So it's my understanding that you have to do the Union Circle quests?? Or do you just have to be in a Union Circle to get access?? And if you have to do the Union Quests, then how many do you need to do???
Why is no one talking about how much of a gigachad this snacksworth guy is? Bro literally met every legendary and became their buddy. He almost beat suicune in a race to the shore just by doing backstrokes. He's the true main character
Fun Fact: Lugia and Groudon are the only Snackworth's Legendaries that have Tera Type that are not part of their Type. Lugia has Water Type as its Tera Type while Groudon has Fire Type of its Tera Type, which is interesting considering they are commonly known for being associate with those Type toward their moveset and ecology.
My internet sucks so bad. I can barely stay connected to the internet on my Switch for more than 5 minutes at a time. It makes joining Union Circles from Discord groups not feasible, and none of my irl friends play console pokemon games.
Keep in mind, it does not need to be in the other version of the game. You can have 4 people playing violet, and as long as you can get a group quest done, you will get one of your group legends
@@300dexThank you so much! I always somehow get the version that doesn’t let me get Groudon. My friend and I both have violet so will be able to Groudon with just my friend who also has violet or do I need to connect with someone from Scarlet to get that?
As much as it sucks that everything is shiny locked, hearing all the original battle themes being in the game is wonderful 💜 Unlike a certain remake we recently had 👀
@@ViscerialArchow will that work out kubfu and the 2 🐎 are part of these groups of they made them not shiny 🔐 it will mean people will be able to shiny hunt them and I think GF do not want to make there shiny available yet
I think someone should create a video that has a bunch of union-circle codes available for people to join in to complete this event. For example, entering in the code 1010 into union circle, would allow people who primarily play offline to get a chance to catch all these Pokémon’s. It is a let down that they are all shiny-locked.
Just want to point out that Necrozma is right next to the Groundblight shrine. So if you have the shrines unlocked on your map, that's going to make it a lot easier.
They should've made it where you can play online with others randomly...without the link code and all that. For Union Circle. That would make this much easier.
I’m in the same boat. I have maybe 1-2 friends that enjoy Pokémon like I do, but none have switch. I play on scarlet, is there anyone in this thread that would wanna be friends and wants someone to play with? Lmao
If you use Breloom, I reccommend giving Breloom Tera Normal. This ensures that you dont take supereffective hits from pokemon like Glastrier and Reshiram. It also powers up false swipe.
A fun little note for those that don't use Home. Many legendary pokemon have key items associated with them that you can't transfer over via Home despite being able to transfer the pokemon itself. If you get one of these pokemon, then a fourth auction opens up in the Porto Marinada Market. Of the 25 we get access to, Kubfu, Calyrex, and the BW trio unlock this. The auctions for Kubfu will net you the scrolls that determined its style in SwSh, this time becoming key items that act like evolution stones (you can get both scrolls but like in SwSh, you only have the choice of one form). Having Calyrex can get you the Reins of Unity, which can be used to fuse and unfuse it with the Spectrier and Glastrier. I believe it's having Kyurem that will unlock the DNA splicers item. Additionally, for those that maybe didn't move a Palkia or Dialga over from any version of DP or BDSP, or from PLA, then having either of the two of them also unlocks extra auctions, giving you the Adamant Orb (og hold item) and Crystal (PLA item for the origin forme) for Dialga and the Lustrous Orb and Globe for Palkia.
@@BoBz013I had both forms 2 years back because I decided to start a 2nd playthrough just for the other horse and Urshifu (and trading box art legendary) 😅
I find it odd that Calyrex, Zacian and Zamazenta are all in the game but not available by doing this. Especially since the 2 steads are there. I find it very likely that these will be getting raids in the future, probably including Eternatus. Maybe they will even go as far as giving Zacian and Zamazenta boosted stats like in the Mewtu Raid
@@starbot9828they did it because they did not want all of the gen 8 legendary pokemon in the game they wanted to have some pokemon you can only get in your game to be transfer only so people use pokemon home
I just want to say thank you, Austin John, for the clarification on the iv's of all 25 legendary Pokémon in both scarlet and violet. I was hearing non-stop from other people in the Pokémon community that the indigo disk was severely glitched because of all 25 legendary Pokémon don't have any guaranteed iv's.
I play Scarlet and don’t have a false swiper, but a lvl 100 Ting-Lu with Ruination worked pretty well for my solo legendaries. Ruination always brings the opponent down to half its current HP. Ting-Lu’s defense stat is really high, and its typing makes it immune to electric and psychic attacks, which is good considering a lot of them have psychic moves. Its ability Vessel of Ruin is an added bonus against special attacks too.
Just catch the Tera Breloom outside Medali. Spore and False Swipe. Give it a Toxic Orb and change its Ability to Toxic Heal to avoid status/recover HP. Also catch a Gallade for Hypnosis/False Swipe.
Just a PSA for everyone: For the sandwich group quest, the ENTIRE group has to take part in the sandwhich, otherwise it won't count, eben if you get 4 stars.
@@MutenRoshi69 Was it only 3 of you in the group? I'm talking about cases where only 2 out of 3 take part, or 3 out of 4, with the last member doing something else.
I decided to try Ho-Oh first (video would've been nice a little earlier) and I am SO HAPPY that the old Legendary themes are back congrats to the 3 Beasts for geting their HGSS themes for the first time since 2009
@@thelorddragon6902 you could shiny hunt them but they used the GSC version of the theme. HGSS gave unique remixes to each of them and have not returned until now
For anyone else who may need help, I trained up a Smeargle specifically for catching all the legendaries, max hp and attack, rest into speed. I gave it false swipe, spore, swords dance, and trick to put a ring target onto Lunala and Spectrier. I also gave it tera ghost to keep the horses from recoiling themselves with double edge. I'm going to train up a Ceruledge with tera ground to deal with Solgaleo and its recoil- flash fire makes fire moves not work, and tera ground makes electric moves not work. Hope this helps!
This has actually gotten me to go back to swsh and grind dynamax adventures, because I'm so sick of them shiny locking everything, and also miss raids that actually WORK. was claiming mystery gifts and since I was there, tried joining raids for dialga and palkia. In an hour I managed to get into exactly 3 raids, continuously trying to connect. And then once I got in, raid ejected us even though it showed half the timer remaining.I love raids but holy crap SV online raids are bad.
I NEVER go online for the raids now, and I only solo them (either wait for Austin to post a good mon or ask others). Everytime I go online something goes wrong with the raid.
@@Infindox yeah same. I only did because I didn't wanna roam around my map to see if there was dialga or palkia lol. Sounded easier to just go into the raid menu, and oh how very wrong I was.
Dunno. I don't do online raids a lot, but I've never had any issues with online raids that I didn't have with solo raids. As for being shiny-locked, I don't really mind that so much. Guaranteed access to shinies make them less special, and it keeps previous games relevant.
@@Socioromanticism hard disagree on that rhetoric. Nothing guaranteed if the player has to grind for it. I'd rather people's time and energy be respected. We paid for the whole game, and I don't like the idea of them gatekeeping certain parts of the game just to what? Hold then out for events or something which are ACTUALLY "guaranteed" shinies? Doesn't really track imo.
@@SknowingWolf I chose my words carefully: Guaranteed _access_ to shiny legendaries. And I don't think that's a matter of semantics. If you grind for long enough, you can reasonably expect to get your shiny given enough work. Otherwise, folks wouldn't bother grinding in the first place. But in that instance where you have to grind, your time isn't respected either: Your time is respected in only two scenarios: 1) where a Shiny is guaranteed (so you do the sequence once and get the shiny), and 2) where a legendary is shiny-locked (so you wouldn't bother spending time to grind). If you have to grind for it, your time isn't actually respected. What you're asking for (if you want a Shiny and for your time to be respected) given 1 in 4,096 (shiny charm odds don't apply to static encounters) ...is to just give you the shiny in a distribution. And if everyone gets the shiny in every game, it's not really special anymore. You'd accumulate 3 shiny of every legendary every decade, and even more more with multiple accounts on a Switch. So maybe you have multiple issues with shiny-locks, but those issues all cannot exist simultaneously by the logic I'm extracting from your comments. To respect your time AND to give you access to a Shiny, you'd either need 1) a guaranteed shiny or 2) drastically increased odds and a very short reroll process (perfunctorily guaranteed.) Both make shinies less rare. So are you asking to not have your time respected with access to grinding for a shiny? Or are you asking for a shiny legendary distribution for every legendary upon every generation? I don't think that's a false dichotomy. I do think you're asking for one of the two. But if it's the former, you're not asking for your time to be respected.
Hey! I recommend Flash Fire Ceruledge with Ground Tera for Solgaleo. You resist Wild Charge as a “Ground-type” and Flash Fire ignores Flare Blitz. You won’t have a good sleep move, but you can keep it very safely at 1 HP.
If you fly all the way up to the big Cristal in the terrarium you get 50 stellar shards 1 ability patch and 1 golden bottle cap. You need flight to get there.
I'm assuming (since I didn't check before capturing) but I believe after capturing certain legendaries, the bidding market at Porto Marinada will have associated held and evolution/form items for the new legendaries. For example, the Water and Darkness scrolls for evolving Kubfu, the DNA Splicers for fusing Kyurem, and the fuse items for Necrosma. I also was able to purchase the hold booster for the Lats, and while not related to the new legendaries, I also could get hold items for Palkia and Dialga, along with the item for changing Dialga's form to the origin form from P:LA. I'm guessing I didn't get the Palkia form item since Palkia is Scarlet and I'm on Violet with Dialga. (EDIT: I messed up. I did get both transformation items, and misremembered due to how similar Palkia's transform and hold items are) Also, killing the legendaries isn't an issue as they respawn in about an hour.
@@DanielGarcia-uz5sn Oops, my mistake. They did actually sell the transformation item for Palkia. I mistook it (Lustrous Globe) for the Lustrous Orb. Thanks for the correction.
If it isn't said enough, these video walkthroughs are extremely helpful. Of course, it's easy enough to find all this information elsewhere, but having it condensed in such an easily digestible and and visual manner makes everything so much easier.
On the topic of shinies... Remember how a while back you did a video on how to tell the differences of various shinies for colorblind people? It would be super helpful if you could do that for some of the DLC Pokemon. Most of them are extremely hard to tell, and I don't want to waste a bunch of time Let's Go-ing every Tynamo, Elekid, and Pikipek I see.
Weather ability and moved do not over ride over world weather any more like it use to in past pokemon games so you can't cancel it out of if a sandstorm start up doing the fight
For those having trouble with Solgaleo's recoil damage and do not want to waste a master ball, use the Reuniclus line of pokemon. Make sure it has the ability Magic guard and move skill swap. Magic guard ability will ignore recoil damage.
I wish rayquaza kyurem and necrozoma weren’t locked to group BBQ’s. I don’t play with anyone and I’m not on any socials, I wouldn’t have cared if they made it 500 BBQ’s a piece for the requirement instead of 1 group quest. Oh well.
Note about Moltres. The desert is prone to random sandstorms that you can't overwrite with another weather move. So be careful if you are using false swipe or hoping it endures a hit. Obviously save before fighting it. I just ended up using a Master Ball after a few tries where it fainted, because M is for Moltres.
I’m so gutted with the shiny locks. I caught kyogre, lunala and latias in Pokémon sword before I got interested in shiny hunting and now I can’t get them shiny unless I do BDSP soft resets, except Lunala who I can’t get shiny. Also huge missed opportunity for urshifu and the calyrex horses. I hope they take the shiny locks off soon because although unlikely, it’s definitely in their ability and totally reasonable
For Solgaleo, may I suggest Impish, max defense, Garchomp with False Swipe and Earthquake. It removes Wild Charge from being a threat to its health, reduces the damage Flare Blitz cause to Solgaleo, Earthquake makes a great starting move, and False Swipe to lower it further. You'll need a second pokemon for status, but at that point you've pretty much maxed you odds at catching it.
Friendly tip - You can also use a Pokemon with Recover and Imprison to prevent Lugia/Ho-Oh (or any other Pokémon you might want to catch) from using the move.
aint no way we paid 35 bucks for the dlc and we still cant get these legendaries shiny, there are too many pokemon that are impossible to get shiny atm (also 35 bucks to be able to fly)
Another protip: - Palossand is 100% effective against Zekrom, because it's ground-ghost and none of Zekrom's moves can affect it. - Basculegion with Soak, combined with a Gallade with False Swipe, Hypnosis, Disable and Imprison, with a Ghost terra type will make Spectrier a breeze. - The exact same setup but replace Disable with Taunt on Gallade will work for Glastrier.
I love the DLC so much fun the only 2 probs i have is 1. Static encounter with paradox so cant complete the dex. 2. Forcing people to play in union cicle to catch all legendaries.
Weird that they didn't add Yveltal, Xerneas, and Zygarde too. It's like every legendary BUT them. They're pretty accessable but weird to exclude them in my opinon.
So even if you have both versions you still locked out of 3 of them and is forced to co-op play again, just like evolving finezin. Great. I hate it thanks GF.
Giratina's Griseous Core which changed its form in Legends Arceus is available at the auctions if you have Giratina in your party, I transferred all the Gen 4, Gen 6 & Gen 8 Legendaries over from Home.
Should i bother catching them or no because of the supposed IV issue? Or does it really not matter? I dont play competitive so they would just be in the collection. Maybe some ingame play and raids
On another note I really want to share that I really appreciate your videos. They are some of the most thorough and some of the most clearly explained guides out there. I keep coming back to your vids for guides 😊
It's worth noting that the Timer Ball gradually reaches that multiplier over those 11 turns, and actually beats the Ultra Ball on turn 5, beats the Dusk Ball on turn 8, and beats the Net and Repeat Balls on turn 10. Edited, as I initially misunderstood and thought you were saying it surpassed the Ultra Ball on turn 11, instead of just turn 11 being the max potential of the Timer Ball.
After seeing my first legendary iv’s being horrible I started resetting to see if I could get better. Of course I looked it up online first but nobody mentioned iv’s were random so I decided to check here with you. You are the only person I’ve found that’s mentioned the iv’s. That’s is why you and serebii are the only two sources of knowledge I recommend to anyone playing Pokémon. Keep up the good work!
Austin John always coming in clutch with top tier Poké info and promoting ways to take care of your mental wellbeing. Love it ❤️💙 appreciate you and what you do, fella!
I appreciate how much love you have for your content and us. I’m just here to tell you that your hard work doesn’t go unnoticed. I paid attention that you displayed all the Legends in order. Your attention to detail is very much appreciated! 🙏🏼
Hey, this is NOT okay. I agree with your sentiment, as many other players do. But aggressive replies of middle finger emojis is NOT how to address the issue-and NOT how you get things to change. If you are able to convey your message in a well thought-out way, please do so. If you're not able to do that, just delete your comment otherwise I'll block you from commenting on this channel.
@@lucasc5336 its okay, and thank you for apologizing. Voicing your opinion in a constructive way will ALWAYS result in better results than being aggressive. That's something I wish I was taught when I was much younger, but its only something I learned when I was much older.
Just a tip for the people hunting the ones that use Rest: Instead of Swords Dance, start off with a Pokemon that knows Screech (or another defense lowering move) that's holding the Wide Lens (if said defense-lowering move is not 100% accurate). Get them to -6x Defense so you can one hit-False Swipe them so they can then use Rest. That way, the debuff stays on the Legendary and you don't have to reuse Swords Dance on your False Swiper if they manage to KO it. Hope that was coherent enough of a thought, I was able to Screech 3 times with my Umbreon, then one False Swipe from my Breloom after Groudon used Rest to get it back to 1 HP with relatively no issue. Although my mons were both Level 100 for reference.
In case anyone else is curious, you can get all the group quests done by yourself if you have two copies of the game, either version. I had bought the double pack but only bought the DLC for scarlet, and I had my other switch just join my main game on a union circle. Once joined I flew back to BB and did all the group quests, which I was able to do solo. Anytime it asked for group pictures or anything like that it only counted 1/1 maybe because the other profile didn’t have access to the dlc. It took me a few hours to get all of it done by myself, but it worked.
Y'know, I didn't mind if the legends were version exclusives and shiny locked, but to be locked behind Union Circle really sucks especially if you can only do solo. I miss the days where you can just trade for the other version legend to unlock the third legend such as trading for a kyogre/groudon to unlock a Rayquaza battle if you have both in your party, instead of having to do a Union Circle Group Quest.
@@zwillscoopchannel9689 That’s fine for them, but I can only speak my opinion from my own position. I’ve caught all of these Pokemon 10 times over at this point, doing it again just doesn’t hold my interest.
It's not really big deal of it. So what if they're shiny locked? Keep in mind whether it's regular or shiny, the stats are pretty much the same. It's just for purely cosmetic nothing more
Got my Solgaleo in a Premier Ball, my tip is to use a Level 100 Ceruledge. You can have it Tera Ground to be extra safe but then Solar Beam so you could do what I did instead which was use X Defense to boost your defense and make sure Wild Charge just doesn't do a lot a damage and start chucking balls at yellow while paralyzed.
I completely forgot this existed when I was doing some shiny hunting so the jumpscare of seeing a random kyogre out of nowhere gave me a bigger reaction than most shinies
So they pay wall over half of the legendries behind the crappy nintendo online subscription?? Even the ones you can get solo the game pushes you to go online with the crazy grind. So lazy and greedy, was expecting something similar to the Dynamax Adventures we got in Crown Tundra not a 15-20 hour grind of the same BBQs over and over just to be able to access any of the post game content. Just the biodiversity upgrades and inviting the various trainers is around 25k points.
I caught kyogre in a dive ball, and I came up with a strategy which is use encore before it can use aqua ring or you could use taunt either way it will prevent it from using aqua ring
I honestly wouldn't even bother. You can't shiny hunt them, and their IVs are awful. I'll be honest and say that the way they implemented this was really poorly done.
This is honestly the first sponsorship I didn’t fast forward through. I started having panic attacks and anxiety for the first time, my house is being renovated and I have felt really uncomfortable for the past month and a half, so having a therapy sponsor was really nice. Thank you Austin!
A good pokemon for solgaleo is a tera ground ceruledge. Tera Ground allows it to be immune to Wild Charge, Flash Fire makes it immune to Flare Blitz, and it still learns Swords Dance and False Swipe.
Please Note: The Co-Op quests do NOT require opposite versions. 4 Violet players can unlock all the Scarlet Exclusives
So you just have to be online to get them all
So it's my understanding that you have to do the Union Circle quests?? Or do you just have to be in a Union Circle to get access?? And if you have to do the Union Quests, then how many do you need to do???
I need help please to get 9 legendary online Group pls😢
BBQ Group quest
Hey AustinJohnPlays can you help me pls
Why is no one talking about how much of a gigachad this snacksworth guy is? Bro literally met every legendary and became their buddy. He almost beat suicune in a race to the shore just by doing backstrokes. He's the true main character
Tbh he could just be full of BS but it would be funny if he's just a gigachad
@@sandofman4161 but he knows personally what each pokemon likes, which means he probably was their buddy lol
I literally almost have lengendary except 1 which is the ghost horse
@@sandofman4161 His hints lead you to each of the legendaries so he has to be genuine. He just lived a crazy life.
@@dovahkiin2206 either best buddy or stalker. lol
Fun Fact: Lugia and Groudon are the only Snackworth's Legendaries that have Tera Type that are not part of their Type. Lugia has Water Type as its Tera Type while Groudon has Fire Type of its Tera Type, which is interesting considering they are commonly known for being associate with those Type toward their moveset and ecology.
Sounds to me like primal groudon
But then why didn't they give Solgaleo Tera Fire😅
@@SanicAdventure because he doesn’t represent fire
@@y2kevo747 yea he represents the sun, which is gas, not just straight fire, burning gas.
@@Smokin-a-fat-oneif its burning its on gire
I hate that they lock like half of the legends behind the Union Circle, then don't allow you to form groups with random people
Yeah that’s really annoying
Im mad i just gave my brother his game back😂😂😂
Agreed. I have a total of zero friends playing this game, so I’m not gonna be able to get half of the legendaries. Ugh.
My internet sucks so bad. I can barely stay connected to the internet on my Switch for more than 5 minutes at a time. It makes joining Union Circles from Discord groups not feasible, and none of my irl friends play console pokemon games.
They're always punishing us for not having friends 😂
Something worth noting is that Lugia comes with Tera Water, and Groudon comes with Tera Fire, as opposed to being one of their stab types
Very nice detail! I love little things like that.
Keep in mind, it does not need to be in the other version of the game. You can have 4 people playing violet, and as long as you can get a group quest done, you will get one of your group legends
You beat me to it...
does it have to be 4 or can you get the gold quests with two people?
@mattew0113 for me it was just me and my wife
@@mattew0113 nope. I did it with just my little brother and we both got all of them
@@300dexThank you so much! I always somehow get the version that doesn’t let me get Groudon. My friend and I both have violet so will be able to Groudon with just my friend who also has violet or do I need to connect with someone from Scarlet to get that?
As much as it sucks that everything is shiny locked, hearing all the original battle themes being in the game is wonderful 💜 Unlike a certain remake we recently had 👀
It’s things like this that make you miss ultra wormholes.
was just thinking this today, definitely due a revisit to usum before pokemon bank is disabled
I wish they weren't shiny locked, unfortunately takes some fun out of it and value.
I feel like they could’ve thrown in a once a day ultra beast around Paldea
@@ViscerialArchow will that work out kubfu and the 2 🐎 are part of these groups of they made them not shiny 🔐 it will mean people will be able to shiny hunt them and I think GF do not want to make there shiny available yet
sword shield has plenty of max raid legos@@ViscerialArc
For solgaleo, use a flash fire pokemon with a ground tera type, that will be immune to both flare blitz and wild charge.
Ceruledge with tera ground fits perfectly, even has false swipe
Alternatively you can skill swap Magic Guard and then it doesn't take recoil damage
For a majority of then I used ampharos to paralyze the swaped to ghost type
@@subjectnivleis7572 ghost types still get hit by flare blitz and wild charge
@@BrookeMeuchel I'm aware I did say majority I didn't indicate which ones
It is always disappointing when the legendaries are shinylocked because this game would be a good one to shiny hunt most of them.
i agree
I'm not going to catch any of them because I wanted to shiny hunt them
Yeah, no point in catching them
@@dinosaurking9662fr, I already have every legendary so I’m probably not gonna bother with catching them in this game
ORAS superiority
I think someone should create a video that has a bunch of union-circle codes available for people to join in to complete this event. For example, entering in the code 1010 into union circle, would allow people who primarily play offline to get a chance to catch all these Pokémon’s. It is a let down that they are all shiny-locked.
the codes are auto generated sadly
I googled scarlet/violet discord groups and found a few that are super easy to find people to union circle with.
that's not how union circles work.
Just want to point out that Necrozma is right next to the Groundblight shrine. So if you have the shrines unlocked on your map, that's going to make it a lot easier.
They should've made it where you can play online with others randomly...without the link code and all that.
For Union Circle.
That would make this much easier.
Yes!! I've been saying this sadly. I hardly have friends that like pokemon, so it's hard for some
Same and agreed!
For real its been so annoying :/
I don't have many friends, even less so that play pokemon
@@featherglacier6822 same man hey if you need help with you getting the legendary I could gladly help
I’m in the same boat. I have maybe 1-2 friends that enjoy Pokémon like I do, but none have switch. I play on scarlet, is there anyone in this thread that would wanna be friends and wants someone to play with? Lmao
If you use Breloom, I reccommend giving Breloom Tera Normal. This ensures that you dont take supereffective hits from pokemon like Glastrier and Reshiram. It also powers up false swipe.
what about gallade?
@@jaxsonreynolds5261breelom has access to spore
A fun little note for those that don't use Home. Many legendary pokemon have key items associated with them that you can't transfer over via Home despite being able to transfer the pokemon itself. If you get one of these pokemon, then a fourth auction opens up in the Porto Marinada Market. Of the 25 we get access to, Kubfu, Calyrex, and the BW trio unlock this.
The auctions for Kubfu will net you the scrolls that determined its style in SwSh, this time becoming key items that act like evolution stones (you can get both scrolls but like in SwSh, you only have the choice of one form). Having Calyrex can get you the Reins of Unity, which can be used to fuse and unfuse it with the Spectrier and Glastrier. I believe it's having Kyurem that will unlock the DNA splicers item.
Additionally, for those that maybe didn't move a Palkia or Dialga over from any version of DP or BDSP, or from PLA, then having either of the two of them also unlocks extra auctions, giving you the Adamant Orb (og hold item) and Crystal (PLA item for the origin forme) for Dialga and the Lustrous Orb and Globe for Palkia.
so glad i can get the other form of kubfu’s evo now!
i got Adamant orb and Lustrous orb with palkia from pokemon go and sword and shield
@@BoBz013I had both forms 2 years back because I decided to start a 2nd playthrough just for the other horse and Urshifu (and trading box art legendary) 😅
@@redfinale The
Shiny locked and having to be online is lame.
I find it odd that Calyrex, Zacian and Zamazenta are all in the game but not available by doing this.
Especially since the 2 steads are there.
I find it very likely that these will be getting raids in the future, probably including Eternatus. Maybe they will even go as far as giving Zacian and Zamazenta boosted stats like in the Mewtu Raid
probably because they want people to spend the $$$ on sword and shield and dlcs to get those pokes 🤷🏻♂️
@@BoBz013yeah, but then why’d they give away spectrier, glastrier, and Kubfu? And even then Zacian, Zamazenta, and Eternatus aren’t in the dlc.
@@starbot9828 yeah good point
Probably a raid events for the future
@@starbot9828they did it because they did not want all of the gen 8 legendary pokemon in the game they wanted to have some pokemon you can only get in your game to be transfer only so people use pokemon home
I just want to say thank you, Austin John, for the clarification on the iv's of all 25 legendary Pokémon in both scarlet and violet. I was hearing non-stop from other people in the Pokémon community that the indigo disk was severely glitched because of all 25 legendary Pokémon don't have any guaranteed iv's.
I play Scarlet and don’t have a false swiper, but a lvl 100 Ting-Lu with Ruination worked pretty well for my solo legendaries. Ruination always brings the opponent down to half its current HP. Ting-Lu’s defense stat is really high, and its typing makes it immune to electric and psychic attacks, which is good considering a lot of them have psychic moves. Its ability Vessel of Ruin is an added bonus against special attacks too.
Gallade or sammurott make great false swipers
alternatively just give smeargle ruination false swipe spore
@professoryorick5676 I forgot smeargele was in the game man it would also be good with a set of false swipe/soak/spore/taunt
Just catch the Tera Breloom outside Medali. Spore and False Swipe. Give it a Toxic Orb and change its Ability to Toxic Heal to avoid status/recover HP. Also catch a Gallade for Hypnosis/False Swipe.
@@nedrostram2360 Breloom strat sounds great, but I use technician for the extra damage.
16:10 For Solgaleo , You can use a Tera Ground Pokemon with Flash Fire ability to wall both of Solgaleo’s recoil moves.
Just be cautious of Solar Beam, but yeah that’s what I did when catching Solgaleo
Solar Beam takes two turns, so you can use Protect to block it.
If he uses solarbeam switch to a sap sipper
I used mew with wild charge, flare blitz, imprison, and false swipe
Just a PSA for everyone: For the sandwich group quest, the ENTIRE group has to take part in the sandwhich, otherwise it won't count, eben if you get 4 stars.
Yup. I did that once.
No that Is not true, we were 4 people but only three of us made the 4 star sandwich and It count for the quest
@@MutenRoshi69 Was it only 3 of you in the group?
I'm talking about cases where only 2 out of 3 take part, or 3 out of 4, with the last member doing something else.
@@azazel166 No we were 4 people in the group, but only 3 of us made the sandwich the other one was making something else and It worked
18:48 I once found Glastrider without having its candy and I was so confused that I didn’t get a dex entry after I caught it
I decided to try Ho-Oh first (video would've been nice a little earlier) and I am SO HAPPY that the old Legendary themes are back congrats to the 3 Beasts for geting their HGSS themes for the first time since 2009
FWIW ORAS (and maybe USUM?) had this too and you could shiny hunt them.
@@thelorddragon6902 you could shiny hunt them but they used the GSC version of the theme. HGSS gave unique remixes to each of them and have not returned until now
What makes it even better is that these themes can be used when battling online
Which is something they never did in older games
@@xKelaino you've been able to do this since gen 7 (maybe 6 but I didn't play a lot of 6 online)
@@flamingphoenix1425 Ah I didn’t know that then, I thought it wasn’t possible in Gen7
For anyone else who may need help, I trained up a Smeargle specifically for catching all the legendaries, max hp and attack, rest into speed. I gave it false swipe, spore, swords dance, and trick to put a ring target onto Lunala and Spectrier. I also gave it tera ghost to keep the horses from recoiling themselves with double edge. I'm going to train up a Ceruledge with tera ground to deal with Solgaleo and its recoil- flash fire makes fire moves not work, and tera ground makes electric moves not work. Hope this helps!
I'm going to try this for the galoping ghost. Thanks!
This has actually gotten me to go back to swsh and grind dynamax adventures, because I'm so sick of them shiny locking everything, and also miss raids that actually WORK. was claiming mystery gifts and since I was there, tried joining raids for dialga and palkia. In an hour I managed to get into exactly 3 raids, continuously trying to connect. And then once I got in, raid ejected us even though it showed half the timer remaining.I love raids but holy crap SV online raids are bad.
I NEVER go online for the raids now, and I only solo them (either wait for Austin to post a good mon or ask others). Everytime I go online something goes wrong with the raid.
@@Infindox yeah same. I only did because I didn't wanna roam around my map to see if there was dialga or palkia lol. Sounded easier to just go into the raid menu, and oh how very wrong I was.
Dunno. I don't do online raids a lot, but I've never had any issues with online raids that I didn't have with solo raids.
As for being shiny-locked, I don't really mind that so much. Guaranteed access to shinies make them less special, and it keeps previous games relevant.
@@Socioromanticism hard disagree on that rhetoric. Nothing guaranteed if the player has to grind for it. I'd rather people's time and energy be respected. We paid for the whole game, and I don't like the idea of them gatekeeping certain parts of the game just to what? Hold then out for events or something which are ACTUALLY "guaranteed" shinies? Doesn't really track imo.
@@SknowingWolf I chose my words carefully: Guaranteed _access_ to shiny legendaries. And I don't think that's a matter of semantics. If you grind for long enough, you can reasonably expect to get your shiny given enough work. Otherwise, folks wouldn't bother grinding in the first place.
But in that instance where you have to grind, your time isn't respected either:
Your time is respected in only two scenarios: 1) where a Shiny is guaranteed (so you do the sequence once and get the shiny), and 2) where a legendary is shiny-locked (so you wouldn't bother spending time to grind).
If you have to grind for it, your time isn't actually respected. What you're asking for (if you want a Shiny and for your time to be respected) given 1 in 4,096 (shiny charm odds don't apply to static encounters)
...is to just give you the shiny in a distribution.
And if everyone gets the shiny in every game, it's not really special anymore. You'd accumulate 3 shiny of every legendary every decade, and even more more with multiple accounts on a Switch.
So maybe you have multiple issues with shiny-locks, but those issues all cannot exist simultaneously by the logic I'm extracting from your comments.
To respect your time AND to give you access to a Shiny, you'd either need 1) a guaranteed shiny or 2) drastically increased odds and a very short reroll process (perfunctorily guaranteed.)
Both make shinies less rare.
So are you asking to not have your time respected with access to grinding for a shiny?
Or are you asking for a shiny legendary distribution for every legendary upon every generation?
I don't think that's a false dichotomy. I do think you're asking for one of the two. But if it's the former, you're not asking for your time to be respected.
Hey! I recommend Flash Fire Ceruledge with Ground Tera for Solgaleo. You resist Wild Charge as a “Ground-type” and Flash Fire ignores Flare Blitz. You won’t have a good sleep move, but you can keep it very safely at 1 HP.
@@florianVGC I recommend using a different Pokémon to paralyze it turn 1 and then use this strategy. It saved me so much time. Thanks!
I am watching all of these videos even though I don't have s&v but hopefully I can get them at Christmas
I hope you get any copy! It’s really fun and definitely worth it.
If you fly all the way up to the big Cristal in the terrarium you get 50 stellar shards 1 ability patch and 1 golden bottle cap. You need flight to get there.
Just hearing that most of these are version exclusives and I can't get them solo makes me not want to get them and just mark this game as completed...
Great guide as always Austin
It’s still really lame that PAID DLC has version exclusive Pokémon
I'm assuming (since I didn't check before capturing) but I believe after capturing certain legendaries, the bidding market at Porto Marinada will have associated held and evolution/form items for the new legendaries.
For example, the Water and Darkness scrolls for evolving Kubfu, the DNA Splicers for fusing Kyurem, and the fuse items for Necrosma. I also was able to purchase the hold booster for the Lats, and while not related to the new legendaries, I also could get hold items for Palkia and Dialga, along with the item for changing Dialga's form to the origin form from P:LA. I'm guessing I didn't get the Palkia form item since Palkia is Scarlet and I'm on Violet with Dialga. (EDIT: I messed up. I did get both transformation items, and misremembered due to how similar Palkia's transform and hold items are)
Also, killing the legendaries isn't an issue as they respawn in about an hour.
Dialga was scarlet. Palkia was violet.
@@DanielGarcia-uz5sn Oops, my mistake. They did actually sell the transformation item for Palkia. I mistook it (Lustrous Globe) for the Lustrous Orb. Thanks for the correction.
@@DanielGarcia-uz5sn You can both in the same game if you do raids via Poke Portal
Thank you for all of your hard work. It makes going after all of the legendaries so much easier.
If it isn't said enough, these video walkthroughs are extremely helpful. Of course, it's easy enough to find all this information elsewhere, but having it condensed in such an easily digestible and and visual manner makes everything so much easier.
On the topic of shinies... Remember how a while back you did a video on how to tell the differences of various shinies for colorblind people? It would be super helpful if you could do that for some of the DLC Pokemon. Most of them are extremely hard to tell, and I don't want to waste a bunch of time Let's Go-ing every Tynamo, Elekid, and Pikipek I see.
One thing to watch out for is moltres, because it's in the desert and isn't resistant to sand, so lowering it's health is very risky
Found that out the hard way.. luckily I saved :)
yea I had to use one of my master balls because the sandstorm kept moltres dying when it was at 1 percent health
Rain dance or Drizzle
@@naughtyNuGetzz23 idk about drizzle, but rain dance doesn't work, I tried it
Weather ability and moved do not over ride over world weather any more like it use to in past pokemon games so you can't cancel it out of if a sandstorm start up doing the fight
For Necrozma, it's far faster to warp to the Groundblight Shrine, as it's almost directly under the cliff where they spawn.
Something that could be useful for Kyogre’s healing move is psychic noise. This will prevent him from healing for a few turns.
I'm glad the zapdos picture is centered
lol came from twitter
@@AustinJohnPlays Hi!! I don't know if you have consider this but maybe a video to help us with no online interaction get some
For those having trouble with Solgaleo's recoil damage and do not want to waste a master ball, use the Reuniclus line of pokemon. Make sure it has the ability Magic guard and move skill swap. Magic guard ability will ignore recoil damage.
I wish rayquaza kyurem and necrozoma weren’t locked to group BBQ’s. I don’t play with anyone and I’m not on any socials, I wouldn’t have cared if they made it 500 BBQ’s a piece for the requirement instead of 1 group quest. Oh well.
Note about Moltres. The desert is prone to random sandstorms that you can't overwrite with another weather move. So be careful if you are using false swipe or hoping it endures a hit. Obviously save before fighting it. I just ended up using a Master Ball after a few tries where it fainted, because M is for Moltres.
You could have tricked safety googles onto it
I’m so gutted with the shiny locks. I caught kyogre, lunala and latias in Pokémon sword before I got interested in shiny hunting and now I can’t get them shiny unless I do BDSP soft resets, except Lunala who I can’t get shiny. Also huge missed opportunity for urshifu and the calyrex horses. I hope they take the shiny locks off soon because although unlikely, it’s definitely in their ability and totally reasonable
How did you get them in Pokémon sword
@@snowcena7957crown tundra dlc
@@snowcena7957 you get the other game's exclusive by joining them and saving their path.
You can always start a new profile to shiny hunt them. You'd need NSO on the profile, but probably faster than resetting BDSP.
@@HikuroMishirobut more expensive
For Solgaleo, may I suggest Impish, max defense, Garchomp with False Swipe and Earthquake. It removes Wild Charge from being a threat to its health, reduces the damage Flare Blitz cause to Solgaleo, Earthquake makes a great starting move, and False Swipe to lower it further. You'll need a second pokemon for status, but at that point you've pretty much maxed you odds at catching it.
Back in my day we had to play through Crown Tundra at least 4 times!
Tip: For Groudon u can use the Heavy Ball, if hes asleep and and 1HP u have a 50% chance of Capturing
I would have done it if I had had enough of those.
Great idea, but its a shame heavy balls are so rare
@@TheSleepyWarlord Yeah. Even with the Item Printer.
Friendly tip - You can also use a Pokemon with Recover and Imprison to prevent Lugia/Ho-Oh (or any other Pokémon you might want to catch) from using the move.
Possible Pokémon: G-Articuno, Mewtwo, Lugia, Ho-Oh, Sableye, the Medicham line, Milotic, Deoxys, Arceus, the Reuniclus line, Alcremie and Rabsca.
I never thought of that good idea
@@Fouetzkysmeargle too, and this also lets you sketch wild charge and flare blitz and use imprison to not let solgaleo use those moves too.
For Solgaleo, get a Pokémon with Flash Fire and give it ground-tera
aint no way we paid 35 bucks for the dlc and we still cant get these legendaries shiny, there are too many pokemon that are impossible to get shiny atm (also 35 bucks to be able to fly)
Flying shouldve been base game
Thank you so much for being open about MH issues. You’re a great role model.
For Lunala, use Hisuian Decidueye with Scrappy ability. This way you can use false swipe on ghost types
Thanks for the baculin/soak tip! Was invaluable
Guess I am not getting half of the legendarys.😢
Another protip:
- Palossand is 100% effective against Zekrom, because it's ground-ghost and none of Zekrom's moves can affect it.
- Basculegion with Soak, combined with a Gallade with False Swipe, Hypnosis, Disable and Imprison, with a Ghost terra type will make Spectrier a breeze.
- The exact same setup but replace Disable with Taunt on Gallade will work for Glastrier.
He brought in Better Help for us shiny hunters who are all depressed that we can't hunt the legendaries😢
Make sure to prepare something with rain dance for moltres, Sandstorms can come out of no where and KO it
I love the DLC so much fun the only 2 probs i have is 1. Static encounter with paradox so cant complete the dex. 2. Forcing people to play in union cicle to catch all legendaries.
Weird that they didn't add Yveltal, Xerneas, and Zygarde too. It's like every legendary BUT them. They're pretty accessable but weird to exclude them in my opinon.
So even if you have both versions you still locked out of 3 of them and is forced to co-op play again, just like evolving finezin. Great. I hate it thanks GF.
Not 3 but 12.
Thanks for the Betterhelp ad. I’m gonna need it after the shiny locks on all of these.
This comment deserves more likes. its hillarious
@@Uzumaru3 It’s hilarious because it’s true. /j
I actually bought shield to shiny hunt legendaries in raids. I didn’t handle the shiny lock too well
Giratina's Griseous Core which changed its form in Legends Arceus is available at the auctions if you have Giratina in your party, I transferred all the Gen 4, Gen 6 & Gen 8 Legendaries over from Home.
I personally haven't really been playing the gen 9 games that much but I still like watching your videos because they're just so good 😄
Some would say that’s for the better! Although the game is worth playing just to use Ceruledge, such a cool pokemon!
If my friend doesn't have the DLC and I do quests at blueberry whilst there at Paldea can I still get group quests?
Should i bother catching them or no because of the supposed IV issue? Or does it really not matter? I dont play competitive so they would just be in the collection. Maybe some ingame play and raids
There's the IV issue, and apparently the chance the shiny lock's unintended
There's no real issue with the legendaries not having guaranteed perfect IVs. With Hyper Training, you can easily get the IVs maxed out.
I like how he mentions solgaleo, lunala, and necrozma and the necrozma final boss theme plays
Nice tutorials so far!
On another note I really want to share that I really appreciate your videos. They are some of the most thorough and some of the most clearly explained guides out there. I keep coming back to your vids for guides 😊
I know what Austin meant at Zekrom's bit, but I think Thunder Wave should work on Reshiram
It's worth noting that the Timer Ball gradually reaches that multiplier over those 11 turns, and actually beats the Ultra Ball on turn 5, beats the Dusk Ball on turn 8, and beats the Net and Repeat Balls on turn 10.
Edited, as I initially misunderstood and thought you were saying it surpassed the Ultra Ball on turn 11, instead of just turn 11 being the max potential of the Timer Ball.
*cries in shiny hunter*
After seeing my first legendary iv’s being horrible I started resetting to see if I could get better. Of course I looked it up online first but nobody mentioned iv’s were random so I decided to check here with you. You are the only person I’ve found that’s mentioned the iv’s. That’s is why you and serebii are the only two sources of knowledge I recommend to anyone playing Pokémon. Keep up the good work!
So, those who don't have friends (like me) are screwed :)
Well... at least I can get some of them
You can get all I have violet and my wife also and we gotten all
But I don't have ANY FRIENDS who play this game... literally
If you need someone, I'll gladly help so you can get the 25
@@G3n0t I'll help you man
It's really nice of you, but I don't want to be a bother
Best way to catch Solgaleo is to first use stun spore and then switch to a flash fire ground tera ceruledge then just start false swiping
4:10 Me catching all my Legendaries in premium balls. Which I think they have a very low capture rate.
Austin John always coming in clutch with top tier Poké info and promoting ways to take care of your mental wellbeing. Love it ❤️💙 appreciate you and what you do, fella!
Austin did you see what happens when you go to the crystal pool after briar gives you the book? You gotta see it its awesome
I appreciate how much love you have for your content and us. I’m just here to tell you that your hard work doesn’t go unnoticed. I paid attention that you displayed all the Legends in order. Your attention to detail is very much appreciated! 🙏🏼
Not being able to shiny hunt them is such an L
Legendary Pokemon 🥹
Shiny Locked Every Last One Of Them 😤😮💨
Hey, this is NOT okay.
I agree with your sentiment, as many other players do. But aggressive replies of middle finger emojis is NOT how to address the issue-and NOT how you get things to change.
If you are able to convey your message in a well thought-out way, please do so. If you're not able to do that, just delete your comment otherwise I'll block you from commenting on this channel.
@@AustinJohnPlays sorry Austin I didn't mean it that way
@@lucasc5336 its okay, and thank you for apologizing. Voicing your opinion in a constructive way will ALWAYS result in better results than being aggressive. That's something I wish I was taught when I was much younger, but its only something I learned when I was much older.
@@AustinJohnPlays Yeah I forgot that emojis do not always portray our thoughts as well as you hope all the time
Just a tip for the people hunting the ones that use Rest: Instead of Swords Dance, start off with a Pokemon that knows Screech (or another defense lowering move) that's holding the Wide Lens (if said defense-lowering move is not 100% accurate). Get them to -6x Defense so you can one hit-False Swipe them so they can then use Rest. That way, the debuff stays on the Legendary and you don't have to reuse Swords Dance on your False Swiper if they manage to KO it. Hope that was coherent enough of a thought, I was able to Screech 3 times with my Umbreon, then one False Swipe from my Breloom after Groudon used Rest to get it back to 1 HP with relatively no issue. Although my mons were both Level 100 for reference.
As a sword player. I’m hyped to get lugia kyogre and lunala in my games this gen.
In case anyone else is curious, you can get all the group quests done by yourself if you have two copies of the game, either version. I had bought the double pack but only bought the DLC for scarlet, and I had my other switch just join my main game on a union circle. Once joined I flew back to BB and did all the group quests, which I was able to do solo. Anytime it asked for group pictures or anything like that it only counted 1/1 maybe because the other profile didn’t have access to the dlc. It took me a few hours to get all of it done by myself, but it worked.
Thanks much! My friend has the game, but not the DLC. I'll be trying this.
If only they werent shiny locked 😢
Y'know, I didn't mind if the legends were version exclusives and shiny locked, but to be locked behind Union Circle really sucks especially if you can only do solo.
I miss the days where you can just trade for the other version legend to unlock the third legend such as trading for a kyogre/groudon to unlock a Rayquaza battle if you have both in your party, instead of having to do a Union Circle Group Quest.
Thank you for all the work you do, can’t wait to get the legendaries. I love the editing too just to put it out there
Just wanted to say your setup in the back is killer. Super cool to see it evolve over the years.
Yeah I love his setup
Eh, what’s the point if you can’t shiny hunt them?
What if this is someone’s first Pokemon game? Not everyone got every game like you
@@zwillscoopchannel9689 That’s fine for them, but I can only speak my opinion from my own position. I’ve caught all of these Pokemon 10 times over at this point, doing it again just doesn’t hold my interest.
It's not really big deal of it. So what if they're shiny locked? Keep in mind whether it's regular or shiny, the stats are pretty much the same. It's just for purely cosmetic nothing more
@dalaxdercrisper957 People want the shiny. It's not hard to understand.
I’m pretty sure you missed a shiny Gabite at 15:46.
Anyone wants to create a Union Circle group with me?
Are you still doing it
Cause I need help to
Same! I just finished the DLCs and I have violet
@@Clip_dudestill up to it ?
Got my Solgaleo in a Premier Ball, my tip is to use a Level 100 Ceruledge. You can have it Tera Ground to be extra safe but then Solar Beam so you could do what I did instead which was use X Defense to boost your defense and make sure Wild Charge just doesn't do a lot a damage and start chucking balls at yellow while paralyzed.
Protip: go back to dynamax adventures
Do u wanna join my union circle
I completely forgot this existed when I was doing some shiny hunting so the jumpscare of seeing a random kyogre out of nowhere gave me a bigger reaction than most shinies
So they pay wall over half of the legendries behind the crappy nintendo online subscription?? Even the ones you can get solo the game pushes you to go online with the crazy grind. So lazy and greedy, was expecting something similar to the Dynamax Adventures we got in Crown Tundra not a 15-20 hour grind of the same BBQs over and over just to be able to access any of the post game content. Just the biodiversity upgrades and inviting the various trainers is around 25k points.
I caught kyogre in a dive ball, and I came up with a strategy which is use encore before it can use aqua ring or you could use taunt either way it will prevent it from using aqua ring
I honestly wouldn't even bother. You can't shiny hunt them, and their IVs are awful. I'll be honest and say that the way they implemented this was really poorly done.
I'm here for the snap transition at the beginning. Classic 😂
I wish they could be shiny hunted, but of course, just more disappointment. They really hate their players having fun.
This is honestly the first sponsorship I didn’t fast forward through. I started having panic attacks and anxiety for the first time, my house is being renovated and I have felt really uncomfortable for the past month and a half, so having a therapy sponsor was really nice. Thank you Austin!
6:48 I think thats Galarian Articuno's moveset. I believe the moves are:
Hurricane
Haze
Blizzard
Sheer Cold
A good pokemon for solgaleo is a tera ground ceruledge. Tera Ground allows it to be immune to Wild Charge, Flash Fire makes it immune to Flare Blitz, and it still learns Swords Dance and False Swipe.