Best Sandwiches for Hunting Shiny Pokémon

Discover the best sandwich recipes in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet to maximize your shiny hunting odds. Learn how sandwiches boost your chances and which ingredients to use for each type.

Making a sparkling sandwich in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet increases your shiny roll total to four, providing a 1/1024 chance of encountering a shiny Pokémon. This is more effective than just clearing out mass outbreaks. To get the lowest number of encounters needed to find a shiny Pokémon, consider the following odds:

• Sparkling Sandwich: 1/1024
• Sparkling Sandwich + Outbreak (30 Pokemon Beaten): 1/819
• Sparkling Sandwich + Outbreak (60 Pokemon Beaten): 1/683
• Sparkling Sandwich + Shiny Charm: 1/683
• Sparkling Sandwich + Shiny Charm + Outbreak (30 Pokemon Beaten): 1/585
• Sparkling Sandwich + Shiny Charm + Outbreak (60 Pokemon Beaten): 1/512

The Shiny Charm offers the biggest boost, but since it's post-game, sandwiches are your best bet. If you want to hunt specific Pokémon, you'll need sandwiches that increase both shiny rate and spawn rate for your target type. To reset mass outbreaks, simply change your Nintendo Switch's clock to the next day.

To craft Sparkling Sandwiches, you need Herba Mystica from five-star or above raids (six-star raids are easiest). These can only be obtained in the post-game. You can then have a picnic and make sandwiches. Basic sandwich ingredients include Onion, Hamburger, Green Pepper, and Tomato.

Shiny Sandwich Recipe Chart

Here are recipes using specific Herba Mystica:

Recipes Using Any Herba Mystica

If you don't have specific Herba Mystica, you can use any two Herba Mystica with the following ingredients for the same effect, though this may increase ingredient costs.