Shiny Farbigeagle is currently active in Pokémon GO. Here we summarize how you can encounter Farbigeagle.
When is Shiny Farbigeagle available? Shiny Farbigeagle can currently be caught during the Color Festival event in Pokémon GO. This runs from March 8 at 10:00 AM to March 14 at 8:00 PM. Thus, it is the first comprehensive event of the new season Rising Heroes in Pokémon GO.
After that, the Shiny version of Farbigeagle will be disabled again. Shiny Farbigeagle is thus one of the few special cases, as most Pokémon are usually available as shiny after their shiny debut. In contrast, Farbigeagle appears as a shiny variant through various events.
Therefore, you should hurry if you want to have the shiny. But how do you get it?
What the new season of Pokémon GO contains is hinted at in the trailer:
How to Catch Farbigeagle in Pokémon GO
This is how you encounter Farbigeagle: To encounter Farbigeagle, you must use the snapshot feature.
- Select a Pokémon from your collection
- Use the camera icon
- Take a photo of the Pokémon
- Whether Farbigeagle appears can be seen in the preview of your photo
- Exit the menu. In the wild, Farbigeagle will now appear next to you to catch
- Repeat these steps for further encounters.
A special case: Farbigeagle gets the attacks of the Pokémon you used for the snapshot.
How do I find Shiny Farbigeagle? Here, you have to keep trying until it appears – because the shiny appearance is random as always. How high the chance is during the Color Festival is still unclear – however, trainers report that in the past there was an increased shiny chance for Farbigeagle (via reddit). Here, it is said to wait for data while the event is running.
Another obstacle: encounters with Farbigeagle per day are currently limited, and according to current information, you cannot reliably trigger a snapshot encounter. According to the trainers from “TheSilphRoad”, the current encounter rate is said to be about one encounter per 5 snapshots (via TheSilphRoad).
Then you just have to hope that the shiny variant actually appears. So here it is: Keep trying until it works.
If you purchased the Jirachi research, by the way, Farbigeagle is a good way to secure some Johto spawns. Because during the research, you need to catch 385 Pokémon that first appeared in Johto. Farbigeagle is among them.
The overview of the research with shiny Jirachi and all steps can be found here.
