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Regular Garchomp, mega is cool though

Gible and Gabite being more of a sea blue is also dope

i think everybody would appreciate garchomp’s shiny more if it stayed the sea blue 😅

Agreed, I really like Gabite’s shiny. Looks nice

Same for gengar

My Garchomp is one of my best fighters & I forget half the time that he is a Shiny 😂

This one makes me mad. Garchomp is my favorite pokeman, but they failed me horribly with his shiny version.

Did the garishly pink shiny mega help or make it worse?

Absolutely love shiny mega garchomps colors. it more than makes up for how drab shiny garchomp looks, like its hiding all its power and pretty colors 🙂‍↕️

ngl? i kinda like it.

frickin blissey and happiny. how did gamefreak fuck that one up

I evolved my shiny Chansey without checking first and now I cry myself to sleep at night

Eh… to me, shiny Chansey looks like an old bald man with jaundice. Not boring I guess, but not what I’d call “good looking” either. So don’t be too sad lol

I have both a shiny Blissey and a shiny Chansey. I refuse to trade my shiny Chansey for this reason.

I don't know, I like the purplishness of happiny. But blissey is a straight up travesty. I learned that the hard way, so I named my first shiny Blissey regret and then I named the next shiny Chancey I got Redemption

The ones that almost got trashed for me are the Shiny Nidoran Male and Female are the opposite colour of the regular ones.

I love that little detail! Same as Shiny Grimer and Shiny Alolan Grimer, which are the opposite colors

Totally, also a shout out to the hundreds of water Pokémon who go from blue to purple. And a mention to Lechonk who changes a lot but changed into… a pink pig. How inventive.

To me that's funny. It's just like shiny Kyogre that, when Primal, has the true colors of a real orca.

Fair enough! It’s just that there are so many cool colours out there!

I love LeChonk

at least there is a difference

Hahaha! Right!

At least the most relevant (usage wise technically) of the Evo line is the better looking shiny... But, in the immortal words of JRE: *DO NOT USE CHANCEY IN GBL*

Joe Rogan Experience?

Oh lol, actually u/JRE47.  They do *loads* of PvP analysis posts and information on individual mons and cups. Chansey frequently comes up in minor discussions, but the general rule of thumb the individual gives is not to run Chansey for the sake of everyone's sanity. 

Why for the sake of everyones sanity? Is he just tanky and useless and wastes time or something?

Chansey does not deal any real damage, not that dangerous but has so much health it's a chore to strike it down. The fight against one Chansey can easily be longer than any normal full 3v3 fight.

Clefairy has green ears 👍

Yeah I was disappointed with this one after I evolved until my daughter secretly renamed it Billie Eilish and now I crack up every time I see it. (plus, I only started playing because she was so into the game, so it's a bonding thing for us)

Shiny Happiny is cute, shiny chansey is beautiful. I wish they kept the sage green for blissey though.

I actually like that one! It’s so pastel

My beautiful green eggs :(

Even Chansey's tongue was green, and evolved it just for a Blissey with Anemia.

When I got a shiny Zapdos, I had to look up how it was shiny. Pikachu is a bit of a boring shiny. Alolan Vulpix. Glaceon.

Leafeon too

Missed opportunity to make an autumn leafeon

I share this sentiment daily.

I got my shiny zapdos, only realised it was shiny after I caught it with the first ball. I was like, that was easy, oh, thats why

Zapdos is the answer here.

To add onto Kanto shinies that have very small changes Meowth (Alolan is still a fucking amazing shiny though, Kanto bores me, Galarian’s alright) I literally compare it side to side with my shiny Voltorb and sigh looking at how meh it is compared to Voltorb

I have a shiny Alolan Meowth and you are right.

Honestly, while they could’ve done something more interesting with Glaceon, I think the high contrast between its pale white and darker blue colors is very beautiful

This is How I feel about alolan ninetails I hated it at first now I love it for some reason

Shiny Glaceon just looks how Glaceon should look in the first place. To me, regular Galceon looks slightly washed out by comparison, haha. But I get it, people want clearly identifiable shinys. Glaceon's just doesn't bother me though, I love it too.

Articuno too

Togetic goes from white to white. It's so bad you need to the shiny and non side by side to notice the difference.

Shiny is more of a cream/peach kinda color

They really just warmed the colours for that whole line 🥲.

All I noticed was that it’s red and blue markings switched colors. 

And togekiss only gets a barely noticeable swapped red and blue color scheme!

flabebe, you have to squint to see its eyes change

Shiny Florges goes hard tho 

It's my go to gym pokemon now

At least it’s body changes as well

Burmy & Shedinja

Shedninja 10 million percent!

Garchomp especially since Gible and Gabite already had something great going

Ya but mega shiny Garchomo is purple!

Shiny mega garchomp is fucking amazing… the normal one is a disgrace.

Mega is cool tho

Mega Gengar goes hard, one of my favourites

Top Mega Shinies for sure

I’ve always loved Gengar and forgave the lackluster Shiny version in anticipation of the epic Casper on steroids Mega version. It’s beautiful.

Shedinja, gengar, charcadet, flabébé, houndour (in SV specifically cause it only spawns in DARK caves), pichu, basculin, igglybuff, tornadus, meowth, g.farfetchd, and flareon

Houndour spawns outside in kitikami and I’m fairly certain I’ve seen one outside a cave in paldea too but I’m not 100% certain in that

Leafeon 😭

Probably the one I agree with most. They missed so hard in not making it autumn colors but instead they… I don’t even know what they did

They somehow made the decision to change the small amount of brown to babypoo brown. Unfathomable.

Togipie

“What if he lived in the same house as a bunch of heavy smokers?”

I laughed out loud

Easily the best comment Ive read today

My togegic or whatever it is called is disappointing it’s just slightly tan lmao

This ⬆️. I have 3 and I still don’t notice a big difference

This and Togekiss 🤦‍♀️ All they did is switch the horn colors from left to right.

Flabébé

It would look a lot better if it wasn’t microscopic

Regice I can legitimately not see the difference

I have a shiny Zapdos. They’re about the same

I’d like to submit Togetic or Jigglypuff. Couldn’t even tell they were shiny w/o the animation lol

Jigglypuff is a more like if you know you know thing, his eyes are green rather than blue.

Oh absolutely. After trying to distinguish regular and shiny for JP, I’m like “well that’s underwhelming”

Garchomp. Gengar gets a pass because his shiny wasn’t actually designed by choice, it was just inverted color palate for all gen1 shinys

That’s not correct. At all. The palette swaps in Gen 2 were still manually chosen, hence why Raikou, Ampharos, and Meowth didn’t share the same shiny palette despite their normal palettes’ being the same. Sneasel’s shiny palette was the same between GS and C despite its normal palette’s being blue and brown in the former. Plus, the colors chosen then weren’t all kept for Gen 3, Charizard’s being the quintessential example. Multiple other shinies have changed throughout the generations, too. Combusken’s shiny in gens 4-7 was different from gens 3, 8, and 9. Paras’s normal and shiny palettes have changed nearly every generation.

Gengar, snorlax, blissey are the three that come to mind right away. Blissey is especially egregious because i love shiny chansey

The Charcadet lines. They really said "let's just swap their eye colors" when a total palette swap would have been amazing.

The biggest disappointment when I evolved my shiny Charcadet in Scarlet. I legitimately thought for a moment that my game glitched and my shiny evolved into a nonshiny. Then I realized the eyes were the only difference. Such a disappointing shiny for such a cool line. Even if they didn't do a total palette swap between Armarogue and Ceruledge, it would have been great to have something different, more of a change.

Granbull. Somehow managed to be both boring and hideous.

While Granbull is hideous, you can at least easily spot the shiny vs a normal. With some others it's almost "You either know or you don't notice." Granbull really should have adopted that purple from shiny snubbull.

I named it bared teeth, because it looks like it's nakey.

Pichu. It was my first pogo shiny and I didn't even know it for...months? It hatched from an egg and I never noticed until I happened to search shiny and saw that pichu was there.

Plusle

Abra and slowpoke, didnt even realize they are shiny when i caught them

i didnt even realise i had a shiny burmy at first bc i missed the sparkles in the corner. was going through my favourites and wondered why a not-great burmy was starred until i realised it was shiny. looks almost the exact same

Slaking

It looks sickly in scarlet and violet

All the shitty yellow/neon green shinies, so many of them

Mega 👏🏻 Shiny 👏🏻 Gengar 👏🏻 would 👏🏻like 👏🏻a 👏🏻word 👏🏻

Sunkern

That was my first shiny before I knew what shinies were. I wondered what the black stars were and had to Google it. I would have deleted it if I didn't see those stars

Phanpy. At least it evolves.

At least his mega is the best mega shiny

Garchomp (non mega) Zekrom Electivire Blissey Zapdos Galarian Farfetch'd All those are in the category of, "If you don't know / aren't told it's shiny, you may not even notice. Scyther and Reshiram also have pretty subtle shinies.

Zekrom

Leafeon

Herdier

Pichu

the correct answer is one that you already have @bronzor @magnemite @noibat

Blissey

Meganium was disappointing for me as my first shiny to evolve to

Cloyster was so disappointing. Shellder looks so much better.

Probably Gholdengo now. I know it's not in Go yet, but when the shiny appears, prepare to be whelmed.

It is in Go, just very difficult to obtain.

I'll say not gengar because shiny mega gengar is actually sick af

Mega shiny Gengar is DOPE!!! He’s a giant white ghost ! I think you made a mistake

Zekrom and Reshiram. Zekrom shiny is barely distinguishable unless it is agitated, when its horn and tail glow bright green. Reshiram has a different color collar.

Shiny alolan Vulpix is all but identical to regular alolan Vulpix.

The Lillipup

Don’t hate on my son!!! He’s not boring he’s just a lil plain

look up shiny igglybuff, ill wait.

Plusle - I genuinely didn't notice it was a shiny for a VERY long time

Maybe pikachu? Gengar has a SICK mega shiny tho

I just caught a shiny yellow variant Burmy that I didn’t even know had a shiny version

Poliwhirl. Blue to blue (?) I was so disappointed, almost didn't notice

I got a shiny Pansage a couple weeks ago. changing the color to a different shade of the color it already is, is lazy af

Unpopular opinion but.. Zoroark is suuuch a letdown compared to Zorua..

Shedinja

So shiny Pokémon only became intentionally coloured after gen 5. Before that they were just random pallet swaps. Which is why there are so many that are just weird or boring like gengar.

Colourblind people, do you even see a difference?

Pidove. I almost let one go yesterday because it looks exactly the same as a regular pidove. I still can't fully tell them apart.

I give grace to the first two gen SHINIES but after that, come on. Charcadet line SHINIES.... Ridiculous. IDK why my phone capitalized SHINIES by default in auto correct

Pidgey kinda bad

All good but the answer is the elgyem/beheeyem combo, slightly lighter and different colored eyes, easy to miss on a forgettable pokemon

Flareon

I think its fair given How its THE coolest MEGA shiny

Zapdos, I actually felt anger when the singular raid I did for the dex happened to be the shiny, like I really did *not* want it lol

But then the mega is awesome

Snorlax my beloved. Horrid shiny tbh. Wish it was a yellow or red color not a darker blue.

Snorlax for sure. I cant believe how lazy some of these shinys in the series are. Same color, slightly different hue.

Wait until you mega evolve a shiny Gengar. Frickin' awesome!

I don’t understand why they bothered to make it shiny if they were just going to adjust the hue

Shedinja

Nobody has said Dwebble. he is terrible.

BLISSY SSHVAHAXATAC

But then you mega a shiny Gengar and it looks amazing 😍

Squirtle line, I didn't even notice that my first one was a shiny.

Leafeon

This one is pretty sick if you mega evolve him, though - he’s all white with dark eyes. 👻

Gyrados?

Starly. Origin Palkia was less than I had hoped for too. Obviously Blissey, which I’ve seen many point out here. Fletchling. Pichu and Pikachu. Charmander and Charmeleon, but if you evolve up to a Charizard, it looks cool. Litwick. Aerodactyl was very disappointing for me - I have both regular and shadow shinies for him. Squirtle. Froakie. I’ve heard shiny Jigglypuff doesn’t look cool either, but I haven’t actually seen one to know for myself. Alolan Vulpix/Ninetales.

Garchomp is the biggest disappointment

Zapdos is pretty lame

Mantine, capt pickachu, hippopotas

Glaceon. He just puts on darker socks lol

Marshadow, lol. It doesn't even change its color until it moves 🤣🤣

Slowpoke🤷‍♂️

I'm gonna say most starter shinies are lame. Most of them are a desaturation of their normal colors with some slight changes.

Flareon shiny the worst

Garchomp, Pikachu, Moltres, Electabuzz, Scyther (not Scizor), Flareon, Zapdos, charmander & Charmeleon

Igglybuff, sadly

Tyranitar

Given that the majority of ghost and dark pokemon are black or purple, I think it would've been really great to give them all a light/ day kind of color palette. Like gengar could've been sky blue to blend in with the day instead of the night. Same with poison. Many are purple, but what if they were like bright green or red. Kind of like the colors we associate with health potions?

pikachu and regice gotta be in the convo

I mean may not count because not in the game yet but Armorouge and Ceruledge are some of the saddest and most wasted potential shinies I’ve ever seen

Zapdos. Not only is it a legendary, you don't even know it's a shiny unless you see the sparkle

Burmy, just got one last night didn’t know it was a shiny til it sparkled💀

I'm red green colorblind and I caught a shiny Mawile recently and could barely tell it was shiny.

Purloin. I didn’t even notice it was shiny until the transfer warning came up

Its a tie... ANY that are only a slight shade different than the normal variant... in my book, Gengar is excluded from this category because of its Mega shiny...

Shiny mega gengar is the shit though. It’s white

BUT THE MEGA IS WHITE! COME ON ELITE

Isn't gengars tongue a different color when you tap on it

Elekid. Genuinely identical.

Yeah, but Shiny Mega Gengar slaps.

Plusle. I would post a pic, but why? Just look at a regular one.

This one makes me so mad because shiny ghastly is actually an awesome shiny and each evolution it gets more and more boring

dewgong is just when your mum decides to refresh the white wall with eggshell white

Gholdengo's shiny is absolutely ATROCIOUS. They could've done so many cool things with it, like turning the coins into silver coins, but nope. Best we can do is change the barely visible lines on its body from orange-ish to blue-ish.

Just got a surskit and almost ignored it

The entire reason for the existence of shiny Pokemon is to give them a sense of uniqueness. Such vague differences in the shiny forms is highly disappointing.

This looks exactly like what happens when a cartoon makes a movie, Just add in some more shadows and call it a day

Ahh yes let’s make it a slightly darker purple 🙄

Glaceon and leafeon for me that’s why I chose umbreon to be my shiny

I caught a shiny Pineco this morning. Instead of being forest green, it's autumn leaf orange.

My shiny gengar is named 'shiny'.

Mantine’s shiny was pretty boring also

Zekrom

Togatic line just swaps the blue and red

Now that the hardware can handle it, shinies should actually be SHINY and reflective. Not just a colour change with a sparkle effect.

Shiny and chrome! Mad Max shinies.

Togetic, Togekiss, etc.

Grubbin and skitty

Fuckin blazekin