half cradle
I was able to rng the correct seed for my game, and I don’t have any journal pages to count as advancements. How many chatots will I need to check if the shiny is on the 10th frame? 9 I think? Or would it be 8 flips because starting the game counts as 1? I’m having trouble knowing the chatot pitches, they sounds kind of similar to me. 😅
hybrid quail
0 advances means you haven't advanced the RNG, so the current Pokemon that would be generated is on advance 0 (if there's an offset of 0).
If you listen to Chatot once, you've advanced the RNG a single time from 0 to 1. Now the Pokemon generated will be listed as advance 1.
So if you want the Pokemon on advance 10, you'll need to advance the RNG with Chatot 10 times.
Listening to Chatot pitches helps if there are nearby NPCs that can use the RNG. That way if the NPCs advance the RNG 3 times before you get into the party, you'll know to only use Chatot 7 times.
It also helps if you have a large number of advances, like 300, and want to make sure you don't lose count.