Shiny Pokémon are considered very rare. The term "shiny" is a reference to their difference in color and their sparkling animation and sound effect when they enter into battle. The term was originally a fan name prior to Generation V.
The term "Shiny Pokémon" was first created by fans based on the sparkling sound effect and animation at the start of an encounter with one in the games.
Post-Generation 2 Shiny Pokemon
In Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen, a few opponents in the Trainer Tower have Shiny Pokemon of their own. Despite Shiny Pokemon becoming common knowledge, they still had no official name in Generation 3. The easy chat system called them “alt.
Shiny Pokémon are rare variants of Pokémon that are differently colored than other Pokémon of their species. If you're lucky, you may randomly encounter Shiny Pokémon in the wild, especially during special events like Community Days or Pokémon GO Fest.
And, just as you might expect now that you know that there is no “lore” in the sense that other games have “lore,” shiny Pokémon have no grand backstory behind them either. They're just unusually colored members of their respective species.
The red Gyarados (Japanese: あかいギャラドス Red Gyarados) is a term used to refer to a Gyarados that is Shiny, which is red rather than its usual blue. According to the anime, this is due to the forced evolution; the Magikarp it evolves from retains its red color, having no time to change its scale color to blue.
Beginning with Pokemon's sixth generation, Game Freak began to purposefully design how shiny Pokemon would look.
Since a Pokémon's gender was also determined based on DVs back then, this resulted in it being impossible to have a female Shiny Pokémon for any Pokémon with a 87.5% chance of being male, such as starter Pokémon.
Unown C is the rarest of them all. Its shiny version was made available for only eight hours in three cities in November 2020.
Noctowl is the first Shiny Pokémon seen in the anime, although it is not the first alternately colored Pokémon to appear. It is also the first Shiny Pokémon to be owned by a main character and the only Shiny Pokémon owned by Ash.
Ash only caught one shiny, which was Noctowl in the Ilex Forest of the Johto Region. The name of the episode is Fowl play. It's in season 3, the first season of three for the Johto Region.
Voltorb appeared in the episode titled "Mad About Blue," where Ash's good friend Goh caught the shiny Pokémon. It was Goh's first ever shiny Pokémon, and it was only fitting since Ash also has one of his own.
Fake Shinies are Pokemon that are different from the Original Shiny. This was first developed by KP With a Blue-flamed Typhlosion.
There were no Shinies in Gen I. But in Gen II, there was a way higher chance of finding a Shiny.
A Shiny Pokémon (Japanese: 光るポケモン Shiny Pokémon), previously officially known as alternate coloration or rare coloration (Japanese: 色違い differently colored), and called Color Pokémon in Pokémon Stadium 2, is a specific Pokémon with different coloration to what is usual for its species.
What are the odds of getting a female shiny starter? Your odds are a fixed 1 in 8192 in Generation II–V games and 1 in 4096 in Generation VI–VII games.
If a Shiny Legendary is found after completing a Raid, it has a 100% catch rate. But in the wild, Legendary Pokemon are difficult to catch, even if they are Shiny. That's because a wild Shiny Legendary keeps its same high catch rate. But to negate this, a Shiny Legendary can't run away from trainers.
Breeding Shiny Pokemon can be a long and arduous process but the Masuda Method makes it much easier.
What happens if you breed two Shinies? Yes. It typically has the same shiny odds as any other Pokémon (1 in 4096), although these odds can be increased with the Shiny Charm and the Masuda Method. Breeding with one or both of the parents being shiny does not increase the shiny odds outside of Gen II.
Besides their alternate color, Shiny Pokemon in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet do not have extra identifying features or effects - there is no sound effect and they do not sparkle in the overworld. If you send out a Pokemon in Let's Go mode with R, they will not attack a Shiny Pokemon!
In the early days, Gamefreak would simply switch the color palette of a Pokémon to a next suitable one in the game's code, resulting in similar shiny variants for different Pokémon (Clefable and Wigglytuff for example).
Well, it's because they never used to be designed at all. We don't know about the process of creating shinies in much detail, but we do know that in Gen 2 – the first to include shinies – they were determined algorithmically.
Debunking Shinies: Most fans think Shiny colors in Generations 2-5 were determined via palette swap -- which is to say, Pokemon of the same color also have the same Shiny colors. But actually, that's not the case -- Shiny colors have always been hand-picked by the developers.