Shiny Reshiram/Zekrom

I don't see any reasonable explanation for them being shiny locked because they are in-game shiny Pokémon. The only shiny Pokémon that are shiny locked are event legendaries, for example Arceus or Keldeo. Terrakion, Virizion and Cobalion are able to be found in their shiny forms which makes it more strange as to why the main legendary Pokémon found in the Black and White are shiny locked. Why make a shiny form of the Pokémon only to not release it? Which kind of answers your other question. I think they will release their forms sometime soon in an event Pokémon distribution. But saying that, they might not if Celebi or Jirachi are any indication. Either way, I'd still like to get my hands on the shiny Unova legendaries if they are released. I quite like the look of a green glowing Zekrom.

 

I think it's pointless, to be honest. Unless there was an underlying reason that having Shiny Legendaries breaks the game somehow, there's really no reason to keep that from the public. It's not as if they have special powers or anything as compared to the normals.

Right...?

 

You never know. There was more emphasis placed on the Red/Shiny Genesect in the movie, and apparently it was the leader or strongest out of the five or so. Maybe something like that will occur or maybe GameFreak had a totally non-legitimate reason for shiny-locking them. What about Victini? It received the same treatment.

 

But the way I see it that's just coding on their part. They chose to make it special, so why can't they just separate the values? Events legendaries can have their own pre-designed values. I don't see why you need to lock a whole section out for one thing.

 

Eventually, there will be an event for shiny Gen V legendary Pokémon. I mean, they just recently did a shiny Palkia/Dialga/Giratina distribution.

 

But that doesn't mean that they are going to release Zekrom and Reshiram shiny. They are releasing celebi but it is for the Pokémon Bank thing.I think that shiny Zekrom and Reshiram will never happen.

 

They are shiny-locked due to appearing in cutscenes and being seen throughout the game already in the posession of N I would assume. I can't think of any other reason. A future event for them would be nice and the precedent for one is there.

 

I guess that, if there is really no legit way to obtain the shiny legendaries, they will eventually give them in an event. But what I was wondering, if you have a shiny Reshiram, what would happen if you fuse that with Kyurem? Maybe it has something to do with that...

 

This makes sense to me. I don't think GameFreak would want the cutscenes to be all messed up because you got a shiny but the cutscene is programmed to show a normal Reshiram.

If that is the reason they did it then I don't see them not releasing the shiny legendaries in an event. Assuming it wouldn't be through GameStop, I'd happily go for it.

 

That is the most logical reason. I really hope there is an event though

 

I honestly think it's stupid and pointless to shiny lock things unless they break the game somehow. And if you can get them via cheating, their presence themselves obviously doesn't break the game. So either Nintendo doesn't want people to have shinies of these because they're too special or something of the like, or their events break the game when shinies. But I find it very unlikely that all these events would somehow break their respective games.

So, yeah, Nintendo's not releasing them because they don't want to.

But yeah, they should release them. I mean, why not? It's only fair that people get it somehow if they're not going to let players get it straight.

And as for the cutscene thing, it might make sense but other Pokémon have appeared normal, but once in a battle have been shiny. It's not like it would cause a major inaccuracy in the plot. Usually they'd shrug this off, so why not with Reshiram/Zekrom? Just because they're appearing in cutscenes, they can't be shiny? Seems really unreasonable to me.

tl;dr Nintendo's doing this because they want to be picky about shiny legendaries and what Ben said above

 

Were Ho-Oh and Lugia shiny locked in Heartgold and Soulsilver respectively? They appeared in cutscenes in those games.

 

Well I guess Gamefreak changed its strategies just for the continuity between the games. I'm pretty sure there will be events. After all, it's been ages since D/P/Pt and the event for their trio wasn't too long ago. Maybe another generation from now we'll finally get to find some shiny Zekroms and Reshirams.

 

Yeah, but either way it's kind of frustrating that they just held it from us because they couldn't program other cutscenes. Nintendo usually finds smart ways around these kinds of issues.

 

Either way, I don't see the value of having shiny versions of either Pokémon. They look almost exactly the same as their normal colours, why such a fuss over it? It's like being angry if you couldn't get a shiny Garchomp. Zekrom is a bit greyer, and Reshiram has golden rings instead of silver, but is that it? If anything, shiny locking them has increased their value as shiny Pokémon, in that people will practically trip over themselves when the event comes around.

And it's not like Nintendo is trying to charge us for them, it could be much worse.

 

This is my theory too. I also agree that they should make event for them in X/Y.