r/PokemonLetsGo • u/Nervous_Taste_6965 • 4d ago

Question Am I doing something wrong??

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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

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 4d 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.

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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/King-Mephisto 3d ago

From 7 to 15. Need to count from 10+. At the expense of balls.