Ever wondered how long it actually takes to get a shiny in Pokemon Go? Sure, you can look up those rarity rates but that tiny (tiny) number doesn't really tell the entire story of clicking and swiping and catching that many Bulbasaurs in a row. Well now there's a simulator to help you visualize it.
The Pokemon Go Shiny Luck Simulator, programmed and put on CodePen by MaximeCP, is simply a clicker game but with the shiny rarity odds for each individual Pokemon added to give you a fair shot on every click.
With the shiny encounter rates for some Pokemon such as the Gen 1 starters going as low as 1/450 (we got a little unlucky in our run above) it's hard to understand how much effort one has to go through to get their hands on these rarities.
However clicking for each encounter goes some way to demonstrating just how long you'll need to wait, if in real life you'll need to walk around, find one on the map or during a raid encounter, and actually land the catch. It's a lot.
You can check out the Pokemon Go Shiny Luck Simulator yourself if you want to see how easy it is for some more common Pokemon, though if you want to catch the five new shinies added in May you're going to be clicking for a long time.
How many Pokemon Go shinies have you caught so far? Did it take you a long time? Have you walked halfway around the moon yet? Let us know below!