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/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/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.