Early Buyers of Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire Remakes to Get Incredibly Rare Pokemon + New Mega evolutions!

With the release of the latest trailer for the upcoming Pokemon titles, Pokemon Omega Rube and Alpha Sapphire, a few bits of information have been revealed. One piece of info revealed was already announced by Japanese magazine Corocoro, which is the inclusion of even more Mega Evolutions. Salamance, Altaria, and Lopunny are added to the ever-growing list of Pokemon set to receive Mega Evolution forms.  Their Mega Evolutions can be viewed in the trailer below.

 

In addition, early buyers will be able to download an incredibly rare Pokemon via Mystery Gift. This rare Pokemon is a Shiny Beldum, holding the Mega Evolution stone needed to make it’s final evolution, Metagross, Mega Evolve. To put a few numbers on how rare this Pokemon is, a Pokemon generally has an approximate 1/8192 chance of being a Shiny. In Generation VI, which the remakes belong to, the chances have increased to a “mere” 1/4096, though it’s not currently known if the remakes of the Generation III games will follow the current odds or the odds the original Generation III games had. Beldum also has a wild catch rate of 3 (not including variables) making it as difficult to catch as a majority of Legendary Pokemon in the games, if not more difficult than some Legendary Pokemon. Beldum was also  unobtainable in Pokemon X and Y, requiring the player to either breed their Metang/Metacross, or transfer a Beldum from a previous Pokemon game via Pokemon Bank. Needless to say, this is a legitimately rare Pokemon to obtain, and a highly-sought after Shiny for players.

It is worth noting that this Beldum is not a pre-order exclusive. Nor is it exclusive to players who purchase their Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire games at a certain retailers. Anybody who buys a copy of Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire will be able to download the Shiny Beldum until the event ends. The event does not have a set-in-stone end date as of writing.