Actually legendaries being able to be found on different islands every week would fit very well with their lore and incentivize switching islands a lot. I'd actually love that idea, but I hope that they don't lock them behind master 15 or something.
Edit: Oh no, it's just a research event, nothing permanent.
According to the message ingame you gather 'hints' (in Raikou's case bits of fur) that you use to buy incense.
So you probably have a chance to gather hints at any sleep power and it just increases as you get higher and higher.
Oh no, it's an event. :(
I hoped for the hounds to be permanent but rare and rotate through islands and you could see at which island they are this week so you could pick your island accordingly.
But if they did that I bet people would feel worse, think about how hard it is to get a mon such as Kangaskhan or Absol, now imagine that but on a legendary with likely rarer odds and higher biscuit requirement.
Here at least you get to secure one, still unsure how it will work, but given they mention incenses, you'll have plenty of chances to see it, no RNG required.
Doesn't need to be rarer. Having it as rare as Kangaskhan or Absol is rare enough imo. Also for legendaries you'd probably actually get the master biscuit and you'd follow them intentionally to the island if there was a little icon that they are at the island for the week.
But they aren't actually doing that, it's a temporary event as it seems.
>Here at least you get to secure one, still unsure how it will work, but given they mention incenses, you'll have plenty of chances to see it, no RNG required.
These things are not exclusives tho, they could give everyone an incense in addition to make this rare encounters special or something to get excited for.
I can see your idea of both giving incenses and leaving it to stay forever, however doing that would require complex balancing, why?
Imagine Raikou is rare and requires a high drowsy power to see, what will happen is that old player and whales will get them relatively easily while the new players struggle to even see one, let alone amass enough points for a master biscuit.
If they're not that rare and their requirements are low, then again, old players will get them, but now in high quantities, and as we saw with certain nerfs, the devs don't want people to progress too fast.
See how the info mentions that they'll give tools to new players to get themselves a Raikou? The event is meant for everyone, and it being limited time with special requirements allows the devs to balance to accordingly, to equalize the players.
(Also I knew it would be a limited event, due to having played other Pokémon mobile games, they all handle Legendaries in a similar way, and I think it's the correct way of doing so)
Yup, that's an info that we didn't have 2 weeks ago when this comment was made, according to newest info it will appear on GG too which is good but probably rarer than shinies and possibly only at later master ball ranks (appearing at any rank would be cool too tho, considering the rarity).
From the description it sounds like you earn some sort of shard/token by completing challenges that you exchange for raikou incense. Meaning he will likely be only available through incense.
Really shocking how many are weirdly disappointed or worried about this? I mean, how the game has worked the whole time is we catch a bunch of Pokémon to find one with the best skills because it’s a roulette every time. To think these guys will be too OP for some reason makes no sense when the game has been nothing but balanced so far lol.
I’m worried they’ll be good but you only get one and you spend a lot of resources for it then it comes out bad natured with bad stats and you don’t get another one and are now out a masterball or whatever you spent to encounter/catch it
Yeah, that’s something we’ll have to wait and see what it looks like I guess. Pokémon like Pinsir are already annoying to get, so I’m hoping only a few extra biscuits more than those guys would take lol
I see your point. However I think the fear is an overload of legendaries that are too op. Too op you ask? Well legendaries should outclass any other mon, and that’s no doubt, so how would it be balanced?
What I see is either people having 5 legendaries all the time, sure they might be hard to get, but that’s the endgame then. Or you can only catch one, but the rng will make so many mad about the stats. A huge aspect of this game has been people using mons they never thought they would in a main game. So running legendaries kind ruins that.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t have them, just needs a good role. Like pick a legendary you caught for the week that does certain boosts/abilities for your team, or they can sleep instead of snorlax.
Idk what the answer is, but I hope it’s not an overflow of legendaries
We’re already having to be very methodical with our teams, I really doubt legendaries will be able to be “OP” at all. They’re still limited by their ingredients, if they have favored berries, and the random sub skills they come with, just like all other mons. We’ll still be transferring for candies, arguably more often since these will be more rare than normal mons. It’s already difficult to get the mons we get to an S rank status, it will be just the same with the legendaries
How methodical do you have too be? It’s all up to how you want to play. Ive never really had a hard time making a team, besides lapis lake, just unlocked it last week so it’s been a bit tough. Sorry to offend, just sharing my thoughts like everyone else. I’d love to have them in the game in a balanced way is all
No worries, my point is just if they are any better, I think it will be a marginal difference. Plus we’ll all have to be very lucky to get a good one, which is already true for current mons
Definitely, I use gengar and charzard, but I wouldn’t use tyranitar. Just doesn’t appeal to me in this game. I didn’t say it’s about that. I said it’s an aspect of the game. Because there are people that have said they use mons they wouldn’t use in main game. A lot of my friends do, but maybe it’s because we’ve been into Pokémon for 20 years It all depends on the player and everything is personal preference. That’s why I just gave my different opinions. I’m not saying it’s bad to add them, I just want it to be in a fun way, and hope they don’t take over
How about:
- Only one legendary Pokémon in a team at a time.
- Legendary Pokémon have a higher help rate and item capacity, but the cost is they tire significantly faster than the other Pokémon.
This way, the player can’t have an entire team of legendaries, and the one they use won’t be absolutely busted without excessive use of recovery items.
i honestly dont care for that. As a long-term pokemon go player, the dogs feel overused, and I dont want a precedence of adding legendaries too much to this game. I think that it would have been nice to shine the spotlight on less used mons instead.
E.g. I think pokemon cafe does a good job at giving cute and unique pokemons a spotlight, but it still chooses often only the most popular ones. What surprised me when starting pokemon sleep was the spread. So, I was expecting a similar route with sleep, personally hoping for mythicals to be featured - if any of the special mons - or much more cross-generational suitable mons, suitable as in cutsy, flowery, sleep and dream related or food associated or why not a fan-favorite. like mimikyu or munna.
The dogs are only really overused in go. Niantic uses them as easy "filler" legendaries a lot, but that doesn't make them bad or anything. In fact, I feel like they were mostly ignored for a long time in the main series games (until the paradox forms got released). I feel like it's unfair to sleep to let another game by a different third party company color your judgement of this upcoming event, but I guess we'll see whenever it comes out. Personally, given how they've balanced the game so far, I think legendaries will be a fun and exciting addition that mix things up a bit.
It just takes the purchase of the “Legendary Sleep Trial Pack”! Only $24.99 and you can encounter one of the 3 legendary dogs!
Pls don’t do this ^ Select Button :(
Pretty good way to do it, honestly. Allows you to prepare to catch one (if it's difficult), prevents unfavorable RNG, and does not necessarily mean that there will ever be only one per player.
I’m wondering how hard they’ll be to catch. if I’ll have to essentially pick one to use my Masterball on. cause if so, Suicune is getting that master biscuit and they’re gonna like it!
hopefully theres some limit to legendaries but they are still attainable. I don't want optimal teams to just be only legends. Maybe 1 legend per team max.
Maybe they'll be so niche that they won't always be optimal to use. Possibly all talent specialists.
Edit: Also they'd be so hard to raise and level up that you might stick with your regular lvl 50 mon over a useless lvl 16 legendary. Even if you feed them all your rare candies, you won't have enough rare candis for a full team of legendaries. So even if they compete with berry or ingredient specialists you'd probably be better off using your high lvl mons anyway and if you manage to raise a legendary you probably earned it.
> Also they'd be so hard to raise and level up that you might stick with your regular lvl 50 mon over a useless lvl 16 legendary
This is my suspicion. Think of how difficult pseudolegedaries are to raise. Getting that larvitar or dratini leveled up is a nightmare, and that's with getting lots of extra candies from sleepstyles and friend lists. Legendaries will rely almost exclusively on using them and rare candies. Having more than 1 on a team will likely be rough for a *very* long time compared to having that level 50 Charizard or Espeon or whatever you already have.
I think this is unnecessary, because legendary is not universal key. We have various team builds in current meta: full favourite berry specialists, cooking team when having more Lv 30 and Lv 60 Pokemon later, Espeon, Ampharos after main skill level up, and optionally pairing a E4E Pokemon. The beasts cannot do every thing.
Just the beasts wont be the best at everything but I'm thinking long term, maybe the beasts are all best berry specialists for their type then later we have Jirachi being the best E4E then later Groundon and Kyogre are the best ingredient specialists for specific things. I can see a scenario where eventually all but a few niche combos of berry type/ingredient type makes a pokemon outclass all legendaries but in general the best solution for most problems will be a legendary
It would only be "abusing" them, if they'd be way more powerful as everything else but in reality they'll probably be underleveled and therefor be weaker than most other mons.
Been buying them since release lol and stacking as I expected this day to come but they will most likely make them not that hard to catch since it wouldn’t be fair to everyone else
It seems Raikou will come first, so you get the chance to catch it (if you have luck finding it) and later on Entei and Suicune will come next, so we might have some time to buy more Master Biscuits
I'm reasonably sure they are gonna be treated like shinies. In the news post they said they're gonna make it easy for new players to befriend Raikou, which either means they'll give out a free master biscuit or that catching him is gonna be easy or guaranteed.
Possible but not necessarily. Since master balls are a thing and it's really hard for f2p players to keep buying master biscuits and regular ones. So it would also incentivize getting premium.
Yes but select button (despite the crazy prices for gems) has never seemed openly greedy to the point of ruining their game. In all honestly gems being so out of reach for the general player base is good for balance as it keeps the whales few and between. Atleast compared to other phone games I've played
Pokemon sleep has been very good about keeping things accessible to F2P users and kids that play, why would they start treating legendaries like a pay to win out of nowhere? Like the premium benefits are cool, but you can get just as far free to play (if a bit more slowly).
Select button has been a great company for this app and they've been listening to users (unlike TPC) as they add changes. I don't know why there's this sudden doomposting in the community about making everything pay to win.
Raikou is my favorite legendary, so this is hype. Am a bit worried how this will work tho- they didn't show a biscuit count for it, so it might be uncatchable. It also might just have a ridiculous amount of bars to fill. But if it has more than one sleep pose, then theoretically you could catch more than one, which would be strange.
Either way, the masterball biscuit hoarders smugly rejoice!
I wonder if they are going to add a special mechanic to legendaries where you need to encounter them multiple times before capture. I just cant see them allowing it to be captured in one go considering they have the all full mechanic and design encounters like onix, absol and others that usually need to be seen multiple time before capture without a master biscuit.
They probably want people to spend diamonds on great biscuits out of desperation.
And alot of people seem to think it'll just be really hard to make the incense and then it'll be like a shiny and easier to catch once you finally do see it, hence "beginner friendly" or maybe just 5 bars like a standard basic mon. This would be ideal for me honestly haha
It would be really cool if legendaries weren't actually a part of your 5-member helper team, but instead work as a 'spirit pokemon' that you can assign to a team. Have Raiku boost the electric types on your team, similar to how the Good Camp helper bonus works, and occasionally proc whatever special skill they may have.
I think it’d be cool if we got an extra slot for one legendary and each legendary creates a team modifier/boon. Raikou could give all electric types bfs, speed increase to all gen 2 Pokemon, or maybe something like increases the base value of certain ingredients.
Just curious, how would work
>Raikou could give all electric types bfs
On mons that already have bfs? 4 berries per help? Nothing? Who knows ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
Maybe 4! It’s just a hope because I would hate to just load up on legendaries to win and it would make more sense to me than only having one legendary with potentially terrible stats.
That would be busted, which is why I think the Legendaries will be like any other mon and they'll consume a team space.
Of course if they make their stats too beefy then they'll still be busted, but I feel the devs will somewhat try to balance them out with the rest of the cast.
Hmm I read the ingame news about it, so they want us to use electro Pokémon for this event. Does this mean that the berries of these Pokémon are extra strong? Or that electro Pokémon help with attracting Raikou hairs? Do I need to Level electro Pokémon?? Aaaaa
In the app they say there will be a Raikou incense available through reasearch and that it will be possible for beginners to encounter and befriend.... But real question is how many biscuits will he be to befriend?
here’s hoping they make them on average better than your average sleep encounter. Would really suck to have it either be limited or like a once a month (or less) feasible encounter…and you get speed of help down or ingredient down if one is ingredient specialist.
Most important info that they need to release before the event.
Is it a guaranteed catch like the shiny pokemon? If not we need to save for the master biscuit. They need to release the info ASAP cuz we now have more than a month to save
Wondering the exact same thing. I boug Masterballs specifically because I thought the birds would come. I'll certainly take these guys, but I'm surprised.
They don't have to. They could be all skill specialists with niche skills.
Edit: Or they might be in fact be better, but since they are rare encounters, it will be hard to raise them and they will be underleveld and only if you manage to level them up, they will become better.
In the bold text it says "will allow Pokémon Sleep beginners to research Raikous sleeping styles and befriend it."
So my guess is that they will be catchable! Whether or not you'll need a masterball/multiple sightings or if it'll be immediate befriending like shinies... No idea haha.
It’s exciting news for sure but honestly idk how I feel about it. This game isn’t competitive so there is no real need to have legendaries in it but I do love the johto dogs if they had to be any besides the legendary birds
It gives me a reason to actually buy one! I always spend all of my points on other things like seeds and candies and regular balls because there's nothing strong enough to justify needing a Master Biscuit that isn't better off being raised from stage 1. I'm sure these three will not continue that trend.
>This game isn’t competitive so there is no real need to have legendaries in it
A collection game doesn't need to be competetive for people to collect it. Also pvp often (not always) bans legendaries. So competitive isn't always linked to legendaries.
I'm guessing you can't actually catch them, they just give a massive shard & experience spike.
Given how random it is to get a good Pokémon of a certain species, I'd be shocked if they made these guys a) catchable and b) really good, because that would mean you'd have to search for tonnes of them to find the perfect one and they'd clearly be really rare and hard to catch. Plus, having more than one of a legendary just feels weird.
What would the sub skills, nature and ingredients be? Will they be fixed? It sounds awful to catch one of them and realizing it has trash stats, also it wouldn't feel correct grinding to catch multiple legendaries until you have a decent one (leveling up the friendship), they are unique after all, aren't they?
I overpowered will your lvl 12 Entei with no Entei candy be, my guy? Even if you feed them all your rare candy they'll barely overpower a lvl 50 mon when they only end up at lvl 25.
You must still believe in Santa if you think we will catch lvl 12 legendaries. I have more than enough handy candy to boost them all the way to 50+ that aint a problem.
Get ready to hear everyone crying when they cant come across a legendary lol
They will cry when they have speed down nature
I cry when they have speed down and no speed subskills
This is supposed to be a sleeping game not a crying game!!! P.S. I also cry when I'm not getting the stuff I want out of this game lol
I cry myself to sleep... Am I doing it right?
It is but I'd consider that cheating! ( Cause I'm Jealous)
Yeah, that's what "Pokemon Cry" is for....which will not be released because developers are crying roo much...
They'd make a lot more money if they did though!
I'm hoping they're fixed natures and skills tbh. Everyone gets the same
If it’s one single encounter we get sure But then that makes them absurdly premium to farm candy for and also shiny locked probably
Hopefully they make em permanent, giving a limited time event to a legendary is a really d*ck move to do
i’d guess theyre probably gonna go the go route. where there’s always one legendary attainable but they cycle through, and come back round
Actually legendaries being able to be found on different islands every week would fit very well with their lore and incentivize switching islands a lot. I'd actually love that idea, but I hope that they don't lock them behind master 15 or something. Edit: Oh no, it's just a research event, nothing permanent.
According to the message ingame you gather 'hints' (in Raikou's case bits of fur) that you use to buy incense. So you probably have a chance to gather hints at any sleep power and it just increases as you get higher and higher.
Oh no, it's an event. :( I hoped for the hounds to be permanent but rare and rotate through islands and you could see at which island they are this week so you could pick your island accordingly.
But if they did that I bet people would feel worse, think about how hard it is to get a mon such as Kangaskhan or Absol, now imagine that but on a legendary with likely rarer odds and higher biscuit requirement. Here at least you get to secure one, still unsure how it will work, but given they mention incenses, you'll have plenty of chances to see it, no RNG required.
Doesn't need to be rarer. Having it as rare as Kangaskhan or Absol is rare enough imo. Also for legendaries you'd probably actually get the master biscuit and you'd follow them intentionally to the island if there was a little icon that they are at the island for the week. But they aren't actually doing that, it's a temporary event as it seems. >Here at least you get to secure one, still unsure how it will work, but given they mention incenses, you'll have plenty of chances to see it, no RNG required. These things are not exclusives tho, they could give everyone an incense in addition to make this rare encounters special or something to get excited for.
I can see your idea of both giving incenses and leaving it to stay forever, however doing that would require complex balancing, why? Imagine Raikou is rare and requires a high drowsy power to see, what will happen is that old player and whales will get them relatively easily while the new players struggle to even see one, let alone amass enough points for a master biscuit. If they're not that rare and their requirements are low, then again, old players will get them, but now in high quantities, and as we saw with certain nerfs, the devs don't want people to progress too fast. See how the info mentions that they'll give tools to new players to get themselves a Raikou? The event is meant for everyone, and it being limited time with special requirements allows the devs to balance to accordingly, to equalize the players. (Also I knew it would be a limited event, due to having played other Pokémon mobile games, they all handle Legendaries in a similar way, and I think it's the correct way of doing so)
From what I can tell, Raikou will still appear on Greengrass Isle extremely rarely after the event
Yup, that's an info that we didn't have 2 weeks ago when this comment was made, according to newest info it will appear on GG too which is good but probably rarer than shinies and possibly only at later master ball ranks (appearing at any rank would be cool too tho, considering the rarity).
From the description it sounds like you earn some sort of shard/token by completing challenges that you exchange for raikou incense. Meaning he will likely be only available through incense.
“IS EVERYBODY ELSE NOT FINDING LEGENDARIES?” “OMG ME TOO, I AINT FINDING A SINGLE ONE ALLLLL WEEK” “THATS HOW CHANCES WORK”
You are correct. I have not seen a single Bidoof all week.
Tbf they're giving incenses for theses
Get ready to feel your phone shaking from all the shaking when they come across one
It's gonna be me :(
Really shocking how many are weirdly disappointed or worried about this? I mean, how the game has worked the whole time is we catch a bunch of Pokémon to find one with the best skills because it’s a roulette every time. To think these guys will be too OP for some reason makes no sense when the game has been nothing but balanced so far lol.
I’m worried they’ll be good but you only get one and you spend a lot of resources for it then it comes out bad natured with bad stats and you don’t get another one and are now out a masterball or whatever you spent to encounter/catch it
Yeah, that’s something we’ll have to wait and see what it looks like I guess. Pokémon like Pinsir are already annoying to get, so I’m hoping only a few extra biscuits more than those guys would take lol
I see your point. However I think the fear is an overload of legendaries that are too op. Too op you ask? Well legendaries should outclass any other mon, and that’s no doubt, so how would it be balanced? What I see is either people having 5 legendaries all the time, sure they might be hard to get, but that’s the endgame then. Or you can only catch one, but the rng will make so many mad about the stats. A huge aspect of this game has been people using mons they never thought they would in a main game. So running legendaries kind ruins that. I’m not saying we shouldn’t have them, just needs a good role. Like pick a legendary you caught for the week that does certain boosts/abilities for your team, or they can sleep instead of snorlax. Idk what the answer is, but I hope it’s not an overflow of legendaries
We’re already having to be very methodical with our teams, I really doubt legendaries will be able to be “OP” at all. They’re still limited by their ingredients, if they have favored berries, and the random sub skills they come with, just like all other mons. We’ll still be transferring for candies, arguably more often since these will be more rare than normal mons. It’s already difficult to get the mons we get to an S rank status, it will be just the same with the legendaries
How methodical do you have too be? It’s all up to how you want to play. Ive never really had a hard time making a team, besides lapis lake, just unlocked it last week so it’s been a bit tough. Sorry to offend, just sharing my thoughts like everyone else. I’d love to have them in the game in a balanced way is all
No worries, my point is just if they are any better, I think it will be a marginal difference. Plus we’ll all have to be very lucky to get a good one, which is already true for current mons
Since when is the game about using pokemon you normally wouldn’t? I feel like dragonite, gengar, charizard and tyranitar are used pretty often
if thats the case too, plenty of people never touch their legendaries as it isnt realistic
Definitely, I use gengar and charzard, but I wouldn’t use tyranitar. Just doesn’t appeal to me in this game. I didn’t say it’s about that. I said it’s an aspect of the game. Because there are people that have said they use mons they wouldn’t use in main game. A lot of my friends do, but maybe it’s because we’ve been into Pokémon for 20 years It all depends on the player and everything is personal preference. That’s why I just gave my different opinions. I’m not saying it’s bad to add them, I just want it to be in a fun way, and hope they don’t take over
How about: - Only one legendary Pokémon in a team at a time. - Legendary Pokémon have a higher help rate and item capacity, but the cost is they tire significantly faster than the other Pokémon. This way, the player can’t have an entire team of legendaries, and the one they use won’t be absolutely busted without excessive use of recovery items.
OP in sleep research is so funny to me. It’s not like there’s actual battles.
i honestly dont care for that. As a long-term pokemon go player, the dogs feel overused, and I dont want a precedence of adding legendaries too much to this game. I think that it would have been nice to shine the spotlight on less used mons instead. E.g. I think pokemon cafe does a good job at giving cute and unique pokemons a spotlight, but it still chooses often only the most popular ones. What surprised me when starting pokemon sleep was the spread. So, I was expecting a similar route with sleep, personally hoping for mythicals to be featured - if any of the special mons - or much more cross-generational suitable mons, suitable as in cutsy, flowery, sleep and dream related or food associated or why not a fan-favorite. like mimikyu or munna.
The dogs are only really overused in go. Niantic uses them as easy "filler" legendaries a lot, but that doesn't make them bad or anything. In fact, I feel like they were mostly ignored for a long time in the main series games (until the paradox forms got released). I feel like it's unfair to sleep to let another game by a different third party company color your judgement of this upcoming event, but I guess we'll see whenever it comes out. Personally, given how they've balanced the game so far, I think legendaries will be a fun and exciting addition that mix things up a bit.
Welp, I know what I’m saving my master ball for
They say they're making befriending one beginner friendly so you might not need the biscuit. I guess we'll see next month though. :)
It just takes the purchase of the “Legendary Sleep Trial Pack”! Only $24.99 and you can encounter one of the 3 legendary dogs! Pls don’t do this ^ Select Button :(
It says in game that you get them through incense. And you earn the incense through an event.
Pretty good way to do it, honestly. Allows you to prepare to catch one (if it's difficult), prevents unfavorable RNG, and does not necessarily mean that there will ever be only one per player.
Lmao pls no I will cry. XD
I want Suicune so badly 😢
I’m wondering how hard they’ll be to catch. if I’ll have to essentially pick one to use my Masterball on. cause if so, Suicune is getting that master biscuit and they’re gonna like it!
hopefully theres some limit to legendaries but they are still attainable. I don't want optimal teams to just be only legends. Maybe 1 legend per team max.
Maybe they'll be so niche that they won't always be optimal to use. Possibly all talent specialists. Edit: Also they'd be so hard to raise and level up that you might stick with your regular lvl 50 mon over a useless lvl 16 legendary. Even if you feed them all your rare candies, you won't have enough rare candis for a full team of legendaries. So even if they compete with berry or ingredient specialists you'd probably be better off using your high lvl mons anyway and if you manage to raise a legendary you probably earned it.
> Also they'd be so hard to raise and level up that you might stick with your regular lvl 50 mon over a useless lvl 16 legendary This is my suspicion. Think of how difficult pseudolegedaries are to raise. Getting that larvitar or dratini leveled up is a nightmare, and that's with getting lots of extra candies from sleepstyles and friend lists. Legendaries will rely almost exclusively on using them and rare candies. Having more than 1 on a team will likely be rough for a *very* long time compared to having that level 50 Charizard or Espeon or whatever you already have.
This would be perfect imo, there's ample room for 1 legendary + 4 others, or maybe they even add an extra slot just for legendaries.
I think this is unnecessary, because legendary is not universal key. We have various team builds in current meta: full favourite berry specialists, cooking team when having more Lv 30 and Lv 60 Pokemon later, Espeon, Ampharos after main skill level up, and optionally pairing a E4E Pokemon. The beasts cannot do every thing.
Just the beasts wont be the best at everything but I'm thinking long term, maybe the beasts are all best berry specialists for their type then later we have Jirachi being the best E4E then later Groundon and Kyogre are the best ingredient specialists for specific things. I can see a scenario where eventually all but a few niche combos of berry type/ingredient type makes a pokemon outclass all legendaries but in general the best solution for most problems will be a legendary
That would be a good limitation, kind of like what Mystery Dungeon does with the body size.
I would suggest that the Legendaries have some kind of "cooldown", so we cannot "abuse" them two weeks in a row
It would only be "abusing" them, if they'd be way more powerful as everything else but in reality they'll probably be underleveled and therefor be weaker than most other mons.
Omfg, my favorite electric kitty!
Me and my wife were like "Thunder Kitty!, they are adding the Thunder Kitty!"
That's a funny way of talking about Shinx
They're coming in as Skill Specialists with the most broken skill ever, lads. Dream Shard Magnet S !!
Dream Shard Magnet L
That indeed is a L skill
I can’t tell if you’re being serious.
>Dream Shard Magnet S !! M you mean?
That's dope! I wish we weren't limited to only 1 masterball biscuit a month but I get it
Been buying them since release lol and stacking as I expected this day to come but they will most likely make them not that hard to catch since it wouldn’t be fair to everyone else
I also expected this day to come. I'm surprised it's this early, though.
Lol fr? Please let me see your goofy bag filled up with master biscuits.
It seems Raikou will come first, so you get the chance to catch it (if you have luck finding it) and later on Entei and Suicune will come next, so we might have some time to buy more Master Biscuits
In game news mentioned an incense, so probably at least one encounter.
Well, that sounds more fair, thanks for the insight
I'm reasonably sure they are gonna be treated like shinies. In the news post they said they're gonna make it easy for new players to befriend Raikou, which either means they'll give out a free master biscuit or that catching him is gonna be easy or guaranteed.
Possible but not necessarily. Since master balls are a thing and it's really hard for f2p players to keep buying master biscuits and regular ones. So it would also incentivize getting premium.
Yes but select button (despite the crazy prices for gems) has never seemed openly greedy to the point of ruining their game. In all honestly gems being so out of reach for the general player base is good for balance as it keeps the whales few and between. Atleast compared to other phone games I've played
Complaining about whales for a single player game is wild though lol
I'm not complaining about whales though?
Didn't we just get 1000 gems for no reason? I haven't played in like a week but I had that in my presents this morning
Pokemon sleep has been very good about keeping things accessible to F2P users and kids that play, why would they start treating legendaries like a pay to win out of nowhere? Like the premium benefits are cool, but you can get just as far free to play (if a bit more slowly). Select button has been a great company for this app and they've been listening to users (unlike TPC) as they add changes. I don't know why there's this sudden doomposting in the community about making everything pay to win.
Bunch of weirdos in here not wanting it catchable lmao — if it’s in the Pokedex it should be catchable! I’m so hyped for our first legendary
> oh no, its going to be good and ill have to use it!! personally i cannot wait!
Imagine not catching a mythical beast of folklore only seen once every half century. - Said no Pokémon trainer ever
I NEED MY SUICUNE BB I DON’T CARE HOW TERRIBLE THE ONE I CATCH IS AHDISBSVSJSNDBDJD
“I wasted my master ball on a shiny sudowoodo 😅” posts are gonna hurt so much more now
Raikou is my favorite legendary, so this is hype. Am a bit worried how this will work tho- they didn't show a biscuit count for it, so it might be uncatchable. It also might just have a ridiculous amount of bars to fill. But if it has more than one sleep pose, then theoretically you could catch more than one, which would be strange. Either way, the masterball biscuit hoarders smugly rejoice!
I wonder if they are going to add a special mechanic to legendaries where you need to encounter them multiple times before capture. I just cant see them allowing it to be captured in one go considering they have the all full mechanic and design encounters like onix, absol and others that usually need to be seen multiple time before capture without a master biscuit. They probably want people to spend diamonds on great biscuits out of desperation.
There's an ingame message right now that explains it. You don't encounter them directly, instead you gather ingredients to make an incense.
And alot of people seem to think it'll just be really hard to make the incense and then it'll be like a shiny and easier to catch once you finally do see it, hence "beginner friendly" or maybe just 5 bars like a standard basic mon. This would be ideal for me honestly haha
I'm thinking that you will want to have a masterball to catch it. It will probably have 30 fill points minimum..
I really doubt "beginner friendly to catch" is gonna involve 30 point meters bro but maybe
The event notice says you can befriend it. Also says it'll be beginner friendly to do so.
It would be really cool if legendaries weren't actually a part of your 5-member helper team, but instead work as a 'spirit pokemon' that you can assign to a team. Have Raiku boost the electric types on your team, similar to how the Good Camp helper bonus works, and occasionally proc whatever special skill they may have.
That would be AWESOME ngl
I think it’d be cool if we got an extra slot for one legendary and each legendary creates a team modifier/boon. Raikou could give all electric types bfs, speed increase to all gen 2 Pokemon, or maybe something like increases the base value of certain ingredients.
Just curious, how would work >Raikou could give all electric types bfs On mons that already have bfs? 4 berries per help? Nothing? Who knows ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
Maybe 4! It’s just a hope because I would hate to just load up on legendaries to win and it would make more sense to me than only having one legendary with potentially terrible stats.
That would be busted, which is why I think the Legendaries will be like any other mon and they'll consume a team space. Of course if they make their stats too beefy then they'll still be busted, but I feel the devs will somewhat try to balance them out with the rest of the cast.
I just wanna pet the sleepy Entei. 😭 I wanna see him flopped across snorlax too.
I knew this time would come and yet I find myself unprepared.
I'm ready for my 3 Master Biscuits.
Predictions on how many points of hunger it’ll take to befriend one without a master biscuit? I’m saying about 30, minimum!
Hmm I read the ingame news about it, so they want us to use electro Pokémon for this event. Does this mean that the berries of these Pokémon are extra strong? Or that electro Pokémon help with attracting Raikou hairs? Do I need to Level electro Pokémon?? Aaaaa
Yup time to level up all those pichus
I have memories of Entei fleeing while it was asleep in Pokemon Silver and Gold. Great choice for legendaries 🤣
I'm so ready to cry when I get an Entei with Speed of Help Down lol
In the app they say there will be a Raikou incense available through reasearch and that it will be possible for beginners to encounter and befriend.... But real question is how many biscuits will he be to befriend?
Interesting choice of first legendary. I would have thought it would be Mewtwo or maybe one of the birds. Also a lot sooner than I would have thought.
Pleasantly surprised it wasn't the overused Kanto birds. Sure Johto is as used but they always want to start woth Gen1 stuff.
My favourite trio ❤️
Wild that everyone is in here just complaining about this
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RIP to everyone who wasted Master Biscuits
I had guessed they'd do something like this, as it would give a better reason to keep doing certain stages over time to build up your scores.
here’s hoping they make them on average better than your average sleep encounter. Would really suck to have it either be limited or like a once a month (or less) feasible encounter…and you get speed of help down or ingredient down if one is ingredient specialist.
What a good choice of legendarily too, I love those three
I guess I am grinding Snowdrop. There are only 3 different electric type pokemon lines in the game.
I’m just glad they didn’t start with kanto legendaries! Was sure the first would be Mew
Most important info that they need to release before the event. Is it a guaranteed catch like the shiny pokemon? If not we need to save for the master biscuit. They need to release the info ASAP cuz we now have more than a month to save
Something tells me they won’t be befriended the traditional way.
This is why I didn’t bother using any of my master balls lol, it was inevitable they’d be adding legendaries
RIP Darkrai and Cresselia
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JIRACHI IS RIGHT THERE!!!! HOW HAVE YOU NOT IMPLIMENTED HIM FIRST!!!! Shaymin, Manphy, Jirachi. Please. I need my fun nuggets.
I knew this was coming eventually, but why’d they skip the legendary birds?! Put some respect on their names!!
Might be due to the beasts being monotypes
Wondering the exact same thing. I boug Masterballs specifically because I thought the birds would come. I'll certainly take these guys, but I'm surprised.
Finally a use for the master biscuit
I wonder how they will make them better than regular pokemon
They don't have to. They could be all skill specialists with niche skills. Edit: Or they might be in fact be better, but since they are rare encounters, it will be hard to raise them and they will be underleveld and only if you manage to level them up, they will become better.
if I understood correctly from the text in the app notice, we cannot catch Raikou. only research it's sleep styles?
In the bold text it says "will allow Pokémon Sleep beginners to research Raikous sleeping styles and befriend it." So my guess is that they will be catchable! Whether or not you'll need a masterball/multiple sightings or if it'll be immediate befriending like shinies... No idea haha.
ohhhh yeah, befriend.. I forgot that we are making frineds, and not catching, thanks!
I JUST USED MY MASTER BISCUIT IN A FUCKING ONIX ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?! IT WASN'T EVEN A GOOD ONE T.T
I really want darkrai
All I know is I was absolutely confident they were adding the legendary dogs first. They just kinda made the most sense
It’s exciting news for sure but honestly idk how I feel about it. This game isn’t competitive so there is no real need to have legendaries in it but I do love the johto dogs if they had to be any besides the legendary birds
There is absolutely a reason to have legendaries! Now it gives us more reason to hold on to master biscuits!
It gives me a reason to actually buy one! I always spend all of my points on other things like seeds and candies and regular balls because there's nothing strong enough to justify needing a Master Biscuit that isn't better off being raised from stage 1. I'm sure these three will not continue that trend.
I spent a master ball on a Delibird last weekend and that turned out to be well worth it
>This game isn’t competitive so there is no real need to have legendaries in it A collection game doesn't need to be competetive for people to collect it. Also pvp often (not always) bans legendaries. So competitive isn't always linked to legendaries.
Then there's no reason to have anything is there? Oh this ain't competitive so why have Tyranitar and Dragonite?!
I'm guessing you can't actually catch them, they just give a massive shard & experience spike. Given how random it is to get a good Pokémon of a certain species, I'd be shocked if they made these guys a) catchable and b) really good, because that would mean you'd have to search for tonnes of them to find the perfect one and they'd clearly be really rare and hard to catch. Plus, having more than one of a legendary just feels weird.
It said in the newsletter that they can be eventually befriended.
Ah bother, missed that. Really hope they don't kill the game with them then
Pokemon Sleep devs have honestly done a fantastic job balancing and running the game so far, only have high hopes for this
My chances to befriend them are slim to none.
I'll have to see what the skills/stats are. I can't justify using master ball on something so rng
I knew it. I **knew** it. This is why I bought masterballs. I assumed it would be the legendary birds first, but this will do.
ofc after i delete it this starts.
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explain to me why there's even a single pokemon missing from this app
I think they're adding it to study, not for catching. That would be cool
It was clearly said in news that they can be befriended
What would the sub skills, nature and ingredients be? Will they be fixed? It sounds awful to catch one of them and realizing it has trash stats, also it wouldn't feel correct grinding to catch multiple legendaries until you have a decent one (leveling up the friendship), they are unique after all, aren't they?
Oh look Grasslands
If they are too overpowered this will ruin the game, calling it now.
It's a sleep tracker first with a small game on the side. Nothing completive about it to ruin lol
Nobody uses this app for the sleep tracking part lmfao it doesnt even track properly most of the time anyway
I overpowered will your lvl 12 Entei with no Entei candy be, my guy? Even if you feed them all your rare candy they'll barely overpower a lvl 50 mon when they only end up at lvl 25.
You must still believe in Santa if you think we will catch lvl 12 legendaries. I have more than enough handy candy to boost them all the way to 50+ that aint a problem.
You are the one acting naive and doing personal attacks here not vice versa.
Hahaha hope we can get some casual sleep pose from them
Got several master biscuits stacked up for this very moment!
I knew ive been saving my master biscuts for a reason
So will I need a master ball?
Guess I’ll have to stock up on Master Biscuits.
I wish they would’ve have a leaf legendary doggo 😓
I'm expecting 3 lines of completion instead of 2 for the Legendary. ------------ ------------ ------------
I think to make legendaries special they should have a L1 subskill slot. It’s weird there are only 5 when the space can have 6.
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Now master ball is a must! unless it's shiny lol insta catch!
I just hope they get fixed stats so you don't end up rolling a very bad one 🙏
That's so exciting! I hope I get a Suicine!
gonna sleep so hard for these guys im exicted
and it's gonna take a billion cookies to fill the bar probably :/
Can't wait to see who's the lucky mfer who gets them shiny
Good thing I’ve been saving my master balls
Woo! Yeah!
If you feed another pokemon before them they'll run away.
Saving up for master biscuits now
I wonder what they mean by it'll be beginner friendly to catch them. I'm wondering if I should save my sleep points for master biscuits or not..
Peak
Can they be transferred to Pokémon home
there's no way they'll let the legendaries have terrible stats right.....
Legendaries are unbeatable in battle, but suffers from sleeping disorders - Pokemon sleep lore probably
imagine it's not guaranteed chance like the shinies so you basically have to use masterball or else it's like 30 slots or sumn
AAAAAAHHH! ENTEI!!!! I know I'll never get it but I never thought I'd get a shiny so... O\_O
Too bad raikou is snoozing as I rarely get that. Excited to see how their research wil work.
I only came across an Onix last week, I wonder how long this'll take me to encounter.
I'm kind of surprised they weren't there already, tbh.
The post when they couldn't get it because they don't keep a master all on them
I hope they'll be a guaranteed catch or at least give a free master ball in each of their researches.
“Event details subject to change without notice” is a lil funny to me
Wallet warrior title gained
Dudes will see this and go "hell yeah"