13 HUGE Tips for a New Playthrough of Pokemon Scarlet Violet 

It really is upsetting the whole shiny thing....I'm colorblind and having shinies that are like a couple shades different just is a swift kick to the nuts.....at least with legends there was that audio cue

You can reach that psychic gym at the beginning of the game even without your mount by jumping off the cliff area just above that area down to the water and use those giant ramp pathway which leads to the town, I recommend having a runaway pokemon to make things easier when early exploring. I used the early exploration exploit to unlock all the pokestops (besides the final one) before even going to the school.

Whenever you have access to them, quick balls are pretty much the best to catch pokemon. If the quick ball fails, you can just run away from battle, run into the same pokemon again, and you're back to turn 1 for quick ball's condition. It effectively makes having to use a false swiper or whatever not needed.

Kinda hope they add a sound to shinies. It would be sad to encounter a new mon not encounter it then find out later it was shiny

Another HUGE tip is to ALWAYS go for those towers because they can be great for fast travel!

For the titles/marks; they are only bugged in the boxes. If you have them I'm the party it will give you the option to "equip" the mark. Hope this helps!

Correction! I found this by accident, but you actually CAN get up to that Southwestern gym leader super easy and super early! (I wouldn't recommend it TOO early since the path is full of high level enemies, but it's still nice to explore and get the fast travel point for later!) Basically, you can jump off the side of the cliff heading west, and you'll fall all the way down onto a beach. No fall damage! Here, you'll find a rock path/bridge that leads all the way up to a tunnel, which leads into the town with the gym! I didn't need any progression or abilities to get there.

I'm so excited for Great Tusk he looks killer, Donphan is one of my favorites so I appreciate the attention he's getting, plus, that's good news cuz right out the gates I'm going Ice Tera Tynamo hunting

You can actually get to alfornada whenever you want through a detour by the west side of the map near the ocean, there’s even a sign that tells you once you arrive at the detour. This is good if you want to grind some sinistea early on in violet if you want to get ceruledge.

There are 3 paths to the psychic gym leader tulip on the mountain. 2 of them require you to complete legends tasks, 1 of them let's you go there without doing any legends stuff. I played through my first playthough without doing any legends and I completed all the gyms. You said you couldn't do that I think so I figured I'd let you know it actually is possible although not recommended.

SV COMES OUT TOMORROW!!!! Cant wait to install SV as soon as it officially launches

You can get tto hat bottom left Psychic gym if you follow the pathing without any of the legendary upgrades i.e. increase jump, glide or climb!

No spoilers, shows a brand new shiny Pokémon within the first 90 seconds

You can get to the psychic gym kinda early you just need to take the back way with alot of dropping down.

Thank you for the always up to date and integral posts

8:24 gasp losing progress, i can only imagine how it would feel if i crashed while entering the 8th gym and got sent back to the 5th gym

Dude!!! Thank you, most need to know videos are just the stuff you get told by the game but yours was actual useful stuffs.

Thanks! This'll be useful!

Blaine being a literal king as usual! TYSM my man, you're awesome! Can't wait to play the games tommorow!!

Awesome video as always

also tip you can basically teleport across some gaps by starting a battle with a pokemon on the otherside of the gap

Serebii says that if u do the lets go feature, ur pokemon wont kill the shiny. So if u find a small pokemon that is shiny and barely noticeable from its original color. Then that will help a lot

So excited!!

If you press B + X + Up on Dpad on the title screen it lets you access your backup data incase your game crashes and you lose progress even if you have auto save off

To get to the town with the physic gym. There is a cave you can take and run up the mountain to get to that town right at the beginning of the game. The traditional way to get up there is no accessible right at the atart but there is multiple routes everywhere some hidden and off the beaten trail. So everything is open if you dont mind going the long way around or searching for it.

Can’t wait to play this tomorrow! My play through will consist of something like this: -Play through the game normally -Complete the Pokédex -Search far and wide on the internet for people giving away 6IV Dittos (hehehehe too busy being lazy to get one myself) -Get all 25 natures on a Pokémon with the ability synchronize -Learn/ Play competitive -Actually becoming good at PvP.

A tip for the auto save the game does do background saves every so often and if you crash without saving you can push up on the d-pad X and B altogether on the title screen to access this background save.

My first shiny in Scarlett (fourth shiny I've ever caught) was a Shiny Wiglett

You can get to that gym before getting any travel abilities. There's another route below that leads you up the mountain.

Thank you for this! Also looking forward to exploits that are bound to happen. Definitely need that along with x999 item raids lol.

I love how Blaines has been pumping out amazing vids lately.

I'm really worried about the shinies cause it sounds like it's really easy to miss them Pls someone who played the game tell me more about it because I didn't sleep for a few days

You can access the psychic gym without your transport. There is a long walk around you can do to get up there and it is intended. The stone bridge to the west of the area is part of the walkway

Thanks for the tips dude. I'd love a vid about the optimal route to take as to not get rekt by going to a place I shouldnt necessarily be yet, or being to OP for an area. That aside, vids are great man, keep up the good content 💪🏻

Wow! Thanks for those amazing tips Blaine. The things you do for us is phenomenal! Thank you. Your work doesn’t go unnoticed 💯

Hope you make a video about the claim that before the update you can defeat 7star raids with one hit. Because it was a wild statement so it'd be interesting to see if they are true

Im glad some is locked, I was worried about no scaling, but at least there is a little linearity

3:42 you can access there early, i did it with only one titan beat. there’s a cave that takes you to the beach and some hills that take you up to another cave and eventually to the city. you just gotta avoid the wild pokémon and you’re good

I got access to the bottom left early on in my play through, no idea if I completed the prerequisite task for it but if you notice the path off to the left hugging the city area, you can follow that around to get to that area

Wooooorm, the blue really reminds me of those worm candies, like the sour ones with the weird texture

really appreciate it, wasnt sure how the shinies were until i saw someone in a raid and from what you said

Thanks for the suggestions here. Much appreciated!

blaines season is here lets go

Useful tips😊😊😊

You can actually manipulate the battle initiation sequence to teleport again across gaps to access parts of the game you couldn't before without doing anything in the story

Tysm!

u can definitely access the bottom left area he mentioned as soon as u start the game. u have to take the ramps that are to the left of it and go thru a cave to get there

Thank you buddy!!

So excited to deep dive into this game today :) PS It's so rare I see someone not only with the same name as me, but the same spelling.

For the psychic gym leader you actually don't need the climb ability or any thing like that you can get there at the start of the game you need to go through a tunnel go up the path it brings you to go into the cavern that brings you to and there's a path and near the end of the path there's a left turn you can take to get to the psychic gyms town.

Great video

Thank you for the tips. 😊😊😊😊😊

great back to school after 15 years >_< but thanks for the tips blaines :3

got my first shiny yesterday! was the luckiest and most surprising thing i’ve ever encountered

The bottom left is accessible from the very beginning just jump off the cliff before the cave entrance and there's a winding path that leads up into another entrance and follow the cave from there.

I am so excited, i preordered the game so im going to be able to get it today, so i am super amped

Since Titans are able to be caught, does that mean they can be shiny? I also wonder if you can catch multiple Titans or if there's just one for each species that has one.

I just started and got the 1st gym badge and the 1st team star badge. It's been a ok experience so far.

Without spoiling what was in the thumbnail again a new Pokemon

Thanks Blaines! You're the man!

I visited every pokemon center before doing ANYTHING else . So it is actually possible to reach all gyms

For the auto save part, def keep auto save on but whenever you leave MAKE SURE you save manually

So can I not catch high level pokemon without gym badges or is it just disobedient or does disobedience only apply to trade pokemon?

In what order should I do the story campaign to get the most challenge and difficulty?

thanks for these info. please share how and when is IV checker unlocked and how early can go online for trades.

I found a shiny Mankey in a pack. The color difference was so subtle I almost missed it.

I think the obedience thing has been around since sword and shield as I was able to use a level 70 inteleon at Milos gym and it never disobeyed

Hell yea Blaine’s appreciate the amulet coin tip! Excellent thing to pick up early

First shiny for me was the go goat pre evolution. Stuck out amongst it's heard of like 5

I'm so ready to play this game brooooo

FINALLLYYY

I was actually aboe to get up there in the “inaccessible area” got my team whipped up there though.

Thank you!!!!!

at 3:42 he states that you cannot access the psychic gym immediately, but you actually can! you need to go to the western coastline just north of the gym and follow that thin winding trail upwards to get there!

You can reach that one spot in the middle I got to it you gotta go through a cave by the water but you can get there easily

Indigo and magenta look awesome. Can't wait to play

Psychic gym was my second gym, could've been first but figured I try the easier gym first.

Can’t wait for dlc

Thanks Blaines

Thanks for all the tips! Do you get hurt while jumping? As it was in Legends

Ay Blaines. You’re the best.

How do you “hit it from behind” ?? To get 2 turns? What button do you hit?

lets go blaines, hype for another generation

Fun fact: those "glinting spots" respawn waaay more often than daily. Noticed this when I was farming the bamboo forest for exp on my pokedex mons. 30 minutes? 1 hour? Variable? I wasn't keeping track. But my first shiny was Luxray... as well as my second and third... Full odds. No outbreaks. I looked up the other mon's shiny forms too... Convince me that the shinx line doesn't have increased odds coded in.

I started my play with a catch everything that i havent caught, hopefully will find a shiny by doing this lmao

3:43 you can get up there easily, just one cave no jumping/climbing/swimming required

I literally found a shiny Psyduck before entering the school, just chilling in the wild

When the Pokemon Company can't tell us this simple advice so others has to before us thank you!!

The red pokeballs aren't fixed in some places, the fossil area and dig site just spawn them all the time

Question about obedience: do now all pokemon caught over a certain level not obey? Because it used to only be true for traded pokemon that stopped obeying once you got past a certain level...

Are the titans also bigger? Or is it really only a mark?

I always get the same shiny as my first in all pokemon games for some reason, but got it day one and it was Psyduck

during the bit about talking with the inaccessible gym around the 3:56 mark of the video there is a path that goes under a mountain that then opens to the beach on that beach is a path that leads you to the gym. just stay away from the pokemon in the area as they are close to level 40. i went there when i was still in the 20's and was perfectly fine i even made it past the ruins and up to the lake at the very top of the area.

once you get the ability to go to school and the open world, i suggest doing this first >acquire (catch/evolve) 30 species of pokemon >return to the school >head to the biology lab >talk to the biology teacher this will get you False Swipe, which will be absurdly useful as you make your way through the game. best pokemon that i know of for false swipe is gallade, because it can also learn hypnosis.

3:42 Not true there is a small cliff you can jump up without the super jump to reach that town although I'm not sure if it is intended as there was a decent difficulty spike when I did it

He says won't spoil anything and not even done and saw 2 new Pokemon;-;

Hi Just wanted to let you know that you can get to the south west area where the gym is .which u said we need to do story for. You can drop of the cliffs south/west of the map and run throug the cave before doing any gym leader or anything. I just tried this gym first and got beaten by the gymnastic girl for the Gym challenge.

Cant wait to get too ice area! Is it possible to get the ice dragon early?

Can you please make a video explaining the whole "classes" and "exams" thing in the academy?

Every part of the map is accessible from the start outside of the crater. EVERY PART. It's not really worth to play without doing the gyms and all that from an optimal point of view, but its fun as hell lol