Can the regis be square shiny? what are the odds for them to be square?

Question

I’ve seen some square shiny regielekis and dragos. But I wonder if they are legit. I’m aware there are lots of genned, clones, hacked ones around. I need to know before I start hunting for a square!
I’m also interested in Regigigas to be a square. Since it can be found in a den, does it work different than the other regis? or does it have to come from previous games for it to be square?

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First of all, what are square shinies.

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From Gen 8, there are two types of shiny sparkles. And..... Square shiny is one among them!

Answer 1

The chance of a shiny being a square shiny that you found in the wild is 15/16. The chance of a square shiny appearing from a shiny you hatched from an egg is 1/16. And vice versa with star shinies. However, if a static encounter is shiny it has the same odds as if it was in an egg, so it would be 1/16 for a square shiny.

Therefore, the odds of a Shiny Regi being a Square Shiny is 1/16, because the Regis are static encounters. The odds of a random Regi being a Square Shiny is 1/65536.

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They asked about Regis, not wild encounters. Regis are infact static encounters!!

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I talked about static encounters. I'm going to make the answer more obvious in the paragraph tho

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Sure thanks, I was confused whether it was 1/16 or 1/65536 and forgot I posted this. There you go, the checkmark