[SPOILER] Are some pokes shiny locked?

[brianwee2012]

I've always like reborn shiny sprites and have tried to get the shiny for some event pokes.  But are some event pokes shiny locked?  I've SR at a certain event poke for over 3hrs now but i still have not found the shiny for this pokemon, so i wonder if some event pokes are shiny locked.

 

As for this poke, it is

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treecko

 

So have anyone got the shiny pokemon from that event, or am i just purely unlucky...

[ZEL]

There should be no reason for this 'mon to be shiny-locked, and I have never encountered a shiny-locked 'mon in Reborn before.
I did, however, once spend multiple hours resetting for a shiny Eevee, so yeah, it's possible to simply have rotten luck like that.

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It'd be pointless to shiny-lock this 'mon when it's possible to obtain it as a shiny if you start with it.

 

[Tartar]

If I remember correctly the Reborn Shiny rate was something like 700/6500. This means that statistically speaking you should have 95% chance to encounter a shiny Treecko over the course of 30 encounters. 

Perhaps you're simply super unlucky. Though perhaps Event type Pokémon may either be locked into being non-shiny, or after encountering it for the first time it locks it into that trait (can someone confirm/deny this?).

 

You could try to just breed Treecko, and you'll have yourself a Shiny Mon pretty quickly. 

[NatJones]

I think its the luck of the draw, with the espurr event, I SR over the course of a couple of hours with one save file and didn't get one, but in my latest file I SR once purely to get the female, low and behold it was shiny, with a modest nature and the hidden ability

 

Do you have your heart set on a shiny one?

[LilyX]

Maybe too late, but:

 

Don´t worry, I got a shiny sidequest-Treecko through soft-resets. It´s certainly not shiny locked =)