Shiny hunting Ultra Beasts?

Question

I'm trying to soft reset for a shiny Pheromosa. Do you have any tips or tricks on catching one or finding one sort of fast? I don't want to have to do more than 500 resets.

Comments

Which game?

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I hope these shiny forms aren't pre-determined, I hunt a shiny Reshiram 1062, and I still don't have it.
Me second hunt, and my first one didn't finish too and that was just a bit over 200.

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I shiny hunted Xurkitree in ultra moon and got in only 210 encounters. I’m now on Pheromosa with a little over 100 so far. It’s kinda like rolling a 4,096 sided die with one side being the shiny every time you encounter the Pokemon. You could get lucky and get it first try or really unlucky and get it on your 20,000th try.

Answer 1

All Ultra Beasts and wormhole legendaries are huntable, but if you’re not willing to do more than 500 SRs for a shiny, then shinyhunting might not be for you, at least not SR hunts. All UBs/wormhole legendaries are either full or charm odds, so the best odds you could have hunting Pheromosa is 1/1365 if you have the Shiny Charm.
As far as catching it goes, just Roto-Catch + Beast Balls are going to be your best option, along with some of the standard paralysis/sleep + False Swipe stuff. Pheramosa’s natural moveset will be Triple Kick/Bug Buzz/Lunge/Me First, so luckily, it has no way of killing itself outside of Struggle, meaning that having a tank with resistances like Togekiss or Aegislash is all that’s needed in terms of special preparation.
Other than that, all I can say is be patient (watching something like YouTube while hunting really helps) and good luck!

Comments

Thanks :)

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I do homework while hunting LOL,I am hunting shiny Celesteela full odds and cannot find it after 6 hrs...

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I guess I should also add that the Ultra Beasts are only huntable in USUM. They are shiny locked in SM.