Regarding Shiny's Color

[Metal Force]

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Well have you ever thought what are shinies color based on? Why do you think think nintendo/GF chose those colors? is there a pattren or something? or is it just something random to do?
Discuss.

 

[shinyserebii]

...I don't know...I think its just random

 

[Aptenodytes]

I guess it's whatever they think looks best. Although many shiny Pokemon have terrible colors. Even my Marowak has a bad shiny -.-

 

[ellie]

Well, several of the Pokemon that have similar colors in their normal form have similar colors in shiny form, too. For example, the Mudkip line and Kyogre are both normally blue, and are both pinkish in shiny form. How they come up with the first one, I don't know. They probably just pick what they think looks cool.

 

[Miltank Lover]

il go with the random...

 

[Char1016]

Random Colors. They're just random, where do they have to base when trying to find what color for them look cool? Someone likes red, someone blue, and someone green, they're just random.

 

[Blaze Dragon]

Random for sure

 

[water types rule]

I think it's just random too. Although they should have picked different colors for some of them IMO. Like shiny Oddish and Beautifly aren't that much different from a regular looking Oddish or Beautifly. And some of them are kinda ugly, like Groudon, he should be black, or gray or something.

 

[malcolm_n]

I think it's just random too. Although they should have picked different colors for some of them IMO. Like shiny Oddish and Beautifly aren't that much different from a regular looking Oddish or Beautifly. And some of them are kinda ugly, like Groudon, he should be black, or gray or something.

I happen to like shiny yellow groudon.. and blue Electrode.

The only one that I really don't like is black Dragonite. He looks like somebody tried to color over his normal picture with a black crayon.

I think there's something with the way colors are put in. If the poke is primarily red for example, they change to a shade of blue.. I could be wrong though, i haven't looked at all shiny pokemon in a while.

 

[Eerie Fuwante]

I know that Meditate and Medicham switch there original colors in there shiny version.(Meditite is red and Medicham is blue)

 

[PDL]

most are random, some have some sort of purpose...

Ninetale's shiny form is based on the legend that if a Kitsune reaches 1000 years old, it turns silver.

some are based on old design colours, Bellossom's shiny form is based on Sugimori's earilest artwork on this pokemon (early drawings are shown as purple) and old sprite designs, like Spinarak's Gold and Silver sprite.

 

[Naraku_Diabolos]

most are random, some have some sort of purpose...

Ninetale's shiny form is based on the legend that if a Kitsune reaches 1000 years old, it turns silver.

some are based on old design colours, Bellossom's shiny form is based on Sugimori's earilest artwork on this pokemon (early drawings are shown as purple) and old sprite designs, like Spinarak's Gold and Silver sprite.

Yes, those two points are true. I also made a startling discovery when I was messing with a picture on an art program on my laptop. Did you know that a Shadow Lugia is actually an inverted form of the original? I did an inverted version of Shadow Lugia and got this (it's also posted under my account in Deviant Art):

http://www.deviantart.com/view/26539320/

 

[The Benmeister]

Either random, or ones that look good (like the fact the Nido's turn to their counterparts colour).

 

[Evanji Axu]

Sometimes they're based on the opposite or what the designers thought would look cool (Blue-eyed blonde Mightyena, red/gold Typhlosion, black Charetard, etc.)

 

[SHUCKLE MAN]

black Charetard, etc.)

lol

Anyways, I really do not know how shineys are designed but everyone knows that they are different on the 3d games (excluding Pkmn Stadium 2 when the Pokemon matched the gameboy's shiney colour (without the effect of the nicknames)).

 

[AJ Flibble]

Sometimes they're based on the opposite or what the designers thought would look cool (Blue-eyed blonde Mightyena, red/gold Typhlosion, black Charetard, etc.)

OBVIOUSLY, they made shiny Charizard black to try and make it look bad-***. Other than that, it seems to be mostly random except for Gyarados. It's shiny form's Red, and it's a connection to the GSC plot. Blue ringed Umbreon would be awesome to have though.

 

[Evanji Axu]

Dragonite's shiny form is pretty nice, actually. It's not forced like the black 'Zard, and is very slimming and flattering.

 

[Akerin]

It's probably random, though I wish Umbreon's normal form was blue instead of yellow. Blue just makes more sense for night time to me. >.>

 

[Articunostar]

Yes, those two points are true. I also made a startling discovery when I was messing with a picture on an art program on my laptop. Did you know that a Shadow Lugia is actually an inverted form of the original? I did an inverted version of Shadow Lugia and got this (it's also posted under my account in Deviant Art):

http://www.deviantart.com/view/26539320/

I have noticed that there are other pokemon with an inverted shiny,
or colors close to inverted colors. Steelix is one example.

 

[Atoyont]

Dragonite's shiny form is pretty nice, actually. It's not forced like the black 'Zard, and is very slimming and flattering.

And is green, the color that some of us imagine terrifying dragons to be.
Though it makes it look sort of like Barney in a way.

Not all of them are random; Metagross's shiny color is to give it a more metallic look.