Will KOing Thundurus give it a chance to be shiny?

Question

So to SR for shiny Thundurus/Tornadus you have to save and look at the Pokedex right? So if I KO it and battle the E4 when it respawns will it have a chance to be shiny even if it wasn't shiny in the Pokedex?

Edit: I saved before encountering Thundurus

Comments

If the answer is wrong, then you should hide it.

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Hellfire Taco, I've been doing it for over 8 months. It's hard. Yes, I started my test encounters before this was even posted. My friend and I are both doing it.

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Even if encountering a Thundurus and soft resetting took only one second, it'd take over 1,000 years to encounter Thundurus 194,294,681,053 times.

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That number you've given is the biggest and saddest lie you could ever come up with.

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What you should really test is whether Tornadus/Thundurus pre-KO and post-KO are identical to each other. If they're different, then the game rerolls its stats, which would also include its shiny chance; if they're the same, then it doesn't.

I'd test it myself, but I've already caught Thundurus in my copy of White, and I'm not completely resetting just for an answer.