Shiny Magikarp Raid

Oh! There's definitely an increased chance. Several people online have told me about it. Plus I've heard it through the grapevine. Me personally, nope. I've never had one from a raid.

I've caught 15 in the wild and 0 from raids. Of course I've probably only done about 5 magikarp raids whereas I just hit over 2500 catches.

I'd guess the chance of finding a shiny Magikarp from a raid is the same as finding one in the wild. The difference is if you do find one from a raid, it is guaranteed to have at least 10/10/10 IVs.

The number I've heard is 1% from a raid. I've done maybe 10 raids, didn't get one (not surprising). I've caught 278, two of which are shiny, so that's also about 1%. (A bit less, I should have 2.78 now. I'll ask Niantic for my .78 shiny magikarp after the holiday hoopla dies down.) So maybe not an increased chance for shiny, but a guarantee that it's got at least fair IVs is nice.

I already have a shiny average Gyarados...plus 5 others that are good/great 2900 to 3000...then yesterday I caught a regular 15/15/15 level 23 magi on a lure...did a silly magikarp raid today b/c I was running an egg...reward boss was a regular 15a/15d/13s. However I have only 200 candies

You can get them from Raids but the chances are still slim. I’ve only caught 250 total Magikarp with about 60 of them coming from Raids. Only have 3 shiny ones but they were all wild ones with terrible IVs.

Additionally, Gyarados is one that you need to grind out (unless you hang out in a karp rich biome), so when Gen3 comes out, and there are new moves for Gary (speculated, but likely), then grind out another and another. That's my strategy, I just evolved my 4th, and am looking forward to seeing the new movesets and getting a fifth. It's not worth worrying too much about, either Gyarados gets better, and becomes more important in the meta, or it stays the same/gets worse, in which case it remains a high CP second tier mon and dex filler.