Why is a garbage pokemon like altaria requiring 400 candies?
Gyarados understand. Wailord Understand. Altaria 400 candies? I hope this is a joke. Still wonder why nobody treats pokemon go seriously? This is one of them.
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Wailord's size really doesn't justify the 400 candy. If it did, Steelix would cost more than 50 candy. For gyarados it made sense because it's both a powerful pokemon, and in the actual games (without using an exp share) it took so much extra effort to level up a magikarp (since it learns almost no damaging attacks). Both Wailmer and Swablu, while not outstanding, learn plenty of damaging attacks that allow you to level them up.
The reason Wailmer and Swablu cost 400 is because Niantic saw how many people liked doing Magikarp raids and figured they could get more people to get more raid passes if they had more high candy cost T1 bosses, which is also why Swablu is one of the new shinies.
Well, they all have shinies in the original games. Plus its shiny looks pretty good, a golden goose vibe to it. Would be nice though if about 80% of the mons weren't seen as useless for battle in GO. In the originals a lot of them were saved by their abilities, movesets, stats, and turn based stuff.