Pokemon Legends Arceus has been out for almost a month now and fans can’t get enough. There’s so many players that have already completed the game but are still playing to catch more Alphas and Shinys. If you get really lucky you might come across a Shiny Alpha Pokemon! These are very rare and catching them is not an easy task but the chase is fun. Players have been working for weeks trying to collect data and find the best way to find Shiny Alpha Pokemon. Here’s how to find and catch more Alpha Shiny Pokemon.

How To Find Shiny Alpha Pokemon in Mass Outbreaks

Obviously the best way to hunt Shiny Pokemon is through Mass Outbreaks. In these outbreaks you can also find Alphas and if you’re lucky a Shiny Alpha. There’s something you can do to increase your odds of getting a Shiny Alpha but first let’s talk about how Alphas spawn in Outbreaks. If an Alpha is in a mass outbreak, another alpha cannot spawn until the current one is caught or KO’d. This essentially means you can find multiple Alphas in the same mass outbreak but there can only be one at a time. Catching or KOing an Alpha Pokemon will not guarantee that more Alphas spawn but since there can only be one alpha in an outbreak at a time, you’ll need to take it out for more to spawn.

Basically, If the next Pokemon in the outbreak is a shiny, you’ll want to make sure to there are no Alphas in the group so you have a chance at getting a Shiny Alpha.

Outbreaks can only have one alpha Pokémon spawned at a time. As long as the alpha remains on the field, no more alphas will be spawned.

It is advantageous to catch/KO random alphas so more can spawn. This applies to other spawners as well.

Video: ignoring vs catching the alpha. pic.twitter.com/gRBjL0AKLl

— Anubis (@Sibuna_Switch) February 17, 2022

Twitter user, @Sibuna_Switch is where we found out that only one Alpha Pokemon can spawn at a time. In their video you can see a Shiny Pokemon spawn that was also supposed to be an Alpha but became a normal Shiny because there was already an Alpha in the outbreak. They reload and show that if they catch the Alpha before the Shiny spawns, it becomes a Shiny Alpha.

How To Get More Outbreaks

If you’re looking how to get more outbreaks to spawn in general, check out this article below!

Are Alpha Pokemon & Shiny Pokemon Predetermined?

It has been found by the community that the moment you travel to a new location from Jubilife Village all Pokemon in that area are predetermined. This means Shiny Pokemon and Alpha Pokemon spawn around the map at the same time you load in, you just can’t see them yet. Knowing this means if you explore the area once and find no shinys then odds are you won’t find any until you go back to Jubilife Village and come back to the wild area.

Funny Glitches in Pokemon Legends Arceus

The newest Pokemon game, Pokemon Legends Arceus, has been out for a few weeks now and at this point players have explored every corner of the game, besides some hidden content that players are still finding. This also means players have encountered a number of bugs and glitches, most of which are just plain funny to look at. Here are some glitches that don’t necessarily break the game but are interesting nonetheless.

Graphical Stretching Glitch

This first one is a rare glitch where a character model is stretched out and just looks like a jumbled mess of polygons. In this clip the player comes across a Chingling that doesn’t look like anything resembling a Pokemon. We’ve seen this happened to Pokemon and Trainers alike but we’re not sure exactly what causes this. For fans that used to play the MMORPG Runescape this one might look familiar as some updates to characters or animations in that game would cause a bug very similar looking to this. Overall this is just a funny visual glitch that isn’t game breaking but will certainly pull you out of immersion and confuse any player.

Running In Place Cutscene Glitch

A reddit user posted this cutscene glitch where their character is running in place the entire time Commander Kamado is talking. This possibly occurred by a controller input being listened to after the cutscene already started but we haven’t seen it recreated yet so we’re not sure what caused this one either. Either way it’s funny to see the character completely ignoring the serious dialog while running on a treadmill.

Running Around Irida Glitch

This is another graphical glitch that doesn’t effect gameplay so much but looks really weird. A Twitter user found if you run in circles around Irida, in the Alabaster Icelands at a certain part of the story’s progression, you’ll see a character model in the distance become larger and larger until it covers your whole screen. No one’s sure what causes this specific action to make a texture stretch out like this but it’s so random you can’t help but wonder how players found this.

my friend found a glitch where if you circle irida like this the universe explodes #PokemonLegendsArceus #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/Zcv0aUDqfx

— onion (@onion_mu) February 14, 2022

Check Out More Pokemon Legends Arceus Glitches Here

Pokemon Legends Arceus is the newest game in the Pokemon franchise and has quickly become known for it’s unique gameplay mechanics. This new title changes many things about Pokemon, one of those being how players obtain Shiny Pokemon. Mass Outbreaks have easily become the best way to hunt Shiny Pokemon in Legends Arceus. If you want to join in on the Shiny hunting, you’re probably wondering how do I get more mass outbreaks to spawn? Here’s what we’ve found.

How To Trigger an Outbreak Spawn

Outbreaks don’t really have a respawn time as it’s based on what you’re doing not how long you wait. According to @Kaphotics on Twitter and multiple others with similar data, when you travel to Jubilife Village from an open area, such as the Obsidian Fieldlands, there is a 20% chance a mass outbreak will spawn. This means on average every 5 times you fast travel to the village, an outbreak will spawn in a random area. In our own testing, on average we got an outbreak to appear every 3 fast travels to Jubilife Village. We may have just got lucky with these numbers but it seems that the fastest way to get more outbreaks to spawn is to fast travel back and forth between Obsidian Fieldlands and Jubilife Village until you get one.

Mass Outbreaks:
Leaving Jubilife has a 20% chance to despawn an area that you are not traveling to.
Returning to Jubilife from any area (not Ancient Retreat) has a 20% chance for each area to generate/replace an Outbreak.

Outbreak seeds are crypto-secure, so no influencing ’em! pic.twitter.com/y2MVGs7ksN

— Kurt (@Kaphotics) February 13, 2022

Do Outbreaks Despawn?

Outbreaks can despawn but again, this is not based on time. So if you go afk or take a detour on your way to the reported mass outbreak location, you don’t have to worry about it despawning. According to the tweet above, an outbreak can potentially despawn when you travel to a different area outside of that outbreak. For example, if there’s an Eevee mass outbreak in the Cobalt Coastlands and you travel to Alabaster Icelands, there’s a 20% chance that Eevee outbreak will despawn. This knowledge can be used to your benefit, though. If you get an outbreak for a Pokemon that you don’t want, don’t travel to that outbreak’s location until it despawns and you can get a different one.

More Shiny Hunting Tips and Tricks

Recently, a hidden room was discovered in Pokemon Legends Arceus by Twitter user @DeepGameRes that has modern decor and future technology that doesn’t exist at the time when Legends Arceus take place. This looks similar to a room you would see in the beginning of every other Pokemon game. The assets used in this secret room aren’t found anywhere else in the game, such as a Nintendo Switch and TV. Usually PokePatch doesn’t cover leaked information but this is an exception because we don’t believe this will be used for any future Legends Arceus content so it’s not really a leak.

Easter Egg or Secret Room?

This is most likely not an Easter egg because it doesn’t seem to be accessible to players. This hidden bedroom isn’t just some out of bounds place, it’s in another map entirely that players can’t normally get to. This map was probably used for development purposes as it looks like an empty flat plain of grass. The most popular theory in the community right now is that this room was supposed to be used for the intro to Pokemon Legends Arceus before your character falls through the space-time rift. This would confirm that the trainer you play as comes from the future. This could have been cut out so they could introduce the game and Arceus in a more mysterious way.

Unused Map

Deep Game Research is still looking into this specific unused map and recently found that it’s not fully flat. In this video you can see there’s a huge ravine or valley like mountain structure and they confirm this map is very large. So far, it still seems like an early test map for developers. If not, it could be an early version of DLC content. If you’d like to see more updates on this unused content as the community finds more, follow @DeepGameRes on Twitter.

Update on that unused Pokemon map! Turns out it wasn't completely flat. Thanks to @ElChicoEevee and I teaming up. They have gotten the terrain to appear correctly. This is the footage they have shared with me. As stated before, this map is massive!!
Stay tuned for more updates! pic.twitter.com/vcQEBkRU4y

— DeepGameResearch🏳️‍⚧️ (@DeepGameRes) February 14, 2022

How To Download Pokemon Legends Arceus On Your Phone

You Can’t.

Mobile Download Scams

Recently there have been videos going up on YouTube luring people into believing you can play Pokemon Legends Arceus on your mobile device. While lying to you, they lead you to sketchy websites that require you to download something on your mobile device that’s most likely a virus and they have you complete offers and click advertisements for a “verification”. This is one of the oldest scams on the internet, people promising free stuff as long as you download something or give them personal info. It never works and they make money off of you wasting your time.

Obviously most people reading this know that these are scams and would never fall for such a thing. The problem is some people, mostly kids, will fall victim to this. I was a kid once trying to get free RuneScape memberships and other sketchy offers. In the end, I fell for a lot of lies. After all, why not? In this situation you can’t see how many dislikes the video has and most of the comments are positive, so it looks legit to the unsuspecting eye. This type of content is unacceptable and we encourage people to report if you see suspicious content on YouTube or elsewhere. These videos should be taken down so no one falls victim to this.

We're going to look into this. We also encourage you to continue flagging/reporting content you feel violates our community guidelines. More on how to do that here: https://t.co/PDWryFxU7H

— TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) February 12, 2022

A Pokemon fan by the name of @TheAbsol on Twitter was one of the first to call out these videos. They investigate further and point out other details such as one channel being inactive for 14 years before uploading a scam tutorial. This thread caught the attention of @TeamYouTube as they responded that they’re looking into this.

If you’ve been playing Pokemon Legends Arceus like everyone else lately, you’ve probably explored enough to find space-time distortions. Upon entering these space time distortions, you won’t just notice all of the rare Pokemon that spawn but the usual items all over the ground. These items are usually exp candy, evolution stones, and shards. Shards come in three colors, red, green, and blue. But what are they used for?

What Are the Shards For?

Make sure to hold onto shards instead of selling them. These red, green, and blue shards are used later in the game as a crafting material. You’ll be able to make a Star Piece that can be sold for 5,000 Pokedollars. Although, shards can’t be used for much else, this is an easy way to make money in Legends Arceus.

How To Craft Star Pieces

To be able to use colored shards to craft these Star Pieces, first you’ll need to get 10,000 Pokedollars to afford the recipe. This isn’t much considering you can make your money back with just 2 Star Pieces. Go to the Craftworks shop in Jubilife Village and speak to Anvin. Here ask for recipes and it should be the last one on the list. Buy this recipe to unlock the ability to craft expensive Star Pieces. To craft a Star Piece you’ll need 2 red shards, 2 green shards, 2 blue shards, and 1 star dust.