While it is very doubtful that you know me and don't know what a Shiny Pokemon is, but just in case you don't know, I'll explain it for you. A Shiny Pokemon is a special kind of Pokemon that has a different Color Palette than general.
Regular Shiny
Their stats are similar, they have no special moves or anything....so why are they so special? Well, it's their rarity, to be precise. Every time you meet a pokemon, there is a 1/8192 chance of meeting one. Yeh. They're rare.
Now, I am one of those who I call a Shiny Collector. I only trade and take Shinies, I only use Shinies, Shiny, Shiny, Shiny. Therefore, today I will give you the best methods for getting Shinies.
Legit
There is no easy way of getting a Shiny that you KNOW is legit. You can run around hoping that you get REALLY, REALLY lucky, but there is a faster way....through Breeding. Breeding with a pokemon from a different region actually changes the chances significantly. It goes from 1/8192 to 1/1365.3. Not bad, but you'll still have to be pretty lucky to get one. In Black or White, you also recve an Item known as the Shining Charm, increasing the chance by another bit. Add that to the breeding method, and you get about 1/1000.
Possibly Legit
The fastest way to get Shinies however, is through trading. Shinies have existed since the dawn of Pokemon, and after over 15 years of existence, thousands of Shinies have been collected. Whether through legit methods, events, or hacking, they are certainly around and about.
This is in my mind, the best and quickest way of getting them without straight up hacking. Now, some people don't like it because there's a "chance" it was hacked. While that was true, you GAVE something to get it, just like any other trade, and hacked Shinies are rarely hacked to extreme degrees, so you're still generally fine.
There are two different methods of doing this, both of which I will cover. Note that BOTH of these methods require Wi-fi, but Wi-fi is quite common these days, so it shouldn't be a worry.
GTS
GTS, the Global Trading Station. It's quite similar to if you had an account on ebay or something, only you traded instead of buying. You can post one pokemon at a time, and put a requirement for the trade, such as Porygon Z lvl 50 or something. You can browse and search for any Pokemon you've seen, as well as for specific levels, gender, or origin of that Pokemon. It's pretty sweet.
Now, as you can imagine, there's quite a few Shinies out there these days. Unfortunately, these are what I call the "Dark Days" of Shiny Trading. Why? You will notice that HALF of the Shinies you see will be asking for...Reshiram or Zekrom lvl 5?
Don't ask me HOW it started, all that matters is that it did...it sucks. It is IMPOSSIBLE to get one without hacking, and there is NO WAY to trade them! And yet for some reason, EVERYONE is asking for them. Yeh. It sucks.
But that doesn't mean there's no Shinies! If you look hard enough, there are still honest people around who actually WANT SOMETHING USEFUL for their shinies! Be warned, they will ask for decent Pokemon, but if you have good stuff to trade, you'll get them eventually.
GTS Negotiations
This is THE FASTEST method of getting new Shinies. To explain what GTS Negotiations is, it's literally more of a negotiating thing. Instead of posting and waiting for what you want, you go on, put a few preferences, such as lvl 50-100 or what, and whether you want to find Cool, Scary, or Strange Pokemon, and you are paired up with someone who hopefully has something you want. You both have your own PC Boxes open, and can offer anything from your own you want. You can trade as many times as you want. And don't worry, there's no voice chat or video screens or anything, just emotes, so there's no worry of meeting swearers or anything.
Ironically enough, the "Lvl 5 Failure" of the GTS has actually made GTS Negotiations the Shiny hotspot. There is about a 50% chance that, with the right settings, the person paired up with you will have at least a couple Shinies. Yups, Shinies are everywhere here. But there is always a negative with the positive, right? Well, if you want a specific Shiny, you'll have to try hard and hope, because you can't say anything specific, just use emotes.
Also, GTS Negotiations started a group of traders I call the "Shiny Traders". I am one of these people, to some degree. However, they don't just give out Shinies for any old Pokemon. They are giving their Shinies only for other Shinies, seeing if they can get better ones than they already have, using ones that are weak or that they no longer need.
The reason this can be a bit of a problem, is that there's always a good chance you'll meet one of these, and they will not give you Shinies if you don't have any worth anything. So, Negotiations is not for everyone. It's still the quickest, but if you don't have many Shinies, I recommend using the GTS first for awhile, until you get a bunch.
Fact is, Negotiations is AMAZING for those like me. Most of my Shiny Pokemon that I use came from Negotiations. While I've met quite a few jerks and stuff, I've also met quite a few trainers like me who simply want better Shinies, and I have come out of a single trade with 5 different Shinies before. If you have lots of Shinies you no longer need, and want new ones, THIS is the place to go.
And that was my guide for collecting Shinies. I hope all you Pokemon players out there find this useful. While Shinies are more difficult to get and even when you get the one you want it may have a terrible nature or something, it's worth the end result. I find great joy in the fact that every member of my team was found through much time, effort, sometimes trading multiple times to get just one Shiny. It's hard work, but the feeling you get is incredible. My entire team is only Shinies, and I am proud of that fact. I doubt I will ever go back to using regular Pokemon again, using Shinies is just way too much fun! So I hope this guide helped you, and have a wonderful day!
If that fraction were definite and increased until it was 100%, I would have fought/caught around 122,070 shinies, enough to have a full dex of them (M and F, all forms (so 28 unown, 2 pidgey, etc.) around 95 times.
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