<p>In the original Gold/Silver games for Game Boy Color, shiny Pokemon were first introduced to the public as rare collectible versions that appear 1 in 8192 wild encounters.</p>
<p>But most people don't know this one thing about shiny Pokemon and their colors: <strong>the developers didn't manually choose shiny Pokemon colors</strong>.</p>
<p>All they did was <strong>substitute each Pokemon sprite's colors with another suitable palette</strong>, and they simply published whatever came out of the other end of that substitution, rarely applying additional touch-ups. To achieve this, sometimes they <strong>passed each pixel of the sprites through <em>bitwise filters or masks</em>, or inverted the colors to their complements</strong>. Whatever method was used, the output of such operations was reflected in shiny Pokemon during the first 5 generations. Consequently, there's often a 1:1 match between the colors of shiny forms with their non-shiny counterparts.</p>
<p>(<strong>Since Bulbasaur doesn't have a pink flower that's bloomed yet, its shiny form also lacks a golden flower.</strong>)</p>
<p>This process set a precedent for how shiny Pokemon were &quot;supposed&quot; to look like. Since then, Pokemon has made <em>some</em> modifications, but many species present in much the same form as they did in their original forms from 2000.</p>

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FluffyFlareon
<p>It's the <em>seed</em> on shiny Ivysaur and Venusaur that is golden. While still a Bulbasaur, the bulb as yet to bloom and the seed is covered by the green leaves.</p>

<p>In <a href="https://youtu.be/Jel0DjTP-C4?t=5" rel="noreferrer">one episode</a> of the anime, it shows a Bulbasaur evolve into an Ivysaur. Albeit it's not shiny, you can clearly see the evolution process causes the bulb to bloom which reveals the seed on its back.</p>

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Wondercricket
<p>Shiny Bulbasaur doesn't have a golden/shiny bulb but Ivysaur and Venusaur do. Was that intentional, or did they realize that they should make the bulb shiny when they started drawing Ivysaur or Venusaur?</p>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/nGo54.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/nGo54.png" alt="Shiny Bulbasaur"></a>
<a href="https://i.sstatic.net/VRbur.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/VRbur.png" alt="Shiny Ivysaur"></a>
<a href="https://i.sstatic.net/wIjH3.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/wIjH3.png" alt="Shiny Venusaur"></a></p>

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If you notice however the back of Bulbasaur blooms as it evolves, as such i was suspect that the golden bulb is inside the leaves on it back and when it evolves the leaves open up showing the bulb
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Shiny Bulbasaur doesn't have a golden bulb but Ivysaur and Venusaur do
# Shiny Bulbasaur doesn't have a golden bulb but Ivysaur and Venusaur do
Posted by: username_0 on 2019-06-15
Shiny Bulbasaur doesn't have a golden/shiny bulb but Ivysaur and Venusaur do. Was that intentional, or did they realize that they should make the bulb shiny when they started drawing Ivysaur or Venusaur?



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Bulb  Bulbs are golden
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> **username_1**: If you notice however the back of Bulbasaur blooms as it evolves, as such i was suspect that the golden bulb is inside the leaves on it back and when it evolves the leaves open up showing the bulb  
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### Answer by username_3 on 2019-06-15. Score: 8 | Accepted answer
It's the *seed* on shiny Ivysaur and Venusaur that is golden. While still a Bulbasaur, the bulb as yet to bloom and the seed is covered by the green leaves.

In [one episode](https://youtu.be/Jel0DjTP-C4?t=5) of the anime, it shows a Bulbasaur evolve into an Ivysaur. Albeit it's not shiny, you can clearly see the evolution process causes the bulb to bloom which reveals the seed on its back.
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### Answer by username_2 on 2021-02-13. Score: 2
In the original Gold/Silver games for Game Boy Color, shiny Pokemon were first introduced to the public as rare collectible versions that appear 1 in 8192 wild encounters.

But most people don't know this one thing about shiny Pokemon and their colors: **the developers didn't manually choose shiny Pokemon colors**.

All they did was **substitute each Pokemon sprite's colors with another suitable palette**, and they simply published whatever came out of the other end of that substitution, rarely applying additional touch-ups. To achieve this, sometimes they **passed each pixel of the sprites through *bitwise filters or masks*, or inverted the colors to their complements**. Whatever method was used, the output of such operations was reflected in shiny Pokemon during the first 5 generations. Consequently, there's often a 1:1 match between the colors of shiny forms with their non-shiny counterparts.

(**Since Bulbasaur doesn't have a pink flower that's bloomed yet, its shiny form also lacks a golden flower.**)

This process set a precedent for how shiny Pokemon were "supposed" to look like. Since then, Pokemon has made *some* modifications, but many species present in much the same form as they did in their original forms from 2000.
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