GeneticsHow 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 > VariantA 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/RecessiveIf 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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