The items needed are Ultra Balls, Dive Balls, and Pokemon with Octillery or Inkay abilities. It is important to equip your character with some essential items to be prepared to find the Shiny Pokemon because the odds have been reported to be a 1 in 8,000 chance of finding them, which is significantly lowered to 1 in 200 using chaining. However, most reviews and tips point to finding them on land, a video recently surfaced of someone using the chaining method in the water to find the special shiny characters. Using the method known as chaining increases a gamer's odds of running into these rare Shiny Pokemon. In Pokemon X and Y, there are a few tricks that make it easier to catch one, and the newest one revealed has to do with fishing.
For years Pokemon has had secret Shiny Pokemon mixed into their games without anyone knowing about them or how to encounter them.
