The shiny sparkle (after you wear out the graphics so much it doesn't make the cooler ones any more.) lasts the longest, doesn't shake the grass, and is in a loose cluster of 4-5(6?) specks; depending on which graphic it decided to use. I seem to think they are kinda purple.. more than yellow, but the cool ones were pure white.. I dunno, I might have been so tired making them appear everything was purple.. whatever.
ANYWAY, the point is, you won't think it's shiny, you will
know. And it will burn holes into your brain. Then you proceed to collect 20 of 'em, and your left thumb falls off.
Advice or TIPS/whatever (mostly intended for people just skimming this thread to see what it says):
1: Make sure you eat first, you won't likely want to risk messing up your chain just to keep from starving to death. If you forget to eat first, get into a battle, then eat.
2: Buy all of the super repels, all of them.
3: It never hurts to have 200-300+ leppa berries, revives, and some sort of potions (if they're the higher level Pokés you want).
4: Walls are pure evil, this includes empty ground, fences, trees.. anything except more radar grass.
5: That guy in the starly-bidoof grass left of Sandgem could potentially steal a shiny. If this game had killing... Yeah.
6: To get the chain to 40 (1 in 200 chance is awesome), take no chances at all. Rather than other charts, follow the chart below. you are X, tiles that are made of evil are 0, tiles that are safe(est) are 5.
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If that is hard to read, count the tiles from where you start, if it takes 4 tiles one direction, then turn and walk 1-3 tiles, it's safe(est). Though you may still have to actually walk a different path.
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Sorry my posts are big, really.
But it's awesome! I got my first perfect-near perfect shiny!
Female, Ralts, Synchronize, Modest, high sp.atk IVs... !!!! On top of that, the chain was at 5, Gardevoir is one of my 3 favorites, and I don't have enough Psychics at level 50. Also got a *Spoink and a *Medicham
*Shiny.. Duh..
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Oh, right, good luck with the Wi-Fi! I really wish I could get it, I could probably get a shiny flygon for that one dude, and we could fight and.. whatever...
