5th Gen Shiny Discussion/FAQ Thread

[Deadrose]

Just got a shiny Oshawott. Finally! She's Naive and Somewhat of a clown, so her speed should be good. I'll be SR on SS to do a badge quest on there as well, but when I get too bored I'll come back to Black2 for my first badge quest. Congrats to everybody on their shinies, and good luck getting more!

[TopDecking Shinobi]

112 encounters in the Lostlorn Forest BW2. Jolly nature too.

[DizzyCobraMew]

112 encounters in the Lostlorn Forest BW2. Jolly nature too.

Well holy poop nice job I'm still hunting in the lostlorn forest on white 2 near 300-500 encounters and nothing yet :3

[TopDecking Shinobi]

Yeah I'm on Route 12 now trying for a Roselia or Heracross. Hopefully no male shiny Combee. >_<

EDIT:

Holy **** looky what I found:





1108 encounters!

[DizzyCobraMew]

Yeah I'm on Route 12 now trying for a Roselia or Heracross. Hopefully no male shiny Combee. >_<

EDIT:

Holy **** looky what I found:





1108 encounters!

At least someone's getting some luck XD I'm on a 3 days dry streak now, hoping for pinsir, mainly cause ive caught 2 shiny roselia on my games but have never had a shiny pinsir, wish me luck in getting one, hope mg sync works again and if pinsir shines I hope it'll have mold breaker, look at me setting ultra standards XD

[TopDecking Shinobi]

At least someone's getting some luck XD I'm on a 3 days dry streak now, hoping for pinsir, mainly cause ive caught 2 shiny roselia on my games but have never had a shiny pinsir, wish me luck in getting one, hope mg sync works again and if pinsir shines I hope it'll have mold breaker, look at me setting ultra standards XD

Gl bro lol. Starting another hunt at Reversal Mountain.

[DizzyCobraMew]

Gl bro lol. Starting another hunt at Reversal Mountain.

I'm at about 800 encounters today, nothing at all. Getting bored of encounters so I'm gonna switch to the Nature Reserve now :/

[TopDecking Shinobi]

1749 encounters at Reversal Mountain so far. Hoping for that Skarmory or Vibrava.

[DizzyCobraMew]

I'm at 13,379 encounters and I'm bored so I'm just gonna go and shovel the 29 inches of snow we got -_-

[TopDecking Shinobi]

2281 encounters now. No point in me shoveling cause they keep shoving snow back in front of our car. lol.

[eleiefarozi]

Still no luck in MM 400 Torchic Egg + 1500 Zorua Egg, Nothing

[ShinyGoogleplex]

- (big groan coming..) Guess Who?!

Well actually my latest shiny is Sealeo from the Spheal I also caught. But this guy was RE'd and thus brings my total to 5 shinies on Emerald.

[Kanethedragon]

Quick question, to SR effectively in BW & 2, does it matter if you have C-Gear on or not? Reason why is because of the stuff I heard about RNGing and how time (to the very second) affects the Random Number Generator of the games, meaning that it could affect your chances of getting a shiny if you simply miss the number by a second. Just wondering, I could be overthinking things (I tend to do that a lot, especially with math.)

[Ciccone]

I've hatched another hundred eggs since I last updated. I would have hatched a lot more, but I've been really busy with other stuff and I can't seem to concentrate on this hunt very much even when I do have free time. Plus I recently got my Wi-Fi back up and I've been doing more trades than anything else in my game. Still, I'm going to try and hatch more eggs tomorrow; I have at least thirty eggs in my PC that I deposited the other day, so I'll get to work on those as soon as I have time. Who knows, maybe the Shiny Shinx that I'm after is in one of those eggs lol.

[Zenotwapal]

Quick question, to SR effectively in BW & 2, does it matter if you have C-Gear on or not? Reason why is because of the stuff I heard about RNGing and how time (to the very second) affects the Random Number Generator of the games, meaning that it could affect your chances of getting a shiny if you simply miss the number by a second. Just wondering, I could be overthinking things (I tend to do that a lot, especially with math.)

For you it wouldn't matter if the C-Gear is on or not. All it does is advances the frame by like 10 or something (Can't remember exactly)
Just mash A to turn on the C-Gear. It really doesn't affect shiny hunters.

[Kanethedragon]

For you it wouldn't matter if the C-Gear is on or not. All it does is advances the frame by like 10 or something (Can't remember exactly)
Just mash A to turn on the C-Gear. It really doesn't affect shiny hunters.

So basically meaning, by doing so, I either A. better my chances, or B.worsen them?

[Zenotwapal]

So basically meaning, by doing so, I either A. better my chances, or B.worsen them?

It has no relevance to shiny hunters. It neither helps nor hinders you.

[Kanethedragon]

It has no relevance to shiny hunters. It neither helps nor hinders you.

Basically meaning, to most hunters they don't really care either or? Well, I guess it doesn't matter really. The only reason is I plan to have Kyurem shine for me within a certain time frame (3 more days) and I was wondering if doing so would throw me off big time. I've been trying to get him to shine for a while now (2 months with breaks) and I don't have the tools to RNG effectively (first of all I need Windows 7 to even think about trying to RNG on B2 and W2 and I can't exactly count the seconds efficiently, and I don't understand on how to calculate IV ranges well, which is why I'm resorting back to hunting. Oh well. My chances of getting it within the next few days are slim, even with the Shiny Charm (started trying ever since I got it). I guess I'll walk in shame as I try find find a more fitting replacement.

[eleiefarozi]

i really prefer chaining, phew, got 3 shiny from 1 chain this day, and 1 last night, grr, i suck at MMing,

[TopDecking Shinobi]

At 2830 encounters for Reversal Mountain.