive cave leading to the bottom. With Fairy encounter they'll be the only spawn, so running back and forth between the floating platform and the main path keeps spawning a ton of them without having to worry about spawning other pokemon.
Also, for roaring moon dark sucks, both zweilous and sableye are single spawns. Also its dragon/dark type not flying. Just use dragon sandwich you only need to "compete" with zweilous.
An easier place to hunt Iron Valiant will be inside the cavern area where Iron Treads and others spawn. With a fairy encounter boost, it'll spawn there, and you can find a shiny quickly.
I’ve never seen it in there. Where did it spawn for you?
@@AustinJohnPlays you need a fairy encounter sandwich
I got my 2 from here!
@@AustinJohnPlays All over the bottom, I even got them to spawn inside the crystal that surrounds the buildings, afaik you just need Fairy boost, I found that out while I was with a friend from the other version, all I was seeing is Iron Valients
@@AustinJohnPlays just did this, and it's the lowest part of Area Zero, around Research Station 4. Pretty much the same way you woud do Iron Bundle, but with a lv3 Fairy Encounter instead.
One cool thing with this cave is you can get to the top of that waterfall from near Base 1
There's a weird water area that has no music, spawns or items directly above this (Paradox legendary spawn location for DLC?) that flows down into this cave
Its really weird, but worth checking out - just nothing spawning like that is even eerier than area zero to begin with
Not sure if you're already aware or not, but if you go to Research Station 3 and go into the cave that's right in front of you, you can get Iron Valiant to spawn exclusively (a TON of them) with a fairy sandwich. I don't have Scarlet, but I'm assuming it would be the same with Roaring Moon.
I've heard that it doesnt work with roaring moon for whatever reason, I can't confirm that though since I dont have scarlet.
@@vibe6223 Doesn't. I tried with Scarlet. :(
Sorry for the necropost but I wanted to explain *why* it doesn't work for Roaring Moon. RM is a Dragon/Dark 'mon, but so is Zweilous, and they both spawn in that cave. So regardless of which sandwich you're using you're still going to get at least two species in that area. I found 3 or 4 shiny Zweilous before my shiny RM finally showed up. @@vibe6223
I was literally about to start hunting Roaring moon, thanks Austin!
You are very quickly becoming my favourite gaming content creator. Precise, to the point, articulate and always knowledgeable about your content!
Shiny Slither Wing is literally going to be my next hunt, I didn't even know people were having trouble hunting it lol. Once again, your videos come through in the nick of time.
To be fair I recently shiny hunted Slither Wing and I got two of em, so good luck
Slither wing is the first shiny that i hunted When i got my shiny slither wing i also got a shiny Venomoth and a shiny Lokix s
dude I have gotten 4 meditite trying to get it
Slither Wing is deceptively easy appearing because it spawns just about everywhere green in Area Zero, but yeah. A lot of people just keep running or sprinting. I see it all the time on hunting streams.
I failed 1 on my slither wing shiny hunt. But I reclaimed it. I recorded it to. CURSE YOU RENDER DISTANCE!!!!!!
I actually did this for Eevee outside of the bug town/soccer field! I found where the spawner was for the mass outbreak, walked up a hill to despawn farther away pokemon and used let’s go to knock out other spawns nearby. I would get around 12-15 eevee spawns and run into town to reset fully. the trickiest part was getting the right distance away from Eevee to guarantee i would spawn more when i knocked something out using let’s go.
ermmmm 1:00 this one doesn't count because there was no guitar riff when you encountered it....... sorry austin
I just arrived in Area Zero these days and I've now finished the story (it was a fantastice finale). When I first saw all the Paradox Pokemon, I knew I need the Shinies. Thanks for the helpful tips!
By the way, talking about Raichu: I got a full odds Shiny about 10~15 minutes after my first arrival in Area Zero. That was a nice way to welcome me there :)
Something I learned about Iron Valiant (idk if Roaring Moon works similarly) but Area 4 (last Research station) also spawns Iron Valiant. Using a Fairy Encounter/Sparkling sandwich, the process is pretty fast and easy like Iron Bundle is.
Is it that entire cave system that you would be running around in to find a shiny or do you stay within the research station area?
Wait, what? I never knew that
Yeah I got it in 10 mins. Very easy
I saw a clip from a JP twitter user who spawned them on top of one of the crystals and they could spawn/despawn all of them within seconds. I already got mine but that would be my place to go to now.
@@SplitSniper7 the entire cave system. It's where I caught 2
Pro Tip: CROUCH!
when you are walking/riding your dragon, repeatedly pushing the joystick can wear your hands out. If you crouch, you can go full speed without getting sore hands. You dont go too fast and accidently spawn packs either. Crouching is the way of ensuring as many spawns as possible!
Iron valiant is MUCH easier to hunt in the crystal caves. Pop the fairy encounter sandwich and head into the caves from base #3 all the way down to the water at the bottom. It’ll show up there despite not being in the normal encounter pool.
Can confirm this works since I got 2 shiny iron valiants from doing this in the cave yesterday, its way easier indeed since nothing but iron valiant will spawn if you look in the right places while using a sandwich.
Awesome video it really does work quite well. I was able to reliably get several Roaring Moons to keep spawning instead of occasionally getting some to spawn here and there. I wouldn't have ever thought to do this and probably would still be shiny hunting Roaring Moon currently. I tried two times without this trick with no luck, but I tried it with this trick twice and got it the second time. I also had enough time to shiny hunt the other dragons in the cave and got myself a shiny Zweilous and a shiny Gible. Quite a fruitful harvest from that sparkling dragon sandwich thanks to you.
As someone who found a shiny Sableye when I already had one while looking for a shiny Roaring Moon, I very much needed this.
After watching this, I used this method to find a shiny Heracross in 4 minutes. If you keep to the cliff's edge northwest of the groundblight shrine and pace back and forth then it works extremely similarly to Austin's method for Slither Wing except there are no pack spawns to worry about, so you can move fast. Keeping to the cliff's edge makes the camera work simple. I was spawning well over 100 per minute.
This, as always, is incredibly helpful. I did the running around in big circles method and it took me 3 full hours to find Roaring Moon... I found 2 shiny Pawmi, and 4 Zweilous though lmao
Do you want to trade a shiny roaring moon for my shiny iron valiant?
i dont know if youll see this but i have a long travel from the UK to Australia next week and thanks to your videos im gonna be able to shiny hunt basically the entire time. Thanks for all you do.
Your isolated encounter guides are the best!
Always love your content. If I ever wanna learn anything about these games, it’s straight to you! Thank you! On a side note, I think an All Cave Entrance guide would be SO helpful. There are some outbreaks I can’t find and I believe they are in caves, but can’t figure it out!
literally caught my first roaring moon last night after hours of struggle… great timing on this one LMAO crying in a corner at work
Do you want to trade a shiny roaring moon for my shiny iron valiant??
Bro I spent 60 hours I hunted it from start of the game to a week ago and of course now a easier method has been found out
@@vincemolina562 did you got the trade already?
Yes I did, I'm still missing the Paradox pokemon from scarlet though
@@vincemolina562 im looking for iron valiant and iron moth, both of them shiny
I was about to start my roaring moon hunt when this video came up. Thanks Austin, you're a lifesaver!
Do you want to trade a shiny roaring moon for my shiny iron valiant?
just did this tonight and got 2 shiny valiants in 30 minutes! Austin out here giving us all the best shiny hunting methods, this man is amazing! ty Austin for all that you do :D
What kind of sandwich did you use
I got this strategy to work extremely well with Iron Thorns in pokemon violet, i managed to get 3 shinies in 30 minutes, thanks for the tips Austin!
just in time after getting my shiny charm, thanks for all the work you do!
where is slakoth🙏
@@first-acc-lol they are in trees but I could never find any so i bred one from a vigaroth
@@GimpyGimli heard the rng for them is mad stupid
@@thaisennj9781 yeah i also bred for one
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Austin: **Recording a video**
A random shiny popping up when he’s speaking: *Hola I now live in your boxes*
Friendly reminder: Be VERY careful not to run away from pokemon you want to catch while in coop. I ran away from a shiny indeedee cause I forgot to save while in local coop, and she despawned. I don't know if saving before the shiny will keep it there if you reload from a coop game.
Coop may be faster numbers, but the likelihood of failing the shiny also increases if you're used to running from them to save.
Thanks to this video I got on my second try doing this method. Still somewhat hard to find but much more easy doing this than resetting entire spawns.
the anxiety when you ignored the shiny valiant and just moved away
Im currently 13 shiny sandwiches and 9 shinies into my roaring moon hunt while ive been running around like crazy and losing my mind. Thank you for the method, I now have a glimmer of hope
Brilliant work as usual, my dude. I'm looking forward to the nest installment of the isolated encounters.
Thanks!
I ran around in that cave last weekend because a friend tipped me off to the increased Chansey spawns in there and I got two accidental shinies while grinding. And now there's a video about just that area. Neat!
Also, as a Violet player, let me just say how much I love Slither Wing's design. They look so much more appealing swarming the area than all the Iron Hands I've been getting. Though Iron Hands has certainly been amazing in raids.
This was an awesome guide! Thanks. It really is about controlling the pack spawns for these pokes. I got a roaring moon on my second sandwich, and a random houndstone right after I caught it. Slither wing I got on my first sammy. XD
Love your channel Austin. You make getting shinys look so easy lol. Despite playing every Gen of Pokémon, I’ve never completed a Dex and just got into competitive and shinys last Gen. I’m on day 3 of trying to hatch a shiny starter using a Masuda Ditto no shiny charm and no luck so far but watching ur channel gives me hope 😅 lol
Keep it up with the Masuda hunting, did that recently and it took me a week for that shiny cat. It's always a lot of fun to see the shiny finally appear after a lot of hard work.
@@myst2947 ur right and I’m looking forward to tht moment. I’m actually glad u said it took u a week lol most stories I hear of ppl getting them faster in this game than ever before so I’m glad I’m not the only one lol. Thanks I’ll def keep going
Keep it up im personally hoping for quaxly cuz I’m over 2500 eggs for it
I know a lot of people complain about how easy the shinies are to get, but I've honestly had so much more fun with shiny hunting in this. It still feels just as exciting to me to find the shinies. And yeah, they aren't as difficult to get, but it still took me like a month to actually complete the Pokedex on both Scarlet and Violet and then it took me 3 hours to trade over all the version exclusives to and froe. As well as since I have to get two herba mysticas every time I want to shiny hunt a Pokemon, so it isn't like I still didn't have to put forth tons of effort into getting the shinies. The end result just comes about quicker, which if you have a job like me, you really appreciate, because when you play a game, you don't want to it to be literal months of grinding. The time I have off I want to be as much fun as possible not make me question why I am even playing the game as opposed to doing something more fun. I am glad you still have to put forth effort in shiny hunting, but not to the extent we did in previous games. It took me a literal year to get a shiny on one of the older games. A fooking year- I am not exaggerating. And I am not even factoring in the amount of time it took me to get the shiny charm.
Fun fact: If you use a Fairy sandwich for Iron Valiant, you can just go to Zone 4 and have a 100% spawn rate for Iron Valiant. It's spawn conditions is cave, but it turns out it doesn't have to be specifically the one you get it in normally if you're using the Encounter Power.
I 100% agree with what another commenter said the other day that you are the real-life Pokémon Professor. This video also explains how I got extremely lucky to get my shiny Roaring Moon on my first try. I always do shiny hunting slow-and-steady because I don’t want to accidentally despawn one. But, now I know that going fast is perfect for pack spawns. Thanks!!
Highly advise doing dragon sandwich if hunting Roaring Moon. If you use dark sandwich you’ll get tons of Sneasel and Sableye appearing on top of Zwelious and Roaring Moon. And the Sableye are small, annoying & like to chase you
Instructions unclear. I did Dragon sandwich and got hella Lycanroc, Dugtrio, and Flutter Mane for some reason...
@jameswilliams8916 this one exactly!
@@DraconicHero I did get it, but I've forgotten which sandwich I used. 😅
@@jameswilliams8916 I finally found out that it was cause i was using the mix of "Sweet+Sweet, Sweet+Sour, and Sour+Sour" sandwiches. apparently encounter power don't work with those shiny sandwiches.
@DraconicHero oh yeah! I think that was it. I was trying to save a Salty Herbs. You can't do that with Dragon encounter.
I rarely comment. But I want to thank you sir. I have been trying for 2 months to get a shiny Roaring Moon. I have tried running around, clearing pokemon, slowly running in wide circles and no shiny after 10 sandwiches. I managed to get a shiny sneasel, 2 gibles and a random pawmi. Your method paired with slowly clearing out Zweilouses, made more Roaring Moons spawn. I got it in 4 minutes after following your method. Thank you so much sir!
What is xyveliaz?
@@alisar6378 I think he means Zweilous 😂
@@elliexvidiaoh lol 😅
4:58 when I saw you run by the shiny,I actually thought it was gonna be a shiny fail lol
There is a spot in the deep layer of the Area Zero where Iron Valiant, Iron Wheel, Iron Juggulus, Iron Bundle and Iron Hands is incredibly easy to spawn and get as shiny which makes the ruins in violet much more useless since there are no pack spawns in your way while you reset encounters
Where is that spot? Is there any video showing that location?
@@Jaimesb the crystal cave system between research station No. 3 and research station No. 4
Tip for anyone going for Iron Valiant: it’s much easier to take a Fairy sandwich and start at the bottom of Base 4 going up until the entrance of the cavern. It has much better spawn rates than the original cave, no other pokes and this exact trick works for Iron Hands using an electric sandwich as well.
0:54 what happened to the little guitar song 😢
Austin i don’t usually write comments in any video, but this was just amazing I tried the strategy and got 2 slither wing in less than 10 min! I just can’t thank you enough for all the content, tips and work you do to help us all! You are amazing keep rocking man!!!
I know that quick balls are op, but I really like matching shinies to the ball they're in. Would it be easier to breed for a shiny in an apricorn ball or reset? Does the shiny stay if you save and reload even if you find them via sandwich spawn methods? I'm currently breeding for a shiny salamance in a friend ball 💚🧡
From what I’ve done, a shiny will remain there if you save in front of it & close the game. I’ve done this so that I can catch some shiny Pokémon in specific Apricorn balls. If I use up the ball, I just turn my game off & back on, & the shiny Pokémon will appear again in the same spot.
Nall nailed it, but just a heads up to anybody just trying this out. You should turn off autosave and manually save before starting the fight. In the event you need to restart, you lose the remainder of what was on your sandwich power, but one sandwich for one shiny is still good.
As always: doing Arceus' work Austin John!
Thanks ! It worked like freaking works ! I just use this method, just found 2 shinies. 1 Zweilous , 1 Roaring Moon. This method is the best possible method to shiny hunt roaring moon. Thanks a lot !
Um, I don't think this is how you pronounce Zweilous 1:11
I was really struggling to find a shiny talonflame in area 0 and each time a run proved to be unsuccessful I grew more and more frustrated and impatient which lead to frantically speeding around like a speed demon. After watching this I decided to give it a try and with one run I found not 1 but 2 shiny talonflames! Thank you so much!!!!
Brazilian people like soo much your chanel
You indeed talk like yoda
Brazilian people like your channel soo much*
No hate
Lol out of wc 😭😭
It’s working, it’s much better thn me wandering around area zero for slither wing and getting one of it
By changing my camera angle I got 3 at least spawns of shinning Pokémon in area zero. Nice tips 👍🏼
0:37 how do I get to that place?
@@cheese7404 I just watched a video that showed me. It's basically the bottoms of area 0 before it turns into crystal cave area. There's a sharp left that leads into a cave system
Just type roaring moon location and you'll find it
Austin’s literally the best, finally got my Slither Wing doing this with a Lv. 2 recipe
I'd love to see tips on how to shiny hunt group spawns and pokémon on the water. Like Finizen for exemple
I'll definitely be trying this out, especially for roaring moon! I want my violet friend to be able to catch one too, but im considering just sending them off to explore the rest of area zero while i hunt and then call them over to grab it once it shows up since it would most likely make her own mons show up and just be a bit of a mess in terms of amount of different exclusive mons.
If you find one you could just save in front of it, and close your game any time after they enter battle. Then the party will disband and you can reload in front of the shiny and catch it too.
When I was shiny hunting Sandy Shocks, I made a some of the same observations: 15 Pokemon appear in your given space and using Quick Battles helps despawn and respawn Pokemon in quickly. Eliminating pack spawns quickly was very helpful.
The way I got my shiny Iron Valliant was roaming around and going in a out, when the fighting sandwich I had (made by my friend shoutout to him) was running out I want to a research sation, teleported to another and came back and found the shiny in the cave. That took some time and I found the shiny with two mins on the clock left. Now I know this is a thing. Your videos always help out Austin. 👍🏼
Austin: "So here are some tips to catch hard shiny pokemon to get normally in pokemon scarlet and violet"
Also Austin: *Names two Scarlet exclusives*
Your tip with the overhead camera angles was absolutely clutch to mitigate the pack spawns. I sent out Roaring Moon and leveled up with Let's Go until finally finding my Shining Moon on the 2nd Dragon sandwich run (NO shiny charm yet)
Do you want to trade a shiny roaring moon for my shiny iron valiant?
@@vincemolina562 That was the only one I nabbed last night, hard to land more sans Shiny Charm. If I can get another and remember this comment, sure, why not?
@@DaneOrschlovsky yes please I would be very grateful. I was able to get 3 in one go using a sandwich that up shiny encounters and fairy encounters.
Fantastic video! I stumbled upon this the other day after noticing Pokémon spawn in behind me when shiny hunting
I ended up basically doing this for Roaring Moon after many attempts otherwise, glad you've put a lot of thought into it and put it out there. This will help even me as I keep searching for marked Paras.
Do you want to trade a shiny roaring moon for my shiny iron valiant?
Literally just explained everything I was doing and said it was wrong 🤣 I'm glad I watched this cuz I was not doing this right. 👍🏾
Thanks Austin! I was having trouble hunting Steenee between Artazon and Levincia with a grass sandwich, and was having some issues with Skiploom being a pack spawn, this method really helped, found my shiny in only a few minutes doing this!
should be a motto for the channel at this point lol Austin John Plays: This Works. 👌🏾
This method worked. I finally got a shiny Roaring Moon yesterday. Thank you, Austin!
I don’t think I’ll use this method during the entire hunt, but I did find a way to do it a little more efficiently if you don’t want to tip-toe around despawn borders like I do (and have OCD about your Pokémon’s levels and don’t want to auto battle)
I found that if you do a circle around where the points of the ‘diamond’ in the center of the 4 circles is (with a little variation if one Pokémon is just slightly not on the border yet) you’ll consistently despawn 1-2 Zweilous/Roaring Moon at a time once you’ve isolated them from other spawns. It’s like herding sheep, except stragglers get snapped out of existence lol
Thank you! Very well explained! Took me a minute to control the spawns, but got a shiny Roaring Moon within 5 minutes!
Hi Austin!!! My favorite RUclipsr!!!! Sooooo I did this method on water…..to the best of my ability lol, it wasn’t easy but got shiny Gyrados!!!! 🥰
You can also encounter Iron Valiant in the big cave system of Area 0 with the terra crystals (idk if Roaring Moon is also gonna be there), if you have Fairy encounter on.
So that hunt is also relatively easy too! I got mine yesterday. :)
Went into the cave for iron valiant & used sandwich 81 for the fighting Lv2 buff. Caught 3 shiny iron valiants with my first sandwich use. I do have the shiny charm. Do everything the video says in terms of movement and this is literally a breeze. This was easier than tracking down a roaming legendary in older games.
This tech can probably work for a lot of the more rare spawns that are usually near a bunch of pack spawns, like how Eevee spawns near a bunch of Meowth/Persian packs
this is very helpful tbh, did 2 trial runs for roaring moon so far and I noticed the more pack spawn and less others too, so now I can avoid them, thx a lot
This is handy, I don't have Scarlet beat yet but I am intrigued more by the Scarlet Paradox Mons. I will be happy to try this method!
AUSTIN I LOVE YOU. ROARING MOON HAS BEEN SO ANNOYING. IVE BEEN SHINY HUNTING FOR 16 HOURS OR SO AND HAVE GOTTEN 10 OTHER SHINIES AND FAILED ONE CAUSE I DESPAWNED IT. THANK YOU!!
Pro tip: Your Let’s go mon will NOT fight against a shiny. It’ll do the “scared animation” where sweat icon shows up on it even if the level of the shiny is way below your let’s go mon’s level.
Wish this info came to light sooner. Spent a week shiny hunting Roaring Moon. But I'll keep this in mind for the future!
I haven’t got my shiny charm but all your hunting methods and tips have helped me get 9 shinys in my game!! Your the best!!!
I literally got a shiny Roaring Moon on my SECOND encounter. You're great on this researching stuff!
of course i see this literally immediately after getting a back to back shiny iron valiant, the exact same way you found the back to back shiny roaring moon, really useful video for when i play scarlet though! thanks!
I haven’t got one yet because of my terrible luck. But I have noticed about 3x as much roaring moons and I caught some others as well. Thank you so much , this was a huge help 😊
Thank you for this!! I’m on my 5th try for iron valiant. Watch all your videos and i was definitely of driving in a circle. Not boosted but still just going round and round. I didn’t think about the other pack spawns will have that much of an impact. I’ve been having the hardest time with this Pokémon! Literally been driving me crazy! Lol. I’m desperately hoping this video will help me out!
Yeah I did this on a ledge over the sea with a Gyarados outbreak. Could just slowly walk back and forth to despawn the other side.
Ended up with 12 shinies in about an hour. And a shiny Veluza to boot. This was with no sandwich either. Just regular rate + shiny charm. Outbreaks are pretty good when you can get them in the right environment like that.
Bro, you're outro song has NO RIGHT to go as hard as it does!!! 🤣 Thanks for the tips, John.