PokeRadar shinies! Best method ever!
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shiny squirtle
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terrible day got 35 mareep and 37 electrike then the chains broke
AHH got 40 elektrike then the grass remained quiet
AHH got 40 elektrike then the grass remained quiet
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PjSparkles
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Hey guys, I've been chaining for a while, I feel like a jerk for never posting about it on here, but here's a quick mini guide to chaining, in case some of you are still confused. And yes, this is what you do when you cannot sleep and the rest of the world is asleep.
Before chaining, you will need:
1. The Pokeradar.
2. Pokeballs, or masterballs if the poke you are after knows a move like roar.
3. Tons of max repels, i prefer max just because I don't have to open my bag as often, and less chances of messing up on forgetting to use a repel and breaking your chain. You'll need TONS, over 100 sometimes, the Socialite and Gentleman on Rt. 212 with the Vs. Seeker and an amulet coin are good for getting the money for this. I actually just fought the elite four a few dozen times and bought 999 max repels. But then again, I was doing that to work on my dex and evolving pokemon. Back on subject!
4. You'll need a strong, high-level Pokemon with enough PP in high power moves to pokemon quickly with one move.
5. A pokemon that can whittle down health for when you find the shiny, preferably one with false swipe. If you are using masterballs, this is a mute point.
6. PP Restoring items, such as leppa berries. (usually only need them for longer chains. If you don't have these, just bring along two high level pokemon with lots of PP in powerful moves.)
Ok so for newbies of chaining, here's a quick overview of what it is. Basically, chaining is a process where you use the pokeradar to find multiples of the same species of pokemon over and over. Keep this in mind while chaining: HAVE PATIENCE! Chaining is definitely not for the faint of heart, but it is most certainly worth it when you finally run into that coveted shiny!
The first step is to use a max repel, and then you use the radar. You will then see wiggling grass. Its time to start chaining!
The best patch of grass to go after is the one that doesn't sparkle, because they are harder to confuse with others when you get further down into your chain. There are four types of wiggling grass: slow, fast, white sparkles, and yellow. If you go into the same type of grass in a row, you will usually end up fighting the same poke.
Here are some rules:
1. After your first patch, make sure you walk into patches that shake the same way, if you don't, eventually, your chain will break.
2. You should usually choose a patch of grass only if there are four patches shaking. Any less, and you are better off reseting your radar.
3. If the patch of grass you want is out of the radar's range, don't go into it. You can tell the range by whether or not you can see all of the moving patches. If you choose outside of this range, you could break your chain.
4. Choose a patch of grass that's farthest from you and is at least four patches away.
5. When your repel loses its effect and you need to use another, don't go into sparkling grass just yet! First, reset your radar, or you could break your chain.
6. Don't walk into a patch that's on the outside edge of the grass, or the corners either.
7. Grass that sparkles twice very brightly and has a different colored hue are shiny pokemon!
8. Make sure your battles end with the wild poke fainting. In other words, don't run, dont let it flee!
9. Avoid patches that are right next to other moving patches of grass.
10. Don't use your bike
And most importantly, 11. When you are in doubt, RESET YOUR RADAR!
how do you reset the radar?
If you use your radar, and the grass doesn't match up with your basic rules, walk 50 steps WITHIN THE RADARS RANGE and take care to NOT step in the wiggling grass. After this, your radar will be charged up again and you can resume your chain where you left it. Also, keep in mind, be patient, as you may end up resetting the radar dozens of time in one chain. (The things we trainers do for shinies...)
Follow those rules, and you will be guarenteeing yourself a LOT less broken chains.
Some Tips!
1.Usually, swarming pokemon make for the best chains, just because if you make a mistake, you have a better chance of recovering given the fact that they have a 40% chance of appearing again, compared to most wild pokemon being 25-20 or less.
2. Use your pokeradar app on your poketch. It'll tell you how many pokemon you've chained so far, so that way you can determine when you are ready to stop risking the wiggling grass and start resetting your radar repeatedly to hunt down those elusive shinies!
3.Register the pokeradar (duh) and put the repels at the top of your item list to save time (double duh).
4. DON'T ENTER GRASS RIGHT BEHIND YOUR TRAINER! Wiggling grass is hidden from view behind you, and often times you will go backwards only to run smack into a patch you didn't even know was wiggling.
5. if you save and quit, when you come back, your chain will be gone. So just don't do it.
6. Most of the time, 40 is a good number to stop chaining and start resetting, but usually you are safe to do this in between 20-40. But consider, the lower your chain, the more patience you'll need.
One final hint that may or may not be true, I haven't proven it yet, but it has been brought up on other forums
If you have three patches of grass next to you that are rustling, and a fourth way above or below that one, it seems logical that the farthest patch is automatic to go to. But this is the only formation that I seem to break my chain on. So a personal warning if you see the three clumped patches and one WAY off, watch out! I tend to just reset whenever I see that now.
So there you go, a guide for newbies (and a few tips for experts) on chaining. I probably posted it a little bit late, but if need be, I can make a new topic out of it.
Lemme know if it helped you guys out at all!
Before chaining, you will need:
1. The Pokeradar.
2. Pokeballs, or masterballs if the poke you are after knows a move like roar.
3. Tons of max repels, i prefer max just because I don't have to open my bag as often, and less chances of messing up on forgetting to use a repel and breaking your chain. You'll need TONS, over 100 sometimes, the Socialite and Gentleman on Rt. 212 with the Vs. Seeker and an amulet coin are good for getting the money for this. I actually just fought the elite four a few dozen times and bought 999 max repels. But then again, I was doing that to work on my dex and evolving pokemon. Back on subject!
4. You'll need a strong, high-level Pokemon with enough PP in high power moves to pokemon quickly with one move.
5. A pokemon that can whittle down health for when you find the shiny, preferably one with false swipe. If you are using masterballs, this is a mute point.
6. PP Restoring items, such as leppa berries. (usually only need them for longer chains. If you don't have these, just bring along two high level pokemon with lots of PP in powerful moves.)
Ok so for newbies of chaining, here's a quick overview of what it is. Basically, chaining is a process where you use the pokeradar to find multiples of the same species of pokemon over and over. Keep this in mind while chaining: HAVE PATIENCE! Chaining is definitely not for the faint of heart, but it is most certainly worth it when you finally run into that coveted shiny!
The first step is to use a max repel, and then you use the radar. You will then see wiggling grass. Its time to start chaining!
The best patch of grass to go after is the one that doesn't sparkle, because they are harder to confuse with others when you get further down into your chain. There are four types of wiggling grass: slow, fast, white sparkles, and yellow. If you go into the same type of grass in a row, you will usually end up fighting the same poke.
Here are some rules:
1. After your first patch, make sure you walk into patches that shake the same way, if you don't, eventually, your chain will break.
2. You should usually choose a patch of grass only if there are four patches shaking. Any less, and you are better off reseting your radar.
3. If the patch of grass you want is out of the radar's range, don't go into it. You can tell the range by whether or not you can see all of the moving patches. If you choose outside of this range, you could break your chain.
4. Choose a patch of grass that's farthest from you and is at least four patches away.
5. When your repel loses its effect and you need to use another, don't go into sparkling grass just yet! First, reset your radar, or you could break your chain.
6. Don't walk into a patch that's on the outside edge of the grass, or the corners either.
7. Grass that sparkles twice very brightly and has a different colored hue are shiny pokemon!
8. Make sure your battles end with the wild poke fainting. In other words, don't run, dont let it flee!
9. Avoid patches that are right next to other moving patches of grass.
10. Don't use your bike
And most importantly, 11. When you are in doubt, RESET YOUR RADAR!
how do you reset the radar?
If you use your radar, and the grass doesn't match up with your basic rules, walk 50 steps WITHIN THE RADARS RANGE and take care to NOT step in the wiggling grass. After this, your radar will be charged up again and you can resume your chain where you left it. Also, keep in mind, be patient, as you may end up resetting the radar dozens of time in one chain. (The things we trainers do for shinies...)
Follow those rules, and you will be guarenteeing yourself a LOT less broken chains.
Some Tips!
1.Usually, swarming pokemon make for the best chains, just because if you make a mistake, you have a better chance of recovering given the fact that they have a 40% chance of appearing again, compared to most wild pokemon being 25-20 or less.
2. Use your pokeradar app on your poketch. It'll tell you how many pokemon you've chained so far, so that way you can determine when you are ready to stop risking the wiggling grass and start resetting your radar repeatedly to hunt down those elusive shinies!
3.Register the pokeradar (duh) and put the repels at the top of your item list to save time (double duh).
4. DON'T ENTER GRASS RIGHT BEHIND YOUR TRAINER! Wiggling grass is hidden from view behind you, and often times you will go backwards only to run smack into a patch you didn't even know was wiggling.
5. if you save and quit, when you come back, your chain will be gone. So just don't do it.
6. Most of the time, 40 is a good number to stop chaining and start resetting, but usually you are safe to do this in between 20-40. But consider, the lower your chain, the more patience you'll need.
One final hint that may or may not be true, I haven't proven it yet, but it has been brought up on other forums
If you have three patches of grass next to you that are rustling, and a fourth way above or below that one, it seems logical that the farthest patch is automatic to go to. But this is the only formation that I seem to break my chain on. So a personal warning if you see the three clumped patches and one WAY off, watch out! I tend to just reset whenever I see that now.
So there you go, a guide for newbies (and a few tips for experts) on chaining. I probably posted it a little bit late, but if need be, I can make a new topic out of it.
Lemme know if it helped you guys out at all!
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Magic_Umbreon
Researching Tower Scientist, Retired
Real cool tips, edit them into the first post Pablo.
PjSparkles
New Member
correction, I did write that myself, I am using the model of the guide from another forum though that I'm a part of, the forum i mainly go on to discuss the video game. that's written by me, just using the same model from the other forum. But you are right in the fact that I didn't come up with this myself (all of the guidelines and whatnot), but neither did the person i got this from, they got it from a japanese website.
Not trying to copy peoples work, just trying to help people catch shinies sorry if I stepped on anybody's toes:frown:-
PS
it really did take me a lot of time to write that up. so thanks for being grateful
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And sorry for the double post, but I think that those tips will help people a lot so that way they don't have to hunt through links, they can find it right here.
Not trying to copy peoples work, just trying to help people catch shinies sorry if I stepped on anybody's toes:frown:-
PS
it really did take me a lot of time to write that up. so thanks for being grateful
Back to back posts merged. The following information has been added:
And sorry for the double post, but I think that those tips will help people a lot so that way they don't have to hunt through links, they can find it right here.
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http://www.serebiiforums.com/showpost.php?p=6116141&postcount=6
^^ That is 90% of the text, and same format. Its cool you psted this here, I couldnt find it before myself to show it to other people, but give credit where credit is due.
^^ That is 90% of the text, and same format. Its cool you psted this here, I couldnt find it before myself to show it to other people, but give credit where credit is due.
PjSparkles
New Member
Here's the same person posting it a little bit different, where actually I learned most of what I know about shiny catching, just from being active in this thread....
http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/showthread.php?t=19695
^^ That's where my credit goes, but not just to that user, to everyone who participates on those forums. If you keep reading through that thread, you'll learn that this also is a combination of his/her own tips and the basics he/she got from a japanese site, where they have known about this for a while.
I'm not a big fan of Serebii, if I'm a fan at all.
Yeah, its basically the same information, but I didn't pull my information straight from the site, I came up with that completely off of my own knowledge and notes. Information is information is information is information. I never in my own post took credit for finding out all of these tips on my own, and even the few tips that I really did find out on my own, I still didn't take full credit for finding it myself. But that is well known information that those who have been shiny chaining for a while now have known. How many similar EV training guides have you seen just surfing the net? Its not like they were all copying each other.
My point is, there are only so many ways to display information. But if I'm giving credit for where I learned about it in the fist place, bulbagarden would be it. Fair enough?
But I'm glad that at least one person has found the guide useful! Remember, be persistent guys! I've had three chains break off in the 40's in the last two days, but I kept with it and finally got my shiny ralts! Workin on getting a few more right now, hopefully my chain holds up.
http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/showthread.php?t=19695
^^ That's where my credit goes, but not just to that user, to everyone who participates on those forums. If you keep reading through that thread, you'll learn that this also is a combination of his/her own tips and the basics he/she got from a japanese site, where they have known about this for a while.
I'm not a big fan of Serebii, if I'm a fan at all.
Yeah, its basically the same information, but I didn't pull my information straight from the site, I came up with that completely off of my own knowledge and notes. Information is information is information is information. I never in my own post took credit for finding out all of these tips on my own, and even the few tips that I really did find out on my own, I still didn't take full credit for finding it myself. But that is well known information that those who have been shiny chaining for a while now have known. How many similar EV training guides have you seen just surfing the net? Its not like they were all copying each other.
My point is, there are only so many ways to display information. But if I'm giving credit for where I learned about it in the fist place, bulbagarden would be it. Fair enough?
But I'm glad that at least one person has found the guide useful! Remember, be persistent guys! I've had three chains break off in the 40's in the last two days, but I kept with it and finally got my shiny ralts! Workin on getting a few more right now, hopefully my chain holds up.
Adam Garcia
New Member
Stupid Starly broke my chain i was at 39 =/
Absolution
New Member
3x Shiny Shinx for me today, 2 Female, 1 Male
Chain broke at like 104.
Both of my successful Static shiny chains came between the hours of 11AM and 1PM, I have no idea if that means anything but it seemed easier for me at that time. I'll be trying for Pachirisu tomorrow I think.
Chain broke at like 104.
Both of my successful Static shiny chains came between the hours of 11AM and 1PM, I have no idea if that means anything but it seemed easier for me at that time. I'll be trying for Pachirisu tomorrow I think.
ShadowTogetic
New Member
dumb crickets ruining my ralts chain of 26 and gloom loves to interrupt my Togepi
Magic_Umbreon
Researching Tower Scientist, Retired
Hahahaha I've only ever tried at day. :lol:
i stopped at 72 and accidently went up but i just got a shining larvitar in 3 so i am happy now
~Blazi-King~
Active Member
Voltorb Chain 67 (Shiny's at 66 & 67)
Working on Pichu now
Working on Pichu now
shiny squirtle
New Member
Finally i got one. Shiny shinx on a chain of 27.
EDIT: Wow like 10 hours later i found shiny voltorb on my first chain of them on 13. I couldn't tell that the patch was shiny or not.
EDIT: Wow like 10 hours later i found shiny voltorb on my first chain of them on 13. I couldn't tell that the patch was shiny or not.
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