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Reading, PA
Seen August 17th, 2011
Posted August 5th, 2011
63 posts
16.9 Years
So, apparently your chances of breeding a shiny improve if you breed with a Pokémon from another country. Naturally, I decided to do a GTS trade for a Ditto and lucked out by getting one from Australia.

It feels like I've made eleventygazillionflajillion eggs, but no shinies. :'(

Anybody breed any shinies yet? If so, what did you get and what Pokémon did you use to breed it. Feel free to let us know about how many eggs you had to hatch before getting a shiny, too!
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Hueytown, Alabama
Seen April 18th, 2011
Posted June 28th, 2010
40 posts
12.9 Years
I wouldn't believe that to be true.

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New Jersey
Seen July 6th, 2010
Posted July 3rd, 2010
14 posts
13.2 Years
Nope…. never. But if ever does to me I would get a heart attack first and yell at everybody in heaven
Like this “ I finally got my shiny Pichu!!!!” lol.
Not man, I rather slaughter hundreds of wild Pokémon until I find the shine I like than running back and ford, back and ford……..wait I think it’s the same thing.
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North Carolina
Seen December 5th, 2011
Posted November 28th, 2011
1,431 posts
13 Years
nope, but I'm hoping to get one when I breed my meganium (I've just completely screwed it up, and now it's pretty much unfixable, so I'm using my current meganium as an hm slave.
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Reading, PA
Seen August 17th, 2011
Posted August 5th, 2011
63 posts
16.9 Years
Yeah, an unofficial one like on GameFaqs or something. In either Vol. 1 or 2 of the guides, there's a page about Pokérus and Shinies and it doesn't give the actual ratios, but it says that it's easier to breed shinies with a Pokémon you got in a trade from a different country. No clue who figured out the ratios, but they've been verified by several different sites.
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Seen August 31st, 2011
Posted October 19th, 2010
35 posts
13.3 Years
Well... there is a 1/8192 chance of getting a Shiny Pokémon in the wild. But it would be even much difficult to get the Shinies from breeding, since you have to walk to hatch it...
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Hueytown, Alabama
Seen April 18th, 2011
Posted June 28th, 2010
40 posts
12.9 Years
Totally true. It even says so in the official strat guide.

The chances are 1/2,064 if you breed with a Pokémon traded from a game in a different country, 2/65,025 otherwise.

Like a foreign ditto & an american pokemon? Or both foreign?

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Adelaide, Australia
Seen August 5th, 2014
Posted April 9th, 2012
1,238 posts
18 Years
Like a foreign ditto & an american pokemon? Or both foreign?
Foreign doesn't mean not American, it means not from your country.

You need one Pokémon from your country, and one Pokémon from any other country.

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CT, USA
Seen July 27th, 2010
Posted July 13th, 2010
851 posts
13.2 Years
It's a 1/8192 chance to encounter a shiny, including hatching one. With the Masuda Method it's down to a 1/2048 chance of hatching a shiny.

I'm trying to get a Shiny Charmander... Tried getting a Chimchar and a Pichu before that... Gone through over 3 boxes... I'VE GOTTEN POKEMON WITH MULTIPLE MAX STATS but NO SHINIES!!! WTF?!
3 PC boxes is only 90 Pokémon. People have gone through 11 boxes (330 Pokémon), released all of those, and then gone through another 330 before seeing a shiny. You really need to have more patience than that to try the Masuda Method.

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Baldur's Gate
Seen February 20th, 2017
Posted July 1st, 2010
63 posts
12.9 Years
Totally true. It even says so in the official strat guide.

The chances are 1/2,064 if you breed with a Pokémon traded from a game in a different country, 2/65,025 otherwise.
What does the Pokemon being foreign have to do with anything?
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UK, England
Seen March 8th, 2011
Posted August 4th, 2010
263 posts
14.5 Years
I've got a Shiny Eevee sitting unused in my PC box. I mentioned to a friend of mine that it took me 12 eggs to breed a female Eevee, so he asks me if I wouldn't mind breeding him one because he's just too lazy for it. So he tells his little bro and he wants one too (because apparently Espeon just looks too femenine to be male). So within a week I'm being asked to accumulate 9 female Eevees. One week, 58 unhatched Eevee eggs, 40+ male Eevees released and 8 female Eevees later... the 9th female happens to also be a shiny... cha-ching...



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Posted November 28th, 2010
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'Foreign' means different language. Sorry to say this, but breeding an Australian Ditto with a UK/US Pokémon won't increase your chance of hatching a shiny, as they're all English-language. You want something like a French or Japanese Ditto.
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Reading, PA
Seen August 17th, 2011
Posted August 5th, 2011
63 posts
16.9 Years
'Foreign' means different language. Sorry to say this, but breeding an Australian Ditto with a UK/US Pokémon won't increase your chance of hatching a shiny, as they're all English-language. You want something like a French or Japanese Ditto.
The official guide says it'll increase your chances as long as you breed with a pokemon traded from another country.