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This event was very underwhelming

Let me prove it by showing you the pros and cons:

Pros:
Double Candy!
A cool looking dex filler
A Machamp Waller
Literally nothing else

Cons:
Trading was not integrated in any way
People waiting for mass transfers wishes were not fulfilled
The main legendary is garbage, thanks to Shadow Sneak being worse than Psycho Boost, and getting a Latios esque moveset
The other two Pokemon introduced are nothing special
The event seems to be centering around the Research Task and the "exciting raid = more cash" instead of actual gameplay
Drifblim does not have Flying type moves, allowing people to still spam Machamp
Misdreavus, Weavile, Honchcrow, and Dusklops evolutions not introduced

Asked by SleepySnorlax5 years 5 months ago
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by FerLG 5 years 5 months ago

They are going to drag along the gen4 content for as long as they can (specially with the vast amount of legendaries in that gen). Most player are already prepared to evolve their old mons into the new gen4 so if they released it quickly people would bore and leave until gen 5 hype or CD. It's just the free to play model, releasing content (and shinies specially) with a dropper to keep people hooked every month

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Completely agree. The new quest and TMing a Mewtwo during the bugged half hour are the only things really interesting to me so far.

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I personally think this events fantastic. not every event needs to be mega-meta relevant and with the upcoming evolutuons for sneasel and murkrow (which even if they were out now wouldn't hold a candle to the dragons v giratina) allows us to stock up on tons of candy (and in the case of sneasel) the research encounters let us build up large numbers of good iv versions of them without needing to use raid passes to reliably get them

Plus theres easy rarecandy research, evolve 3 shuppet/duskull, and all the shiny possible pokemon. plus the boxes are good.

Dont disagree it was underwhelming, but it could have been a lot worse.

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The denial of double candy for transfer is a straight kick in people's ass from Niantic. They know trainers are struggling with pokemon space, they say they're "working hard on it", and they don't give the very easiest way how to relief legendary and community day overload.

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To be honest, Niantic might not have intended for people to use hundreds of storage space to hoard mons for transferring during double candy, that's something the community came up with by themselves. What's missing is them acknowledging this whole situation. If they don't want people to do this, not saying anything and then not giving the expected 2x transfer bonus during Halloween is indeed a kick in the nuts. They could have written another developer's insights article about it and stated that they will not do 2x transfer candy anymore.

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I count the research as a plus. Giving us a week to do something most people do in 2-3 days without going too far out of the way play wise. I think they should have more special research.

The only reason people spam machamp is because they spam blissey.

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by Bbear 5 years 5 months ago

Giratina as the raid boss is very underwhelming on the backdrop of the Mewtwo raid. Movesets are crappy too.

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Piece of shit sloppily made event. Your post is nothing short of the consensus. I felt like dying just by trying to play under this event.

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The special research is a nice addition.

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Don't you remember that we had an "evolution event" in August? We could evolve Weavile and company back then, couldn't we?

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by hnedka 5 years 5 months ago

I agree with most of the points, but there 2 other things I like:
- We can get Sneasel from the "Catch 5 Houndour or Poochyena" quest. This quest is common and relatively easily doable. This is probably the first time we can get Sneasel from quests and it has an evolution that might be useful.
- 1 Rare candy from a relatively common "Evolve 3 Shuppet od Duskull" quest.

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