Congrats anon, I was always too morones to get a radar chain up. I always stayed within 2 spots of the border and used repels but the chain just broke out of nowhere after getting to 15 or 20.
What did I do wrong/QRD on how to do this?
I've been successfully shiny chaining the last few days in Gen 4 with pokéradar. Here's my guide:
1. Teach a high level mon False Swipe.
2. Buy Super Repels and Ultra Balls (or balls of your choosing). I recommend having 120-200 Super Repels per hunt. The amount of Ultra Balls depends on the mon you're hunting. High catch rate, like Starly, 60 is more than enough. Medium catch rate, 80-100. Low catch rate, I'd pack like 150-200 just to be safe. If you're hunting something like a Beldum with a legendary catch rate, you'll need a ton of Ultra Balls (I'd say like 500).
3. Find a patch of grass like
[...]
, it can even be smaller than that.
4. Lead with your False Swiper, and register the radar.
5. Activate it and always go for the shiny leafy patches. They particularly give you the non-traditional Pokémon for those routes, but I use them regardless because they're just easier to spot.
6. Once you encounter your mon, False Swipe it and catch it. Catching the Pokémon raises your chance of successfully chaining by 10%. It is NOT worth not catching it. You will save more time this way IMO than getting to a for example 30 chain and breaking it.
7. Your chain has begun, use the Pokétch app that shows you your chain (the one that has the highest three chains shown on the screen).
8. ONLY enter grass that is of the same type as the type you started the chain with (again, I recommend the shiny leafy patches). And ONLY enter patches that are either four patches away horizontally OR vertically from where you reset the radar in that instance (see pic related, you would only enter grass within the light blue and orange lines). Going 4 away gives you, after catching the previous Pokémon in your chain, a 98% chance of the chain continuing. You should reset the radar if you don't spot a desirable patch.
9. Get to a chain of 40. At that point you no longer have to encounter patches. You can keep resetting the radar until a shiny patch appears.
No, in XY you always kill the Pokemon. Also the shakes are different. Also in DPP the optimal is like chain of 20 and then just reset and walk until you get the shiny patch. It's much more faster in the long run than going foir 40 because it breaks more often.
It´s also easier to do this method in Gen 4 since the areas with grass patches are large enough, almost every area with grass patches in the game allows you to chain without problems, not the case of XY where you can do it comfortably only in certain areas like Pokémon Village.
Nice OP! I pokeradar hunted ton years ago in Platinum and X (and even in Renegade Platinum). My first hunt was a Shinx too, wise of you use a Static lead.
Side notes:
-You can easily get money in DPPt by battling Gentlemen Jeremy and Socialite Reina with Amulet Coin on the route south of Hearthome (near the mansion) using the VS Seeker. 16,000P per battle.
-You can use Pokémon with certain abilities to increase your 98% chain chance, like a static mon against if you're chaining Shinx on Route 202 (I recommend practicing on him for your first chain).
-You have a 2% chance of getting a shiny patch with every radar use after you get your 40 chain, but make sure you're using the radar in a spot where you're getting 4 patches to shake every time (because each patch alone has a 0.5% chance of being shiny).
-Sometimes you'll get the shiny patch before the 40 chain, other times it will take way over odds. You can expect the chain itself to break on some hunts and not on others.
I've been successfully shiny chaining the last few days in Gen 4 with pokéradar. Here's my guide:
1. Teach a high level mon False Swipe.
2. Buy Super Repels and Ultra Balls (or balls of your choosing). I recommend having 120-200 Super Repels per hunt. The amount of Ultra Balls depends on the mon you're hunting. High catch rate, like Starly, 60 is more than enough. Medium catch rate, 80-100. Low catch rate, I'd pack like 150-200 just to be safe. If you're hunting something like a Beldum with a legendary catch rate, you'll need a ton of Ultra Balls (I'd say like 500).
3. Find a patch of grass like [...], it can even be smaller than that.
4. Lead with your False Swiper, and register the radar.
5. Activate it and always go for the shiny leafy patches. They particularly give you the non-traditional Pokémon for those routes, but I use them regardless because they're just easier to spot.
6. Once you encounter your mon, False Swipe it and catch it. Catching the Pokémon raises your chance of successfully chaining by 10%. It is NOT worth not catching it. You will save more time this way IMO than getting to a for example 30 chain and breaking it.
7. Your chain has begun, use the Pokétch app that shows you your chain (the one that has the highest three chains shown on the screen).
8. ONLY enter grass that is of the same type as the type you started the chain with (again, I recommend the shiny leafy patches). And ONLY enter patches that are either four patches away horizontally OR vertically from where you reset the radar in that instance (see pic related, you would only enter grass within the light blue and orange lines). Going 4 away gives you, after catching the previous Pokémon in your chain, a 98% chance of the chain continuing. You should reset the radar if you don't spot a desirable patch.
9. Get to a chain of 40. At that point you no longer have to encounter patches. You can keep resetting the radar until a shiny patch appears.
I hate to break it for you but Shinx pokeradar chain has scripted increased chances of not breaking, I don't know why. Starly on the other hand will break much more frequently, even when chaining in the same route as Shinx
Because Static also increases the chance of an electric mon and since shinx is the only electric mon there you're much more likely to encounter it and not brrak the chain.
Congrats anon, I was always too morones to get a radar chain up. I always stayed within 2 spots of the border and used repels but the chain just broke out of nowhere after getting to 15 or 20.
What did I do wrong/QRD on how to do this?
From another thread
I've been successfully shiny chaining the last few days in Gen 4 with pokéradar. Here's my guide:
1. Teach a high level mon False Swipe.
2. Buy Super Repels and Ultra Balls (or balls of your choosing). I recommend having 120-200 Super Repels per hunt. The amount of Ultra Balls depends on the mon you're hunting. High catch rate, like Starly, 60 is more than enough. Medium catch rate, 80-100. Low catch rate, I'd pack like 150-200 just to be safe. If you're hunting something like a Beldum with a legendary catch rate, you'll need a ton of Ultra Balls (I'd say like 500).
3. Find a patch of grass like
, it can even be smaller than that.
4. Lead with your False Swiper, and register the radar.
5. Activate it and always go for the shiny leafy patches. They particularly give you the non-traditional Pokémon for those routes, but I use them regardless because they're just easier to spot.
6. Once you encounter your mon, False Swipe it and catch it. Catching the Pokémon raises your chance of successfully chaining by 10%. It is NOT worth not catching it. You will save more time this way IMO than getting to a for example 30 chain and breaking it.
7. Your chain has begun, use the Pokétch app that shows you your chain (the one that has the highest three chains shown on the screen).
8. ONLY enter grass that is of the same type as the type you started the chain with (again, I recommend the shiny leafy patches). And ONLY enter patches that are either four patches away horizontally OR vertically from where you reset the radar in that instance (see pic related, you would only enter grass within the light blue and orange lines). Going 4 away gives you, after catching the previous Pokémon in your chain, a 98% chance of the chain continuing. You should reset the radar if you don't spot a desirable patch.
9. Get to a chain of 40. At that point you no longer have to encounter patches. You can keep resetting the radar until a shiny patch appears.
is this also valid for XY?
No, in XY you always kill the Pokemon. Also the shakes are different. Also in DPP the optimal is like chain of 20 and then just reset and walk until you get the shiny patch. It's much more faster in the long run than going foir 40 because it breaks more often.
It´s also easier to do this method in Gen 4 since the areas with grass patches are large enough, almost every area with grass patches in the game allows you to chain without problems, not the case of XY where you can do it comfortably only in certain areas like Pokémon Village.
It's much more fast and consistent in gen 6. Not as broken as chain fishing, but still.
Nice OP! I pokeradar hunted ton years ago in Platinum and X (and even in Renegade Platinum). My first hunt was a Shinx too, wise of you use a Static lead.
Couldn't have wrote it better myself.
Side notes:
-You can easily get money in DPPt by battling Gentlemen Jeremy and Socialite Reina with Amulet Coin on the route south of Hearthome (near the mansion) using the VS Seeker. 16,000P per battle.
-You can use Pokémon with certain abilities to increase your 98% chain chance, like a static mon against if you're chaining Shinx on Route 202 (I recommend practicing on him for your first chain).
-You have a 2% chance of getting a shiny patch with every radar use after you get your 40 chain, but make sure you're using the radar in a spot where you're getting 4 patches to shake every time (because each patch alone has a 0.5% chance of being shiny).
-Sometimes you'll get the shiny patch before the 40 chain, other times it will take way over odds. You can expect the chain itself to break on some hunts and not on others.
Thanks anon that was really helpful
I hate to break it for you but Shinx pokeradar chain has scripted increased chances of not breaking, I don't know why. Starly on the other hand will break much more frequently, even when chaining in the same route as Shinx
Because Static also increases the chance of an electric mon and since shinx is the only electric mon there you're much more likely to encounter it and not brrak the chain.
god i love the shinx line shiny
Based, make sure you keep the chain going to get 2 more for the full line.
I got this guy the last year. It was the encounter 17, I was amazed.
japanese you will never be
No but the japanese versions are much more affordable and less likely to be fake, and it´s pretty cool to play the original versions of the games.
nice anon how long did it take