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Haha. No. This isn't reborn. If a pokemon isn't shiny, it never will be. The way shinying works is a mon has a 1/8000 [or so] chance to have a value [lets call it S]. If it doesn't have S, it will have another value [lets call it N]. XY just doubled the chance for it to be given the S value. Anything with S will still be S, and anything with N will still be N,

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Haha. No. This isn't reborn. If a pokemon isn't shiny, it never will be. The way shinying works is a mon has a 1/8000 [or so] chance to have a value [lets call it S]. If it doesn't have S, it will have another value [lets call it N]. XY just doubled the chance for it to be given the S value. Anything with S will still be S, and anything with N will still be N,

That would mean the game is attempting to generate shiny personality values twice, instead of once, which doesn't sound quite right until you get the shiny charm/use the Masuda method. I'd have to check on how, exactly, the chance was increased, but the solution I just mentioned seems inelegant.

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Have gotten Shiny Mareep, Dragalge, Dragonair, Gyarados, Alomamola, and Remoraid in Y. If you really want shinies, just do a lot of hoard encounters or get good at chain fishing or even PokeRadar chaining. It's a lot easier in XY than it is in any other of the games.

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Are any of those for trade? [except dragalge and gyarados-got them]. And as for pokerader...so hard to pull off, and then they troll you with empty patches.

fishing is easy though.

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Dumb question

Has finishing the game 'till the league something to do with the shiny ratio? In my current cartridge (I just beat Team Flare), I have just one shiny Karp Masuda methoding (and currently on the 900 Charmander egg... [ugh]) while in the stolen one (that had even finished the Looker missions) got roughly 4 WITHOUT trying...

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Nope. Nothing affects the shiny ratio other than pokeradar/consecutive fishing/masuada method/[unconfirmed-friend safari].

Edit: Just got my 29th shiny.

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That was guessed really early on, and it was confirmed on the 24th [when Japan got bank].

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Yeah, I wasn't really on the Pokemon side internet around then (it being Christmas and because I just got back from Japan), but I thought I'd tell you all anyways in case some people missed the update

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Well my luck has definitely changed, as I have a shiny milotic, gardevoir, T-tar, and swalot. I bred milotic and gardevoir, and found T-tar in the wild as a larvitar. same with the gulpin.

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I haven't caught any shinies yet, but after two weeks of consistent breeding and over 1,500 eggs hatched, I finally got a shiny Honedge. It has 1 attack IV, but other than that it was pretty much perfect. I don't even care that the IV sucks though, I'm just glad I got the bloody thing. Took forever.

One of my friends on Twitter gave me a shiny Gulpin as well. I love it lol.

Those are all I have so far though. I'm gonna try and get more.

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I managed to get a Shiny Ariados but I traded it for a Tepig...Kinda regret it :(

I've been trying Masuda Method for a Shiny Charmander for about 3 days of non ending hatching. Does anyone have any advice to increase my chances?

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Use the shiny charm. and a mere tepig isn't worth a shiny.

Or just wait till bank comes out, and I can trade you my shiny Charmeleon.

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