Ranking All Oldschool Shinings

[pfm]

Who is the best shining? Place your votes!

1=bleh, 10=incredible
While voting, consider only aesthetic (ie. not price)

I tried to find flattering images. Ignore any difference between 1st ed/unlimited

Results thread: Ranking All Oldschool Shinings - Results

Shining Magikarp (English)

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Shining Gyarados (English)

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Shining Magikarp (Japanese)

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Shining Gyarados (Japanese)

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Shining Mew (Japanese)

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Shining Celebi (English)

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Shining Charizard (English)

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Shining Kabutops (English)

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Shining Celebi (Japanese)

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Shining Charizard (Japanese)

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Shining Kabutops (Japanese)

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Shining Mewtwo (English)

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Shining Noctowl (English)

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Shining Raichu (English)

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Shining Mewtwo (Japanese)

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Shining Noctowl (Japanese)

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Shining Raichu (Japanese)

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Shining Steelix (English)

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Shining Tyranitar (English)

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Shining Steelix (Japanese)

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Shining Tyranitar (Japanese)

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Bonus round

Shining Magikarp, Fan club version (Japanese)

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Shining Imakuni (Japanese)

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[markzkong]

I am gonna be real disappointed in my fellow E4 members if Gyarados and Tyranitar doesn’t get at least 8+ on the final ranking. Banger artworks on both.

[ayoveer]

Some are top tier art, others are not that interesting. Japanese > English tho.

[papafrankgod]

Japanese is King, also Shining Gyarados.

[camrok37]

Doesn’t get much better than Shining Gyarados

[brendantheclayboy]

Shining Karp is god incarnate. There is nothing better in this beautiful world.

[SeasidePokemon]

I’m most curious to see where Shining Imakuni? lands.

[pfm]

25 votes in. Saw the results so far, wow.

[Gus]

I know this may be considered heresy here, but I do not like the Japanese holo pattern on any cards except Shining Mew. It just feels sloppy and I wish it didn’t just lazily cover everything.

Please don’t hurt me.

[needszeebs]

i find the og shinings to be kinda underwhelming overall. it just seems weird to obscure the colouring of the pokemon with that thick texturing when that’s the whole point of shining pokemon in the first place. you can hardly even discern the shininess through the english texturing. The Gyarados, Karp, and Mew look much better imo. the JP cards look a lot better in general, with that kabutops being very noticeable (one of the best pokemon)

[SeasidePokemon]

@pfm did you forget the Celebrations Shining Magikarp?

[pfm]

See title!

[quibble]

Shining Gary surely has to win this one?

Shining Imakuni is peak pun, so that better be high up the list for the lulz too.

[wooltchi]

Charizards gonna get shafted. Theres stronger shinings but charizard is the only one that feels like you just caught a glimpse of an elusive shiny before it flies away besides magikarp I suppose.

[pwavy]

Agreed with everyone, Gyarados gotta be the clear favorite.

And Japanese > English except for the Gyarados imo

[mathonsunday]

I agree with you! I didn’t know the Japanese holo pattern was the same for all of them. I think that type of holo only really fits the Mew.

[Will]

I give shining tyranitar a 3. Come at me.

[SeasidePokemon]

Only half joking

[Gstiess92]

I wonder if my rankings will this time be at least close to the community rankings. In my opionion, Shining Magikarp and Tyranitar are the best of them, closely followed by Gyarados and Mew. And of course, every Japanese one is way better than their English counterpart.

[explorer]

Gyarados needs an 11 option.