BW/BW2 getting shiny...

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NewADance

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I want a shiny eevee, right... I have a shiny eevee from a japanese game, and a ditto. How fast can I get a shiny eevee? I know this may be answered already, but I want to know 4 sure... And can I get a shiny eevee faster by a female shiny from japan and male normal from america? Thanx ♥
 
NewADance said:
I want a shiny eevee, right... I have a shiny eevee from a japanese game, and a ditto. How fast can I get a shiny eevee? I know this may be answered already, but I want to know 4 sure... And can I get a shiny eevee faster by a female shiny from japan and male normal from america? Thanx ♥
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They have the same odds, but chances are you'll generate the eggs a lot faster because they are of the same species. It's what I'm doing right now. But there is always the danger of getting a false foreign; by which I mean getting a pokemon that looks foreign, but only because it was generated in a domestic game and then traded to a foreign game and hatched within it.
 
The chance of getting a shiny would be the same regardless of whether you use an Eevee from your home game, or a Ditto. The difference is if you breed Eevee with another Eevee, the eggs just get produced a lot faster (about 1.5x faster). Whether or not the foreign Eevee is shiny doesn't matter - it just needs to be foreign.

The odds of making a shiny egg in this way are 4/8192 in a Gen-4 game, or 6/8192 in a Gen-5 game. So just keep at it until you hatch one.
 
I fail at maths, so I'm not sure if DNA was talking about the Masuda method.

The Masuda method is when you breed two foreign Pokemon together (ex: a North American Eevee with a Japanese Eevee). The eggs that are produced have a 1/1366 chance of being shiny. Much higher than that of a Pokemon found in the wild. Also, foreign Pokemon found in the games itself will not work with this method, such as the Meister's Magikarp or Lt. Surge's Pikachu.
 
I fail at maths, so I'm not sure if DNA was talking about the Masuda method.
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I was, and that is because NewADance was talking about the Masuda method in his/her original post (notice s/he was trying to breed a Japanese Eevee with one from his/her own game).
 
Since the question has been resolved, I'll close the thread here. For future reference on questions about shiny Pokémon though, please consult the "Shiny Pokémon In Black and White!" topic already running first, as your concerns can be easily addressed without the need for creating an entire thread. Thanks!

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