breeding is 1/8192 chance of shiny, just like anything else.

Your best chance of getting a shiny is to use the pokemon radar and do the thing with the rustling grass. Since I don't think magikarp appears out of water, you're stuck with that 1/8192 chance.

If you're still interested in breeding gyarados with non-ditto pokemon, he's a member of the dragon egg group and the water 2 egg group, which means he can breed with the following.

Dragon - Altaria, Arbok, Axew, Bagon, Charizard, Charmander, Charmeleon, Deino, Dragonair, Dragonite, Dratini, Druddigon, Ekans, Feebas, Fraxure, Gabite, Garchomp, Gible, Grovyle, Gyarados, Haxorus, Horsea, Hydreigon, Kingdra, Magikarp, Milotic, Salamence, Sceptile, Scrafty, Scraggy, Seadra, Seviper, Shelgon, Swablu, Treecko, Zweilous

Water 2 - Alomomola, Barboach, Basculin (Blue-Striped), Basculin (Red-Striped), Carvanha, Chinchou, Finneon, Goldeen, Gyarados, Lanturn, Lumineon, Luvdisc, Magikarp, Octillery, Qwilfish, Relicanth, Remoraid, Seaking, Sharpedo, Wailmer, Wailord, Whiscash

Yeah, If they have the little whirlpool thing (vs. rustling grass), it could still be possible if you fish it or walk into it.

aw that sucks if what u say about breeding is true, iwill def do the bushthing then caus even tho im pretty sure ive encounterd wellover 8000 wild pokemon in my random games over pokemon i havn''t run into a single shiny yet


so far i got a box full of magicarp + 3 + a really sore ditto, gona try like 50 more times tomorow, i will get that golden magicarp!

This post was edited by bhs_brand on Mar 22 2012 09:15am

even after 8000 encounter, your chance to find a shiny is still the same
and i doubt you had 8k encounter anyway (prolly more like 200 or so, probably even less if you're using repels)

naw i sometimes level pokemon from tons of random wild pokemon fights and ive played gold-black (red + yellow + blue too but can't find shinies), not religously tho.... but i've caught all of the pokemon in gold + ruby and restarted games so much, i find it very unlikely that ive only had 200 wild pokemon encounters considering in gold there is 252 pokemon (mew + celebi counted too, but i didnt own celebi in gold )

it is true that after 8000 encounters my chance is still 1/8xxx but im still sad that i havn't even encounterd a single one

This post was edited by bhs_brand on Mar 22 2012 04:50pm

i encountered 3 shinies (not counting gyarados)

koffing in fire red, ekans in fire red too, growlithe in hg/ss

tbh i think looking for shinies is kind of a waste of time

that is true, but all video games kind of are, also i am pretty jealous of ur finds, QQ

Can any of them Breed with Annie to make a shiny annie?

this is exactly true.

Best of luck, hope you get one soon. you could be breeding for quite a while.

did you try some sexy music to set the mood