I just got into playing rom hacks and loaded up Pokemon Ultra Violet which is a romhack of firered.

When I was doing the initial quest for Oak, before getting pokeballs, I encountered a shiny pidgy. I was a bit bummed as it was my first ever shiny encounter and Ive been playing my whole life.

After giving him the parcel, I found another shiny pidgy on the same route.

I did not play gen 3 games much, so were shinies easy to find in this gen or did a i just get extremely lucky?

  • Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de
    11·
    6 days ago

    https://kdata1.com/2016/04/Pokemon-ultra-violet-guide.pdf

    Odds for shiny in normal gen 3 are very low

    In ultra Violet, the odds themselves are not higher, but if you walk through a ‘shinyizers’ spot as displayed on this guide here (i think there are 18 in total in the entire game) the next pokemon you interact with, be it wild, static, or trainer’s, will be shiny so if you unknowingly run through a spot (some are in the grass and some arent) you may think that the encounter rate is just higher, when really there’s just a way to make sure you get one. Hope this helps anyone in the future.

  • Oberyn@lemmy.world
    3·
    5 days ago

    Shinies from gen6 onwards have odds halved from 1:8192 → 1:4096

    However this dœsn’t mean shinies suddenly trivial to find . Haven’t recalled moments where found shinies unless actively lꚙKing for them till gen 9 where random encounters replaced with overworld

    Also possible the ROM hack your playing might’ve increased odds but they’ve not advertised it