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4th Gen Should shiny Pokemon be stronger?

Should shiny Pokemon be stronger?

  • Yes

    Votes: 19 44.2%

  • No

    Votes: 18 41.9%

  • Don't care

    Votes: 6 14.0%
  • Total voters
    43
  • Poll closed .
Haha...a $64,000 question isn't as good as a £1,000,000 question....dollars are half-price now XD.
 
I voted for don't care, because it depends on how well you trained the shiny. Also I have a shiny spinda Lv.100 and a regular spinda at Lv.100 and my shiny has better stats, so I guess shinies are stronger by a little bit though.
 
I actually think that they have a small boost that does not show up in stats, Just in battle.
 
They might have an IV Boost, but nothing confirmed
 
Their shiny status has absolutely nothing to do with IVs, at least in this generation, so stop talking nonsense.
MegaMushroom07 said:
Haha...a $64,000 question isn't as good as a £1,000,000 question....dollars are half-price now XD.
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Mega, this post was spam. Stop with pointless posts.
 
I vote no, even though it's a shiny it doesn't mean it should be stronger, shiny is only another colour appearance to it's normal one, to me I just think shinies are just there to show off to other people.
 
Never. It'd ruin competitive battling, it'd ruin the fun of having them (because everyone else would go through the pain of catching whole shiny teams), and it would ruin non-shiny Pokemon. Everyone would go crazy trying to catch them, so in the end, shiny Pokemon would be too common, and people'd be trading them around to add to that. Even like 10% of a stat boost would cause all that, and anything less than that defeats the purpose (who'd care about a 2% boost?). -And, I want to still feel like my shiny Swellow is special...
 
I don't think they should be stronger. That'd almost just entice more people into hacking for shinies just for the extra stat bonus that the Pokemon would have and we'd probably see people with more and more shiny Pokemon.
 
no, what makes them so special besides that they are a different color. Let them feel special that they are already a different color from the rest of there species


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No, it's already quite significant because of it's different color. And it would cause many issues with Wi-Fi battles, because there would be a higher chance that one would be hacked.

@TwilightBlade/SU: Shouldn't this belong in Pokemon General?
 
I keep bringing this up to my friend, but they should get a move that is exclusive to all shinies that you have to tutor with that dude for heartscales. make it called like "sparkle sparkle" and either do a little damage while lowering accuracy or high famdage
 
I don't think shinies should get a stat boost, it would ruin the meta game. People who are lucky enough to have a team full of shinies would have an unfair advantage because they would win battles without having put any time or effort in to raising their pokemon.

I know it is still *relatively* easy to get shinies with the pokeradar, but then you wouldn't be able to breed in necessary moves, IVs, etc.
 
Thebiggamer said:
I keep bringing this up to my friend, but they should get a move that is exclusive to all shinies that you have to tutor with that dude for heartscales. make it called like "sparkle sparkle" and either do a little damage while lowering accuracy or high famdage
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Its all well and good saying this but WHY? no-one is justifying why shinies should be better. Why would a shiny magicarp be any less pathetic than its counterpart? Why does sparkly skin give it these additional abilities? IT DOESNT!
 
They shoudn't because Shiny pokemon are considered the same as regular except they have a different colour and are just a bit boosted in stats..

But they are BANNED from wifi battles..

So no, they shoudn't be stronger they should make them so they have even stats as there regular forms, so they woudn't get banned from wifi.
 
I decided to say yes due to their rarity, but stronger as in a little more IVs, not actual base stats (Also not 31/31/31/etc..., but more like 20+/20+/20+/20+...) This way, a shiny pokemon wouldn't always be stronger than a regular, highly-bred one.

This way, it would put to the test to see if you have a life or not.
 
MegaMushroom07 said:
In Pokemon Gold, Silver, and Crystal, 'shiny' Pokemon obtained a boost in stats. However, they lack the extra power in this generation.
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They didn't have a boost in stats. They just had certain IVs. While these IVs were usually high, they were almost always the wrong ones for the type of Pokemon though (IE: Shiny Pidgeot having high special attack; Alakazam having high defense; dunno if these are true examples, but just showing what it was like).

Before they give any buffs to shiny Pokemon though, they really need to make other novelty Pokemon at least usable in widespread battle. Shiny Pokemon are as good as the rest of them. Unique Pokemon such as Castform, Kecleon, and Ditto to just name a few are really cool concepts, but just really don't cut it in battle. They need to be at least usable in competitive play before other novelty Pokemon (shinies) get a buff.
 
ABYAY said:
I decided to say yes due to their rarity, but stronger as in a little more IVs, not actual base stats (Also not 31/31/31/etc..., but more like 20+/20+/20+/20+...) This way, a shiny pokemon wouldn't always be stronger than a regular, highly-bred one.

This way, it would put to the test to see if you have a life or not.
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So they should be strong based on rarity, does that mean my rotom should be powerful?
 
Yea I loved those games(g/s/c) I wish shinies would be stronger then I would probably use them more.
 
Gofre said:
Its all well and good saying this but WHY? no-one is justifying why shinies should be better. Why would a shiny magicarp be any less pathetic than its counterpart? Why does sparkly skin give it these additional abilities? IT DOESNT!
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I see your point, I really do, but in a video game and moster-training world there's a lot of things that go without simple explanation. Why should Charmander apparently die just because the little fire on its tail goes out? Why does Kadabra evolve when you trade it? Why do CD disks set onto a Pokemon's body give it new abilities? It could be that Shiny Pokemon have some sort of slight energy in them, and that somehow gives them something normal Pokemon don't have. The stat raising ideas I'm against, as it would result in problems with the competitive battling world, but a unique shiny move or just a move that Pokemon doesn't normally learn (like a Swellow with Extremespeed or something) wouldn't be so bad as long as the moves given to them aren't too special or anything. Like if there was a "shiny move" that cause one-hit-KOs and had good accuracy, there'd be an obvious problem there.
 
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