iâm sure there are already posts like this, but iâve noticed that they tend to be pretty minimal in terms of tips outside of the very basics, so iâve decided to make my own! shiny hunting is different in sun and moon with the recent implementation of SOS pokemon, but overall much easier than it used to be! it can take a lot of patience, as itâs all based on chance, but as long as you keep all this in mind it should be relatively easy (although time consuming). in my experience, you can end up with a shiny in as little as half an hour or as much as several hours, all depending on luck.
basics
chaining! shiny pokemon have a little over a 1/4000 chance of appearing under normal circumstances, however since chaining was introduced in gen IV, people have discovered that encountering the same pokemon multiple times in a row exponentially increases the chance of encountering a shiny pokemon over time. EDIT: though no one currently has any details on the chances of encountering a shiny after 1-70 encounters, by the 70th encounter your chances are maximized, with a 1/1024 chance without a shiny charm and a 1/512 with one. this bonus applies until the chain reaches 255, as it is an 8-bit system, after which it will roll over and reset the chain. (in addition to raising the chance of encountering a shiny, pokemon that have been chained for tend to have better IVs, with up to 4 perfect IVs once a chain of 40 has been reached.)
adrenaline orbs! when used in battle, these cheap items make wild pokemon more likely to call SOS pokemon, which is the new method of chaining in gen VII. additionally, these can be used to use up a turn if necessary, as they will simply fail if one is already in use without expending any more of your supply.
false swipe or hold back! these moves both have the exact same effect: they reduce the HP of the target pokemon, but always leave it with at least 1 HP remaining. a pokemon with lower HP is more likely to call an SOS pokemon and succeed, so itâs a good idea to get the caller down to 1 HP.
status conditions
status moves! pokemon become unable to call for help when they are paralyzed or asleep, and in addition become easier to catch, so it is a good idea to have a pokemon that can inflict either condition on hand when shiny hunting. in addition, itâs really important to make sure that you donât use any moves or abilities that could leave the pokemon you want with poison or a burn, as they may faint before you can catch them. always be wary of which moves and abilities have such secondary effects!
status condition immunity! if youâre going for a pokemon that has the ability to inflict a status condition (sleep, poison, paralysis, etc) it is a good idea to go hunting using a pokemon that would be immune to such a condition. for reference, fire-types are immune to burn, ice-types are immune to freezing, poison- and steel-types are immune to poison, electric-types and pokemon with the ability limber are immune to paralysis, pokemon with the abilities vital spirit, sweet veil, or insomnia are immune to sleep, pokemon with the ability own tempo are immune to confusion, and pokemon with the ability oblivious are immune to infatuation. EDIT: âpowderâ moves such as sleep powder, poison powder, or spore can be avoided by grass types, pokemon with the ability overcoat, or pokemon wearing safety goggles. they will not be protected from other means of acquiring status conditions, however.
useful abilities
immunity-providing abilities! abilities which provide immunity to basic status conditions are listed above under the âstatus condition immunityâ section.
synchronize! if you want a pokemon to have a specific nature, this ability means that wild pokemon encountered when a pokemon with this ability is active have a 50% chance to have the same nature as that of the pokemon with this ability.
cute charm! when a pokemon with this ability leads, there is a 66.7% (about 2/3) chance that pokemon encountered will be of the opposite gender of that pokemon regardless of what the normal gender ratio for the species is. this can be used if you want your shiny to be a specific gender, or especially in the case of pokemon which only evolve when of a specific gender, such as salandit.
shadow tag and arena trap! prevents wild pokemon from fleeing in case they have moves such as teleport.
cloud nine and air lock! eliminates effects of weather (rain, hail, sandstorm, etc), which can be bothersome in long term battles with pokemon that have abilities that summon them
damp! prevents pokemon from using self-destructing moves
unnerve! has the same effect as an adrenaline orb without having to use one. additionally prevents foes from using berries, though that generally wouldnât happen anyway
corrosion! while not an ability you would want your own pokemon to have, as the signature ability of salandit/salazzle, it can be a huge pain since it allows them to poison even steel- and poison-types.
general tips/info
isle aplenny! this isnât a necessity per se, but in my experience is extremely useful, so i highly recommend you look into using it. pp restoring items such as ethers or elixirs cannot be purchased in shops, however leppa berries can be found under certain berry trees and restore 10pp! isle aplenny allows you to multiply your supply in bulk. if you have it fully upgraded, you can get many berries at once, so after only a day or two you have enough to last you for several chains.
shiny charm! if your pokedex has reached 100% completion, you can get a shiny charm by speaking to the game director in the game freak building in heahea city. this doubles the chances of finding a shiny pokemon.
get to know the pokemon you are chaining for! make sure you take note of any abilities or moves which could complicate chaining in some way as well as which moves could be super effective, not effective, etc. against it or the pokemon you are using to chain. also, make sure you know of any special circumstances in which a pokemon youâre chaining for may appear, such as certain times of day or certain weather conditions.
odor sleuth and foresight! these moves allow ghost-type pokemon to be damaged by normal-type moves, which typically would have no effect. this allows hold back or false swipe to be used on a ghost-type.EDIT: this was actually misinformed, as iâm not certain that any pokemon that learn these moves can use false swipe or hold back, which leads me to the next (new) point.
soak! soak is a move that can turn any pokemon it is used on into a pure water-type, thus eliminating immunity to false swipe or hold back. it cannot be learned by anything that can learn either of those moves, however, so it would be necessary to switch to the main pokemon being used for chaining afterwards.
set a new caller every so often! inevitably the pokemon calling for help will run out of pp, and if youâve used false swipe/hold back and gotten it to 1 HP, struggleâs recoil damage would knock it out, thus ending the chain if no ally pokemon is present to take its place. it is a good idea to pay attention to how long a single pokemon has been calling for help and eventually shift to a new caller by knocking the first one out when an ally from the same family is present.
SOS pokemon from different families cannot become callers! this is important to keep in mind if the pokemon you are chaining can call pokemon of other species. for example, when i was chaining pichu, they sometimes called happiny and pikachu as well. if i were to make pikachu the new caller, this would be fine, as pichu evolves into pikachu. if i were to knock out the pichu when a happiny were present, however, the chain would break, as pichu and happiny arenât related.
do not use false swipe/hold back on a target that hasnât been paralyzed or put to sleep! from experience, if you get your shiny down to 1 HP without preventing it from calling new pokemon, it will continue to successfully summon allies, which prevents you from catching it. if this continues on for a long time, you run the risk of letting the pokemon run out of pp and knock itself out using struggle.
thatâs all i can think of right now but i hope this helps someone out! reblogs would be appreciated for spread of info to anyone interested in chaining and just because it took me a long time to write all this :V
Letâs say you wanted to glue fabric to wood, but what do you use? What about glass to paper? This to That lets you choose two things you want to glue and lists what types of glue is best. (Because people have a need to glue things to other things!)
This is an incredibly awesome site. Go check it out!
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EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS
This is one of the first websites I was told about in props. It also has information about the toxicity, adhere time, price, and other stuff about the glues.
Guys, this is really important. Until now, Google collected your data, but did not attach your name to it. Now, they can, and will. This new thing theyâre doing will allow them to collect your data across searches, your email, Youtube, Maps, Google+, and all their affiliates, and build a complete profile of YOU.
If that doesnât bother you, maybe this will: they own and can sell all that data, including anything you create and send (artists and writers, take note).
There is a way you can opt out of this ridiculousness. Itâs described in the link, but if youâre still not sure about it, please ask me and Iâll guide you through how to turn all this off.
This is my wake-up call. Iâll be locking down my devices and scaling back what I put through the big Google machine, which means you may see less of me across social media. Iâm going to keep researching this, but it may mean in order to keep the rights to my creative work, Iâll have to keep it out of Googleâs hands. And that may take some doing.
Duckduckgo is a nontracking search engineâŠ.may be worth a try.
So according to the article there is an opt out for this. Instructions are I the last paragraph. Iâm on mobile so Iâll edit this more later. EDITED TO INCLUDE OPT OUT INSTRUCTIONS
To opt-out of Googleâs identified tracking, visit the Activity controls on Googleâs My Account page, and uncheck the box next to âInclude Chrome browsing history and activity from websites and apps that use Google services.â You can also delete past activity from your account.
Somebody remind me to do this in the morning
Clicking the activity controls link will take you there and itâs literally several seconds and youâre done folks
Ghostery is a browser extension that blocks all trackers, including the trackers run on Google or any other website.
Because this blog focuses so heavily around Pokemon world building, I thought it might come in handy to develop a font for this language that can be used in text and graphics! So, I did! You can see a small preview of the font in the image I provided at the topâit reads âPokemon Languageâ!
However, I figured that there was no reason to keep the font just to myselfâso Iâm sharing it with all of you! The font can be used in programs such as Photoshop, Microsoft Word, etc.! I made this entirely by hand, so I apologize for any small mistakes this might have, and the font itself looks best at around 20px and above!
If you are interested in downloading the font, click here! I hope you enjoy it!
Also if you donât know how to put it into Word just go to Start > Control Panel > Appearance and Personalization > Fonts, then drag and drop the Poke Font file into that box/list and it will be in Word or any other programs that use fonts install onto your PC!!
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Yeah, reblog that shit.
Had food poisoning before. Once youâre over the initial illness, itâll keep screwing with you for a week or more depending upon what made you sick. The cramps alone convinced me to never have kids of my own, pet will do just fine.
This is a summary of college only using two pictures; expensive as hell.
Thatâs my Sociology âbookâ. In fact what it is is a piece of paper with codes written on it to allow me to access an electronic version of a book. I was told by my professor that I could not buy any other paperback version, or use another code, so I was left with no option other than buying a piece of paper for over $200. Best part about all this is my professor wrote the books; thereâs something hilariously sadistic about that. So I pretty much doled out $200 for a current edition of an online textbook that is no different than an older, paperback edition of the same book for $5; yeah, I checked. My mistake for listening to my professor.
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