My main point in all of this was that Nebby knows who you are and that is why he shouldn't be fought like every other cover legendary. Since the beginning it's always been that you have to fight a wild Pokemon to weaken it and capture it, but sometimes if you bond with a wild Pokemon it might just join you without having to fight; it'll just jump inside a Pokeball and become your partner. I'm referencing the anime in this instance so it's obviously not a part of the game, but you get the idea. Nebby does want to fight you and all that, but I was saying that I don't understand why it didn't just join you seeing as you've already bonded and he liked you. Not sure why this turned into an argument.
So you would fight it, then it would get in a ball immediately after you defeat it is what you are saying? Fine, that makes sense. It's not really going to bother me that much though to be honest.
I'm not really sure how you level your party, but it only took me about three battles for the first evolution and about five for the final along with a Rare Candy or two. I'm not sure how fighting a legendary compares to simple levelling but it's obvious fighting a legendary is more work. Low catch rate means you could spend hours fighting and chucking balls even at 1 HP and asleep. Not to mention how an Ultra Ball nearly captures the first time then doesn't even shake once the other times. Plus you have to spend all kinds of money for potions and balls just for the fight meaning if you don't have money you have to go earn some. When I hatched my other two starters it literally took me five minutes to level them to their final evo.
I traded my Cosmog to a different game, gave it the Lucky Egg, gave it max affection in Pok?mon Refresh, and had it in the lead of my party before switching it out for a Pok?mon that can actually faint the level 50 Pok?mon in Poni Gauntlet. It still took nearly an hour to max its level from 5 to 53. You can use Rare Candies of course, but you are very limited in how many you receive in the game and some people opt not to use them for their own reasons. Unless you had the Cosmog in your party beforehand, it wouldn't take three battles to raise its level. Quit exaggerating. Also, if it was "so quick" leveling it up then why did you even bother using the Rare Candies to begin with?
It really isn't more work than leveling. A Zekrom at 1HP that is Asleep has a 18% chance of being captured in a Dusk Ball in ORAS (where the base catch rate for Zekrom was changed from 45 to 3). That is nearly a 1 in 5 chance of catching it, you have to be the unluckiest person in the entire world if it takes you hours to catch it under those conditions. Money is pretty easy to come by, just by completing the story and fighting all the NPCs. You usually get the Amulet Coin pretty early on too, so by the time you beat the game you should have more than enough money to buy 100 Hyper Potions and 100 Dusk Balls.
Oh, so Cosmog went from a being "worse than Magikarp" to something incredible you actually have to work for? AKA what I said all along? I'm sure you'd find it eventually anyway seeing as back in the day there weren't sites to tell you where to go, you simply heard about it from your friend who also played the game. How do you think people found out about it anyway? They probably waited around unturning every stone until they found the event. Nowadays you can't so much as go online without hearing every secret about every game.
Also that last part is funny considering a second Cosmog is literally given to you without any work whatsoever. Plus events nowadays too just give you everything. I remember back in D/P/Pl you actually had to go out and catch the events.
Care to explain the bolded parts of your two posts? Since when did you decide that Cosmog was suddenly a Pok?mon that you had to work for? Well I'm glad you agree with me on that finally - and acknowledge that people had to go out of their way to search for it - because finding Cosmog is definitely not comparable to just going to any Pok?mon Center and talking to the delivery guy like you suggested before. That was sort of the whole point in that part of my post actually.
Never did I say that Cosmog was an incredible Pok?mon, or that there was no effort in finding it... what are you even going off about at this point? What I was saying was that there is no point in forcing the player to capture it because the task of finding it by itself is good enough of a task to warrant rewarding the player with Cosmog. If you got spoiled online about its location, then that is really your own fault and you have no reason to complain about "Cosmog being so easy to find" because otherwise, it isn't. You would either have to stumble upon it accidentally or just like you said, unturn every stone until you find the event.
Also, it is an undeniable fact that Cosmog by itself is worse than Magikarp. It learns no attack moves at all, not even through TM. If you ever plan on using this thing as an actual Pok?mon to fight with then consider nicknaming it "YOU WIN". It really is only there for two reasons; Dex Filler, and as an extra step to get Solgaleo or Lunala. Being forced to catch it in a Pok?Ball is just not necessary as the method of finding it and leveling it is a good enough way of getting an actual legendary in my opinion.
whoever's giving out the perfect garbage dittos can suck it!
