Breaking the usual trend of releasing new legendary Pokémon through Raids or Research Breakthrough tasks, Pokémon GO has now added three new legendary monsters which can all be found in the wild.
If your 'Who's That Pokémon?'-style silhouette guessing skills need a little bit of work, the Pokémon teased in the image are Uxie, Mesprit, and Azelf, the three lake guardian Pokémon first introduced in Pokémon Diamond & Pearl.
If you're lucky, you'll bump into one of these three legendary critters on your travels, without the need to take part in any special events. As Serebii reports, however, the encounters appear to be pretty rare and each one seems to be tied to a particular region. Azelf is reportedly only spawning across the Americas, Mesprit is popping up in Europe, and Uxie has only been found in Japan. Serebii also notes that the three Pokémon seem to spawn near bodies of water, which would make sense given the lore surrounding them.
Are you still on a quest to catch 'em all in Pokémon GO? Think you'll bump into your region's legendary? As ever, let us know down below.
[source twitter.com, via serebii.net]
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I don't live near a lake sadly
The closest thing to a lake near me, is the sea.
Maybe Azelf won’t notice the lake is a bit too big to be a lake.
Oh great, I just moved to a lake and now I gotta deal with this! Luckily it seems like the craze is over and it's just the fans that are obsessed with it.
That's cool. With the change tomorrow of the breakthrough pay out of legendary Pokemon (Ho-Oh, Lugia, Latios and Latias) and this makes for a nice chance to the fill up some wholes in my pokedex without a raid and hope I catch it. Plus Groudon this weekend.
All legendaries should be like this. Do away with the rubbish raid system. Then everyone gets the same, albeit very rare, opportunity to get everything.
@olrodlegacy The raid system is actually what got me playing the game to this day. It was a bit of a social challenge for me to break the ice and find a local raid group, but the regular players now feel like friends and it's an experience I wouldn't have had without the raid system forcing me to.
Anyway, having some legendaries as rare spawns is ofcourse a welcome addition. It'll give those exciting moments of someone reporting a sighting and the next 30 minutes players will leave their work and run to said watery location.
@olrodlegacy I like having the big ones like Dialga, Groudon, Giratina, etc in raids, but I do think it's about time for the smaller "trio" legendaries to be out in the wild rather than locked to research breakthroughs.
Coolio. I live near Lake Biwa, so I should have a chance.
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