colosseum Hard resetting for shiny's?

[Shay95]

Hi everyone,

um... I've recently been researching shiny pokemon in colosseum and noticed that if a shiny pokemon is encountered and caught then there's a 1/8192 chance of it retaining it's shiny-ness.

Right so I was wondering, is it possible to:

Save, find an unseen shadow pokemon (up to now like... starting a new game saving and buping into the shadow Bayleef) and then battle it and catch it. Check if it is a shiny then hitting the reset button if it isn't.

If I kept this up would I eventually find a shiny shadow pokemon or would it be the same everytime?

Thanks, Shay.

Edited August 15, 2012 by Shay95
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[Kaphotics]

So long as you're resetting on the first encounter, you should be ok.

The way it works is that the game randomly generates the Opposing Trainer's ID/SID and uses that for shininess rather than your own. So if it appears shiny when you battle it, it's shiny for the opposing trainer and not you. Only when you capture it will your ID/SID be applied, and then you'll see if it's shiny or not -> reset.

If you kept this up you would eventually find a shiny shadow pokemon.

[Shay95]

Thank you so much, I appreciate this very much. ^.^