Genetics // Pokemon colorations

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Genetics // Pokemon colorations

1. Genetics
   
2. Coloration combinations
   
3. Additional coloration rules
   

 

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Genetics

How a Pokemon is colored depends on it’s genes.
A Pokemon will always have two genes - a dominant and a recessive.

A dominant color gene covers at least 60% of a Pokemon’s body.
A recessive color gene covers up to 40% of a Pokemon’s body.

Types of Genes

• Normal (N): Original Pokemon colors.
  
• Shiny (S): Shiny Pokemon colors.
  
• Color Variation (CV):
  
  • Colors outside the normal or shiny color scheme.
    
  • Normal or shiny colors in a larger than normal proportion on a pokemon
    (ex: an all orange growlithe is a color variation).

Some gene types are stronger than others. In general, it goes:
Normal > Shiny > Variant

• A normal gene is dominant over shiny or color varied Pokemon.
  
  If a Pokemon has a shiny gene and a normal gene, the normal gene will take the dominant role and color the majority of the body.
• A shiny gene is dominant over color variations.
  
• In discussion, the strongest genes are listed first, so it will look like: Dominant/Recessive
• If a shiny or color variation manages to dominate a normal gene, this abnormality causes the normal gene to be classified as a color variant. Therefore you will never see shiny/normal or variant/normal. Instead it would be shiny/variant or variant/variant.

 

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Coloration combinations

There are 6 main types of coloration in this shop.
From most common to most rare:

Dominant / Recessive

Normal / Normal
Normal / Shiny
Normal / Variant
Shiny / Shiny
Shiny / Variant
Variant / Variant

 

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Additional coloration rules

• Pre-Gen 5 colors are not used as guides to normal colors; Gen 5+ is our official color guide.
  
• Ear color is determined by coloration and may show up on the body even if the original pokemon does not have that color.
  
• Natural pink ears may be added to our lines if the original pokemon does not have ears.
  
• Eye color is independent of these genes and can be any color, regardless of coloration.
  
• In some pokemon mouth color is determined by coloration (ex: Haunter).
  
• Nail and teeth color may or may not be determined by coloration, depending on the pokemon. However, they are usually natural colors.
  
• Marking patterns have no effect on coloration.
  
• Colors cannot be flipped and considered normal (for example, white swablu with blue wings is not normal).
  
• Cubones are allowed war paint-like markings on their skulls that is not a part of coloration. The markings must look like paint and cannot cover the majority of the skull.

 

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