Catch Mastery: Archen

Archen is the spotlight in its very own Catch Mastery event! While the featured Pokemon hold little meta relevance, there is an XP boost and shiny boost to take advantage of during this event.
Catch Mastery
Start | End |
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Sunday March 16, at 10:00 am | Sunday March 16, at 8:00 pm |
Event Bonuses
- Increased chance of encountering Shiny Omanyte, Shiny Kabuto, and Shiny Archen.
- 2× XP for successfully catching Pokémon with Nice Throws or better.
- 2× XP for successfully catching Pokémon with Curveball Throws.
Event Features
- Timed Research focused on catching Rock-type Pokémon will be available throughout the event!
- Complete 10 sets of research tasks to encounter 40 Archen in total!
- Archen will be available to encounter when you complete Field Research tasks.
Featured Pokemon
Wild Encounters
Both Pokemon have boosted shiny odds during the event hours.
Field Research Task Encounters
CP Range |
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741 - 789 |
Meta Relevance
With a similar Attack stat as Rampardos, you'd expect Archeops to be fantastic, right? Unfortunatly, no. It's only held back by a lackluster movepool, where it's either missing a Flying type charged attack, or a Rock type fast attack to excell at either type respectively. While it's not relevant yet, it's one move away from being a top Rock or Flying type attacker.
Archeops has been a long running joke behind the scenes at GamePress, being a personal favourite theory craft of mine. This has to be a sign Fly is coming soon, right?