Can you use shiny Pokemon in mono color teams?

Question

So yeah lets say somebody was making a mono blue team would a shiny Mew be eligible? (shiny Mews are blue)

Comments

this isn't a legitimate format, is it?  should this be hidden or should it be kept up because it's hilarious

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I think Showdown had a few Monocolor ladders in the past. Even if they didn't, I don't see how this question is worse than asking about Nuzlockes or other self-imposed rules.

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Monocolor is a legitimate format now, it's a UM (Unofficial Metagame) with its own thread and challengeable format in Showdown!. It also has a ladder for this month.
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/monocolor.3770947/

Answer 1

It depends on who you battle. I for one have it be the color of the Pokemon according to Bulbapedia's ColorDex. However, another person could say that shinies are okay. I go with ColorDex only due to the fact that if people are left to their own interpretations of color for Pokemon, it can easily get messy.

Answer 2

The Monocolor format in Pokemon Showdown! uses the official Pokedex color for HOME, which does not assign shinies colors separately. Hence, if you're using a Mono Red team and were to use Shiny Scizor (which should be considered yellow not red), that would still be valid because regular Scizor's color is red. Unfortunately, that means you can't use Shiny Mew on Mono Blue teams and it must be used on Mono Pink teams, as that is regular Mew's dex color.

Answer 3

It depends on what they would accept. I know I would. :)