>>15316031That guide is outdated by a couple generations and a few years of English classes
Rules 2 and 3 are just wrong
Rule 1 is good to follow but unless you got to a corner patch there's not much chance of your chain breaking on an edge
Your Pokemon can be in either large patches or medium-large patches
Shiny rates stop going up at 40 (1/200 is the cap)
Seriously what the fuck
Here's a decent patch with some non-shitmons. Also look around the daycare.