What's the difference between a regular pokemon and a shiny pokemon?

Question

My freind claims shinies have more power, but I want to ask others to be sure

Answer 1

No A shiny pokemon is all the same to as a regular pokemon. Its stats are exactly the same in every way. The only diffrence is the shiny form is alot more rarer to find so consider yourself very lucky if you find one:)

Comments

Yea but I noticed in black/white the special sound when a shiny is taken out has a recovering sound too.

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Oh well aside frome the appealing effects shiny pokemon are no stronger then non shiny

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Heres a link explaing more about shiny pokemon. Its worth taking a look.
http://www.serebii.net/games/shiny.shtml

Answer 2

the differance is superficial it is like a trophy but in the old games they had highier Ivs on average than regular pokemon. Also they are stronger in animie.

Comments

You're wright that happened on Gen.II

Answer 3

My pokemon are all shiny but it have no different except its colour.

Comments

i want one

Answer 4

Increased trade value, looks are the only difference coming to mind

Answer 5

Ok. The difference between shinies and normal pokemon are that shiny pokemon have a different color sometimes its cool like charizard and sometimes they are *** like crobat or heracross.
In older games (i believe in Gen1,2) and the anime they actually were stronger. BUT now they arent. The only plus(+) they have its that they are extremely hard to find, so if you got one you are lucky.

Answer 6

Okay, the difference between the shiny and normal is about the colors. Yeah everybody notice that but its not about the color or its rarity. Shinies has a high chance of having high IVs.

Comments

Not really. In Gen 2 this is vaguely the truth, but it’s also impossible to have a Shiny Pokémon with perfect IVs in those games, so it goes both ways. You can possibly make an argument in modern games with chaining strategies, but even then there’s no programmatic link, just mere correlation.
Where’d you hear this information?