Pretty much just what the title says, does the shiny rate reset? If it does, what are the factors that make it reset? Does my 1 in "X" chance of encounter begin from the start of the game, or every time I power off/on my DS and reload my saved game?
I haven't been able to find any evidence that explains this, so I was hoping to find out here for an experiment that I would like to try.
Best Answer
This doesn't work exactly like you seem to think it does - it's 1 in 8192 chance. That doesn't mean there's a hidden counter and that if you fight 8192 battles nonstop that one of them is guaranteed to be a shiny, it just means on average that's how many you're likely to end up with over that number of battles. It's really just one of the many randomly rolled stats that a Pokemon has - you might get lucky or you might get unlucky. There's nothing you can really do to influence this short of activities that directly alter the rate (stuff like Poke Radar) - normal random encounters will always have these odds.