This newly discovered Pokémon Scarlet and Violet exploit lets you duplicate any Pokémon, including shiny ones.
, the glitch only works near an area that doesn’t have a loading screen when you enter it, such as an open town.Once you reach the town and its name appears on the screen, you have to then save the game and turn it off.When the game is loaded again, the shiny Pokémon you already caught will still be in your storage, but when you return to the field another one will be there.
When the game is then reloaded, it pulls from its last known list of active wild Pokémon, including the one that had just been caught. The process can be viewed in full here:It’s likely that an exploit like this will be fixed in a future patch, because if enough players do it and start trading their shiny duplicates online it could effectively ruin the scarcity of what’s supposed to be an extremely rare variant.
“The huge expansion and changes to the single player campaign are great, the size of the world and the joy of exploration are the best in the series, and the new Pokemon and battle mechanics introduced all sing,” we wrote. “However, it’s just impossible to shake the thought of how much better the game would feel if it was on more powerful hardware, or simply ran acceptably on
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