what's going on everyone austin john place here and today i'm gonna be going over
shiny swapping at pokemon legends rcs
this is a weird thing i haven't really seen anyone talk about this or anything else going on and this
method this concept is in its infancy however i wanted to let you know that i figured out how to
do it at least one time and if i could do it at least one time then someone else could probably
figure out what's going on more so and sort of reverse engineer and give us an exact math as to
what's going on here this was actually first told to me by my friend snuggy he's a fellow content
creator and streamer over on twitch.tv aka snuggy he's currently doing a charity stream all month
long go check him out not family friendly but great guy while i was walking around here on the
cobalt coastlands if i come back over here toward the bay where all the ghosts are look to the left
shiny driftlum i already have a shiny driftam at the bottom left i'm not too
worried about this we're gonna be testing it on him how this works is really very simple
i'm just gonna go to where this drift loom is and i believe that every single pokemon has sort of a
spawn radius like a big circle in which it will spawn and i don't have an exact map of what the
spawn radius looks like here on the cobalt coastlands but for me i'm gonna be coming to
about here here seems good good hundred-ish meters away i'm gonna get off a weird air
and i'm gonna drop down a save all we're gonna do is wait for wait for the moon to be done and i'm
gonna know that it's no longer night time and it's daytime by either one looking at the moon
two hitting the minus buddy and looking at the top right it'll tell me the time of the day i can look
at all the ghost pokemon that dust docks sometimes there's a drift loom or or oh there's a drift loom
on the water and there's a wisp right there and all those things are going to change when that
moon goes down which gives me a nice bed of time to talk to you about this it seems as though this
only works when a pokemon is going to despawn during a day night cycle that means that if the
pokemon exists at the same percentages during the day and during the night it seems as though that
pokemon may remain the same from initial findings however doing this method and i don't know what
this circle is and you may lose your shiny pokemon and you are risking this if it's something that's
expendable you can try this out if it's something that you don't want to lose do not do this okay
do not do this listen to me you come across a full out shiny pokemon it's something you want
save your game turn off auto saves go catch it the right way like i said i already have
a shiny drift limb so this is expendable for me and that's the reason i'm testing it right now
with this proper distance away you do want to turn off auto saves and you do want to save your game
and i just want to say right now it's still nighttime if i turn my game off and if i turn it
back on booting back up so if we run over there real quick you'll see it's still a drift loom
perfect just in case anyone questioned the authenticity of doing this i'm going to come
back to my hiding spot we're just going to crouch down while i'm chilling in my beach attire and we
can see that the moon is almost done you can see it very subtly right next to my webcam i'm also
going to put down another save right here pro tip say for example you want the stripfloom and it's
literally about to be daytime and you don't have enough time to throw a pokeball and catch that
pokemon before it despawns you can soon as the game loads up pull up your map go to a camp sleep
until night or day whatever the appropriate day night cycle is for that pokemon and then you can
go and encounter it and you'll have plenty of time so that's one way one additional way to not fail a
shiny pokemon the ghosts are done and the weather changed so now we're gonna put down another safe
i'm gonna turn the game off i'm gonna turn it back on what i'm thinking is going on here is that the
game has in its memory that this pokemon with this id should be shiny but since i'm outside of the
range that it's actively calculating what's going on and changing the pokemon only once i approach
the area does that drift loom despawn and then a new pokemon will respawn well now i've just
saved the game during the day cycle where this pokemon should have already despawned and now
we're at a state where this pokemon is now going to be changed but it still has this id information
as you can see it's daytime the wisp is gone everything else i'm gonna hide my interface
because i'm pretty sure this is gonna work and that drift loom i think is going to become uh
a chat art or a starly it's a starling there we go as you can see that is a shiny starly right there
occupying the exact same place that that drift limb was when snuggy was playing he ran across
this glamio and then he saved his game when he was away because he was flying you can't save in
the air and when he went back it was a murkrow i'm shocked that i caught that the first time
it changed spawns and i believe that might be our first documented shiny swap or at least the first
one i've seen please don't run away okay good it did not run away from here i'm now going to see if
we can wait until night time and if it becomes a drift loom again i'm still just going to come back
to my trees about 150 meters away i'm just going to plop down to save because it worked and now
i'm just gonna wait i'm just gonna wait until the sun comes up and the sun goes down not gonna
go back to camp i'm not gonna do anything else i'm just gonna wait right here i now realize
how long it takes to go through an in-game day of doing absolutely nothing the day night cycle
is so long my switch went into the dim mode i'm just i'm just gonna go make sure it's still there
still there ah how long is afternoon well magic hour's gone that means it's almost night time
right yeah i hope this works once again don't do this if if if you're not willing to risk a
shiny pokemon okay great we have the d spawns the wisp has shown up it's now night time save my game
turn it off turn it back on it's now night time spooky boys are out let's
go see if that triphalon is there and if it's a driftloom i'm gonna be interested in this
still a drift loom can we do it again i see the moon setting okay dustox flew off uh a night cycle
is about seven and a half minutes maybe eight i don't know i may have paused in there somewhere
let's go see if our our burb is here
our bird is no longer here oh i forgot to reload from the safe doc
come on austin you're creating the strategy you just saved the game you got to go from the save
okay reloaded from the save checking on burb
shiny bird is still there he is still there let's go test some more things i would like to test now
if i go to the beachside camp and if i sleep till the afternoon and if i go inspect starly
will he be there or will this break it because this is my first time actually leaving in front
of where he is charlie should be on the right starly is on the right high starly bye starly
gonna go to my corner we're gonna wait for nighttime nobody puts austin in the corner
except for shiny starley he's the only one who could put austin in the corner and now it's
night time that was so much faster save the game reload the game now we'll reload it in
still a shiny balloon okay we can leave the area that is good to know i'm just going to repeat that
i'm i'm just testing now because we don't know how this works gonna go back to camp gonna sleep till
the morning i don't think i should sleep to the morning i feel like i need to naturally be here
for the transition from night to day you know what we're doing this amount of dangerous stuff
might as well right sleep until morning now let's throw down a hard save restart the game all right
time for our daytime check of our bird and okay apparently we can just sleep day to night to
change it go back to camp maybe you don't need to be in the circle again no research ever done on
this don't know how it works so we're just going and figuring it out together did i waste eight
minutes waiting for that day night cycle to change save the game restart the game now it's night time
let's head back over there see if we have our yellow balloon and yellow balloon
in addition i've i've been giving this some more thought as to how this works here is the cerebe
table for this area and morning is going to be starlit staravia starly starravia alpha
and then at nighttime we have driftalum driflim drifloom driflim think of it as individual
sections think of it as a table of 100 or 1 000 spaces right and 61.35 of those 100 or 1000 or
i guess technically 10 000 spaces 61.35 percent of that is starly 36.81 is daravia 1.23 is starly
0.61 staravia those last two being the alphas i feel like because we landed within that 61
of starly it just kind of carries down into the nighttime table in which we still have 61.35
percent of drifloon so we're never changing where we are on that scale instead we're just carrying
from the day scale to the night scale and that's it we're just going from daytime to night time and
that's it i mean if the morning day evening and night were all different then yeah you could
have up to four spawns but i think there's only morning day evening being the same
night being the same and especially since this is a spawn that regardless of whether it's going
to be the same as opposed to say for example the chimchar in deer track heights now in the morning
that chimchar is a six point two nine percent but if it's cloudy it's only five percent
so you have that difference there and if it's cloudy it might land on monfarno it might land on
someone else and then going through all the different times a day all the different weathers
that one line going down may land somewhere else for a different pokemon however the table i'm on
is so like fixed as that's what it is it doesn't matter the weather right now it just matters if
it's evening and day and morning versus night so if i come across another full odd shiny pokemon
that is expendable because again this entire time i was mentally prepared to lose this pokemon
i have two shiny star raptors and i have a shiny drift flume i don't need either of them that's the
reason in my head i wanted to do this test it is expendable i i don't know how powerful this could
be or if it's just this also you know my stances on hacking pokemon i'm never a fan of that but
this you're coming across a full odd shiny pokemon right you came across it it existed in nature
should you be penalized for the time of day or the weather on what pokemon was there should you
have your option of which one it is at the risk of losing it maybe some people might think that's
fair it's your option if you want to do these things or not or if you come across your shiny
pokemon just let it be i've even seen some people that don't save before shiny because they feel as
though being able to reset for it kind of loses the whole value of catching the shiny pokemon but
oh really dude great now you're booped uh yellow ball because you're yellow
great we got it shiny driflum if this is the start to something big or just a one trick pony
regardless that is how you can risk and take a chance
on a shiny swap i've been austin john thank you for checking out this video
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