I know it's early, but the winner of the understatement of the year award goes to...
Fair enough. However, they are being generous with the upcoming events, but even those aren't without their major flaws. Obv this newsletter thing is a terrible idea, the Entei doesn't have espeed, the ho-oh won't have regen, and Lugia won't have multiscale. Nothing to special about the genies either. How much would it really hurt them to make those changes? The only reason I can see is that they may want to market those HAs in the future and have people attracted to that by starving us now.
Maybe we'll see Hidden Ability Ho-Oh and Lugia later down the line, but E-Speed Entei? Probably not. Ever since Gen VI GameFreak had been afraid to give Pokemon moves they can't normally learn. Understandable, they went overboard with that in Gen VI such as having Vicitni with both Fusion Flare and Fusion Bolt and a Rayquaza with V-Create (not to mention all the special moves from the Dream World Pokemon). With Gen VI making the jump to full 3D graphics, GF decided to take the easy route and just make it so you couldn't use those Pokemon anymore in official competition and then not release any more Pokemon with moves they couldn't learn (also create some Event moves which didn't have any competitive use).
Now? Dude, Ho-oh and Lugia haven't had their HA since Dream Radar. (outside of transferring via VC GSC, though Lugia is getting Multiscale as part of the movie tie-in... whether or not anyone outside of Japan sees that in their region is another matter entirely)
... uh, you can get them via VC GSC, though I don't know if VC Pokemon are VGC legal. (not that it matters for Ho-oh and Lugia, being usually barred and all) And there's that movie tie-in Lugia that's confirmed to have Multiscale and Hurricane, which it can't normally learn. (even though Aeroblast is nearly as good for the same STAB, and far more accurate without rain support)
I understand what you're saying, and like I said, the 2018 legends are a good event series. Even so, most players could probably obtain the other wormhole legend not from their game via trading in USM easier than they could obtain an HA through VC transfer (as this requires buying a new game) or event move mon (It should be noted, however, that I say this in the context of more causal players). Even so, it should be noted that giving away wormhole legends would more closely follow the theme of USM, but I still hold the belief that it couldn't do much harm to make the pokemon a bit more special.
But Tenebricite! If you redeem them in Ultra Sun or Ultra Moon, they come at level 100 and holding a Gold Bottle Cap so you can Hyper Train them immediately! Surely that's super special!
#GiveEnteiEarthquake
Yeah, that's another thing that they could have done. A few of these mons do have unreleased HAs, and from a player's (my) point of view, this would be a good time to do so. Personally, I think they will most likely release them as part of a pkmn card promo or something like that for an extra lure to those specific events.
Actually, I think Heatran's the only one with an unreleased HA, technically speaking. (though Flash Fire would likely still be the preferred one; immunities are always nice) The Johto beasts got theirs with VC GSC... but as of this generation they lost Volt Absorb/Flash Fire/Water Absorb in favor of Inner Focus. Everything else has either had theirs released at some point or don't have one to begin with.
Yeah... the legendary dogs getting Inner Focus over absorption is a good example of something GF did that I question. Giving them those abilities was certainly more interesting idea than giving them all inner focus.
No, still waiting for a response from the specialist they redirect my ticket too.
There's not many people over on /r/pokemontrades that have received a newsletter code as well. Created a fair amount of demand for the PAL versons though, I've ended up redeeming about 15 pairs (not including my own) in the last three days and the NA codes seem to be going for about $11/$12 each on /r/pokemonexchange.
I haven't. At this point, I don't exactly care.
I haven't. Hopefully they realize that this isn't the most effective way to distribute an event.
I full expect all of these to get this treatment, save for any that are straight up released over wi-fi.
True, and it is the Easter weekend... Still, it'd be nice to know ahead of time. (granted, I'm really chomping at the bit for May's distributions: I actually want to redeem a code on both my games.
It'd be funny if they distribute it over trainer club newsletter for the 2nd month in a row. Excluding the fact most of us wouldn't get our pokemon, that is.
They probably don't want to do that since this is one of those times where a third member of the trio is tied into having the other two. In this case, having Raikou and Entei will allow Suicune to be found in the blue wormholes.
They have lol... We can't really guess what they'll do next, although I hope its just over wifi, as i suspect many others do as well. However, I hope this will be the last newsletter distribution, at least with this kind of inefficiency.
