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How is the shiny hunt going?

I've checked about 200 ponyta and 150 cubone since the boosted shiny rate release and have found 2 ponyta and 3 cubone. I'm guessing the rate is probably closer to 1/40 or 1/100 than 1/20. One of my friends is at about the same checked as I am with 2 of each.

Asked by wersand6 years 9 months ago
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1/132 and 1/164, definitely doesn't seem as boosted as Pinsir.

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by Sebhes 6 years 9 months ago

I've found my shiny Cubone and Pontya within my first 10 attemps of both. I realise that I am incredibly lucky. Didn't really try anymore afterwards.

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I can never have enough. Plus mine at all 2.5k dust and less. I'd love to have a 5k+ dust that way I can have one that actually isn't an embarrassment to put in a gym. Dont get me wrong, I put them in gyms anyway but only in low turnover ones in my area.

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I get shiny cubone and after that shiny ponyta.
I am not counting how many that i catch, double stardust make me catch everything that i can..

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Yea I'm up almost 30k dust in the last few hours. I'm loving it.

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Zero and zero. I hope the spawns will still be frequent this evening so I can double down on hunting them.

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I'm hoping to have another 5 hours. I'm thinking the 48h mark is 4pm EST so I'm going on the hunt in a few minutes! I hope you get yourself some shinies!

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Having a standard 8-5 sucks for these short, spur of the moment events. For the 24 hour Day of the Girl event I literally never got a chance to shiny hunt between work and IRL obligations that evening. I did manage a shiny Luvdisc from checking one randomly during that event though so I can't complain too much.

If this is a 48 hour event then that only leaves me my lunch break to try and find one, which likely won't happen since my job is in a pretty spawn-absent area. Until next time I suppose.

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I haven't played that hard these past few days due to having a cold, but I have managed to find three Ponyta (one of which had 93% IV, so I evolved it) and one Cubone.

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have checked so many at least 200 of each and still zero of each. Very frustrating to see people who have 5 or 6 already.

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Completely agree! I’m so sick of getting hosed by niandick. Did 23 gengar raids Saturday and 0 shiny (after reading on reddit that some guy got 8 shinys out of 10 raids), then this comes along and I thought maybe, just maybe, niandick will be nice for once since EVERYONE seems to be getting these (my son has 3 ponyta and 2 cubone with out barely having to try) and no, OF COURSE I get screwed AGAIN!! I can’t believe niandick is totally okay with letting some people who barely try and don’t spend money and give them everything while completely “giving the middle finger” to all of us loyal customers who go out for a whole day or 2 (I really want that shiny ponyta) for nothing. It’s especially unfair how nice they are to casual/new players (and I do understand that to a certain extent, but they waaaaaaay over-do it) because there wasn’t even shinys or raid bosses or stuff like that before I was lvl 40 (been lvl 40 for a long time, was one of the first in my city), so we never got the “beginner luck” on stuff like that cuz there simply wasn’t anything to have beginner luck with. Wish they’d give some love to their players who ACTUALLY go out and play and spend money versus continually “sucking up” to the new guy... Can you tell I’m a bit (extremely) bitter?? Lol

TL, DR? Haha; I’m just complaining about how unbalanced the shiny odds are. We should all have the same odds whether it be 1/50 or 1/500! If they’re going to make it near impossible for some, make it near impossible for everyone. Easy for some, easy for everyone.

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The people who thumbs downed me are probably the casual-slightly above casual players who have no grasp of how frustrating it is to hear about how little effort y’all give and get everything (like those guys who say “I think it’s like 1 in 40 to 1 in 100” or whatever when I checked about 500 combined ponytas and cubones and didn’t get a single one after not getting a single shiny gengar out of 23 raids) when those of us who actually put in the effort and money get zilch

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I get you being mad about bad RNG but you don't need to be salty to the players with better RNG than you. Before this event my friend was on a 3 month stretch with no shiny from anything except community days. Find a friend who gets lucky when you don't to trade. I've got names on 4 of the shinies I got, 2 of which I got in the last 5 minutes of the event.

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I thought it was obvious that I’m salty with niandick (hence why I keep saying “niandick” lol), not the players. Sorry for the confusion. Also, in my experience, people want shinys for shinys, so when you’re not getting them, it’s hard to also trade for them

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Clearly you can’t read (or a lot of people on here it seems...) cuz THAT’S NOT WHAT I SAID. If you’re not going to actually read what I wrote, then don’t respond, especially with ignorant, rude/personal, false comments, like you did (what you said said more about you if anything). It’s a load of crap that different people have different shiny odds (and I’m never on the winning end here), that’s the problem. Everyone should have the same odds, and that’s not the case. DID YOU READ THAT THIS TIME?! 😳 I swear, there’s a solid portion of people on here that are either illiterate or incompetent...

PS, I try not to be rude to other players and I’m only being rude with you because you were rude yourself. I made myself clear multiple times and you STILL missed it and decided to be an ignoramous.. I hadn’t cussed anybody out (and still haven’t) or been rude directly (besides niandick, and this comment). Just sayin..

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by kenbkk 6 years 9 months ago

Don't want to be a sourpuss but I wish the ponies and cave-squirrels (or whatever cubone is supposed to be) would go away! I am not the biggest fan of shinies. To answer your question, with two accounts (my son and I) have checked well over a hundred of each and have only 2 shiny cubones to show for it, With Pinsir we had a combined 12 shinies with fewer attempts.

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So far I have caught 4 shiny ponyta and three shiny cubones. Overall I would say that the frequency seems better than usual but nowhere near as high as the week-end event specials (pinsir, wingull etc.).

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by TTT 6 years 9 months ago

Zero of either, and have been checking like mad...

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But isn’t it totally fair and sooooo much fun that, while we check hundreds and hundreds and can’t find a shiny, some of these other players get 5-10 with out barely having to lift a finger?? Oh joy! Yay niandick ☺️

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Around 3/250 ponyta and 1/150 cubone

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so far I checked/caught about 100 of each and got 1 shiny cubone
one of my friend is at about same amount checked with no shiny and another one got a shiny ponyta but no shiny cubone out of 200 of each checked.

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I've gotten one shiny Cubone and zero shiny Ponytas. I don't know how many I've caught or checked, but it's a lot.

I don't know that the shiny frequency rate is any higher than it normally is for wild pokemon; I think it's just that there are so many Ponytas and Cubones around that people are able to find shinies more often. It seems similar to when shiny Shellder, Kabuto, Poochyena, etc. were released...normal shiny rate, but chances boosted by sheer number of spawns. Pinsir, on the other hand, seemed to be spawning shinies at something resembling a Community Day rate.

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by gibell 6 years 9 months ago

I've checked hundreds of Cubone and Ponyta and have only one Cubone Shiny. Similar with Pinsir, checked hundreds and got only one shiny. What is strange is how some people got over 5 shinies of one kind. If the odds are 1/40 the odds of getting 5 are tiny. It seems perhaps that the shiny rate is boosted right at the start of the event?

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I'm pretty sure Pinsirs were spawning shinies at a much higher rate. I got 6 or 7, and I didn't catch or check as many as I have of Cubone and Ponyta. On two occasions, the same Pinsir was shiny for me and someone else I was playing with.

During the rock event, when they released shiny Kabuto and Omanyte, I checked many, and only got one shiny Kabuto. When they released shiny Shellder for the water event, I got two shinies out of wll over 100 checked. I think the shiny rate is still the same for those pokemon, but those mons aren't spawning at the frequency they were during those events, so the shinies are scarcer.

Pinsir was different. It seemed, for me and everyone else I talked to, to be spawning at something like a Community Day rate. Off the top of my head, Roselia is the only other mon I can think of that briefly spawned shinies at a much higher rate for a few days (outside of Community Days).

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1 of each within the first hour of looking yesterday, then just one more Ponyta despite over 200 caught of each. Didn't get a single Pinsir over the weekend out of 80 odd catches.. RNG sure is strange!

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Two days of play in a dense city. Caught around 100 Ponytas, checked much more. No shinies. A little less Cubones, found two in a row one hour ago.
I'm not even pissed at low shiny rates (did they actually get boosted?), but rather at no information about duration of the event.

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One of each, not a lot of specific effort. I took it easy during the pinsir start expecting a random shiny. I finally got two when I ignored raids and I decided to hunt til I got a shiny, in the process found a Murkrow shiny too

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Event over. ~ 300 checked between pony and cubone. No shinies. I did find a shiny charmander while hunting for ponyta and cubone though, so I can't complain.

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Over 20 shiny so far this month. A bit above average even for me.

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