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Shiny Umbreon January 20th, 2007 6:47 PM

How to easily find the legendary dogs
 
If you are wondering if you should be playing your FR/LG all day to find them, then read this:

As you know, one of the legendary dogs randomly appear in Kanto according to your starter POkémon.
Bulbasaur - Entei
Charmander - Suicune
Squirtle - Raikou

This is an easy way to find them.

Step 1: Fly to Viridian City.
Step 2: Go to Route 2 (North) until the entrance of the Viridian Forest.
Step 3: Enter the routehouse, then go out and walk into the grass for a short time using a repel. (Your first Pokémon should be below Lv40)
Step 4: Repeat Step 3 multiple times until you find it.

This should work because there are only 22 Routes where they can appear (3 are sea routes) so you would have to be pretty lucky to find one. But with this guide, you're sure to find it because its area totally resets each time you warp into a house or building. Finding it should be quick so keep walking just a short time and re-enter the building. This works with any building near the grass, so you can try in your own places. I use this place because I think it's the building nearest to the grass in all Kanto. Remember they will only appear in Kanto, not on the Sevii Islands.

Aqua Now January 20th, 2007 11:22 PM

interesting,ill try this for Raikou

PokemonLegends January 21st, 2007 1:15 AM

Thanks For The Info! I'll Try This One!

lord jubilee January 21st, 2007 3:31 AM

thanks
 
thanks for that!
i was curious why it toook me a while to find entei and suicune on older saved games, i was looking on the sevii islands catching new pokemon doing some stuff you know....
anyway thatnks hopefully i will get the last legendary dog for my collection.

Mystic Waters January 22nd, 2007 10:34 AM

THANKS! I was just on google looking for this exact thing, thanx again!

Blazichu January 24th, 2007 5:08 AM

You can do the same thing for Latios/Latias in R/S, that is how I got them.

~*!*~Tatsujin Gosuto~*!*~ January 24th, 2007 9:15 AM

I never though of doing that, I wasted so much time, well its great for the future

:t354:~*!*~Queen Boo~*!*~

peirau January 26th, 2007 1:45 PM

pokemon
 
Cool im trying it too:) thanks!

Tker January 27th, 2007 8:06 AM

I find that looking around for the roaming Pokemon can be quite a pain, so I just let them come to me, and when I see one I just use my Master Ball.

Law07 February 2nd, 2007 12:00 PM

Can you get the other legendary dogs?

Hayate February 2nd, 2007 12:12 PM

Good trick, if I needed it I would've tried it but I already have them :P

As for the other 2 dogs, I guess you'll need to trade them from other games to Fr/LG ;)

Shiny Umbreon February 5th, 2007 8:15 AM

I've got a similar way to catch Latios/Latias in R/S/E but it takes more time:

1. Fly to Lilicove City
2. Go west to Route 121 (Not sure about the number)
3. After walking some time, in the grass, fly to Lilicove again.

jporacion February 28th, 2007 2:16 AM

you can easily find it at route 11 just run around

Shiny Umbreon February 28th, 2007 3:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jporacion (Post 2397552)
you can easily find it at route 11 just run around

That's not for sure. You could spend a week trying to find it randomly. It's better to refresh its location by changing maps after some time.

~BlackHeartedWolf~ March 3rd, 2007 8:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shiny Umbreon (Post 2375900)
I've got a similar way to catch Latios/Latias in R/S/E but it takes more time:

1. Fly to Lilicove City
2. Go west to Route 121 (Not sure about the number)
3. After walking some time, in the grass, fly to Lilicove again.

I actually found Latios/Latias fairly quickly doing that...maybe about an hour or two at the most...

As for Suicune, I found her awful fast too. I went to Celadon City, and went on the route East of that, and wandered around a bit, using Repels. After about 5 minutes, I gave up and went to the Pokemon Center and came back. I didn't use any Repels this time, and guess who was the first Pokemon I saw? Suicune. I don't know if it's just me, but I always manage to get lucky with the Legendary Pokemon. I could elaborate, but maybe later..I'm not even supposed to be on the computer right now, so I can't type too much xD;;

firebug March 5th, 2007 9:24 AM

Thanks, I was wandering where to catch him

Siigari March 5th, 2007 5:58 PM

Dunno if it's closer, but I first encountered my Raikou outside of the area near the Rock Tunnel. There's a Pokémon Center, then not only is there grass up nearby, but you're also right next to a cave entrance. So (for the dogs) it's pretty nearby, and for good level training for lower level Pokémon, you have a nice, dark cave right there. ^_^

Anyway, I didn't catch it, then he sprang up down near Fuschia City. I was like :O waw! lol, but anyway yeah he ran again... (I was in the middle of training my level 30ish shiny Voltorb). Even LATER I found him hanging around a bunch of Oddishes and such... over by the Unknown Dungeon. I was pretty fried, because again, I was training and not trying to catch him.

Blah, why don't I just throw the Master Ball, right? I know, I know. I'm trying to save it for that ultra-rare Pokémon. (Really, I'm just saving it for a Shiny Dratini... but we all know that I can't get one with a Master Ball, because they only show up in the Safari Zone.) *u.u*

RYOUKI March 18th, 2007 10:47 PM

thanks for the advice! but i'm not looking forward to catching suicune, i heard he's (suicune) the weakest of all legendary dogs

shido March 18th, 2007 11:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RazoREdge (Post 2417282)
thanks for the advice! but i'm not looking forward to catching suicune, i heard he's (suicune) the weakest of all legendary dogs


Suicune may not have brute strength like the other two but it can beat both of them XD don't under estimate a pokemon based on its Att and SpAtt stats

StarLife March 22nd, 2007 10:41 AM

You Can Find The Legendary Dogs At East Of Celadon City Much!

JagraXen March 25th, 2007 11:46 AM

Thanks for this!! Its really useful :)

shanecdavis March 26th, 2007 4:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RazoREdge (Post 2417282)
thanks for the advice! but i'm not looking forward to catching suicune, i heard he's (suicune) the weakest of all legendary dogs

You heard wrong. Suicune is the best of the Legendary Dogs. By a wide margin. Like the Eevee evolutions, the dogs have the same base stat total (580), but each has their own strength.

Entei, being a Fire-type, is automatically the weakest one. Its strength is that it has the highest base Atk and HP (115 each) and has a good base Spd (100). What does it in, besides being a Fire-type and therefore weak to both physical AND special attacks (Ground/Rock/Water), is its average defenses. Even with its high HP, it faints too easy to be of any good use. Plus, with its higher Atk than SAtk, it also suffers the same fate as Flareon, the worst of the Eevee evolutions, - bad physical movepool.

Raikou actually isn't too bad of a choice. It has the highest base SAtk and Spd (115 each) and a good SDef (100). Unfortunately for Raikou, Electric is weak to Ground, which is a physical attack, taking advantage of its average base Def (75). Typical Electric-type. Fast speed and great power, just too frail to last too long against a common attack. Very similar to Jolteon.

That brings us to Suicune. While it doesn't sport a strong base Atk, SAtk, or Spd, it does have the highest base Def and SDef (115 each) and a good HP (100). What this does is make Suicune one of the better tanks in the game, capable of taking both physical AND special hits very well. You could compare it to Vaporeon, but you would be wrong. It really is a combination of Vaporeon AND Umbreon. It shrugs off damage like Umbreon, but hits back like Vaporeon. Easily the best of the three, without question.

ltr_17 March 31st, 2007 7:24 AM

1.wait, do you go into the route house then walk into the forest or back out south?

2.and, if you use a repel, it wont work, will it?

3.and, does it HAVE TO be a repel or can it be a max repel?

please answer my questions while you are looking through this thread, PLEASE TYVM! :)

Paranoia April 6th, 2007 5:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ltr_17 (Post 2428157)
1.wait, do you go into the route house then walk into the forest or back out south?

2.and, if you use a repel, it wont work, will it?

3.and, does it HAVE TO be a repel or can it be a max repel?

please answer my questions while you are looking through this thread, PLEASE TYVM! :)

1.) Doesn't matter, just walk in any grass for a short period of time and wait and see.

2.) It will work, because the way a repel works is if I have a Lvl 49 pkmn in the front of my party, No pokemon of lower level will be encountered.

3.) It can be any repel.

Although if you can't find him in a while, Fly to the town and try again as fly scrambles up the routes he visits.

ltr_17 April 6th, 2007 5:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paranoia (Post 2435464)
1.) Doesn't matter, just walk in any grass for a short period of time and wait and see.

2.) It will work, because the way a repel works is if I have a Lvl 49 pkmn in the front of my party, No pokemon of lower level will be encountered.

3.) It can be any repel.

Although if you can't find him in a while, Fly to the town and try again as fly scrambles up the routes he visits.

1.TYVM, but do you have to fly to varidian city and walk up and try and fly and walk and fly and walk all of the time?

2.how long do you have to keep on walking in the grass? until the max repel is out or 5 mins? how long?

3.can you do it on a bycicle or does it HAVE TO be walk? if so, can you run?

Paranoia April 6th, 2007 5:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ltr_17 (Post 2435469)
1.TYVM, but do you have to fly to varidian city and walk up and try and fly and walk and fly and walk all of the time?

2.how long do you have to keep on walking in the grass? until the max repel is out or 5 mins? how long?

Heres how I did it,

Flew to Viridian city, Put on max repel, Ran to route two, and ran in the grass, about 10 secs I ran into the building came back out and ran around again, I did that like 20 times, didn't find it then flew back to Viridian city

Repeat Until Found.

Make sure you use your masterball on it, as they always flee.

ltr_17 April 6th, 2007 5:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paranoia (Post 2435479)
Heres how I did it,

Flew to Viridian city, Put on max repel, Ran to route two, and ran in the grass, about 10 secs I ran into the building came back out and ran around again, I did that like 20 times, didn't find it then flew back to Viridian city

Repeat Until Found.

Make sure you use your masterball on it, as they always flee.

OOPS! i used my master ball on mewtwo! what now? well, i'll save everytime, or i could steal my bros masterball ^^
but i feel bad when i do that, so i wil just put up with the consaquences. TYVM, your magesty! lol (jk) but, TYVM.

and, one more question. if you had no masterball, how would you catch it? i NEED this help.

Paranoia April 6th, 2007 6:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ltr_17 (Post 2435493)
OOPS! i used my master ball on mewtwo! what now? well, i'll save everytime, or i could steal my bros masterball ^^
but i feel bad when i do that, so i wil just put up with the consaquences. TYVM, your magesty! lol (jk) but, TYVM.

and, one more question. if you had no masterball, how would you catch it? i NEED this help.

Ahah, Lol when I was writing that I knew you used it, I did the very same thing, Well you want to catch it then, get a zubat or golbat, at Level 42 it learns mean look, teach it that, then level it up to level 49 then go find the legendary dog, use mean look, it'll be stuck there and won't run. BIG problem is if it's Raikou or Entei, it might use Roar, this makes you run as well as loose sight of it, as in you can't track it in the pokedex and you'll have to search for it all over again.

ltr_17 April 6th, 2007 6:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paranoia (Post 2435516)
Ahah, Lol when I was writing that I knew you used it, I did the very same thing, Well you want to catch it then, get a zubat or golbat, at Level 42 it learns mean look, teach it that, then level it up to level 49 then go find the legendary dog, use mean look, it'll be stuck there and won't run. BIG problem is if it's Raikou or Entei, it might use Roar, this makes you run as well as loose sight of it, as in you can't track it in the pokedex and you'll have to search for it all over again.

i have an ultamite plan, lol. use a wobbuffet. i have a lvl 95 wobbuffet. will that work or not?

shanecdavis April 6th, 2007 6:47 AM

Not if you are planning on using it as your lead Poke and using Max Repel.

ltr_17 April 6th, 2007 7:25 AM

so i can put my lvl 49 omastar as front, when i find raiku i quickly switch as wobbuffet? will he run away or not?

Paranoia April 6th, 2007 8:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ltr_17 (Post 2435586)
so i can put my lvl 49 omastar as front, when i find raiku i quickly switch as wobbuffet? will he run away or not?

He will run, lol.... or use roar

RYOUKI April 6th, 2007 9:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paranoia (Post 2435516)
Ahah, Lol when I was writing that I knew you used it, I did the very same thing, Well you want to catch it then, get a zubat or golbat, at Level 42 it learns mean look, teach it that, then level it up to level 49 then go find the legendary dog, use mean look, it'll be stuck there and won't run. BIG problem is if it's Raikou or Entei, it might use Roar, this makes you run as well as loose sight of it, as in you can't track it in the pokedex and you'll have to search for it all over again.

theres one problemo...they will run away if they spotted you well i could be wrong bec the dogs is just like latiasand latios in R/S/E so well maybe

♠Shiny♠Mr.Mime♠ April 9th, 2007 10:45 AM

but wait theres more lol

you can sr for shiny dogs or different natures by using the method the thread starter posted but with a twist


make sure the dog is in your dex
to get in your dex trade of course
ok save before giving sapphire to celio
go to a route with a building or underground tunnel passage
and walk in and out until it is in your area{to do this you have to have it in your dex and also be able to track it by checking your dex}
when i is in you area find and catch it with a masterball and check its nature and shinyness or evs/ivs or whatever it is you like
if it is not what you like then soft reset by pressing a, b, select, start at the same time and proceed all of the steps over again until you get the one you like

Shiny Umbreon April 9th, 2007 7:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paranoia (Post 2435464)
1.) Doesn't matter, just walk in any grass for a short period of time and wait and see.

The thing is that if you keep searching on the same route it will appear at some point. If you try different places, you'll take more time so it's better to go into the building, then go back to Route 2.

Darkside May 2nd, 2007 8:38 AM

i found my Entei at sea route first time. i used 67 lvl Raichus thunder wave, it fled, and i found it again, but now i had 100 lvl wobbuffet in first.it used stomp, i counter, safeguard and throwed three Ultra Ball. I caught it,because it goes like this:
1-3:
Entei: finding rate:1 Catch:3
Suicune: Finding rate: 3 Catch: 0
Raikou: Finding rate:2 Catch: -300%!!!

thepog May 5th, 2007 3:59 PM

It Worked!
 
SWEET! IT WORKED ty ty ty ty I was looking for entei for 2 mounths thankyou so much!

Shiny Umbreon May 5th, 2007 4:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ♠Shiny♠Mr.Mime♠ (Post 2440051)
but wait theres more lol

you can sr for shiny dogs or different natures by using the method the thread starter posted but with a twist


make sure the dog is in your dex
to get in your dex trade of course
ok save before giving sapphire to celio
go to a route with a building or underground tunnel passage
and walk in and out until it is in your area{to do this you have to have it in your dex and also be able to track it by checking your dex}
when i is in you area find and catch it with a masterball and check its nature and shinyness or evs/ivs or whatever it is you like
if it is not what you like then soft reset by pressing a, b, select, start at the same time and proceed all of the steps over again until you get the one you like

I might be wrong, but I thought the dogs' characteristics were set from the start of the game. Or is it when you give the Sapphire to Celio? Have you tried this to check?

XxSilentxDeathx May 13th, 2007 12:15 PM

When the dog uses roar can you find it again?

Shiny Umbreon May 13th, 2007 7:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by XxSilentxDeathx (Post 2478827)
When the dog uses roar can you find it again?

This method is to find them for the first time. If you have seen them, you can use this, but checking your Dex every time so you don't waste repels.

RYOUKI May 13th, 2007 7:30 PM

um...who exactly of the dogs use roar????
i hope its not suicune XD
(and when they use ror repels is a waste of time)

Unown Trainer May 14th, 2007 12:06 AM

nice
 
it works i found entei

really nice

CowFreak5 May 14th, 2007 4:18 PM

I just ran around randomly everywhere until I found it...

ethernet May 14th, 2007 9:32 PM

I have did this with my suicune its worked like a charm

XxSilentxDeathx May 15th, 2007 7:41 PM

Okay so what do i do since he used roar? Can i not find him anymore, and now i have to restart to just get a riqou? Or is he still randomly around but repels dont work now..?

nguyende June 25th, 2007 5:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by XxSilentxDeathx (Post 2482665)
Okay so what do i do since he used roar? Can i not find him anymore, and now i have to restart to just get a riqou? Or is he still randomly around but repels dont work now..?

I think you've got the wrong idea... Since he used the move Roar, he forces you to flee and he won't appear in your PokéDex (or so I've come to understand in this thread). You can still find him and you will not have to restart your game. He's still around and repels will still work. He's just not in your PokéDex now. (someone correct me if I'm wrong)

I hope this helps you,
~nguyende :)

becky92 June 26th, 2007 1:27 PM

Thanks for this, i'll have to try and see if i have any luck finding Suicune. :]

Prons June 26th, 2007 5:38 PM

I couldn't help but notice a lot of folk in this thread are mentioning Wobbuffets, do they have an attack or skill that prevents the epic pokemon from running? I'd definetley want to save my master ball for Mewtwo.

IPanda June 26th, 2007 5:59 PM

Awesome, thanks for the info, ive been trying for so long. i hope it works!

nguyende June 26th, 2007 6:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Prons (Post 2561033)
I couldn't help but notice a lot of folk in this thread are mentioning Wobbuffets, do they have an attack or skill that prevents the epic pokemon from running? I'd definetley want to save my master ball for Mewtwo.

The Pokémon Wobbuffet has the ability Shadow Tag, which preventsthe foe's escape. Although, I believe that the Wobbuffet must be sent out at the start of the battle for the ability to take place, so switching to a Wobbuffet would not work.

I hope this helps you,
~nguyende :)

Prons June 26th, 2007 6:49 PM

Helps a lot, you guys are awesome, thanks!

bossman34 June 27th, 2007 3:03 PM

best way to catch it with ultras?

nguyende June 28th, 2007 7:34 AM

This actually sounds quite interesting... Since it seems to have helped many other people in this thread, I think I'll try it as well (once I actually get that far in LG, I turned on my game and it only had the New Game option?).

empressjenf October 19th, 2007 5:11 AM

thank you so much!! I was getting extremely frustrated - more than trying to catch mesprit on diamond - but after reading this, I caught entei in a matter of seconds!

Smarties-chan October 19th, 2007 6:26 AM

Empressjenf, please don't revive threads over a month old.

~Topic closed~


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