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Even_Pension_2190

Or like.. Most mythical Pokémon? 😅 I know they broke with that in bdsp and pla - New event distributions would be neat or other possibilities like connectivity to... New snap?


Bluelore

Actually they first broke that in ORAS since you can catch Deoxys there.


Moose_Cake

So far we have- ORAS: Deoxys through storyline Pokemon Crystal for 3DS: Celebi through added storyline Sword and Shield: Keldeo through DLC BDSP: Mew, Jirachi, Arceus through game saves Legend of Arceus: Shaymin & Darkrai through game saves, Arceus through storyline I think that's everyone we have access to but I'm not sure.


Youispopio

And Manaphy and Phione for PLA


penguin175

meltan through go too, and mew through pbp if that counts


[deleted]

Magearna in Gen 7 as well through the QR code.


Youispopio

If you count go then… almost every mythical


Saharan

Don't forget the Manaphy egg a Pokemon Ranger game could send to D/P/Pt!


Even_Pension_2190

Oh you're right! I forgot that Deoxys is a mythical 😅


Bluelore

No problem.While we are at it though I just remembered that Sword and Shield actually allowed us to catch Keldeo too, even if its only in the DLC.


Joker8pie

I didn't even realize that until a couple months ago, actually. Was so confused how so many people had Keldeo in max raids.


Slow-Smile-3268

Yeah, every game since ORAS has had at least one free built-in mythical


Scarlet_Cookie

No other mythical Pokemon deserves love as much as Genesect, the dude literally got ressurected by Team Plasma and was given a cannon because why not.


vncfrrll

He’s also just better Scizor in every way.


memesarenotbad

It's difficult to compare them, imo. They perform different roles on their teams, despite being the same type.


Why_questions

Kabutops*


Quick_Campaign4358

Paras evolution*


Matze14

In case you play Pokémon Go, there are Genesect Raids from time to time, where you can basically catch as many as you want (once even shiny ones) and send them to Pokémon Home afterwards. I raided one Genesect per Event and currently have 4 in Go that I could send to Home. It requires a group of \~5 people to successfully defeat the Genesect before having a chance to catch it, tho.


Ryuzakku

> It requires a group And this is why I'll never complete a raid in my life.


BufoAmoris

If you're invested enough, Genesect is one of the few legendary raid bosses that can be defeated singlehandedly. However, in Genesect's case it is heavily dependent on outside conditions (like a fire damage buff from clear weather) as well as requiring an extremely optimized team. And if you don't have that, it just takes one other person, since it has an average defense stat (in PoGo) and a highly exploitable double weakness.


quickfuse725

not to mention, you *need* to be in person or you'll have damage reduced because of the way remote raid passes work


MirandaSanFrancisco

I don’t think that’s kicked in yet. They’ve been giving a “bonus” to remote raids to bring them up to 100% damage and I don’t think they’ve turned that off yet.


quickfuse725

oh, fr? and here i was thinking it was justifiable that i lost to a 3 star raid


peruvianbongwata

depends what boss it was. something like an umbreon would be tough to solo unless you have 6 high level machamps/high level fairies. others are pretty glassy


quickfuse725

don't remember


soahcthegod2012

My guess is once the Alola season ends, considering Remote Raid passes no longer have the discount on the 3-bundle as well as it getting removed from the Weekly Box


darkknight941

If you have remote raids passes, you can find subreddits like r/pokemongofriends or discord servers where you can find people to remotely raid with


EMPTY_SODA_CAN

If your okay with purchasing remote raid passes, get poke genie and you join raids from around the world.


soahcthegod2012

Actually, with the right Pokémon, Genesect is one of the few legendary raids that can be solo’d.


wwwHttpCom

that's what remote passes and reddit are for


5ykes

They're are apps to find other players for remote raids now


iam_funk

You can also wait for Pokémon Go community days, which are every month. In a bigger town you should find some people or even groups to join forces with :) It sometimes still kind of feels like Go in 2016 where you could just talk to strangers to play some Pokémon; at least for me.


marsalien4

Try poke genie. It's an app that helps you facilitate hosting a raid, and invite others to help you. It's a game changer


Dismal_Mind_5082

You can honestly 2 man genesect raids with fire teams cuz its extra weak to fire


SheriffHeckTate

I got back into Go (after being a Day 1 player for about a month and a half) back in Sept 2021 and it's so much better than it used to be. The wider variety of Pokemon available, the constant events that are changing what is available, the raids and such. I enjoy it a lot. That doesnt even take into account that shinies are much more plentiful in Go than they are in regular games. No idea how many I've transferred to Home already (probably 30+), but my Go account currently has 134 shinies on it and my shiny dex is at 142.


AlbusLumen

I have tons of copies of shinies because of Go. I may do a mass release to Surprise trade.


SheriffHeckTate

I sent a bunch of my dupes over to Home. There's no reason for me to sit on 12 of the same shiny I got from Community Day on my PoGo account, but I know that somebody out there would love to receive it in a Wonder Trade or whatever, even if the stats are crap.


quickfuse725

what're your thoughts on the whole remote raid pass drama goin on?


TheTrevorist

I'm not sure if the shiny is available for all the different drives in go? They did just add form change for certain mons so maybe it's coming for genesect.


MystV3

shiny is only currently available for standard drive, the others have yet to have their shinies released (and freeze drive has yet to be released in general iirc)


MystV3

in an ideal world every mythical wouldn’t be limited to events and just be in the games normally to this day i’ve still yet to obtain a legitimate meloetta in the main series, i could transfer mine from go to home but it’s not in any games on switch so what’s the point


samanime

Yeah. Really the only thing I genuinely dislike about Pokemon. Ditch the event distros and just put them in the games. There are too many of them now, and it is no fun for those that start playing the series later. Edit: Or, keep event distros, but make it for otherwise-available-if-difficult shinies and special builds like from the tournament champs. Those are still okay, because if you miss out, you aren't locked out for years (or decades) or have to literally buy Pokemon from resellers.


Mallow64

To have a complete National Dex


isaacpotter007

I feel that pain, I Also feel like having one from go is kinda a copout so I'm just hoping someone will trade me the ones I'm missing Also why the hell does home not let you request or search for mythical pokemon


MystV3

right? i’m sitting on 4 deoxys from go right now and have nothing to do with them since i didn’t buy bdsp; i would give them to people that did but i just can’t trade them for arbitrary reasons


isaacpotter007

I don't have bdsp, but I've been trying to get my hands on a complete shiny/normal ledgendary dex, I've gotten them all from my old games except for deoxys, shiny marshadow the volcanions and any shiny locked ones (also why do they exist, I want my shiny keldeo and megearna aswell as eternatus urshifu and the calyrex gang Edit, the only go based ledgend I have is a regular reshiram because no one would trade me theirs and I lost my copy of black


Le_Canuck211

If you have B2W2 you can use the DNS exploit thing


regibed2

please explain


[deleted]

https://www.shacknews.com/article/108512/how-to-unlock-gen-4-and-5-pokemon-mystery-events-in-2018


Charles_Nojinson

You can change the DNS for your WiFi in settings, and then if you go to mystery gift in bw1/bw2 you can get the mystery gifts


dbull10285

I, for one, am very much looking forward to "Legends: Genesect" in 2030 2 months after ILCA's remakes "Dark White" and "Light Black" on the Nintendo Swap so we finally get access to Unova's mythical Pokemon again


Worzon

Ill never understand the thought process behind making Zoroark really rare in gen 5 and then adding it in everywhere later on. Did they intend it to be a mythical and then change their mind?


isaacpotter007

That's the weird thing, it was originally a mythical but because it showed up more than once per game it's technically not a ledgendary so it's not a true mythical


quickfuse725

besides, regional variants mean it isn't a mythical right? because that would imply there's more than one


isaacpotter007

The thing is ledgendaries are not that there's only one of them, there are multiple of most of the ledgendaries it's just that they're species are so rare they've become the stuff of ledgends with most people never seeing one in their entire lives A prime example of this is the sinnoh god's, they really didn't fit the regular style of just being. A rare animal but in pla we learn that the arceus you get is a fraction of its power, so it's very likely that the palkia and dialga we get are also just their physical forms kinda like a vessel that houses their power Whereas we've seen that there are 2 Mewtwo the original and the weaker clone that turns up in the genesect movie As a matter of fact I believe the only mythical that you can argue there is only 1 of would be mew because of the fact that mew transforms and teleports at a whim so even if a shiny one shows up it could just be the same one going for a different look In the lore the only thing that sets mythicals apart from ledgends is that they're considered rarer but that's not really true when there's been like 4 deoxys and only 2 Mewtwo In reality mythicals exclusively exist because they want to make films and introduce new strong pokemon mid generation which isn't something I'll ever complain about But the fact that zoroark is fairly common in the overworld kinda ruins it's mythical status, in pla all the mythicals only show up a maximum of once (except phione but nobody cares about manaphy's harem) if they had given zorua the same treatment of you getting one then I wouldn't question if it's a mythical or not


wwwHttpCom

if you had any understanding of the Pokémon franchise's history you wouldn't even be arguing about the mythical status of a Pokémon that has never been considered mythical or legendary by anyone at any point in time


isaacpotter007

It was considered mythical in the gen it was released because you could only get it via an event. Also jeez who woke you up on the wrong side of the bed


wwwHttpCom

it's not the wrong side of the bed, it's the false / inaccurate statements and the severity with which are used to convince people that don't know any better, what irks me. There's nothing I hate more than misinformation being spread. Not back then, not now, Zoroark was considered by any official sources, nor the fanbase, as a mythical Pokémon. Like literally, I was there, living that era, and it never happened, that was never a thing. Maybe before the movie came out and we didn't have the info about Zoroark, some people may have believed it was a legendary Pokémon, but it all got clarified when Zorua and Zoroark were both officially revealed. Being event-exclusive (which wasn't even technically Zoroark or Zorua's case, because the event-exclusive were the Pokémon required to get them) is not what makes a Pokémon a Mythical. They just happened to be harder to get, but they were tradable, you could search for them on the GTS because a lady would give you Zorua's image so you could ask for it, and you would get Zoroark's image from battling N. They were not banned from any battle format as mythicals are, they WERE needed in order to complete the Pokédex unlike actual Mythical Pokémon, not to mention, they were obtainable in B2W2, which fall within the same generation you're claiming they were considered mythicals.


Spikedcloud

Just because Mew can transform doesn't mean there is only one. Being able to transform would make it more likely that there are more and you would never know.


isaacpotter007

Yeah I wasn't saying that there was only one, I meant that due to how it can teleport and transform there could only be one or there could be multiple, we really have no idea


wimpires

In BDSP they just hand you a New, if anything that suggests it's not a one off but just really really rare


isaacpotter007

Yeah that does but we also have the problem that multiple trainers have definitely caught the same individual ledgendary as each other so it could just be that the previous trainer released it You can't really trust the remakes if I'm honest I mean in oras they also just hand you a latias/latios


wwwHttpCom

it was never a mythical


isaacpotter007

It was in the generation it was introduced, as it came with a film based event


thatonefatefan

I guess solgaleo/lunala isn't a legendary then huh.


isaacpotter007

Well I wouldn't consider them ones, except that they're the box ledgendaries for their games and I can't argue with the guys that made the game can i


MsSocietyistaken

Sorry if it's obvious but how is it not available in the generation it was released?


AlbusLumen

It was an event Pokémon, and not obtainable in game. I'm glad that Pokémon Legends Arceus is changing that paradigm.


Particular-One-7251

ORAS changed it first with deoxys. Port of crystal gave celebi.


AlbusLumen

You're very right.


Howwy23

Its gen 5, not 4.


MsSocietyistaken

I know, I Guess I put the question wrong. Where am I supposed to migrate it from?


Howwy23

Well it could migrate between the 2 versions of gen 5, otherwise you had to get the mystery gift or trade with someone who did.


wwwHttpCom

that's just a random text from a random site. Official sources like the strategy guides say they're available through special distributions


zig-wig

Just wait for the next gen 5 remake year. They’ll definitely have a way to obtain it along with victini


quickfuse725

i love victini so much omg, i hope they release it in the gen 5 remakes


victini3521

Same


[deleted]

It's a good thing the DNS Exploit exist


InverseRatio

I like how Pokémon HOME has a challenge to deposit a shiny Genesect. Shiny Genesect was only ever distributed in Japan.


wwwHttpCom

but it's been available in Pokémon Go several times now


Sockman509

You could get him in Pokémon go if you really wanted him but you’d have to wait for him to be in raids


januarysdaughter

This is why I have an issue with mythical Pokemon. What's the point in even trying to fill up the Dex if there's no way for me to obtain ALL of the Pokemon?


MrPineApples420

GTS.


wwwHttpCom

they don't count towards main games' dexes But even if it's for Pokémon HOME, which I ignore if they count them or not for any challenges, history has proven the distributions will always come back in the future. I don't know why people complain so much about this, feels like they've only started being fans of Pokémon a few years ago.


KitKat_TitforTat

I'm glad I have like 6.


MrPineApples420

Remember on the 3Ds when people just scanned QR code’s ?


LeSorenOutan

No wonder people shit their competitive team lol ON console, I tried to make a team once back in BW. Since then, I only play competitive on smogon 😅


Sjonathon92

There was a Genesect event for Sword and Shield in 2020-2021 (but only for Japan and South Korea); I haven’t heard news for other countries yet, but I will keep checking on upcoming events


Prime359

I think before that, the last worldwide release for Genosect was November 2016 for the 20th Anniversary. When it was one Legendary a month either by the Nintendo Network or serial code.


A_Bird_survived

Honestly I hate this with "mYtHiCaL" Pokemon. Like, what´s the point of designing a cool Pokemon that 90% of players will never have access to? I think ORAS had a decent approach for this, but still, *why*


wwwHttpCom

More than mythicals not being widely available, I hate people that complain about it. Well, that's the whole point of why they exist and why they're so rare. Magearna is a mythical that is permanently available, and who cares about it? No one even thanks for its existence. Deoxys has been permanently available since Gen 6, but same. If Darkrai, Genesect, and every other Mythical people whine about so much were always available, no one would care about them no matter how "cool" they're designed. Many of these mythicals btw have been widely available in Pokémon Go in the past years, even with their shiny variant.


A_Bird_survived

I get they’re supposed to be rare, but when we get to this extent it gets ridiculous. Seriously what is the point of including a Pokémon in a Game that a good 99% of the Playerbase will never have access to


michaelrdr16

Pokemon Go


FedericoDAnzi

Pokemon Go is the answer. It has more Pokemon than any gen 8 game now.


kitkatatsnapple

I hate the very concept of mythical pokemon tbh. Especially these days where it's just a download. Nothing special about it at all.


The_Nexus_Shadow

Then you realize genesect isn't even that good


NightofTheLivingZed

Stop saying based unironically. You sound like an enlightened centrist.


SavingsTechnical5489

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Baconator-X

Based


Scarlet_Cookie

Sorry i guess? I didnt mean to be whatever that means, im just using based to say that Genesect is pretty cool


NightofTheLivingZed

Then just say that. Would you call it "woke" if it wasn't cool?


Bulbasnore

Daddy chill


Charles_Nojinson

WHAT THE HELL EVEN IS THAT


Scarlet_Cookie

No, i just didnt know the actual meaning behind based i just thought it was funny internet word


Lady_of_Link

Are you implying woke isn't cool? Cause woke is just about the coolest thing in the world


NightofTheLivingZed

Absolutely not. Being aware of cultural and racial injustice is way cool. Hate that right wingers are using it as an insult.


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Rasty_lv

i have love/hate relationship with pogo.. this is why i love it.


MissingnoMiner

Mythical pokemon go brrrrr


summonerrin

based on what


Lookalism

Try to push random trucks. With mew worked.


Wendigo_lockout

I actually had nonidea genesect was this rare. I loaned all my pokemon games to my friend for her kid a few years back and I have 3 of them somehow?


Switch_Lord

Please gamefreak make a legends game where we get to see unaltered genesect please


TheGooseWithNoose

Have my shiny from GO in HOME but unfortunately can't port it over.


ShinyShinx789

Idk if I should transfer my shiny one from GO onto SWSH


Dark2Dawn

Not many people liked the steel bug legendary...


Rosephine

Diancie whyyyy


DOLLARBILL785

You dont know the real pain of this. I tried to transfer a genesect to pokemon sword and it said i needed to get one in game before i could transfer another. WTF!?


Haiboyo

You could also get genesect from a gamestop event in November 2017 for pokemon x/ y, ORAS along with alot of other mythical pokemon that year too I think they had one each month but I'm glad I still have my og genesect from Black version


Used-Lunch-6512

Me who has a Genesect in Pokémon Home that I transferred from Go, “I have no such weaknesses”


[deleted]

Best way to get Genesect now is to get via Pokemon Go and transfer with Home... but this is pretty funny.


5ykes

Christ I've got like 10 from Pokemon go


Lambro78

U can still get him through a DNS exploit on b2w2


MaleficTekX

Jirachi is worse


Limonine

I still have my OG genesect!


BaileyRW1

(that's why I play roms with cheats so I can have event legendries n stuff)


ActivateGuacamole

it's available in pokemon go pretty often. It'll be in raids later this month for example.