You have probably heard or seen a picture of them. Pokemon that are different colors than normally seen with. An example of that could be a Metagross with a silver coating and a golden X on it, a dark green Zubat, or a black Rayquaza. The Torchic you may have obtained from Professor Birch may be a lighter colored orange and you may think the game is glitched up, but it isn't. As you can imagine, these occurences are very, very rare. Not very many people even have a shiny pokemon to begin with. So how do you get them?

It depends on very, very good luck to get a shiny pokemon. You can find shiny pokemon in the wild, in eggs, and in the battle tower, which is basically everyplace you can catch a pokemon save for the Battle Tower in which you won't be able to catch the shinys there. Needless to say, you wont be very lucky if a shiny ends up there. People have said that you can also meet a shiny when in your first battle against the wild Poochyena and Wally's Ralts as well. Basically, like I said, it revolves around how lucky you are. Now the bad thing is that the odds of finding a shiny pokemon in the wild are 1 in 8,192 battles...all the time, meaning after 8,191 battles it'll still be 1 in 8,192 and not a dead cert that you will get one i.e. not 1 in 1 battles. If you already have a shiny pokemon and think you'll have a higher chance of getting another shiny if you breed with it, think again. It's still going to have the same odds.

Now you'd think with a pokemon this rare, it has to have good Individual Values and such. That's no longer the case. Shiny pokemon are always going to end up with the same odds of good stats as normal pokemon. They used to have set IV's in the Metal generation, but not in this one.

By the way, you'll be better off trying to get a Shiny Latios or Latias with the Eon Ticket since their values are preset at the beggining of the game. If you use the Eon Ticket, they won't be preset.

And that's everything on Shiny pokemon.

Thanks to Dragonair for writing this for us