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4th Gen HELP!! I NEED HELP!

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celebi72

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    I AM IN NEED OF ALOT OF HELP! I AM TRYING TO BREED SHINYS USING THE MASUDA METHOD! 26 EGGS AND NO LUCK! tips ? ^_^ storys? anything that will help
     

    IcyArceusRider

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    • The shiny gene is carried in male pokemon. If your shiny pokemon is male, it might increase your chances of getting a shiny baby pokemon from the female. Other than that, really all the advice I can give is just don't give up, keep trying. It takes forever to get shinies, even by the Masuda method.
     

    JakeyBoy

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    • IcyArceusRider said:
    The shiny gene is carried in male pokemon. If your shiny pokemon is male, it might increase your chances of getting a shiny baby pokemon from the female. Other than that, really all the advice I can give is just don't give up, keep trying. It takes forever to get shinies, even by the Masuda method.
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    ...What? The parents being shiny has no effect. The Masuda method is when you breed using two Pokemon from different nations.

    Anyway, if you expected a shiny before 26 eggs, you should probably stop right now, because the chances of getting a shiny even with the Masuda method is 100 times smaller than 1 in 26.
     

    shookie

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    • Yeah...I'd try asking for help when you reach 2600 eggs, not 26. You're still looking at a 1/2048 chance of hatching a shiny egg.

    The shiny gene is carried in male pokemon. If your shiny pokemon is male, it might increase your chances of getting a shiny baby pokemon from the female. Other than that, really all the advice I can give is just don't give up, keep trying. It takes forever to get shinies, even by the Masuda method.
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    Like JakeyBoy said, this is incorrect. Shiny parents don't increase the chance of hatching a shiny. To clarify, there's no way to pass on the "shiny gene" from one parent to the other. Gender, nature, ability and IVs are the only things that are possible to pass on to the offspring; the latter three are determined when the egg is given to you, and the former are determined when it hatches (iirc).
     
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    celebi72

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    thanx for all the help, but does anyone have any storys on how u did it?????
     

    IcyArceusRider

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    • I'm so sorry....I gave incorrect information.... T_T

    I know exactly what the Masuda method is, I was only trying to help but I screwed up, I'm sorry. Everyone else is right. I don't mean to be inaccurate! I think I might have been mixed up with something way back from generation 2 or something...ugh.
     
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    JakeyBoy

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    • That is likely. I read that in Gen 2 if one of the parents is shiny, there is a 1 in 64 chance of the egg hatching a shiny. It must have to do with inherited IVs, seeing they are the factor that decides shininess back then.
     

    Guy

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    • celebi72 said:
    thanx for all the help, but does anyone have any storys on how u did it?????
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    The most anyone can tell you is to probably just keep on breeding. There is nothing more to it. Hatching a shiny is based purely on luck (unless you cheat =P) and even with the Masuda Method, it is still based on luck. It lowers your chances, but it doesn't lower it enough to where hatching a shiny is completely common.

    Anyway, having said that, I'd say this has been pretty much answered. If you do have any further questions on HG/SS or on the Masuda Method, please use the HG/SS Help Thread.
     
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