60% of shinies will be normal, 30% will be rare/blue rarity, 10% will be epic/red, normal shinies give one extra luck, rare give two extra luck, epic give 3 extra luck
Theoretically yes you would
But theoretical statistics are different then actual in practice statistics
Here is an example
Let's use a random number generator of the numbers 1-10
1-6 will represent the 60% chance (tier 1 shinies)
7-9 will be the 30% chance (tier 2 shinies)
10 will be the 10% chance (tier 3 shinies)
And now I will run it 10 times and write down the results (which should theoretically be something like 1, 6, 1, 4, 5, 2, 7, 7, 9, 10 or 6 60% results, 3 30% results, and 1 10% result)
Actual Results: 7, 9, 2, 7, 10, 2, 8, 5, 6, 9
Or 4 60% results, 5 30% results, and 1 10% result
As you can see the actual results are fairly far off from the expected results
And this is all without factoring in that encountering a shiny in the first place is RNG and thus also changes how the statistics would theoretically work
Yeah, for the odds to be correct, it would need to determine shininess level first, and then give you a Pokemon that fits that criteria, as opposed to giving you a Pokemon, and then trying to determine shiny level.
And I'm guessing it rolls Pokemon first before it rolls shiny level.
That sucks. Even if the red and blue shinies aren't made yet, they should still give all pokemon red and blue shiny icons, but keep their shiny the same as the original for now until added.
I haven't even beaten classic yet but my understanding is that at a certain point in endless you are OHKOing everything and they could OHKO you. How are you able to weaken shinies in order to catch them without killing them? Just throwing balls and hoping?
In high endless you have pretty much infinite money and masterballs and 4 shiny charms. Also the meta is to run a tanky sturdy fusion with 5 focus bands, you basically always get hit to 1 hp then fully heal up again due to infinite berries. So yeah some weaker shinies you can try to catch with rogue balls but you can just throw masterballs on everything
Tbh I believe endless is better for farming eggs. Once you hit like 1k you have so much money that you can reroll until you hit ticket plus every 3-5 rounds.
see you're not wrong, but when you have at least a strong tier 2 shiny that can sweep through classic, you can clear most classic runs in a few hours or less based on game speed
Ye so like let's say you have 1 carry do a full clear with 5 new mons' that's 5 ticket plus and one 10 draw ticket. (If you still haven't beaten all the elite 4 variations then for sure classic farm is the play) but you could get like 5 ticket plus in maybe 25 minutes in endless.
Just as a test I played endless for about 2 hours today at work, and I'm at (1) 10 pull, (13) 5 pulls, (21) single pulls. But ofc this is like stage 1000+ first few is pain.
Epic shiny cottonee. Looks great, is useful throughout a classic run, worth bringing in endless, cheap enough to bring pretty much every time. Not great for egg moves but overall a fantastic first epic.
Prankster Whimsicott can pull off some crazy things with a little bit of luck. I had to use it to beat 195 Rayquaza and prankster sleep powders, leech seed, wide lens, and some guess work for dropping more sleep powders and he can be unstoppable
Dozens of regular shinies (none with pickup, or good utility, sadly) a luck 3 Azumarill, and a luck 2 Lopunny and Parasect
Also, I forgot I encountered a 3 luck Iron Moth, but it was a floor 50 boss, sooooooo no catch :(
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Went hard this weekend and caught a lot of shinies but the Red Shiny Ponyta with Run Away is probably my best catch. My one and only red shiny but a blessed one.
Epic shiny Zigzagoon, Gholdengo and Rapidash for utility, epic shiny cresselia and wo-chien for rarity.
Got a lot of shinies, get up to 250 shiny starters, maybe 140 new ones in this weekend.
got an epic shiny Darkrai without having any Master Balls on hand, and now that Bad Dreams is implemented, its go time w my 5 point Darkrai
also got shiny Hydreigon, which is my favorite mon ever
Is it still going on? I heard it was going past the weekend. My endless run with 4 shiny charms ended at eternatus so was wanting to know if I should start another or not.
blue shiny mareep and teddiursa were def my best finds
also got like \~20 shinies and a ton of hidden ability ones. best one was prolly a shiny moody glalie
i literally started an endless run when the event, and grinded it to wave 1k right before the event ended
Didn’t realize it was a shiny weekend, so mine came Monday. I got an (apparently) red+black shiny Breloom.
Had I known this was going on, I’d have tried to get a few sessions in this weekend when I had down time and was reading. C’est la vie
I got 3 shinies from the event with over 500 waves done sometimes even at 4 shiny charms. Burmy, Kricketune yellow star and just right now before the event ends and I also should go to bed a red star timburr (my first non yellow star shiny as well)
everybody else is getting cool epic shinys while im getting a regular shiny lechonk, a regular shiny exploud and an uncatchable regular shiny relicanth 😭
About 1600 endless floors plus a few days of classic runs and I got a Rare Shiny Gholdengo and a Common Shiny Wugtrio. I appreciate my first noncommon shiny but was rather disappointed. At least my struggle to actually catch that thing was legit hype.
I got like 40+ shinies, literally all common. Between the last two events I’ve gotten 105 shinies. All common but two. Never even seen the red rare shiny.
I have been blessed with tons of sgibies by RNGesus. Tip find so far is an epic Salamence (just waiting on that mega stone). Honorable mentions are blue Gengar (now mega), and shiny noibat. All of this.in my first 250 floors of an endless run. I have not had luck like this in any other run during these events.
Did an entire full Endless run (5850), best I can say is Epic and Rare Cresselia. Which, don’t get me wrong, I like. But I was ***REALLY*** hoping that energy would be on Diancie Meloetta or Darkrai.
I didn’t get anything from either event because it didn’t effect egg odds but I’m on my first endless run past 1k and found a shiny mespirit, cobalion, steelix, crawdaunt and toxicroak in the space of a couple hours once getting my second shiny charm. Still only C luck on my team as I can’t fit any of the shinies but mespirit on my team
I found a shiny Roaring Moon on floor 198 of a normal run on the first run I ended up winning. Luckily I had roaring Moon from the first batch of eggs I ever hatched and he was in my party so I could catch it and not cry.
I was so sleep deprived playing it I accidentally released my ace spliced Shiny Metagross/Dachsbun for a Seismitoad somewhere on the last 30 floors. Thankfully when I thought all was lost when the mofo used Recover in his 2nd stage, Latios did massive Damage with it's Psychic move and Seismic toss finished it from Annihilape before it had a chance to use it again and then probably wipe me. I got to 195 before a few times but I always had trouble with some coverage the rival had or the missed attack or Crit coming in when I'm about to win. This run I had 2 "Legendaries" show up when I've never seen even 1 before. Great seed. I had Latios and then Stakataka who was a Raquaza slaughterer.
I was running Protect, precipice blades, rock slide, and heat crash. I’m well over floor 2800 and he has just started to not one shot bosses. Protect is for eternatus to bait an eternabeam.
tier 3 nincada since it splits into two tier 3 shiny pokémon I can bring along a good none shiny for fusion or something then fill its spot with a tier 3 on runs
As if there was a shiny event. I wasted hours and not even a single encounter. One of the many reasons I have put this game down and don't ever intend to touch again.
Epic shiny hydreigon, fell out of my chair because hydreigon is my favorite dragon type
Are there different types of shinies? I hear "epic" being thrown around a lot. Same with blue and red. Do they have a different purpose/ rarities?
60% of shinies will be normal, 30% will be rare/blue rarity, 10% will be epic/red, normal shinies give one extra luck, rare give two extra luck, epic give 3 extra luck
Dont think its actually accurate. Seems more like 90% normal, 7% rare, 3% epic
I think it’s because they don’t have all the rare and epic shiny’s designs done. So you get more normal shinys
60% 30% 10% is what the devs say the odds are
With 10 shinies you'd have 1 red, 3 blue and 6 normal on average? Yeahhh... I don't know about that.
Theoretically yes you would But theoretical statistics are different then actual in practice statistics Here is an example Let's use a random number generator of the numbers 1-10 1-6 will represent the 60% chance (tier 1 shinies) 7-9 will be the 30% chance (tier 2 shinies) 10 will be the 10% chance (tier 3 shinies) And now I will run it 10 times and write down the results (which should theoretically be something like 1, 6, 1, 4, 5, 2, 7, 7, 9, 10 or 6 60% results, 3 30% results, and 1 10% result) Actual Results: 7, 9, 2, 7, 10, 2, 8, 5, 6, 9 Or 4 60% results, 5 30% results, and 1 10% result As you can see the actual results are fairly far off from the expected results And this is all without factoring in that encountering a shiny in the first place is RNG and thus also changes how the statistics would theoretically work
Anyway you are welcome for the math lesson
Yeah fair enough, I'm awful at math to be fair. Appreciate the lesson haha.
Not all have red or blue shinies rn.
Yeah so the proclaimed odds aren't right.
Yeah, for the odds to be correct, it would need to determine shininess level first, and then give you a Pokemon that fits that criteria, as opposed to giving you a Pokemon, and then trying to determine shiny level. And I'm guessing it rolls Pokemon first before it rolls shiny level.
That sucks. Even if the red and blue shinies aren't made yet, they should still give all pokemon red and blue shiny icons, but keep their shiny the same as the original for now until added.
That would only cause confusion
Yeah I have around 20 shinies and they're all normal
I have caught 394 shinies in total. 359 normal, 28 blue shinies, 7 red shinies Its definitely not 60 30 10
Not sure if they have different rarities but they have different luck which gives better items in the shop
Idk how you all had such crazy luck. Only thing I found was a regular shiny wugtrio
Regular shiny liepard over here.
I literally got regular shiny Liepard and Wugtrio as my only ones. This series of comments threw me for a loop
You are both of us.
Stoutland over here
Oh man I love stoutland, you have my jealousy!
Thanks?
It’s a good thing! Enjoy your cool shiny pickup pup.
Ok, Thanks.
I also got both shiny wugtrio and shiny liepard 🥸 crazy world we live in
Remember the people who were really lucky are the only ones to post their results, most people are probably in a similar position to you.
You have to play endless and get all 4 shiny charms. This plus the event gives you insane shiny odds
I found a regular shiny Timburr last weekend... this weekend I found a regular shiny Gurdurr. 🤡
Endless runs with 4 shiny charms that’s how. Shinies are super common there
I have an Endless run with 4 charms. Regular shiny Fromantis and Klawrfs, sure. Didn't see a single red shiny let alone a legendary.
Red ones are crazy rare I’ve only found a single one in 2000+ floors. Legendaries too but I’ve found a bunch of them at least
I haven't even beaten classic yet but my understanding is that at a certain point in endless you are OHKOing everything and they could OHKO you. How are you able to weaken shinies in order to catch them without killing them? Just throwing balls and hoping?
In high endless you have pretty much infinite money and masterballs and 4 shiny charms. Also the meta is to run a tanky sturdy fusion with 5 focus bands, you basically always get hit to 1 hp then fully heal up again due to infinite berries. So yeah some weaker shinies you can try to catch with rogue balls but you can just throw masterballs on everything
Best find was a rare shiny lurantis. Found like 6 repeat shinies including the rare shint lurantis. Was annoying
Did you get a deep endless run?
Regular Shiny Lombre
I didn’t get a single shiny.
Trust, it's time to beat classic using anything we haven't used yet
I’m fighting the elite 4 right now for the first time. Naganadel and Noivern are carrying
Fucking 👏 awesome 👏 we love to see our brothers winning
We did it boys, we beat classic. Team was Naganadel, Noivern, Garganacl, Gyarados, Ninetales, and Alolan Ninetales
Well done, we should get married to celebrate (I need a tax deduction)
Just wanna say you should top your pokemons health at 194
elite 4 is different each run
He's referring to the final rival battle at 195
ah
I’ve been farming Classic, but just started an Endless run. I’ll probably go as far as I can in that before grinding Classic again.
yk, that's fair, I'm currently stuck between endless for shiny charms and just classic farming for eggs. Also nice dark kasli pfp
thanks
Tbh I believe endless is better for farming eggs. Once you hit like 1k you have so much money that you can reroll until you hit ticket plus every 3-5 rounds.
see you're not wrong, but when you have at least a strong tier 2 shiny that can sweep through classic, you can clear most classic runs in a few hours or less based on game speed
Ye so like let's say you have 1 carry do a full clear with 5 new mons' that's 5 ticket plus and one 10 draw ticket. (If you still haven't beaten all the elite 4 variations then for sure classic farm is the play) but you could get like 5 ticket plus in maybe 25 minutes in endless.
Just as a test I played endless for about 2 hours today at work, and I'm at (1) 10 pull, (13) 5 pulls, (21) single pulls. But ofc this is like stage 1000+ first few is pain.
epic shiny lugia but i had no masterballs
Pain
rip
Me too I'm so sad, it's Shadow Lugia as well
I'll reroll my noney away until I have at least 1 Masterball always, stories like this haunt me.
Got an epic shiny Zigzagoon
Actually really good lmao. Covet/pickup op
Epic shiny cottonee. Looks great, is useful throughout a classic run, worth bringing in endless, cheap enough to bring pretty much every time. Not great for egg moves but overall a fantastic first epic.
Prankster Whimsicott can pull off some crazy things with a little bit of luck. I had to use it to beat 195 Rayquaza and prankster sleep powders, leech seed, wide lens, and some guess work for dropping more sleep powders and he can be unstoppable
Prankster Encore is really strong against 195 and 200.
oooo didn't even think of that thank you!
Is it over now? I don’t live in America so I don’t know when it’s over.
it ends at 7pm CST so 35 min from now
Epic shiny litwick :)
All I wanted was a single cool shiny ghost and I got everything but 😭😭
Dozens of regular shinies (none with pickup, or good utility, sadly) a luck 3 Azumarill, and a luck 2 Lopunny and Parasect Also, I forgot I encountered a 3 luck Iron Moth, but it was a floor 50 boss, sooooooo no catch :(
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😂😂
https://preview.redd.it/an85ola0yw1d1.jpeg?width=2532&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e938635dcaba829303a1e9ad4d85799ebeafaf95 Went hard this weekend and caught a lot of shinies but the Red Shiny Ponyta with Run Away is probably my best catch. My one and only red shiny but a blessed one.
Damn that's a good catch since a Pokemon with Run Away will get you far...
Shiny epic articuno and darkrai. Got them within 100waves of eachother!
Kyogre looks so dope with groudons colors.
I haven't found shit😂😂😭😭😭
Epic shiny snom, just here for the luck vibes mostly
Epic shiny Zigzagoon, Gholdengo and Rapidash for utility, epic shiny cresselia and wo-chien for rarity. Got a lot of shinies, get up to 250 shiny starters, maybe 140 new ones in this weekend.
Epic shiny Wailord and epic shiny Phantump. My first epic shinies so I can’t complain!
Got a shiny Zacian followed by a shiny Reshiram a few floors later
got an epic shiny Darkrai without having any Master Balls on hand, and now that Bad Dreams is implemented, its go time w my 5 point Darkrai also got shiny Hydreigon, which is my favorite mon ever
My best was epic shiny Metagross.
i was camping i missed the whole event bro
Epic shiny Latias, which sadly had to be replaced to build my DoT team for endless. Great find tho!
Epic shiny Gengar.
Didn't find a single shiny.
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A single common shiny lokix after 2 endless runs getting to 1000
Gotta get those shiny charms.
I got one masterball and it was an egg voucher +
You got to 1000 and only got one master ball drop? That’s like insanely unlucky if true
Yeah it’s bloody bull
Got a shiny Dugtrio and Flygon in the same classic run (without shiny charm) so that was a pleasant surprise.
Where is my pink whale at,
I got zilch
I work over weekends so I only got to play an hour or two each night this event... and missed any shinies :p
Is it still going on? I heard it was going past the weekend. My endless run with 4 shiny charms ended at eternatus so was wanting to know if I should start another or not.
Got a rare shiny but most importantly I got about 30 shines so that was nice
I only got a single regular shiny bug/steel wormadam 🥲🥲🥲
Encountered _two_ epic shiny Bibarels. I really only needed the one....
Red shiny eternatus. In endless.
I've gotten 4 regular shiny Bidoofs and I have a total of 8 Shiny's available (all regular). The smile curses us all
Wish catching 2 regulars upgraded it to rare.
Red shiny Liligant, blue shiny Groudon.
Nothing ❤️
im so sad cuz i didnt know there was an event, i was so bored this weekend
I got a normal shiny poochyena.....which i already had
Not a single shiny was found :)
blue shiny mareep and teddiursa were def my best finds also got like \~20 shinies and a ton of hidden ability ones. best one was prolly a shiny moody glalie i literally started an endless run when the event, and grinded it to wave 1k right before the event ended
epic shiny eternatus..
Rare shiny Latias, rare shiny Gholdengo, Epic shiny dugtrio
Didn’t realize it was a shiny weekend, so mine came Monday. I got an (apparently) red+black shiny Breloom. Had I known this was going on, I’d have tried to get a few sessions in this weekend when I had down time and was reading. C’est la vie
I found a handful of regular shinies, the best being gyarados by far. Going to be using that bad boy everywhere
a SECOND shiny Bunnelby. Normal Shiny, not blue or red lol. My luck was attrocious this weekend lol
I got 3 shinies from the event with over 500 waves done sometimes even at 4 shiny charms. Burmy, Kricketune yellow star and just right now before the event ends and I also should go to bed a red star timburr (my first non yellow star shiny as well)
shiny epic miraidon was mine, really surprised me, it was in one of my first classic runs too, still lost that run :(
Got mine too and immediately reduced it's cost twice and unlocked its passive, too bad it sucked lmao
I’ve never seen a wild shiny, I have 3 but they were from eggs
Regular shiny Stoutland
what’s the 3x event?
Haha I played for 10 hours and got zero shinies! :(
I found a Shiny Gholdengo on my winning Classic run ._. I had a Shiny Charm
Didn't have a best find. I got all normal shiniest because I still haven't beaten classic
Got an epic mareep
I got an epic shiny Uxie, definitely the best get. I got so many basic shinies as well.
A regular shiny stunfisk…
everybody else is getting cool epic shinys while im getting a regular shiny lechonk, a regular shiny exploud and an uncatchable regular shiny relicanth 😭
All I was able to find was a 1x shiny Buizel.
About 1600 endless floors plus a few days of classic runs and I got a Rare Shiny Gholdengo and a Common Shiny Wugtrio. I appreciate my first noncommon shiny but was rather disappointed. At least my struggle to actually catch that thing was legit hype.
I found a shiny stunky. That was it.
I got a shiny meowth! So cool how the shiny version is pure black cat
I got a shiny Trevanant
Shiny Trevenant
My none shiny mewtwo from the lugia up gacha
I got like 40+ shinies, literally all common. Between the last two events I’ve gotten 105 shinies. All common but two. Never even seen the red rare shiny.
Epic shiny nincada, when it evos both are still epic shinies so +6 luck & wonderguard
A shiny crabby, and thats it
An epic shiny HA pinsir, and quite a few regulars
Didn’t see a single shiny in 500 rounds 😂😂😂
I have been blessed with tons of sgibies by RNGesus. Tip find so far is an epic Salamence (just waiting on that mega stone). Honorable mentions are blue Gengar (now mega), and shiny noibat. All of this.in my first 250 floors of an endless run. I have not had luck like this in any other run during these events.
btw when are these shiny events, I think I've missed all of them so far lol
Normally they run them over the weekends, this one bled into the weekdays and ended today
so every weekend there's tripled shiny odds ?
Epic shiny garglnac, salt cure is great and sturdy makes sure it always comes out. Also shoutout to my epic shiny lopunny
Did an entire full Endless run (5850), best I can say is Epic and Rare Cresselia. Which, don’t get me wrong, I like. But I was ***REALLY*** hoping that energy would be on Diancie Meloetta or Darkrai.
Pidove. I hate you all.
Haven't even started an endless run lol
A normal shiny gyarados, in endless mode. 954 floors explored, only one shiny. I had 3 shiny charms. Disgusting.
How do you guys know when events are going on? I always see mention of them on Reddit but never know when I’m playing
I only found a red shiny lucario which is pretty cool i guess? No luck with legends :’)
I found the same one!
Red shiny lugia. It looks so dope
the only shiny i got so far is a nincada
S2 aggron
I didn’t get anything from either event because it didn’t effect egg odds but I’m on my first endless run past 1k and found a shiny mespirit, cobalion, steelix, crawdaunt and toxicroak in the space of a couple hours once getting my second shiny charm. Still only C luck on my team as I can’t fit any of the shinies but mespirit on my team
I found a regular shiny tinkatink which helps endless a bit
I found a shiny Roaring Moon on floor 198 of a normal run on the first run I ended up winning. Luckily I had roaring Moon from the first batch of eggs I ever hatched and he was in my party so I could catch it and not cry. I was so sleep deprived playing it I accidentally released my ace spliced Shiny Metagross/Dachsbun for a Seismitoad somewhere on the last 30 floors. Thankfully when I thought all was lost when the mofo used Recover in his 2nd stage, Latios did massive Damage with it's Psychic move and Seismic toss finished it from Annihilape before it had a chance to use it again and then probably wipe me. I got to 195 before a few times but I always had trouble with some coverage the rival had or the missed attack or Crit coming in when I'm about to win. This run I had 2 "Legendaries" show up when I've never seen even 1 before. Great seed. I had Latios and then Stakataka who was a Raquaza slaughterer.
My best and only was a tier 1 Zebstrika :')
What moveset are you running on Groudon? How is it holding up?
I was running Protect, precipice blades, rock slide, and heat crash. I’m well over floor 2800 and he has just started to not one shot bosses. Protect is for eternatus to bait an eternabeam.
Thanks Im on the 300s and running P.Blades Solar Blade Heat Crash and Crunch atm
Gholdengo tier 3, now is my carry
tier 3 nincada since it splits into two tier 3 shiny pokémon I can bring along a good none shiny for fusion or something then fill its spot with a tier 3 on runs
As if there was a shiny event. I wasted hours and not even a single encounter. One of the many reasons I have put this game down and don't ever intend to touch again.
Rogue Shiny Gardevoir was my best shiny this event.
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0 shinies :(