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Ballpark timeline for Gen 4 rollout?

Anybody have guesses on when more of Gen 4 will be rolled out/how many waves they'll do to get the majority of non-legendaries in the wild? I didn't really pay attention to the Gen 2 and 3 rollout, so I'm not sure what to expect. Not expecting specific dates or anything, but are we talking weeks, a month, months...

Asked by MasterMaverikk5 years 6 months ago
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My guess is another wave the week of Halloween. Then another the week of US Thanksgiving. Then another the week of New Year.

I just came up with that in the time it took to type it. It's an utter shot in the dark.

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by hkn 5 years 6 months ago

For Gen 2, we first got the babies around Christmas 2016 and the full release in February 2017. The Gen 3 ghosts debuted for Halloween 2017, with the rest released in waves: 8 December 2017, 21 December 2017, 23 January 2018 and 9 February 2018 (dates obtained from GamePress guides database).

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Gen 2 was a full non-legendary rollout bar Smeargle and Delibird, so 93ish at once, and then several of Gen 3 have yet to come out (such as Shedinja and Kecleon), so each wave averaged /about/ 25 mon out of 135 in all of Gen 3. We just got 26 all told, so I would expect 2 more waves of equal size, plus legendaries and a few held back for mechanical reasons.

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It's insane to me that it's reasonable for us to expect a few held back for mechanical reasons. I'd get if they held back stuff for financial reasons (create hype for the release of something that's a bit more special), but inability to code or to decide how to code a gimmick in a game that's this simple? Ridiculous show of incompetence.

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