Pokemon Go turns ten years old this year, and although Pokemon's anniversary focus is on its own 30th birthday - which is now just two days away - the build to Pokemon Go's tenth anniversary has already begun. Its Memories in Motion season will kick off the festivities next month, bringing with it some very welcome and long-overdue changes to how trainers encounter shiny Pokemon.
The biggest of Pokemon Go's upcoming shiny changes pertains to evolved Pokemon. Aside from a handful of examples revolving around special events, shiny versions of evolved Pokemon have not spawned in the wild in Pokemon Go. If you want an evolved shiny Pokemon, you have to find and catch a shiny version of the first Pokemon in its evolutionary chain and then evolve it.
So catch a shiny Sprigatito and evolve it into a shiny Floragato, for example.
Niantic has never explicitly explained why shiny evolved Pokemon don't spawn in the wild, but some theories likely hold some weight. Most believe that it's all a part of the desired grind. That Niantic wants you to "earn" those evolved shinies by catching the shiny base Pokemon first and then evolving it yourself.
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