Gifting Dogs wrote:Is anyone else shiny hunting? I have the shiny charm but are there any tips for it? I don't like making sandwiches but I have tried them and got a few shinies
Outbreaks are probably the best method (defeat 60-ish of the Pokemon, or somewhere between the second and third "there are less pokemon" pop up). If you really don't like making sandwiches and have access to the DLC, you can buy a meal from the Blueberry Cafeteria that gives you Shiny Power Lvl 1 for all types, that gives a bit of a boost (from 1 in 820 for having defeated enough in an outbreak with the charm to 1 in 680), otherwise there are now "no ingredient" sandwich recipes where you get the Lvl 3 power solely from condiments, throwing rice onto the floor (if your issue is building the sandwiches). With any sandwich method, you want to turn off autosave, then save before making the sandwich, so you can reset if you don't get anything in the 30 mins.
There's also an "Isolated Encounters" method, where for a number of Pokemon you can make a meal power with Shiny and Encounter Powers of the type you want, then refreshing spawns until a shiny shows up. PhillyBeatzU has decent videos showcasing what is available for each type and where is best to hunt them, but doesn't seem like he's made any videos for the Indigo Disc DLC just yet, but there are odd videos for stuff like where to isolate hunt some of the starters from other people.
Elsewise, it's randomly finding them, or "Masuda"'ing Eggs (usually a Ditto of a game language that yours isn't set to, and whatever Pokemon you want, odds are 1/512, but can be time consuming gathering eggs, hatching them and then releasing/getting rid of the non-shinies - though Home access does make this a little easier)