Will double encounters in Eterna Forest help me find shines faster in any way?

I’m playing Pokemon diamond for the DS, and I’m at Eterna forest with that one person. I’m using this to my advantage to find shines, but do the double encounters make finding shines 2/8192 odds?

Pleaselog inorregisterto add a comment.

Technically, yes.

You are encountering two Pokemon at once, and both Pokemon have the same 1/8192 shiny chance. This means that when you have a dual encounter, there is a 2/8192 chance of a shiny being either one of the two Pokemon. This is 1/4096 odds. This theoretically doubles your odds of finding a shiny. Finding these odds are similar to Horde Encounters in XYORAS. If you have the shiny charm in these games, base shiny odds are 1/1365. Because you are encountering 5 Pokemon at once, you divide 1365 by 5 to get 1/273, which are your odds of encountering a shiny Pokemon in a Horde.

However, this does not necessarily mean you will find one any faster, because the odds are still absurdly low. Your odds are just as great looking for one Pokemon at a time in Gens 6-8.

Tldr: theoretically, yes, but not guaranteed.

Hope I could help