Technically speaking, anyone who has played Pokémon Gold and Silver, or their remakes, has probably caught at least one shiny. In those games, you catch a red Gyarados as part of the mainline story.

Andrea is an editor at GameRant, where she has been writing professionally about video games for nearly five years. She became a gamer for life at 8, thanks to a copy of Pokemon Red and her Game Boy.

It’s already a major task to catch all the Pokémon in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, or any of the games for that matter, but GameFreak introduced another factor completionists will need to account for ...