Last night I accidentally fell asleep with pokemon go open. When I woke up my phone was miraculously still alive, so I plugged it in and figured I would catch the pokemon around. My first 2 spawns I clicked and 3 out of my first 4 were shiny. Given how legends ZA stores up to 10 shinies in the game I wondered if maybe there was something similar going on here. It's certainly possible that I would hit 3/4 pokemon as shiny but the event odds have felt pretty low shiny rate to me. If every time a new spawn happens it stores the shiny property and keeps it as true every time a new Pokemon spawns since my game was open for 8-8.5 hours, that would better explain why I hit so many shinies. Variance is variance, but I hit as many shinies in 45 seconds as I hat hit for the rest of the event combined and that has me feeling like there is a confounding variable
by Emracruel
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No, it doesn’t work like that. Costume shinies are boosted during this event though, so it makes sense that you’d find multiple of them. I found 3 whilst I was out earlier.
No. Every single encounter with a Pokémon in the game is an **independent event**. This is the most crucial concept to grasp.
* When you check your first Pokémon, you have a X% chance of it being shiny.
* When you check your second Pokémon, you *still* have a X% chance of it being shiny.
The outcome of the second check is **not affected** by the outcome of the first. The game’s random number generator doesn’t “remember” that you failed the first time and decide to “owe” you a shiny.
Period.
No, but I heard hundos got spawnpoints
I thought the same thing but no
Naah, but great flex – congrats