Soft-Resetting for shinies!

[Silverwynde]

Since I encountered Latios in the Dreamyard, I've been resetting for him. So far, I've only reset 15 times and gotten nothing. I don't know how often I'll do this as I'm also hunting a shiny Elekid but I think I'll try and reset at least a few times a day. (Continual resetting is mind numbing.)

 

[RainbowSylveon]

Currently doing this in W2 for a shiny Snivy. Never had a shiny starter before, so I figured 'what the hell.' xD I'm on SR #20... hopefully it'll pop up relatively soon (i.e. weeks/days rather than months xD).

 

[Blazing Charmander]

I'm not usually patient enough to even consider SRing for Shinies, but I have done so for a few Pokemon in the past. The first hunt I can recall is Bulbasaur in FireRed which I gave up on after stumbling upon a normal-coloured one with almost perfect IVs across the board, so I chose to raise that one. I also SR'd for a Shiny Latias from the Soul Dew event on SoulSilver, but my patience got the better of me on that occasion. However, I have always dreamed of having a Shiny Suicune on Pokemon Crystal, so I tried my luck with a hunt recently. It took many hundreds of resets to actually find one, but I ran out of Poke Balls to catch it with when it eventually appeared and I had to knock it out. I gave up for a few days before starting my hunt for another one, and a few weeks later I managed to find and successfully catch it!

 

[Codface]

I usually do a International (jap version) parent with own parent when I create eggs.

I have over 600 hours on my save file which I'd say is 400hours of just making eggs. I average about 30 hatches an hour (seriously if anyone can explain a fast none cheat hatch method I'd love to know it). I've had 1 shiny hatch and that was ironically not on a proper bred but just a DWF I was trying to quick bred for a friend and had no good stats. I usually change my shiny target if I happen to get a 4 maxed 31 IV right ability egg hatch and move onto the next project (I have almost 2 filed boxes of near flawless hatched non shinys).

Shiny topics where people claim to have do 800 eggs in a day annoy me no end.

 

[Koolkoi]

I’m trying to SR for a shiny charmander in Pokémon leaf green, I’ve been at it for about 2 weeks and I’m starting to think that you can’t SR for a shiny. I’m losing faith guys help me restore my faith lmao

 

[jeremyml]

You can get shiny starters in FRLG I've seen many videos on it. I'm going to SR for shiny Uxie and maybe Azelf when I get either Platinum or Diamond.

 

[Silverwynde]

I’m trying to SR for a shiny charmander in Pokémon leaf green, I’ve been at it for about 2 weeks and I’m starting to think that you can’t SR for a shiny. I’m losing faith guys help me restore my faith lmao

You absolutely can, but you're looking at a chance of 1/8192. The odds are rather stacked against you, but it can be done.

I was able to SR for a shiny Lugia while playing SoulSilver years ago. It took me weeks and I almost missed it; I had a massive headache the day I was resetting and if I hadn't heard the sparkle, I may have reset again!