Shiny Dogs to be Distributed at GameStop

[PokemonElite2000]

Starting in January, Shiny Raikou, Entei and Suicune will be given out at participating GameStop stores across the US. They will each have their own special move that can not normally be learned. Raikou will know Weather Ball, Entei will know Flare Blitz and Suicune will know Sheer Cold. All three will also have Extremespeed. The three legendary dogs will be at level 30 and come in a Cherish Ball and holding a Classic Ribbon.

The distrubiton will take place in three stages:
Raikou: January 3rd – January 9th
Entei: January 17th – January 23rd
Suicune: January 31st – February 6th

The Pokemon can be downloaded in store to any of HeartGold, SoulSilver, Diamond, Pearl or Platinum games. In future, they can be transferred to Pokemon Black & White in order to receive Zoroark. They were previously given out in Japan for preordering tickets to Zoroark – Master of Illusions.
Source: Pokemon HeartGold & SoulSilver Official Website



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[Rival Silver]

That sounds like a big event, and then later we get Zoroark. It's a Win win win win.

[Traxx]

Dang...Wish I still had my DS and all my pokémon games on it.

[Mr420]

get ready for trade threads to burst at the seams.
This sounds like an interesting event.. This comfirms the talk about Gen V being generous to weather teams, weatherball/FlareBlits/Sheercold

[Judgmental Arceus]

Watch this be restricted to HG/SS owners only, which means no fun for me.

[Tsujin]

Originally Posted by arcemegus

Watch this be restricted to HG/SS owners only, which means no fun for me.

Nope. :D

It's for everyone. Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold, & SoulSilver.
Which means fun for me.
I'll be getting 9 dogs seeing as I have Pearl, Platinum, & Soulsilver.

[Odin]

this sounds great XD 9 for me as well. Pearl, Heart Gold and Soul Silver

means i can ditch my japanese suicune or w/e

[Rival Silver]

12 doggies for me.

Does that mean 3 Zoroarks? No? RAGE!!!!!!!!!
Silvers Rage is building.

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

Its cool that they're spreading the Pokemon love around the world. =P Australia next please!

[Etymology]

I thought Raikou got Aura Sphere and Suicune got Aqua Ring? Or did the Japanese events have different moves?

EDIT: Hold on, I think the Japanese events had four special moves.

Raikou got: Zap Cannon, Aura Sphere, Extremespeed and Weather Ball, all of which are usually not known by Raikou.

Suicune got: Sheer Cold, Air Slash, Aqua Ring and Extremespeed, which again, are not usually learnt by Suicune.

Entei got: Flare Blitz, Howl, Extremespeed and Crush Claw. See above.

Does this mean some moves haven't been reported, or have Game Freak slashed a few moves because of the ability to get all three?

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

Originally Posted by BlueJello

I thought Raikou got Aura Sphere and Suicune got Aqua Ring? Or did the Japanese events have different moves?

I just went off what it says on the official site here:
http://www.pokemongoldsilver.com/us/#/news/trio/

I'm not sure what moves the Japanese events had. According to Pokebeach the only difference is Raikou had Zap Cannon?

Edit: Well it does say "... and all Pokemon will have Extremespeed, just to name a few", so I guess it's possible that there are more special moves yet to be revealed?

Edit2: Oh, well that's interesting xD I guess they just wanted to leave some things as a surprise on the official site then.

[Etymology]

Originally Posted by Pokemon Trainer Sarah

I just went off what it says on the official site here:
http://www.pokemongoldsilver.com/us/#/news/trio/

I'm not sure what moves the Japanese events had. According to Pokebeach the only difference is Raikou had Zap Cannon?

Bulbapedia has an article up; it says that these events have the same moves as the Japanese ones, which are the ones I posted above.

Aditionally, Raikou will have a Rash nature, Entei will have an Adamant nature and Suicune will have a Relaxed nature.

[Assaundrell Yumerai]

Whoa, good thing it's shiny(^^)
*sigh* I wish there were GameStop stores here on Asia

[RocketMeowth]

There are two gamestops near me, both of which always participate in these events.

I have HeartGold, SoulSilver, Diamond, Platinum, and Pearl. I'll be getting A TON of these guys!!!!

5 of each dog, and hopefully if I can do both stores, that would be 10 of each dog.

=^^= Nya

[Judgmental Arceus]

Originally Posted by Tsujin

Nope. :D

It's for everyone. Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold, & SoulSilver.
Which means fun for me.
I'll be getting 9 dogs seeing as I have Pearl, Platinum, & Soulsilver.

Perfect, though I'm only getting 3!