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andylt posted...

Minior 3*

Another notorious one from the old days. The first known one was the one that falls after you light the 3 blooms in the beginning. It stays in one place and you can't get closer, so it's really hard to get more than 39xx, and only a few people actually got 4k from this. Then there was a new one where you lure a certain Minior to a Sandshrew and it does the 3* briefly before transitioning to the usual 2*. The problem was that it was really hard to set up, and also hard to get a good shot, so while it had a higher potential ceiling, you might not even beat your old record with it. Finally in late May a new interaction was discovered by orbing the bloom near Tyranitar multiple times and a Minior falls down. This one flies parallel to your path and you can play melody to make it spin. It's close enough to get 2000 size and you have several seconds to spam shots and choose the best combo of pose/direction on the submission screen.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/5/4/AASP7CAAC8zq.jpg

Fun fact: Before version 2.0, most of the RNG in the game was deterministic from the first time you load into a level from the map (certain things on attempt 1 would always be the same, or if you pause and retry once, it would be a different consistent sequence). So basically everyone who did this shot before August had an orange Minior. When I did mine in October, I purposely avoided orange (and red and yellow for being too similar to orange) and got my PB with a nice green one.