"2018 Will Be Legendary!"​

Recently, The Pokémon Company put up an announcement on their website [prebreak]1[/prebreak](which when clicked redirects to another website), announcing the "Year of Legendary Pokémon". It is supposedly going to be a yearlong event that includes Legendary Pokémon Distributions, activities, and more!
This event will be spread across all of The Pokémon Company's currently supported media and games.

• Handheld games: monthly legendary distributions at select partners
• Trading cards: new sets focused on Legendary Pokémon in 2018
• Mobile Games: Shuffle will have Dialga / Palkia stages, GO will have promotions
• TV: monthly movies featuring legendaries on the Pokémon TV app

For the monthly Legendary Pokémon Distribution, this is the current schedule:

• February – Dialga or Palkia in GAME in the UK & Gamestop in the US
• March – Regigigas or Heatran
• April – Raikou or Entei
• May – Xerneas or Yveltal
• June – Shiny Zygarde
• July – Tornadus or Thundurus
• August – Kyogre or Groudon
• September – Latios or Latias
• October – Reshiram or Zekrom
• November – Ho-Oh or Lugia

It is to be noted that in the artwork at the top of this post, there are no Mythical Pokémon or either of the Mews to be seen.

Source
(It's worth noting that the link at the bottom of my source goes to the British site. If you live in the US, you'll want to go to https://www.pokemonlegendary.com/en-us/.)

 

[ThoD]

No!!! Lol. We are getting the GS Ball event. That has been confirmed for the release of Crystal on the VC. So YES we ARE getting the event lol

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It has LITERALLY BEEN CONFIRMED. Look it up. The USA ARE getting the event. NOT being simply given celebi.

I guess they enabled the event. Oh well, never mind then

 

[Thirty3Three]

I guess they enabled the event. Oh well, never mind then

Yep! Stink celeb here we come

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Yep! Stink celeb here we come

Fucking autocorrect.

Can someone draw a stink Caleb? Im he timely curious to see what that would look like


Drawfee pls

 

[proflayton123]

Gs ball event?

 

[BORTZ]

Wat. Didn't we just have an entire year of legendary Pokemon give aways in 2016?

Legendaries aren't going to be so legendary anymore.

 

[RustInPeace]

Wat. Didn't we just have an entire year of legendary Pokemon give aways in 2016?

Legendaries aren't going to be so legendary anymore.

Mythical legendaries, a different class. Mew, Celebi, Jirachi, etc.

 

[ThoD]

Wat. Didn't we just have an entire year of legendary Pokemon give aways in 2016?

Legendaries aren't going to be so legendary anymore.

They never were "legendary", just a pain in the a to get all of them And it was more of a year of mythical Pokemon, not legendaries.

EDIT: Welp, got ninjaed

 

[BORTZ]

Oh. Like event Pokemon. Ok.

 

[MaverickWellington]

I'm confused by this event. If you have OR/AS and US/UM, you basically are able to get all the legendaries up to that point besides a select few, and double of a good chunk of them depending on your versions. What's the plan for this? To make it 3, or 4 in the case of people who have X/Y too? Why not give out special event pokemon with unique setups that create interesting strategies for battle? Maybe give out special FEAR pokemon? IDK. I just want something new than just "lOOK IT'S THE LEGNEDARIES!!!"

 

[PrincessLillie]

I'm confused by this event. If you have OR/AS and US/UM, you basically are able to get all the legendaries up to that point besides a select few, and double of a good chunk of them depending on your versions. What's the plan for this? To make it 3, or 4 in the case of people who have X/Y too? Why not give out special event pokemon with unique setups that create interesting strategies for battle? Maybe give out special FEAR pokemon? IDK. I just want something new than just "lOOK IT'S THE LEGNEDARIES!!!"

Perhaps they're doing it for people who don't have those games? I know plenty of people who trade in their Pokémon games after finishing them.

 

[ThoD]

I'm confused by this event. If you have OR/AS and US/UM, you basically are able to get all the legendaries up to that point besides a select few, and double of a good chunk of them depending on your versions. What's the plan for this? To make it 3, or 4 in the case of people who have X/Y too? Why not give out special event pokemon with unique setups that create interesting strategies for battle? Maybe give out special FEAR pokemon? IDK. I just want something new than just "lOOK IT'S THE LEGNEDARIES!!!"

Because GF and TPC have yet to understand that nobody wants legendaries anymore, as you can get them basically for free from the GTS (eg: for a random high level mon) if you want them and don't have the corresponding game. They took all player interactions away from the game, making it impossible to talk/communicate with people online, so the trading/collecting part of Pokemon became completely ruined and boring af, so now the only thing that matters are the battles. Giving us more legendaries when we can just find them all over the place is meaningless! And if we want competitive legends, we just use 1-2 bottle caps and it's ready! They need to take the hint already and give us some unique stuff or at least old event-exclusive moves, like those from Pokemon XD's/Colosseum's bonus disks or from Pokemon Box Ruby/Sapphire or generally things that aren't a literal joke to get! They aren't even releasing the legends with their hidden abilities, making them completely useless...

 

[OctolingRift]

Gen 7 was amazing. IDK what you're smoking.

Oh please, even Gen 6 was better than Gen 7

 

[Thirty3Three]

Oh please, even Gen 6 was better than Gen 7

Naw dude. Gen 6 was just "okay". Opinions are cool right?

 

[OctolingRift]

Naw dude. Gen 6 was just "okay". Opinions are cool right?

They are but when people claim 'Gen 7' to be the best I really can't take them seriously. GF did such a lackluster job with the games despite releasing 2 years after ORAS (But that doesn't matter since release dates/times have NOTHING to due with game development)

 

[Thirty3Three]

They are but when people claim 'Gen 7' to be the best I really can't take them seriously. GF did such a lackluster job with the games despite releasing 2 years after ORAS (But that doesn't matter since release dates/times have NOTHING to due with game development)

Still sounds like your opinion. Many fucking LOVE gen 7 and consider it up there as a really awesome one. Gen 3 was still the best

 

[OctolingRift]

Still sounds like your opinion. Many fucking LOVE gen 7 and consider it up there as a really awesome one. Gen 3 was still the best

Now I can agree on Gen 3 being the best

 

[ThoD]

Now I can agree on Gen 3 being the best

Gen 3 is second best for me, I just like too many Gen 4 mons and that unique feel Sinnoh had where it felt like one big countryside village... But Gen 3 would have been best if it had actual day/night cycles and if it was easier to get the event items to catch the legends (Old Sea Map, Eon Ticket, etc...), as I loved some of those locations (like Navel Rock or Birth Island for that fun Deoxys puzzle) but couldn't access them without cheating, making it less fun.

 

[SigmaMas]

Then, you almost already know what you will need to do. You can instantly understand what kind of thinking is behind pokemon go APK joystick.