Soft-resetting for natures/IVs

Anonymous (User Deleted) · February 06, 2015, 09:50:30 AM

I had noticed a remark about SR'ing for shininess and wanted to have a general discussion about it >.>

If you don't understand the title, it's when one soft-resets a Pokémon game using L+R+Start/Select to give the RNG another roll of the dice, for a desired nature, stat combination, or shininess.

Anyone bother to do this?

I only bothered SR'ing since Gen VI because legendaries are guaranteed at least 3 perfect IVs. I mostly just need to get the nature now because half of the stats are going to at least be excellent. But it's such a drag because it can take a while to get the Mon that I want.

CK97 · February 06, 2015, 09:58:48 AM

I don't have enough patience for it.

Tyger · February 06, 2015, 10:14:44 AM

I tried soft resetting for a shiny groundon in gen 4. I think I made it to like 15 resets and decided that was fucking stupid. Now I just action replay the IVs and hope for random shinys or mesuda method

Luis · February 06, 2015, 08:23:07 PM

I only SR'd for the legendaries in ORAS

DAS B00T x2 · February 06, 2015, 08:35:24 PM

Since you can just roflstomp the single player with a bad natured mascot legendary and didn't get to use a bunch of legends in the battle frontier/tower/etc... I never thought SR'ing for natures/stats on legendaries was worth my time, and SRing for shiny 'mons seems like it would still take forever.

Mega Sceptile · February 06, 2015, 11:30:51 PM

I've SR'd for 4 pokemon, all for shinies 1 in gen II, two in III, and one in V. Treecko, Groudon, Cyndaquill, and Samurott, each time it only took like 10-30 tries. I've never SR'd for natures though, because I can just breed on good natures on the ones I use.

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