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Pokémon Y, Masuda Method Destiny Knot question?
Simply, does a Destiny Knot make it easier, harder or impossible to get a shiny Pokémon from hatching eggs? I'm wondering due to Shiny being based on IVs and Destiny Knot making 5 IVs from the parents always transfer. Also, I'm using a Japanese female Froakie and my own male Greninja.
I've played since Red and Blue and have never had an unscripted shiny throughout Gold, Silver, Crystal, Ruby, Sapphire, LeafGreen, FireRed, Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, Black, White, Black 2, White 2, X and Y. Rarely using repels too. Talk about really unlucky.
3 Answers
- CantraLv 78 years agoFavourite answer
Shinyness was only ever 'directly' based on IVs in Gen II, in that generation certain IVs could make it impossible for the pokemon to be a Shiny. It could only be Shiny if it had specific IV's
These days the pokemon's Personality value is what is used.
Now yes, the Personality value is what the IVs of a wild pokemon are calculated from, and the Personality value of a pokemon inheriting specific IVs will be calculated to reflect that.
But a Personality Value is a 32-bit number (0 to 2147483647) and even if the IVs are fixed, they don't affect it enough to make a difference, they only 'set' a tiny part of an otherwise randomly generated number. Even for a 'perfect IV' pokemon there are still many thousands of different personality values they could have.
Basically no matter what the IVs are, the chance is always 1/8192, and the Destiny Knot has absolutely no bearing on it.
- Anonymous5 years ago
Most of the scene girls on here have fake pics... but I Eat Your Socks seems like a sweetheart, maybe she didn't mean to make it seem like that picture was of her.
