Can Spheal be Shiny in Pokémon GO?

Can Spheal be Shiny in Pokémon Go?
Spheal is the 363 Pokemon and its type is ice and water. It only takes about 25 candies to evolve Spheal into a Sealeo. From Sealeo it would take 100 candies to evolve into Walrein. This pokemon has 3 evolutions in total, making Spheal a good pokemon to invest in. But what if you want Spheal as a shiny pokemon, is it possible?
Can Spheal be Shiny in Pokémon Go?
Spheal as a shiny Pokemon do exist and possible to catch, this Pokemon can be found in the wild. To increase a player's chance of encountering a Spheal, weather conditions must be snowing or raining to increase the spawn rate. Other methods of obtaining a Spheal are hatching eggs, they appear in:
- 2-km egg
- 5-km egg
If a player successfully encounters a shiny Spheal their fur coat will be a light-purple color. It is possible to evolve the shiny Spheal on all three evolutions without losing its purple color.
The maximum stats for this Pokémon each evolution are:
Spheal
- MAX CP of 876
- ATK of 95
- DEF of 90
- HP of 140
Sealeo
- MAX CP of 1607
- ATK of 137
- DEF of 132
- HP of 180
Walrein
- MAX CP of 2606
- ATK of 182
- DEF of 176
- HP of 220