[DISCUSSION] How Can Shiny Legendaries Exist?

[SquidBonez]

(Aug 7, 2016, 05:55 PM)thatgr Wrote: Maybe there aren't only one of each for most legendary pokemon, in the pokemon anime you see the regular suicune, entei, raikou and in another episode shiny suicune, entei, raikou. In the games, although you might only be able to capture one legendary pokemon of each, there might be more 'inaccessbile' ones ygm

Well, first we must acknowledge that anime and games are seperate canons. I agree with you that MOST legendaries aren't unique, but some have lore that implies that they are one of a kind (yet somehow they too can be shiny).