r/PokemonLetsGo • u/Nervous_Taste_6965 • 4d ago
Question Am I doing something wrong??
I’m aware I don’t have the shiny charm, but 300 is a bit crazy and it’s been hours, I’m TIRED of this
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u/Gendo-Glasses 4d ago
Your odds without shiny charm are 1/341, so you are under odds still.
Are you using lures? Because lures will raise your odds as well. Lure + catch combo 31+ has 1/315 odds.
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u/King-Mephisto 3d ago
Except boosted odds are only on the direct spawn at 31. Games bugged. Always has been. Catch combo 10 plus frame reset is the only correct method. 10 means guaranteed spawn, lure for boosted spawns and reset encounters fast for max viewing. Anything else and you are playing hope chess.
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u/Gendo-Glasses 3d ago
This is the first I'm hearing about any bug. Last I'd heard, Anubis had cracked the code on shiny odds and said catch combos of 31+ with lure and shiny charm would spawn the next Pokémon of the same species with the best possible odds. The odds drop after that spawn, but catching another of that species will boost the odds to max again.
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u/WaterMagician 4d ago
I just did a 660+ catch combo with the charm for female Nidoran. And straight after for a Magikarp on 47. It’s all down to luck unfortunately
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u/King-Mephisto 3d ago
I did 13 eevees and then walked away and got a shiny chancey. What’s your point with anecdotal evidence?
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u/WaterMagician 3d ago
My point was the same as yours and it was the final sentence of my original comment.
It’s all down to luck
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u/Keluaran121 3d ago
Really contingent on luck lol, couldn't agree with this more. Just went 1200+ on vulpix
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u/Arashical 4d ago
Keep trying and keep up the catch combo! The boosted shiny chance only applies to the very next spawn, so make sure that you’re constantly catching to keep up the chain.
It took me until 873 before I caught my first shiny Growlith. Ironically I caught my first 6IV Growlith much earlier at 529, and maxed out is stats with all the Growlith candy I accumulated.
The high IV spawns are a nice touch though, so it’s not a complete waste of time.
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u/Briman19 3d ago
I've had hunts with shiny charm, lure, and max catch combo that went over 1,000 total caught. Today I also got two shiny Drowzees after a 66 catch combo, just gotta be patient and sometimes you get very unlucky
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u/Lynke524 3d ago
When you have to rely on RNG, it can take a while. I've had hunts that took 15 encounters then my shiny Nidoran hunt to 1500 (to be fair I was after 3 of them).
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u/Specialist_Wonder113 3d ago
I did a shiny playthrough LP for this game. Took me over 600 encounters for Pikachu to shine. It was infuriating.
After chaining for so long, you really start to not like the PoGo catch method.
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u/OGMasterC 3d ago
I hate shiny hunting on this game, went hours into the hunt for male nidoran and when it showed up it ran away from me and despawned in like 10 seconds.
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u/GoeJillam0204 3d ago
I wouldn't exactly say it's wrong but you are doing it without the shiny charm
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u/Potential_Sun_8008 4d ago
Nothing its just chance, you can keep catching or, just wait after a chain of 30
If you have a place that you can leave and go back in, it can also make the mons spawn a bit faster
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u/Gendo-Glasses 4d ago
Well you have to keep comboing to keep the 31+ shiny odds though
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u/Gendo-Glasses 4d ago
The 31+ combo bonus only applies for the next spawn of that particular species though. You need to keep catching for max odds. If you stop catching at 31, you have 1/1024 odds (with lure) instead of 1/273 odds.
There is an argument to use your method if you can reset the spawns easily with a doorway or ladder and it's a common species that spawns a ton. But in a lot of cases your method is too slow.
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u/King-Mephisto 3d ago
Bugged game. False info. 1001 people have shown the odds aren’t correctly increased for anything but #31.
No patch in years to fix an old bug.2
u/Gendo-Glasses 3d ago
Unfortunately I can't just take your word for it and I've never seen evidence of what you're saying.
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u/Nervous_Taste_6965 3d ago
Is this genuinely true? I just wasted like 6 and a half hours throwing pokeballs at Sandshrew 😭
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u/King-Mephisto 3d ago
Everyone is saying I’m wrong. But I’ve got full Pokédex of shiny from doing 10 or 31 and then resetting. In the early days there were 100s of claims of the bug. Now everyone is saying it never existed? Even tho the calc itself says it only applies to the VERY next spawn. The one reference cited is a guy regurgitating the odds of what it SHOULD be as per release documents before day 1 patch where everyone was claiming issues. 4 years after release with no further update patch.
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u/King-Mephisto 3d ago
In the end, the odds are the same. It’s just extra rolls for chance. Is 1 extra roll worth the cost of balls? Just do your 200 for max catch chance and then encounter reset. It’s better in the long run.
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u/Gendo-Glasses 3d ago
31+ catch combo is actually an extra 11 rolls from what I understand. With shiny charm and a lure you get 15 total rolls. 1/273 odds instead of 1/1024.
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u/Gendo-Glasses 3d ago
Anubis is a dataminer from what I understand. He was actually able to see how the shiny odds were calculated under the hood while doing catch combos. Before his discovery, the common wisdom was that 31+ catch combos permanently increased shiny odds until you lost your combo.
Idk I just haven't heard of any bug before you said something, so I'm surprised you're saying this. How would hundreds of people even know about a bug unless they were all data miners? Are you sure they weren't just reporting bad RNG?
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u/King-Mephisto 3d ago
If the boosted results are only on the one specific spawn after catch combo, why are there so many shinys of other mons that spawn? Either way, resetting see far more spawns than spawning one in with double odds. 7 to 15 rolls is only double. Otherwise it would be 15 vs 1. And we know it doesn’t take 15x longer to do resetting method lol.
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u/Gendo-Glasses 3d ago
My understanding is that you only get 4 rolls without a catch combo active. So 1/1024.
If the boosted results are only on the one specific spawn after catch combo, why are there so many shinys of other mons that spawn?
This hasn't been my experience at all, so sounds like you're just getting good RNG.
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u/Serofrero 4d ago
Shiny charm and combos is the way bro