"[PSA] Magikarp Chaining has no basis in actual shinyhunting, it was simply the rusty memory of one Silph Road user that created this myth"

#PokemonGO: I keep seeing everywhere, people believing that catching ONLY Magikarps will give you a higher shiny chance. Let me tell you a story of how the pogo community came to believe this.Back when the Water Festival came out, a post I cannot find anymore was posted on the Silph Road subreddit, where a person asked if "fish chaining" worked to catch shiny Karps. The top reply to the post was that this person was mixing up two different shinyhunting methods, which are fish chaining and radar chaining. As someone who has caught over 40 shinies in gen6 and 7 total, I want to explain this mixup, and once and for all kill this silly myth.Lets take a look at the two shiny methods this person mixed up. First off, we have fish chaining. Now, it is correct that fishing many times in a row has a higher chance of yielding shinies in gen6. HOWEVER, the person who wrote the post, did not remember correctly how fish chaining works. Fish chaining is done like this: You find a spot to fish in, preferrably close to rocks so that you have a higher chance of reeling in a pokemon. You also want to have a pokemon with Suction Cups or Sticky Hold in the first slot in your party to further increase the odds of reeling in a pokemon. Now you sit in this one exact spot, and start fishing. Once you start fishing, your chain begins. Your chain breaks if you a) move at all b) fail to reel in a pokemon (either by not getting anything on the hook, or reeling in too fast or too slow). The species you encounter does not matter AT ALL for your results. As long as you keep reeling in pokemon without moving from your spot, your chances of finding a shiny will increase, though exact numbers are not known AFAIK. Again, species encountered does not matter for your shiny odds. It is also worth noting that this feature was removed in gen7.The other type of shinyhunting that was mixed up with chainfishing, was radar chaining. Now, radar chaining is a lot more complex than chainfishing. There are tutorials on it, if you wish to learn the mechanics. Radar chaining was introduced in gen4, and made a comeback in gen6. Basically, after completing the pokedex, you get an item called the PokeRadar, which when used while standing in a patch of grass, spawns several rustling patches. With the help of audio and visual clues, you can after a lot of practice figure out what patches have the pokemon you are looking to chain. After encountering 40 of the same pokemon in one singular, unbroken chain, your shiny chance maxes out. This means that at this point, you can basically reroll your patches until a shiny one appears, and walk into it for a shiny.One single user made the mistake of combining these two shinyhunting methods, due to lack of knowledge or a rusty memory, and a lot of the Silph Road community swallowed the idea whole. Just figured I would make this post to show how Karp chaining has no basis in the main series games, and was the result of a simple brainfart. via /r/TheSilphRoad http://ift.tt/2qzKKLo