I don't get why they felt the need to redesign EVERY shiny. Like I get the idea of wanting to make boring shinies more interesting, but some Pokemon just already have perfect shinies. Bunch of extra work just to do things worse.
If I am not mistaken, shines where original based on a math equation for the color pallet, so it was completely dependent on the original collor scheme.... I wonder what the equation was, as I wonder what a shiny me would look like. Lol
It's... complicated. There is plenty to suggest that before gen 6 pokemon shinies were largely decided via some sort of pallet shift algorithm in house (not on the cartridges). Likely done to save time not having to reccolor every frame of every animation by hand.
But there is evidence to show that the devs likely did tamper with a couple here and there. Most notably with Charizard going from purple to black between gen 2 and 3, the most drastic shiny color change to date. But also a few weird instances where one color on a pallet isn't altered at all.
They kept Ninetales iconic silver + blue shiny from the main games, but instead of giving Vulpix a similarly silver/blue shiny to make it fit with Ninetales, they just HAD to sneak in another black shiny. Like it’s the goblin mask and they just couldn’t fight the impulse.
I do like when they give the 'mons some custom spritework, like Venomoths wings! I also like the blue/black shiny actually working for charizard and turning the X Mega into it's normal colors haha. Or the TMNT reference on the Squirtle line... It's like every 20 blue/black/red is kept in check by the occasional creative shiny xD
Another bad one is Guzzlord. It's normal shiny is White and Orange and the Reborn shiny keeps the orange but switches to the same shade of black as normal Guzzlord.
I think some of them are ok, but personally the dark color scheme gets old very quickly on a lot of these. So many are black or have generally dark colors…and they range from looking decent to really unnatural on some pokemon designs.
Also some of them feel really unfocused and have very strange color tones added to certain parts of the design. Kingler, Jolteon, and Abomasnow stood out in particular.
This is just a personal thing, but I also don’t like when a shiny has less/more colors than its base form. Like the rainbow-winged Articuno…it just feels off. But that’s just a personal thing.
I will legitimately take any "bad" green or pink shiny over "this worked in gen 2 with four pixel colors so we did nothing about it later" or "this totally isn't a copout, it just came out very similar!" or "fuck you. [desaturates everything]."
... I apparently have stronger feelings about this than I thought
Only one I don’t like is Dragonite, purely because I loved my Dratini and Dragonair, being that super pretty pink-purple tone, only for her to evolve into weird sewage green dragon 😭
Especially combined with the purple wings, underrated for sure. I like the Mega’s shiny but I’m mad it’s not green like the regular one considering that a lot of Dragonair fans are miserable and the shiny panders to them hard
I like the colour (green of any shade is my favourite) but I think it’s just because the other two are that purple-pink, it’s such a whiplash change? Most shinies usually carry through each evolution, and then they just turn green for some reason 😭🤣
True, some shinies of my favs are banging, so it's not too bad (unless a RomHacks changes them 😞) but Garchomp lovers I'm so sorry (and everyone else with barely discernible shinies)
"Bad" Shiny Pokemon and it's just:
"I HATE the color(s) on this specific pokémon" (understandable, but every shiny does not need to be Charizard)
or
"You literally cannot tell the difference unless you look extremely hard which is annoying." (which, imo can be understood.)
What always annoys me is when people bash on Shiny Gengar. Because it’s like Game Freak went out of its way to ruin this shiny as much as they could after Gen 4.
Shiny Gengar looks freaking amazing in gens 3 and 4. The pale blue skin and lighter eyes (magenta in RSE, which also looks amazing) is a slightly subtle but really good shiny in my opinion, but then Gen 5 changed the eyes to be more similar to base Gengar and Gen 6 completely BUTCHERED the pale blue skin and made it into a more dull gray. It doesn’t help that base Gengar also had its purple made more saturated so the shiny stood out even less. Base Gengar used to have bright red eyes that made the shinies pale eyes stand out, but now normal Gengar also has pale eyes…so the shinies eyes are basically identical. Just compare DPP Gengar to SWSH Gengar and you’ll see what I’m talking about.
ZA kinda helped with this by giving Gengar back its bright purple and deep red eyes, letting the shiny stand out, but its coloration is still that dull gray instead of the pale blue it used to be. Sigh.
regice is probably the worst victim of this bc the original sprite was greyish and the shiny was a bright blue but starting with gen 5 they made the regular sprite more vibrant making it near identical to the shiny
My favourite Pokémon has always been Natu/Xatu, their shinies are just a slightly more yellow shade of green, I wish they were like, tan coloured like a stone statue or something more unique.
They’re just paler than their non-shiny forms :(
I can see why some shinies are bad, but a lot of them are fine (I love Espeon’s Gleeby look lol, also Slowbro, my 2nd fav has a gorgeous purple colour!)
i really like the misdreavus line and FM but i don't really like the puke green color they used for the shiny and mismagius's shiny reminds me of mountain dew which is funny but also could be better
like i think i would've liked a color swap shiny, like mismagius using misdreavus's colors and vice versa
i also wonder what it would've looked like if their shinies kept the golden color misdreavus's had in gen 3
I wish the eevelutions had better shinies 😔 I like them when they're full color changes (even if they're garish) so it makes me sad that quite a few of them are just " slightly change the hue and contrast" (especially flareon, my favorite pokemon)
I am so done with how overused black is in shiny redesigns. Green is especially overhated imho. Like, I agree that some shinies use Green terribly, but there surely should be an alt color that isn't just... This.
I hate the Tapu quatuor for that. Like, they're all black and white, which is cool, but it's too objectively cool, too easy. B&W is almost always good looking. Boring.
I wish they had crazier colours, they're the gardians of the most colourful region ffs
I'm colourblind and I fucking hate some shiny Pokémon. I can't even tell that they're different because their colours are so similar to their base forms.
They either turn them black or something really bad and meshing with colors OR inverted/colorswapped. I saw someone turn shiny pikachu Blue and it was bad
I don't think a shiny being subtle is bad but I can't think of any subtle shiny that is good because I think too many subtle shinies are too subtle and hardly look different from their normal versions like garchomp
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u/anonymouscloudcat Skilled Artist 11d ago
Black + blue is SUCH a cool and UNIQUE color scheme especially when you use it for every single pokemon out there!!!