Andrea is an editor at Game Rant, where she has been writing professionally about video games for nearly five years. She became a gamer for life at 7, thanks to a copy of Pokemon Red and her Game Boy.

Grabbing a shiny Pokémon is an achievement in every Pokémon game, but a shiny starter is especially rare. Since they’re not usually found in the wild, it wasn’t until Pokémon Scarlet & Violet that ...