Summary
WhenPokemon Scarlet and Violetfirst launched, some players were not happy with the state of the game due to performance issues, lag, and various other problems that went unsolved for the longest time. Among them is the fact that, up untilPokemon Scarlet and Violet’s The Teal Maskpatch, mass outbreaks were not always working correctly, especially in the case of pocket monsters with multiple forms or variations. Critters like Tatsugiri, Flabebe, Squawkabilly, and more were near-impossible to shiny-hunt because all mass outbreaks for those Pokemon would always default to their base form, even when the icon on the map was different. This is changed in The Teal Mask, and its rarest shiny Pokemon can now take only a handful of minutes to find.
Luckily,Pokemon Scarlet and Violet’s mass outbreakswere not the only shiny-hunting method on launch, and instead, players could rely on Herba Mystica sandwiches to dramatically increase their odds of finding one of these rare critters. For example, one could make an Encounter Power level 3 Dragon-type Herba Mystica sandwich to shiny-hunt for Tatsugiri, and while all of its three forms could appear, players had no control over which one showed up - if at all. Now that mass outbreaks have been fixed, players can not only use them to find pesky shinies, but also to find ones that would have insurmountable odds of appearing in the wild.
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How Pokemon Players Can Get a Shiny Artisan Form Poltchageist in Scarlet and Violet
The Teal MaskDLC inPokemon Scarlet and Violetfeatures several shiny-locked creatures and encounters, and while those will never yield any different results, the newest expansion and patch do make things easier for players in multiple ways. With the change to mass outbreaks in Gen 9, they will now always feature the correct form of a given Pokemon when they appear on the map, and all critters in the outbreak will share that form.
With the Tatsugiri example, this would mean that a Stretchy Form Tatsugiri mass outbreak would indeed only feature specimens of that specific form, rather than the default form or variation of the species. In the case of The Teal Mask DLC, players can now shiny-hunt Artisan Form Poltchageist, specifically, and thus eventually evolve it into Masterpiece Sinistcha if they ever find a shiny critter. Previously, finding a shiny authentic Sinistea (and then evolving it into Polteageist) was a matter of pure luck with base odds of 1 in 409,600 even inPokemon Scarlet and Violet.
Similarly, the base odds for a shinyArtisan Form Poltchageistwould be 409,600. However, players can now disregard this entirely by finding mass outbreaks in The Teal Mask DLC where Poltchageist is always Artisan Form, meaning a shiny specimen will also always be Artisan Form. Although some mass outbreaks are weighted to be easier to find than others, players can make Encounter Power Ghost sandwiches even without Herba Mystica, and those will boost their odds of finding a Poltchageist mass outbreak whenever outbreaks are reset. However, the catch is that no outbreak is guaranteed to be of a given form or version inPokemon Scarlet and Violet.
Still, one of therarest shiny Pokemonever made can now show up in a matter of minutes, provided players find the correct mass outbreak for it. With mass outbreaks providing boosts to the rate at which players can find shiny Pokemon after 30 and then 60 defeated creatures within that same outbreak, and considering that this bonus stacks with the one provided byPokemon Scarlet and Violet’s sandwiches, any given shiny can be found in no time. The fact that this now applies to the game’s rarest shiny is the icing on the cake.
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