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ShadowTails September 20th, 2007 12:11 PM

does it really matter that much? I mean, I have 8 Shiny Slakoths, 6 Shiny Starlys, 4 shiny Zigzagoons... 6 of my Slakoths are bad natured even with a Synchronize Pokemon in the front of my party, 2 were Adamant, rest were Neutral Natured...

I have also just had luck I guess, I mean look how many total shinies I have, and look how many times I've chained and got nothing, as I said I was working on that Slakoth chain and 2 hours later the first shiny patch came up. Chaining can be random, I've had pleanty of chains where I've gotten no shinies or they are hiding really well... I've had shinies that broke my chain... One time I was chaining Smeargle and I really wasn't trying to get a lot of shinies, I just kept going to good looking patches, advancing my chain, reseting when I felt the need to because of bad patches... I managed to catch 5 of those and one was Jolly luckily, I didn't have ANY synchronize Pokemon in my part... I don't think the set chances make it that unlikely to get a Shiny, even when I really wasn't trying to get more I got them.

ThePlaya September 20th, 2007 3:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pokemon_mistress (Post 2905322)
Wow this is a really good video.

Thanks, I thought shinies were just luck and the pokeradar was just to save time from running around in the grass to battle wild pokemon.

your welcome
always happy to help:)
yup that video helped me alot aswell....and i mean a lot

but i still have no luck wiht shinys....im better since now i get to over 30 chains faster....but alwasy get broken:(

evilcheese September 20th, 2007 5:13 PM

highest chain 10 zubats and i bet i wouldnt get any shinies if i didnt have the action replay code on

ShadowTails September 20th, 2007 7:26 PM

For other tips, I suggest watching a few videos that people have done where they show you them chaining to 40 and reseting for the Shiny Patch, I know there is one for Ralts... I am just about as careful as he is while I chain, but yeah... I love getting a Shiny Pokemon because most of them just look awesome, but many look just fine in their normal form... I have to limit myself to the number of Shinies I EV train/Use on teams because n00bs will accuse me of hacking =\... I guess I could start posting my horrible quality videos of me catching the shinies on Youtube... eh...

ThePlaya September 20th, 2007 8:14 PM

yeah...ppl would start accusing you of hacking:(..even though i know you dont:).
anyways ppl i still havnt had any luck catching a shiny:(.....but still trying:)

pokemon_mistress September 20th, 2007 11:06 PM

Just a couple of questions to make this all clear.

Is the chance of getting a shiny patch higher the more you have on your chain?

It seems to be becaus people are going up to 40 and then are resetting their radars all the time.

I got up to 26 wit doduo! No shiny though.... stupid bidoof!! Aargh!

Thanks!! :D

Toothache September 21st, 2007 6:49 AM

I don't think the length of the chain matters, it's just all based on luck as far as I can tell.

This is probably been answered before, but can you use Repels and still use the Pokeradar? I hate getting my chains interruped.

zer0vrs September 21st, 2007 8:24 AM

ive been having rotten luck as of late. ive tried chaining ghastly, eevee, ralts and even lickitung...nothing! hopefully, i'll get lucky later today, and im gonna try and chain ralts again

mko September 21st, 2007 10:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Toothache (Post 2909217)
I don't think the length of the chain matters, it's just all based on luck as far as I can tell.

This is probably been answered before, but can you use Repels and still use the Pokeradar? I hate getting my chains interruped.

yes, of course. You are supposed to use repels while using radar.

ShadowTails September 21st, 2007 11:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pokemon_mistress (Post 2908747)
Just a couple of questions to make this all clear.

Is the chance of getting a shiny patch higher the more you have on your chain?

It seems to be becaus people are going up to 40 and then are resetting their radars all the time.

I got up to 26 wit doduo! No shiny though.... stupid bidoof!! Aargh!

Thanks!! :D

Yes, And Doduo was my first set of Pokeradar shinies =D. Before I even knew what the Shiny Patch looked like, but I would've gotten 3 had that Pokemart guy not been there =\...

ThePlaya September 21st, 2007 3:16 PM

why what did he do??????the pokemart guy

ShadowTails September 21st, 2007 4:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThePlaya (Post 2910683)
why what did he do??????the pokemart guy

He was standing in the patch that had a Shiny Pokemon in it. The sparkles appeared right where he was standing.

pokemon_mistress September 21st, 2007 9:19 PM

ouch that would hurt.

So the higher the chain, the more chance of a shiny coz everyone starts reseting at 40.

ThePlaya September 21st, 2007 10:12 PM

yup pretty much everyone does...and shadowtails that really sucks haha...ill would have send my charizard to burn him

pokemon_mistress September 22nd, 2007 1:29 AM

grrr i was trying to chain corsola but then all of a sudden the grass path turns quiet!!

Grr! I went up to 22, didn't beat the doduos though.

And I tried to chain swinub but its impossible in that big blizzard!!

ShadowTails September 22nd, 2007 5:35 AM

Hmm... Route 217... isn't that the route with the Ice Rock and the route you evolve Eevee on?

Murky September 22nd, 2007 9:10 AM

14 Ponyta's but no luck with shiny so far.

RAWR ^_^ September 22nd, 2007 10:09 AM

>:[

Not Very Happy

I Was Chaining Absol And What Appears
A Bloody Shellos :|||
I was doing well aswell I was on 21 :|

Anyone got any tips For mE?

ShadowTails September 22nd, 2007 3:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PkMn Trainer Jay (Post 2914977)
>:[

Not Very Happy

I Was Chaining Absol And What Appears
A Bloody Shellos :|||
I was doing well aswell I was on 21 :|

Anyone got any tips For mE?

I would suggest just trying again, I think you got higher than I did when I was chaining him yesterday, that area isn't one of the best places to chain but it can work sometimes =\... I wasn't having any luck.

ThePlaya September 22nd, 2007 4:04 PM

does anyone know why this happens

i was chaining a shinx and then like the pokeradar music just stopped and the regular music started playing again and like everything was back to normal....then my chain was ended:(

do any of you people know what happend??its happend to me twice already and i get relly mad

Razer302 September 22nd, 2007 4:08 PM

When I chain Absol I go to the bit that is up the rock wall. It is easier than at the bit with all the trees. Absol is hard to chain. I have never had over 30.

pokemon_mistress September 22nd, 2007 5:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThePlaya (Post 2916825)
does anyone know why this happens

i was chaining a shinx and then like the pokeradar music just stopped and the regular music started playing again and like everything was back to normal....then my chain was ended:(

do any of you people know what happend??its happend to me twice already and i get relly mad

i know! that's what happened to me with corsola. sometimes the grass patch just turns quiet, no pokémon were picked up by the radar. :(

ThePlaya September 22nd, 2007 6:08 PM

so it happened to both of us.......can anyone answer our questions?

ShadowTails September 22nd, 2007 6:15 PM

Yes, that is when you walk out of range of the Pokeradar, I can't remember the exact step number it is, I think the limit is 6 steps away from at least 1 patch that shook on screen then it loses the chain, it's happened to me a lot, but the oddest thing was when I was chaining Shinx, got to 40 reset one time and "the patch fell silent" =\ just make sure you find somewhere safe to walk up and down without getting all of the patches that shook off screen.

By the way, if people still don't know I wrote up a guide and it got moved to the FAQ, which can answer some/most of these questions, I can't exactly edit my post unless I ask a Mod to which I'm going to probably need to rewrite the guide soon.

ThePlaya September 22nd, 2007 6:18 PM

yeah ive seen it and it was what got me started on looking for shinys:)

i thought that was the reason for why that happend..thanks:)


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