Shiny Pokemon you should hunt in Pokemon Legends: ZA

While many rare shinys take hours to track down, Pokemon Legends: ZA also has simple shiny hunts to test your newly acquired Shiny Charm as soon as you get it. Shiny Pokémon are known to be elusive versions of their species, as indicated by their unique color palette and distinctive shiny sparkles.

Some of the best Shiny Pokemon to center your Shiny hunts around include a mix of fun, easy-to-find cuties alongside some of the most powerful Pokemon in ZA. Whether you want to flex against your opponents in online matches or you want to have a team of six adorable shinys, here are the best shinies to hunt in Pokemon Legends: ZA.

Wild Zone 3

Two shiny Skiddos in Pokemon Legends: ZA.

It's hard to pick just one Pokemon when there's a hotspot as versatile and easy to farm as Wild Zone 3, which has a now-iconic door in the little enclosure where Litleo sleeps. Entering this door repeatedly by holding down will reset the spawn in the Wild Zone, as well as on the roof next to it, making this an easy zone to farm for shinies.

If you have shiny charms and go through the door repeatedly for about 30 minutes, you're almost guaranteed to find at least one shiny. Of the possibilities, you'll likely find shinys by Skiddo, Pancham, Flabebe and Fletchinder, to name the closest.

Fletches

A close-up of a shiny Alpha Fletchinder in Pokemon Legends: ZA.

Speaking of Fletchinder, you can find this Pokemon in the first Wild Zone of the game, making it one of the earliest shinys you can encounter in ZA.

Whether you want to farm in Wild Zone One or Three, this Pokémon is an easy test of your Shiny Charm and is a low-pressure Shiny, given its appearance at low levels, which contributes to its high catch rate.

Beldum

Beldum is arguably one of the hardest to find in Pokemon Legends: ZA, but it's still worth your time and effort, given that Metagross is one of the best Steel-type Pokemon in the game and can be a huge part of almost any team.

Once you get to the Lysandre Cafe, you'll have access to this shiny farm, which requires you to first spawn Beldum in the purple room on the west side of the map. With Beldum spawns active, teleport to the beginning of the area via flight. Once at the start, teleport between the bottom right yellow room and the other room in the middle of the area to reset the spawn and hunt for this shiny.

Skirmish

A Skarmory flying in the air above Wild Zone 17 in Pokemon Legends: ZA.

Skarmory is a difficult shiny to hunt because it only has one spawn point in Wild Zone 17, and it usually flies high above the area before you can reach it. If that wasn't troublesome enough, there's a whole pride of Pyroar that make their home under Steel and Flying-type Pokémon.

On the plus side, this makes this area a great place to focus farming for Skarmory and enjoy the accidental Pyrorar shines along the way. It can get tiring after the first few, but we have to keep our wits about us while looking for Skarmory somehow.

Pumpkin Caboose

A group of Pumpkaboo including an alpha in Pokemon Legends: ZA.

Pumpkinkaboo is a great Pokémon that can fit perfectly into your favorite seasonal teams. While this Pokémon's seasonal applicability is usually around fall, there's always time to appreciate some adorably creepy pumpkins that come in all different sizes.

Fortunately, Wild Zone 15 makes this a great shiny hunt thanks to the group of Pumpkaboo who make their home in the center of the area. The variety of spawn points makes this shiny hunt slightly less painful than some of the others in the game, and offers the chance for multiple shiny spawns.

Delibird

Delibird makes its home in Wild Zone 12 along with several other Ice-type Pokémon, and, like Pumpkaboo, is especially relevant to catch during the winter holiday period. This Pokemon's thematic connection to gifts couldn't be more closely related to the holidays we celebrate in the real world.

If you want to build your seasonal team before you have to wait until next year, there's still time to get your shiny Delibird in all its royal purple glory.

Riolu

Riolu is fairly easy to hunt from the start if you're willing to travel to the northwestern part of Lumiose City, where you'll see this Pokémon on the rooftops between Wild Zones 13 and 18. It's fairly easy to spot this Pokémon's shiny form, so it's exciting to see it appear from a distance.

Lucario is an incredibly powerful Fighting-type Pokémon that you want to use on your team, so having a shiny version of a meta-relevant Pokémon is always a nice bonus.

Any fossil

Looking at the Sail Fossil in Pokemon Legends: ZA.

Fossil Pokémon can be annoying to get shiny, but their unique circumstances make them a great choice to hunt down at any point during your ZA walkthrough. Since Fossil Shiny prices are not changed by getting Shiny Charm, you might as well try to get a Shiny Fossil before any other Pokémon.

Unfortunately, you'll need to build up a large bankroll to farm multiple fossils at once, but you should aim to farm one Pokemon at a time to streamline the fossil awakening process at the Pokemon Research Lab.