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could you tell me how to catch shiny Pokemon? people say there are easy ways but I've never seen one help! and i heard about something called chaining

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Hi Caleb,

I need to disappoint you, but there are no easy ways to catch Shiny Pokémon. On average only 1 out of 8192 encountered Pokémon will be a Shiny.

Chaining is a technique that enables a baby Pokémon to have an Egg Move that it cannot learn directly from it's father, if that father is caught in the wild. The father will need to be bred from two other parents (i.e. the grandparents of the baby), one of which will know the Egg Move. In detail it is even more complex, so I will not consider it further in this answer.

Good luck and have fun! :)

~LG~

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Hello, dear reader. My name is LG. I'm able to answer most of your questions about ALL POKEMON GAMES.

Since I became an expert in this category (+- 8 years ago), I became fascinated by the internal structure of Pokémon and I started to check all game info and all game research data. As a Pokémon trainer, I know a lot about game walkthroughs, stats, attacks, strategies, breeding, evolution and much more.

If I don't know the answer, I'll look it up for you or I'll redirect you to one of my fellow experts. I hope to read you soon! :)

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About ten years ago I started playing Pocket Monsters on my first game, Pokémon Red. I became addicted to the game and bought its equivalent, Pokémon Blue and later on the special version, Pokémon Yellow. After that, I bought all the games of Pokémon that were released for the Game Boy platform by pre - ordering them in my local shop. I'm still checking the data of the Pokémon research today.

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Bachelor in Experimental and Theoretical Psychology.

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