Allow legendaries as Gym Defenders OR remove the dust power up cost
I don't think I was clear enough in an earlier idea thread.
All pokemon but legendaries may be placed as Gym Defenders subject to the 1 per species rule.
Since Legendaries are NOT allowed to be placed in gym's they shouldn't cost the same to power up as other pokemon that can be used in more facets of the game.
One way to deal with this exception is if legendaries are banned from gyms, remove the dust cost. This would make legendaries more a raid pokemon since the only way to get them, and to power them, would be from raid candies (catch+rare) The other way is of course to allow them as defenders. .
Let's face it, legendaries aren't overpowered as defenders. In fact, most of them aren't really that much more powerful than non-legendary alternatives (Flareon says hi Moltress). With the 1 limit there's no reason to exclude them.
However, if you are going to keep the exclusion, then there's no reason to expect people to pay the same power up costs either. So I'd like to see Ninatic pick a theme and run it
1) Treat legendary truly the same as other pokemon, allowing them as defenders OR
2) Treat legendary truly differently as other pokemon, and remove the dust cost from powering them up.
This current in between sucks.
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I have a life too. But instead of watching TV i go and grind. 30 mins to 2 hour a day. This is what "Go" in pokemon Go means, and i get 100k dust every week. It works.
Ok, it does not work for players who drive from raid to raid, sit on 100s of rare candys and 90+iv-legs and wonder why there is no dust in the store.
By the way: They are l e g e n d a r i e s.
It is ok that the task to max them out is not done in a week.
That's not the whole point, since you seem to be missing it.
Of course i did not get the point. As i stated before: tl,dr.
Why max them out, if you can't even place them in a gym.
You need not. If you do not want to, let them be small. I want at least a zapdos, at it seems to be mighty and fun to attack with.
They aren't unbeatable, nor gamebreaking.
No other pokemon (except blissey) is, fortunately. It is mostly scizzers - stone - paper. Good game design.
So - why max a legendary? Same reason why you would max an attacker.
I wouldnt mind working for them, if they could work for me.
Your choice.
I can not remember who said it otherwise i would make the shout out. They said that your starter pokemon levels up the same way as the legendary pokemon in the original game. a HARD GRIND, continuous battling. the only difference in the original game is you get them different ways. welcome to 2017 where is is updated but guess what, you still get them different ways and power them up the same. I said before that i think what you can put in gyms should depend on your badge level at that gym. That being said legendaries should require gold. all in all, time changes people's mind, basically what your second suggestion is stating is that in the original game we should have been able to just level up our legendaries without battling anything.
Ummm no.....
Where do you get candies to power up Legendaries if they were dust free....
Oh... that's right.... from battling raids. The 900 rare candies I have earned have battled long and hard.
But again, my point was since you can't use them as defenders, they didn't need the same cost to power up. If your suggestion that you could play a legendary at a gold gym was in place, I wouldn't mind paying stardust to power them up.
For me, it's an either or. Allow them to be in gyms OR make them easier to level up, since you can't use them as much as others
For me, it's an either or. Allow them to be in gyms OR make them easier to level up, since you can't use them as much as others
I have another issue. My murkrow is not a real good gym-sweeper. Indeed, it is virtually unusable.
So niantic - please make my murkrow strong or remove its stardust cost, since i cannot use it like my other attackers.
Nonsense? Indeed.
Dear Arak - you know what you get. You can invest your dust wherever you want. You can even use your raid pass for whoever you want. You neither need to catch nor power up those pokemon.
That's such a bad analogy.
You CAN use a Mukrow. It might not be good at something but you CAN use it.
You CAN NOT use a legenedary as a defender.
Your drawing a false equivlency.
For me, there is zero reason for Legendary's from being IMPOSSIBLE to use in gym defense. If they are going to have some impossible disadvantage, they could use a counter-edge.
There will always be stronger, or weaker pokemon.
That's a whole different issue then a pokemon with a different rule set.
Why do you need to put legendary Pokemons in gyms? You said in your own words that most of the legendary Pokemons aren't that powerful. So why not use non-legendary alternatives as defenders?
Let's be patient and see how Niantic updates the game in the future. If you want to use legendary Pokemons in raids, just grind for stardust and power it up the usual way. Don't go asking for shortcuts. Niantic is not forcing you to power them up.
