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Let’s Go Shiny Hunting Guide

Okay so I see a lot of people circulating conflicting info and I care enough to clarify but not enough to make a proper, like, ~chart comic~ or something

Things to Know

Alright, so off the bat, it’s important to know the benefits of catch comboing and how to use it to your advantage. What is a catch combo? By catching the exact same Pokemon several times in succession, you raise your chances for it to have better stats or be a shiny. This does not apply to Pokemon in the same family, IE a Vulpix catch combo will be be broken if you catch a Ninetales.

Other things that break your catch combo are:

Catching a Pokemon other than your current catch combo species

Having a Pokemon flee from you

Turning your Switch off or completely closing the game

However, what will NOT break your catch combo is:

Running from a Pokemon YOURSELF

Leaving the route or area entirely

Entering buildings, such as a Pokemart or Pokemon Center

Entering a trainer battle

Encountering a different Pokemon, but running from it

Any sort of time limitation

Things that increase your shiny odds while catch comboing:

Shiny charm

Lures

So basically: as long as you don’t catch something else or have it flee from you and your game stays on or suspended, your chain will not break.

The ideal catch combo is 31 as that’s when your shiny odds max out, the only point of comboing beyond this is to get ideal stats, to grind exp or money, or because waiting makes you bored. 

How money? The candies you recieve for catching Pokemon can be sold for approximately 10P each which will add up as your combo snowballs, especially since higher combos yield more gains, and cashing them in for a couple of thousand every so often will allow you to stay on top of Pokeball stores and not run out of resources.

Aside from Pokeballs you will also want Razz and Nanab berries to make the Pokemon easier to capture and more still on the Pokeball tossing screen respectively. Optional, but helpful if you’re chaining something rare (like Charizard) or something that moves around a lot (like Zubat). Higher level Pokeballs (such as Ultra Balls) should also be kept in good stock but like I said, you can always leave to restock between encounters if you need to but try to keep it minimal as possible that way you don’t narrowly miss seeing anything you might not want to despawn while you leave the area.

After Reaching 31:

As I said, shiny odds cap at 31 but what do you do after that? The easy answer is: nothing. Shiny Pokemon will appear shiny on the overworld, both in color and with a special sparkle SFX similar to how small and large Pokemon have auras that distinguish them from regular ones.

You can literally sit in a corner and watch Pokemon spawn and despawn until you see a shiny, though this can be pretty idle work and you might mentally disengage. If you want to stay on your toes, grinding with your catch combo is an option but how do you keep from breaking it when it really matters?

Run from any Pokemon you can’t catch after your 2nd turn.

This HUGELY reduces the odds of it running from you first and since a trainer fleeing doesn’t end the chain, you’ll be free to try again with the next one you spot without having to worry about the consequences of an encounter dragging on for too long.

Basically: if you can’t catch it quickly, quit while you’re ahead and save your combo the trouble.

From here on out it’s simply a waiting game to see how long it takes a shiny to spawn. Please note that if you see one and do anything that would cause the spawns to reset, such as moving far enough from the route for Pokemon to despawn or using a ladder in a cave, that Pokemon can and will disappear.

Additionally: your shiny odds and stat bonuses from catch combos will not affect everything across the board, IE a chain of Vulpix at 31 will only increase the odds for a shiny Vulpix and will only affect the stats of Vulpix encounters. A bait and switch, such as hunting the easy Caterpie to reach a huge chain to lure out a more rare shiny and powerful Bulbasaur, will not work.

At a catch combo of 31+, your vanilla odds are 1/341, 1/315 with a lure, 1/292 with a shiny charm, and 1/273 with both. A catch combo of 31+, you are also guaranteed 4 max IVs that are randomly distributed.

That’s all I can think of so have fun and good luck blah blah blah happy pokelego

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When the devil thinks he has me…

I think it's pretty obvious that the Reason Raven is such a train wreck till this day is because of her own fear of Salem and how she realizes she isn't immortal nor is she as fearless as she thought, especially since she now has something Salem wants, the Maiden Powers. There is no doubt that Tai is Ruby's father, Because when Raven confronted her in Volume 5, the line you spoke of once, "You sound just like her." Was definitely filled with disgust and resentment. Probably because whatever happened to Summer, Raven tried to talk her out of it, but her Relentless optimism is what got her "killed."(IF she was killed 👀)

Also, In the scene we got in V9 it's clear that Tai and Summer were definitely together in a loving relationship. There is no doubt about it. But this was an interesting post to read through.

"Likely cared about her the most out of her teammates. Given how she’s clearly taken Summer’s loss far harder than Qrow or Tai." Its literally been a major plot point since V2 then Summer's disappearance caused Tai to completely shut down for actual years. Straight from Yang. How can you possibly ignore that to make a claim that Raven cared more? I know your a Rosebird truther to the extreme, but come on your ignoring the words of characters who actually were there

So this is a great example of what I’ve been saying about how much of the fandom’s idea of the background of Team STRQ is based on some major assumptions. And many of them drawn from sources that are not entirely reliable.

To the point, IS Tai ‘shutting down’ after Summer’s disappearance really a major recurring plot point? It’s only been brought up twice in any kind of significant way, and more notably is something we’ve only ever heard about and never actually SEEN. Now that’s not to say that Yang has been lying or somehow wrong about Taiyang’s grief, rather that the only place we have actually seen that grief is through the effect it had on Yang and Ruby. Whereas we have thus far seen basically nothing of that grief from Tai himself. Seeing as how we have never seen him so much as speak of Summer, outside that one episode of Fairy Tales of Remnant that only had an inference of his grief. Simply put, the narrative of RWBY has treated Taiyang’s apparent grief-stricken breakdown as a key aspect of Yang’s backstory and character development, rather than part of Tai’s own character.

And more to your point: How can I claim that Raven cared more about Summer and took her disappearance harder that Tai?

Simple. Just note the past tense in ‘Tai completely shut down for years.’

Regardless of how hard Tai apparently took Summer’s disappearance in the past, when we look at him in the present, it’s clear that he has been able to heal and move past that grief and overall looks to be in a pretty good place now.

Contrast that with Raven who is clearly still wracked with grief and trauma over whatever happened during that mission and whatever happened to Summer.

Reading between the lines, the show has made it pretty clear which among Team STRQ took Summer’s disappearance the hardest: On the one hand we have Qrow and Tai, who after all these years, seem to have coped with their grief fairly well, all things considered. And on the other hand we have Raven, who is clearly still a complete fucking wreck.

What I think much of the fandom is missing is that there is a slowly growing disconnect between what we heard about Team STRQ’s backstory and what we are actually SEEING play out.

Back in Volume 2, we took everything Yang told Blake at face value and assumed that she actually knew everything she was talking about and was right about everything.

When in reality it’s becoming more and more clear that there is a LOT about her parents’ team that Yang, and by extension Ruby, have had NO IDEA about.

With how consistently RWBY has utilized the ‘unreliable narrator’ trope, especially when it comes to our heroines’ parents and mentors, when it comes to formulating theories, more and more I’ve taken to putting MUCH more stock in what we SEE of our characters over what we might simply ‘hear’ about them. Especially when it comes to characters as shrouded in mystery as Team STRQ, and particularly after what we saw in the Volume 9 finale which flat out TOLD Ruby ‘there’s a BUNCH about your family that you have been completely wrong about’.

It’s not that I think Summer didn’t care about Tai and Qrow, or that she and Tai weren’t very close. Ruby’s vision from the Tree proved that pretty conclusively. Nor do I think Tai isn’t or hasn’t been a loving, caring father to both Yang and Ruby. Again, the story has shown that quite definitively.

Rather, I think there is a LOT more going on with Ruby’s and Yang’s parents than we realize. And that a LOT of what we have assumed base on what characters told us in the show’s early volumes is going to turn out to be either VERY incomplete or even outright wrong.

Like when the story has told and shown us basically nothing of Summer’s relationship with Tai, while at the same time leaving more and more narrative breadcrumbs about Summer’s relationship with Raven, or in the case of the V9 finale, clubbing us upside the head with a wholeass baguette, it gives more and more of an impression that THIS is the relationship of most narrative significance and consequence among the team. And that some things both we and Yang and Ruby assumed were not actually the case. Say for example, Tai not actually being Ruby's biological father...