Hey can someone please explain is there a way you can get the gender you want? I've bred a Pokemon with a 50:50 and the original shiny was a female.
I want to get a female salandit but the method won't work, is it a case of keep trying and SR or will it always be male?
If there is away around it could someone fill me in thanks.
The gender is determined by the calls, so SRing won't change it (note: different gender ratios may have a different gender for the same spread, but per gender ratio it will be fixed).
This can (effectively) be thought of as a random number from 0–7. Your Pokémon will be
female if the called number was
above the threshold for that species' gender ratio. So for a 50/50 ratio species (like your test parents) you can say the number is 4–7 if you have a female. But for Salandit (1F:7M), you need it to be exactly 7. Since your Salandit was
male, you know the spread you're on has this number in the range 4–6.
If you're using one of the apps to find a female spread though, you can simply filter nearby spreads to female only; but given Salandit's ratio, you may well have a fair few advancements to make before you find the one you're looking for.