Catching Shiny Pokémon with the Pokéradar - READ FIRST POST

[shiny ditto]

I hate when that happens. I remember it happening heaps when I tried to chain for eevees. Eventually gave up.

What's a good pokemon to have in the front of your party when chaining? I've chained for some in the past, but I'm looking for a modest / timid natured Ghastly, and noticed that the two shinies I caught aren't of that nature. I think there's an ability which increases the likelihood that you encounter pokemon of the same nature?

Where can I find a pokemon with that in Pearl?

[monutz324]

I hate when that happens. I remember it happening heaps when I tried to chain for eevees. Eventually gave up.

What's a good pokemon to have in the front of your party when chaining? I've chained for some in the past, but I'm looking for a modest / timid natured Ghastly, and noticed that the two shinies I caught aren't of that nature. I think there's an ability which increases the likelihood that you encounter pokemon of the same nature?

Where can I find a pokemon with that in Pearl?

All you need to do is catch a Pokemon with the Synchronize ability and make sure that that Pokemon has the nature you want. I use Abra since they are the easiest with said ability to get in the wild. Then I breed it with a Ditto to get the desired nature and set that offspring at the head of my party. I faint it so I don't have to deal with the trouble of switching it out every battle but Synchronize will still take effect and cause 50% of the wild encounters to have the same nature.

[ClefairyKid]

Latest chains:
23 Roselia
29 Pachirisu
39 Togepi

Raah I have no luck D: haha Also tried to start a chain of Clefairy in trophy garden, but couldn't even manage to encounter 1... and then tried swarming spoink but could hardly encounter it either, and then getting broken by houndour -_-' lame lame lame... I thought that swarming Pokemon would be far easier, but I swear they are harder o -0

Edit: 20 clefairy and then whilst I'm resetting, the music just fades back to normal and then the chain is just... gone!? wtfffff </3 not fair, I didn't leave the grass or break it or anything ; -; siiiigh...

[JohnNiles]

Chains will reset if you move far away from the place you were resetting (probably if all the shaking tiles wind up off-screen). It's a problem with some maps more than others.

[ClefairyKid]

Chains will reset if you move far away from the place you were resetting (probably if all the shaking tiles wind up off-screen). It's a problem with some maps more than others.

I know that, but I was in the Trophy Garden, therefore you can't really leave the grass unless you go back into the mansion, which I certainly didn't do.. XD Either way, I don't think I'll ever get hold of shiny clefairy, but at best some of the more common ones perhaps with static/magnet pull etc. I'd trade to get hold of the more interesting shinies but I get so many hacked Pokemon in online trades that I just can't trust people to actually send something genuine : s

[JohnNiles]

It's not leaving the grass that's the problem, it's moving far enough away that the shaking patches are off-screen. Say you pick a shaking patch on one side of the Garden, and the other 3 patches are generated in non-grass spots off to the side. If you walk to the other side of the Garden, that would definitely put those patches off-screen.

Trophy Garden's kind of a hard spot to chain in because of the missing patches. You can still get an early shiny patch if you luck out. I got a Nincada in Eterna Forest that way a few days ago.

[ClefairyKid]

Hmm... well it's been about a year or two since I got shinies from radar... so I'm hoping that MM might be better, at least less, throw it at the wall in frustration type patience, even though you need more of it haha It was weird though, I only got above 10 when I chanined in the trophy garden, had a really hard time in "easier" places...

[Tina]

hi there everyone! hope no one minds me joining the crew. and congratulations to all new shinies!
anyways, first radared shiny was when i caught was a pichu in TG at a chain of 2, then a shinx last week at 36. :b
gonna try to chain a ponyta later when i get home from school.

edit: sorry for double post, accidentally pressed reply twice.

edit: caught 4 shiny shinx and 1 shiny ponyta earlier, but ponyta chain broke because it was on a edgy patch. gonna try again now.

[Ciccone]

I got back to chaining yesterday. I was trying to chain for a Shiny Roselia on Route 212 in the morning on Pearl version, but the chain broke before I found it. I moved on to Route 209 in the evening since I wanted to start a fresh new chaining attempt, and I spent some time with the Poke Radar trying to start some chains in the hopes that a Shiny Bibarel would appear. I got lucky as I chained into the night and the Shiny Bibarel actually appeared. I captured it with a Net Ball and I placed it in the same Box as my other chained Shinies. I don't feel like going through the process all over again for a while though, so I'll take a break and chain some other time.

[Tina]

Congrats on the shiny Bibarel Ciccone!

Few days ago i found a shiny Shellos on the chain of 4 when i was messing around on route 213 while trying to chain a Absol, little while later i tried to chain for skitty and caught one, there were two but the second one killed itself with recoil u_u;;.
Today i chained for Beldums, found 5 shinies but they all killed themselves to recoil and luck bailed on me as they kept waking up to sleep powder...... the chain kepted breaking due to the sandstorm from barely visually common patches.. yee.. got my chain to 40 six times today.. didnt even catch one.. *head desk*.

[Sceptile Master]

Umm, I'm considering playing Diamond again to complete the dex mainly, but for shinies too. The shinies I've encountered on the Pokeradar are: Lickitung at... 40+ I believe, probably just 40. I got so excited when I found him though *first wild shiny* I flew right off to the Pokecenter though ^_^; (ironically I found him on 7/7/07 as well). I also somehow got a shiny Staravia before with a mere chain of 9 on Diamond. Any other shinies I own in any of my games are from events or trades really. (Minus that egg in Crystal I SR'd for, but... the shiny rate for it is high anyway).
Sadly, I've gotten chains better than Lickitung before without any shinies many times. Was so frustrating.

[PopPrincess_Lyra]

but ponyta chain broke because it was on a edgy patch. gonna try again now.

There's no such thing as breaking the chain on edges. You just encountered a bad set of patch, nya~

[Tina]

@Sceptile Master, haha, congrats on those lickitungs! i tried to chain for them once but wobburfet kept breaking my chain.

@PopPrincess_Lyra, i wasnt looking i guess, was resetting for about an hour and finally when the shiny patch appeared i just rushed towards it xD. ive heard somewhere that shiny patches always continue your chain but the edgy ones might break them.. /:


still trying to chain a beldum.. i got just about seven chains to 40 and one to 60 but all the shinys i encountered killed themselves.. u__u and with the catch rate of a legendary it made it nearly impossible for me to catch them. got to the breaking point last night when the 7th shiny beldum fainted, i ended my chain and went to gather a bunch of masterballs. when i returned to try again the chain never got passed 36. *head desk*

[Scrufox86]

@Sceptile Master, haha, congrats on those lickitungs! i tried to chain for them once but wobburfet kept breaking my chain.

@PopPrincess_Lyra, i wasnt looking i guess, was resetting for about an hour and finally when the shiny patch appeared i just rushed towards it xD. ive heard somewhere that shiny patches always continue your chain but the edgy ones might break them.. /:


still trying to chain a beldum.. i got just about seven chains to 40 and one to 60 but all the shinys i encountered killed themselves.. u__u and with the catch rate of a legendary it made it nearly impossible for me to catch them. got to the breaking point last night when the 7th shiny beldum fainted, i ended my chain and went to gather a bunch of masterballs. when i returned to try again the chain never got passed 36. *head desk*

Hello everyone. I haven't tried chaining for ages. I think i am all pokeradared out for a few more months as well so i am shiny hunting on my black 2 version.

Now to the quote, about Beldum yes it is very irritating that catch rate. I lost a shiny beldum due to it using struggle. I was putting it to sleep for ages and throwing the best balls at it as well. When it did that i was fuming but i did then get two more (i got one before the struggler) so i ended the chain with three shinies. To be honest i didn't know the exact catch rate number until AFTER i had broken the chain with the three shinies. Oh and my third shiny beldum i had to use the masterball as it was going the same way as the struggler and i was not letting another shiny KO itself. However keep up the good work and hopefully your game will be kind to you and you end up with ten shiny beldums or something as you clearly deserve it after all that.

[Sceptile Master]

I only have one shiny Lickitung actually, but he's awesome. I should probably not let him/her rot in the box so much.

[Tina]

@Scrufox86, haha, thanks. that was really encouraging. :b. i got a chain to 40 last night and resetted for about two hours but no shiny patch. shortly afterwards my chain broke when i went into a patch that i didnt see.. stupid Rhydon ill try again later today if i can get another Beldum swarm.. xD

@Sceptile Master, yeah, golden Lickitungs are awesome. haha, i always keep my shinies untouched in my box. maybe train one or two and trade some other ones away.

[Sceptile Master]

Well, today I tried chaining again in Diamond.

I now own two female shiny Shinx~

[Scrufox86]

Hello everyone. I haven't chain in a while but currently i am chaining on my platinum version. I have a chain of Pichu at 29 so far and i am hoping to continue up to 40. An early shiny patch would be appreciated muchly.

Just thought i would post as i haven't for a while. And i will edit this post with any updates.

Good luck to anyone else still chaining.

Edit - OK i managed to capture SIX shiny Pichu from the chain before deciding to end it on purpose. I was getting fed up with the amount of time resettting before shiny patches showed up and six is enough. Well now i will be trying something else. Possibly Bagon (Edit- tried a few times and yet again chains break around 15-17 even with following the rules etc) or Glameow (wow current chain of just 8 and a shiny patch showed up!)

[tomatohater]

Chaining all of today, but to no avail
Went for Ralts for hours, but I couldn't get past 30, gonna keep on trying though. I randomly chained Duskull and got to 26 before a Bibarel wrecked it.

[pgetsos]

i started chaining yesterday, tried with a 202 route Shinx+Static.... i read a lot of techniques, what to do and what not to do but... my chain was erased 3 times while i saw a shinx! if i can remember correct, it was always an edge-patch but still, found a shinx.... why??