The Definitive Shiny Chaining SOS Guide 

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for real

join the club lol

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Same lol

Definitely do this, it's much less hassle and risk than the usual method. If you do this method you can also use a Pokémon with Pressure to increase the opponents call rate which is very useful for some mons, I like Absol for this as it has false swipe but you can use anything really.

Thanks so much for the kind words, and good luck with your hunts!!

Literally same as me, currently playing through Moon atm and this vid helped clear things up a lot

@@OshieMan If you don't want the Pokemon you chain to struggle and kill himself/herself, you should Skill Swap the abily Harvest onto him/her and give him/her a Leppa berry. The ability Harvest make it so that it has a 50% chance that the Pokemon will recycle the berry and use it again so it doesn't run out of PP. Use Sunny Day every few turn, because in sunlight the Harvest ability goes from 50% to 100% chance of the Pokemon recycling that berry. I thought everyone knew that. And you made that video only 2 years ago. I always have Pokemon with the Harvest ability and moves like thunderwave (to paralyze the shiny so it doesn't call for help just before I knock out the other Pokemon, and False Swipe the shiny which makes it much easier to catch), False Swipe, and Sunny Day. SOS chaining is my absolute favorite way to shiny hunting I’ve gotten a lot of shiny like this and in my opinion, but sometimes I find the chaining itself boring because it's such a repetitive process, but the reward is so worth it and I can listen to Youtuve videos in the background to keep me entertained. Not too loud though because I have to be able to hear the sound of my game. I was told online in many guides in no uncertain term that I should never shiny hunt with the sound turned off because I might acidentally "kill" my shiny if I don't heart the shiny chime star animation sound. People are very angry because in the newest games, like Scarlet and Violet, the sound and sparkle/star were removed on overworld shines and it's frustrating for the players. That makes shiny hunting more difficult. Can you actually believe that they make sleeping Pokemon glow bright blue but they won’t add any effects to shinies? This is stupid. Also, I'm not gonna buy a copy of gen 9 games any time soon now that they killed the GTS (trading with random strangers from around the world, that was good for disabled and akward people or introvert people who don't have friends and have a hard time fitting in, by removing the GTS Nintendo made people within those oppressed minorities feel even more lonely and isolated than ever before, so Nintendo is no longer inclusive of minorities and marginalized people), and killed the Hall of Fame and cut like over 70% of all Pokemon out of the game just because they wanted to do away with the National dex (this wouldn't happened if they hadn't created over 1000 Pokemon and had settled for a couple hundreds, but they are so greedy and obsessed with money despite the fact that Nintendo has billions of yen in the bank and far more money than over a dozen of us could ever gather in a lifetime that they'd rather cut over 70% of the Pokemon in the next game then just stop creating thousands more Pokemon and dozens more generations). Nope. Anyway, I was disappointed by what I saw of Scarlet and Violet in live playthroughs on RU-vid, Scarlet and Violet is worse and more boring than Sword and Shield (at least Sword and Shield had interesting characters, especially Piers and Marnie which are my favorite gen 8 characters and I'm also a big fan of Dark-type Pokemon and Dark-type specialists and it was about time that there's a Dark-type gym and badge). I much prefer gen 7. During the pandemic and the lockdown/confinment I did a ton of shiny hunting in my Ultra Sun, I S.O.S chained and caught over 100 shinies. Now with all the shinies I got from S.O.S chaining, wormhole hunting, Womnder Trade and the GTS, I must be near 200 shinies in my Ultra Sun. But I think the best shiny method is indeed S.O.S chaining and it lands you a lot more shinies than the complicated methods from previous gens. I hate that Gamefreak didn't think of that methid sooner and that they didn't have this method available as an option in every game, because without that method available to us, shiny hunting is difficult and tedious. I never managed to get shinies in other Pokemon games, except maybe two that were like 10 or 12 years apart or some shit. Now I have hundreds of shinies. It's like Gamefreak doesn't want to make getting shinies easier and a selected few selfish idiots in the fandom say that shinies should be extremely rare, very difficult to get and reserved for a privileged few. People like that irritate me and get on my last nerve, it's like they want to be the only ones who get shinies when others have toiled far harder than them and for far longer just to get one miserable shiny every 10 or 12 years or some shit. That's frustrating because that's hours upon hours of those 10 0r 12 years that you'll never get back and that you didn't see your toil and efforts being rewarded. Have a nice day, Mimi.

Thanks for the updated info! I'll pin for future hunters to see

this doesn’t really matter much because i’m the grand scheme of things 30 turns isn’t much

wait why does it reset? also does that mean the odds go back down

@@ihatemyheart I don't know, and while there's a slight chance it was intended the fact that it's 255 precisely makes me think there's some spaghetti going on in the game's code

Thank you, I was just going to mention this myself, since despite what was said it _is_ semi-true. (^ ^;)ゞ *_Apparently,_* though, the chain _will_ start counting as normal after it is reset as well, contrary to many thinking you had no choice but to reset at that point.

Thank you so much, I'm glad it helped!!

Yeah; I didn't really want to cover that stuff too much in this specific guide, because I plan to do an advanced guide in future! Harvest is an awesome strat though, so thank you for sharing

Figured I'd add onto this, but chansey and blissy can help similarly with the move bestow. While I believe it only works if the opposing pokemon isn't holding an item, it's still good to know since you'll want to have a tank for advanced hunts against stronger pokemon. Edit: Grammar

@@Squeakypupperif the wild Pokémon is holding an item, and you want to give it a Leppa berry or whatever, can’t you use trick? It should swap items instead of just giving the item to the wild mon, right?

​@@Kiwiqwp While trick is objectively better, I don't believe blissey can learn it. I only suggested them for legendary pokemon since they don't hold items.

Me watching in 2024: 🥲

Appreciate you man! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Appreciate the good feedback dude, happy hunting!!

Thanks so much Ven! Next video had better be Hoothoot, I swear...

Congrats dude!!

True gigachad behaviour ✌️

I just got into sos hunting too, already got oricorio, alolan meowth, crabrawler, and yungoos, working on pichu right now (for that chocolate raichu) and then salandit or alolan grimer! I just started late December 😁

@@lissastargazer Congrats on the awesome shinies!

Good luck!

HUUUAAAGGGHHHHHHH HUUUAAAGGGHHHHHHH HUUUAAAGGGHHHHHHH you have now chained a shiny

THANK YOU BTW

Intimidate is the most ideal due to Pressure’s PP consumption and Unnerve’s prevention of berry eating (leppa harvest strat negated)

The cat ears give it extra HD per second ;)

This is actually new info to me, I'll definitely be making use of that, thank you!

I'm sorry, I actually have no idea! You could ask in my discord, people are much more informed than I am and would love to help out. Thanks for watching and congrats on the Pancham! ✌️

@@OshieMan thanks for responding my dude, was not expecting that so quick xD I'll join the Discord right now, thanks for pointing it out! 🐼🤟

you're welcome!

No, chain doesn’t break. I’ll make a video about this.

I'm sorry, Master Kenobi :(

@@OshieMan a suprise to be sure, but not a welcome one :(

@@Obi-Wan_Kenooobi A shiny Beldum would make a fine addition to your collection, but I guess it wasn't the droid you were looking for :(

@@OshieMan My collection is shorter than expected :(

Nice, keep at it and I'm sure you'll pick it up!

As far as my research showed me, yes

Not in usum they don’t

But they do in sun and moon

Un pokemon con habilidad " cuerpo llama " like talonflame

So in the video he mentions there was a lot of misinformation and then says people thought the chain would reset over time

As you can see from all the negative comments below :)