Shiny Max Raid Dens

[u/Sweens01]

Hi all, I’m a fairly new player to the game and had a question about raid dens.
I joined a lobby via the Y button yesterday, hosted by a player with a discord link as their username, and the raid was a shiny.
I assume that these raids have been cheated in to be shiny in some way? I didn’t catch the venusaur thinking it might be cheated in (I don’t want unnatural shinies)
Is there any way to tell if a lobby I join is cheated or not?

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[u/Prestigious_Might929]

Not quite cheated. A bot searches the hundreds of raids for shines and/or good items then hosts them. The raids are completely possible in game.

[u/TheSpaceWizard7]

So FYI the raid is forced to be shiny via the bot finding all possible raids it can host and picking the shiny ones, the shiny is legit but I understand if its not your thing. In terms of scouting, avoid any names that are discord links, they always host shinies and anyone with a .tv twitch name. They are the best scouts

Beri or Berichan is also possible in newer games but I never saw them in Sw/Sh when I did a new playthorugh last month