Why you shouldn't island hop for Raymond (or any specific villager, really...)

[charicharn]

Hello

I guess I got fortunate I agree that it should figure on what personality you don't have and go from there

 

[Catto]

ooh!! I never island hop but this makes so much sense!!! thank you for the info, small bump for everyone to read~

 

[Cnydaquil]

good thing im too poor to save up over 20 nmt

 

[Licorice]

Island hopping is a massive waste of time. Luckily all my villagers are not new so I could use amiibo cards.

 

[seularin]

i got real lucky when island hopping for lolly my first ticket !!!

 

[mizzsnow]

Yeahh if you have a ton of NMT to island hop you're probably way better off just buying the villager off of someone else

I took the time to shake trees for new furniture and wasps to sell so it wasn't a total waste of time

 

[Cnydaquil]

i got real lucky when island hopping for lolly my first ticket !!!

dude your soo lucky!

 

[seularin]

dude your soo lucky!

it wasn't exactly my first ticket-- i used six tickets before, took an hour break (since i kept running into the same villager qidkjs), landed on a bamboo island, and bam !!! my wife

 

[Cnydaquil]

it wasn't exactly my first ticket-- i used six tickets before, took an hour break (since i kept running into the same villager qidkjs), landed on a bamboo island, and bam !!! my wife

ah that happened to me once in pokemon
shiny eevee hunting wasted an hour, took a break, first try shiny eevee.

 

[BambieTheMayor]

Is it odd that I don't mind the... odds? (pun not intended)
Maybe it's just because I'm so used to staring at the screen, mindlessly pressing A to get through the dialogue in Pokémon X/Moon, only to reset because I didn't get shiny Fennekin/Rowlet, but I don't mind the dialogue (honestly when I watch Island Hoppers on YouTube complain about Orville's NMT dialogue, I get annoyed. It really isn't that bad!)

I'm also not a time traveler. Campsite method is an instant no-go. Plus, I'm not a shiny charm type of shiny hunter, haha.

*edit: By no means am I saying that campsite method users are doing it wrong/the island hopping method is the better one! I am only stating that I find the Island Hopping method to be more closely tied to shiny hunting, which is fun for me.

 

[seularin]

ah that happened to me once in pokemon
shiny eevee hunting wasted an hour, took a break, first try shiny eevee.

eevee

 

[Sweetley]

Guess I had huge luck finding Raymond after only spent 3-4 NMT the other day while not even searching for him specific, wow.

Otherwise, while it may be a waste of tickets (and also being frustrating) to go on island hopping, it's just so much fun for me somehow? Like, Idk, of course it's much easier to buy/trade a villager from another player, and yet I do enjoy searching for new villagers on Mystery Islands. Today for an example, I wasted over 20 NMT and yet was really happy when I found Hazel at the end.

 

[Cnydaquil]

eevee

y e s

 

[JKDOS]

yea after reading this I don't think I'm gonna try island hopping for Kiki anymore

Are you okay with TT'ing? I can get you KiKi (for free) in about 6 days. The reason I bring up TT'ing is because you'd need an open plot when the day comes that I force KiKi out.

 

[DJStarstryker]

I didn't hate Lopez, but this is a large reason I let Lopez go - I no longer have any smugs (the only personality I'm missing), so that means the chances of a smug at my campsite is high. I hope this will help me find Raymond.

I personally don't mind island hopping. It actually gives me the chance to meet new villagers and try out new villagers on the way to finding my dreamies. I have found Gladys, a new dreamy, thanks to meeting her via island hopping. I've also enjoyed every single villager that I've invited to live at my island via island hopping, even if some of them have only lived on my island for a short period of time.

 

[Tiffany]

I was lucky and got Raymond in my campsite(also had no other smugs in my town. I did island hop for others though(i want molly,stitches, shep and bob but mostly im after the first 2). I won't island hop looking for anyone specific anymore. I sold Purrl and used those tickets I got for her to look for the villagers mentioned above. Naturally I didn't get any of them but on the 5th island i met a cute mouse named Bettina. I liked her but I didn't want to stop searching for the villagers I wanted that soon so I let her go. I regret doing that. Not only did I not find anyone while island hopping but the next day the plot had a sold sign on it. I got a voided villager named Boone from an island I visited to talk to Celeste. So from now on I will island hoping i find a villager I really want but not really looking for them and if I find someone else I like I'll invite them to my island.