POKEMON SUN AND MOON SHINY CHAINING GUIDE
So I just tried SOS Shiny Chaining and its super easy so I thought I’d do a really quick guide to help explain how to do this. This method is confirmed to work in the Pokemon SM Guidebook. Please excuse my bad phone photos LMAO
Things you’ll need before starting:
Adrenaline orbs (These become available for purchase after you beat Kiawe’s trial in the second island)
Potions, Ethers, Status healers (Antidotes, Paralyze Heals, etc)
A Pokemon with False Swipe
A full team of Pokemon with lots of moves that only hit one Pokemon (So don’t use stuff like Razor Leaf or Earthquake, etc.)
Okay now that you have your supplies head to wherever it is the Pokemon you want to shiny chain lives in. I wanted to chain for Pichus so I went to Route 1.
So when you find your Pokemon the first thing you want to do use your Adrenaline Orb. What it does is raise the chances of the wild Pokemon calling for help, and this is what we need.
Once you did that go ahead and False Swipe it to get it to 1HP (We do this because Pokemon call for help more often when their HP is low). Now, this is where the chaining comes in. (For Ghost Type Pokemon just use Odor Sleuth on it first then you can False Swipe them)
What you want to do is leave the 1HP Pokemon alone, go ahead and attack its friend and faint it and repeat this over and over and over.
But Harumi, sometimes when it calls for help, help doesn’t come or it doesn’t call for help at all that turn, what do I do then?
This is super easy, yeah sometimes even with the Adrenaline Orb it doesn’t call for help or help doesn’t come. What you do is go to your bag and get an item like Antidote.
No my Dartrix isn’t poisoned but what happens is, it’ll try to use the Antidote and then the game tells me it has no effect because my Pokemon isn’t poisoned, and a turn will be used up, and no, you don’t lose your Antidote either ! It’s still in your bag. So this just eats up a turn without you having to attack anything and the wild Pokemon will try to call for help again.
VERY IMPORTANT NOTE TO REMEMBER !!!!
You don’t want the 1HP Pokemon to run out of PP. Because when it does it will use Struggle and this causes damage to itself and it will faint, ending the chain if there’s not a second wild Pokemon there. So after a few turns just False Swipe its friend and then knock out the original 1HP Pokemon to prevent this, very easy.
Another note: The Pokemon cannot call for help if its Paralyzed, so make sure you don’t do that <3
If you’re patient, you’ll find a shiny :D This girl only took me 40 minutes ! Not to say you’ll get one in that time too, remember, shiny hunting is still about luck and patience. I’ve had people tell me they found their shiny in under 10 turns, while others took 200+.
But I hope that this helped you guys <3
Important note: This only works if the friend is from the same evolutionary line! Or rather, if you knock out the original and have a friend that isn’t from the same line, it will no longer call for help. This is important to keep in mind if you’re trying to get a Pokemon like Mareanie
