Chaining for shiny pokémon

[Master Rudy]

Chaining is officially the dumbest, biggest, time wasting, pain in the ass I have every seen in this series so far. I have NEVER managed to get a chain past six or seven and more often than not it'll break before I hit five. Granted I'm sure some luck does play a factor. However when I read about people getting over 20 pretty frequently I can't help but feel a tad bit annoyed.

Seriously guys......is it something I'm doing that's fucking it all up?

[Number1ChanseyFan]

Chaining is officially the dumbest, biggest, time wasting, pain in the ass I have every seen in this series so far. I have NEVER managed to get a chain past six or seven and more often than not it'll break before I hit five. Granted I'm sure some luck does play a factor. However when I read about people getting over 20 pretty frequently I can't help but feel a tad bit annoyed.

Seriously guys......is it something I'm doing that's fucking it all up?

Well, to do chaining, you need to go to a reasonably big patch of grass, and there are certain squares that you should go to... I will try to give you a good description, my descriptions tend to not be good, but I will try my best to make it make sense... but anyways, if a good patch of grass does not rustle, then just wander around safe patches of grass for 50 steps until your radar recharges, and use it again, keep doing this until a good patch of grass rustles, your chain will not break doing this, but make sure you are constantly using repels. Anyways, all chains will break eventually for some unknown reason, even if you encounter the same Pokemon, the chain will break suddenly after a Pokemon encounter. The shiny rate does not increase after your chain gets to 40, so once you get your chain to 40, stop trying to increase it, and just look for shinies, which basically means that if you use your radar, and you don't notice a sparkling patch, recharge your radar, and use it again, don't bother increasing your chain anymore, because you will risk breaking it.

Anyways, here are the best squares to step on, in relation to where you are standing when you are using the radar. Again, if you use the radar and a good patch of grass doesn't rustle, just recharge the radar and try again, and make sure to always have a repel active.

The 8 squares immediately surrounding your character all have a low probability of extending your chain. All of the squares surrounding the low probability squares have a slightly higher probability of extending the chain, we'll call them moderate probability squares. Surrounding the moderate squares are good probability squares, and surrounding the good probability squares are the best probability squares, with an important exception. In the "best probability" squares, the squares that are in straight or diagonal lines (in all 8 directions) from your character have horrible rates, even worse than the squares surrounding your character, so be careful of them.