Sparkling Pokemon Can Fix The Shiny Problem

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Have you ever felt like Shiny Pokemon were a bit underwhelming? If you say no, you’re lying. It feels like half of the Shinies are either just a slightly different shade of the same color as the original or just straight up look worse - or sometimes both. Look at Shiny Glaceon or Shiny Blastoise and try to tell me Pokemon doesn’t have a huge problem with the design of Shinies.

Outside of a few rockstars like Black Charizard and Red Gyarados, the only thing that has ever made Shinies feel special is their rarity. Unfortunately, even that has gone out the window in recent years. Finding Shinies in Pokemon Go is trivial, and Sword & Shield increased the rate of Shiny encounters dramatically. If they’re not that rare, and they don’t look good, then what’s the point?

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Enter: Sparkling Pokemon. Teased for the next Japanese TCG expansion, Battle Legion, Sparkling Pokemon are everything that Shiny Pokemon should have been. If Sparkling ‘mons make their way from the card game into other kinds of Pokemon games, we could quickly find ourselves in a new golden era of rare Pokemon hunting.

Sparkling Pokemon are like Shiny Shinies. They have the same basic color pattern as the Shiny version, but they’re also layered with a sparkle effect thanks to the foil pattern of the cards. The two examples we’ve seen so far, Sparkling Greninja and Sparkling Hawlucha, both have a rainbow crosshatch pattern that gives them new colors and some interesting texture. Simply put, they’re sparkly Shiny Pokemon.

But Sparkling Pokemon aren’t just Shinies with a new look. These Pokemon are so powerful that you can only have one in each deck. This could put an interesting twist on the Shiny hunt, since