kwsch / pkNX

Pokémon (Nintendo Switch) ROM Editor & Randomizer
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Shiny Rate question (Shield) #330

Closed KirbyKing186 closed 1 year ago

KirbyKing186 commented 1 year ago

Shiny Pokémon obviously are rare, freaks of luck that by pure happenstance show up during a playthrough. I have not received my first badge and I already have two (snom and tyrunt). I feel like the odds have been raised, although I have not changed any settings in the “shiny rate” option in PKNX. Am I just lucky or does randomization boost odds somehow? I re-randomized the romfs after I found snom, just in case there was any errors with the shiny rate. Both configuration files had no results when I CTRL-F’d “shiny”

Tangent: a trainer in a Max Raid Den had a shiny Fomantis. This is when I realized that I accidentally set trainer shinies to 2.5%, which in the next randomization I turned down to 0%. This shouldn’t effect wild encounters though correct?

kwsch commented 1 year ago

Randomization does not change the shiny rate, which is an exefs patch cheat.

Trainer shinies are unrelated to wild.

KirbyKing186 commented 1 year ago

So I got 2 full odds shinies? I played through the entirety of PKMN Emerald randomized and not a single shiny, but two full-odds are awesome now

duckdoom4 commented 1 year ago

Emerald odds are 1/8192, compared to the lower base rate of 1/4096 in sword/shield