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Shiny odds for research quest encounters?

Does anybody know if the shiny odds are better for research quest encounters? I want to complete the research quests but there's no point in wasting my resources if the shiny odds are the same as wild encounters.

Thanks,

Asked by Xprodigy996 years 7 months ago
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The only shiny pokemon I ever got from doing researches is squirtle, but that was thanks to the boost of shiny during community day.

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by ghao89 6 years 7 months ago

I have caught tens of Mareep this month but none of them is shiny. Occasionally caught some Granbull, Houndour, Larvitar, Gen 1 starters and no shiny as well.

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I caught 4 Absol through research encounters and had one as a shiny, but I've not had luck with anything else. I guess TSR are looking into this as part of their shiny research though.

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The Silph Road did some research and the chance of a shiny from a quest is something like 1/60 I think.

Wild catches, outside of community days (and other specials, like the Roselia weekend), is supposed to be about 1/500.

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This was only true for Aerodactyl and absol. The rest have rates similar to wild Pokemon. Pineco might also have a boosted rate but it's too early to tell.

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Anecdotally, I've gotten my Shiny Aerodactyl and my Shiny Pineco from Research tasks, on an extremely small amount of tasks. (5 for the Aerodactyl, 2 so far for the Pineco) So it might be true that the Pineco shiny rate is boosted.

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Shiny odds for most species is exactly the same from research or wild. Magikarp, starters, Eevee, Larvitar etc. I've done a ton of research and gotten 1 Bulbasaur out of these "normal" shinies.

Event quests may have heightened chances of shinies, so far this has applied to Aerodactyl and possibly Pineco. Those odds were 1/60 for Aerodactyl like Skywalkered said, no data yet if Pineco has the same odds.

Squirtle CD research was special, as randomly decided stops would give a shiny sunglass Squirtle for everyone.

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