Optional methods can in many games be used to improve those odds from there, and I have been questing to collect one of every single species of Pokémon in their shiny form, including each individual evolutionary stage of any Pokémon which can evolve. Over the past four years, I have been attempting to complete a Living Shiny Dex in the Pokémon series titles.įor the uninitiated, every Pokémon has a 1/4096 or 1/8192 chance, depending on its game of origin, of being a rare colour variant.