I don ' t think Legendaries will be available to everyone . I think Ditto is because he isn ' t a legendary . The reasoning behind the delay in the release I imagine is because they were still working out or developing the mechanic for him to hide among other Pokemon etc . I ' m fairly sure Legendaries will be at events in big cities am surprised we haven ' t had any of these events yet . I think they ' re potentially holding off on them until they put a trading system in the game , but that ' s utter speculation . It ' d be pretty cool though if they brought back evolution trades as a sidenote . I think the game will become less and less for casuals as time goes on the remaining playerbase after the initial hype gradually dies down will become more and more ' hardcore '