#this isn't to trash BW love those games but holy hell

[dragontamer05]

When it comes to mechanics and bullshit ways of obtaining pokemon I don't think I've ever seen Zorua/Zoroark come up.

Outside of having a friend that could breed you one the only in game way to get it was;

Have HG/SS and in it have obtained an Event Celebi - From what I can find the Celebi has to be one transferred from a Gen IV game so the later obtainable one in XY from pokemon bank in 2013-14 would not work to activate it.

Oh but guess what the only way to get an 'fateful encounter' / event Celebi in HG/SS is only the specific Ageto Celebi, a Japan only Celebi distributed for the Gen 3 games.

So not only do you need two different gen games, but a specific in person event only legendary that's essentially region locked all to trigger an in game event to acquire this Pokemon, but you go do all that work for a Pokemon that's not even considered to be a Mythical.

Like honestly it wouldn't be so bad if like Zorua itself was actually obtainable as like a rare encounter in a specific location with the special encounter/ in game event one maybe having like a special move or hidden ability (maybe even shiny idk) making it still special and unique compared to a randomly encountered one but also still allowing the average player to you know be able to use this Pokemon.

What arguably makes it worse is they pulled the same thing not just once but twice in the same game. This time with its evolution- Zoroark. And look I'm aware obviously to an extent this was clearly done in away to promote the movie and I also I can only assume as away to get people to use/try out the transfer feature between games but that doesn't make it any less dumb imo.

To get Zoroark you must transfer in one of the Shiny event Legendary Beasts that were distributed either via in store at a Gamestop -that as far as I can find was a USA only distribution, or a later via Wifi distribution that also looks like it was USA only. (There was also a in life distribution in Japan for the movie as well as looks like Oceania areas had a Wifi)

Then you transfer that bad boy from you gen IV game into BW thus allowing you to activate the event and acquire yourself a Zoroark.

And look I have nothing against distribution events or having like in game things being put behind something like that it's a cool idea and hardly nothing new for them to do something in promotion/celebration of a new movie however the sheer fact they did this for a non legendary/mythical pokemon and not even offering some alternate way to obtain it via a regular play through feels like kind of a bad design.

Which hey guess what that also means, it means that the vast majority of people would never be able to 100% the Unova pokedex- not even national just the plain regular REGIONAL dex could not be completed because they decided to lock one of the Pokemon by a near impossible wall. And the Pokemon company/game freak has always done things that have walled off your average player from obtaining certain Pokemon.

Thankfully come BW2 they did offer an in game way of acquiring one through N's Zoroark.

#say what you will about the games now but at least one can reasonablly complete their dex #am I partly salty because like so many of these events couldn't / didn't even reach canada or actually finding a wifi access point that #could function on the ds was near impossible #this isn't to trash BW love those games but holy hell #the absolute disappointment it was to find out that those pokemon were 100% in accessible and couldn't get one #that sucked hard