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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 10 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 10 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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