Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl Players Are Getting Annoyed by Shiny Starly

When it comes to thePokemonvideo game series, one of the greatest pursuits for players is hunting down shiny Pokemon.Shiny Pokemonare incredibly rare variants of Pokemon with slightly different color schemes than normal, and so they are highly sought after byPokemonfans. UsuallyPokemonfans are happy whenever a shiny Pokemon pops up, but there are somePokemon Brilliant DiamondandShining Pearlplayers who are finding themselves frustrated by shiny Starly.

At the very beginning ofPokemon Brilliant DiamondandShining Pearl,Pokemontrainers find a suitcase with Poke Balls in it, and that’s how they choose their starter Pokemon.Pokemon Brilliant DiamondandShining Pearlplayers can choose between grass-type Turtwig, fire-type Chimchar, or water-type Piplup, and then they take whatever Pokemon they chose into battle against a wild Starly.

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SomePokemon Brilliant DiamondandShining Pearlplayersare running into a shiny Starly during this tutorial battle, which isn’t good because it’s impossible for them to catch it. They have no choice but to fight the Starly until it’s defeated, meaning that they are missing out on adding a shiny Pokemon to their collection at the start of the game.

There arePokemon Brilliant DiamondandShining Pearlplayers who take shiny hunting very seriously, and have been resetting their games endlessly in hopes of getting a shiny starter Pokemon. Since thestarter Pokemon inBrilliant DiamondandShining Pearlcan only be obtained at the beginning of the game and can’t be found out in the wild, this can take hundreds of resets and be an extremely time-consuming task. One can just imagine the frustration that a player might feel after they’ve reset their game for the hundredth time only to find no shiny starter Pokemon but a shiny Starly instead that they can’t even catch.

After players are done trying to get their shiny starter, they can finally continue theirPokemon Brilliant DiamondandShining Pearladventure. They’ll find thatPokemon Brilliant DiamondandShining Pearlare very similar to the originalDiamondandPearlgames, albeit with a much different art style and some quality of life improvements to make the games a bit easier to play than their predecessors.

Next up forPokemonfans isPokemon Legends: Arceusin January, and it’s unclear exactly how shiny Pokemon will work in that game since it’s making so many changes to the establishedPokemonmain series formula.Pokemonfans will find out more onceLegends: Arceusarrives in January, and in the meantime, they can keep shiny hunting inPokemon Brilliant DiamondandShining Pearl.

Pokemon Brilliant DiamondandShining Pearlare out now, exclusively for the Nintendo Switch.