How do you want to see Legendaries released.
I think they should have quests for the Legendaries. Now this is a little bit of an adjusted idea from this site. So each team has a Value, or how they work. Instinct (hatching), Mystic (Evolving), Valor (Powering Up). So instead of having the birds team specific why not quest spefific. So for example (numbers are subject to change) lets say Hatch 150 eggs to get a 20-50km egg with a zapados. Or Evolve 400 pokemon excluding Pidgeys, Rattata, Sentret etc. For a 20-50km egg with Articuno. And maybe power up 300 pokemon 10 times to get Moltress in a 20-50km egg. Now you could only do one of these so instead of being stuck to which team it is based on the teams goals and veiws. So that everyone can get which one is their favorite. Now keep in mind these numbers could easily change but just an Idea.
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Lol, kinda looks like what i said about a week or two ago. But I said Team specific. I still think Team specific makes more sense. Or atleast if it is done the way you would like it to be, If you hatch your team bird it comes out higher IV or higher Level. To be honest the bird is on the team icon for god's sake. I chose specifically for the reason i wanted Zapados. plus if they do it team specfic and offer a one time team change for $10.00 they would make bank, and here comes everyone to Instinct.
They need to make the birds the single strongest pokemon in the game. Limit one per gym, it sits at the top and that is the toughest pokemon at every gym. Until Mew and Mewtwo ofcourse. I think maybe they buff a few Ice/Fire/Electric types so that Zapados is not a clear favorite just because of how much stronger he is compared to the next Electric type. I think they should calm down all the Eevee evolutions, i have like 40 pokemon above 2k right now and 25 are eevee evolutions. all in all, i just hope they add quests in general. That alone would keep people playing a few extra minutes a day. Could just refer to them as missions too, it doesnt matter. Plus have like Team Rocket Random quests like catch 20 pidgeys in this time limit before Team Rocket steals them. Or a community Event like everyone in the Game must collect 2 million pidgeys in the day before Team Rocket does. That would be so sick! lol ok im rambling. Questing and Birds in the 20-50km eggs, we agree on that. lol
This is kind of off topic but:
We constantly talk about gym fixes and events for legendaries, hatches, etc etc....Meanwhile the whole unique basis of this game, the only thing that sets it apart-catching mons in the wild- gets worse every day. Because every day someone checks a box of what they wanted to do. New gens are only a very limited and temporary fix to this as the more common area mons will be caught rather quickly.
After a new gen is released how long are you still seriously hunting with hopes of getting something that you can truly appreciate? 2-4 weeks?
While I do not mind if legendaries are only available through specific group meetups at first (or whatever) I will be very disappointed if they are not added to the thrill of wild hunting later. My thoughts on how they should be released are negotiable but I think that
- A very rare spawn rate
- Masked spawns like how shinys are now within common spawns of specific biomes.
- A catch rate that is incredibly low and only improved by a players medal count.
Even if they are crazy rare like an Unown since as time goes on there will be more Pokes of this rarity you will have some chance of catching one. Seriously, as bad as wild hunting is now we want some of the only mons worth hunting for to be non catch-able? No thanks.
The problem is... That if they are that rare and wild. That means spoofers, and Trackers would reign supreme. And all spoofers who aren't flagged would get a bunch of legendaries. And the reason why the quests would work so well is that it is much harder and takes more work from Spoofers to get them because yeah they could catch all the pokemon to evolve but then they still have to walk 20-50km which I dont know how many spoofers would do that. Also this would only be for the Legendary birds and Dogs. All the others should be events at first than catchable like you said. But only after the spoofers are taken care of.
As I understand it you cannot use scanners or trackers to locate shinys. Which I mentioned.
In your case the sppofer would just use his bot to get 40K on the same day.
Not that I'm against your idea either. I do not care if a spoofer has a legendary. I'm certainly not so jealous of what some guy gets easily to deny the entire legitimate pokemon community a better way to get them. If we push to limit everything that would benefit us by how much it may benefit a spoofer/botter then we cannot have anything. To hell with them. The worst thing they ever did to this game was convince the legitimate community that we can never progress in gameplay just because they exist. ANd here we are at the one year anniversary with not much to show, if anything, in truly improved content. And they still own the game.
Only problem i have with them being in the wild is, I believe everyone should only have one. NOT HANDED ONE, just earn one. Eggs. Candies should be earned for walking them 10km and they should be take a rather large amount of stardust. These birds should be more powerful than any other pokemon in the game right now.
Searching hundreds of hours (or thousands even) for Legendaries isn't earning it but just walking an egg is?
I disagree.
As far as their power they shouldn't be any more powerful than their stats make them right now if everyone just gets one for nothing or finding a grou[p of guys in your area on facebook to do some quest with.
The thing I am worried about with them being in the wild is that an Adult(Valor) would be 100% more likely to find Zapados than me(13 and Instinct) I joined Instinct for Zapados. So if I have a 0% chance to get him compared to a player on a different team. I might actually consider quitting the game. And yes I know people arw gonna say great quit the game one less whinny 13 year old playing this game. And to that I would say. Good point! But in a seriousness I wouldn't be able to continue playing if it were to happen that way.
Ok now we are getting somewhere.... I think my idea is stemmed from having the game be more then wild hunting. If you make the game somewhat goal oriented(beyond leveling) you could introduce new ways. That is all i am saying, but like i said in another response, your way is more likely because of what the game is now.
by not earning i was referring to them being handed out, not your comment. I mean really your idea is more realistic just because of the simple fact Niantic has not included quests in their game. i would much rather your method than spinning a stop for the egg. But if we refer to the old game. There was one of each. That's it. They are Legendaries and should be treated as such. Just my opinion and i respect yours. I can not wait to see how the reveal turns out though.
My idea involves gyms, encourages group play, doesn't exclude solo play, and would reduce gym stagnancy.
A player, or multiple, go to a gym (level 5 or higher, it doesn't happen at low level gyms.) to either attack or prestige it. They click on the gym, and select their team(s). The battle begins. At the end of the very first round of the entire gym, at random, and this doesn't happen very often, a Legendary appears as an extra battle for the round. Which legendary is totally RNG. You have already beaten the entire gym and you are depleted by that battle, and all of a sudden you are facing a legendary. If you win, you get the mon. If you lose, at least you can still go on and either defeat and take the gym or prestige it up further.
If you are solo, you not only get the mon, but you get a minimum of 16 - 32 candy. If you are in a team, each member gets the mon, at appropriate level, but the candy is split between team members. Beating the legendary as a team is easier than solo.
Thanks.
Thinking more about this:
I built my attack team to take out 8 or 10 mons and the top three were a Blissey, a D'nite and T'Rex. No idea that there would be a legendary at the end of it. My team is down to what's left of a Cloyster, a smaller D'nite, and a MS/Se Rhydon. All have already been used, and all probably only level 30 to begin with........ Even if the RNG gave me a Suicune, one of the weakest and a water legendary, I think I would be hard pressed to take it down.
I would like a world team event where each team (color) needs to do something to unlock a legendary egg. This event could be done solo and your work/efforts would go towards the larger goal. It could be a little bit of a competition to see who could complete their goal first.
This "event" would take a number of days to complete as each team's "quest" gets filled up/completed.
Once a team completes their quest then it unlocks that legendary egg for that team and individual players can then walk/hatch their egg. Or maybe they individually need to do something to get that egg to hatch. Evolving/catching/walking etc... Maybe it is a 25km egg? Maybe you need to walk 25km, hatch 10 eggs and evolve 50 pokemon or something - all to get it to hatch.
I'd personally like to see it like this:
Entei, Raikou, and Suicune would have a small chance of appearing instead of any "common" Pokemon, like ditto. Therefore, they would be masked, and would disappear soon after. Hopefully this would stop spoofers. They'd all have a very low catch rate, and have an equal chance of spawning in all areas of the world and in all locations.
The Legendary Birds would be obtained in my opinion by hatching a 40k egg that is awarded for free on the 1st Anniversary of Pokemon Go. You would get a set amount of candy, and then could walk with him as a 6k per candy buddy. Ideally I think Moltres would need to be buffed to actually be viable. Articuno already isn't terrible since it's at least good on offense, and then Zapdos is a beast everywhere thanks to great defensive typing and massive CP.
I'm not going tor really speculate about the other legendaries, because honestly I'm just hyped to see how Niantic decides to release them.
I think Legendaries should be just that... legendary. They should take some work/effort to acquire but it should be available to everyone and not just by having to be in a group or attending an event somewhere in the world.
Make it so that each trainer has to put work/effort in so that you can unlock/hatch or whatever your legendary bird.
Same thing for other legendaries. Make it be available to everyone - maybe like shineys? but it isn't apparent at first so that spoofers can't take advantage of it and just teleport their trainer and get 15 Mewtews.
