>>56924457It's mandatory for the glitch to work. Without it, shiny rates are normal. Since I can only use shinies in battle, not using it would mean I'd have to full-odds hunt every single team member of my squad, which I do not have the time for (especially in a 1/8192 game).
>>56923048I've decided to raise the odds because hunting always makes the encounter feel tedious. I'm just counting any duplicate encounter, shiny or not, as another free roll (assuming I did not find a shiny in the first 5). Makes it more fun that way.
Current team if anyone's interested. Mustard ended up pretty overpowered since I lost 3 route encounters in a row (one of them was technically a catch, but a Modest Spearow with 0 Atk IVs and little to no speed when I already have a Pidgey with a better nature may as well be a miss) but I think she's on-level with the rest now, finally.
Very funny to me that the most efficient way to maximize your shiny output with this glitch is to just start a harem. 