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RNG Abuse: Ethical?

Bellsprout said:
Alraune, what is assumed nowadays is that a vast majority of shinies are [not found the old fashioned way]
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... Which is exactly what I said. It's not an assumed thing anymore that you didn't RNG it, and that you have to specify you caught it the natural way. I did say "instead of it being an assumed thing".


res, shinies were above average in gen 2? I thought they were below. I guess I need to look up exactly what IVs they need to have to be shiny... it probably depends on what Pokemon it was as to whether you'd consider it above or below average, though, right? Considering you want different stats in different Pokemon and all.
 
Alraune said:
res, shinies were above average in gen 2? I thought they were below.
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Out of a possible 15, the defense, special, and speed IVs had to be 10 — which is indeed above average, though not particularly stellar. Attack, on the other hand, could be 8 of the 16 the possible amounts (2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14, 15). I couldn't say for sure, but I would imagine that is why the Odd Egg in (JP) Crystal has a 50% chance of being shiny.
 
Chalumeau said:
Out of a possible 15, the defense, special, and speed IVs had to be 10 — which is indeed above average, though not particularly stellar. Attack, on the other hand, could be 8 of the 16 the possible amounts (2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14, 15). I couldn't say for sure, but I would imagine that is why the Odd Egg in (JP) Crystal has a 50% chance of being shiny.
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It made shinies worthless in Gen II because they always had suboptimal HP IVs.

I personally don't care much about shinies, the only cool ones are Charizard and the Red Gyarados.
 
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