Q&A for How to Capture the Legendary Dogs in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen

Yes, you can this method. It's called soft resetting and is perfect for catching those legendaries.

You have to encounter them once to save their location on the National Pokedex.

Just try to beat the elite 4. If you do it, the names of the creators will appear on screen. Simply wait until the credits are done. When the game restarts, chose your active file to load, and Professor Oak will come to you and ask if you want to do another quest for him. Choose to accept the journey, and you and your rival obtain the upgrade for the pokedex, the National Dex.

No; the game goes by which starter you began the game with, so having acquired more through trading or cheating will not make the other Legendary Dogs appear.

Yes. You also must have owned 60 kinds of Pokemon because then Prof. Oak will give you a national Pokedex, and Raikou is located at the national Pokedex.

As long as you have the National Pokedex and have beaten the Elite 4, you can catch the dog. You don't have to have the Unknowns, you just need 60 Pokemon.

Yes, but you have to go to Vermilion City and down to the port where the SS Anne was and choose which of the three islands to go to. Another cool thing you can do is go up to the top of, I think 2 island and, depending on which starter you chose, it will teach it a very powerful move.

Make sure your starter is around level 60 and try to get all the others above 40. Try to catch the legendary birds and bring lots of max potions and max revives.

It depends which one you picked at the start. If you cheat the starters in after you choose a starter, it will be the one you picked from Oak.

The place they go is completely randomized so they can end up in the same place twice, but they are no likelier to be there than anywhere else. I'd recommend sticking with the same location and just going in. If (s)he's not where you're at, try again.

Maybe, if you get lucky.

Yes, but they have a fixed position. You will find Zapdos in Powerplant, Moltres in Mt. Ember, Articuno in Icefall Cave, Ho Oh and Lugia in Navel Rock, and Deoxyz in Birth Island. Mewtwo is a long process, you have to hand ruby and sapphire to Celio to find in Cerulean Cave.

Have Pokemon only up to/at lv 50 and use max repel. Keep koing on routes (like on vermillion and route 1) until you find Suicine.

No, once a legendary is dead, it's dead. Try saving beforehand every time you fight a legendary. Then, if you do kill it, just turn the game off and reload it.

No. Each account is only allowed one legendary dog. In order to get more dogs, try creating more accounts and then trading them to your original account.

No. To be able to encounter Suicune or Raikou in your game, you need to have chosen Charmander or Squirtle as a starter, respectively. It is possible to trade one of them into your game from someone else who has chosen a different starter from yours.

Check the Pokedex to see if it's on your route, and then save the game if it is. The game doesn't need to be saved immediately before the battle - you can't predict precisely when that's going to happen - just save it before you go looking for the dog.

Try restarting the game.

No.

No. If you KO a legendary. they are gone.

It is an attached upgrade to the regular Pokedex. You need to beat the elite 4, then go into your Pokedex; the upgrade should be automatic.

Anywhere. All the legendary dogs pop up in random locations, so there is no specific place they appear.

Yes, Fly will affect the dog's position.

It doesn't matter where it is, only the fact that you chose it will decide the "legendary dog Pokemon" you encounter. Even if you'd release your starter, you can still encounter one.

The place they go is completely randomized so they can end up in the same place twice, but they are no likelier to be there than anywhere else. I'd recommend sticking with the same location and just going in. If it's not where you are, try again.

The place they go is completely randomized, so they can end up in the same place twice, but are no likelier to be there than anywhere else. I'd recommend sticking with the same location and just going in.

No. It is not possible because different Pokemon games cannot be linked to each other.

If you saved the game after you knocked the Pokémon out, then no. But if you didn't save the game after the battle, then restart your device and it will go back to where you started before the battle.

Once you beat the Elite Four and the Champion for the first time and catch 60 different species of Pokémon, one Legendary Dog (depending on your starter pokemon - Raikou shows up if you picked Squirtle, Entei shows up if you picked Bulbasaur, and Suicune shows up if you picked Charmander) will become a potential wild encounter. The route/area that the Legendary Dog shows up in is randomized, however, every time you change areas (enter a building, a cave, a new route, etc.).

If the first Pokémon in your party is level 78 and you intend on using max repels to find Raikou/Entei/Suicune, then you will not encounter them. However, if you mean your actual starter Pokémon (Squirtle/Bulbasaur/Charmander) being over level 78, then you should have a Pokémon under level 50 as the first in your team lineup when you use max repels to find your respective Legendary Dog. You can still have your over-level 78 starter in your party, just not first in line.