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Pokemon Legends: ZA Players have found a way to brilliantly hunt down multiple Alpha Pokemon at the same time in Wild Zone 20. Pokemon Legends: ZAof the shiny duplication glitch and the initial shiny hunting method in Wild Zone 3, the game is incredibly popular among fans of shiny critters because of how easily they can be found. The most popular hunting methods are:
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Bench resetting (benches can be found Pokemon Legends: ZA(interactive map)
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Despondency run (70 meters away from the target and then 50 meters towards it)
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Flying method (repeatedly flying to a location, resetting all Pokemon within a 50m radius)
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Door method (this only works for shiny Pokemon in Mythology: ZA(The Wild Zone 3)
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Fossil Reset (buying 10+ fossils and reviving them, then close the game if no glow appears)
Still, the community is looking for more creative methods of luminous hunting, such as the “ghost walk method” that only works with Turbo Controllers in Wild Zone 20. Now, a new method has surfaced online that allows players to gather six Alpha Pokemon in the center of Wild Zone 20 and repeatedly reset them to shine.
How to hunt shiny up to 6 Alpha Pokemon in Pokemon Legends: ZA
The method was reportedly discovered by a Discord user named EagleBMW, and was later explained in detail and given more attention by famous content creator Austin John Play on YouTube. having been Pokemon Legends: ZAThe luminous attraction of helps to find these alphas quickly. The process has several steps:
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Get aggro from both Alpha Pokemon at the base of the tower in Wild Zone 20, then take them up the stream to the north.
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Exit Wild Zone 20 and save immediately, then close the game and restart.
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Go back inside Pokemon Legends: ZAWild Zone 20, get aggro from the Alpha Pokemon near the stream, and then lead them towards the north door. Then, exit the gate, save, and restart the game.
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Walk away from the gate, about 60 meters (which can easily be found by placing a pin on the map where the gate is), then save and restart.
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Return to the gate, check that both alphas are still there, then enter the area and go to the center without going past the gate 70 meters while holding aggro from the previous two alphas. There should be two more Alpha Pokemon under the tower. Get aggro from them, and then take these two and the previous two up the stream to the north.
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At this point, rinse and repeat the previous steps until all four Alpha Pokemon are in the gate, then get aggro on one or two more Pokemon that appear under the tower, and repeat the steps until all five or six Alphas are in the gate, then save.
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Get knocked out by the Alpha Pokemon, then go to Wild Zone 20 and check if everyone is under the Alpha Tower. If so, flash hunting is preferred over normal methods.
After securing five or six Alpha Pokémon at the base of the tower in Wild Zone 20, players can safely hunt the shiny. Pokemon Legends: ZA. However, it's worth noting that Alpha Pokémon collected with this method will change until Shiny appears, which will lock both species and Shiny in place even if players keep resetting the others.
Considering that some of the best Pokemon Pokemon Legends: ZA Spanning over 20 wild zones, players have decent odds of finding at least one or two that shine. Furthermore, some of the available alphas and their respective elixirs can be quite a pain to find on a regular basis, such as Eelektross, Skarmory, and the various Eeveelutions.
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October 16, 2025
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Everyone 10+ / Fantasy violence, in-game purchases
