After using the masuda method on many Pokemon and encountering a huge amount of Pokemon in the wild when EV Training, I have not seen one shiny at all. I began losing interest in Pokemon, I decided to come back and check my trade thread. Someone wanted a female and male Nidoran, I started breeding them with my Ditto and Nidoking. (They are both mine, so this isn't the masuda method) Anyways after hatching three female Nidorans, the third one looked purple, I said to myself yeah right... the male hatched fourth, I completed the trade and went to release the other Nidorans, but as soon as I looked at the status I saw the * symbol and I was like WTF? lol...