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 put officially and permanently put 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.

Location

 * Daily Gift
 * Pokemon Adoption: 20 SnD Coins (Legendary Shiny and Non-Shiny Pokemon)
 * Vermillion Gym: Background Character, uncatchable, Cutscene
 * Diglett's Cave: Cutscene

Shiny

 * Sam has stated that Shiny Raikou will not be in the game until there is a sequel.

Shadow

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

Trivia

 * Raikou is not usable in the Vermillion Gym level.
 * Raikou was available, along with Entei and Suicune, in the v3.3 as a Mystery Gift and can now be caught at a very low chance, or else obtained through the daily code.
 * Along with Entei, Suicune, and Victini, Raikou was not availible in Generation I, but is in the trade system.