here's a thing i found i wonder how viable this is

wait wut

I’ve seen a version where you get an encounter on the same frame as the cutscene, but I’ve never seen when you keep walking as the “!” shows up...

This phenomenon is already known, though this is slightly different from the method I've previously seen. tl;dr it does work, but it's absolutely unreasonable to go for in runs because it's impossible to predict when an encounter will occur.

This trick is frame perfect and the frame is semi-random (semi in that there's always minimum and maximum amount of steps you have to take before an encounter can appear). Absolutely not run viable. Magolor tested this strat many months ago and he got it maybe 1 in 50 attempts. It's so RNG heavy that there's no way to guarantee it.

it was used in the latest TAS to