Looking for Binacle

[1i1wayne 0]

I'm having some trouble finding a binacle. From the other posts I've seen I know to smash rocks on Apophyll Beach but I've seen conflicting suggestions on which section of the beach is best to search in. Is it better to look in the training ground where I've been finding shuckle/geodude or is it better to search on the beach to either side of the academy where there are krabby/corphish?

Thanks!

[ZEL 349]

You can find them in any of these areas, so it doesn't really matter where you search, but IIRC it's more common on the beach than in the training area. It's still rare compared to the other encounters in either location, so if you want to cut down the time it takes to find one, just save in front of a smashable rock and soft-reset until it gives you the Binacle encounter. That way you won't have to keep running back and forth to regenerate the rocks^^

 

Depending on how far into the game you are, though, there's a cave accessible with surf close to Apophyll Beach, called Azurine Cave. Binacle is a (non-rocksmash) encounter there, too, and considerably more common.