5th Gen Pokeradar?

Started by Kelp August 20th, 2010 10:36 AM
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they need it again in these games
West, on a plane bound west
I see her stretching out below
Land, blessed mother land
The place where I was born

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Cause lose, I don’t want to lose
Sight of who we are

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There’s a way to find
Better days I know

It’s been a long hard ride
Got a ways to go
This is still the place
That we all call home

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ehh i never had much luck, or fun for that matter chaining in DPPT, id rather matsuda or SR for shinies if i had too. Now i wont mind getting it back, maybe they can tweak its mechanics abit
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I never liked it, so I won't miss it.
Neither will I. It's a longshot they will actually bring it back, anyway.

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Even if it killed the uncommonness chance of finding a shiny, I think it's more likely that they won't bring it back so Black and White can be as fresh as its supposed to be; introducing brand new features.

I liked using the Pokéradar, and to be honest it helped a lot more than one would try to get a shiny through breeding. It wasn't so easy either, since you had to be careful in which grass patch you stepped in or you would lose the chain. I wouldn't mind having it be brought back especially since it was one of the popular features of DPPt and I was fond of using it. However it's moreover unlikely, and perhaps they'll have a new item to where it'll be just a tad easier to catch shinies (or not).

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Xander Olivieri

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The Pokeradar didn't raise your chance for finding a shiny. It rose the encounter rate up, you were guaranteed a battle so long as you stepped into the patch of grass. You still had the 1/8000 chance that that Pokemon would be shiny.

This is the same if you use just the Old Rod to hunt for Shiny Magikarp or the same as using Sweetscent in the grass/Cave. If you raise the encounter rate you have a small margin to find a shiny faster than normal. It doesn't lower the 1 in 8000 chance of finding a shiny.

I know thine because I've gotten more shinys breeding than I have with the Pokeradar.

EDIT: I think it was useless and never got anything worth merit from it, but I wouldn't mind seeing it reappear. Guaranteed battles are better than random encounter.

My life would be complete if they put it back. <3
150+ New Pokemon to potentially chain and get bootiful shinies of. ;w;
Chaining is one of my favorite Pokemon hobbies. I just love the rush you get out of seeing the shiny patch sparkle. ^__^

It sucks that HGSS didn't include it, but I guess it wasn't really that huge of a deal since I still had my copy of Platinum.
Shiny hunters like me just thought it made things much more fun and easier. D;

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The Pokeradar didn't raise your chance for finding a shiny. It rose the encounter rate up, you were guaranteed a battle so long as you stepped into the patch of grass. You still had the 1/8000 chance that that Pokemon would be shiny.

This is the same if you use just the Old Rod to hunt for Shiny Magikarp or the same as using Sweetscent in the grass/Cave. If you raise the encounter rate you have a small margin to find a shiny faster than normal. It doesn't lower the 1 in 8000 chance of finding a shiny.

I know thine because I've gotten more shinys breeding than I have with the Pokeradar.

EDIT: I think it was useless and never got anything worth merit from it, but I wouldn't mind seeing it reappear. Guaranteed battles are better than random encounter.
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.
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I hope they do.

But I really think they won't.

@XanderO Uh, yes it does. Where have you been, under a very large and seclusive rock?
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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.
After completely the Sinnoh Dex and receiving the National Dex..

That's not late enough for you? XD
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After completely the Sinnoh Dex and receiving the National Dex..

That's not late enough for you? XD
perhaps getting the full dex and then finding out that you need to complete one more quest for professor before receiving it?

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Xander Olivieri

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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.