2nd Gen Trainer using a shiny.

[tranceking26]

Last night I was watching a speedrunner casually play Gold. He got to Busgy's gym and the twins there had a shiny Spinarak! It was definitely the purple shiny version.I was very surprised!

Has anybody ever seen this before?

 

[Kahnu]

In Generation II, Shininess is determined by the IVs of a Pokémon. If a Pokémon's Speed, Defense, and Special IVs are all 10, and its Attack IV is 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14 or 15, it will be Shiny. Some trainers have randomized IV's so, yeah. It's a thing.

 

[Hikamaru]

I don't recall any NPCs in the main games have shinies. In one facility (I guess it was in Emerald?) there was a chance of running into trainers who did have shinies.

 

[Hands]

https://pokemondb.net/sprites/spinarak

Spinarak's default sprite was inexplicably purple in G/S, it might have been that

 

[tranceking26]

https://pokemondb.net/sprites/spinarak

Spinarak's default sprite was inexplicably purple in G/S, it might have been that

No, it was definitely the shiny version this time. I've been watching many speedruns lately and the rest of the time it was the default one.

In Generation II, Shininess is determined by the IVs of a Pokémon. If a Pokémon's Speed, Defense, and Special IVs are all 10, and its Attack IV is 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14 or 15, it will be Shiny. Some trainers have randomized IV's so, yeah. It's a thing.

Interesting, I didn't know that.

 

[Del]

I don't know... If you saw it, then that was real thing!