Methods
A classic method involving the breeding of one of your pokémon and one from a foreign language save file (typically a ditto) to create eggs with a significant chance of hathing shiny pokémon
What is the Masuda Method?
A week-long annual event, hosted by AbsolBlogsPokemon, in which pokémon players shiny hunt in a location in the older pokémon games where pokémon have the ability to run from you
What is Safari Week?
The shiny that you can find at the center of the Lake of Rage in Johto
What is the red Gyarados?
This is what a shiny pokémon is
What is a rare, alternately colored pokémon?
The primary function of the shiny charm is
What is increase the shiny odds (+2 shiny rolls)?
A classic and simple shiny hunting method requiring little setup, commonly used for hunting legendary pokémon before the introduction of shiny locks in generaton 5
What is Soft Resetting?
A specific type of event, typically carried out by larger organizations like GameStop, where a shiny pokémon or a code for one is given out for free
The shiny that is a part of a side quest in Pokémon Legends: Arceus
What is shiny Ponyta?
Shiny Pokémon were introduced in this generation
What is Generation 2?
This is how the shiny charm is obtained before generation 7
What is completing the national dex?
A method found in all Pokémon games set in the Sinnoh region where you use an item to chain shaking grass patches to increase shiny odds.
What is PokéRadar Chaining?
Monthly events in a popular pokémon spinoff where only one species of pokémon will spawn with increased shiny odds, usually from 2-5pm
What is community day?
The guaranteed pokémon found at the center of the nature preserve, which you can travel too in Pokémon Black 2 and Pokémon White 2 after seeing all pokémon in the Unova dex
What is shiny Haxorus?
The shiny charm was introduced in this generation
What is Generation 5?
The shiny charm looks like this in most games
What is a four-pointed star attached to a string / is a part of a keychain?
A method involving a glitch only present in the generation 4 games, where a certain ability, in conjunction with the player's trainer ID and secret ID, could cause pokémon to have up to about a 1/5 chance (21.34% exactly) to be shiny
What is the Cute Charm Glitch?
An event, hosted by the youtuber BlueVacktor in which participants shiny hunt in the Max Lair of the Crown Tundra
What is DA Weekend?
The shinies you can earn after reaching the top of Black Tower or the White Tree Hollow in Pokémon Black 2 or Pokémon White 2 (name both pokémon and in which game they are rewarded to you)
What is shiny Gible (B2) and shiny Dratini (W2)?
The only species of pokémon that can technically be shiny in the generation 1 games
What is Ditto?
In generations 7 and 8 (not including Pokémon Legends: Arceus), this character gives you the shiny charm
A method only found in the generation 6 games of Omega Ruby, Alpha Sapphire, X, and Y, where you perform a repeated action to encounter pokémon, typically while surfing
What is Chain Fishing?
An event, hosted by the youtuber Johnstone, where many community members shiny hunt one species of pokémon across several different games, the name of the event being inspired by a WiiWare pokémon game
What is Ranch o Rama?
The shiny pokémon you can receive after beating the blueberry league boss in battle and having numerous interactions with other trainers in the League Club
What is shiny Blitzle?
The only guaranteed shiny species of pokémon that you can battle before the post game in any mainline game
What is Exeggcute?
The base shiny odds after obtaining the shiny charm in Pokémon Legends: Z-A
What is 1/1024?