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Masuda Breeding vs. Safari Shiny Rate
Yesterday a friend told me that I shouldn't bother with Masuda breeding. He says that the Safari rate is the same as Masuda and obviously quicker (due to hatch time vs. wild pokemon encounter time). I would like everyone's opinion on this, since obviously I want to get a Shiny in the lowest amount of time.
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Im not really sure about that, its not confirmed that the friend safari shiny rate is the same as the Masuda method, and the friend safari might not even have a higher shiny rate and its just a coincidence that a lot of people are getting shinnies in it, well if you are experienced with the Masuda method i think you should stay with that, if youre not i think that you could try the friend safari
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Um..no Matsuda method has a higher chance of producing a Shiny than a wild encounter unless you do Radar or Fishing Chains. Since you can't do either in the Safari it still has the 1 in 8192. Matsuda Method has two different rates Gen 4's rate was 1/1638 and Gen 5's rate was 1/1365.
If Matsuda's Method passed into Gen 6, those are the two possible rates we're looking at and both are better than finding in the wild. Also...its been discovered that the Oval Charm is in Gen 6 so there may be a chance that the Shiny Charm is too which stacks with both normal wild encounters and Matsuda Method lowering both to 1/2730 and 1/1024 respectively. |
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Anyways, I've found one shiny in the friend safari after about three hours of hunting. With the Masuda Method however, I've had no luck at all. I'm currently at 2111 eggs hatched, and no shiny Froakie yet. |
All three of my shinies were from the Friend Safari and I got them all in about 6 hours of a 24 hour period. Haven't really gone hunting since. I tried the Masuda method for a couple of days with no luck. Not sure if this means that Friend Zones are at a higher rate, or that I just have no luck with breeding.
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I've encountered hundreds of 'mons in Friend Safari with no Shiny luck. The odds may well have changed, but it's unlikely.
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I got the hardest encounter rate catch before any of the easier encounter rate catches (MM Breeding, Chain Fishing (highest chain so far is 70), Radar Chaining (highest chain is 46). We've got no reason to assume its different since the Safari has only 2 purposes (as stated by the game, guide, and official sources) right now, getting older Pokemon and attaining hidden abilities. |
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This method is a lot better for me and less time consuming. |
but there's only a select few of shinies in the safari. what if I want a shiny pokemon not from there? Also what if I want to pass down a specific nature to my shiny? Friend safari wouldn't allow me to do that. I'd have to get lucky twice to get a shiny, and one with the nature i want.
and if you want to get a shiny in the lowest amount of time, go chain fishing. it's not hard at all.. i got shiny clawitizer in 28 pulls, on my first try. |
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All i said is Matsuda method has a higher chance of producing a Shiny than the regular method. if you compare methods, the Radar is supposed to be the highest chance. My highest chain in gen 4 was over 100 and never encountered a single shiny during it, though theoretically I should have found at least 4 of them. Higher rate doesn't actually mean you'll find more since luck is still a huge factor. |
Regardless of whether your theory is correct or not, thank you for posting this thread because I went straight in the Friend Safari and within 5 encounters I had a shiny Octillery. My first shiny ever.
I personally think their may be some basis to it given the other benefits of Friend Safari and similar to the Masuda Method, it would be a form of encouragement to interact with other players online. It could be a supplement or replacement for the Masuda Method actually. |
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Oh wow actually Serebii does have how to get it: Oval Charm- Complete all 3 Kalos Pokedex and show to Sycamore. Shiny Charm may be completing the National Dex like last time. |
i heard that the shiny rate in the friend safari is actually higher because theres only 3 pokemon in there. no others which is why its higher because youre only encountering 3 pokemon. i assume that is higher if the person only has 2 pokemon available in their friend safari
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I think people are assuming it is easier to get shinies in Friend Safari because I think it was said to be easier to get perfect IVs there. Which I have also heard that perfect IVs usually have a higher chance to be shiny.
I don't have any evidence for this. It is just things I have heard. So none could be true. It is not actually a higher chance because there is only 3 pokemon. It is higher because your not running into 10 different pokemon on a route. So you are more likely to get a shiny you want, but it is still the same chance. Also Xander, in an interview, it was said they wanted to make shiny pokemon easier to get. I do not recall which one so don't ask. I also do not think they would take MM out. |
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sorry but sometimes i dont understand things on the internet instead of in person
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I prefer hatching, koff~
While I haven't had so much luck, hatching provides you with some semblance of control, whereas you'll just be carting around that shiny Sunkern around for weeks on end. You don't want to keep it, but you can't bring yourself to throw it away, koffi~ |
Well, let me say that I spent about 3 days straight breeding eevees, got around 15 boxes of eevees (i release as i go of course so it doesn't get too crowded) and no shiny at all.
About 2 days ago I added a person with Eevee in their Safari, spent i'd say a day and a half in their safari and I just got a Shiny Eevee this morning from it! Also, I've found a random shiny Hawlucha and Pidgey just from seeing what kind of pokemon were in people's safaris. I don't know if the safari has a higher chance or not but it certainly seems that way. I was using the matsuda effect through the whole process of my eevee breeding by the way. |
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The fact is, there are a plethora of people who are finding shinies in the safari - I even found a Shiny Abra today after about 30 mins. If you're listening to people talk about finding 4 shinies in a single day, it's obvious the encounter rate is higher than the regular 1/8xxx. THAT is why we're assuming it's different. |
Friend Safari rate is probably faster but breeding is still better in my opinion. With breeding using Masudo Method because you have better control over the Nature/IV/Ability. Shiny may take longer but you should end up with a better Pokemon in the end.
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The first shiney i EVER got was in the friend safari. A shiny Fraxture just snuck up on me. It wasnt until after that that i actually got into the shiny pokemon stuff. I tried out the Masuda Method and after only 8 eggs i was able to get a shiy charmander. So i cant really say which works better. Both of these instances happend within a few hours of each other.
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I guess you still need alot of luck with both methods. Before Pokemon X/Y I (as many others I guess) never had the chance to try the Masuda Method. I'm currently breeding my Delphox with a Ditto (Jap), so hopefully I will get a shiny Fennekin myself :3
I haven't put much effort in exploring the Friend Safari for shinies yet, but I will try later on to see what shiny Pokemon may be hidden there. Have had alot of luck with chain fishing though so I will continue that first while breeding for my shiny Fennekin ^_^ ...Or just that lucky 1/8192 encounter of a random shiny in the wild! ;) |
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