Pokemon Fan Finds Extremely Rare One-of-a-Kind Shiny Pokemon

A Pokemon fan manages to find one of the rarest shiny critters in the series that no other player may own. Shiny Pokemon have always been a huge part of the series for collectors, as they are rare spawns with different color palettes that make them unique. While modern Pokemon games have been criticized for making things “too easy” overall, including the shiny department, the same does not hold true for older titles, and the Gen 3 Kanto remakes are proof of that.

In fact, Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen have very low odds of finding shiny Pokemon. Base odds are 1 in 8,192, but the problem is that there is no way to improve this in older games. Recently, a fan found a shiny Ditto in Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen, and that is indeed considered one of the best shinies and rarest, too, as Ditto’s spawn rate is lower than most other species. Pokemon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald follow the same logic, and a fan managed to find the single most valuable shiny of them all for collectors.

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Say Hello to The Rarest Shiny Pokemon Ever

A Reddit user by the name of eLd0rko shared a post with a picture of Gen 3 games on a retro handheld console with their Combusken facing a wild shiny Spinda. Although not all fans may be actively looking for a shiny Spinda, it’s considered a one-of-a-kind shiny Pokemon because it has over four billion possible patterns, meaning that a legit shiny with a specific pattern may be owned by a handful of players, if any. Spinda was introduced in Gen 3 with a unique gimmick, as it’s the only Pokemon with cosmetic variations that amount to around 4.3 billion based on existing patterns.

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Other more common cosmetic variations include male and female Pikachu having the ends of their tails shaped differently, for example, or Alakazam’s whiskers being shorter in females and longer in males. More complex examples are male and female Basculegion, which have different appearances and even stats, with male Basculegion being one of the best Pokemon in Pokemon Champions because of its high Attack.

So, technically speaking, a single Spinda is already incredibly rare because its specific pattern has a 1 in around 4.3 billion odds of appearing. As such, getting a shiny Spinda in Gen 3 with base shiny odds of 1 in 8,192 makes its specific pattern very unlikely to be in the hands of other players because the odds are an eye-watering 1 in 35,184,372,088,832 (that is 35 trillion, 184 billion, 372 million, 88 thousand, 832). Hence, the joke eLd0rko made about 4,294,967,295 shiny Spinda patterns to go before they catch them all. This is also technically impossible, as the number of Spinda with each possible pattern is so massive that one would need thousands of Pokemon Home premium accounts to store Spinda variations.

There are a few caveats to this, though. As mentioned in the post by fellow Reddit user HildartheDorf, the number of actual different patterns for Spinda is slightly less than four billion because several patterns are duplicates, some have spots that cover other spots, or their main differences are not visible because they are off the edge of the sprite. Not only that, but Spinda has always been a complicated Pokemon for games to handle. An example is that Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl‘s Pokedex includes Spinda on the Switch for the first time, but it can’t be transferred to and from Pokemon Home due to a bug with how its patterns were coded.

Since it’s a matter of when rather than if for Pokemon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald to launch on Switch and Switch 2 after datamining confirmed it, fans will have a chance to catch a wild shiny Spinda for themselves, and possibly be the first to do so for a specific pattern. With such a complex background, though, it’s no wonder that it wasn’t available in Gen 8 and Gen 9.