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Is it possible to get the shiny starters (from Gens 1 through 4), Lucario, Manaphy, and Phione in anything but a Pokeball in DPPt/HGSS.

Hatching from eggs, cherish balls, transfers from other games work too.

Much thanks.

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You can catch a Riolu in a safari ball in HGSS.
Ayo thanks, this is the type of elite ball info I need.
Manaphy can be obtained in a Cherish Ball in DPPt with the DNS Exploit. Phione can be obtained in a Cherish Ball in My Pokemon Ranch when you trade Hayley a Leafeon after 250 Pokemon are deposited. My Pokemon Ranch can no longer be downloaded from the Wii Shop, so you will need to either cheat or have a Wii with the game preloaded.

The DNS Exploit can also apparently get you a Cherish Ball Charmander and Chimchar with a Japanese copy of Diamond or Pearl.
I should add that these need to be both shiny and legal in game, since I intend on getting these and using them in Scarlet/Violet, or Pokemon Champions.

However, discontinued software is not a problem and still “usable”.
Bayleef, Quilava, and Croconaw can be snagged from trainers in Colosseum. I believe if you wait to snag them until the postgame, you can transfer any Poke Ball that existed in Gen III and use that to capture them. Shadow Pokemon will never appear Shiny when you're battling, but they still have a ~1/8192 chance of being Shiny when you capture them. This doesn't work in XD. You can then transfer these Pokemon back to the GBA games and up to Gen IV.

Also, because the personality values of Shadow Pokemon are calculated the first time you encounter them, you can't soft reset for them in the postgame—it'd be all or nothing. I'm not super familiar with Colosseum, but I think you can at least buy Great Balls before you fight these guys the first time around, which still fits your criteria. Also worth noting is that you only battle one of Bayleef/Quilava/Croconaw initially and the others are encounterable in the postgame.

Given you'd have to beat the entirety of Colosseum, you wouldn't know if you found the Shiny until you captured it, and it requires so much extra hardware, it would royally suck to actually do this. But theoretically you could!

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