Do shiny Pokémon have better combat stats?
Nope! Shinies aren't superior to regular Pokémon in any way when you look at stats. You can have a shiny that has really high stat values or really low ones; it's not affected by the shininess in the slightest.
Do all shiny Pokémon look really different from how they do normally?
Not necessarily. The most famous shinies tend to look very different, such as in the case of Gyarados:
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How can I get a shiny?
This is an important, yet very short question...with a long answer. There are a few different ways to get a shiny. I'll cover all of the methods applicable in Generation 6:
1. The Masuda Method. Named after Junichi Masuda, the game director for the Pokémon games (and also their composer), who created it, the Masuda method works as such: get two Pokémon from different language versions tied to the region the language is associated with. Say you have an English-region Ditto and a Japanese-region Goomy. Breeding these two heightens the chance of hatching a shiny. It's a bit unclear as to exactly what this raised to considering that the rate of shiny encounters was increased, but in Generation 5 you had a 1/1024 chance. It involves a lot of breeding, and may or may not fall into Pokémon eugenics territory.
2. Wild encounter. Just like any other wild Pokémon, shinies are out there, roaming the tall grass/water/caves/you get the picture. In Generation 6, finding a shiny in the wild is easier than ever before; you have a 1/4096 chance of running into one. (I know that sounds a bit funny, since the odds are still insane, but, keep in mind, it used to be 1/8192...twice as difficult.)
3. Chain fishing. Another interesting way to get your hands on a shiny is by chain fishing. It's
considerably easier to find a shiny through consecutive fishing, though there’s no determined value as to how much easier it is. Chain fishing (AKA consecutive fishing) is easy enough. First, you need to find a spot where only one square is open for fishing. Land, rocks, and your surfing Pokémon all count as barriers, but there needs to be no gap…I like to think that, if you block the other squares, it makes it more difficult for Pokémon to escape. Having a Pokémon with Suction Cups or Sticky Hold helps, as well, since it increases the chance of a fish biting. That’s the other thing; a fish always has to bite! For each time you get a bite, your chain goes up by 1; even if you immediately flee. If you reel a line in too quickly, slowly, or you don’t get a bite, your chain is reset to zero. Even if you don’t find a shiny (I have yet to find one through chain fishing), it’s a good way to find rare Pokémon like Lanturn, Gorebyss/Huntail, etc.
4. Poké-Radar. The Pokéradar was originally introduced in Generation 4. It disappeared during Gen 5, but now it's back with a vengeance in Gen 6! The Pokéradar has its own set of slightly-complicated rules and tricks which I'm not going to go into. I'll just give the basic overview:
- Use the radar.
- Grass rustles. Do not encounter any Pokémon beyond the rustling grass.
- Encounter a Pokémon in rustling grass.
- KO or catch said Pokémon. Your chain goes up by one.
- Grass rustles again. (Same rule as before.)
- If it's the same Pokémon, KO or catch it and your chain increases. If not, your chain is broken.
- Once your chain is ~40, there will be shimmering patches of grass. Those grass patches contain shiny Pokémon.
Like chain fishing, I've never found a shiny through the Pokéradar...but, unlike chain fishing, there's an actual reason for that other than bad luck. It drives me mad, to hear the same call of that poor Pokémon that gets one-hit-KO'd by Benvolio (my Greninja) over and over again. Also, I'm a bit impatient with the radar. I'm much better with chain fishing.
5. Pokémon Hordes. I didn't exactly believe this one until it happened to me. With a Pokémon horde battle, you get five Pokémon to go up against. I went outside Cyllage City to look for a Taillow. (I never actually caught one; that's still on my "to do" list.) I had my Sweet-Scent-using male Combee, and I just got horde after horde of Seviper and Zangoose. I ended up finding a shiny Seviper. How? Pure dumb luck. In a horde, with 5 Pokémon, you've got a 1/819 chance of finding a shiny Pokémon (4-96/5).
6. The Shiny Charm. If, for some reason, you end up completing the entire National Pokédex (save event Pokémon), Professor Sycamore will give you the Shiny Charm. This makes the rate of finding shinies in the wild 2/4096, or 1/2048. In the case of Hordes, this makes it ~1/410. (I can't say for chain fishing, because there aren't solid statistics there.)
What's the fastest way to get a shiny?
There's no remarkably fast way to...you just have to be very lucky, put in a lot of work, or both. I would say that the only fast way to would be to trade with someone.
If you breed shiny Pokémon will their child be shiny?
No. The children of shiny Pokémon have the same chance as any Pokémon to be shiny; the fact that the parents are shiny does not matter. I have three Goomy bred from Vincere (my shiny Garchomp from Gen 5) and Su (my shiny Goodra). None of them are shiny. If any of them were, I would be amazed.
Will people look down on me if I don't have a shiny?
Having shiny Pokémon doesn't matter. What matters is that you like to raise Pokémon. No one will say that you're less of a trainer because you just didn't happen to hit the sweet spot of chance that gives people shiny Pokémon.
Well, there you go. Some basic questions about shiny Pokémon are answered, and I can now rest my hands after that long bout of typing.
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