[TUTORIAL] Chain Fishing for Shiny Pokémon

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Chain Fishing for Shiny Pokémon - That_One_Hunter - Aug 29, 2016

Everyone has most likely heard of "Chain Fishing", but for those who don't know, here is a guide to help!

What is Chain Fishing?
Chain fishing increases your chance of finding a shiny pokémon. A chain occurs when you encounter a wild pokémon every consecutive time you use the fishing rod while standing in the same spot. Each consecutive time this happens, your chance of encountering a shiny pokémon increases.

It does not need to be the same pokémon each time. You can run away or KO or capture the wild pokémon without breaking the chain.

Things That Can Break the Chain
The following things can break the chain while chain fishing:

Moving. To chain fish, you need to stay in the same spot each time you cast the fishing rod.
Not getting a bite. When you get the message "nothing seems to be biting", the chain has been broken.
Pulling up the fishing rod too early. If you pull up the fishing rod before getting a bite, you break the chain.
Pulling up the fishing rod too late. If you get a bite, but don't pull it up in time, the game will tell you that you were too slow and the pokémon got away. If this happens, the chain has broken.

Use Suction Cups or Sticky Hold
To improve your chances of chain fishing success, put a pokémon that has the Suction Cups ability or the Sticky Hold ability in the first slot of your party. This increases your chance of getting a bite from a wild pokémon while fishing.

Fish in an Enclosed Area
The guy who gives you the Super Rod in Mélancolie Path will give you a hint about chain fishing if you beat his record of 7 consecutive fishing encounters. He says that you should fish in places surrounded by rocks, or in a corner. The more enclosed a fishing area is, the more likely you are to encounter many consecutive pokémon while fishing. A good example of such a location is in the area south of the Muraille Coast beach, which is part of Ambrette Town. There are some rocks at the south end of the path that surround a patch of water on three sides. You can fish in that patch of water by surfing there and using your fishing rod. You are more likely to have more encounters when using your fishing rod in an enclosed area

More Information
Changing weather conditions may break the chain. For example, I had a chain of 50 that ended with the "nothing seems to be biting" message after it started raining.

If you have a pokémon that knows Synchronize, you can use it to increase the odds that the shiny pokémon that you encounter has the same Nature as the Synchronize pokémon. However, you have to put the Synchronize pokémon in the first spot of the party, which means you can't use a Suction Cups or Sticky Hold pokémon in the first slot to increase your chance of finding consecutive wild pokémon while fishing.

Chain fishing is not a guarantee of finding a shiny, but your odds of finding a shiny will become much higher than usual.

Hope this helped!

How do I get in a battle - Poop - Aug 31, 2016

How do you get in a battle

RE: How do I get in a battle - That_One_Hunter - Sep 1, 2016

(Aug 31, 2016, 11:07 PM)Poop Wrote: How do you get in a battle
^Seriously? If you are going to troll people, you'll be banned.

RE: Chain Fishing for Shiny Pokémon Part ONE - Jaerri - Sep 2, 2016

The chain also breaks if you encounter a shiny and catch it I believe.

My question here: does it break if you flee from it too? Or does just the encounter alone break it?

RE: Chain Fishing for Shiny Pokémon Part ONE - FatedHope - Sep 2, 2016

@Jaerri No, it does not break the chain at all and when encountering the shiny and capturing it, the game will still think it is a normal pokemon so it does not break and you can still keep fishing.

RE: Chain Fishing for Shiny Pokémon Part ONE - Jaerri - Sep 3, 2016

@FatedHope I'm not quite sure, because if it doesn't break then it just would mean that you could fish infinite shinies. When you encounter one and catch it, just chaining with the same chance as you previously got? Please correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that the chain definitely breaks

RE: Chain Fishing for Shiny Pokémon Part ONE - That_One_Hunter - Sep 3, 2016

(Sep 3, 2016, 02:22 AM)Jaerri Wrote: @FatedHope @Jaerri When you encounter a shiny the chain will always break

RE: Chain Fishing for Shiny Pokémon Part ONE - MagicalMops - Sep 3, 2016

I believe as long as you don't catch the Pokemon, your chain will not break. Hence let's say, you find a shiny but you run away your chain should continue.
@FatedHope
@Jaerri

RE: Chain Fishing for Shiny Pokémon Part ONE - FatedHope - Sep 3, 2016

@Jaerri @MagicalMops @That_One_Hunter I have searched it up and everyone is saying that if you encounter a shiny and you have caught it, your chain keeps going as long as you dont access the menu or anything. Plus I have seen streamers catching the shiny from chain fishing but yet they hadn't reset it and kept going

RE: Chain Fishing for Shiny Pokémon Part ONE - That_One_Hunter - Sep 3, 2016

@FatedHope Streamers keep that going for no. of encounters, finding a shiny does break the chain, it's just easier to not reset. I do it when hunting rarer pooes like Dratini or Crawdaunt.
Or we could all be wrong and shiny pokemon pop up whenever they feel like without the need of a chain.