if you have the patience to hunt for, in my case, a minimal of 5 hours straight. Which I do not.
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if you have the patience to hunt for, in my case, a minimal of 5 hours straight. Which I do not.
They are. ;w;
They evolve into a purple-ish color, which still looks pretty.
Shiny hunting takes patience and lots of free time, so don't get so angry over it. :c
I personally dislike the Pokeradar too, as it's hard to understand completely. But it does make it easier to find a shiny after you hit 40 chains; in platinum I caught 6 shiny Shellos using a chain of 40. (And I found 2 shiny Beldum, but they committed suicide before I got to catch them. ;A
Though chain fishing is the EASIEST way to encounter a shiny yet. You are guarantee to find one that a lot of the shiny hunters in the community consider it cheating or consider the shinies "fake". Just have a Inkay in the first slot in your party, fish in a spot with rocks or sand around, encounter Pokemon, run, repeat. It still takes some time but it's the easiest way.
Scribbler397
a.k.a. Tree Hugger
Chained a shiny Chinchou. Picture coming in a couple minutes.
They are. ;w;
They evolve into a purple-ish color, which still looks pretty.
Shiny hunting takes patience and lots of free time, so don't get so angry over it. :c
I personally dislike the Pokeradar too, as it's hard to understand completely. But it does make it easier to find a shiny after you hit 40 chains; in platinum I caught 6 shiny Shellos using a chain of 40. (And I found 2 shiny Beldum, but they committed suicide before I got to catch them. ;A
Though chain fishing is the EASIEST way to encounter a shiny yet. You are guarantee to find one that a lot of the shiny hunters in the community consider it cheating or consider the shinies "fake". Just have a Inkay in the first slot in your party, fish in a spot with rocks or sand around, encounter Pokemon, run, repeat. It still takes some time but it's the easiest way.
Huh.. I'll have to try that out sometime then. Though I'd really rather have a shiny female ponyta[though I can wait for my lvl 98 shiny rapidash in decemember.[used AR to force her to be a shiny spawn then just caught a female xD] Love that horse. Never trading her. Ever. Nightmare is awesome.
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Scribbler397
a.k.a. Tree Hugger
It would be hard to tell if it were shiny if it weren't for the red star.
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Punchyleaf
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The poke bank supposedly has a hack checker and obvious hacks will be omitted from transferring. I hope your Rapidash gets through ^^
ForgottenT
♫ drops of jupiter ♫
They are. ;w;
They evolve into a purple-ish color, which still looks pretty.
Shiny hunting takes patience and lots of free time, so don't get so angry over it. :c
I personally dislike the Pokeradar too, as it's hard to understand completely. But it does make it easier to find a shiny after you hit 40 chains; in platinum I caught 6 shiny Shellos using a chain of 40. (And I found 2 shiny Beldum, but they committed suicide before I got to catch them. ;A
Though chain fishing is the EASIEST way to encounter a shiny yet. You are guarantee to find one that a lot of the shiny hunters in the community consider it cheating or consider the shinies "fake". Just have a Inkay in the first slot in your party, fish in a spot with rocks or sand around, encounter Pokemon, run, repeat. It still takes some time but it's the easiest way.
I don?t consider it cheating, or fake, but I would never trade a shiny for a shiny fish, since they?re SO much easier to get, they?re not even rare anymore.
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She's not hacked in any way other than for the shiny status. Pretty sure they're only gonna be able to catch the hacked stats ones. And the ones missing the hidden trainer ID. Forced shiny spawn is just bumping the spawn rate of a shiny to 100% chance from like... 1 in a billion lol
edit: now that I think about it.. pokemon caught in areas they normally can't be caught in will probably be caught too. Course, I've learned how to trick the GTS with my 'hacked' pokemon in every other gen, so I doubt most of my shinies will be caught ^_^(A couple legendaries probably will, because I got lazy and just caught them wherever I felt like it lol)
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Scribbler397
a.k.a. Tree Hugger
Chaining regular pokemon in the grass is pretty much the same, so they aren't necessarily any less rare than pokeradar chained pokemon.
ForgottenT
♫ drops of jupiter ♫
Anyone can chain fish, it?s super easy, pokeradar takes a long time, it?s easy to mess up, also you have to kill the pokemons, and make sure you don?t walk in the wrong grass.
Punchyleaf
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But in past gens, certain IV's were needed to actually have a certain pokemon be shiny, is what I'm saying.
Scribbler397
a.k.a. Tree Hugger
I will enter a couple into an iv checker after I catch my next shiny. I don't want to break my current chain.
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Scribbler397
a.k.a. Tree Hugger
My shiny chinchou has no perfect ivs, so you don't need three perfect ivs in order for it to be shiny.
Punchyleaf
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Yeah just making a pokemon shiny without the needed things will show up as hacked.
In Generation III, most of the data structures were redone. As such, a Pok?mon's Shininess would no longer need to be linked to its stats due to incompatibilities between the previous generations. The determinant for Shininess is instead a calculation based on the Trainer ID number and secret ID number of the player encountering it and the personality value of the Pok?mon. The same method is used in Generations IV and V.
The secret ID and Trainer ID byte words are first xored together, and then the first byte word of the personality value is xored with the second byte word of the personality value. If the xor of these two results is less than eight, then the Pok?mon is Shiny. This results in a probability of 8 in 65536; simplified as 1/8192 (2-13, or 0.01220703125%), just as in Generation II. Symbolically:
(Trainer ID) xor (Secret ID) = E
(First byte word of personality value) xor (Second byte word of personality value) = F
If E xor F is less than eight, then the Pok?mon is Shiny.
The secret ID and Trainer ID byte words are first xored together, and then the first byte word of the personality value is xored with the second byte word of the personality value. If the xor of these two results is less than eight, then the Pok?mon is Shiny. This results in a probability of 8 in 65536; simplified as 1/8192 (2-13, or 0.01220703125%), just as in Generation II. Symbolically:
(Trainer ID) xor (Secret ID) = E
(First byte word of personality value) xor (Second byte word of personality value) = F
If E xor F is less than eight, then the Pok?mon is Shiny.
Scribbler397
a.k.a. Tree Hugger
Too much math!
Wow, didn't know that. ._.
Well, I checked my Fennekin and it has a possibility that 2 of his stats can be 31, not 3.
So they're still using that new setup for shiny checking... which means some of us will NEVER encounter our own shiny because our trainer name choice screws us out of them. Real nice, Nintendo.
I say 'never' because, for some of us, our chosen name resulted in our actual shiny finding rate being dropped down extremely unfair odds.
I say 'never' because, for some of us, our chosen name resulted in our actual shiny finding rate being dropped down extremely unfair odds.
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TheCreeperHugz
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I'm confused, how does the name make a difference?
