Raikou

Description
Raikou is a yellow tiger-like creature with black stripes that resemble lightning bolts and a white under-side. Raikou has a skinny, light-blue tail with a star-shaped formation at the end. Raikou appears to have a grayish-purple cape that is supposedly made of thunderclouds. Most of Raikou's face is white with a light-blue "X" on its face and a gray crest on its forehead. Raikou has red eyes and long fangs in its upper jaws that make its appearance similar to the sabre-tooth tiger.

Raikou is the Electric legendary beast of the beast trio as well as Entei (Fire) and Suicune (Water). It was one of the weekly codes for v.3.3. However the dogs were then deleted from everybody's profiles in the next release. The only way to get Raikou again at that time, was to win Sam's contest, to be of the first 10 to complete Vermillion Gym and send him proof of the win.

Sam later launched a poll to see if the users of PTD wanted the 3 Legendary Beasts to be put officially and permanently into the game. Sam did so, but they are even rarer than Shiny Pokemon. Later Sam removed the legendary dogs from the wild entirely, but put them back along with Shinies. He also added that they would never be Shiny until the game got a sequel. However, as the game became finalized, the legendary dogs were removed from the wild (v0.8) and all legendary dogs will be changed into their shiny forms.

Location

 * Vermillion Gym: Background Character, uncatchable, Cutscene
 * Diglett's Cave: Cutscene

Shiny

 * Pokemon Adoption: 20 SnD Coins (Legendary Shiny and Non-Shiny Pokemon)
 * All regular Raikou were converted to their shiny forms in v1.0.

Shadow

 * Game Corner (Random Non-evolved Shadow Pokemon): 300,000 coins

Trivia

 * Raikou was available, along with Entei and Suicune, in the v3.3 as a Mystery Gift.
 * Along with Entei, Suicune, and Victini, Raikou was not availible in Generation I, but is in the trade system.
 * Along with Entei and Suicune, Raikou was available in the any level with wild pokemon for capture, but they were removed in the Version 0.8 update.
 * The regular Suicune, Raikou, and Entei have now been changed to shiny, and the only way to get the regular versions are to buy them (at a lower price of 10 SnD coins) at the Pokemon adoption.