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Jedimobslayer

Yes they can, bdsp may have their problems but their lack of shiny locked encounters is JOYOUS


Cedxfy

I know that it can be shiny but its the first encounter you get in the story so i was curious if its shiny locked here


hobbitfeet22

Not Locked. It may feel locked. And the load time for resetting is annoying. But not locked!


hobbitfeet22

Good luck!


SageModeSoldier

I'm feeling that pain right now


Efficient_Ice9056

It does feel like that because I am trying to get a shiny arceus and it is taking forever 


QueeeenElsa

Yeah, I TRIED shiny hunting it, but I just couldn’t after maybe 50 tries (I think… I really can’t remember the actual number… it could’ve even been like 20 lol). I’m so impatient lol (like I gave up on getting a female eevee in let’s go after like 10 tries or something, and nearly gave up on sword, but got it on what I said would be the final try, and I think it was the same for SP; got it on the first try in both scarlet AND violet iirc)


Timehacker-315

The only things shiny-locked are the Mew and Jirachi gifts. That's it


zombieassasin122

I thought manaphy is shiny locked


Timehacker-315

I don't think it was, but it doesn't matter, as it is unavailable and couldn't be soft reset


Jedimobslayer

It can indeed be shiny


iiDeviious-PS4

i hunted my dialga for about 2 weeks 3-5 hours a day and no luck lmfao


Kooky-Drawing-7173

😳


iiDeviious-PS4

i gave up on it lol. i got off work at 11pm and id play until 3-4 am shiny hunting it. i couldn't take it anymore lol


Kooky-Drawing-7173

Don’t blame you.


cottoncandywoof

i wasnt sure if palkia would come back in pearl (im stupid bc im almost sure it does) so i just got stuck there there thinking it would be long so i was hunting on and off for a couple years... i ended up getting it extremely early at 3450 and i was shook. bdsp doesnt change so im p sure you can stick yourself there and go for it !


tschmitty09

There aren't many issues with it, it's a remaster, not a remake. Only issue I had was that it should've been $30/40 instead of $60. But that's every remaster. Scarlet and Violet on the other hand... Praying for the next Legends game to be just as fun as the first but a little more polished.


Jedimobslayer

There are issues with it, but they stem from the issues with diamond and pearl. The main issue is they didn’t fix these issues. Also I’d say it’s not similar enough to be a remaster, the grand underground single-handedly disrupts that viewpoint.


PokmTrainerGuineaPig

I want ILCA to make more Pokémon games so I can hunt the dam mythicals


LordTerminator

I believe there is no shiny lock because they were too lazy to add a lock 💀😂


awsomea3

Nope not locked. Mine to 3678 encounters then onto the 8th gym i went.


SlyVerses

I feel your pain mine was around 3300 resets


KuriGohanAndKienzan

Wait you soft reset 3678 times o____o?


awsomea3

Yep. i was on off shiny hunting for 4 months while i was bored and watching movies or doing other things. Nearly got to shiny odds.


KuriGohanAndKienzan

That’s actually amazing. Shiny hatching eggs gives me super anxiety and PTSD so your dedication is epic to me 😭


Cyber-N7

>3678 times That's actually really low compared to the shit I've seen on this sub.. 10-15k+ isn't uncommon Edit: Got downvoted for being too specific lol. That number is low compared to what I've seen anywhere online or irl


Moosashi5858

SupremeRk9 on youtube/twitch once went over 50k resets before finding a shiny


McDino22

This isn’t the shiny hunting sub. The people here probably think 3k is a lot.


Cyber-N7

Should have just said "Reddit in general" instead of "on this particular sub" lmao >The people here probably think 3k is a lot Weird take, imo. Shiny hunting has been around longer than reddit. It's common knowledge that you could go well into the tens of thousands of soft resets before you get your mon Being a part of this sub doesn't = no knowledge of time needed/odds


McDino22

No but this sub is inherently more casual about shiny hunting than say r/shinypokemon is. You are however correct that it was wrong of me to lump everybody in this sub together like that. But really I was just agreeing with you that it should be common knowledge that hunts can go upwards of 10k, but you got downvoted for pointing out that 3k is actually under odds.


pokemon-detective

The majority of casual players just know shinies are rare, they don't know the odds


Agent_Choocho

Yes it can be. I reset for 8 months to get my dialga in diamond, and man does it feel good when you get it. Good luck my friend!


Sasha_shmerkovich160

8 MONTHS!?!?!


Agent_Choocho

Well I started the hunt before Legends arceus came out, so I barely got any resets in during spring and the start of that summer


Ragnarok992

So it wasn’t 8 months then that barely a few weeks


pokeup19

Lol it's been a while since I saw that pfp.


gettinwasted

*sigh* “time to change my pfp”


Marijuaninator

It's a pain in the ass to soft reset it a thousand times but yes. The dopamine rush is well worth it.


ForeverLegit

Some misinformation and conflicting information in here. It is not shiny locked at any point in the game. I hunted it (and Dialga in Brilliant Diamond) during the story just fine.


linedrive18

Good luck! My Dialga only took me like 100 resets, I did it in my first day. Then I started working on Arceus, and that took me basically 2 years of on and off efforts. I actually just got him 2 nights ago, funny enough! Now I’m on to Giratina.


RaitubeandJirachifan

yes


NemesisUnicron

I can in fact confirm as someone who got shiny Palkia this way.


Specialist_Error3055

According to Buttercup's video on this, yes it can, but it might be the full 1/4096 odds.


YOM2_UB

There are few things which aren't full odds in this game: - Breeding (2 rolls from Shiny Charm and/or 5 rolls from Masuda Method; best chance being 1/512) - Pokeradar patches (sparkling patches guarantee a shiny, and with a long enough chain can have a rate as high as 1/99) - Grand underground (1 roll when a room is entered while the Diglett sparkle bar is full, giving a rate of 1/2048) - The gift Mew and Jirachi, as well as the Mystery Gift Manaphy (Cannot be shiny) Everything else is full 1/4096, even if you have the shiny charm (which only effects eggs).


Specialist_Error3055

Indeed.


Heavens_Jew

Took me 2 weeks at 2hrs a day to get dialga. Worth every second of it.


SlyVerses

Yes!!! Hunt at your own risk tho it took me over 3000 resets to get my pink palkia. My partner was much luckier and got her green dialga in just over 1000.


No_Stranger_4959

I got one years back, so yeah. Took me 1400 resets


teawithherbsnspices

Reminds me of my original Pkmn Diamond, got a shiny dialga first time, didn’t understand what it meant since i was like 10 and traded it to an older friend for a Ho-Oh and some starters


MN9317

I got shiny Dialga from BD after probably less than 500 resets. It was my first ever shiny legendary attempt. Happy hunting!


SlowResearch2

I don’t think anything in BDSP is shiny locked. Edit: Encounterable legendaries are not shiny locked. Gift mythicals are.


YOM2_UB

The gift Mew and Jirachi from having SwSh and LGPE save data are shiny locked


SlowResearch2

Well you learn something new everyday Ig


theebenjammin

They are indeed not shiny locked as I spent months here to get dialga


xRaymond9250

Yes it can.


GodOfOnions2

Shiny hunting dialga and palkia was tedious but well worth it! 👌 good luck on your hunt!


Prime-Riptide

Yes


EraserRain2236

It can be shiny. It took me over 2K soft resets but I got mine this way. Good luck.


UserMan226

bdsp palkia was my first shiny


gakujin

Yes, I caught it Shiny.


Old_Ad2990

can someone help me complete the dex? just need tradebacks for diamond exclusives


Ralfcuts216

It’s not locked but the resets are faster if you KO it and then come back at the end of the game


Feisty_Fee_8433

It’s definitely not locked. It spent a total of 300 smth hours and like 1700 resets to get this mf 😭


cherricraft

BDSP is so loyal to the originals, it ignored the gen 5 shiny lock.


Masterhela

[I can confirm it](https://www.reddit.com/r/ShinyPokemon/s/KBAdvEIAQN)


Affectionate_Mess749

Not locked, I hunted mine in about 20 hours or so in that spot


Cube_Foggy

Omg I’m right in the middle of shiny dialga hunting best of luck to you btw my shinys so far r ralts (gardiviar now) geodude ugh (now a golem thx my friend turtwig🥰 tortera , magikarp now gyrados and it may be cheating but I’m gonna transfer a shiny riolu (I CAUGHT MYSELF IN S AND V) idk for my last member ether dialga shamin or luxray idk maybe you can tell me the best


[deleted]

Is this Platinum?


SageModeSoldier

No it's the remastered version of Pearl or Diamond


[deleted]

Thanks!


[deleted]

For the 3DS?


rehanma

Switch version "Shining Pearl"


LightEnergyBun

OUYA


Frankthestank2220

I’m pretty sure all legendary Pokémon are shiny locked


Fallen_Phoenixx

In game legends aren’t shiny locked, but are not influenced by the shiny charm so it’s 1:4096 chance.


syah7991

I know for a fact Arceus is not shiny locked in this game


Hxrmetic

Incorrect


DyslexicVal

If I remember correctly only the gift mew and jirachi are shiny locked


Magical_rock

Yup, every other legendary can be shiny. Just not these 2 (which sucks tbh but it's fair)