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I will be the first to admit that I was a shiny non-believer. I saw people in my local group who would get multiple shinies during events and think that accounts were set up in such a way that some people got preferential treatment. While that may be the case to some extent, I have been working over the past few weeks to determine what was in my control to increase the number of shinies that I encountered.

My goal in posting this is to help others in their quest to find shinies as well as to hear feedback and further refine these ideas. So please let me know what has worked for you!!
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Know Your Goals

What I mean by this is that Pokemon Go has lots of goals that you can work towards, some that are complementary and some that are contradictory. If your goal is partly to catch shinies and partly to collect stardust, for instance, you likely will not maximize your shiny catching potential. In other words, one of the best ways to maximize your catching potential is to focus most if not all your Pogo energy on catching shinies.

2) Shiny Checking

One of the techniques that has worked really well for me is just encountering Pokemon and then running away if they are not shiny. This past week (since the fighting event started), I have been encountering all shiny potential mon's (Meditite, Makuhita, Aron, Swablu, etc) and just running away if they are not shiny.

Again, this is where your goals are important, because if you are focused on xp, this technique would obviously not work for you. But this technique does help you get volume, which is the next tip.

3) Volume, Volume, Volume (aka Brute Force)

I have read in a few places that the odds of catching a shiny is 1:512 (non-Community Day). I have seen other numbers as well, but I saw this estimate in relation to the Wailmer event, and it works as a rough approximation. As most of the statisticians out there will tell you, if you encounter 512, this does not guarantee that you will catch one (and similarly, you might get lucky, and it might only take you 30 encounters to find one).

This is where I think it is critical to instill a "brute force" mentality and far exceed 500 encounters to allow the max potential to encounter shinies (like in the thousands). It takes a lot of patience to continually open encounter after encounter and not get a shiny, but stick with it and work hard and I am confident you will make progress.

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