i was a total noob using that thing.
i think they should bring it back, but hand it out earlier or later in the game.
perhaps getting the full dex and then finding out that you need to complete one more quest for professor before receiving it?After completely the Sinnoh Dex and receiving the National Dex..
That's not late enough for you? XD
I'm pretty sure it does increase your chances. If you get to a 40 chain, you have a 1/200 chance per normal encounter of getting a shiny. And if you treat each resetting/grass shake of the radar as an "encounter," it does raise your chances. And since about 4 patches shake each reset, it increases your chances even further, since you're basically getting 4 encounters per reset.
My best chain was 52. (Ya took a while to get that high. Took me a week to get past 20) I never received a Shiny Pokemon from my Pokeradar ever. I stopped using it after I managed to get 3 Shiny Magikarp with my Old Rod.
Just because you get up to 40 that doesn't guarantee a shiny.
My highest chain is 202 and I only got one shiny from that one. :/
You just have to reset the radar (the longest it took me was an hour of constant resetting) to see a shiny patch. Then you have to walk into the shiny patch.
You might have seen a shiny patch and didn't go into it.
Regardless, just because you didn't get a shiny that doesn't mean that PokeRadar in its entirety.
Unless HG/SS isn't counted as Generation IV...If not for shiny pokemon they could bring it back for old gen pokemon. 'Cause in gen. 4 it was the only way to catch Ditto. D:
Well yeah, I meant the only gen.4 games with the pokeradar, since HG/SS didn't have it. x)Unless HG/SS isn't counted as Generation IV...
Personally, I didn't like the Pokéradar. Not only did I not have the patience to chain, it didn't give me the supposedly "easier-to-find" older Pokemon. I tried many times for a Nidoran F, and all I kept getting was Bidoof. So I gave up on it and completely forget that I have it.
So if it doesn't make a return in B/W, then that's fine with me. If it does, I'll probably just continue to ignore it.
The Pokeradar is an okay feature. Of course, I abused it during my old days of playing D/P/Pt in an attempt to chain shinies and whatnot(but unfortunately I've failed more than succeeded). But I sort of doubt that it'll make a re-appearance in B/W again, especially since it was sort of a minor feature in D/P/Pt anyway.
I'm hoping the Pokeradar will make a comeback in Gen V. It was fun hunting for certain Pokemon in vast quantities, but it was annoying running into a different Pokemon outside of rustling grass. Maybe the Pokeradar would become an app for Gen V's counterpart of the Poketch (obtainable after the National Dex).