shiny problems

[hiou2]

I have been playing pokemon since its first game and I have NEVER! cought a shiny ,can you please tell me tips to catch them

 

[Emperuto011]

Its all luck.

 

[Keegan™]

Same thing. ^^^

Hey Emperuto011!

I have only seen 1 shiny and that was on my silver near silver cave it was a shiny Ursaring.

 

[h0tsh0tz]

There is no tip on how to catch shinies, you have a 1 in 8192 chance of encountering a shiny pokemon, which is rare, but less rare than Pokerus.

And it's all based on luck, so, eventually you will see a shinies sooner or later....

 

[Xan]

I have been playing pokemon since its first game and I have NEVER! cought a shiny ,can you please tell me tips to catch them

You're like me. I've never seen a shiny except the Red Gyrados which is set in shine.

 

[MYSTERIOUS MISSINGNO]

I only have two.

None of them were caught in D/P (as I don't have D/P (they were a Parasect and a Geodude (now a golem)))

 

[DialgaMan511]

I heard that if you take 6 starmies with illuminate it makes them easier to find (If u cant find starmies in D\P then just transfer from one of the older games);484;.

 

[aipomkong]

That would just make encounters more common, and the chance would still be 1/8192

 

[h0tsh0tz]

But at least this will shorten the time looking for shinies, but the encounter rate will remain the same.

 

[weakestlink33]

Some good tips are to SR infront of pokes, buy batches of cheap pokes at the game corner (atleast in FR/LG), and basically just fight a lot of wild pokes and hope to get lucky

I dont have D/P so I can't give you any help specific to those games

 

[aipomkong]

Oh and it's 1 in 8192 for a shiny to appear, but that doesn't mean after 8191 Pokemon the next will be shiny, it is a 1/8192 chance everytime you encounter a wild Pokemon

 

[CWtennis]

luck and dont worry i've never cought one but i did find one in crystal...(shiny tangela) I ran from it and thought my gameboy was messed up color wise

 

[hiou2]

You're like me. I've never seen a shiny except the Red Gyrados which is set in shine.

forgot about red gyarados

 

[Expert Socky]

There is no tip on how to catch shinies, you have a 1 in 8192 chance of encountering a shiny pokemon, which is rare, but less rare than Pokerus.

And it's all based on luck, so, eventually you will see a shinies sooner or later....

Wait, less rare! On my Emerald I have Pokerus, and I've only seen one Shiny. Unless you count a Shiny Exploud in the Battle Factory, then that's two....

 

[TogeticTheRuler]

Pokerus is about 3 times as rare as Shiny, but I forgot the exact number.

 

[Poke doll]

I have a lot of shinys and there is no real way to get one on the first shot.

 

[Mechtaur]

yeah, like everyone else said. Its all luck.

I only have one... a calm weedle *cries*.

 

[Mahou-Blastoise]

I've only seen three (the Gyrados and a Ryhorn on Silver and a shiny Giradina on Diamond, which I traded!),

 

[Virtual Headache]

Answered and closed.
There are also various stickied threads where you can talk about shinies.