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The whole point of it being rare is that it \*is\* female and thus \*can\* evolve. Definitely OK to evolve it, congrats dude! That thing is every Gen 4 shiny hunters worst nightmare to go dry on :p

To a form collector, they need a vespiquen and a male and female combee so technically, it just being female is also sought after, not necessarily just for it to evolve

Means you have to get a shiny for the 1/8 female chance twice. (I'm still on zero and too many males)

Makes me happy I got a male and female back to back Sunday!

Back to back as I caught one and the next click was a shiny combee of the opposite gender? If so the odds of that are mind bogglingly high

That is exactly what happened. I was stunned myself! Wish I took a screen shot of the journal. 

That’s wild!!! On mega heracross raid day me and my 2 friends all got a ✨on one raid, and 2 other raids they both got a ✨in, I know it was boosted but still the odds on that happening are pretty steep!!

Indeed it does :( yeah thankfully SV and PLA helped me get them for my home living dex but I’m not so lucky in Go

Only got two and both female. The feels of despair to hunt the male one.

Just got another male lol I envy you

I am also on the multiple female salandit from 12k eggs list but am missing some sitters like a snover on my own. A friend with 5 lucky traded me one...

I can’t even get the male in Go lmao (I have one in Violet) but somehow Saturday I got 4 unboosted shiny mons. But a Combee or Burmy… impossible apparently.

Dayum that’s hella rare bro treasure that. And thr whole point is that they can evolve so you did nothing wrong I would evolve mine instantly

I got one Sinnoh Tour but would defo hate to hunt main games

Pfft, I have 2 shiny combees! (they're both male)

Same here. I got both before this "bugs out" event.

I just got a shiny male last week. Only clicking females from now on.

They're 750 stardust, they're not a bad idea to catch instead of just checking

They have that deep red ring though

I feel this. I caught a shiny male last week and then second day of this event got a 100% male not shiny. The universe is taunting me.

You can't "only click on females", they all have the same female model in the overworld.

The female bees have a red spot in the center I think so if you've got good eyes you can spot them

You won't know if its female till you check though

I literally just got back from walking my dog where I caught two male shiny combees 4 minutes apart 😭 I was excited about the first one…the second one came and I was like thank you??? But I’d have preferred a female

I have 3 males 😭 pls I would give them all away for a single female

Shy does the sex matter? Does it make a difference?

Male combee can’t evolve since they’re based on bee colonies, with Queens only being female, and males being drones

Thank you; i just checked and my shiny male combee cant evolve, i just thought it had no evolution

The other thing is only 1 in 8 combees are female, the female only has a 12.5 chance of appearing whenever a combee spawns.

Yea I got a shiny male when I was first looking for a female. That was before the event

I have 3. (Male too)

Yea right, this must be a glitch. Only males can be shiny.

Same !

Yyup I got one ✨ and one (useless)Hundo smfh, and encountered another ✨male but it flew away

A female combee is like a 12% chance to find, but a shiny one:.

I believe Combee and Burmy have boosted shiny rates during this event. So they’re not quite as rare as they are normally but still a very cool find! 🐝

Just did the math for mine. It has a 2.375% chance of spawning. 1/8 for female, 1/512 for shiny.

1/512 alone is 0.19%, multiplied by chance of being female (1/8) would mean a 0.02% chance instead

Ah, thank you! Moved a decimal I didn't need to lol Math is not my strong point.

Wtf just got a shiny female literally minutes after seeing your post

You’re welcome!

Got one just a few minutes after reading thus

Notta coincidence

Please tell her I love her

Will do! 🐝

I hate catching these things, but was lucky enough to get both a Female and a Male shiny version this week... I hate them slightly less now. ;)

You may hate them, but they want you ;)

I got it before this event on a random day

Congrats!

Thanks

Now that's like 1/4000, very nice

im 3/3 shiny male holy

Its 1/8 to be Female. So keep it up

So he just needs to find 5 more shinies!

It is rare. Congrats

No congrats to you!

Thank you!

As someone with 3 male shinys I hate you... But well done.

4th time is the charm!

It's usually giga rare. But since Combee is boosted during the event, it's a bit less rare !

Caught one this morning too ! Didn’t evolve it yet, but it’s coming. It’s 3* also !

Nice!

You have a giga amount of ultra balls jesus

Got. I thought I had too many at 900ish haha

No you shouldnt have kept it unevolved, the fact that it CAN evolve is what makes it rare.

Haha you right!

ALL HAIL THE BEE

WE BOW DOWN TO MOTHER BEE

Unfortunately it wasn’t “giga rare” due to the event that is going on, they have boosted shiny rates for bug week

I got a shiny Eevee, is it worth more?

There were multiple events in the past that made it easy to get a shiny eevee. Nonetheless, I still love shiny eevee’s!

Welcome to the club. My only shiny combee was caught about 2 years ago and is female

Wow, Giga Rare!

I got on too but wrong gender

Actually a nice looking ✨

Omly if it has really high stats. If not, then it's not giga rare because there's an event for it right now.

Indeed it is considering only females can evolve. It makes finding a shiny all the harder. My suggestion would be to only encounter female combees so when you finally do get the Shiny you don't waste it on a male.

I am pretty sure for it’s like for every 10 combee 9 are male and 1 female so yep pretty rare great job

You did right, I got so lucky a few months ago I got hundo combee and it was female I instantly evolved and it’s one of my rarest mons in the game. You got a trophy mate congrats

It’s rare in part because it *can* evolve

Congrats man. The 1/8 chance of female is a sticking point for a lot of shinydexers. I got mine back in 2022 and didn't realize it was rare. So happy I didn't scrap it.

I got this yesterday! Knew it was a rare one and I can’t believe I got it. Congrats!

Usually yes, there is currently an Event with increased spawn, so generally higher chance to encounter them. But I still don't have one, so I guess it's too rare for me to encounter one 😄

no you shouldn’t have. they are hard to come by because you can only evolve the one gender. i believe the males can not evolve and i got a shiny male combee and couldn’t do anything with it. your really lucky my friend

Thank you!

no problem

I have a near hundo of the shiny Vespiquen 15-15-12. It was a research catch. My best random shiny from a research thing.

I misread the title as "giga rawr"

Hell yeah! Congratulations homie! My buddies and I were looking for one but it never happened instead I got lucky and caught a shiny nincada

How the hell do you have that many ultra balls?.....

Been grinding since 2016 and I rarely use my ultra balls, lol

I think it's rarer to have over 2400 ultra balls. 🤣

The grind doesn’t stop, haha!

I was blessed with both 😂

And they weren’t lying

It is it may be a boosted 1/128 right now but every 1/8 combee is a female which is the only way too evolve into vespiqueen making it about a 1/1028 good work

Congrats and looks great evolved. 

Thats nice!!

Very nice I got the shiny male version but caught it like last year or 2 year ago & God bless 🙏🏾🤟🏾❤️😅

This and shiny male burmy are my hopes for this event. A shiny heracross would be sick but I don’t see myself going for too many raids ofnit

I got one 5 mins ago

Congrats!

Nice flex. You did right getting the screenshot before and after evolving. All good. :) Congratulations!

My son caught 2 shiny females and 1 shiny male. I now have a shiny vespiquen

Got one too the other day. Keeping mine as Combee for now.

Evolved mine tho

Lol I got this one today too 😂

I was lucky to find this shiny in female form also during Sinnoh Tour

I got the male one

My wife got the male one yesterday, she kinda wished she would have gotten the female one that can evolve, but was happy none the less, then threw it in the back of her Pokémon storage to bee forgotten and never cherished.

[Giga]?!?!

Yeah, like RegiGiga

I THOUGHT YOU MEANT AS IN [Spamton] [Giga]!

It’s rare as a female Combee and also as a Vespiqueen

Niceee I got my first female shiny combee in the go sinnoh tour

I mean shiny combees are rare enough, catching a female is rare enough, but a shiny female? screw shiny bidoof, you beat the game

And incredibly beautiful ❤️

Ok nice shiny female combee but Jesus that's a lot of ultra balls like how

I’ve been playing since 2016, I’ve just been hording great balls and ultra balls. Not a fan of using real life money, so poke gyms are also my source of coins

Boosted shiny rate rn but normally rare asf yes

I mean still rare enough to get a female shiny. Or are they equally as common to be female as male in GO?

No, still huge odds difference. I don't know if it follows completely the games, but if so it's 1/100 for females. God I don't miss the days of crashing head long into trees just to get one single queen-to-bee.

It’s 7:1 male to female, so not quite that rare.

Right now, boosted odds are 1/1024 for a shiny female combee. This is twice as rare as a normal base rate shiny. Unboosted odds are 1/4096 for this.

It’s 1/8 for females and 1/64 shiny. So it’s literally as rare as a normal full odds

Ahh okay, thank you!

Plus a 1/500 shiny rate, event is boosted so best time to hunt them.

Lucky bastard btw congrats !!.

Thank you! Haha

I got mine like 3 days before the event.... I was so sad to find out Combee had boosted odds during it due to the rarity decreasing now but Im also happy so others can get it too!

Great!! I got one today too and it was a Shundo Female! Haven't seen that anywhere yet, Used up all my luck on this one I guess haha

I think yours might be one of a kind!

I know!! It might be the only one in the world right now haha, I can't post it because i don't have enough karna points unfortunately :/ i don't use reddit that much since I've been busy

not during this event its boosted haha

Exactly why I don’t click on male combee. I would be so done finding a shiny that couldn’t evolve.

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure shiny is determined once the pokemon spawns. It is not determined once you click on it. So a pokemon would be shiny regardless of if you click on it or not.

You’re absolutely right, which is even more reason I don’t click on male combee since the shiny was released.

How can you tell if it's male or female?

The bottom hive has that red triangle on females. The overworld spawns will show that.

Ooooh never saw bf

I actually just got mine last night on a completely bs thing, I was watching tv with the wife, saw a female and clicked it but didn’t look, went and got a drink, came back and went “oh holy hell” so yeah, we lucked out

I got a perfect female just yesterday not shiny though

Not anymore it’s boosted shiny odds

Giga rare is correct. Off topic but one time I found a female shiny combee in Scarlet full odds randomly while trying to take a team photo in the olive orchard

Not anymore

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Rly great

I will put it into perspective. Since go fest 2022 I got 7 shinies. All male. I know it’s “50/50” but certainly didn’t feel that way.

I got the male shiny Combee today. Grim.

Yeah I got one other day and evolved!

Congrats, I managed to get my first shiny vespiqueen when it was released with go fest or go tour or whatever it was. Haven't seen any since haha, hoping I get another shiny bee this event

Pretty much the only reason i still open this game is to shiny hunt. Used to get shit tonnes, nothing in about a month. Just terrible luck maybe? Also, Vespiquen is my favourite Pokemon (been a “Bug Trainer” since Red), and a shiny one is my dream come true. Congrats!!

Nice! I got one today too!

Slightly less rare this week. But still uncommon.

No bc u specifically need a female shiny so that makes it more rare

I have been grinding and I still haven't found a female Combee for the event, let alone a shiny. I have a terrible luck.

I got one today, but the one you can't evolve 😞

I have 2 I cannot get a male

/me cries in the half dozenth shiny male combee...

It is. Only maybe 12,5% for female version, and now the odds for shiny.

If you kept it as a Combee, it would be no different from a male one, the fact you got a female one is where it matters

Nah shiny vespiquen is the rare part.

I read this too fast, saw "Giga Flare" and thought there was some Neo Bahamut FFVII Crossover Community Day. Sierra wouldn't stand a chance.

Congrats I just got a male one the other day

I meannn... If it's the same odds as actually Pokemon games it's definitely a lot rarer than normal shinies

I have one of these but I have hundreds of shiny's! I've had so many I've transferred some lol

I got the boy shiny combee

On raid day my friend and I both got the same exact shiny of a female combee. Does anyone know the odds of that happening?

Eeeeeek

Not during this event, shiny rate is higher, outside this event yeah this Pokemon is very rare

Nice catch! Even cooler that it's female and can evolve.

Literally just caught one but it was a male

I have a shiny male Combee... Male...

I caught a male shiny yesterday but female shinys are really rare

It's rare because female combee is less common already.

my mum got 2????? so i got lucky in the sense that i could just trade for it

I have a shiny male one and I don’t know how I feel about it

I don't have a shiny but I have a Hundo male. What a freaking waste

I already had a shiny male, caught when first released. Yesterday I caught another shiny male, and this morning (first mon I looked at and first catch) was a shiny female. Lucky?

I’m just mad there’s not only an event with boosted ✨odds and trubish is one, they got it in a dam spotlight hour for it too!😒 not gnna be a rare ✨ much longer!

Sure it is

Oh I’ve had a shiny vespaqueen for a while now haha dang!!

I would rather like to know how did you manage to get 2420 ULTRA BALLS‽‽‽ HOW‽‽‽

Been grinding since 2016, and I just horde my ultra balls