Shiny Help...

[BREAKINGBEN]

Well, it's about time I did this.

I have been playing pokemon for about 8 years and NEVER have I found a shiny pokemon(except for the red gyarados) and I want to know if anyone out there has some advice that they can give me for finding a shiny. THANKS!

P.S.-Sorry if this is the wrong board.

 

[airconditioning]

Chaining. There are like, over 9000 guides on the net about it. It's pretty much the only way to really hunt for shinies.

Myself, I've never gotten a shiny, but my friend hatched a Shiny Magby once. I think he also has a shiny Lombre from Sapphire, but I can't be sure.

 

[Souless]

Well, shiny pokemon appear randomly, yes, randomly, there's no way to highten your possibilities on finding a shiny, to be exact there is 1 in 8192 probability rate to find a shiny.

On Metal generation you could get shiny pokemon by breeding a shiny PKMN with a non-shiny one, making the probabilities 1/64, but that feature was removed from later generations making an egg hold a shiny poke at the same rate as appearing in the wild.

Want and advice? Keep trying! Go to an area where a pokemon you want in it's shiny version is located, and keep walking on the grass etc. until you find one, I would sugest a Smeargle with Thunder Wave and False Swipe, and of course have a full stock of pokeballs, you never know when a shiny will appear!

I got a shiny Wingull after 20 hours of playing! It's tottaly random!

 

[BREAKINGBEN]

Well just to be clear, I know all of the info about shinies and their appearance rates.

I guess I'll go and try to find a shiny shinx right now :).

 

[airconditioning]

Well, shiny pokemon appear randomly, yes, randomly, there's no way to highten your possibilities on finding a shiny, to be exact there is 1 in 8192 probability rate to find a shiny.

On Metal generation you could get shiny pokemon by breeding a shiny PKMN with a non-shiny one, making the probabilities 1/64, but that feature was removed from later generations making an egg hold a shiny poke at the same rate as appearing in the wild.

Want and advice? Keep trying! Go to an area where a pokemon you want in it's shiny version is located, and keep walking on the grass etc. until you find one, I would sugest a Smeargle with Thunder Wave and False Swipe, and of course have a full stock of pokeballs, you never know when a shiny will appear!

I got a shiny Wingull after 20 hours of playing! It's tottaly random!

Dude? I just said Chaining, which kinda just debunks your entire post.

EDIT: Here's PC's bonafide guide to chaining: https://www.pkmncommunity.com/showpost.php?p=2682066&postcount=4
And here's a video on chaining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkeKPlBYYbs

 

[Souless]

O, so it's on the fourth gen!

*puts a "Dummy" sign on himslef* well, I know nothing 'bout DP so yeah, my post is about 3rd gen...

Well, since it was on "Pokemon general" I had no clue on which game was he talking about and my post was just four minutes after yours so I didn't saw it...

 

[geeknerdbutt]

I never really "look" for shinies. they just appear for me. I traded off most of mine. Actually; all of mine. I only have a shiny Deoxys now. Hah(: My advice is to just look for it in the area you would find the pokemon you want in a shinny form. But if you don't want to spend hours walking through grass. I wouldn't sweat it. they just pop up. It's funner to find something when it's unexpected anyway. Good luck!
~gnb