Rumour: Ultra Shinies Could Be Set To Glitter And Twinkle In A Pokémon Game Near You

I never thought I would say this, but I’m sick of all the gimmicks in Pokémon RPGs. I would much rather have them expand the story in a slightly more mature way and branch out in terms of difficulty, freedom and scope.

Pokéxperto was only eagle eyed because I tweeted it 20 minutes before him haha

Regardless, it's hard to say but Japan don't use the term Shiny for Shiny Pokémon. They use
色違い (Different Colour) & ひかる (Hikaru)

The Japanese dont use the term "Shiny" to refer to the altenrate coloured Pokemon though.

So god knows what this is, but ya know what it sounds like?

A TCG boxset.

Agree with the above. Adding new layers of 'special' abilities or qualities dilutes any sense of novelty that any Pokemon has had in the series.

I really couldn't care less about any of the new legendary/mega/ultra creatures. Even shiny Pokemon are too easy to come by now.

As I said in the other Pokemon switch thread: We need a more open experience, not another gimmick.

Shiny
Ultra Shiny
Ooh Shiny
Discoball Glimmery
Starlight Glimmery
Diamond Sparkly
Twilight Sparkly

Couldn't help it.

The true rumour is that all Pokemon will be shiny from now onwards as it would be unfair to casual players who never obtained a shiny.

@Serebii As usual, Serebii on top of all things Pokemon! Keep up the amazing work! <3

Catching shinies is honestly my favorite part of the current Pokémon gameplay formula. They are fun to collect. I really, really hope the Switch game is Pokemon’s BotW because it needs a refresh badly. I skipped US/UM after I found S/M to be such a bore. I haven’t truly had fun with Pokémon since Diamond/Pearl.

Normal Shinies have sort of lost their value over the past few games. It would be nice to see a new level or rarity if this is for the Switch Title

@thesilverbrick that's exactly what I'm expecting to feel hyped for the next Pokémon on Switch.

I hope this time they really can modernize the series to a wider audience. Old and new gamers.

@justin233 literally the only part I care about now. I'm obsessed with Shinies!

@thesilverbrick I'm with you. They should soft reboot the franchise, slim it down and get back to the core of what makes it fun.

And when are we going to get Ultra Instinct Pokémon?

~Everymon is so shiiiinyyyy~

Ultra shinies, seriously? They’re really running out of ideas. Stick to the 150 true Pokémon!

My hopes regarding shinies:

Bring back all the different chain methods from the Gen 6 games. Dex Nav chaining and Chain Fishing in particular.

Double the shiny rate one more time. Shinies don't need to be as rare ad they are. A 1/500 chance would be fine.

Alt. shinies. Maybe 3 or 4 per Pokemon.

Shiny Cave. Maybe during the post game there can be a large, multi-level cave with tons of different high level Pokemon. ( 60 - 70 ) The shiny rate in this cave could be higher than anywhere else in the game, making it a great place to train and catch shiny Pokemon. Maybe make it a 1/100 chance or something.

Ultra shines sound lile a cool idea. Especially if they lower the standard shiby rate. Ultra shinies could be set at the current rate so everyone is happy.

Shiny hunting is how I spend all my post story time so more shiny hunting the better. However it probably has nothing to do with that.

I've played Pokemon from the beginning--well, the beginning in the US--and never even encountered a Shiny, so I think I'd manage to live without Ultra Shinies too. Hopefully, as others have said, this isn't just a new gimmick. New battle mechanics or re-using previously underused ones would be nice, like actually making rotation battles or sky battles an integral part of the game

@Ooyah : Definitely. The Gen VII games are so aggravatingly linear and I just hate cutscenes in games in general. If I wanted to watch a Pokémon movie, there are over 20 of them already and over 1000 episodes of the television series.

Let games be games.

One of the things that robbed the fun and meaning from rare colored pokemon is rampant hacking. It's actually rare to battle online against a team that isn't a full roster of shiny, maxxed IV'd pokemon.

One way to make your own pokemon feel special again is to have several variations of each shiny. Or even different patterns. The original Pokemon Stadium on N64 did this by having the color scheme and tint of your special little guys be unique depending on how you nicknamed them in your gameboy game. I loved it. I would name my new catches then eagerly tranfer them to my N64 to see what color they were in 3D.

I've wanted albino Pokémon for some time. That could be a cool addition to the "shiny" anomaly.

@LastLife I completely forgot about the Pokemon Stadium "shinies"

I agree that hacking has ruined the value of shinies. They might as well lower the shiny rate to a reasonable number at this point so that the non-hackers can at least have fun collecting them. A 1/100 chance with the shiny charm seems pretty fair to me, especially if there are alternate shiny colorations.

@YummyHappyPills You open a packet, get an ultra shiny that shines so brightly in your face, it comes with a warning.

Ultra Shiny: The new hyper mega super secret rare rarity for the TCG.

How rare? There's only one in the entire production of an expansion.

@sillygostly If you wanted to good Pokémon story, you wouldn't watch the Pokémon anime or movies. Your best bet is buying Detective Pikachu on 3DS.

So this is the new feature for Gen 8.

Pikachu is one of the WORST Pokemon to show to showcase an example of a shiny Pokemon. 90% of people wouldn't even notice the difference or would think it's a lighting thing. Show something like Charizard or Azumarill or Mew. Pokemon that have shiny color schemes that are instantly noticeable and distinctly different than their normal colors.

There are 3 types of shiny Pokemon right now ones that are almost not at all different, ones that are instantly noticeable and very well liked, and ones that are also instantly noticeable but ugly and considered worse.

@Ooyah I would love a pokemon-game with a more Skyrim-like setup: There's a big storyline with cutscenes, plot twists and what-have-you, but you can also ignore it and start exploring random caves after the first village, and then pick up the story again after a while (Or just leave it, as the case may be), but beyond the first 20 minutes of the game you're not stuck on rails anymore, SM and USUM were horribly railroading and all those cutscenes... ~_~

@Heavyarms55 Agreed. And I recall shinies originally came out of a programming trick in Gold & Silver that swapped palette data with a different Pokémon in the data. The colors weren’t hand picked, hence why the coolness-factor varies a lot between shinies.

@Slaz That might have been the case with gen 2, though I have never heard of that, I am pretty sure in gen 3 and beyond they were hand picked because manner in which a Pokemon was determined to be shiny was changed.

@Heavyarms55 @Slaz well you see, they were handpicked, but not completely.

With most Pokemon (maybe even all) they basically just changed both colors at once, keeping them with a proportionate distance from each other in the color palette.

@Tyranexx Jesus, from where is that?

Shinies and IV/EV, the quickest way to sap fun out of Pokemon games

Why would you want a rarer shiny, the hackers would wreck their value regardless

I'm pretty sure all the Ultra Beasts are shiny locked at the moment, so this makes me think they might release them under the name Ultra Shinies, so the trademark could just be for marketing purposes.
And while I'm aware that they don't use the English word 'shiny' when referring to shiny Pokemon in Japanese, they may make an exception to that in this case seeing as they use the English phrase 'Ultra Beast' in Japanese, so it would fit for them to keep using English words.

I hate pokemon GO never will or have played it!!!