Question

How many encounters on average does it take for someone to find a shiny Pokemon in Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl?

Comments

Do you have the Shiny Charm?

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@Amethyst the shiny charm only works for eggs in BDSP.

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Ah, I didn't know that -- I haven't played the games yet. My bad.

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it's really hard to calculate the "average". the average would be adding every single successful hunts encounters and dividing that by how many successful hunts there's been. The odds are 1/4092. other than that, it's impossible for us to know the actual average

Answer 1

The odds of getting a shiny Pokemon in BDSP is 1/4096. Wild encounters are not affected by Shiny Charm.

It is impossible to know the exact average of how many encounters it takes to get a shiny Pokemon, but it is around 1/4096, for all shiny hunts done with 1/4096 odds. That's the best answer you can get.