Shiny Shuckle

While undiscerning at a glance, great filmmakers like Stanley Kubrick often incorporate harsh reds or blues for dramatic visual symbolism, red often inundating the viewer with varying levels of physical and psychological violence, and blues underscoring innocence and salvation. Having the only change in Shuckle’s shiny transition replace the red with blue speaks to such extreme rebuke that any interpretation lesser than the absolute apotheosis of contrarianism is audaciously magnanimous and excruciatingly wanting.

Shuckle fulfills the archetypical frustration of a defensive stall, and should the thaumaturgic miracle event of obtaining a shiny variant take its course, you are left with maddening incongruency: The stall pokemon is my salvation? On its face, foolish. As a philosophical perspective, endlessly nurturing. Blue Shuckle, not all too dissimilar to its playstyle, is of enduring interest.

The best shiny is not always the one that makes you dazzled, but the one that makes you think.

Don't mess with shuckle

A simple change but one quite substantial in effect.

Blue!

Beautiful blue