There are multiple ways to increase your chances of finding shiny Pokemon in X and Y, such as the Masuda Method when hatching eggs, hordes, and the triumphant return of the Pokeradar. However, perhaps the easiest way of all is the fine art of consecutive fishing!
Consecutive fishing really has it all in the name: you quite simply fish repeatedly until you come across a shiny Pokemon. There are a few guidelines though that will help you obtain your Fishmon:
- First of all, you're gonna need a Pokemon with Suction Cups. Inkay and Malamar both have access to it, as do Octillery and Cradily. Suction Cups almost guarantees that you'll at least bring something to the surface, and best of all, it even works when the Pokemon is knocked out, so you can immediately follow up with your False Swipe 'mon. The Suction Cups mon must be in the first slot of your party however.
- Next, and this is vitally important: you must remain still. No moving from your first position! The slightest movement breaks your chain and forces you to start from the beginnning again. This sounds harsh but its really a non-issue, just dont move the circle/directional pad unless you're selecting your fishing rod from the Quick Select.
- Timing is everything. Don't pull reel your catch in as soon as you see the message, wait for the beep (obviously your sound needs to be turned on for this). It's happened to me many times that I pulled it in too quickly before waiting for the beep, and I broke my chain. Obviously don't take your time either, as you only have a window of around one second before your catch slips away again. You need to be fully concentrated to fish consecutively, in a quiet room without blaring music, other people or any other distractions.
- Fish by the rocks. Apparently this increases the encounter rate of Pokemon as well, but I'm unsure how neccessary this is if you have a Pokemon with the Suction Cups ability. As far as I'm aware though Suction Cups isn't utterly flawless, and fishing next to rocks stacks with Suction Cups so that you practically always get a bite. Needs confirmation though.
- Changing fishing rod does NOT break your chain. This I discovered by myself, when i had all three fishing rods on my quick select. I was chaining with the Super Rod when my finger accidentally slipped on the circle pad to the Old Rod. I reeled in a Luvdisc after having hooked only Dragalge and Relicanth. I proceeded to continue with the Super Rod. Two later, I hooked a shiny Dragalge. This leads me to question if alternating between rods actually increases the likelyhood of finding a shiny Fishmon, or if it was sheer dumb luck on my part. I've not tried this on purpose yet myself, but if anyone else has feel free to speak up!
As long as you follow these guidelines, you're pretty much guaranteed to stumble upon a shiny Fishmon. My quickest chain was 7, my longest was 43. In the span of two days I've fished up a shiny Poliwhirl, Goldeen, Lanturn, Remoraid and Dragalge. Although the pool of Pokemon that you cna fish up is obviously limited, the near guarantee of finding a shiny Pokemon pretty much makes up for this. So let's hear you stories: what you've chained, how many shinies of one species you've had, horror stories of chains that went wrong, anything really! :)
Consecutive fishing really has it all in the name: you quite simply fish repeatedly until you come across a shiny Pokemon. There are a few guidelines though that will help you obtain your Fishmon:
- First of all, you're gonna need a Pokemon with Suction Cups. Inkay and Malamar both have access to it, as do Octillery and Cradily. Suction Cups almost guarantees that you'll at least bring something to the surface, and best of all, it even works when the Pokemon is knocked out, so you can immediately follow up with your False Swipe 'mon. The Suction Cups mon must be in the first slot of your party however.
- Next, and this is vitally important: you must remain still. No moving from your first position! The slightest movement breaks your chain and forces you to start from the beginnning again. This sounds harsh but its really a non-issue, just dont move the circle/directional pad unless you're selecting your fishing rod from the Quick Select.
- Timing is everything. Don't pull reel your catch in as soon as you see the message, wait for the beep (obviously your sound needs to be turned on for this). It's happened to me many times that I pulled it in too quickly before waiting for the beep, and I broke my chain. Obviously don't take your time either, as you only have a window of around one second before your catch slips away again. You need to be fully concentrated to fish consecutively, in a quiet room without blaring music, other people or any other distractions.
- Fish by the rocks. Apparently this increases the encounter rate of Pokemon as well, but I'm unsure how neccessary this is if you have a Pokemon with the Suction Cups ability. As far as I'm aware though Suction Cups isn't utterly flawless, and fishing next to rocks stacks with Suction Cups so that you practically always get a bite. Needs confirmation though.
- Changing fishing rod does NOT break your chain. This I discovered by myself, when i had all three fishing rods on my quick select. I was chaining with the Super Rod when my finger accidentally slipped on the circle pad to the Old Rod. I reeled in a Luvdisc after having hooked only Dragalge and Relicanth. I proceeded to continue with the Super Rod. Two later, I hooked a shiny Dragalge. This leads me to question if alternating between rods actually increases the likelyhood of finding a shiny Fishmon, or if it was sheer dumb luck on my part. I've not tried this on purpose yet myself, but if anyone else has feel free to speak up!
As long as you follow these guidelines, you're pretty much guaranteed to stumble upon a shiny Fishmon. My quickest chain was 7, my longest was 43. In the span of two days I've fished up a shiny Poliwhirl, Goldeen, Lanturn, Remoraid and Dragalge. Although the pool of Pokemon that you cna fish up is obviously limited, the near guarantee of finding a shiny Pokemon pretty much makes up for this. So let's hear you stories: what you've chained, how many shinies of one species you've had, horror stories of chains that went wrong, anything really! :)
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