Welcome!
I HAVEN'T UPDATED THIS GUIDE YET, BUT RNG REPORTER 9.8 ALLOWS YOU TO SEARCH FOR SHINY EGGS INSTEAD OF MANUALLY COMBING SEEDS FROM GIFT SPREADS. (You still may need to check the inheritance of the spreads it finds at this point, though)
This is a guide that will ultimately allow you to hatch flawless shiny eggs using standard RNG abuse on your Black or White retail game cartridge! You need no emulator or external device! Just your computer and your DS and game cartridge! :)
If you need real-time help, it may be best to check #smogonwifi on IRC.
Note: If you use a Power Item, you will get results different from those listed in RNG Reporter. This may include but is not limited to differing inheritance profiles, differing natures, differing abilities, differing genders, frame shifts, and differing shininess than what is reported.
Also remember, it's much more likely that you're doing something wrong than it is that RNG Reporter is wrong. Please don't complain that RNG Reporter is wrong until you have tried multiple times with an aberrant result, and provide enough info (basically, everything you put into RNG reporter) to figure out what's going on. 9/10 times (or more) it's going to be an error on your part :P
If you're asking for help finding your SSF, you'll need to tell me your egg's IVs, parent's IVs, and your full seed as well as the gender, nature, ability, and characteristic of the hatched egg.
***If you don't know what you're doing at all start with Post 1 and you should follow through Methods 1 and 2 before attempting 3/4.
***If you already understand PIDRNG, I recommend you read my PIDRNG primer (post 3) anyway since I recommend a few different things for more consistent results, and I introduce terminology and abbreviations I reference in the following posts. After that, you can skip to 3/4 at your leisure without any problems, I think.
Just remember...
Statistically, Your Pokémon Game HATES You
You just can't get those battle-ready 'mons easily on your DS by chance (most of the time, anyway). Luckily, Smogon has some super-geniuses who have cracked the code on how your game generates Pokémon, and you can use that to your advantage. I'm not one of those super-geniuses, but I did struggle with the RNG for a while and I've developed some methods for RNG breeding that you may find useful.
So, you already know how to standard RNG abuse for stationary legends and wild Pokemon with specific IV spreads but RNG breeding is giving you the shivers? Well, I had the same problem, and I've noticed it seems to be confusing a lot of people, so I'd like to help you out with some tips, tricks, and ways to make the statistically unlikely become your reality!
This is my first time writing a guide, and I apologize if some of my wording is funny.
There are a few prerequisites to standard abuse RNG breeding in Gen V Pokemon games, however!
PREREQUISITES
If you don't know how to do any of this, head over to The 5th Gen PRNG Help Thread where you can find all the info you need.
I also recommend the following two Youtube videos by bearsfan092:
RNG Abuse Part 1
RNG Abuse Part 2
They're also linked in the help thread, but they're an excellent resource. I RNG'd my first Pokemon in B/W by following the first video listed, and it was amazing :)
Special Thanks: OmegaDonut, Kaphotics, and all the other amazing people who made RNG abuse possible. Also to bearsfan092 for his easy-to-follow video instructions.
If you still don't know how to hit seeds/calibrate for your DS parameters in Gen V and catch wild Pokemon with specific spreads, then gtfo this thread and go to one of the resources I posted.
From here on I'll assume you know how to do that.
Next Post: Overkill Method For Flawless Breeding
I HAVEN'T UPDATED THIS GUIDE YET, BUT RNG REPORTER 9.8 ALLOWS YOU TO SEARCH FOR SHINY EGGS INSTEAD OF MANUALLY COMBING SEEDS FROM GIFT SPREADS. (You still may need to check the inheritance of the spreads it finds at this point, though)
This is a guide that will ultimately allow you to hatch flawless shiny eggs using standard RNG abuse on your Black or White retail game cartridge! You need no emulator or external device! Just your computer and your DS and game cartridge! :)
If you need real-time help, it may be best to check #smogonwifi on IRC.
Note: If you use a Power Item, you will get results different from those listed in RNG Reporter. This may include but is not limited to differing inheritance profiles, differing natures, differing abilities, differing genders, frame shifts, and differing shininess than what is reported.
Also remember, it's much more likely that you're doing something wrong than it is that RNG Reporter is wrong. Please don't complain that RNG Reporter is wrong until you have tried multiple times with an aberrant result, and provide enough info (basically, everything you put into RNG reporter) to figure out what's going on. 9/10 times (or more) it's going to be an error on your part :P
If you're asking for help finding your SSF, you'll need to tell me your egg's IVs, parent's IVs, and your full seed as well as the gender, nature, ability, and characteristic of the hatched egg.
Contents
- This Post: Introduction and Prerequisites
- Second Post: Overkill Method (Start here if you have no idea what to do)
- Third Post: PIDRNG Primer - Controlling Nature, Ability, Gender, etc.
- Fourth Post: Genetic Method -- Basis for breeding Shiny Pokemon
- Fifth Post: Easily breeding Shiny Pokemon with the Genetic Method
- Sixth Post: Determining your Shifted Starting Frame (SSF) When Using an Everstone
***If you don't know what you're doing at all start with Post 1 and you should follow through Methods 1 and 2 before attempting 3/4.
***If you already understand PIDRNG, I recommend you read my PIDRNG primer (post 3) anyway since I recommend a few different things for more consistent results, and I introduce terminology and abbreviations I reference in the following posts. After that, you can skip to 3/4 at your leisure without any problems, I think.
Just remember...
Statistically, Your Pokémon Game HATES You
You just can't get those battle-ready 'mons easily on your DS by chance (most of the time, anyway). Luckily, Smogon has some super-geniuses who have cracked the code on how your game generates Pokémon, and you can use that to your advantage. I'm not one of those super-geniuses, but I did struggle with the RNG for a while and I've developed some methods for RNG breeding that you may find useful.
So, you already know how to standard RNG abuse for stationary legends and wild Pokemon with specific IV spreads but RNG breeding is giving you the shivers? Well, I had the same problem, and I've noticed it seems to be confusing a lot of people, so I'd like to help you out with some tips, tricks, and ways to make the statistically unlikely become your reality!
This is my first time writing a guide, and I apologize if some of my wording is funny.
There are a few prerequisites to standard abuse RNG breeding in Gen V Pokemon games, however!
PREREQUISITES
- The latest version of RNG Reporter. You can probably do the same thing for PPRNG, but you'll need to know the differences in the interfaces I guess. Either way, this information may be useful to you.
- Knowledge of DS callibration and parameter finding in Gen V for standard abuse
- Knowledge of how to RNG wild Pokemon and stationary legendaries in Gen V (hitting your seed) using standard abuse
- On that note, you need a DS Lite or earlier. If you have a 3ds or DSi, well. Sorry, it won't work! You'll have to learn C-gear abuse, which I don't know yet.
- Patience
- $25
- Ok, so you don't need $25, but you do need all the others.
If you don't know how to do any of this, head over to The 5th Gen PRNG Help Thread where you can find all the info you need.
I also recommend the following two Youtube videos by bearsfan092:
RNG Abuse Part 1
RNG Abuse Part 2
They're also linked in the help thread, but they're an excellent resource. I RNG'd my first Pokemon in B/W by following the first video listed, and it was amazing :)
Special Thanks: OmegaDonut, Kaphotics, and all the other amazing people who made RNG abuse possible. Also to bearsfan092 for his easy-to-follow video instructions.
If you still don't know how to hit seeds/calibrate for your DS parameters in Gen V and catch wild Pokemon with specific spreads, then gtfo this thread and go to one of the resources I posted.
From here on I'll assume you know how to do that.
Next Post: Overkill Method For Flawless Breeding