Recently discovered Pokemon Legends: ZA the trick allows players to clone shiny Pokémon, effectively offering them cool trades to friends. Shiny Pokemon continue to be rare Pokemon Legends: ZAbut this trick makes populating lists with color variants a little easier.
While Mega Evolutions v Pokemon Legends: ZA play a vital role, hunting shiny Pokémon is still a popular activity among fans. With a base encounter rate of 1 in 4,096, Shiny Pokemon aren't nearly as common in the new action RPG, but the game does give players a helping hand in Shiny hunting, as a Shiny Pokemon won't normally spawn if the player leaves the area, passes out, or fails to catch it without knocking it out.
How to Duplicate a Shiny Pokemon in Pokemon Legends: ZA
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Find a shiny Pokemon
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Pull out the aggression and run until he stops following
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Save, exit and restart
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Repeat steps 2 and 3, making sure the shiny Pokémon ends up at least 70 meters from its original spawn point
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Catch a shiny Pokemon
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Return to the original spawn point
In order for Pokemon Legends: ZA shiny hunters To use this duplicating trick shared by Austin John Plays YouTube channel, players will first need to encounter a shiny Pokemon at its spawn point, then trigger its aggression and run away. If no other wild Pokémon are acting aggressively towards the player, once the shiny Pokémon drops aggro and starts returning to its spawn point, players should immediately save and end the game. After restarting the game, the Shiny Pokemon should be where it was when players quit, but it will no longer return to its spawn point. Players will then have to pull her aggression again, guide her at least 70 meters away from her spawn point and repeat the save, quit and restart process.
After repeating these steps, players should be safe to roll any of them Pokemon Legends: ZAPoke Balls at a shiny Pokemon and catch it. Upon returning to the spawn point, players should find an exact clone of the Shiny Pokémon they just caught waiting there, meaning it will have the same stats, nature, moves, and IV values.
Players should theoretically be able to use this rinse-and-repeat exploit to create as many shiny clones as they want, but they should probably only keep one of each and trade the rest. This is because Pokemon Home is able to detect cloned Pokemon in the user's inventory and usually deletes them, which could lead to problems. While Pokemon Home was not compatible with Pokemon Legends: ZA at launch, its support is expected to be added by 2026.
- Released
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October 16, 2025
- ESRB
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Everyone 10+ / Fantasy violence, in-game purchases
