Are the starters in Let's Go Pikachu / Eevee shiny locked?

Nov. 14, 2018

Since there’s been a datamine, it looks like some people already have their hands on the game. Now seems as good a time as ever to ask my biggest question I’ve had about LGPE for a while; should I waste my time trying to get a little snowball Eevee?

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Yes, the starters are shiny locked, asconfirmedamong the many leaks from the past few days. In fact, the starters are believed to be theonly Pokemon that are lockedin the game.

If it lessens the blow at all, LGP/E completely lack a soft resetting function, so shiny hunting them would have been incredibly painstaking. (Here’s ademoof what it looks like on Moltres. That intro sequence is painful. It’s like they know.)

However, the starters also haveflawless IVs by default, which may go some length to compensate.