How to Choose Your Mass Outbreak in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet
The Pokémon Scarlet and Violet lets you hunt Shiny Pokemon via Mass Outbreak and I did a lot of testing to figure out how you can influence which mass outbreaks can spawn.
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iirc when you throw your pokemon out in the "lets go mode" aka the auto battle mode they WILL NOT attack pokemon that are shiny, sooooo assuming your mon is strong enough you can just wipe everything while searching for even more rolls.
@@xanimosityxgaming2664 You gotta be careful though. Mass outbreaks will disperse when a certain amount of pokémon have been defeated.
@TiltedDolphin you need to defeat the first 60 pokemon in a mass outbreak, no matter what it'll say the mass outbreak is reduces when you do this but I only noticed a few less spawn and it's best way to increase your shiny chance
I can't even express how grateful I am that you're trying to help us colorblind people. No one ever considers us when it comes to video games. You're doing real good work here
Agreed.
@@bluehead310 good thing Austin John is a better person than you are. I don't really care about your opinion
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FYI, the troll that replied to this was blocked. Every release there's a new 11-year-old that think's they're cool.
@@AustinJohnPlays is that why it says 4 replies but only shows 2?
I love how Austin tells us in every video where to skip ahead to lol
Agreed but I always watch at least once all the way though
I just have to say, I have such a high respect for you organizational skills and data testing. As a software engineer with experience in data sciences, it’s really nice to watch someone do all this testing and organizing the data so cleanly. It is NOT easy to do, so yeah. That’s, all! All the respect in the world to you brother! Keep up the incredible content my friend!
Same- I’m a PM and I’m always extremely impressed with his content!!
Man, I've been watching you religiously since Sun and Moon. A play through on the new game isn't the same without you there helping us figure things out. I am colorblind and I love shiny pokémon. I can't thank you enough for putting effort into that part of the community. I'm very excited to see what you find!
I always never understood what watching something or playing something religiously meant can you explain?
@@tylerasada2908 it suggests that you are doing it ‘devotedly’ just as you would commit to a religion
It's an exaggeration. Anytime a new game comes out or is about to come out I definitely go check out his channel every other day or so. To stay updated with his finds and the statistics that he keeps
This is a good spot to use the "isolated" method. Try and find an area where very few Pokemon spawn, including the one you're looking for, and use that to find your outbreak.
Austin is and always will be the G.O.A.T. of Pokémon information. No one puts this much work into these things. Thanks Austin!
There's alot of people that put in more work behind the scenes but don't make videos about it. They share with the community. But as far as big youtubers Austin is really the goto guy for digestible information.
yea bro legit didnt come up with this content. You can see vids like this from more than 2 days ago. He should reference the vids as they aren't originally his
@@bobdill4324 you mean exactly like i did at 1:35? But then decided to test the numbers myself?
@@bobdill4324 how old are you 12?
@@TheRibottoStudios no im for
I don’t think I’ve ever encountered someone as passionate about charts as Austin John is
Welcome to the FIRST Testing and Discovery video for SV!
ditto raids don’t work for me
Austin John is simultaneously incredibly helpful and entertaining
Austin is a legend. I was wondering why the outbreaks were always the same
No other youtuber has gone into so much detail and testing with this than you. Thank you so much Austin!
Honestly, I'm not even colorblind, and even I appreciate the effort you're putting into that accessibility. Also, I always appreciate the effort you put into everything else. I started watching you back in PLA, and I look forward every day to new shiny hunting content from you. Thanks for all you do!
Props as always for your work on all things Pokemon to help those of us too slow or too busy to figure all this stuff out! And more importantly, props to supporting accessibility workarounds in video games!
Location 100% influences it. Stuck to one spot and saw the same pokemon, never changed. Started chamging locale, and immediately started getting frequent new pokemon for that position. Thanks for bringing this more to light
I love how you put so much informative content and also enjoyable content in each of you videos and you somehow always make them under 20 min long
As someone whose colourblind I'm actually really grateful for thinking of us!! Thanks sm Austin, glad you are going out of your way for us!
Austin John teaching me more about analytics than the degree that I am doing
Data monkeys unite
Also, another note, I was literally starting to get discouraged and beginning to wonder how to get other Pokémon to spawn in outbreaks. Like, today. So, this is super timely and welcome. Thank you!
I'm subscribing just because of this video. I can finally hunt a specific shiny that I've been resetting for since the game came out. Thank you for your hard work!
I keep noticing I'm getting the same pokemon in my outbreaks repeatedly, and I tend to get offline in one of two locations so this certainly lines up with what I was thinking as well. Thanks for your hard work documenting this.
Austin I just wanna say thank you so much for your coverage, Shiny hunting has now become my new therapeutic activity to help deal with stuff and your videos have been so helpful, I have literally managed to catch 6 shinies in 24 hours
woahh good job! one of my big things is catching 6 shiny togetic in 2and a half hours
Love how Austin is helping the colorblind. I'm not colorblind myself but I want everyone to enjoy Pokemon as much as I do!
You've been pumping out these videos man!! Make sure to not burn yourself out! Keep up the great work!!
Yo thanks for always grinding out such great info Austin! I was wondering why I kept getting the same lame outbreaks! Now I know it’s cuz I kept re-rolling in the same area! Can’t wait to do more hunts now!(:
All the videos you’ve made thus far for shiny hunting in Scarlet/Violet have been sooo helpful
This is what I needed! I kept seeing mostly the same few Pokémon in the outbreaks like Rufflet.
One of the best parts of a new game coming out is more austin john vids👌🏼
I've been doing a shinylocke since day one, all the information you give is amazing! Thank you man! :)
I literally watched n9kai's video yesterday and was hoping that Austin would also do some testing on this. Thanks so much for the grind. I really appreciate all of the hours of hard work for a 20 minute video. You're doing Bidoof's work.
This came out at the perfect time for me, I was literally trying to find this info last night during an Eevee hunt. Nice one Austin!
Great to see someone look into this! I've found that location makes it a bit more likely to get certain pokemon, but I wonder if there is something unique to your character that causes certain outbreaks to be more common to you than other players. (I get *a lot* of Froslass and Dreepy/Drakolak spawns no matter where I am on the map, like practically every day one of those three will spawn.) I've done a few months of resets looking for specifics and struggled to get certain pokemon to pop (finally got Fidough outbreak ♡ ) so hopefully being specific with location will help. :)
Austin stays on top, thanks for pumping out all this awesome content, love you broski!
God this is just the best time of year for the Fandom. We get endless amount of new content from all our favorite PokeTubers! From great informational videos, to competitive battling, nuzlockes, playthroughs, God. We eating out here. 😁
I’ve been feeling the same way!!
@@mikeleddyphoto it's honestly inspiring me to get into content making myself lol
Completed my first 6 star raid while watching this. Loving the coverage (and my brand new ceruledge :D)
This is incredible useful to know, been wanting awhole lot of different Pokemon, but only had Magikarp Sinsistea etc, now I might actually get something
Your method is so precise and clear its interesting seeing 2 different youtubers thought process for these
Thanks for all your work and tests and whatnot, you bring so much to the Pokemon Community. And I get what you meant about "bad spots" for Mass Outbreaks in your other video about the subject ; I got a Charcadet spot that I'm doing rn, even tho the spot is half under the mountain bordering Area Zero, thus half of the Charcadets appear under it and I can't see them... Talk about a worse first Mass Outbreak shiny hunt :D
Been hatching scyther eggs for hours and hours, I wish I came across this video sooner. Amazing work! Thanks for the help🤙🏼
Just started shiny hunting with outbreaks today and Austin John comes in clutch once again
This is really interesting, great to see it tested so rigorously! It does make me wonder what happens if you’re actually IN Area Zero, with that having a fair few exclusives and no mass outbreaks in the crater itself. I suppose the map always records you as being in the Zero Gate though, so there would always be some normal tiles bordering your position.
Not gonna lie I love the spreadsheet simulator videos. Idk if its because Austin make them look good, but there is something about it that is so satisfying to watch lol
I love these. All your scarlet videos are so awesome. I'm new to the newer mechanics, as I took a pause in playing, and getting back into it with outbreaks and everything is so confusing. I appreciate all your hard work ❤️ my husband is also super appreciative cause he hasn't played since like, silver and came back to playing because it's so open world
Bro your content has always been great but I think you took it to a next level in scarlet/violet. Really appreciate all the hard work you put into this information.
The amount of research and testing austin does o.O ty for all you do austin!!! U rock!
It’s guys like you that keep the Pokémon video game community going. Love all of your videos keep up the amazing work. Someone has to do all the dirty work nd the number crunching to make things easier for us players that either don’t have the time to go in depth tryna figure things out on our own or the ones that are just too lazy to do the work lol. You are truly appreciated
I was going for a Pawmo outbreak and got it in only 3 rolls! Thank you so much because this was so helpful!
Am Speechless..... literally a full breakdown. You're amazing honestly.
Dude I can’t even begin to thank you for how hard your working to help me and everyone else have a wonderful experience with this already great game. 💜❤️
Going through all your sv vids to leave a like these are so helpful and you’ve been working so hard
Being someone who is colorblind I have had such a difficult time trying to even attempt to shiny hunt in this game, at some point during my play through I even bothered stopping to check if Pokémon are shiny because I probably would not be able to see the difference. Thanks Austin for trying to help us
Watching the process of this being tested is amazing, and I lobe how AustinJohn is working on helping those who have colorblindness with shiny finding, and that is amazing to see, since I havent seen anyone else doing anything like that, and its always cool the amount of effort AustinJohnPlays puts to help all of his watchers, with all the important info.
I am shocked by how much you did for this. I’m assuming this is the type of work you put in to a lot of your videos. You weren’t kidding when you said you liked math in the video about the schools. This is crazy- thanks Austin!
Just saw a comment on this video someone mentioning that in your videos you help others who may be color blind. It fills me so much joy that you help those who may have this condition through your videos. It actually made my day. ☺️
I really like to see how you test it, great vid
I love how you paused for a moment to say "Merry Christmas". 😄 Love your work Austin! Thanks so much!
you are literally a legend! i really wanna shiny hunt pawmi and charcadet but i'm only getting outbreaks of older pokemon 💀
It's actually nuts how much work you put into these videos, Easily the go to pokemon KZheadr
thank you for the amazing content Austin you are literally so amazing at this keep it up brotha
Super valuable testing and great video!
This is super interesting! Could you create a table that grids the map squares like Battleship and each pokemon can then be listed to which spawn squares. Then, it would be easier to figure out which pokemon would spawn in next and one over etc.
I had doubted this as well when I learned about this because it took nearly an hour to get a impidimp outbreak I'm the angle forest and still sort of doubt it BUT I can't really argue with the small sample size stating otherwise. The location I chose was close to many different spawn biomes which probably increased the pool of Pokemon it was pulling from. Thanks for the video!
I say give Flittle a shot if you want one. I did its outbreak and the green pops really well and even from a decent distance despite being such a small part of its body.
Agreed. My fiancé got one it was noticeable
Appreciate all you do. They really should have a feature in game to zoom in extra. Especially since the shiny animation and noise is gone in this game and the mons vary in size and some shiny sprites be oh so subtle etc.
Hell yeah you just helped me get my shiny cyclizar, they storm in like crazy and just bounce. It was so hectic
Bro, just imagine if you had been a long term poketuber! Either way, I’m grateful you’re here NOW! Thanks Prof. John
Flitle was the first shiny I got in the game. Noticed that the underneath was a slight different colour to what I was used to seeing, it isn't that hard when you know you're looking for anything other than a pink "underskirt"
You’re da goat! I enjoy your vids bro thank you!
Mad respect to you brother. You put in that work
A good way to know if a Pokemon is shiny is to send out your pokemon to attack it, if it doesn't attack it then it's likely shiny
Yeah but there's only ~120 Pokemon per outbreak, so if you did keep attacking Pokemon you thought were shiny that weren't, eventually you'd kill the outbreak if you're Really unlucky. An ideal method (like a filter or smth) would be useful even if you go way way Way over shiny odds
@@cynopedous4208 Just put a save after fainting the initial 60 for odds, then keep on battling them. If they run out reset and repeat until shiny.
@@ezdepaz4363 yea I do that with the water outbreaks cause it’s super hard to see them sometimes and also I can just set down a picnic and reset them lol
I noticed this pattern a few days ago (was wondering if any youtubers would also notice it), was trying to hunt for shiny Axew or Fraxure and did over 200 resets while standing in/near Alfornada and Mezagoza. Never really saw any Pokémon I cared about going for and decided to start moving around the map when resetting. Ended up getting different Pokémon to start spawning once I started going to random places, then finally decided to stand in the specific habitat/encounter area with the Pokémon I wanted. Had a Fraxure outbreak spawn within 20-30 resets. I believe there are a few things that can be determined for certain just off of my subjective analysis: - Outbreaks per day are between 4 and 8 Pokémon. - Position on the map (possibly the Biomes in surrounding tiles like mentioned in this video) play a role in determining SOME of the Pokémon that will spawn with each reset. (I believe there maybe a specific # selected for Pokémon of the biomes and possibly some set as "random"). - Some Pokémon are significantly more likely to spawn as outbreaks, especially the pre-evolutions. (Flittle, Rufflet, Psyduck, Slowpoke, and many others). Best thing to do if you are hunting a specific Pokémon for an outbreak is go to an area on the map that Pokémon normally spawns in (habitat) and reset until you see the outbreak.
This man is doing Arceus's work here. The amount of work and understanding of data collection and analysis. Props man. You rock.
All other tubers: go to the spot and skip ahead dates. AJP: Let's actually figure out how this works. Great! Thanks for your dedication Sir
Thanks for showing us the isolated shiny method. It is by far the best method that I used I shiny hunted for Orthworm and for anyone else who wants to shiny hunt for it, they are the only steel type Pokémon in the desert.
Except for in the ruins, where Tinkatuff and Bronzor also spawn
Something I hope to see in a DLC which we'll inevitably get is that there's gonna be a literal Mass Outbreak of Paradox Pokemon in the normal world. I mean, with the Zero Gate open in Postgame, they could climb up and leave "easily". Would be funny. In general I hope to see a lot of Area Zero related extra stuff. Rebattling/re-encountering the professor(s), deeper access to Area Zero for the eventual Dogs/Justice paradox, and perhaps even access to the time machine in the way Ultra Wormholes worked (so like, being able to go back.)
I don't think that we will see one day the Paradox Mass Outbreak soon. The time machine shouldn't work anymore since both the knowledge (AI Turo) and the material (Violet/Scarlet book) to make it work are no longer present in this time, and most unlikely to come back. And by the Zero Gate being open, do you mean the gate at the bottom of the Area Zero where the professor was ? If so, since the time machine doesn't work anymore, so they're won't be any Paradox pokemon leaving and making mass Outbreak. But if the scenario was a little bit different then that would be awesome I agree
This is groundbreaking stuff, thank you so much!!
Thanks for actually testing and explaining this. Everyones talking about it atm.
nice, you have my respect crediting kai for his video. i saw other youtubers just say the exact same thing but no credits
I had just been thinking about this earlier since I'm still working on getting all the exclusives through link codes and what I'd shiny hunt when all the mass outbreaks I keep seeing are pretty much always the same handful of Pokemon; going to keep this in mind before the date rolls over.
very cool how you're trying to help us colorblind people. I checked my game recently and apparently I have battled multiple shiny pokemon but I had no idea due to my colorblindness.
Same! Fellow colorblind person here. I am absolutely fucked when it comes to some of these. Like the ones that are yellow and their shiny is just a light green for example. I can't see it. Thankfully I can tell Rookidee apart because of the drastic difference in color, Shinx too, but Magikarp was strangely difficult because of how metallic it is. To me, it catches the light the same as the red ones so that shiny hunt SUCKED.
Thanks for the guide John :)
I love your videos bro! Thanks for the hard work and great content! 🎉
You are amazing dude! Keep it up
Love the colour blind support idea. When shiny hunting I specifically avoid certain pokémon just because I can't see the color difference in them lol sometimes if I think I see one and can't be sure I send my pokemon over in Auto Battle mode to check for me.
I thought I was forever condemned to suffer countless Luvdisc and Magikarp outbreaks 😭😂. I thought wrong. Incredible work, keep it coming!
Austin John is a great advertiser, I was not planning to get this game but after seeing a plethora of these videos, I just had to buy one and see what's up, 60+ hours in and it has been going great!
One important thing I don't think you picked up on is the spawns that happen within your tile that are rarer than the common ones all over the map will ONLY spawn next to you. So the tandemaus for instance would have only spawned next to you and not far away from you. The other outbreaks all over the map spawn regardless of where you are. With this information, you save time by just looking at the spawns around and you and not panning all over the map
Been waiting for anyone to do a video like this 😭
Idk what this means but I know it'll be helpful!! Thank you so much!!! Also what song is that at the end? It's a banger!
I got a Sylveon outbreak to happen today because I was standing in Alfornada and got the shiny too. It took some date skipping but it worked.
Thank you for spending all this time so we can have our best game!!!
As someone who is severely colorblind, I'm super stoked about the color vid coming. Shiny hunting has been really rough.
Hey Austin! Loving the content, I saw someone in the comments of a different video about this subject mention that encounter power sandwiches also affect what outbreaks you can get via map timeskipping. I tried it myself and it certainly FEELS that way, but I'm neither analytical nor attentive enough to go as in depth with it as you do. Would love to see/hear your thoughts on it!
You do so much work man, you are crazy lol. Ty
Truly a king for this thank u
Well Austin you do alot of work for your informational videos but I feel it for this one so I am compelled to say thank you very much for the hard work
I cant confirm this because I haven’t tested to the levels you have, but I believe also eating a sandwich with encounter power influences the outbreaks that spawn. I have had really great success targeting specific mons with both the zone and encounter sandwich boosts
Sometimes i can envision editing Austin brawling it out with playing Austin for all the demands and work he gives himself hahaha
simplified: if a pokemon can be in a mass outbreak (which you can check with serebii), go to a tile on the map where it spawns. then from there, timeskip 1 day forward and see if they spawn anywhere on the map
thank you so damn much lol, really not interested in watching 20 minutes of this
I very much respect the work ethic and elbow grease that was put into this.