Since it's a double candy event I am considering transfering all legendaries below 80% IV. I never actually use them.
The only thing that keeps me back is "possibility" of trading.
What do you guys think?
I would save some weather boosted raid bosses (basically Ho-Oh and onwards). Some like Groudon, Kyogre, Rayquaza are already near the best of their type at level 25 compared to their non-legendary counterparts at level 40, regardless of IV.
If you want to transfer your 74% Zapdos from last year, go ahead. This is the time to do it.
I have a solution. Not for multi-accounters themselves, but for halting unfair trading between their accounts: Just make it so all traded pokemon "regress" back to a lower level every time they are traded; something like a hard-cut back to level 20 -regardless of the level it was originally caught- would do the trick. That way, cheaters will have to reinvest resources all over again in a certain Pokemon and make it virtually impossible to have a single ultra-powerful account without normal grinding.
I did, no regrets. I power up and use a maximum of 2 of each legendary because I like variety in my team. I mean, I kept a few more Raikou and Kyogre, just because I they are above 90% and they are damn useful, and a few weather boosted ones, but generally I hoard legendaries only waiting for these events.
Absolutely transfer all that you don't plan on using. Legendaries without very good IVs are unlikely to have much trading value even if trading does come out, because the research feature seems to be giving them out to everyone who missed them initially and city players will have a lot of them lying around to saturate the market.
Personally I only keep 3 of each legendary, no exceptions. Would keep 6 of the better species if I thought it was realistic that I ever power up that many.
Yes. I had everything lined up and the transferring started at 4:01pm EST.
Look, the longer the game goes, the more legendaries will be released. It just isn't practical to keep all of them in a finite box if you raid a lot, on the off-chance that trading will someday be implemented. Transfer the ones you will never use or power up, get your candy, and profit. I saved well more than 100 Rare Candy from doing just that.
