NEW METHOD: Farm Toxic Orbs 2.5x Faster!

[YoungCabbage]

Easy Toxic Orb Farming Method

Created By: @YoungCabbage & @AngryGorilla

 

***(If you don't like to read check out this YouTube video below)***

This new Toxic Orb Farming Method Is BROKEN! (Farm Toxic Orbs 2.5x FASTER In PokeMMO!

 

AngryGorillas Video Covering the Topic!

 

Muk has caused a lot of problems for item farmers eager to get their hands on a Toxic Orb. The reason for this is due to one of its two abilities being Sticky Hold. Which prevents the wild Muks held item from Thief, Trick, Switcharoo, and any other move that steals the held item of a wild Pokemon. Wild Muks can also have the move, Fling. A move that throws the held item as an attack which causes the held item to be consumed thus deleting the item from existence. So what do we do?

 

@Tnums Created an amazing method and video which utilized a Togekiss with imprison and a reactive gas Weezing which has been very helpful albeit a bit slow. You can Find that Video Here: 

[PokeMMO]Toxic Orb Item Farming Guide w/ Repel Trick

 

So I hit the drawing board and came up with this strategy (Along with the help of my good friend and Angry Gorilla) And we are happy to introduce it to you all today!

 

The method goes like this:

 

1. The Location: Celedon City 

We are no longer hunting in the Pokémon Mansion, nor the Power Plant. We will actually be in celedon city in the old mans dirty pond. (gross I know)

The encounters for this pond have been organized by @Bestfriends on his amazing "PokeMMO Encounter Index" and can be seen below.

The reason we want to hunt in this pond is because your character actually moves faster in the surf animation then simply sprinting in either the Mansion or the Power Plant. You also get a chance to encounter one of the roaming Legendary Birds since you are doing encounters outdoors. But we obviously only want to encounter Muk, so what do we do? 

 

2. Repel Trick at level 37

Muks only spawn at level 38 and is the highest level Pokémon in the encounter pool. So what we want to do is lead our party with a level 37 Pokémon, and pop a repel so that way only Pokémon with a level HIGHER than 37 will appear. This is called "Repel Tricking." This will only allow Muk to spawn which is what we want. It may feel like it takes a while in between encounters but trust me, sooner or later a Muk will appear. But what Pokémon do we lead with?

 

3. Dusknoir: The Bane of Sticky Hold

Dusknoir is the PERFECT pick here for many reasons. Lets get into why. 1 in order to Thief the held item from a Muk, you need to be able to do the following.

1: See if Muk is even holding an item.

2: Prevent Muk from using fling.

3: Get rid of Muks "Sticky Hold" ability so you can take the item.

4: Use a move like Trick to steal the item off the Muk.

5: be quick enought to flee the battle after the item has been taken.

 

And Dusknoir checks all of these boxes with the following build:

 

 

This build will work will with any old Dusknoir. You don't need a 5x31 natured Pokémon. The only things you need to ensure this will work is it NEEDS to be level 37 (for the repel trick to work properly) the Hidden Ability Frisk (To see if the wild Muk is holding an item) 252 evs in Sp. Def (to be able to tank Sludge Bomb and Sludge Wave; Muk's two attacking moves) 252 evs in Speed to out-speed the muk and flee the battle, and the moves that you see on screen. Now that we know where, how, and what we are hunting, lets walkthrough the battle.

 

4. The Battle

The battle is very simple. Just follow these steps.

 

- Make Sure the level 37 Dusknoir is at the front of your party

- Pop a Repel

- Move around in the pond until you encounter a wild Muk

- If Dusknoir Frisks an item from the Muk move onto the next step. If not, Run away

- Use imprison to block the wild Muk from using Fling

- Use skill swap to get rid of Muks Sticky Hold ability switching it with your own

- Use Trick to steal the item from the Muk

- Run away, put the item in your bag, and repeat!

 

This method is very simple but very efficient and I have proof from 5 hours of farming using this method. See below.

CabbageGorilla Method:

 

 

And the 2 best hours of the Tnums Togekiss weezing strat:

 

 

Quite the difference huh? Keep in mind that Muk will not hold the Toxic orb 100% of the time. It also can be found holding a nugget, as well as black sludge. So cross your fingers you get the Toxic Orb to drop! If not, simply continue farming them and you will get one eventually.

 

And there you have it! by following this method you can farm these toxic orbs roughly 2.5x FASTER than we have been able to in the past! I hope you all find this useful and would love to open the comments to anyone who can make this method even more efficient! Regardless I appreciate you reading this post and wish you luck farming Toxic Orbs!

 

Edited May 4 by YoungCabbage

[AngryGorilla]

Was great working with @YoungCabbage on this, and now makes one of the lesser accessible items more available to everyone,

This is a video looking at the method from a different perspective where I look at building & buying from scratch the pokemon required for the method,

Be Sure To Check Out Both Videos

 

 

Edited May 3 by AngryGorilla

[Doctor]

Just two comments on this, I already commented on the video saying that I love both the production of the video itself and the data analysis that you guys brought to us!

 

The first thing is that Item Magnet Charm doesn't affect the chance of a Pokémon holding an item, but rather the chance of you picking up an item after a battle, be it via Pickup, Coalescence, Honey Gather or regular trainer pickup without any ability item, so using it for this grind is a waste.

 

The second thing is that Thief is probably better than Trick for this because it has more PPs so you're gonna have to heal a bit less. Although it might not matter considering you're gonna be at the same level as Muk so the healing trips may end up being as common as with Trick.

 

Other than that, amazing work, keep being awesome guys ♥

[Turqueso]

And lvl37 weezing with reactive gas and Thief all the muks you see?

[vhcosta48]

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 252 evs in Speed to out-speed the muk and flee the battle

can't Ghost types always flee the battle?

[Doctor]

3 hours ago, vhcosta48 said:

can't Ghost types always flee the battle?

Yeah, also this. Ghost types can always run away from wild encounters, so it's always better to invest in HP or defenses to be able to take more hits before having to heal.

[SuperBall15]

Does this method increase the probability of obtaining a legendary bird compared to the traditional method?

[HazyDream]

Muk doesn't have fling so it doesn't matter if you have fling or not just switch to reactive gas weezing and thief it.

[DanielSamson]

Doesn't lvl 38 also work? Every wild Muk is also lvl 38

[kenjimAd]

Ok! They were right about Weezing Reactive Gas lol. Idk how many Players will gonna change this Method to Weezing Reactive Gas than Frisk Ghost Type with Skill Swap & Imprison on Fling Move yet?