Pokemon that CANNOT be shiny:
Impossible to be shiny:
- Celebi
- Victini
- Reshiram
- Zekrom
- Keldeo
- Meloetta
- Genesect
Cannot legally be shiny:
- Arceus
DW Pokemon that cannot be shiny:
- Chlorophyll Bulbasaur (released as male only in JP and Korea)
- Solar Power Charmander (released as male only in JP and Korea
- Rain Dish Squirtle (released as male only in JP and Korea)
- Analytic Magnemite (Genderless - cannot pass on DW ability)
- Unburden Hitmonlee (Male only - cannot pass on DW ability)
- Inner Focus Hitmonchan (Male only - cannot pass on DW ability)
- Sheer Force Tauros (Male only - cannot pass on DW ability)
- Imposter Ditto (Cannot breed; only found in a Hidden Hollow)
- Analytic Porygon (Genderless - cannot pass on DW ability)
- Vital Spirit Tyrogue (Male only - cannot pass on DW ability)
- Steadfast Hitmontop (Male only - cannot pass on DW ability)
- Multiscale Lugia (Dream Radar only - cannot be shiny)
- Regenerator Ho-Oh (Dream Radar only - cannot be shiny)
- Unburden Treeko (released as male only in JP and Korea)
- Speed Boost Torchic (released as male only in JP and Korea)
- Damp Mudkip (released as male only in JP and Korea)
- Light Metal Beldum (Genderless - cannot breed)
- Shell Armor Turtwig (released as male only in JP and Korea)
- Iron Fist Chimchar (released as male only in JP and Korea)
- Defiant Piplup (released as male only in JP and Korea)
- Light Metal Bronzor (Genderless - cannot pass on ability)
- Telepathy Dialga (Dream Radar only - cannot be shiny)
- Telepathy Palkia (Dream Radar only - cannot be shiny)
- Telepathy Giratina (Dream Radar only - cannot be shiny)
- Shadow Tag Gothorita (DW Promotion, male only)
- Clear Body Klang (Genderless - cannot pass on ability)
- No Guard Golett (Genderless - cannot pass on ability)
Pokemon that can be shiny, but only through restricted means:
- Mew (only shiny Mew from a Japanese Emerald are legit, due to the Old Sea Map being released only in Japan)
- Wishmkr Jirachi (only has nine valid spreads (all of them suck, btw))
- Deoxys (only possible through Generation 3 events [Birth Island, and technically only on European Emerald, and any FRLG])
- Colosseum Shadow Pokemon can be shiny, XD ones cannot. Everything else from XD can be, however.
