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proudfreakmetarusonikku · 7 months ago

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like we do have a look at early shinies that prove that they’re not made by an algorithm entirely bc there’s handmade tweaks. but there definitely seems to have been weird rules gamefreak used as they’re usually very similar in colour. i don’t think it was computer generated i just think that they chose the colours based off of the types bc pokemon of similar types tend to have similar colour shifts. i don’t think they were thought about as much bc i don’t think the devs could have anticipated the levels of insanity people go to over shiny Pokémon. like in their original state in beta demos shinies were slightly uncommon like you’d easily find a few it seems originally they were planned as something far less special and even after they decided the 1/8000ish odds, they still didn’t really expect people to go as feral as they did they probably thought it was a cool rare Easter Egg and not like something people would literally devote their life to finding.

#like shiny pokemon were orders of magnitude more likely to appear at that point.#it could have been to show off the feature but like genuinely i wouldn’t be suprised if it was originally intended to be way less rare #bc like. they could NOT anticipate the way shinies would effect players minds.#they wanted it to be super rare and special at some point but like the game is clearly not designed around like #shiny hunters Existing shiny hunting is tedious enough in gsc that even hunts with odds of over 1% take forever.

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