Legends Arceus seed RNG manip tutorial
Ok because there's barely ANY tutorials online about this (and no, discord is NOT an archive of knowledge) ever since the switch emulators got nuked, I want to share the ideal way to RNG manipulate seed spawns on PokƩmon Legends Arceus. Not outbreaks, but the seeded spawns.
So what you need is the game, a way to check your pokƩmons' IVs and abilities (e.g. PKHeX), some way to take notes or screenshots, and of course the pla-reverse-gui (on Lincoln-ML's github).
To maximise the chances of getting shinies you'll want to get perfect research on the pokƩmon and own the shiny charm.
In PLA the whole map of an area is seeded when you load in (you reseed by leaving to the village and returning to the area) with each spawner having its own seed. If you know the seed of a spawner you know exactly what pokƩmon will show up after you catch/KO the current ones on that spawner. There are multiple types of spawners, some will always spawn 2 pokƩmon, some always 1, and some will spawn an inconsistent number of pokƩmon, like 1-3.
These latter ones currently can't be RNG'd because we can't figure out the seed. Single 'mon spawners are just not worth it because there are no multiple paths to the pokƩmon generated so you will easily need some 60 iterations to get the same pokƩmon that you'd get in 10 on a double spawner.
PokƩmon respawn when the time changes (e.g. from "morning" to "midday") or when the weather changes. Static alpha spawners take multiple time changes to respawn, I personally wouldn't bother with those.
Unfortunately you can't control the weather⦠or can you? Well...
I recommend doing this RNG manipulation during the quest to meet the lake trio. When you're ostracised from the village there is NO WEATHER at all to fuck up your respawns. You also don't have to talk to the fucking professor and go through multiple prompts just to leave an area. Life is much simpler.
Have autosave off for all of this.
Pick a spawner, let's use a triple qwilfish one here. Go to the area of it, bring 3 empty slots in your team, get near the spawner, and save. Catch all 3. You need to be able to distinguish future qwilfish from them so jot down some characteristics like gender, level, stats.
Reload. We will now discover what the seed finder calls pokƩmon 1. Catch/KO 1 pokƩmon, ensure the other 2 are still there and didn't run away or somehow despawn (happens A LOT with stuff like basculin). Teleport to camp. Rest/advance time, preferably to some other day time to prevent day pokƩmon from despawning into drifloons and fucking all of this up. Go back to the spawner, catch everyone there. One of the qwilfish will be different from the originals, that's your pokƩmon 1 and you can fill in its data on the seed finder.
Reload. We will now find pokƩmon 2 by basically the same method. Catch/KO 2 pokƩmon instead of 1, ensure the remainder doesn't randomly despawn, go rest to advance time, save when you get to the spawner, then catch everyone there. You should have an original qwillfish, pokƩmon 1, and a new qwilfish which is pokƩmon 2. These are iteration -1 of the generator.
If this is not the case then you got fucked over by a weather or time change or a 'mon despawned when it shouldn't, or you caught a pokƩmon from another spawner by mistake.
Fill in the seed finder data. Ideally evolve your pokƩmon if you're getting small ones so you can fill in multiple measurements to save on calculation time.
Seed finder will toss you a seed, put that into the generator as well as the filters you care about. In my case I have max shiny odds and want a shalpha fish with whatever stats.
If you didn't save AFTER catching pokƩmon 2, you can pick any of these. If you did save however (like to trade the pokƩmon for IV checking), you'll have to pick paths which start on 3, because you despawned everyone from iteration -1 and then iteration 0 will have 3 'mons.
You can open path tracker if you want to be anal and catch everything to make sure you progress correctly. But basically all you need is to follow the path and on each advance catch/KO the number of pokƩmon stated. So a person who saved after getting pokƩmon 2 will pick a path like 3-1-2-... which means now they advance time, go to spawner, catch/KO 1 pokƩmon, advance time, catch/KO 2 pokƩmon at the spawner, etc etc, until they catch/KO the last pokƩmon, advance time, and find at the spawner whatever it is they manipulated for.
Please note that alphas can't spawn near other alphas. If you want to manip for an alpha and there's one close enough to hear the alpha music in the spawner, then go despawn it before your manipulated alpha is meant to spawn.
Anyway enjoy your hunts! It's a slow but very easy to accomplish method and nearly impossible to fail. Also more relaxed than MMOs and allows you to catch "skittish" or "neutral" pokƩmon who you can't multi-battle like in the MMO RNG manipulations.