Can you catch a shiny Furfrou in Pokémon Go?

Furfrou made its first appearance in Pokémon Go during the mobile game’s Fashion Week 2021 event. After that, it has the chance to appear in other events throughout the game, but not too often. If you do find it, we highly recommend you catch it, and catch multiples of them if you want to change them into unique forms. However, some shiny hunters might be trying to track this Pokémon down. Can you catch a shiny Furfrou in Pokémon Go?

Unfortunately, the shiny version of Furfrou is not being introduced at the same time this Pokémon is releasing. That’s a standard approach from Niantic when it comes to releasing a new Pokémon. Whenever this happens, the Pokémon is featured in an event and has an increased spawn rate. While the Pokémon does have a shiny version available in the backend of the game, it won’t be available for, roughly, another year.

You can expect the shiny version of Furfrou to also release during an upcoming event, but we likely won’t see it until sometime in 2022, or even later. That means any form of Furfrou you have in Pokémon Go won’t be available in its shiny form.

However, when Furfrou’s shiny form does release, you’ll need to capture multiples of it so you can change them into every Furfrou trim appearance available in Pokémon Go. There are 10 that you can capture, but they’re all region-exclusive form-changes.

We’re looking forward to when Furfrou does receive its shiny form, and we’re eagerly awaiting that release in the future.