Gen 3 Raikou and Entei Can Be Lost Permanently To This Glitch 

Some kid in 2004 probably sat there for weeks wondering why he can't see Entei anymore

You can thank Crystal for removing Roar from Suicune's level-up movelist.

rip to all the kids in the past who wondered why they couldnt catch their entei raikou anymore.

Roar in a roaming Pokémon is already evil on it's own.

not to mention that 4 of their IVs are 0 due to another bug ... they really dropped the ball with these beasts

Imagine roaring so hard that you delete yourself from existence.

This glitch was so notorious, I believe it's even mentioned in one of the official guides for FRLG, which was a blessing for young child me.

I remember being a kid back in 2006/2007 and hearing the high pitched battle encounter theme only to see a Suicune come across the screen, completely unaware it could happen. I was puzzled and scared as soon as I heard it. There was just no way I would have known. These kind of things will never ever be repeated, and will always be in my mind, tinged with an aura of mystery and nostalgia.

This happened to me as a 12yo and my therapist still hears about it to this very day.

Soundproof ability helps too

Back in pokemon gold/silver/crystal seeing these in the wild was like seeing a real life meteorite

This happened to me in Leafgreen with Raikou. I learned later on about the roar glitch and I was so annoyed that Raikou was gone forever. Luckily I have Colosseum now so I can just trade them over after beating the game.

Fortunately, you can just Masterball Raikou, and laugh at Entei as it tries to convince you that you want it

To this day I remember the exact moment I first saw Raikou in my FireRed file. Sitting in my parents’ bedroom next to my mom while she was watching TV, I was surfing to the Power Plant when I randomly heard the legendary encounter music and my heart stopped…

This plus the roaming pokemon iv glitch might make these the most broken encounters in pokemon

And that why you get a master ball. But its funny how hoarders never had this problem since we try to keep everything and on that random encounter you know masterball is a must.

In 2008 Pokemon Fire Red became available as a rom on the computer, and let me tell you I no longer had issues finding and catching those darn dogs.

On the topic of roaming legendaries I will say it was heart breaking when i was playing Diamond(the original one not the remake) and I got through the game to the point I could catch the lake trio and Uxie and Azelf were easy because they were just at their lake, but Mesprit was a roaming legendary once you went to it’s cave. So I finally tracked it down and used my master ball to catch it(I caught Dialga turn one in a premier ball, so I still had it!), only to basically immediately find and trigger Cresselia which also was a roaming legend…

And even then, their IVs are set so poorly that they're not even worth using. Same as the Lati that roams in RSE.

I’m just glad this kind of thing doesn’t happen in OR/AS thanks to the dogs coming from a portal and never fleeing, as well as not having roar in their wild encounters. Definitely made shiny hunting Suicune with the intent of catching it in a luxury ball that little bit less stressful.

I was in 7th grade when FRLG dropped and was completely oblivious to the beasts being in the game. Raikou out of nowhere, and I panicked and used the master ball because I was so excited. I also had one of the other games so I ended up doing the three playthroughs when I confirmed with my friends who had a different starter that it happened to them too. I'd save when I cornered them in a route and just soft reset until I caught them. Thank goodness I never encountered that glitch. I could never do three playthroughs of any pokemon game back to back again these days, but back then I didn't have many other games and I hadn't completed the national dex either. Gen 4 after this in high school was a trip lol

And this right here is a big reason why Pokemon Colosseum is a Godsend for completing the Gen 3 Pokedex. Not only do you not have to bother with the roaming Legendary aspect (and losing Riakou and Entei to Roar), but you can (if you so choose) also take the time to get ones with good IVs and Natures. I spent a long time getting a pretty good Suicune and Raikou in my last Colosseum run, and they are amazing in the Battle Frontier in Emerald and in the battles of Colosseum's Battle Mode.

This is why I always use the Master Ball straight away. I'm not stressing myself catching the roaming pokemon

Note: Don't trade for a starter pokemon in Firered/leafgreen that has the same type as your original starter (i.e trading for a charmander line and your starter is charmander) because the roaming legendary thats SE to that received starter will NEVER appear in that particular savefile.

If I recall correctly, this can also occur if you willingly flee from them. I remember encountering Entei years ago by complete coincidence, but I didn't have the neccessary means to capture it. After simply running from it, the Pokedex refused to give its location anymore... (I think I simply reloaded my game to my last save)

In the original Jen cartridge game I caught the three of them, by tracking them with the map and use Pidgeot to fly

The thumbnail for this made me do a double take because I thought Charmander was wearing a sunhat. Turns out it was just the positioning of the Bug Catcher underneath the picture. 🤣

I remember catching Raikou with a pokeball without realizing how rare it was. My older brothers only allowed me to play after they had ended the games, so I thought most things were already done and dusted. So I was chilling near Mt Moon, when I encountered Raikou in the grass. I thought it was weird, since there was a big cat whereas normally I could find only clefairy, pidgey and such, but it never crossed my mind that it was a once of a kind encounter. Gladly, my favorite Pokémon was a Crobat that had evolved out of spite (I still remember where all of those things happened, despite being almost twenty years ago) with the move that prevents the other Pokémon from fleeing. I don't know if I actually used it (and I'm not sure it works against roar, I guess it doesn't), but I somehow avoided Roar and caught it with a normal pokeball. I never realized how luck I was, and how I could have ended up locking the savefile out of a legendary. Never quite used it because I thought it was weaker than the rest of my lvl80ish team

I just got leaf green and this video pops up on my YT shorts 😭 Well good to know

My question is how did something that simple and yet so detrimental get through playtesting Did all the testers just have suicune saves or did entei and raikou just never click roar

If you pause the video at 16 seconds, charmander has a hat 🙌

When I had Silver back in the day, I only encountered Entei one time. After looking around some, I figured they were one-off Pokemon and you had to catch them immediately and they would never come back. This is literally the first I'm hearing that they could be encountered again

Now *this* is the only time you should use your Master Ball

Fun fact, getting one member of a legendary trio per savefile depending on which starter you chose is not unique to the legendary beasts in FRLG. In XY you can catch one of the legendary birds per savefile, with chespin getting you Articuno, fennekin getting you Zapdos, and froakie getting you Moltres

Don't forget the fact that due to how roaming legendaries were generated in Ruby, Sapphire, and FRLG, even if you do catch them they have next to no good IVs, with only one stat IV generating normally and the rest just default at 0.

10 year old me playing gold edition on my gameboy color and just killing the entei because i had no idea it was a legendary

i remember first seeing the legendary beast as a kid by accident and it scared tf out of me

"have always been historically infamous" is one of the sentences of all time for sure

If I recall correctly the Roar thing isn't a glitch, Roar and Whirlwind count as running from the battle and running from a roaming mon removes the encounter.

I just love how the order of how much I like them are perfectly linked with Bulbasaur and Entei being my favourite and Squirtle and Raikou my least

I remember when i was a kid, casually meetint Entei on tall grass and telling my brother 'yo wtf look at that'

Man to go back to my sp days. I feel old as shit when kids might not even recognize the pre ds device.

I thought I was so clever using mean look on Raikou, and then could only wonder why he never showed up again.

Its funny when you put them asleep and they still somehow find a way to runaway 😂

No one would believe me, but I actually encountered suicune first time in fireRed while surfing down pallet town to cinnabar

I spent WEEKS trying to catch that bastard of an Entei, constantly having to reload every time he would roar me away, because I was savvy and would notice he was gone from the Pokedex

Suction Cups, Soundproof and a mon with Imprison and Roar in its moveset would also work.

When we ever get time machines, I’m going back in time to show kid self this video so we can become the very best that no one ever was

Another banger video bro 🔥

Good to know having Charizard as a favorite Pokemon and Suicune as my favorite dog trio has benefits lol

I remember just randomly walking through grass as a kid and Entei just shows up lmao

I'll never forget when my brother was playing leaf gree just walking through a random patch of grass and found one of them, we were shocked, didn't even know they were in the game

That's what masterballs are for.

Most frustrating: Mesprit in ppl: hold me beer

Joke's on them, I always had to catch Suicune.

I raise your roar with accidentally poisoning Entei and watching helplessly as its blip disappears from the map 🙃

That’s so crazy. I had no idea about this bug back then. Pretty sure I just used a master ball on mine.

Haunter skill = mean look+hypnosis+dream eater very effective against suicune,entei and raikou

Oooooh that explains why I never saw them again. I thought I lost a chance but I remember I had Colosseum so I wasn’t so worried 😅

I guess the dog was truly afraid of it’s bark.

My brother ended a friendship over this glitch. When I was a kid at a Christmas party my brother let me play his copy of leafgreen on his GBA, I ran into entei and immediatly ran through the house looking for my brother. I never found my brother but instead found his friend who insisted he could handle entei in my brothers stead. Later that night, I came to find that entei isn't appearing in his game anymore and I told my brother about his friend and at that moment my brother thought his friend killed entei and saved the game. not to sound dramatic, but there relationship wasnt the same.

This is what you use your masterball for

I didn’t even know they were in the game till I randomly came across a suicune

So that bastard prof.Oak's been mocking us all along by giving the pokedex😅

Me: Uses Heavy Ball on first turn Entei & Raikou: “Can’t argue with that”

I encountered Raikou when I was a kid while playing crystal and was able to catch it and it just carried me throughout my playthrough

*Uses taunt on Entei. *Proceeds to throw a masterball.

Nintendo: but how are you gonna sell ALL your pokemon editions when they are virtually the same? 😂 Gamefreak: hold my beer 🍺✋😏...

Oh that's why.... After all these years...

*I sped run my Leafgreen game 3 times to get all 3 beasts during early 2020 covid. I adore my trash IV trio, I used them in the Emerald battle frontier for fun*

Nah, nah, man got gasly at the tower, trained it, man, and did not delete meanlook.

When I was a kid I didn’t even know that these guys existed as I picked up a copy of fire red out of impulse. I was super spooked as a kid and hearing that pitched up tune as well as seeing Raikou i believe just creeped me out and then he roared me away as if he knew I wasn’t supposed to see him, I never knew until recently that I actually never had the chance to see him again though.

Holy crap. Yall had it rough

Roar u heard him... But that master ball at the end.

My life's savings for a monster with Soundproof and Mean Look.

I never experienced this issue because I couldn’t get into the dotted hole until 2018, when I replayed the game and realized it was Braille.

I remember I caught my first suicune at the sea near fuchsia city ( I forgot the name of the city) where koga was the gym leader.... I was so happy that I found it and caught it ...

In FireRed I used To Get a Haunter and Have it Learn Mean Look. I still remember catching Rikou when I was 12 🙂 Good Old Days

Wow, me and all my friends just assumed that was how it was meant to be lol We either saved the masterball for it or save when arriving to the route where it is and just try to catch it firsr turn 😂

And to complete the pokedex is the whole another story

Cool that the roaming beasts are set to he super effective against specifically the starter you choose

I remember playing Pokémon as a kid and when I would be waking around randomly one of these Pokémon would always appear not on the daily but it would appear a lot. And I would be so excited but for some reason I was never able to catch it.

The paradox Raikou and Suicune are an affront to god...... Ho-Oh specifically

Imagine figuring this out back in the day

I managed to catch entei once in my leaf green. What really blew me away was that I had no odea it was even in the game, and i found it while surfing

this gave the nostalgia when I used to save my game and tried to catch then with 1 ultra ball for God knows how many times....

Raikou is my favorite legendary, he and Entei are truly the ones to save the master ball for.

You’ll either have to walk around with the Pokémon with taunt as your first Pokémon or if not when u switch it hits you either the roar lol

The one time I’ll ever use a master ball in game lol

So that's why Entei disappeared in my one game as a kid...

When I first encountered Raikou in silver I thought it was a skinny cow🤣🤣 what a time to be alive. I was like 11yrs old

Makes sense why I couldn’t find entei throughout my play through

My shadow tag wobuffet was a punching bag for like half an hour before I managed to catch suicune

Entei the Lion, Suicune the Panther & Raiku the Tiger. Boy these legendary dogs are so neat 😅

That’s why you gotta save them masterballs, I remember I restarted my game when my cousin told me I fumbled raikou

Roar would make them disappear forever? What a shameful bug. I remember in Silver that they roared and instantly appeared in the Pokedex somewhere else

Entei was my first dog. So he will always be my favorite

Charmander in the thumbnail: 🤠

Still remember quick saving right before heading yo catch suicune and Rage-switch-off the gameboy every failed attempt and switching party members every time.

Ah pokemon and glitches go hand in hand