What legendaries can be found shiny by soft-reset?

What legendary Pokemon can be soft reset to farm for a shiny variant, and, in which games?

Example: If Groudon in Ruby can but cannot in Omega Ruby, make sure to tell.

One more thing, I do not care about the Game Boy Pokemon games legendaries, just because I can not get them to my newer games. You do not need to include any of them in your answer. I do care about Game Boy Advanced though.


According to Serebii, starting in Pokémon Black & White, the developers started instituting locks where Pokémon could be caught in a wild but prevented from being shiny. These locks are mostly done on the signature legendary Pokémon of the games, but do range further.

These Pokemon are:

  • Victini, Reshiram and Zekrom in BW
  • Reshiram and Zekrom in B2W2
  • Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, Mewtwo, Xerneas, Yveltal and Zygarde in XY
  • Kyogre, Groudon, Rayquaza and Deoxys in ORAS