Roaming Legendaries FAQ

[Damian]

Q. There are legendaries in the game now?????

A. Yes, Shaymin has been in the game since the Chinese New Year event in February :^)

Serious answer: Yes, the legendary beasts have been released for permanent capture as part of the Johto region launch. The legendary birds are available as of the Xmas 2023 event.

 

Q. Which roaming legendaries are obtainable?

A. The roaming legendaries rotate every IRL month. Suicune was available in August 2023, Raikou is available in September of 2023, and Entei will be available in October of 2023. Then the rotation will begin again, so Suicune will be available in November 2023, Raikou in December 2023, Entei in January 2024, etc. The same is true for Articuno in Dec 2023, Zapdos in Jan 2024, and Moltres in Feb 2024 etc.

 

Q. How do I encounter a roaming legendary?

A. For legendary beasts, defeat the Ho-Oh boss fight during the Johto storyline; after this, the current month's beast will become obtainable in all exterior grass locations in Johto except the Safari Zone (Suicune can also be found while surfing). The chance to encounter it is very low (players report it as less than 0.1%).

For legendary birds, obtain 8 badges in Kanto, then the bird of the month can be found in the same way in any exterior location in Kanto including the Sevii Isles.

The chance to encounter a roaming legendary is not affected by Lures (although Lures will increase the overall rate of wild encounters), nor can it be Repel-tricked, nor do Intimidate/Pressure improve the chance to find it by suppressing other encounters of a lower level. It replaces an otherwise normal encounter.

There are no "legendary locks", it's just a very low encounter rate. The roaming legend encounter will not replace a summoned Sweet Scent horde, but it can replace a horde or multi-encounter found while running, either with or without a Lure active.

 

Q. What happens if I fail to capture the roaming legendary or kill or flee from it by accident?

A. You can re-encounter it as normal, except that the chance to encounter it will significantly increase if you fail to catch it.

 

Q. Can the roaming legendary be shiny? Can I shiny hunt them?

A. Yes, like alphas, the shininess is rolled on the first encounter and fixed afterwards for subsequent encounters. This means that you can't repeat encounters in the same month to try to get a shiny one, ie shiny hunting them in the traditional sense is not possible.

 

Q. How many roaming legendaries can I catch?

A. One per character, per region, per monthly rotation. If you caught Suicune in August, you can catch another one in November. If you caught Zapdos in Kanto in Jan 2024, you can still catch Entei in Johto if you haven't caught one in Jan 2024 already.

 

Q. Do I need to capture Suicune to catch Raikou? Do I only get one legendary?

A. No, they're independent from one another. You can catch all 3, and you can catch duplicates of the same one as long as you wait for the next monthly cycle. Once you catch one for the month, you won't encounter a second one. You cannot catch the previous month's beast until the next rotation if you missed it.

EDIT: This was previously bugged such that if you had caught Suicune you would unable to encounter Raikou. This has since been fixed.

 

Q. Can I change their IVs/natures?

A. Yes; the legendary beasts' IVs can be increased/decreased using Rainbow Quills. The birds can have their IVs increased/decreased via Elemental Orbs. The natures can be changed using Nature Herbs.

 

Q. How do I obtain Rainbow Quills/Nature Herbs/Elemental Orbs?
A. You get a fixed number (20) of Quills when you catch a beast. You can gain additional ones by using the Pickup ability or through player pickup in Johto only (not other regions). Nature Herbs drop randomly when harvesting Gracidea plants. Elemental Orbs drop randomly when defeating a wild pokemon with a move matching the elemental type of the bird in battle (eg faint wild mons with Zapdos using an Electric-type move for a chance at Elemental Orbs).

 

Q. Are they dogs or cats or some other animal?

A. I have called them dogs since I was single-digit years old, so they're dogs to me.

Edited January 5 by Damian
updated to include birds

[GabrielMarques15]

So the next month Suicune can be Shiny if the June Suicune is a normal one?

[kenjimAd]

Last Month was Suicune Right? Then why it's June? XD

[cloo]

So sad we can't re-roll them, guess shiny ones will be impossible 😞

Ty for the info though! ❤️

Edited September 1, 2023 by cloo

[xStarr]

2 minutes ago, kenjimAd said:

Last Month was Suicune Right? Then why it's June? XD

Edited September 1, 2023 by xStarr

[kenjimAd]

5 minutes ago, xStarr said:

Idk. But! From what i saw that Damian was Saying from Question about "How Many Dogs can I Catch?" It's means when you Caughted a Suicune by Last Month means, you can Catch it again by Next 2 Months (If I'm not mistaken here...)

Edited September 1, 2023 by kenjimAd

[Damian]

28 minutes ago, GabrielMarques15 said:

So the next month Suicune can be Shiny if the June Suicune is a normal one?

Yes

25 minutes ago, kenjimAd said:

Last Month was Suicune Right? Then why it's June? XD

Because I am dumb and can't count lol, fixed

 

[Bertolfoso]

Worst guide ever they are clearly cats. reported for multiple crimes

[Brendanios]

Maybe an unpopular opinion but i'm kinda sad they made them duplicates. Legendarys are suppose to be rare and since you can already customize your dog with Rainbow Quills and herbs to make them perfect, i dont really see a need for duplicates.. In a few years i imagine them being worthless unfortunetally 😐 W for shunters tho 😄

[kenjimAd]

The Worst Part is Owning Legendary Dogs & selling in GTL will be Huge Low Price Cost! Imagine by Next Future... Current Cost in Price at GTL Now is 1.7M right? If we keep Catching All of Legendary Dogs & selling in GTL, it will be Cost now is 800K- already!

[angryfatbear]

 does it replace a Lured- single encounter?

Edited September 1, 2023 by angryfatbear

[Quakkz]

Good System for shinies imo and enough supply for comp scene to get multiple sets. Good way of implementing the legendary johto trio

Edited September 1, 2023 by Quakkz

[yesimnathan]

If suicune will be back in Nov, that means there are only 3 roaming legendaries?

[CaptnBaklava]

5 hours ago, kenjimAd said:

The Worst Part is Owning Legendary Dogs & selling in GTL will be Huge Low Price Cost! Imagine by Next Future... Current Cost in Price at GTL Now is 1.7M right? If we keep Catching All of Legendary Dogs & selling in GTL, it will be Cost now is 800K- already!

gatekeep the poorest part of the community even more lol

[Aidos]

14 hours ago, Damian said:

Q. What happens if I fail to capture the beast or kill or flee from it by accident?

A. You can re-encounter it as normal, except that the chance to encounter it will significantly increase if you fail to catch it.

 The chance of encountering gets a reset every month?

Let's say I catch or kill/flee a raikou, does it increase my chance to find a Entei? 

[Serlocke]

15 hours ago, Damian said:

they're dogs

Unfathomably, unerringly, and verifiably true.

Edited September 1, 2023 by Serlocke

[Deidara1510]

Does Hustle/Vital Spirit work on the legendary dogs?

[TheCrebi]

11 hours ago, Brendanios said:

Maybe an unpopular opinion but i'm kinda sad they made them duplicates. Legendarys are suppose to be rare and since you can already customize your dog with Rainbow Quills and herbs to make them perfect, i dont really see a need for duplicates.. In a few years i imagine them being worthless unfortunetally 😐 W for shunters tho 😄

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[dorland]

What about the bug? Many people are saying about a bug if you got suicune, raikou dont appear and we dont know until now one player who have suicune and raikou at same time whit same ot

[Rex1Nak4mura]

F 😭

[DavidGPS]

I agree with this comment! I'm observing this in the game with other players who, like me, also caught Suicune; this seems to be a bug.

[caioxlive13]

Since Suicune replaces a normal encounter, basically the best method to find it is using a starmie with the counter-intuitive ability Illuminate (!!). The ability that otherwise is a Blunder (??) use it over natural cure or analytic, is better for founding suicune, because it increase the chance of founding encounters. Add it the Lure (⭐) and you can find a lot of encounters. Plus, Starmie is fast enabling flee easily, and you had teleport to get out from field without risking your catcher to lose life, good when it's a smeargle or a breloom not pre-poisoned(for suicune is relevant to avoid scalds if he has).

The set i was thinking is Teleport/Skill Swap/Recover/??? . You switch out to your attacker with TP, skill swap for removing pressure and avoid PP getting over too early, Recover for longevity and anything for 4th move.

 

Edited September 2, 2023 by caioxlive13

[Damian]

3 hours ago, dorland said:

What about the bug? Many people are saying about a bug if you got suicune, raikou dont appear and we dont know until now one player who have suicune and raikou at same time whit same ot

 

1 hour ago, DavidGPS said:

I agree with this comment! I'm observing this in the game with other players who, like me, also caught Suicune; this seems to be a bug.

Given that the number of encounters required to find them is very high, it'd be difficult to prove whether this is a bug. It's much more likely that you found Suicune disproportionately quickly and thus feel that Raikou should be found just as fast, which is not the case. However, if you do genuinely believe it's a bug (and I would encourage you to do upward of 30k encounters to be certain), you can raise a bug report ticket at our support portal and our bug team will of course look into it: https://support.pokemmo.com/support/

[LeZenor]

12 hours ago, Damian said:

 

Given that the number of encounters required to find them is very high, it'd be difficult to prove whether this is a bug. It's much more likely that you found Suicune disproportionately quickly and thus feel that Raikou should be found just as fast, which is not the case. However, if you do genuinely believe it's a bug (and I would encourage you to do upward of 30k encounters to be certain), you can raise a bug report ticket at our support portal and our bug team will of course look into it: https://support.pokemmo.com/support/

I think the fact that it hasn't already happened yet is a pretty alarming. I get that Raikou has only been made available yesterday but given pokemmo current population, I cannot fathom the fact that no player has encountered and caught both of them yet. The odds of that being the case seems ridiculously low. I could still be wrong though

Edited September 2, 2023 by LeZenor

[DOOM]

1 hour ago, Damian said:

 

Given that the number of encounters required to find them is very high, it'd be difficult to prove whether this is a bug. It's much more likely that you found Suicune disproportionately quickly and thus feel that Raikou should be found just as fast, which is not the case. However, if you do genuinely believe it's a bug (and I would encourage you to do upward of 30k encounters to be certain), you can raise a bug report ticket at our support portal and our bug team will of course look into it: https://support.pokemmo.com/support/

i've been looking for raikou for 12 hrs uninterrupted with single encounters all the time and he hasn't come up, i didn't see anyone in the chat who had both legendaries with the same OT in that time span either. thank you very much.