(Edit I couldn’t edit it so yeah anyways, mom I got pined) (Another Edit thank you for supporting me I never got so many likes and get pined at the same time thank you🙂)
I swear none of my friends would listen to me. Politoed is best boi with these. Even at level 100, just using Normal moves prevented it from dying, and I could break the shield to see what color core it is.
This shiny hunt was so annoying for me but so worth it in the end. To avoid explosion, either throw a Pokémon behind minior to catch it unaware or use a Pokémon with damp like hidden ability swampert
I haven't played any Gen 9 games. Is it easy to back strike? It sounds like it would be tedious to do it on every Minior since you can't tell which ones are shiny
@@Ragman312 you'd first use the auto battle feature to test if it's shiny since your pokemon will refuse to fight a shiny. Back strikes aren't very difficult, you just need to circle the pokemon until it stops following you. You also have infinite tries because you can just run from the pokemon if you mess up and do it again
I had been auto battling and resetting at an outbreak without herba or anything, an hour later my pokemon doesnt kill one and I literally froze. Good thing I saved, it never used explosion but that would’ve sucked 😂
For aurobattling, being a weak Pokémon. Like below level 20. It won’t kill the minior or any Pokémon in the terrarium via auto battle, and will still give the shiny indicator of not battling if you target a shiny minior or other mon
important warning for anyone hunting this shiny: do NOT use the sync feature to auto battle, as when using the synchro machine your pokemon won’t shake its head like with normal auto battles and will instead knock shinies out as if they were normal pokemon.
I found one and caught it in my play through of the indigo disk without knowing it was shiny and only realised when tidying my boxes that it was shiny 😮 I only caught like 3 Pokémon in that cave!
I originally was going to avoid hunting this thing just because of how hard the hunts would be. But lady luck was on my side randomly after starting the dlc. As i was roaming the snow biome mountain, i seen a random minior that gave me a weird look... so i decided to try and kill it. My ceruledge looked at it and than back at me and just shook its head saying "No"
Another tip, you can bring weak Pokémon to auto battle, that way they will lose the battle, but won’t risk killing an outbreak and don’t need to reset when you do kill outbreaks. The weaker mon (say level 25 or lower. Hell, even lvl 1) will still attempt an auto battle as long as their health isn’t low and the minior isn’t shiny.
If y'all don't have a damp Pokémon, if you save before the shiny and restart your game then the shiny will still be there, saved me a couple shinies before lol
Not only is Minior one of the hardest in the game to catch because there’s no indication of it’s shininess (similar to Ditto and Zorua), but it also can explode, making it arguably the hardest shiny to catch in the game afaik
Use a rock sandwich (pickle + cucumber + 3x Bacon + 2 Herba Mystica) and go to Torchlit Labyrinth in the Coastal Biome. The narrow tunnels will force the Minior to spawn in large clusters. Use auto-battle and start knocking out everything in sight. Shiny pokemon can't be knocked out with auto battle. If your pokemon refuses to attack one, you've probably found a shiny. Encounter it to confirm (they shine without breaking the shell) , Run, Save. Try to catch it. If you fail, restart. It will be there in front of you when you load back in. Found one in ~45min using this method. Happy hunting!
This happened to me as well. Literally walked into the minior on accident. I was not prepared and was playing with friends. I instantly threw a master ball at it 😅
“It is the hardest shiny Pokémon to get in the Indigo Disk, why?” Well, this is because of Game Freak’s decision to make Shiny Pokemon in Scarlet/Violet a ‘Spot the Difference’ in the wild and in Minior’s case, the ‘difference’ is in an area that you can’t look at without battling it. Shiny Minior, the one Shiny in Scarlet/Violet that people will 100% walk right by it.
I actually just went back and Masuda Methoded Minior in SM last week cause it was one of my favorite shinies. Glad to see it is back so I can bring it up.
To quote a pro Nuzlocker,”And Master Balled them immediately.” Edit: I found one didn’t have to use a Master Ball. Thank you Damp. Now my Shiny Minior is in a Luxury Ball.
I had an outbreak for minor then after awhile my false swipe scizor didn't attack one i also checked to see it i had a mark and it did. I saved before i battled it. It exploded on my twice so i named it pipebomb after miku meme and it's known as "Pipebomb the early riser".
That’s how I found a shiny Comfey. I was doing a BBQ for auto battle near a Comfey outbreak, then suddenly, my Dondozo refused to fight a certain one. I ran up to it, and realized it had a blue face with slightly changed flowers (A Shiny). So, I caught it. My second full-odds shiny in a single day, strangely enough.
I think tynamo is just as hard as it is already impossible to see them anyway, they’re so tiny. Also their shiny form is indistinguishable from their normal form. Ran into a shiny one completely on accident. Good stuff
Minior isn’t even supposed to exist anymore after S&M which I just realize is a hell of a way to shorten the names lmao, but yeah they all are supposed to be extinct since they only live a short amount of time
I completed this hunt earlier today and I nearly broke down and looked up an easier way... Because I did it the traditional way. By just going to the spawn area for it, eating and sandwich and going around. I had like 3 phases in total with my sandwich and 4-5 shinies seen or caught. Scyther while I tried flying sandwich (was a mistake I'll never repeat), Random Tyrogue, Graveler which spawned before the shiny minior and was caught after the minior was caught, the Minior, and a Geodude that despawned on Me. I'm just happy to have it now considering it was one of my dream shinies. Put it in a dream ball for good measure.
I didn't even wait for an outbreak. I used a shiny+encounter sandwich, went into the chargestone cavern, and autobattled until it popped up. Then I just went in recklessly and caught it in [ball of choice]
I had no idea shiny minior had the same meteor form as non-shiny. I looked it up and saw a version of meteor form minior with a slightly lighter colour so I'd been looking for that 😭
Thank Arceus, that even the Pokémon you sent out in an Auto Battle will outright refuse to defeat a Shiny Pokëmon (despite Quaquaval, not even being an actual Psychic-Type, by default, just knows). Good on you, Game Freak!
If you want to see a miniors color before battling it you can turn your camera as to where the minior is in the front and then when you do some camera movements by using lock on and spamming it you can go straight through the shell and see the inside
The indigo disc also added smeargle, the jack of all trades. I built a custom smeargle with imprison, explosion, double edge and ruination to prevent minior from self-KOing and to deal fast damage with zero chance of killing. If you want it to live longer, EV train def, spdef, or HP, or teach it a move like strength sap or matcha gatcha instead of ruination. That, or have it hold a berry/leftovers.
Imo shiny minior is such a good shiny lile it has typical cool black shimy but i love the little colour triangles that are for each of its normal forms
Ditto and zorua are also sort of tricky to shiny hunt. They both appear as different pokemon in the wild, but there is zero indication that they are shiny unless you autobattle them. Finding an outbreak for these two are also tricky to find, and are usually broken, so the best way is to find a location they usually spawn and use a sandwich for their type.
I feel like Zorua's a little harder than Ditto, if for no other reason that the location it spawns also has three _other_ Dark-types with much higher encounter rates.
I hunted 2. One for myself, and another for my friend. Mine didn't take that long, surprisingly, but for my friend, ... Five hours... I'm so glad it's over.
I found a shiny minior yesterday randomly while just trying to look for a violet minior for my team of purple pokemon. Now it sits in my box lol but very cool looking
I found one randomly whilst hunting for Pokémon for Drayden’s challenge about a few weeks ago, and took multiple attempts to capture, but hey they’re mine. 😁
I was really lucky with minior. I knew about this and about 20 minutes of playing the indigo disk, I autobattled a random minior and it was shiny! My first random shiny in the indigo disk was one of the rarest
The other day I saw an outbreak of "?" and found that it was a minior outbreak, while running around I pretty much just crashed my korraidon with the shiny, thankfully I managed to save right before it
i already had one from pokemon sun that i caught and didn’t even know what a shiny was as a kid. As a teen i went into my boxes and just found a random shiny under my name.
Tip: Save once u killed 60 in the oubreak (Or the message "There are not many Minior left from the original outbreak" appears), then just keep killing and if you don't find the shiny and then the outbreaks disperses, just soft reset. And turn auto-save off for this, btw.
I just found a minior outbreak because I didn’t discover it yet. The first minior I auto battled was shiny and then it exploded immediately.😂 I forgot to save in front of it😂
You could still tell at the beginning of the battle if it’s shiny because it does the little shiny animation. But you wouldn’t ever want to do that method anyway because the auto battle method is better for shiny hunting subtle shiny’s anyway. It’s significantly faster to risk losing the mass outbreak and just have to use the sandwich method than to battle every single one of them.
There's a new exploit that makes this far easier. The spawn rate in or general area is 15 normal spawns excluding shinier so what you can do is set up a picnic in chargestone cave, make yourself a rock sandwich then keep toggling between the picnic and the open world, making sure to count the number of spawns around you each time. If it's 15 you're safe to toggle the picnic to reset, if there's 16 then congrats, one of those is a shiny.
So here's a fun fact. In Pokemon Home, Shiny Minior is displayed in a way so the black is brighter, revealing what color the Minion would be if it wasn't shiny. If you wanted every single Minior as a shiny, then good luck lmao
When I was first playing the indigo disk I was exploring the mountain area and I accidentally ran into a minior and I kid you not it was shiny. I was was so taken aback.
That's what I did with my Tandemaus hunt and it's basically my go-to for hunts with hard-to-see shinies. Lucky I caught Minor first try tho, if they have explosion
Just use the count method much easier than running around killing/resetting. If there are 16 pokemon on screen(tera/static dont count towards so if ones around its 17) there is a shiny amongst them
kingdra is a really good pokemon for this as it has the damp ability, gets super effective knockouts in autobattles against non-shiny minior because of its water typing and can learn yawn
Tip for people who don’t know what to do before it explodes: Is you get a Pokémon with Damp witch preventing the Pokémon to explodes.
(Edit I couldn’t edit it so yeah anyways, mom I got pined)
(Another Edit thank you for supporting me I never got so many likes and get pined at the same time thank you🙂)
Additional tip for exploding pokemon; Despite Ghost types being immune to the damage of explosion, the pokemon using it will still faint.
@@treybrzezowski3259 And thank you for people who didn’t know.
@@yvosyfofj1759 Yeah, I found that out the hard way with a Shiny Koffing. Figured I'd save people that pain. XD
I think goldduck is useful, can’t really remember which mons have damp as a regular ability
I just used a rock sandwich and went to chargestone cavern and just started to auto battle for it.
Is there a specific spot where they mass spawn?
@@kholan7803 Basically any cave with flying sandwich, I personally like the labyrinth
@@ryanmountz9907 Oh okay, thanks bro
@@kholan7803 I used a rock sandwich in chargestone cavern. Cause it the only rock type in the cavern everything else is ground and electric.
You should use a flying sandwich. There’s no other flying types in the cave
Guys bring a pokemon with damp since this prevents explosion
Swampert can have the damp for a yone wondering. It's their hideen ability.
Swampert is also a pretty good wall/tank.
I swear none of my friends would listen to me.
Politoed is best boi with these.
Even at level 100, just using Normal moves prevented it from dying, and I could break the shield to see what color core it is.
If you save before it’s fine
I have my damp Quagsire for a reason 🤷♀️
Or you can save before encountering it, and put it to sleep
Bro got that arcade floor shiny
Why is this so true 😭 I haven't seen it from that perspective before but I now can't unsee it...
I love Minior sm and this is one of the reasons why
minor be doing the slick back
love arcade patterns tho
very nice if i say so myself
Fazbear Pizzaria looking ahh boi
“I think I’ll do that!”
*87 Red Core Miniors later*
This shiny hunt was so annoying for me but so worth it in the end. To avoid explosion, either throw a Pokémon behind minior to catch it unaware or use a Pokémon with damp like hidden ability swampert
I mean you should be back striking shinies anyway since it raises the catch rate
I haven't played any Gen 9 games. Is it easy to back strike? It sounds like it would be tedious to do it on every Minior since you can't tell which ones are shiny
@@Ragman312 you'd first use the auto battle feature to test if it's shiny since your pokemon will refuse to fight a shiny. Back strikes aren't very difficult, you just need to circle the pokemon until it stops following you. You also have infinite tries because you can just run from the pokemon if you mess up and do it again
I found mine within 20 minutes of my first sandwhich. Luckily I had a outbreak.
You don't really need to attack it and reduce it's life, since upon battle you can see the sparkling stars in case it's shiny
Also use false swipe
@@ryanswales7204DON'T
@@ryanswales7204false swipe is risky because a lot of them also know double edge
@@ryanswales7204 It has Double-Edge
@@Hammerbruder99use hypnotise
I was completing the bbq auto battle quest and my pokemon refused to knock out a minior and it was shiny.
I had been auto battling and resetting at an outbreak without herba or anything, an hour later my pokemon doesnt kill one and I literally froze.
Good thing I saved, it never used explosion but that would’ve sucked 😂
For aurobattling, being a weak Pokémon. Like below level 20. It won’t kill the minior or any Pokémon in the terrarium via auto battle, and will still give the shiny indicator of not battling if you target a shiny minior or other mon
The one lv 100 shiny minior rotting away in my Pokémon home boxes: *my time has come.*
Shiny Minior is a lot of work, but it's so worth it. That shiny is beautiful
There's 7 shiny forms one for each color
@CarlynMorrow That's not true, you've been lied to...
"before it explodes" thats what the ability "Damp" is for, so it doesn't explode
important warning for anyone hunting this shiny: do NOT use the sync feature to auto battle, as when using the synchro machine your pokemon won’t shake its head like with normal auto battles and will instead knock shinies out as if they were normal pokemon.
I found one and caught it in my play through of the indigo disk without knowing it was shiny and only realised when tidying my boxes that it was shiny 😮 I only caught like 3 Pokémon in that cave!
This is one of the reasons they give out Master Balls so often.
Good to see channels thriving Phil, sorry I don’t watch ur vids anymore but I come check up on your channel every now and then 🎉😊
I originally was going to avoid hunting this thing just because of how hard the hunts would be. But lady luck was on my side randomly after starting the dlc. As i was roaming the snow biome mountain, i seen a random minior that gave me a weird look... so i decided to try and kill it. My ceruledge looked at it and than back at me and just shook its head saying "No"
Another tip, you can bring weak Pokémon to auto battle, that way they will lose the battle, but won’t risk killing an outbreak and don’t need to reset when you do kill outbreaks.
The weaker mon (say level 25 or lower. Hell, even lvl 1) will still attempt an auto battle as long as their health isn’t low and the minior isn’t shiny.
If y'all don't have a damp Pokémon, if you save before the shiny and restart your game then the shiny will still be there, saved me a couple shinies before lol
Minior is out here making you work for all seven shiny colors
I love Minior, it was the first hunt I did in the DLC. Definitely getting a permanent spot on my team
Bonus points if you use a pokemon with the ability damp
I don't have the dlc yet myself but I love your content and will be using this trick ❤
You could also just make a rock sandwich and go to chargestone cavern and auto battle since it's the most common rock type in those caves...
every time I pass by a minior, I always get anxious in the off chance I just missed out on a shiny
Not only is Minior one of the hardest in the game to catch because there’s no indication of it’s shininess (similar to Ditto and Zorua), but it also can explode, making it arguably the hardest shiny to catch in the game afaik
Use a rock sandwich (pickle + cucumber + 3x Bacon + 2 Herba Mystica) and go to Torchlit Labyrinth in the Coastal Biome. The narrow tunnels will force the Minior to spawn in large clusters. Use auto-battle and start knocking out everything in sight. Shiny pokemon can't be knocked out with auto battle. If your pokemon refuses to attack one, you've probably found a shiny. Encounter it to confirm (they shine without breaking the shell) , Run, Save. Try to catch it. If you fail, restart. It will be there in front of you when you load back in.
Found one in ~45min using this method. Happy hunting!
The first Minior I walked into was a shiny 💀
HOW THE F-?!?!
This happened to me as well. Literally walked into the minior on accident. I was not prepared and was playing with friends. I instantly threw a master ball at it 😅
“It is the hardest shiny Pokémon to get in the Indigo Disk, why?”
Well, this is because of Game Freak’s decision to make Shiny Pokemon in Scarlet/Violet a ‘Spot the Difference’ in the wild and in Minior’s case, the ‘difference’ is in an area that you can’t look at without battling it.
Shiny Minior, the one Shiny in Scarlet/Violet that people will 100% walk right by it.
Minior was my first ever non egg, outbreak shiny hunt in S & V, I dont know why I did that to myself but I loved it!
Yo, what? I didnt know a pokemon will straight up refuse to attack a shiny pokemon. Thats so useful.
The fact that damn meteor have like 70% of this brain who want to use explosions is the most scariest part of trying to get him shiny
I used the power of hunting for them in sun and moon when those games came out. Much more painful. Wish i could have hunted like this back then.
I found a shiny minior by accident and forgot to save before hand and now the exploding minior will haunt my dreams
I'm so glad I found mine while mindlessly EV grinding in Moon. I almost didn't notice, but luckily it took one hit and didn't explode.
I actually just went back and Masuda Methoded Minior in SM last week cause it was one of my favorite shinies. Glad to see it is back so I can bring it up.
I love how quaquaval was trained to avoid killing shinies
i was looking to find 2 in one sandwich after the first one fainted from double edge! Truly one of the hardest shiny’s to find but totally worth it!
I wasn't even looking for one of these and randomly ran into one accidentally and boom it was a shiny
as someone who shiny hunted 7 shiny dittos, this is just a regular day for me.
I somehow just randomly encountered one without even realising it until I saw the shiny effect😂😂
Quaquaval was like: "nah dude i'm not killing this one, trust me you want it"
To quote a pro Nuzlocker,”And Master Balled them immediately.”
Edit: I found one didn’t have to use a Master Ball. Thank you Damp. Now my Shiny Minior is in a Luxury Ball.
Exactly!
Yep
I had an outbreak for minor then after awhile my false swipe scizor didn't attack one i also checked to see it i had a mark and it did. I saved before i battled it. It exploded on my twice so i named it pipebomb after miku meme and it's known as "Pipebomb the early riser".
That’s how I found a shiny Comfey. I was doing a BBQ for auto battle near a Comfey outbreak, then suddenly, my Dondozo refused to fight a certain one. I ran up to it, and realized it had a blue face with slightly changed flowers (A Shiny). So, I caught it. My second full-odds shiny in a single day, strangely enough.
I think tynamo is just as hard as it is already impossible to see them anyway, they’re so tiny. Also their shiny form is indistinguishable from their normal form. Ran into a shiny one completely on accident. Good stuff
Minior isn’t even supposed to exist anymore after S&M which I just realize is a hell of a way to shorten the names lmao, but yeah they all are supposed to be extinct since they only live a short amount of time
I completed this hunt earlier today and I nearly broke down and looked up an easier way... Because I did it the traditional way. By just going to the spawn area for it, eating and sandwich and going around.
I had like 3 phases in total with my sandwich and 4-5 shinies seen or caught.
Scyther while I tried flying sandwich (was a mistake I'll never repeat), Random Tyrogue, Graveler which spawned before the shiny minior and was caught after the minior was caught, the Minior, and a Geodude that despawned on Me.
I'm just happy to have it now considering it was one of my dream shinies. Put it in a dream ball for good measure.
I didn't even wait for an outbreak. I used a shiny+encounter sandwich, went into the chargestone cavern, and autobattled until it popped up. Then I just went in recklessly and caught it in [ball of choice]
Minior my love. How I missed you so. (I really missed Minior. Now all we need is Spinda back)
I was running around and accidentally hit one around a corner and it was shiny! Super lucky! Glad I didn't have to matsuda method
Minior is one of my favorite pokemon cause of how cute it is and it's shiny is really nice too
I had no idea shiny minior had the same meteor form as non-shiny. I looked it up and saw a version of meteor form minior with a slightly lighter colour so I'd been looking for that 😭
Thank Arceus, that even the Pokémon you sent out in an Auto Battle will outright refuse to defeat a Shiny Pokëmon (despite Quaquaval, not even being an actual Psychic-Type, by default, just knows). Good on you, Game Freak!
I didn't know pokemon wouldn't auto battle shinys, that's useful
Ultimate challenge: collect all 7 shinies. Although they are all black, they are still considered a different color core. Have fun :)
That ability damp and others that stop the explosion come in handy and of course put it to sleep
If you want to see a miniors color before battling it you can turn your camera as to where the minior is in the front and then when you do some camera movements by using lock on and spamming it you can go straight through the shell and see the inside
Maaaan y'all are lucky now. I had to hunt my back in sun and moon via random encounters. Thankfully it didn't take long
The indigo disc also added smeargle, the jack of all trades. I built a custom smeargle with imprison, explosion, double edge and ruination to prevent minior from self-KOing and to deal fast damage with zero chance of killing. If you want it to live longer, EV train def, spdef, or HP, or teach it a move like strength sap or matcha gatcha instead of ruination. That, or have it hold a berry/leftovers.
Quick ball: am I a joke to you
You can Masuda method it too. It's genderless but it is in the mineral group, so you can still breed it with a ditto.
Imo shiny minior is such a good shiny lile it has typical cool black shimy but i love the little colour triangles that are for each of its normal forms
You’re a godsend man! Im trying to get all the miniors and name them after power rangers like the nerd I am
Fun fact
Rayquaza loves to snack on those
Ditto and zorua are also sort of tricky to shiny hunt. They both appear as different pokemon in the wild, but there is zero indication that they are shiny unless you autobattle them. Finding an outbreak for these two are also tricky to find, and are usually broken, so the best way is to find a location they usually spawn and use a sandwich for their type.
I feel like Zorua's a little harder than Ditto, if for no other reason that the location it spawns also has three _other_ Dark-types with much higher encounter rates.
I hunted 2. One for myself, and another for my friend. Mine didn't take that long, surprisingly, but for my friend, ... Five hours...
I'm so glad it's over.
I found a shiny minior yesterday randomly while just trying to look for a violet minior for my team of purple pokemon. Now it sits in my box lol but very cool looking
I found one randomly whilst hunting for Pokémon for Drayden’s challenge about a few weeks ago, and took multiple attempts to capture, but hey they’re mine. 😁
Alternative to a pokemon with damp : a smeargle with explosion, imprison, false-swipe and spore.
I was really lucky with minior. I knew about this and about 20 minutes of playing the indigo disk, I autobattled a random minior and it was shiny! My first random shiny in the indigo disk was one of the rarest
The other day I saw an outbreak of "?" and found that it was a minior outbreak, while running around I pretty much just crashed my korraidon with the shiny, thankfully I managed to save right
before it
Work around: use Swampert with the damp ability. It will not let the minior explode.
i already had one from pokemon sun that i caught and didn’t even know what a shiny was as a kid. As a teen i went into my boxes and just found a random shiny under my name.
Tip: Save once u killed 60 in the oubreak (Or the message "There are not many Minior left from the original outbreak" appears), then just keep killing and if you don't find the shiny and then the outbreaks disperses, just soft reset.
And turn auto-save off for this, btw.
I just found a minior outbreak because I didn’t discover it yet.
The first minior I auto battled was shiny and then it exploded immediately.😂
I forgot to save in front of it😂
You could still tell at the beginning of the battle if it’s shiny because it does the little shiny animation. But you wouldn’t ever want to do that method anyway because the auto battle method is better for shiny hunting subtle shiny’s anyway. It’s significantly faster to risk losing the mass outbreak and just have to use the sandwich method than to battle every single one of them.
There's a new exploit that makes this far easier. The spawn rate in or general area is 15 normal spawns excluding shinier so what you can do is set up a picnic in chargestone cave, make yourself a rock sandwich then keep toggling between the picnic and the open world, making sure to count the number of spawns around you each time. If it's 15 you're safe to toggle the picnic to reset, if there's 16 then congrats, one of those is a shiny.
Literally my first DLC shiny. Worth it. I just master balled it
Minior was literally the first shiny I got in the indigo disk, it was an accident when I was trying to find my shiny excadrill
A easier tip is too see if they’re 15 which means no shiny and if they’re 16 there is a shiny
I found mine randomly while walking around, and since I was unprepared, I hit it with a master ball before it exploded
Minior’s one of my favourites, and I finally got my shiny one! Still insane from the hunt though.❤
this is one of my favorite pokemon of all time
I LOVE MINIORS❤❤❤
Canonically if mineors shell breaks it dies because it starts to fade away so shiny ones are basically slowly dying
I've used this method and found two, one for myself and one for my friend that hatched me a shiny Alolan Meowth 🖤🖤
So here's a fun fact.
In Pokemon Home, Shiny Minior is displayed in a way so the black is brighter, revealing what color the Minion would be if it wasn't shiny. If you wanted every single Minior as a shiny, then good luck lmao
Also if you can, having a Pokémon in your party that has the imprison helps lower the risk of said party Pokémon also knows explosion
I’m just gonna throw the master ball we got in the dlc if I ever find it. Shiny Minior deserves it 🥰
When I was first playing the indigo disk I was exploring the mountain area and I accidentally ran into a minior and I kid you not it was shiny. I was was so taken aback.
I've been trying this for a few days as a none shiny hunter. I will not stop until Black Star is my friend
That's what I did with my Tandemaus hunt and it's basically my go-to for hunts with hard-to-see shinies. Lucky I caught Minor first try tho, if they have explosion
Autobattle is the answer with literally every single shiny pokemon in s/v.
Just use the count method much easier than running around killing/resetting. If there are 16 pokemon on screen(tera/static dont count towards so if ones around its 17) there is a shiny amongst them
kingdra is a really good pokemon for this as it has the damp ability, gets super effective knockouts in autobattles against non-shiny minior because of its water typing and can learn yawn
Wait, our pokemon refuse to autobattle shinies?? I had no idea that was a thing, that is super helpful!
I hunted my shiny Minior, saved. Then reseted my game until I caught it in a beast ball. Took about 19 tries till I caught it in a critical capture.
You can just catch it without battling (quick ball if you're lucky on turn one), the core form will show in your Pokemon boxes.