Why did they start shiny locking starters at the same time they started embracing shiny hunting in the community?
>>59022528to create artificial hype for event shinies
>>59022528It broke immersion when they made starters appear in cutscenes right before you pick them
>>59022537FPBPSame exact reason why you can't shiny hint legendaries. Or in ZA's case, the mega stones for the gen 6 starters effectively being behind a (((paywall))) in the form of ranked battles (where tryhards spam Garchomp) and people subject you to Babylonian damnation rituals for daring to use what you want.
>>59022528Because they realized people were spending tens to hundreds of hours resetting over the starter instead of playing the game. That's why they're not locked for breeding.
>>59022537but you can just breed for them
