To waste precious time breeding. But now that we have the Magic-arp method it's kinda tolerable. Also, don't forget to claim the FP from the Global mission.
Rathurue said: To waste precious time breeding. But now that we have the Magic-arp method it's kinda tolerable. Also, don't forget to claim the FP from the Global mission.
true but at some point I want to stop doing type matchups
To waste precious time breeding. But now that we have the Magic-arp method it's kinda tolerable. Also, don't forget to claim the FP from the Global mission.
Sorry, but I don't read up on secrets like this that much. What's the "Magic-arp Method"?
Saladofstones said:
true but at some point I want to stop doing type matchups
Maybe, but at least it is kind of clever as a design feature, since it's a way to drill type matchups into newcomer's brains. The only thing is that it would be much better if they actually told you some right answers if you get one wrong, because having to go to bulbapedia or something to figure it out after the fact is annoying. (They don't even have a physical instruction manual with the game you can read while playing, anymore, so you're basically left with nothing but the Internet to find these things out...)
Sorry, but I don't read up on secrets like this that much. What's the "Magic-arp Method"?
When you Masuda Method for a shiny it is predetermined when you get the shiny now. So now you can get to your desired shiny much faster now if you breed Magikarp which hatch super fast. I think it is what he is talking about? I think it is easier to put like this -
1. You want shiny Bagon as example. 2. Put a Ditto in the daycare. For the entirety of your breeding adventure you will leave it be. 3. Now put Magikarp in with it. 4. Start the hatching routine. Save every time one box is full. Make sure the girl is not holding an egg when you save. 5. When your shiny Magikarp finally hatches (let us say on your 50th egg) soft reset the game. 6. Go to the desk lady and switch Magikarp with Bagon. 7. Now egg 50 will be a shiny Bagon. Hopefully I explained it right.
On the topic on why Festival Plaza exists, it is to be an obnoxious type matchup simulator. This picture is a bunch of lies.
@NWSiaCB Basically, Magic-arp method is the way to preserve and analyze the RNG seed that determines the IV Spread you will get using Magikarp eggs. Due to how RNG this generation was determined, each and every egg you create using an unchanging parent (in this case 6IV mon from region not of yours (masuda) with Everstone/DKnot) will produce same offspring even if you change the mate from Magikarp (easiest mon to hatch) to, say, Axew or Gible (mons with highest steps needing to hatch) due to the predetermined stat spread, which also contain shiny check in what we call 'tiles'. Accepting an egg forwards the RNG clock by random number, while declining it forwards by one tile. Using this method one can search for the particular tile---a bunch of tiles, actually, since shinyness kind to clump in bundles of 4-5 tiles---which contain the mon with IV spread and shiny you want.
So knowing this, you need to breed as much Magikarps you can and hatch them until you get the Shiny one; if you failed soft reset and do alternate accepting (accept-accept-decline-accept-decline) to mix up the tiles. If you managed to get a shiny 'karp DO NOT SAVE but write the number and the route (which turn you skipped) and soft reset, replace non-ditto the parent with the species you want and breed away using the route you noted; you don't need to hatch the eggs other than the one you wanted but you still need to accept them.
I can't stop being amazed at how much effort people put into games like these.
... But oh well, I'm basically only playing this game because my nephew loves Pokemon, now, and I figured it would be nice to buy some love with a box full of the hard-to-get pokemans that come pre-EV-maxed and with competitive builds. (I swear, I've spent more time just researching how to play a simple children's game than I've spent actually playing it...)
I'm sure he'd be really appreciative of a box of shinies, though, so I'll throw this on the to-do list. Right now, though, I'm putting the game away because I'm kind of sick of all the Facebook-style energy meter crap that demands I log in at a specific hour this game demands of me. (The last Pokemon I played before this was Gen 1, where all you needed to worry about was getting high levels and decent moves... and if you got an Alakazam, you pretty much automatically won the game.)
I can't stop being amazed at how much effort people put into games like these.
... But oh well, I'm basically only playing this game because my nephew loves Pokemon, now, and I figured it would be nice to buy some love with a box full of the hard-to-get pokemans that come pre-EV-maxed and with competitive builds. (I swear, I've spent more time just researching how to play a simple children's game than I've spent actually playing it...)
I'm sure he'd be really appreciative of a box of shinies, though, so I'll throw this on the to-do list. Right now, though, I'm putting the game away because I'm kind of sick of all the Facebook-style energy meter crap that demands I log in at a specific hour this game demands of me. (The last Pokemon I played before this was Gen 1, where all you needed to worry about was getting high levels and decent moves... and if you got an Alakazam, you pretty much automatically won the game.)
If you don't care HOW do you get them, PokeGen is the easiest way to get what you want.
