silentslade

I think the real problem here is that the Devs aren't respecting player's time at all.
 
The shiny rate is abysmal, sure.  BUT shiny Pokémon are just cosmetics/particles and status symbols. 
There can be some argument for them being abysmal and worse than in the games to make them special. 
I don't LIKE it that way, because it means I will NEVER own a shiny of any mons I want without SEVERE TIME INVESTMENT. or waste of funds to breed an OT.
 
The Legendary Dogs are however something different.
Not only are they TIME LOCKED to one per month.
They have a NEAR IMPOSSIBLE encounter rate.   
This means I spent all of this month after Halloween running left and right on rt 45. and alpha hunting.
SO MANY LURES WASTED
SO MANY HOURS DOING NOTHING.
I missed out on GYM RERUNS
I missed out on PVP
I missed out on Levelling my mons
I missed out on Breeding
I missed out on completing the Johto endgame stuff I wanted to do.
 
And now its day 30, and I see no hope left to get it done this month.
And my next shot is in 2024
 
This blows chunks.
 
 

Whatever the rates are.
 
This just feels like an absolutely abysmal rate.
It just isn't FUN to do.
And while there are other activities that can be done while doing this.
When you are just hunting the one particular poke, it feels like you are just throwing hours of your life away.
 
I am hoping if they ever release other Legendary pokes in the future.  The way to catch them is more fun and fair than this.
 

Whatever the rates are.
 
This just feels like an absolutely abysmal rate.
It just isn't FUN to do.
And while there are other activities that can be done while doing this.
When you are just hunting the one particular poke, it feels like you are just throwing hours of your life away.
 
I am hoping if they ever release other Legendary pokes in the future.  The way to catch them is more fun and fair than this.
 

Oh yeah, I mentioned a few messages above that it’s an approximation rather than an exact rate, but what I meant is they don’t tell players “it’s between 1/25000 and 1/35000” like they’re doing here.
 
Honestly, I’ve been saying since the very beginning of Johto that this system is absolutely terrible, got called names for it in this forum, so at this point I’m just waiting for a change that I know won’t come :^)

Yes! exact knowledge of the rates means players would be able to estimate how long it is likely to take and mentally prepare for it. The range of 1/1k to 1/8k is so wide it barely even has any meaning at all. Personally, 1/1k would be doable for me but 1/8k is just a waste of my damn time.
 
Since the exact rate isn't known, many players with not that much free time are baited into trying just to be frustrated and waste the time hunting these. I was one of these players unfortunately. I'd rather just be told straight up that the rates are like 1/6k so I could have just decided not to even try at all and had spent all that time sunk into nothing but moving left and right into better stuff like touching grass or something.
 
 

This is my main issue.
 
I don't know about the rest of the community but I have a full-time job, go to the gym, and have a life outside of the game. Most of what I do on a daily basis revolves around a gym rerun, catching alphas, and shiny checking rare swarms. I don't want to spend all my free time going left and right on routes in a specific region to essentially single encounter shiny hunt something that only appears 4 times a year.

I think the real problem here is that the Devs aren't respecting player's time at all.
 
The shiny rate is abysmal, sure.  BUT shiny Pokémon are just cosmetics/particles and status symbols. 
There can be some argument for them being abysmal and worse than in the games to make them special. 
I don't LIKE it that way, because it means I will NEVER own a shiny of any mons I want without SEVERE TIME INVESTMENT. or waste of funds to breed an OT.
 
The Legendary Dogs are however something different.
Not only are they TIME LOCKED to one per month.
They have a NEAR IMPOSSIBLE encounter rate.   
This means I spent all of this month after Halloween running left and right on rt 45. and alpha hunting.
SO MANY LURES WASTED
SO MANY HOURS DOING NOTHING.
I missed out on GYM RERUNS
I missed out on PVP
I missed out on Levelling my mons
I missed out on Breeding
I missed out on completing the Johto endgame stuff I wanted to do.
 
And now its day 30, and I see no hope left to get it done this month.
And my next shot is in 2024
 
This blows chunks.
 
 

Whatever the rates are.
 
This just feels like an absolutely abysmal rate.
It just isn't FUN to do.
And while there are other activities that can be done while doing this.
When you are just hunting the one particular poke, it feels like you are just throwing hours of your life away.
 
I am hoping if they ever release other Legendary pokes in the future.  The way to catch them is more fun and fair than this.
 

Whatever the rates are.
 
This just feels like an absolutely abysmal rate.
It just isn't FUN to do.
And while there are other activities that can be done while doing this.
When you are just hunting the one particular poke, it feels like you are just throwing hours of your life away.
 
I am hoping if they ever release other Legendary pokes in the future.  The way to catch them is more fun and fair than this.
 

Whatever the rates are.
 
This just feels like an absolutely abysmal rate.
It just isn't FUN to do.
And while there are other activities that can be done while doing this.
When you are just hunting the one particular poke, it feels like you are just throwing hours of your life away.
 
I am hoping if they ever release other Legendary pokes in the future.  The way to catch them is more fun and fair than this.
 

Whatever the rates are.
 
This just feels like an absolutely abysmal rate.
It just isn't FUN to do.
And while there are other activities that can be done while doing this.
When you are just hunting the one particular poke, it feels like you are just throwing hours of your life away.
 
I am hoping if they ever release other Legendary pokes in the future.  The way to catch them is more fun and fair than this.
 

Whatever the rates are.
 
This just feels like an absolutely abysmal rate.
It just isn't FUN to do.
And while there are other activities that can be done while doing this.
When you are just hunting the one particular poke, it feels like you are just throwing hours of your life away.
 
I am hoping if they ever release other Legendary pokes in the future.  The way to catch them is more fun and fair than this.
 

Whatever the rates are.
 
This just feels like an absolutely abysmal rate.
It just isn't FUN to do.
And while there are other activities that can be done while doing this.
When you are just hunting the one particular poke, it feels like you are just throwing hours of your life away.
 
I am hoping if they ever release other Legendary pokes in the future.  The way to catch them is more fun and fair than this.