Oh boy....oh boy, oh boy... >>
Hi all. I'm relatively new to Smogon (been lurking around 3 years or so) and have loved breeding Pokemon for the past 2 years or so. I'm the sort of person who'd hatch 25/31/15/x/20/31 on a physical sweeper and call it a great day's work.
I wanted to try my first Hidden Power breed (Lucario) and got one that seemed decent-ish, but wasn't sure. So I was looking through the "Showing off Pokemon" thread and saw people saying things like "Hey, should I toss this Shiny 30/31/25/x/20/31?" and was thinking "WTF, why the hell would you?"
...then my eyes caught the word RNG...
..then I looked it up and read the articles...
Guh...
Well, I was thinking that I would be hopeless at it, but after the program first managed to correctly predict the contents of a random egg, I was reassured, and I kept at it.
But now I've hit a roadblock. I found that I was consistently getting a Frame of 6 on every egg I hatched. So I looked up a spread I wanted with a Frame of 6, but realized that in changing the time to the correct day, the Journal would come up. Yadda, yadda, I resaved, tested some more, and was stunned at my luck in my Frame being 6 again.
So I went for my spread, and was ecstatic to see that I landed the right delay. I celebrated early though, because when I hatched the egg, the Frame was wrong. Confused, I just kept at it (figuring I had hesitated by a split second before picking up the egg after the game had loaded.) I got the right delay AGAIN, but the Frame had again changed (but was closer).
So I'm stuck...I don't know what to do. I figure I should probably just leave Solaceon to shuffle the Frame, but I don't totally know how to control it.