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A shiny legendary is an alternately coloured legendary pokemon, the same as a shiny pokemon is an alternately coloured pokemon. The most common way of getting them is soft resetting before meeting a legendary, like all shinies they have a roughly 1/8000 chance of being found.
In future use the simple questions thread for these sort of questions.
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