Pokemon Black 2 & White 2 Shiny Odds

Pokemon Black 2 and White 2 introduced the Shiny Charm, the item that defines every hunt after it. Stack the charm with the Masuda Method and this calculator gives the exact combined odds.

Shiny Odds Calculator

Every shiny check is an independent roll, so your per-encounter odds never move no matter how long you've hunted. What climbs is your cumulative chance, the odds you'd have found one by now, and that's the curve the ring below tracks.

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Shiny Locked Pokemon

Shiny-Locked Pokemon in Black 2 & White 2

Four locks worth naming, and N's dragons lead them. Every other legendary in Unova, Kyurem included, stays fair game.

Shiny-locked, do not waste the hunt4 locked shown

ZekromN's dragon in Black 2, caught at Dragonspiral Tower

ReshiramN's dragon in White 2, same Dragonspiral Tower catch

EeveeCastelia City gift, coded to never shine

DeerlingRoute 6 Season Research Lab gift, coded to never shine

N's Zorua and the rest of N's Pokemon are locked too, and nothing pulled from a Hidden Grotto can ever shine.

Safe to hunt

KyuremGiant Chasm static, save in front and soft reset

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VolcaronaRelic Castle static, Level 35 in the sand pit

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Latios / LatiasDreamyard chase, Latios in Black 2 or Latias in White 2

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RegirockUnderground Ruins puzzle off the Clay Tunnel

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The Swords of Justice, the other two Regis with Regigigas, and the past-gen legends scattered across Unova all soft reset at full odds, none of them locked.

Shiny Charm

How to Get the Shiny Charm in Black 2 & White 2

Permanent key item, +2 extra shiny rolls on every eligible hunt.

Shiny CharmKEY ITEM · +2 ROLLS

Complete the National Pokedex, every species caughtEvent-only Mythicals stay off the list

Track down Professor Juniper at her Nuvema Town labAfter Cedric Juniper evaluates your Pokedex

What it changes in Black 2 & White 2

Random EncounterHits every wild spawn and static

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Masuda MethodDifferent-language egg parents

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+2 rolls on every eligible method. Black 2 and White 2 are where the Shiny Charm debuts, and every mainline game since has kept it.

Complete the National Pokedex, every species caughtTrack down Professor Juniper at her Nuvema Town lab

Random EncounterHits every wild spawn and static

–→–

Masuda MethodDifferent-language egg parents

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Best Shiny Hunt Targets

Best Shiny Hunt Targets in Black 2 & White 2

A free guaranteed shiny waits at the Nature Preserve, and this is the first game with a Shiny Charm to speed up the rest.

HaxorusNature Preserve

Guaranteed100%

Always shiny, unlocked after seeing the non-event Unova dex

KyuremGiant Chasm

Soft reset–

The box legend you actually can hunt

VolcaronaRelic Castle

Soft reset–

Level 35 static, save in front and reset

AxewMistralton Cave

Wild–

Rare spawn that grows into that shiny Haxorus

DeinoDitto breeding

Masuda–

No wild spawn here, so breeding is the only route

OshawottAspertia starter

Masuda–

Breed a foreign Ditto for far better odds

Haxorus holds a fixed 100%; the rest swing with the charm toggle up top.

Shiny Mechanics and Quirks

Black 2 & White 2 Shiny Mechanics and Quirks

Three things set Gen 5 hunting apart from every game that came after.

GROTTOHidden Grottoes never shine

Every Pokemon pulled from a Hidden Grotto is shiny locked, hidden ability or not. Resetting a grotto for a shiny is wasted effort. The game blocks it outright.

HAXORUSA free guaranteed shiny

See the full non-event Unova dex and Professor Juniper hands you a Permit to the Nature Preserve, where a shiny Haxorus waits. It is one of the very few built-in guaranteed shinies the mainline series has ever shipped.

ODDSThe last of the old odds

Gen 5 is the final generation on the 1/8,192 base rate. Even charmed a wild only reaches about 1/2,731, and Gen 6 halved the base to 1/4,096, so every later game hunts faster.

Shiny Hunting FAQ

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