Your welcome! (: By any chance are you using the DexNav while hunting? 0:
That reminds me.. I was following a blog or two who posted tons of pictures of how to encounter/breed shinies ;-; I'll try looking for that blog later today and post it here :3 (I feel like we're going off topic a bit xD should we post another thread for shiny hunting/breeding? Idk just wanted to ask!) They were showing steps and how to hunt (I know anyone can do it, but they're showing their way of how to hunt because some people likes to do it that way)
Ah no! This is the first time I heard about tipping xD Which NPCs in the game do we tip? As for the Illuminate ability method, I haven't tried it tbh but 2 people I know does it and encounters shinies (safari hunting) Later on, one of my friends that I met on here uses a Super Luck ability in ORAS with DexNav and encountered tons of shinies.
THEN another friend who breeds and hunts whenever she feels like it, uses her favorite Pokemon (ex. Lapras) and within hours, a shiny pops up. Her Lapras' happiness is maxed out and around lvl 90-100 (just in case someone asked because I asked her) xD
Honestly I ran into 4 shinies RANDOMLY (wasn't looking/trying to hunt for a shiny) when I was trying to fill out everyone's safari (finding out what Pokemons are in their safari)
1. Female S.Mawile - when I first entered the fairy safari
2. Male S.Gogoat HA - a few minutes trying to catch a HA Gogoat for a friend
3. Female S.Lampent - 2nd Pokemon encountered when I enter the ghost safari
4. Female S.Bibarel - 3rd Pokemon encountered when I enter the water safari (I already encountered the 2 Pokemons and missing the last one)
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This is semi-close to the blog I was talking about (well this one she explains what and how basically..?)
so I'll ask a friend to send me the blog whenever I talk to her later today c:
http://shiny-hunters.tumblr.com/tips-n-techniques