How to access the Galarian Star tournament in Pokemon Shield

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So, I've been playing Pokemon Sword and Shield, and I purchased the expansion pack in early 2020. On Pokemon Sword, where I had been Champion for months, ended most of the postgame, completed the Isle of Armor, and was currently attempting to fill the pokedex, I finished the Crown Tundra story up until the final legendary clue, which relates to the Ultra Wormhole that appears over the Max Lair. I went outside and got access to the Galarian Star tournament.

More recently, I tried to get the Galarian Star tournament on Pokemon Shield, where I was not yet champion. I completed the story to the same point, yet Leon never called me to invite me to the tournament. So, trying to find the cause of the issue, I became champion, completed the postgame, and completed much of the Isle of Armor. However, I STILL could not get to the Galarian Star tournament. I looked up the requirements to get to the tournament, and I think I've completed all of them, but I can't figure out what I need to do. What steps should I take to get there? If you have any questions about what I have or haven't done, please put them in the comments and I'll add the answers to my description.

Best Answer

The requirements are:

Complete the Isle of Armor story. This is done after winning the last battle against Mustard. This can only be done after completing the non-DLC post-game story (stopping Sordward and Shielbert).
Start the "They Came From The Ultra Beyond!" quest (the Ultra Wormhole quest) by talking to Peony in the Max Lair.

You had mentioned that you had completed much of the Isle of Armor in Shield, but you need to complete all of the Isle of Armor story.

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How to EV train in Pokemon Sword and Shield

From what I have found, each party member will gain EVs even if they did not participate in battle,
If you don't want to be constantly updating your party, this leads two effective strategies to be:

Farming money to buy Vitamins.
Vitamins are items that increase EVs all the way up to the max amount.
But they do cost quite a bit, so you will need to farm up some money in game to buy them all.
Sending Pokemon on seminars from the Job Board in Pokemon Centers.
This allows you to train up to 10 Pokemon per stat at once, but it takes real world time to do.

More detailed information can be found in my source, but I have also now tried all of this myself to confirm.

So the most effective way mostly depends on your play-style:

With lots of play time you can just farm up money with an Amulet Coin (found behind the Motostoke outskirts sign) and buy all the vitamins,
you can also play the Battle Tower and buy vitamins with BP.
Vitamins purchased can instantly fully EV train a Pokemon, you would need 25 for your two stats, bringing them to 250 each, then either a 26th vitamin or one hour with the below method to hit the 252 max.

Or you can log in daily and send up to 10 Pokemon off on a seminar, then return the next day and do it again. From my experience sending a Pokemon off for a whole day rewards 96 EVs. There are however mulitple time options to suit your playstyle, all awarding 4 EVs per hour:

Timeframe Text  Actual Time   EVs Obtained   With PowerItem
Whole Day       24 hours      96             288
Half Day        12 hours      48             144
Very Long       8 hours       32             96
Long            4 hours       16             48
Short           3 hours       12             36
Very Short      2 hours       8              24
Just a little   1 hours       4              12

As noted on Serebii, having your Pokemon hold one of the Power Items will also increase the EVs obtained from the jobs.
Buying these power items is a great investment, each adds +8 EVs per hour to the Pokemon holding it, effectively tripling the amount of EVs gained per hour!
It will not take much game time, but this method could be more real world time as it will take several days to fully train a Pokemon, unless you have the power items, then it can take just over two days (one full 24 hours for each of the two stats, then you use another hour for the remaining third stat for 4 EVs).

The true shiny rate in Sword and Shield

Your calculations seem correct to me; based on serebii, with a 25+ combo and at least 500 of that species battled, you have a 33% chance to get the higher shiny rate. So overall you have a (1/3)X(7/4096)+ (2/3)X(1/4096) chance, about one in 1365. (I'm not entirely sure how the rerolls are worked out - if it simply rolls the 1/4096 chance seven times looking for at least one shiny, the odds are instead one in 1366).

Assuming you were at full odds the whole time, then, the chance of 2000 encounters with no shiny is 23.1%. Not all that unlikely. Once you get up to 6289 encounters you'd be looking at just under 1% chance of still no shiny (still fairly possible).

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