A very lucky player setting out on their journey in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet happens to meet a shiny Lechonk at the very beginning of the game, right after they complete the mandatory tutorial section. The new Pokemon Scarlet and Violet games have shaken things up for shiny-hunting players in a few ways, though the games' many bugs have also proved to make spotting them quite challenging.

Though shiny hunting has been a favored tradition of many Pokemon fans for decades, recent entries to the beloved franchise have introduced quite a few adjustments to the methods used to seek out these rare Pokemon. One of the best examples can be seen in the popular Pokemon Legends: Arceus that launched at the beginning of the year, which itself changed the conventional recipe to a greater extent than any other mainline titles prior to it. The open world setting introduced with Pokemon Legends: Arceus allowed fans to roam around in an environment alongside Pokemon, taking away the traditional wild encounter practice of running into randomly-spawning Pokemon by searching tall grass. This also meant that players could occasionally spot shiny Pokemon that spawned in the environment surrounding them, which is a feature that was carried over into Pokemon Scarlet and Violet too.

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A post shared on Reddit by the user Cheap-Pin-8992 includes a clip that features their own fortunate encounter with a shiny wild Pokemon. Incredibly, the player was able to meet a shiny Lechonk not only at the very beginning of the game, but as their very first encounter of the game aside for the scripted battle that happens during the tutorial. The clip shows the player spotting the shiny critter right out of the gate, just as they set out into the open Paldea region with nothing but a Fuecoco and a Lechonk in their party. This being the start of the game also suggests that this was an example of a "full-odds" shiny encounter as well, meaning that the chances of a shiny Pokemon spawning at all in this case was around 4000 to 1.

As players will discover later in their journeys around the Paldea region, there are quite a few new methods of improving the odds of shiny Pokemon spawning that haven't been seen in previous games. One example is a type of sandwich that players can make during picnics with their Pokemon. Although the sandwiches in Scarlet and Violet can offer many different powers, some configurations of ingredients can produce a snack capable of drastically improving the odds of certain shiny spawns.

Unfortunately, some other clips shared by fans recently have proved that the game's bugs can lead to shiny Pokemon spawning out of the map bounds, making them practically undetectable. Though the game has been plagued by many bugs since launch, some players have been able to see past the issues and crown Scarlet and Violet as their favorite Pokemon games.

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are available on Nintendo Switch.

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