It’s worth mentioning, however, that Feebas is one of few Pokemon with a slightly complicated evolution method. To evolve Feebas, players need to equip the Feebas as their buddy and walk with it for 20 KM. This means that Pokemon GO players lucky enough to land a shiny Feebas won’t be able to get a shiny Milotic until meeting that requirement, but as seen below, the shiny models make it well worth it.
Sometimes, shiny color variations in Pokemon GO don’t change much, making them less worthwhile than other shinies. This is the case for the upcoming Totodile Community Day, where Totodile’s, Croconaw’s, and Feraligatr’s shiny sprite differences are slight. But this is not the case for shiny Feebas and Milotic.
On the left, players see the standard Pokemon GO models for Feebas and Milotic. On the right, players see the drastically different shiny models. Whereas a standard Feebas is an ugly brown and dull blue, shiny Feebas is purple and silver. A run-of-the-mill Milotic has a cream-colored body, pinkish hair-like fins, and a blue-black tail. The shiny model maintains the cream body, but it adapts to have light-purple hair-like fins and a yellow-black tail.
At the end of the day, rewarding events like this Feebas Limited Time Research are what keep the game fresh, and it’s easy to see why. Because of the on-going support from Niantic and more, Pokemon GO nearly made $800 million dollars in 2018, which is certainly not chump change. And by the looks of things, 2019 is off to a good start.
Pokemon GO is out now for Android and iOS devices.
Source: The Silph Road
