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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?

[![Shiny
Bulbasaur](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nGo54.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nGo54.png)
[![Shiny
Ivysaur](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VRbur.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VRbur.png)
[![Shiny
Venusaur](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wIjH3.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wIjH3.png)

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Shiny Bulbasaur doesn't have a golden bulb but Ivysaur and Venusaur do


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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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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