Q&A for How to Find a Shiny in Pokémon Sun and Moon

You can get it in a trade or transfer it from the other game, such as Pokemon Sun to Moon, etc.

Yes.

No, the only way of getting the Shiny Charm is by completely filling the Pokédex.

Yes, but your chances will be lower.

Get into low health and use an adrenaline orb. This increases the chances of it calling for help.

There are 402 Pokémon that are in the Pokédex in Alola.This includes legendary, mythical, and regional variant Pokémon.And the Ultra beasts.

Groundon is obtained in Pokemon Ruby, Pokemon Soul Silver and Pokemon Omega Ruby. You'll have to transfer it to Sun from one of these games.

It's usually from 10 to 50, but sometimes it takes much longer, into the hundreds, depending on the Pokemon.

You can't catch Pikachu but Pichu is found in Hau'Oli City. Pichu has Pikachu's colour scheme.

You'll have to trade the one you want from someone else. If you want another of the starter you already have, breed your starter to get an egg. (Example: breed a Rowlet/Dartrix/Decidueye with Ditto and you'll get an egg that'll hatch into Rowlet.)

Without the charm, your chances are 1 in 4096 encounters. With the charm, it is about 1 in 1365.

Yes. You can use this method to catch any Pokemon. This does not work with Legendaries and Ultra Beasts.

Yes, it can. If you get a shiny Pokemon, try leaving it at the nursery in Panolia Town with the same species and you might get one.

No. In Pokemon Sun and Moon, unless the Ditto is from a different language game than the Pokemon you're breeding it with, the offspring will have the same chance of 1/4096. However, if the two parent Pokemon are from two different language games, there will be a 1/683 chance of getting a shiny. The only games where you're more likely to get a shiny Pokemon from a shiny Ditto is Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal, where you're more likely to get a shiny Pokemon from breeding if one of the parents is shiny.

Most of the time, yes. But it can vary depending on which Pokemon you're trying to find a shiny of, like you could search for an Eevee and find a shiny but you could look for a shiny Pikachu and not find one. It depends on what other people have deposited into GST.

If you have another 3DS system and another Sun/Moon game, you could trade between systems.

Since it does not appear in those games, you don't have too. The national dex has not been in a Pokemon game since oras.

You will have to trade them in. You can do this one of two ways: 1) Trade with yourself. Buy a second copy of the game, pick your chosen starter and play through it up to the point at which Link Trade becomes unlocked, then trade over the starter. This requires 2 systems & 2 copies of the game. 2) Trade with someone else. This can be a friend with another copy, or over the GTS/Wonder Trade (tho Wonder Trade is a random trade). Either put one of your Pokémon up for trade and ask for your desired starter in return, or look for someone who's offering your desired starter and make the trade. Just look out for hacked Pokémon when trading. Most are legit, but there are a few hacked ones.