Currently it is in the bin, chained pinsir for 41...around 50 max repels later, no shiny and I accidently broke the chain, of course the game wanted me to do this since its an evil piece of ****. Im goning back to SS, if I can be ***ed

/rant

Many people chained a certain Pokémon for like 200+ times, yet they never encountered any shiny one. That didn't mean they had to give up or throw their games away.

The point is, you need a lot of patience to stumble upon a shiny Pokémon.

I really, REALLY hope you know the average odds of finding a shiny... a little over 8,000.

Just because you didn't find a shiny doesn't mean throw your perfectly good game away.

I love shinies and yet I only have found one in all of my games (besides red Gyrados).

^
Anyway, if you want a shiny, breeding foreign pokemon is the best way to do it.

Uhh... You two do know that Pokéradar Chaining makes shinies a lot more common? After a chain of 40 or so, finding one isn't hard. Though I've never chained anything higher than 20-ish...

NOW GET THAT GAME OUTTA THE BIN!

Well, chaining also brings down the chance of finding one, but that's besides the point. This does seem frustrating, but I wouldn't go as far to say it's possessed. That honor is reserved for games that glitch out unexpectedly and have creepy music when they do. Anyway, I've never really tried chaining for a shiny before, but any shiny will definitely take much time to get.

I chained Roselia once till 12 and then I got a shiny Pikachu! xD
I then chained a Pikachu till 9, and then a shiny Staravia appeared and was caught! I guess I am just too lucky. xD

I once chained about 500 electubuzz got a shiney and it was 4 in the morning and i was exhausted and I shut my game off without saving. when I noticed I forgot to save I wanted to chuck my game across the room.

^That deserves an Epic Fail.

lol sorry about my eariler post, I took it out the bin... still annoyed though.

For those of you who dont know, once chained to 40, the shiny ratio is approximately 1/200 for all 4 patches, making it much easier to get multiple shiny pokemon, but for me...this didn't work. I was only joking about it being possessed, its just that I have never got a shiny pokemon by chaining before despite it being claimed to be easy... every single time I try, something like this happens. The reason I was so annoyed this time is that I finally reached 40 in a chain, and about after 100 pokerader resets with a chance of 4x 1/200 of getting a shiny, I still didn't get one...wasting the 3+ hours I spent chaining

Dont know, if I can really be bothered to shiny hunt anymore now

Don't hunt for shinies, it's a waste of time. What I do i go through the game a flip the ***k out if a shiny appears.

Hunting for shinies is a lot of fun! You shouldn't stop, and chaining is a lot less boring than Masuda method. And don't worry a bit, since I found a shiny Psyduck at a chain of 19, so just keep trying!

Your lucky you got past 50 I've never even made past 20

I've made it to 34, hunting for shiny minun. Never got it though.

I made it to 40 Shinx, it didn't work.

By all means don't throw it in the trash! Send it to meeee. XD

Do you realize how rare a shiny is (or another Pinsir after so many) even then? That and shiny hunting isn't the only use for a Pokemon game.

By the way: 700th post in this board WOOT

A shiny is a 1/200 chance if you are using the PokéRadar.