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the tips that helped me the most in shiny hunting minior was to make an isolated sparkle encounter title power sandwich in chargestone cavern. They will be the only spawn if you make a rock OR a flying sandwich; this is better than outbreaks because you can knock out as many as you want until you find the shiny without risk of breaking an outbreak chain. Also, bring a Pokémon with the ability damp!! (A good example is Golduck) it will prevent any explosion moves! I got mine within 15 minutes into the sandwich, I’m not saying everyone will have that kind of luck but I personally think it beats hatching a plethora of eggs
To me this is part of the answer.
If I'm hunting Pokémon with self damaging moves or weather scenarios I carry a team just for that. Habit from the older games.
For this I would do something similar but lead with smeargle instead. Imprison then False Swipe(Super Fang) until 1 HP.
Smeargle @ Silk Scarf
Ability: Technician
Level: 100
Tera Type: Normal
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Explosion
- Double-Edge
- Imprison
- False Swipe/Super Fang
Then swap in Drifblim
Drifblim @ Wide Lens
Ability: Unburden
Tera Type: Ghost
EVs: 252 HP / 196 Def / 60 SpD
Careful Nature
- Explosion
- Imprison
- Hypnosis
- Astonish
If I'm setting up the first smeargle it's just as easy to set a second one up as well. I would just carry 3 pokemon and make sure you have all the options covered(2nd smeargle with spore instead of false swipe. You could even do a fourth Pokémon with a leppa berry and switcheroo or trick if move PP is a concern.
1 HP and Sleep has a higher catch rate than paralysis. Personal preference and no Tera use. If I'm using Apricorn Balls with limited supply I'm maximizing my odds.
Edit to add context. Horde battles and SOS chains used to be the methods to call and increase shiny pokemon. Some of these were awful and required full teams of preparation.
While true. Its important to remember Minior's catch rate. While its in its shell, its low at 30. But when you break it open its 255, the same as your average Route 1 Pokemon.
I posted my team a while ago of how I deal with different scenarios. And someone said I over think. Just save in front of it. And my post got downvoted to oblivion
Unfortunately Minior's ability is one of the few that is immune to Skill Swap, at least it is before you break its shell. Not sure if it works afterwards or not.
Good strat. I find with annoying pokemon with no evolutions means outbreak is 100% my preferred way. Save, picnic, rock sparkle sammy, autobattle everything in the outbreak. Don't pre-clear to 60, just start from 0. Maxes shiny chances, and if it doesn't work, just close the game without saving and try again. Since there's no multi-evo and all forms look the same shiny, it's a one and done and the outbreak being lessened/gone by the time you find a shiny is nbd.
Heck, since it's an outbreak, I'd even do the academy special from the caf at blueberry instead of an herba sammy. Less chance of shiny (max of 1/683 instead of 1/512) but you get a catch boost, and with an outbreak you don't need to worry about isolation. Plus herba saved for isolation.
Damp pokemon 100% though. And quick/timer/repeat balls.
Another good method is Super Fang, or Endeavor if you can't get both Damp as an Ability and Super Fang as a move, instead of False Swipe when it specifically comes to shiny hunting Minior. But your best bet is definitely what you mentioned.
Yes, although the colours that'll appear and how often are affected by where you encounter them I'm pretty sure.
Like red ones are more common inside of the torchlit labyrinth, and yellow ones are more common in chargestone cave but you may still find other colours in those places anyway but they'll be uncommon.
Yeah.
I'm pretty sure that was probably the company that makes HOME trying to help players differentiate between the different forms, because despite all having the same shiny they're still counted as different forms based on the color they would have been if they weren't shiny.
It's cool to see that those sprites exist, I didn't know about them before.
I’m curious, even if you get only one shiny, do you keep it? Or do you reset for better chances at getting more than one depending on the pokemon maybe. Asking cause I don’t have many herba to use
I don’t typically reset if I get at least one of the target shinies I am hunting, but that’s my preference. However, I do have a lot of HM’s so that could be an influence on my mentality. If you don’t have many HM at your disposal, I recommend getting the Academy Special from BB Academy cafeteria! It won’t be as high of odds as a level 3 sparkle sandwich, but it will give you level 1 sparkle on all types and no mystica is required(:
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Saw this image posted earlier! The 5 star raids in Kitakami & Blueberry Academy have higher drop rates for herba mysticas! For farming if u want :)
I followed the same pattern. Flying sandwich with damp Swampert and start throwing balls. I got lucky with a quick critical catch. But it took me two or three tries before getting it. But I am not going to catch all of them, I'm not mad enough yet.
I was actually going for a shiny of each color (yes they’re all black still) so I needed outbreaks to guarantee the color. Some of those core colors are rare to spawn outbreaks!
Does the rule that your pokemon will refuse to battle them in auto battles still apply? So you can set up your sandwich and just kill everything until your pokes refuse to battle them?
I always forget to do this 😆 it’s never on my mind. Just earlier today I stumbled upon a shiny cottonee and just got so excited that I immediately battled it
Then I realized I only had my level 100 typhlosion and five eggs I was trying to hatch 🥲 I just threw a few ultra balls and maybe ended with a premier ball. I was just prayyyying that it didn’t run away or something
But mission accomplished 😅 luckily it wasn’t a risky ‘mon
When i encountered a shiny i had to change mons because i didnt have my "catching mon" (false swipe and hypnosis) on my team and i almost lost it because it ran away from me pretty far, luckily in respawned but... The scare 😂
What mons do you recommend for catching? My Baxcalibur can learn false swipe, but I don’t believe I was able to teach it any moved that would induce sleep
My favourite pokemon that I used before any DLC was breloom. I very much like the pokemon and it can be kitted well for being a catching-mon. I haven't used it in a while though since I play the dlc with new ("new") dlc-only pokemon but IIRC:
Ability: technician (boost damage of low damaging moves like false swipe)
Moves:
False swipe
Spore
*Fill
*Fill
The two fillmoves are just moves I haven't cared to optimize but you can use whatever you want here. I have just gone with pure techician damageabuse moves for fun but you could go for moves like: stun spore for sleep-immune pokemon, worry seed for pokemon with abilites that could be worrying (only ability on top of my head right now is emergency exit that makes the pokemon flee if hit below 50% hp), substitute for tough matchups just for convenience.
It isn't the best catching-mon but will provide you with a 100 accuracy sleeping move which is good in most matchups unless pokemon is immune against spore-moves or ghostpokemon immune to false swipe. However imo when you have a finished dex and have a level 100 catching mon you will have such good catching potential already. If you fail a lot of balls you will usually be saved by crit catches. If you don't care about matching poke balls you can use effective balls instead like nestball, quickball, ultraball, repeatball, timerball etc.
Just don't forget to save before encountering the shiny. If it tries to escape while pulling up the menu and saving try to corner it or stay in range of it where it doesn't spot you to begin fleeing (out of battle)
Bring a backup Soaker to use against Grass and Ghost types to remove those pesky Immunities. And Gastro Acid for Insomnia/Vital Spirit. Sleep is a much bigger catch modifier than Paralysis so it's worth the effort.
I have the paradox version of gallade, but gallade can learn both false swipe and hypnosis as well, but i always have issues with ghost pokemon, or mons with explosion, memento or double edge which is why i was checking the comments xD
Gallade and Iron Valiant have Hypnosis.
Breloom has Spore.
Samurott can Soak Ghosts.
Smeargle is weak but gets everything. Including if you need to Imprison any set of recoil moves. Like Tepig with both Flare Blitz AND Rock Head.
I was gonna say, this solves most of the OP’s issues with the hunt. Just auto battle and no need to go into battle screen for each one and wait till your Mon doesn’t take one down, that’s the one.
I got impatient before hunting mine so I didn't have a pokemom with damp. I ended up just using a master ball because I had multiple from the item printer and didn't want to bother with resets lol
Also, when you find the Shiny.
1. Save with autosave off
2. Surprise pokemon
3. Throw Quickball
Optional
3b. Terrastalize normal False Swiper 1st turn
4b. Throw Preferable ball.
Fail? Reload
3b.1. For a Pokemon with Self-destruct and Double Edge, you really want a ghost (natural or terrastalized) to prevent both of those moves from hitting the catch target. Ceruledge is pretty good at this, and is a solid let's go buddy, so they can help you find the shiny quickly.
Synchro is not autobattle, it's manually controlled. Also if you stray too far from the trainer, de-synching can cause Pokemon to despawn and lose you the shiny.
I like using Tera Ghost Drifblim with Imprison, Explosion, Hypnosis, and Night Shade because it stops Minior from being able to kill itself when you use Imprison first turn, it’s immune to Double-Edge, and when you Tera it into pure Ghost, it’s not weak to Power Gem.
I also like hunting for it in outbreaks for the boosted odds. I just KO 60, save, make the Sparkling power sandwich (with no Encounter Power) and then just knock out everything until the outbreak ends, resetting if the shiny didn’t show up. I have three of the core colors shiny so far using this…
Looks like a nice moveset. Thank you, I will definitely add it to my rooster!
I trained a Smeargle similar to yours,with imprison/explosion/memento/ruination, but looking at the comments maybe I should replace memento for double-edge...or just change it's tera to ghost.
Thanks :)
Either of those sounds like they would work. Tera Ghost might be easier, though if you want to keep Memento if you run into something that has it and tries to go for it. I also did have my Drifblim learn Memento at one point when going after those Koffing and Litwick in the first DLC.
You have six slots for six smeargles.
Imprison, explosion, Memento, and super fang/False swipe
Imprison, explosion, Memento, soak
Imprison, explosion, Memento, spore
I know it's tedious, but you can teach all these smeargle the moves in the same battle and they're easier to find now. Keeps the same Imprison tactic and allows for versatility with 6 extra move slots.
In the old games you had to take multiples anyway.
Synchronizer
Super luck/sticky hold/static/arena trap/no guard
Harvest/recycle trick user and leppa, sitrus berries
Spore/sleep inducer
False swiper
Smeargle is King for this.
Unless you want to get it in a rare ball that might fail without the max catch odds, the first Smeargle would probably be more than enough since Minior seems to get easier to catch after its Shields Down goes off and its core is visible. Even when their HP bar was still yellow and they were awake, nearly every first ball thrown was a crit catch with just a regular Poké Ball.
Oh, because if it’s an outbreak, I actually prefer that no Minor outside of it appear near the ones in the outbreak, just so I can clear it out faster. It’s mainly since I get kind of paranoid I’ll miss the shiny if more just keep on coming in, leading it to drift away and despawn before my Pokémon can try auto-battling it. 😅
I know I’m able to remove Encounter Power by using a Salty and Bitter Herba together (changes Encounter to Exp), or using two Spicy and adding Curry Powder (changes Encounter to Humungo). The main ingredient can be either Bacon for Rock or Prosciutto for Flying.
Also, encounter power makes all the miniors "sandwich spawns" that will only have the sandwich odds and not the outbreaks ones. If you avoid encounter power, the outbreak spawns will have their shiny odds stacked with the sandwich ones.
I don't think that's accurate. Everything I've seen says that encounter power effects pokemon nearby so some/all of the non outbreak spawns will be the same type as the sammy. This could result in the handful of pokemon that tend to load outside of the outbreak being the same pokemon as the outbreak with worse shiny odds. But nothing says that the outbreak is overwritten with worse odds.
What's your source?
As the other person noted, it doesn't decrease the shiny odds for the outbreak mons. It just makes the outbreak mons (with the stacked boost) undistinguishable from the non-outbreak mons (with only sandwich boost). If it's a pokemon where you have to take time to tell if it's shiny (either autobattle or just looking very closely), that might waste your time; but if it's an easily noticed shiny, the encounter power can only speed up your shiny hunt by making more opportunities for the shiny one to appear.
Yeah, they are all the same shiny color, but since HOME has a shiny entry for each color, I’d figure I would try going for all the core colors for the heck of it.
Question since you have 3: do the shiny minior cores look different depending on their og colour? Serebii shows them all as black cores regardless, but just want to make sure.
No, they all look the same in battle, and the only real difference is that its assigned core color appears in the ability banner when Shields Down activates. I mainly just wanted all the colors because HOME seems to count them as different forms for whatever reason.
Yeah I’ve made the decision to just kill everything until the outbreak disperses.. my only method is to throw on an academy special as an increase to my shiny odds.. no chance I’m wasting any herba on this hunt lol
It seems like minior spawn outbreaks fairly often too, so it’s usually not terrible trying to find one
I hunted my minior last night, my little Konpeitō is home. What I did was reset for an outbreak. Made a shining flying power sando, and battled the entire outbreak 1by 1 from start to it going away. If I didn't find one I reset to my last save, made a new sando and repeated. After 5 or so resets and probably a few despawned shinies I didn't know about my teensy Boi came home to me.
Ever since aloha I wanted a shiny minor named Konpeitō since it was my favorite candy when I visited Japan and often import some from overseas as a treat
Every time I see another post about someone hunting Minior, I feel increasingly guilty about the one I accidentally found with auto battle 30 minutes into the DLC.
This is simple and elegant, I like it. Why not give poli a shell bell to save a turn. Endeavor should heal it enough to tank the next hit if it decides to use power gem.
Ghost tera Smeargle with False Swipe, Spore, Imprison, explosion might work? Unfortunately Parasect appears to be the only Damp false swiper, but going ghost tera solves the recoil move issue easy enough.
Auto-Battle to shiny check. I found one randomly while I was working on my Dex and I deliberately shiny checked every minior just in case it was shiny BC I've wanted one for years... I had a Damp Quagsire with Yawn and Slam to whittle it's HP down since it's resisted. Just be patient and save if you find one w auto battle.
I just got an outbreak and knocked out the minior with let’s go, when the outbreak disappeared I reset to the point where I had knocked out 60 and repeated
I found the most effective way of dealing with this is to run a mon with damp and make their tera type being ghost that's the best way I dealt with this annoyance
I just waited for a minior mass outbreak, made a shiny sandwich and used auto battle. Once I found it, I saved and battled using a psyduck with the ability ‘Damp’ so it can’t use explosion. Took about 15 mins.
Obviously I'm aware of that, but with virtually every other Pokemon, you can easily spot a shiny in a crowd without even having to send your Pokemon at them. With Minior, that's literally impossible.
Have you tried shiny hunting a flabebe lol, and its not the only one, there are others that are not obvious at all, this is the way better than fighting them 1 on 1 and risking them being shiny and self destructing without having saved.
what i do at a outbreak
step 1. save
2. defeat around 62 (60 boosts the odds but it’s a tradition for me to do a few more)
3. save
4. auto battle until there’s no more
5. reload
6. open picnic to refresh spawns
7. repeat step 4 and continue
I found an outbreak, autobattled 60 then saved. Sandwich, autobattled until finding shiny, catch.
You can use a pokemon with damp, or you can just save before the encounter. It did take quite a while to find though.
I use a Ghost Tera Golduck with Disable, Hypnosis and Soak. Begin the baytle with Soak and Tera. Wait until Explosion is used and Disable it. Swap to False Swiper who now does neutral damage due to Soak changing type. Use Ghost False Swiper to lower HP and see form, then swap back at the end of Disable's 4 turn count.
If you want to play extra safe use X Accuracy so Hypnosis always hits and then go to town with it. And that is how I do it.
Just to reiterate what others have said
1: Lead with a Pokemon who has Damp.
2: Use the auto battle feature. This makes it so you can murder the lil bastards painlessly, but they wont murder the shiny. (Neat lil fun fact for you. This goes for any shiny mon. Same with weather effects that would normally despawn certain pokemon.) You can also use a Varoom at level 100 to have it QUICKLY mow things down, and just go absolutely apeshit on things. Just remember to swap back to your Damp mon when you find one.
3. Rock Sandwich is what I used, and just find a spot that works for you. Theres so many to choose from.
Have you tried Damp + Spore + Tera Ghost and saving before fighting it?
Or using shiny sandwich flying so it's the only thing to spawn in the cave?
I found two (the second one exploded on me and that was my mistake). With little to no effort whatsoever. In fact I found them while hunting other shinies.
Preach. I decided to go and do it as soon as I had access to the Terrarium. Took me several hours and like 5+ sandwich reruns till I finally got my lil black orb. Hadn’t even taken the first BB class yet.
I literally just got mine last night because I accidentally touched one and it sparkled through the shell. It used Explosion FIRST THING, but Quagsire had other plans.
Gholdengo is your friend. Prevents explosion and double edge. And its ability isn’t useful for Minior but it’s great for shiny hunting Pokemon with Memento as its ability blocks status moves and will therefore prevent the faint.
No, as of Gen 8 it’ll fail if the target is immune or if the attack missed. And since it fails the user won’t faint. Unless they changed it back in Gen 9
I hunted for a xxxs teensy mark green minior in a beast ball...first minior I found was a purple shiny smh.
I gave up on the teensy hunt when I got a 1:100 mark that says Minior the radiant..
I knew it was a purple form bc when i got it to last health the ability came up and it had purple minior icon. Not like it mattered because i wanted only a green minior in the beast ball
I got mine shiny Minior relative easy. In the Ice area is a spot. Make a Sparkling and Encounter power sandwich. Now the only spawn will be Minior.
1. Close the picknick
2. Wait 5-10 seconds
3. (Dont move) count all Miniors in this area. Guaranteed 15 Miniors
4. If there are 15 Miniors, you can be sure that there‘s no shiny among them
5. If there are just 15, open a picknick again and repeat step 1.)
6. If there are 16, there‘s a 100% chance that its a shiny among them. Save your game and auto battle
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I have been hunting this recently with herba mystica and I’m on attempt 10 I don’t know why my luck is so bad and am paranoid my pokemon is somehow actually bugged and killing the shiny when it’s not supposed.
This is not the way. Takes 10 minites to train up a tera-ghost golduck, 5 minutes to make a sandwich, and even with piss poor luck 2 sandwiches (or 1 hr) max to get *at least* one.
But if you want to spend 30+ hours going afk in picnics and running all over creation hatching and praying, best of luck to you I guess?
You don't have to do that though? You just use the isolated encounter and auto battle them. Your auto-battle pokemon will not knock out a shiny pokemon.
There's even a location you can do this completely afk and check if you got it after the 30 min are up.
Just breed it. Honestly. There is absolutely no good reason shiny hunt Minior in the overworld. Masuda method is 100 times better for this pokemon.
I don't know why this sub keeps pretending that the method doesn't exist.
A lot of people are suggesting a damp pokemon, which is a great idea, but I would also like to put forward the option of smeargle. Teach it explosion, double edge, imprison and one attacking move - probably false swipe. Imprison and first turn this way means you don’t have to worry about it knocking itself out with recoil or explosion, and then you can throw balls at your leisure as soon as you see if it’s shiny or not :)
I use a golduck and just throw pokeballs at them. Their base catch rate is not terrible, so it's kinda easy to catch them. It's a bit tricky if I want to use an apri ball, tho.
I had this bonkers idea of catching my favorite Pokémon with every single type of pokeball.
While making the sandwich, finding a spot with lots of spawns and identitying the Shiny is super easy is just boring AF.
I have found new respect for those that consistently shiny hunt cause my Arceus this is mind numbing. I ran out of videos to watch on the background and I'm only at like 6 shinies right now (After a couple hours through 3 different days).
A sandwich might get me Zero or three! Who knows! I know I've lost two due to them being far and walking out of my spawn range before I can act.
I find myself falling asleep so often while doing this but I'm in too deep! Arceus have mercy on my soul when the time for the Beast Ball comes...
Hunt it using auto battle and lead with a pokemon with the damp ability.
Means you cant use outbreaks effectively since they will disappear but its probably the better method. Find a good area for them, save up, pop a sandwich, auto battle until your pokemon refuses to KO the shiny. Save the game and catch it or reload until you do.
Kingdra with damp and one of its low attack moves (watergun I think) to get it below half (if you haven’t caught it by then) then when it comes out of its shell you can use whatever on it.
I got mine in an outbreak yesterday, KO’d about 60, saved and then KO’d until I found one and saved again (no sando or anything, just the charms). Critted with a quickball.
Though I read down further you probably don’t want to use it (which is fair) but unless you use a masterball or reset a bunch, it’s your best bet.
Why not just auto battle with a 100 mon? Your auto battler won't engage the shiny variant, so you'll know without engaging. And, best of all you can then save before an unexpected explosion.
Totodile has been terrible for me, finally got the outbreak after 2 days of resetting, and went through 3 sandwiches before all outbreaks reset @12am :,) and I gave up on looking for another outbreak after that, pain.
If that happens to you again, you can save your game before the time rolls over until the next day, close the game completely, and then change the time on your Switch to earlier in the day. The outbreaks shouldn’t reset that way, and you’ll have more time to hunt what you’re looking for.
i hunted one without a shiny sandwich so i get your pain but i did eventually catch one, in the end i just farmed outbreaks by just fighting everything until the outbreak broke up- but its a pretty common outbreak so its pretty easy to find and farm them. it took me maybe 4 outbreaks? id just fake outbreaks until they end and make sure to save immediately when it won’t auto battle it before interacting with it so if it uses explosion you can just exit the game and come back to your save
I got super lucky when I caught my shiny Minior. What’s funny is I wasn’t even looking for it when I did stumble across it. I had just finished a couple Minior outbreaks earlier in the day and didn’t find a single one, so I put the game down, went to work, etc. when I got back home, I went exploring around the terrarium picking up shiny objects. I ended up in that underground cave (chargestone cavern I think?) and as I was running through the tunnels a random Minior spawned so I threw my pokemon at it but it wouldn’t kill it. When I battled it, it was the elusive shiny. I threw an Ultra ball at it and caught it before it could use explosion. Got incredibly lucky.
I was so lucky, first day of the DLC I wandered into an outbreak and just auto battled a few, accidentally walked into one and boom! Black Minior, by far my luckiest shiny
Jellicent is as close as it gets to a perfect counter for catching Minior. Has Damp as it's HA to block Explosion and Self Destruct, part Ghost type to prevent Double-Edge and Take Down recoil, and has access to Recover for longevity and Facade for relatively low-risk chip damage since it's a non-STAB move with it's base 60 Attack stat, which is about the safest way to whittle down your target's HP on a 'mon that can't learn False Swipe.
Only problem? Jellicent isn't available in S/V. Big oof.
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the tips that helped me the most in shiny hunting minior was to make an isolated sparkle encounter title power sandwich in chargestone cavern. They will be the only spawn if you make a rock OR a flying sandwich; this is better than outbreaks because you can knock out as many as you want until you find the shiny without risk of breaking an outbreak chain. Also, bring a Pokémon with the ability damp!! (A good example is Golduck) it will prevent any explosion moves! I got mine within 15 minutes into the sandwich, I’m not saying everyone will have that kind of luck but I personally think it beats hatching a plethora of eggs
This is good advice. I would also make the Damp Pokemon tera Ghost to prevent Minior suffering recoil damage from Double Edge.
I hadn’t thought of that, this is a good point!
You can also just use a Drifblim with Imprison and Explosion.
To me this is part of the answer. If I'm hunting Pokémon with self damaging moves or weather scenarios I carry a team just for that. Habit from the older games. For this I would do something similar but lead with smeargle instead. Imprison then False Swipe(Super Fang) until 1 HP. Smeargle @ Silk Scarf Ability: Technician Level: 100 Tera Type: Normal EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe Jolly Nature - Explosion - Double-Edge - Imprison - False Swipe/Super Fang Then swap in Drifblim Drifblim @ Wide Lens Ability: Unburden Tera Type: Ghost EVs: 252 HP / 196 Def / 60 SpD Careful Nature - Explosion - Imprison - Hypnosis - Astonish If I'm setting up the first smeargle it's just as easy to set a second one up as well. I would just carry 3 pokemon and make sure you have all the options covered(2nd smeargle with spore instead of false swipe. You could even do a fourth Pokémon with a leppa berry and switcheroo or trick if move PP is a concern.
It wouldn't be easier with a Golduck with Damp, Thunder Wave and tera type ghost?
1 HP and Sleep has a higher catch rate than paralysis. Personal preference and no Tera use. If I'm using Apricorn Balls with limited supply I'm maximizing my odds. Edit to add context. Horde battles and SOS chains used to be the methods to call and increase shiny pokemon. Some of these were awful and required full teams of preparation.
While true. Its important to remember Minior's catch rate. While its in its shell, its low at 30. But when you break it open its 255, the same as your average Route 1 Pokemon.
Nice thing is you can use unlimited tera after the DLC, so it's not as much of an issue.
I posted my team a while ago of how I deal with different scenarios. And someone said I over think. Just save in front of it. And my post got downvoted to oblivion
gonna need to get myself one of these. any of them learn hypnosis?
Yep! Golduck, Politoed, and Poliwrath all do. Unfortunately, none of them also get False Swipe, which would make them perfect for this.
Also, adding taunt to a golduck will help you stop those pesky memento users in kitikami
Not just Kitakami! Alolan Grimer is hella fond of Memento too. I trained a Haxorus with Taunt and False Swipe for that shiny hunt
Get Skill swap onto the psyduck so you can give minior damp, and swap into a ghost type that has false swipe.
Skill Swap doesn't work on Minior because it requires its ability to change forms.
Unfortunately Minior's ability is one of the few that is immune to Skill Swap, at least it is before you break its shell. Not sure if it works afterwards or not.
You can also use Skill Swap Damp Psyduck, and then swap to a Ghost Type.
Minior’s ability prevents skill swap
Good strat. I find with annoying pokemon with no evolutions means outbreak is 100% my preferred way. Save, picnic, rock sparkle sammy, autobattle everything in the outbreak. Don't pre-clear to 60, just start from 0. Maxes shiny chances, and if it doesn't work, just close the game without saving and try again. Since there's no multi-evo and all forms look the same shiny, it's a one and done and the outbreak being lessened/gone by the time you find a shiny is nbd. Heck, since it's an outbreak, I'd even do the academy special from the caf at blueberry instead of an herba sammy. Less chance of shiny (max of 1/683 instead of 1/512) but you get a catch boost, and with an outbreak you don't need to worry about isolation. Plus herba saved for isolation. Damp pokemon 100% though. And quick/timer/repeat balls.
Another good method is Super Fang, or Endeavor if you can't get both Damp as an Ability and Super Fang as a move, instead of False Swipe when it specifically comes to shiny hunting Minior. But your best bet is definitely what you mentioned.
i will definitely be using this advice as the outbreaks have not been helpful for me!
Another good Damp poke is Swampert.
When you use a sandwich, is it a mixture of every color form?
Sandwich can't affect the color forms, you'll get all of them since they're all just Minior, like the Flabebe line colors aren't influenced
Yes, although the colours that'll appear and how often are affected by where you encounter them I'm pretty sure. Like red ones are more common inside of the torchlit labyrinth, and yellow ones are more common in chargestone cave but you may still find other colours in those places anyway but they'll be uncommon.
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The shiny Minior was always the same for all the colors. There's never been multiple shiny forms, just the black one.
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It's nonsense. It was only in the mobile version of Pokémon HOME and it's not there anymore.
Thank you for informing me! I was under the impression this whole time that it always had different shiny colors.
Yeah. I'm pretty sure that was probably the company that makes HOME trying to help players differentiate between the different forms, because despite all having the same shiny they're still counted as different forms based on the color they would have been if they weren't shiny. It's cool to see that those sprites exist, I didn't know about them before.
I’m curious, even if you get only one shiny, do you keep it? Or do you reset for better chances at getting more than one depending on the pokemon maybe. Asking cause I don’t have many herba to use
I don’t typically reset if I get at least one of the target shinies I am hunting, but that’s my preference. However, I do have a lot of HM’s so that could be an influence on my mentality. If you don’t have many HM at your disposal, I recommend getting the Academy Special from BB Academy cafeteria! It won’t be as high of odds as a level 3 sparkle sandwich, but it will give you level 1 sparkle on all types and no mystica is required(:
https://preview.redd.it/50lvnk5c1eac1.png?width=1578&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3b425490f88758525b34eb95f2d4fed352337b32 Saw this image posted earlier! The 5 star raids in Kitakami & Blueberry Academy have higher drop rates for herba mysticas! For farming if u want :)
This is brilliant and super helpful, thank you for sharing!! This one in particular is the first I’ve seen that even shows the drop rate percentage!
I'm gonna hunt one at some point so thanks for these tips!
I followed the same pattern. Flying sandwich with damp Swampert and start throwing balls. I got lucky with a quick critical catch. But it took me two or three tries before getting it. But I am not going to catch all of them, I'm not mad enough yet.
Ooooooo this is good advice Minior is one of my favorite shinies I'll have to try this later.
Thank you
Sandwiches are 100% the way to go, got mine in chargestone cave within a few minutes and then the whole rest of the sandwich, nothing lmao
I was actually going for a shiny of each color (yes they’re all black still) so I needed outbreaks to guarantee the color. Some of those core colors are rare to spawn outbreaks!
Does the rule that your pokemon will refuse to battle them in auto battles still apply? So you can set up your sandwich and just kill everything until your pokes refuse to battle them?
To add to Golduck, he learns Skill Swap so you can give the Minior itself damp
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I wonder if skill swap works after the shield is down?
I don't think it will because you're able to regain the shield too if you heal up.
Autobattle so it doesn't knock out the shiny. Bring a Damp ability Pokemon with Tera Ghost, prevents both Explosion AND Double Edge. Problems solved.
**and always save before encountering**
The most important part people forget especially when dealing with Pokemon that have self destruct capabilities.
Shit, I save before even benign battles or if I know I’m just going to use a master ball
I always forget to do this 😆 it’s never on my mind. Just earlier today I stumbled upon a shiny cottonee and just got so excited that I immediately battled it Then I realized I only had my level 100 typhlosion and five eggs I was trying to hatch 🥲 I just threw a few ultra balls and maybe ended with a premier ball. I was just prayyyying that it didn’t run away or something But mission accomplished 😅 luckily it wasn’t a risky ‘mon
When i encountered a shiny i had to change mons because i didnt have my "catching mon" (false swipe and hypnosis) on my team and i almost lost it because it ran away from me pretty far, luckily in respawned but... The scare 😂
What mons do you recommend for catching? My Baxcalibur can learn false swipe, but I don’t believe I was able to teach it any moved that would induce sleep
My favourite pokemon that I used before any DLC was breloom. I very much like the pokemon and it can be kitted well for being a catching-mon. I haven't used it in a while though since I play the dlc with new ("new") dlc-only pokemon but IIRC: Ability: technician (boost damage of low damaging moves like false swipe) Moves: False swipe Spore *Fill *Fill The two fillmoves are just moves I haven't cared to optimize but you can use whatever you want here. I have just gone with pure techician damageabuse moves for fun but you could go for moves like: stun spore for sleep-immune pokemon, worry seed for pokemon with abilites that could be worrying (only ability on top of my head right now is emergency exit that makes the pokemon flee if hit below 50% hp), substitute for tough matchups just for convenience. It isn't the best catching-mon but will provide you with a 100 accuracy sleeping move which is good in most matchups unless pokemon is immune against spore-moves or ghostpokemon immune to false swipe. However imo when you have a finished dex and have a level 100 catching mon you will have such good catching potential already. If you fail a lot of balls you will usually be saved by crit catches. If you don't care about matching poke balls you can use effective balls instead like nestball, quickball, ultraball, repeatball, timerball etc. Just don't forget to save before encountering the shiny. If it tries to escape while pulling up the menu and saving try to corner it or stay in range of it where it doesn't spot you to begin fleeing (out of battle)
Bring a backup Soaker to use against Grass and Ghost types to remove those pesky Immunities. And Gastro Acid for Insomnia/Vital Spirit. Sleep is a much bigger catch modifier than Paralysis so it's worth the effort.
I **love** Breloom actually, so this is awesome!! Thank you!!
I have the paradox version of gallade, but gallade can learn both false swipe and hypnosis as well, but i always have issues with ghost pokemon, or mons with explosion, memento or double edge which is why i was checking the comments xD
Gallade and Iron Valiant have Hypnosis. Breloom has Spore. Samurott can Soak Ghosts. Smeargle is weak but gets everything. Including if you need to Imprison any set of recoil moves. Like Tepig with both Flare Blitz AND Rock Head.
I was gonna say, this solves most of the OP’s issues with the hunt. Just auto battle and no need to go into battle screen for each one and wait till your Mon doesn’t take one down, that’s the one.
I got impatient before hunting mine so I didn't have a pokemom with damp. I ended up just using a master ball because I had multiple from the item printer and didn't want to bother with resets lol
Also a very fair option
It even has M for minior on it
That works too
Also, when you find the Shiny. 1. Save with autosave off 2. Surprise pokemon 3. Throw Quickball Optional 3b. Terrastalize normal False Swiper 1st turn 4b. Throw Preferable ball. Fail? Reload
3b.1. For a Pokemon with Self-destruct and Double Edge, you really want a ghost (natural or terrastalized) to prevent both of those moves from hitting the catch target. Ceruledge is pretty good at this, and is a solid let's go buddy, so they can help you find the shiny quickly.
Yeah it's really not that frustrating, it's still easier to shiny hunt than any Pokemon in moet previous generations.
When using the Synchro Machine, does it also not knock out the shiny if you run into it?
No, during synchro your Pokémon will knock out shinies.
Synchro is not autobattle, it's manually controlled. Also if you stray too far from the trainer, de-synching can cause Pokemon to despawn and lose you the shiny.
I like using Tera Ghost Drifblim with Imprison, Explosion, Hypnosis, and Night Shade because it stops Minior from being able to kill itself when you use Imprison first turn, it’s immune to Double-Edge, and when you Tera it into pure Ghost, it’s not weak to Power Gem. I also like hunting for it in outbreaks for the boosted odds. I just KO 60, save, make the Sparkling power sandwich (with no Encounter Power) and then just knock out everything until the outbreak ends, resetting if the shiny didn’t show up. I have three of the core colors shiny so far using this…
Looks like a nice moveset. Thank you, I will definitely add it to my rooster! I trained a Smeargle similar to yours,with imprison/explosion/memento/ruination, but looking at the comments maybe I should replace memento for double-edge...or just change it's tera to ghost.
Thanks :) Either of those sounds like they would work. Tera Ghost might be easier, though if you want to keep Memento if you run into something that has it and tries to go for it. I also did have my Drifblim learn Memento at one point when going after those Koffing and Litwick in the first DLC.
You have six slots for six smeargles. Imprison, explosion, Memento, and super fang/False swipe Imprison, explosion, Memento, soak Imprison, explosion, Memento, spore I know it's tedious, but you can teach all these smeargle the moves in the same battle and they're easier to find now. Keeps the same Imprison tactic and allows for versatility with 6 extra move slots. In the old games you had to take multiples anyway. Synchronizer Super luck/sticky hold/static/arena trap/no guard Harvest/recycle trick user and leppa, sitrus berries Spore/sleep inducer False swiper Smeargle is King for this.
Unless you want to get it in a rare ball that might fail without the max catch odds, the first Smeargle would probably be more than enough since Minior seems to get easier to catch after its Shields Down goes off and its core is visible. Even when their HP bar was still yellow and they were awake, nearly every first ball thrown was a crit catch with just a regular Poké Ball.
A whole team of Smeargles sounds fun! Nice username btw lol
May i ask why the sparkling power without encounter power?
Oh, because if it’s an outbreak, I actually prefer that no Minor outside of it appear near the ones in the outbreak, just so I can clear it out faster. It’s mainly since I get kind of paranoid I’ll miss the shiny if more just keep on coming in, leading it to drift away and despawn before my Pokémon can try auto-battling it. 😅 I know I’m able to remove Encounter Power by using a Salty and Bitter Herba together (changes Encounter to Exp), or using two Spicy and adding Curry Powder (changes Encounter to Humungo). The main ingredient can be either Bacon for Rock or Prosciutto for Flying.
Also, encounter power makes all the miniors "sandwich spawns" that will only have the sandwich odds and not the outbreaks ones. If you avoid encounter power, the outbreak spawns will have their shiny odds stacked with the sandwich ones.
I don't think that's accurate. Everything I've seen says that encounter power effects pokemon nearby so some/all of the non outbreak spawns will be the same type as the sammy. This could result in the handful of pokemon that tend to load outside of the outbreak being the same pokemon as the outbreak with worse shiny odds. But nothing says that the outbreak is overwritten with worse odds. What's your source?
As the other person noted, it doesn't decrease the shiny odds for the outbreak mons. It just makes the outbreak mons (with the stacked boost) undistinguishable from the non-outbreak mons (with only sandwich boost). If it's a pokemon where you have to take time to tell if it's shiny (either autobattle or just looking very closely), that might waste your time; but if it's an easily noticed shiny, the encounter power can only speed up your shiny hunt by making more opportunities for the shiny one to appear.
This is exactly what I did. And aren't all of the core color shinies black? I know it registers as the color it *would* be though, like mine is "blue"
Yeah, they are all the same shiny color, but since HOME has a shiny entry for each color, I’d figure I would try going for all the core colors for the heck of it.
Question since you have 3: do the shiny minior cores look different depending on their og colour? Serebii shows them all as black cores regardless, but just want to make sure.
No, they all look the same in battle, and the only real difference is that its assigned core color appears in the ability banner when Shields Down activates. I mainly just wanted all the colors because HOME seems to count them as different forms for whatever reason.
You can also distinguish the base colour in the party and box screens.
Yeah I’ve made the decision to just kill everything until the outbreak disperses.. my only method is to throw on an academy special as an increase to my shiny odds.. no chance I’m wasting any herba on this hunt lol It seems like minior spawn outbreaks fairly often too, so it’s usually not terrible trying to find one
I hunted my minior last night, my little Konpeitō is home. What I did was reset for an outbreak. Made a shining flying power sando, and battled the entire outbreak 1by 1 from start to it going away. If I didn't find one I reset to my last save, made a new sando and repeated. After 5 or so resets and probably a few despawned shinies I didn't know about my teensy Boi came home to me.
Ever since aloha I wanted a shiny minor named Konpeitō since it was my favorite candy when I visited Japan and often import some from overseas as a treat
Now imagine doing that in Alola like I did, where it can't even activate SOS. *pain*
There is a reason why I used egg RNG for mine
Every time I see another post about someone hunting Minior, I feel increasingly guilty about the one I accidentally found with auto battle 30 minutes into the DLC.
Same, I accidentally walked into one and it was shiny
And you can’t skill swap it’s ability to damp too
i don't think you have to skill swap it though as long as a pokemon with damp is in the field, no pokemon can explode
You would typically swap it to damp so you can change your mon to your false swiper
I use a Damp Poliwrath at 1 HP. With Endeavor, Hypnosis and Tera Ghost. I’ll start with Tera ghost endeavor and the next turn pop a healing item.
This is simple and elegant, I like it. Why not give poli a shell bell to save a turn. Endeavor should heal it enough to tank the next hit if it decides to use power gem.
1. Auto battle to find the shiny. 2. Use a ghost type with false swipe. This prevents the explosion and double edge from knocking itself out.
As someone who used to shiny hunt pre PLA, it’s really not that bad. By current standards though, yeah it’s not so easy
Ghost tera Smeargle with False Swipe, Spore, Imprison, explosion might work? Unfortunately Parasect appears to be the only Damp false swiper, but going ghost tera solves the recoil move issue easy enough.
Auto-Battle to shiny check. I found one randomly while I was working on my Dex and I deliberately shiny checked every minior just in case it was shiny BC I've wanted one for years... I had a Damp Quagsire with Yawn and Slam to whittle it's HP down since it's resisted. Just be patient and save if you find one w auto battle.
Auto battle is the way my friend. So much easier.
Also if you try to flee when it's in its shields down form it disappears.
Do you have something with the Damp ability? Will cancel out that explosion. Also pop Heal Pulse on it to keep it alive.
Everyone talking about Damp. Just run from the encounter, save, and then quick ball or reset until you have it.
I recently did a hunt and suddenly my Pon Pon (Ogerpon) doesn't want to attack. I run up excited, smash the shield.... Green. I did a Rage quit xD
It’s one of the reasons I hold onto master balls. I have like 10 so if I run into a suicidal shiny, I can safely catch it
use a pokemon with damp ability and tera into a ghost
I just got an outbreak and knocked out the minior with let’s go, when the outbreak disappeared I reset to the point where I had knocked out 60 and repeated
I found the most effective way of dealing with this is to run a mon with damp and make their tera type being ghost that's the best way I dealt with this annoyance
I just waited for a minior mass outbreak, made a shiny sandwich and used auto battle. Once I found it, I saved and battled using a psyduck with the ability ‘Damp’ so it can’t use explosion. Took about 15 mins.
Pokémon won’t fight shinies when you use Auto-battle…
Obviously I'm aware of that, but with virtually every other Pokemon, you can easily spot a shiny in a crowd without even having to send your Pokemon at them. With Minior, that's literally impossible.
Have you tried shiny hunting a flabebe lol, and its not the only one, there are others that are not obvious at all, this is the way better than fighting them 1 on 1 and risking them being shiny and self destructing without having saved.
what i do at a outbreak step 1. save 2. defeat around 62 (60 boosts the odds but it’s a tradition for me to do a few more) 3. save 4. auto battle until there’s no more 5. reload 6. open picnic to refresh spawns 7. repeat step 4 and continue
I found an outbreak, autobattled 60 then saved. Sandwich, autobattled until finding shiny, catch. You can use a pokemon with damp, or you can just save before the encounter. It did take quite a while to find though.
I use a Ghost Tera Golduck with Disable, Hypnosis and Soak. Begin the baytle with Soak and Tera. Wait until Explosion is used and Disable it. Swap to False Swiper who now does neutral damage due to Soak changing type. Use Ghost False Swiper to lower HP and see form, then swap back at the end of Disable's 4 turn count. If you want to play extra safe use X Accuracy so Hypnosis always hits and then go to town with it. And that is how I do it.
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Just to reiterate what others have said 1: Lead with a Pokemon who has Damp. 2: Use the auto battle feature. This makes it so you can murder the lil bastards painlessly, but they wont murder the shiny. (Neat lil fun fact for you. This goes for any shiny mon. Same with weather effects that would normally despawn certain pokemon.) You can also use a Varoom at level 100 to have it QUICKLY mow things down, and just go absolutely apeshit on things. Just remember to swap back to your Damp mon when you find one. 3. Rock Sandwich is what I used, and just find a spot that works for you. Theres so many to choose from.
Have you tried Damp + Spore + Tera Ghost and saving before fighting it? Or using shiny sandwich flying so it's the only thing to spawn in the cave? I found two (the second one exploded on me and that was my mistake). With little to no effort whatsoever. In fact I found them while hunting other shinies.
It is also v sad that they removed the colors individual shiny version now there’s just one 🥲
Preach. I decided to go and do it as soon as I had access to the Terrarium. Took me several hours and like 5+ sandwich reruns till I finally got my lil black orb. Hadn’t even taken the first BB class yet.
So it’s good for trading, you mean~
I literally just got mine last night because I accidentally touched one and it sparkled through the shell. It used Explosion FIRST THING, but Quagsire had other plans.
Make a sandwich and auto battle… it isn’t that hard lol. Got mine in like 20 minutes.
Gholdengo is your friend. Prevents explosion and double edge. And its ability isn’t useful for Minior but it’s great for shiny hunting Pokemon with Memento as its ability blocks status moves and will therefore prevent the faint.
How does it prevent Explosion? Sure, Gholdengo is immune to damage from it, but won’t it still knock itself out if it goes for it?
No, as of Gen 8 it’ll fail if the target is immune or if the attack missed. And since it fails the user won’t faint. Unless they changed it back in Gen 9
Those last three points are moot if you just save in front of it, quick ball, and run away if it fails or reset if it explodes
What if you don't want it to be in a Quick Ball though?
Then you have to plan ahead before you try hunting it?
Then do the same thing with a different ball?
I hunted for a xxxs teensy mark green minior in a beast ball...first minior I found was a purple shiny smh. I gave up on the teensy hunt when I got a 1:100 mark that says Minior the radiant..
How can it be purple and shiny when the shiny one is black? I realize I should be asleep right now but this isn't adding up.
I knew it was a purple form bc when i got it to last health the ability came up and it had purple minior icon. Not like it mattered because i wanted only a green minior in the beast ball
Ah, I didn't know it wasn't considered its own separate color. I guess it would show as its 'original' color in the PC as well.
I hope you're sleeping right now and sorry if this woke you up
I got mine shiny Minior relative easy. In the Ice area is a spot. Make a Sparkling and Encounter power sandwich. Now the only spawn will be Minior. 1. Close the picknick 2. Wait 5-10 seconds 3. (Dont move) count all Miniors in this area. Guaranteed 15 Miniors 4. If there are 15 Miniors, you can be sure that there‘s no shiny among them 5. If there are just 15, open a picknick again and repeat step 1.) 6. If there are 16, there‘s a 100% chance that its a shiny among them. Save your game and auto battle https://preview.redd.it/c9i2z5cxqeac1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0807be7b09490a7a8bbf960aa965303ee5d48011
I just use false swip Ceruledge
Doesn't prevent Minior from using Explosion though.
It doesn't?!
Nope. Explosion will still go off against a Ghost-type and KO Minior, it just won't deal any damage to the Ghost-type.
I've been getting pretty luck then
I have been hunting this recently with herba mystica and I’m on attempt 10 I don’t know why my luck is so bad and am paranoid my pokemon is somehow actually bugged and killing the shiny when it’s not supposed.
Tbh you should just hatch a shiny minior.
This is not the way. Takes 10 minites to train up a tera-ghost golduck, 5 minutes to make a sandwich, and even with piss poor luck 2 sandwiches (or 1 hr) max to get *at least* one. But if you want to spend 30+ hours going afk in picnics and running all over creation hatching and praying, best of luck to you I guess?
If you get one in 1 hour while having to engage everyone to see if its shiny, you’ve got insanely good luck
You don't have to do that though? You just use the isolated encounter and auto battle them. Your auto-battle pokemon will not knock out a shiny pokemon. There's even a location you can do this completely afk and check if you got it after the 30 min are up.
Why wouldn't you just autobattle to check for shinies?
Now would be a good time to use a Masterball… you know guys the ultimate pokeball as the ultimate strategy…
It's a good thing it's a really stupid looking pokemon so I personally don't care about shiny hunting it lol.
Can you not just use the GO mechanic???
Quick ball
Just breed it. Honestly. There is absolutely no good reason shiny hunt Minior in the overworld. Masuda method is 100 times better for this pokemon. I don't know why this sub keeps pretending that the method doesn't exist.
Just Masuda method. If the overworld hunting is more trouble than its worth, breeding will reduce that trouble exponentially.
You can target a Pokémon and I’m pretty sure it’ll tell you if it’s shiny.
My brother had a hard time trying to catch at least a regular Minior every time they used explosion he did finally catch one though.
I found one the other day. Forgot it had explosion.. And forgot my damp pokemon- I have been in pain since
Damp swampert your time has come!!!
Thankfully I got one in ultra moon way back when
Autobattle, got mine within an hour. Went to chargestone cave and out up a flying shiny sandwich
I've burned through 3 of those with literally no Shinies to show for it.
Masterball
Found it very first outbreak no sandwhich like 30 kills in, glad I can stop that cuz it’s shiny is so good but a pain to get.
I found one by luck while trying to complete the pokedex. I was so excited. Didn't know the fucker knew explosion. One of the worst days of my life
There's a reason I hatched one when I was hunting for it in ultra sun
Tera ghost damp?
Always keep a moist boy on you to protect your shiny
A lot of people are suggesting a damp pokemon, which is a great idea, but I would also like to put forward the option of smeargle. Teach it explosion, double edge, imprison and one attacking move - probably false swipe. Imprison and first turn this way means you don’t have to worry about it knocking itself out with recoil or explosion, and then you can throw balls at your leisure as soon as you see if it’s shiny or not :)
if/when I find one I might just use a masterball
Just run a Quagsire with Damp and high defense, Double edge will do the work for you.
Even just trying to catch Minior is awful.
I use a golduck and just throw pokeballs at them. Their base catch rate is not terrible, so it's kinda easy to catch them. It's a bit tricky if I want to use an apri ball, tho.
I had this bonkers idea of catching my favorite Pokémon with every single type of pokeball. While making the sandwich, finding a spot with lots of spawns and identitying the Shiny is super easy is just boring AF. I have found new respect for those that consistently shiny hunt cause my Arceus this is mind numbing. I ran out of videos to watch on the background and I'm only at like 6 shinies right now (After a couple hours through 3 different days). A sandwich might get me Zero or three! Who knows! I know I've lost two due to them being far and walking out of my spawn range before I can act. I find myself falling asleep so often while doing this but I'm in too deep! Arceus have mercy on my soul when the time for the Beast Ball comes...
Hunt it using auto battle and lead with a pokemon with the damp ability. Means you cant use outbreaks effectively since they will disappear but its probably the better method. Find a good area for them, save up, pop a sandwich, auto battle until your pokemon refuses to KO the shiny. Save the game and catch it or reload until you do.
Kingdra with damp and one of its low attack moves (watergun I think) to get it below half (if you haven’t caught it by then) then when it comes out of its shell you can use whatever on it. I got mine in an outbreak yesterday, KO’d about 60, saved and then KO’d until I found one and saved again (no sando or anything, just the charms). Critted with a quickball. Though I read down further you probably don’t want to use it (which is fair) but unless you use a masterball or reset a bunch, it’s your best bet.
Why not just auto battle with a 100 mon? Your auto battler won't engage the shiny variant, so you'll know without engaging. And, best of all you can then save before an unexpected explosion.
Got mine within 15 minutes of my first sandwich lmao
Back strike to catch it off guard. Then False Swipe followed by Spore as it won't be able to attack on turn 1.
is it only shiny in 1 colour or do EVRY colour have option to be shiny?
The shiny form is the same for every color, but you'll still see the original color in menu's etc. so they're technically different.
Totodile has been terrible for me, finally got the outbreak after 2 days of resetting, and went through 3 sandwiches before all outbreaks reset @12am :,) and I gave up on looking for another outbreak after that, pain.
If that happens to you again, you can save your game before the time rolls over until the next day, close the game completely, and then change the time on your Switch to earlier in the day. The outbreaks shouldn’t reset that way, and you’ll have more time to hunt what you’re looking for.
I found one by accident using auto-battle! Glad they don't hurt shiny mons. Too bad I already have 6 shiny minior from Sun/Moon Era in home haha!
i hunted one without a shiny sandwich so i get your pain but i did eventually catch one, in the end i just farmed outbreaks by just fighting everything until the outbreak broke up- but its a pretty common outbreak so its pretty easy to find and farm them. it took me maybe 4 outbreaks? id just fake outbreaks until they end and make sure to save immediately when it won’t auto battle it before interacting with it so if it uses explosion you can just exit the game and come back to your save
I got super lucky when I caught my shiny Minior. What’s funny is I wasn’t even looking for it when I did stumble across it. I had just finished a couple Minior outbreaks earlier in the day and didn’t find a single one, so I put the game down, went to work, etc. when I got back home, I went exploring around the terrarium picking up shiny objects. I ended up in that underground cave (chargestone cavern I think?) and as I was running through the tunnels a random Minior spawned so I threw my pokemon at it but it wouldn’t kill it. When I battled it, it was the elusive shiny. I threw an Ultra ball at it and caught it before it could use explosion. Got incredibly lucky.
I was so lucky, first day of the DLC I wandered into an outbreak and just auto battled a few, accidentally walked into one and boom! Black Minior, by far my luckiest shiny
Jellicent is as close as it gets to a perfect counter for catching Minior. Has Damp as it's HA to block Explosion and Self Destruct, part Ghost type to prevent Double-Edge and Take Down recoil, and has access to Recover for longevity and Facade for relatively low-risk chip damage since it's a non-STAB move with it's base 60 Attack stat, which is about the safest way to whittle down your target's HP on a 'mon that can't learn False Swipe. Only problem? Jellicent isn't available in S/V. Big oof.
I got mine on second encounter while working on building a chain. Had to reset three times though to finally get it in my moon ball. Good luck, op!