Is there any way to increase my chance of finding a shiny Pokémon besides hacking? To the top right of the Pokémon's sprite on the Summary screen, you'll see a red star. If you have a shiny Pokémon, besides the weird color palette and the fact that you probably noticed the sparkles as you encountered it, there's another sign of its shininess in its Summary screen. Plus, most of the time it's easy to notice their strange color palette. When you encounter a shiny Pokémon in the wild or in the Battle Tower or other battle facilities (Yes, it CAN happen and if so, how unlucky!), you will know because sparkles will appear around them as they enter the battling field. Any other shiny encounter you make means you're extremely lucky and should probably catch it. So far, the only guaranteed shiny encounter is with a Red Gyarados in the Lake of Rage just north of Mahogany Town in Pokémon Gold, Silver, Crystal, HeartGold, and SoulSilver.

Soft-resetting for a shiny legendary can mean over 1,000 soft resets before ever finding one! The chances of finding a shiny Pokémon is 1 in 8,192. As noted above, shiny Pokémon are extremely rare and hard to find. So why so much hype over encountering one? Their rarity. Or the difference may be very obvious and striking for example, shiny Gyarados is bright red, not blue.

The color difference may be subtle for example, a shiny Zapdos is a slightly different shade of yellow. Shiny Pokémon are defined as Pokémon with a different color palette.

Ever since Pokémon Gold/Silver were released, followed by Pokémon Crystal, the concept of 'shiny Pokémon' has been a feature to the Pokémon RPG games.

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