I totally don't believe it's possible to lose a chain in a shiny patch. I've entered so many shiny patches on edges and whatnot and always kept my chains.
I just wanted to bring this up again....
"$ChuteOut$", I believe, once lost a chain because he went to a shiny patch that was against the edge.
And today I lost my Makuhita chain because I went to a shiny patch that was on the edge.
I had went to several before, but this is proof that it
can happen.
Thankfully, that was the 8th Makuhita, and I was planning to stop there anyway. I got stuff to do.
So, now it begins. The next shiny Pokemon I will going after will be no other than
Gligar.
I feel like I can take on that challenge now, especially doing what I've been doing. But I'm going to prepare for it.
I don't know how long it'll take me once I get started (which won't be for a while, I want to train some Pokemon first).
So I'm going to get 999 of all 3 kinds of Repels. I'm going to raise my Scyther at least, that way I can swap it and Bronzong in for my Breloom to make it extra special.
I plan on catching
30 or more shiny Gligars if I get to 40. Yeah, that's some crazy BS right there but I'm going to go as far as I can, for as long as it takes. It's like taking on the Pokemon League, gotta be prepared and ready. I want a GOOD Gliscor too, so my chances will be at their highest if I catch as many as possible.
I'll get to that bridge when I come to it though.
I haven't checked my Makuhita yet (in fact I'm still in the same spot where the shiny grass was, listening to the awesome music), but this first one is pretty good. It has decent HP, Defense, but almost perfect Sp. Def and Speed. Attack's pretty crappy though.
None of the other Makuhita's took False Swipe easier though, so I dunno.
Thanks for the congratulations, and same to yawl. I'll talk about ""post-game/Gligar"" plans later.