Hey other new (and returning) people!
For the vets/owners here, I have a question. Why are shinies for the "quests" limited on "no friend safari." This isn't actually a complaint but a genuine question because I was given to understand that once you get the shiny charm in X/Y your chances of getting a shiny are the same as friend safari and even then your friend actually has to be online while you hunt in order to get that boost.
Was I misinformed? There's not something broken about it too that keeps it out for the rules, is there? My mind is playing guessing games on this one, so I just thought I'd go to the source of the rule and make sure there's not something up with the friend safari that would cast it out for valid shiny hunting.
Thanks!
The rate with the Shiny charm drops to 1/1365.3. In the Friend Safari, it drops to 1/512. So the rate is indeed much lower in the Friend Safari
You have no idea how jealous I am. Did you post that to taunt me? Haha :P
Nah, it's one that I have been hunting for specifically.
Long story short, I am going to have a battle with my little sister. She is not a great battler by any means, so while I could easily sweep her with a boost stats/baton pass team etc I just go for strong monsters. However, this time the rules said I have to have:
My starter
An Eevelution
3 Non-Legendary Pokemon out of a possible 5 from a random team generator. (she got 12 to chose from, to even it up).
And I decided, to make it more interesting, they were all to be shiny :)
For the 5 I randomed (didn't matter what stage, they can all be fully evolved) Numel, Noivern, Ampharos, Ekans, and Lotad. So I SR'd for a starter, and accidentally got a Torchic when I wanted Mudkip. Eevee took a bit of time and effort, but managed to get one. I also wanted Ludicolo and Ampharos for sure, and ideally I wanted Ekans as well but I hate MM, so was going to get Camerupt BUT decided 2 fires would be stupid, so Noibat it is :)