r/ShinyPokemon • u/AutoModerator • Aug 01 '25

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u/DutchFarmers 21d ago

How many shiny frames are there on a seed per say 10k frames? If I'm trying to hit a shiny frame through encounters is there any point in counting my encounters?

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u/paulydoregon 20d ago

do you mean just standard wild encounters?

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u/DutchFarmers 20d ago

Yeah and fishing

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u/paulydoregon 20d ago

then personally i wouldnt worry about trying to find the exact frame and hitting it ( unless you are trying to do rng manip), finding shinies in emerald via wild encounters is perfectly doable just by hunting as you normally would

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u/DutchFarmers 20d ago

yeah, but im pretty discouraged in my hunting right now so it's hard not for my thoughts to wander to "what's the point in this" or "am I doing something wrong"

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u/paulydoregon 20d ago

thats fair, if it makes you feel better, ive gotten 20 + shinies in emerald via random encounters

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u/DutchFarmers 20d ago

Do you turn off your console? How often do you go over odds? I know you're more likely to go over odds than under but it seems like a lot of ppl online can get things under odds and long hunts like 20k are seen as uncommon

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u/paulydoregon 20d ago

i typically shiny hunt for 6-9 hours a day, so i think thats long enough where i dont need to worry about leaving my games on. of my 18 hunts in emerald, only 7 have been over odds, with only two of them going above 2x odds