Shiny starter odds question

clasingla

I’m curious about how In like gen 6 or 7 how many people got a shiny starter without resetting since I know they’re is millions of copies sold of them and the shiny odds are 1/4096 so I’m curious how many people got extremely lucky with shinys

MajorBrendan

Even with Gen 9, I'd rather get the shiny starter hatch the honorable way rather than keep relying on soft resets.

Eremas

Even if I got a shiny locked shiny. I will usually release it to give the luck to someone else.

UnovanZorua

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/comment/50312#Comment_50312

This is the weirdest comment I've ever seen on the forums. The only "wrong way" to get a shiny is through hacking, and even that is subjective. Please do not gatekeep shiny hunting, that's just stupid.

Scashowian

yeoch. I think pawmi is a starter imho… its good I got it as a shiny tho.

Tacolaser

If the odds of getting a shiny starter on the first try is 1/4096 and 24 million copies of Pokemon Scarlet/Violet were sold, that means 5,859 people got shinies on the first try (I think).

Scashowian

nah they were shiny locked 💀

Eremas

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/comment/50312#Comment_50312

If you want to sacrifice Dialga energy(time), who am I to stop you. Just don't lose sanity over that small code difference.

UnovanZorua

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/comment/50400#Comment_50400

I don't know if this is a joke or not but starters only started being shiny locked on the switch.

Scashowian

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/comment/50402#Comment_50402

"And don't stop being an outlaw." ~ that fricking gex guy

Scashowian

WHY DID I TYPE THAT IN WHAT ANYWAY S BAKC TO MI TERA HNTT!!!