How to use the Shiny Picnic Reset method in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet

Brilliant hunt in the Pokemon Series is something that both casual and hardcore fans alike love to do. Shiny Pokemon are special variants of regular Pokemon that are much rarer than their regular counterparts.

They’re also colored differently from other Pokemon of the same species. You’ll have to search a lot to find them, but in the end, they’re worth the return. Pokemon Scarlet and Violet also have Shiny Pokemon and they’re just as hard to find as ever.

Thankfully, there’s a way around the old-fashioned option Pokemon World falling into random battles hoping the monster you encountered is Shiny. You’re well on your way to increasing your collection of shiny monsters, thanks to a simple exploit to speed up your shiny hunt Pokemon Scarlet and Violet in no time.

If getting as many Shiny Pokemon as possible is important to you, we’ve got all the details you need to make it even easier to get them into your own game. With this method you will have many shiny friends in no time.

How to use the Shiny Picnic Reset in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet

YouTuber PhillyBeatzU came up with an ingenious way to exploit a special glitch Pokemon Scarlet and Violet to help you catch shiny monsters. It involves using the Picnic feature to encourage similar Pokemon to respawn, which in turn will help you spawn a Shiny Pokemon.

To use this method, as detailed in PhillyBeatzU’s video, you must first go to your in-game map. Find an area where you can see a burst of Pokémon, or if you see several of the same species congregating in one place. It is denoted on your map by a flashing red icon.

Use a Pokemon with the False Strike movement, which reduces the enemy Pokemon’s HP to 1 point. Go to the group of Pokemon you found and start defeating Pokemon as they appear. You’ll start increasing your shiny spawn rate after killing around 60 enemies, which will bring your shiny rate to around 1 in 1365 at that point. According to PhillyBeatzU, you then need to save your game and set up a picnic table.

Once you’ve finished your picnic, you’ll find that all of the Pokemon that were previously part of the outbreak reappear. This reset interrupt increases your chances of a Shiny appearing at the end. He demonstrated this in his video, but you can try it too. Newsweek can confirm that this exploit works for now. So be sure to jump on it now because it might be patched in the future.

Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet are now available exclusively for Nintendo Switch.