This August the 7 day field research breakthrough bonus encounter gives Raikou. Which excites me a lot because that means September or October we'll get Entei as a bonus reward!! I only just started playing a bit again when Entei raids were almost over. I joined 2 Entei raids but couldn't catch it.
With my first Raikou from the field research quests I was able to make this beautiful screenshot where it looks like Raikou is sleepin while floating in the air. Now I kinda want to see a Raikou balloon like this!
In reality it simply jumped and apparently closes its eyes for a bit while jumping. It made for a beautiful pose though!
Later on I checked its IVs with a calculator and it turns out to be a 96% Raikou! With max attack even. Since I didn't get one above 90% from the 6 that I caught from raids in the past I will consider powering this one up. I'll wait until the last Raikou from boxes this month though. As there is always a chance to get a better one. But a 96% is definitely good, so if this is my best from the boxes I'll definitely power it up!
Here is a list of my current Raikou sorted by most recently caught. So the one from field research is first, followed by the 6 I caught from raids.
The last one in the list was my first ever Raikou and I didn't catch it myself. I already did 5 Raikou raids without being able to catch a single one. So a friend, Katy, offered me to try and catch it for me at the end as she had caught most of her own Raikou and already some for others at different raids. With the 6th raid I then gave my phone to her after the raid and she managed to catch it with the first ball she threw! So I decided to name it after her. The other 5 from raids I all managed to catch myself afterwards.
Which of the three legendary dogs are you looking forward to the most?
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