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Finding a Shiny Magikarp Theory

Since we know shiny karps are individually found, meaning if one trainer finds a karp that doesn't mean everyone who clicks the same karp will get a shiny. Does this mean a trainer could theoretically click a karp, flee and re-click the same karp and have a chance of it being shiny?
Just a thought, what code makes the karp shiny for one trainer VS another.

Asked by Pokemon College7 years 6 months ago

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Apparently not.

Doubt its proven 100% true or false though at this stage.

A few people (prob lots in fact) have tried this loads apparently and not had it work.

But technically...even if it was possible, you would be able to re-encounter the same karp thousands of time and not even have it happen...so who knows atm

No, I saw a guy finding a shiny karp and fleeing and re-clicking the same karp and it still shiny.

What moron finds a shiny, then flees, and clicks it again to see if it's still shiny?

Also, if you miss your first toss you cannot flee and return to have another shot at the first toss bonus.

It also keeps a berry. Throw a berry at it, flee, tap it again, it still has the berry.

It's probably some calculation with your trainer ID, which would make it consistent for each person no matter how many times they run and come back, and totally random between different people. Props to anyone with the balls to prove this theory by running from a shiny magikarp and coming back though.

OK
...I think everybody has missunderstood his point except me ??

Hes not asking will an ALREADY shiny still be shiny if you run and come back

(the answer to this is YES, its been tested by some crazy dude)

He is asking, can you find a NONE shiny karp...and keep running and re-encountering it to keep 'rolling' a chance of it being shiny.

Yay ? Nay ?
or is it just me

I actually understood the original question as you have implied it. I have tried this myself to no avail. I've caught upwards of 150 magikarp to date and no shiny. Getting a bit bored with it all.

In the past, if you wanted a rare mon (i.e. Lapras, Snorlax, Dragonite) you could go to a specific biome to somewhat increase your chances of finding it.

In the case of the shiny magikarp, there seems to be zero way to greater influence you chance of catching one. If it's literally a case of pure RND then you have just as good a chance at catching one on the first karp as you do on the 200th. Sort of like a scratch ticket or the lottery. You can roll those RNG dice each time to catch something, but the chances seem to stay the same (near impossible).

It's extremely fristrating and annoying that this "event" seems more a test of patience and frustration than any actual chance at getting a mon. There are rare mons, then there is this abomination.

Yes, there are a lot of lucky souls who will chime in with, "I caught one while crapping on the toilet at home" stories, but it seems the vast majority of players won't get one. No matter how many they catch and no matter what they do,

It is the same question. Whatever determines whether it is shiny or not is not going to change by running and coming back.

Yes I also believe this. The cp doesn't change when you run and re-encounter to, so why would it be possible to change into a shiny?

Everybody understands. But if a non shiny could turn into a shiny when you re-encounter, then, by the same logic a shiny could (and probably will) be non-shiny if you re-encounter.
The latter is MUCH easier to test. That's why everyone mentions that.

Yes.

This was spoken of in Silph Road's Reddit.

It probably works like the main game series. Each trainer has a TSV (trainer shiny value). It goes from 1 to around 4000. Every mon also comes with a TSV.

When the TSV of a mon matches the TSV of the trainer, it spawns as shiny.

So, if you encounter a shiny Karp, even if you close the game and reopen, it will still be shiny, because of the matched TSV. That also means that keeping reecountering a non-shiny will not turn it into a shiny.