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Is there an easy way to get different colored pokemon?

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Question for Pokemon Pearl

Is there an easy way to get different colored pokemon? I've done the pokeradar like a 100 times what's the deal? And what does it mean by sparkling grass?

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david_banner answered:

No there is not an easy way of getting different colour or 'shiny' Pokemon as they are commonly called. That is assuming you do not have an AR and do not wish to cheat to get them. OK so here is the deal. At any given battle you get into with a wild Pokemon, or any other Pokemon for that matter there is a 1/8192 chance that the Pokemon you are about to run into is shiny. So you run into a wild bibarel just west of pastoria city for instance think of it as when the screen is going black changing to the battle screen there is a big wheel spinning which is divided into 8192 sections 1 of which is a shiny Pokemon and the rest are not shiny. If the wheel lands on the one section you are in luck. Keep in mind that if you fight 8191 fights, you are most definitely not guarenteed to find a shiny in your next battle. If you don't understand wait until math class in junior high school.
The deal with the pokeradar now, it does not really increase your chances up from 1/8192. But rumor has it that when the grass sparkles different colours there is a heightened chance of finding a shiny Pokemon in that area. The evidence for this however is low and from everything I have gathered a heightened chance is not a tremendous amount higher then 1/8192. I would make a guess that is it closer to 1/100 chance which still is rare and will only really give results if you have great luck. Well I hope that helped you out. Just to give you an idea, I have been played Pokemon games for like 6-7 years (since shinys came out) and I have only ever seen 3 of them (excluding red gyarados in G/S/C) 2 of which were in the wild (phanpy in silver and fearow in pearl) and one in the battle factory in emerald (another red gyarados oddly enough) All I can say to you is good luck

cheating-is-good answered:

No there is no easier way to get different colored Pokemon, or shiny pokemon. If you want to do everything the normal, non cheating way, you will discover that it will be hard in some areas. When you use the Pokeradar, run into the areas where the grass is silver for a minute because that grass has a bigger chance of containing a shiny pokemon. If you do not want to do this the hard way, then go buy an Action Replay.

 

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