>>18225048>if all safaris have the same rate as wild pokemon, people wouldn't be finding shinies upon entering>if all safaris have elevated chances, people wouldn't be grinding for days just for a shinySure they would, because the game doesn't know the difference between the first encounter and the thousandth, between the first egg and the hundredth box. Every encounter or hatch has the same chance of being shiny no matter how many or how few you've already completed. You say "if the rate is higher, everyone should get shinies right away" which is silly: some people have played the games for several hours a day every day since gen II and never seen a shiny that wasn't Gyarados. That doesn't mean their game has a lower shiny rate, does it?
Take my Masuda method strategy I talked about last weekend for example: I breed until I get a pentaperfect, then move on to the next project. When I get a shiny, it's always within 5-10 eggs. Not because I have a "lucky day care", but because I'm only hatching 5-10 eggs per Pokémon any way. It FEELS faster, but obviously it's not.
Say you encounter each mon exactly three times before exiting and reentering, and it takes you 30 tries to find a shiny. Then someone else stays in the safari and finds a shiny on the 90th encounter. Who found theirs faster? Neither. You both found a shiny after 90 encounters, the difference was you leaving after every three. But the game doesn't know you did that, it's not a factor in the probability.
