Has anyone else tried farming Master Balls via the lottery? I started doing it in 4th gen just by saving a lot of randomly traded Pokemon, and now with Bank and larger box numbers I have more IDs than ever. This gen, I've probably won... maybe 4, 5? Probably 5, since 3 of those were from random Roselias, and I'm sure I have more than that.
((had about 500 unique IDs in late XY. 100000 possible ID combinations. Odds of winning a masterball in a given day = 500/100000.
Odds of not winning a masterball = 99500/100000.
Odds of never winning a master ball in 365 days = 99500/10000 * 99500/100000 *..... ^ 365,
Odds of winning at least 1 masterball in a year = 1 - (that^), = 0.83,
83% chance in a year of winning at least once.))
But I wanted to hear from someone who does the same, because my luck has been really miserable in ORAS. I moved all my stuff over, but while in XY it seemed I was farming PP Maxes and Rare Candies by the day, I'm generally getting PP Ups with the occasional PP Max, and haven't got a Master Ball yet. It's very stingy compared to the wins I was getting in Lumiose. I've done it *a lot*, so I'm reluctant to call it sampling bias, especially when I have more unique IDs in ORAS than I did during XY. Maybe the algorithm has changed? Like, if it searches for the first match found, as opposed to the best match? Or maybe I'm just really unlucky.