Do you do chaining?

[Nick]

Um. You turn on pokeradar and then walk into grass patches that move, if you beat that Pokemon, it can reappear at another moving grass patch. If that happens 40 times you are likely to get a shiny soon. And sometimes the Pokemon just may stop appearing (if you walk 7 patches too far away or something else) and your chain ends.

Yeah, I've never once saw a shiny, much less used PokéRadar.

 

[Ho-Oh]

What. it wasn't sarcastic, I was just questioning whether it was complicated? o_O

Edited anyway.

 

[Elite Overlord LeSabre™]

I've only tried once, going for a shiny Beldum during a swarm. It was hard as hell since you can't see the shaking clumps of grass that well during the sandstorm on Route 228, and my chain was broken after about 12. Too much effort and I seem to be encountering shinies galore in Soul Silver, lol