Variants

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With every catch, you have a chance to get a variant fish. Variant fish come with a hue change and are highly valuable due to the variant shards used in Rod Parts and Crafting Recipes. When catching a variant fish, a tag is shown at your bobber as you are playing the fishing minigame.

These variants have collection rewards, providing Money, Power, Bait Packages, and recipe unlocks. These variants have their own category per location compendium and give you Power on completion; the amount of power varies depending on the location.

Variant Chance is a stat you can get to increase your odds of catching a variant fish. The ways to get this stat are from Reels, Poles, Rod Calibration, Legendary Armour rolls and Pet Items. The formula for how variant chance affects your odds is as follows:

Albino:      1/( 5000/1 + [Variant Chance/100])
Melanistic:  1/(10000/1 + [Variant Chance/100])
Trophy:      1/(15000/1 + [Variant Chance/100])

So this means that if you had +100% trophy chance your odds for a trophy would go from 1/15000 to 1/7500.

Some Fishing Events introduce unique variant fish. These variants can only be caught during the duration of the event and do not drop shards.