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When I was younger a friend of mine told me that shinies had better stats than other Pokémon, and so I was fixated on finding some and things like the red Gyarados became 1000x more valuable.
I was lied to.
There’s literally no difference between regular and shiny Pokémon beyond their color, and some are straight up unnoticeable or trash.
Shiny Pokémon SHOULD be super rare still but they should serve another purpose such as an indication of maxed IVs/EVs when caught or something. Maybe they can learn moves they normally couldn’t? Maybe they have another ability? Maybe they have +10 in a random stat that the others don’t? I dunno.
It’d be nice to find a shiny of a Pokémon I don’t usually use and actually have an incentive to using it beyond a visual aesthetic.
Anyway, more power to you if you do like them or don’t care.
Post shinies.
