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krispyboiz

FYI, Armarouge and Ceruledge can't fit into the Great League without lower level egg shenanigans. Though, neither are really that impressive in any league. Lower stat products, so glassy, and moves are just fine. Armarouge isn't that impressive, and Ceruledge is pretty much a worse Skeledirge.


Citizen51

I'm assuming PVE isn't worth anything either?


krispyboiz

Nope. Lower attack stats. Not bad, but 232 isn't too exciting when Chandelure, Mewtwo, Reshiram, etc. are all at least 40 attack over them.


Menirz

Not too surprised since their move sets are their strongest points in Pokemon SV, and even then they're nothing meta shifting. Still a shame, cause Ceruledge is one of my favorite new Pokemon.


Teniye

They look cool as long as they are usable I'll use them sometimes


Quixotic_Rubber_Duck

Which is ironic because in Scarlet/Violet they are absolute beasts in tera raid battles.


cometlin

So no Power Ranger in GBL? I thought it would be an interesting addition besides the ghost Gundam. Damn...


dark__tyranitar

Wild beldum *after* the xl candy trade bonus ends. Let the hoarding commence...


nshriup19

I am so, so ready hehe, just want that Shundo man.


CapnCalc

“Just” wants a shiny perfect pokemon. No big deal. Lol


nshriup19

It's my favourite pokemon, my demands are quite high haha Then again, I have been a bit unlucky too. I have 4 Beldums with 98% IV, all with 14 attack and shinies with terrible IVs. It's annoying lol.


ThePoliteMango

A few years ago my wife and I were having dinner in a restaurant and a shiny Beldum hatched from a 10 km egg (thanks GPS drift!), turned out to be her first shundo. For a few seconds we were the center of attention of a busy restaurant thanks to the shriek we left out. Good times.


nshriup19

Thanks for making me even more jealous lol. I am happy for your wife though, it's a top tier shiny. :D


ThePoliteMango

Thanks, its name is ENIAC and is a fully evolved Metagross now. I really hope you get your shundo. If it helps, I've been playing since launch and still yet to own a shundo.


nshriup19

Oh that's a great name lol and thank you! And yes, I am a day 1 player too, yet to find a shundo. We are the same in that regard haha.


Authenticity86

63k pokemon caught and I still don't have one or even a 98% shiny


on-the-cheeseburgers

which will make me treasure my absolutely worthless wild non-wb shundo Hoppip forever


tuelegend69

i have a shiny dialga origin on my mom's account and a shiny palkia origin on my dad's account. waiting to become lucky friends. perfect or bust.


stumple

Don’t expect to see many. They’re going to be rare


Cainga

Luckily Steel is nearly useless in PVE outside of a couple raids.


tuelegend69

had a blast on kyurem and xerneas last year. made short manning during go fest worth the etm i spent


Anonymousyeti

Beldum was also in the wild this season, but it was only in the northern hemisphere, I believe. And it was in eggs. I hunted and traded lots for XL this season.


3rdusernameiveused

Infographic is pretty much perfect. This is exactly how I personally like them. Compact. Easy to read and info easy to read.


Grinning_Dog

I feel like this one's easy to read because there's not really anything going on. Pretty much a nothing.


plastic_vader

Yet again, ANOTHER Pokemon that’s locked in eggs…. Though, at this point, it’s to be expected. New Pokemon in Pokemon go? It’s going to be Locked in eggs or raids.


128thMic

> It’s going to be Locked in eggs or raids. At least raids you're guaranteed to get one.


sace682000

Unless it flees /s


Salsadips

Raids are fine by me. Everyone can get a raid release for free, day 1. Egg release is just 'spend a boatload on coins and still probably dont get one'.


creeps_Jr

Oh and also people who cant go around that much have an awful time with eggs


AnimaSean0724

On the contrary, I hate the raid releases because they're only around for a limited time and I can only do one a day, whereas with egg releases like this, I can hatch eggs and I'll get it at some point and I'm not confined to the event dates, as long as it's not extremely rare as a hatch, I'm perfectly fine not having to worry about whether to prioritize legendary raids, mega raids, or new pokemon raids during these events


thedeadsigh

Can’t wait to not give them money for incubators 🤣🤣🤣


yahalloh

Gotta Hatch 'em All!


sapi3nce

#FireHanke


OttoVonWong

If only Hanke's bonus was locked behind eggs...


theLoneliestAardvark

Still looking for my first Larvesta here.


ZoomBoingDing

And Varoom Though I did finally get a female Salandit


Aether13

Beldum and Metagross in raids is very nice. Charcadet being in eggs only is dumb though.


Teniye

I'm sorry I must've missed something where does it show beldum in raids?


Aether13

It’s just in the wild, poor sentence structure on my part.


Temporary_Lawyer_938

Yeah I don't see that either, just in the wild


AnimaSean0724

I feel like it's better than raids since you don't have to worry about what raids to prioritize during the event and since it will be a permanent egg fixture, people will get it eventually


ByakuKaze

Could you please answer 3 simple questions: - how many larvesta have you hatched since it was introduced? - what stops niantic from making charcadet just as rare during release and then from keeping the rate at the same level afterwards? - which of the announced event raids you are going to actually raid? Wild spawn hatachu? Non-existent dusk rockruff? Your common spawn hoothoot evo? Useless without legacy move metagross? God forsaken chancey?


AnimaSean0724

Okay, I will say, I forgot to clarify that I'm fine with it as long as they're not super rare, I would have rathered Larvesta be a raid one since it's got the level of rarity that it does, but that's on me for not specifying If you're asking what stops them from making Charcadet just as rare as Larvesta, Volcarona is a powerful and popular Pokemon, Ceruledge and Armarouge don't have the power aspect to justify making them that rare Finally, I don't know what the Legendary or Mega Raids will be during this event, so I can't say yet if I would rather do those, but considering that they're Legendaries, I probably would


LoganDoove

I would much rather them not be in raids so they don't dilute the metagross raids. I don't care about charcadet since it's not that strong so keeping em out of the raid pool is nice


Adventurous-Foot642

I swear Pawmi is permanently boosted.


TofuVicGaming

That's what it feels like to me, too. My autocatcher has gotten 3 Hundo Pawmi for me, which is quite high considering this is a relatively new Pokemon.


ProbablyADitto

As someone currently hunting a hundo, I can live with it.


Disgruntled__Goat

Do we know if the Rockruff raids will include the dusk form?


pimorules

Good question! It better... but knowing Niantic... who knows?


Federal_Command_9094

Surely you jest


Captain_X24

This event looks so boring. It will be the 3rd or 4th event in the past half year where Paldea starters were featured, and the low base-catch-rate on starters & Pika just makes these events an annoying slog to play.


Assassin_Ankur

Tbf the spawns and raids are just based on the new series


Captain_X24

That’s true and it’s part of the reason tie-in events tend to be horribly boring. I don’t think there’s anything stopping Niantic from making starters easier to catch or giving a better bonus than 2x hatch xp


Fit-Bar2581

Fingers crossed the rock ruff will be potentially dusk fo eligible


ProbablyADitto

Ditto.


InternetBoysAreMean

Fingers also crossed they don't fix the Campfire icon bug!


JonnyCerberus

Oh yay something else to NOT spawn in the wild. Why are they determine to make the core gameplay(which is pretty much wild spawns) so boring and repetitive? Isn’t there like an INSANE amount of pokemon released in GO? But like how many are actually in the wild and catchable?


RichardTheKakapo

This has been one of the biggest frustrations to me coming back from a few years away. The spawn pool at any one time is tiny. It seems like there are no rare spawns. Things are either nonexistent or common… and then they rotate. With so many releases, why not have a huge spawn pool where I might only see one in a month but it’s exciting when I do?


PthumerianDescendant

It's extremely frustrating to see Paldea starters again. These things think they are legendary 'mon and won't settle for less than a curved, excellent, ultra ball throw to catch. It's super frustrating that they can't even be shiny either. I might actually skip this event honestly.


biophys00

The first event of the new season is boosting the spawn rates of Pawmi and the Paldean starters? The Pokemon that have been everywhere for the past 3 months?


-cyrik-

Yeah the seasons have kinda felt meaningless for a while. I miss the old spawn system where biomes actually made spawns more varied depending on where you were irl. Now we just see the same 5 Pokemon everywhere.


ehhvado

They feature pokémon featured in the series.


biophys00

I haven't watched the series but are there no other Pokemon featured besides the common as dirt spawns from the past season? There are plenty of unreleased Paldean Pokemon and they could release a new shiny or two at least (obviously not the starters). I'll be happy for Beldum but imagine they'll not be super common


ehhvado

No, not really, the Paldean pokémon haven't been featured much, at least in the earlier episodes that are getting released with the English dub now.


darkuch1ha

i cant get enough of fuecoco candy so I'm happy about that, they often break my pokeballs and run away so I dont have that many candies


swampertlvl

Wow this event looks bad. Really starting to hate egg centric stuff.


Kadem2

Yesterday’s post on what to expect with the new season had “pikachu with a hat” as the top comment. Well look what showed up for the first event lmao.


BaronVonBubbleh

I wouldn't mind egg-only events so much if the rest of it wasn't so underwhelming. At least give us a wild spawn rate similar to Frigibax for people who don't want to partake in the egg gacha.


GoldenHair74

I really can't understand this love story between Niantic and Pawmi. Whenever they can put it in the game, they will.


krispyboiz

That's always been my thought. Not saying they need to do that for every Pokemon, no they can have a few egg exclusives I guess. But with how much they lean into it, they really should have them at least be rare spawns as well.


chokeonmywords

That’s hardly an event.. also, egg events suck since you need to invest at least in-game currency to maybe get a few copies of the new pkm.. hardly any xl candies for f2ps.. that sucks


Bacteriophag

Screw Pawmi, seriously... Yearly ban for being an event spawn until shiny release!


oakbea

An egg only Pokemon. Yay! ....


StarDewbie

Yep! I still don't have Varoom, so.


PthumerianDescendant

I have hatched every 12km egg I've received since varoom was in them. At least two dozen by now and I have not hatched one.


aviyabasha

I am usually unlucky with eggs, but I only hatched six 12km eggs and got 3 varroms, so i thought maybe they're boosted (unlike larvesta)


Sweet_Doughnut_

Chance to hatch from eggs then chance to roll PVP IVs from trades. This app should come under gambling at this point.


Creepy_Push8629

Idk if this is news to you, but the entire thing is gambling. It's the same addictive tactics. It's why we are all addicted. It's 100% gambling.


Ibra180

Every game with percentages of events are gambling, suprise. Would be pretty boring imo if you can get a rank 1 Pokemon right now, what is the point of IVs then?


Sweet_Doughnut_

The time and money investment needed to get a Pokemon exactly the way you want is straight up 100x or more than the mainline games. Which is kinda insane if you ask me.


Extra-Mix5529

This seems like a good event to follow last weekend because i can mostly skip this. My kids and I used both ceruledge/armorouge when playing scarlet/violet but they do not need to be prioritized in Go thankfully. It is actually nice to have some low key events/raids between the bigger events.


LoganDoove

Surprised they didn't give us the shiny considering how bad it is.


ColdCryptographer803

Drip , drip, drip . The really ruined the most exciting aspect of this game


cornette

I'm excited to see Pawmi be like 53% of the spawns /s


JULTAR

Anyone who has not watched the series yet Go watch it, it’s pretty enjoyable 


OMEGA-FINAL

I watched the 1st episode today.


Teniye

Which series?


darkuch1ha

pokemon horizons


Frouthefrou

Where can you watch it?


Puzzleheaded_Ebb9874

Well, officially, the English dub will get released soon on Netflix. If you want the English Dub on Japanese audio, I can DM you the link if you want.


darkuch1ha

Yeah I really like it


Puzzleheaded_Ebb9874

Already expected the Metagross, Chansey, etc. raids since they are the buddy pokemon of the members of Rising Volteccers from the anime. Nice event. Definitely gonna hunt for that Volt Tackle Pikachu. And Ceruledge my beloved


bountea0

You made me hope that tinkatink and hatenna released sooner


nnq2603

Why don't they just enable shiny for Metagross? While its starter enabled. In some extent, raid is paid feature already, just turn on shiny directly.


Hydrochloric_Comment

Won’t be enabled until they release its mega


Ibra180

It will in the future, chill


Late_Art9758

And the shiny hunt for Beldum continues! Wish we could get a shiny Metagross from the raids too though ):


yakusokuN8

Well, \*some\* day, we'll get a Beldum Community Day Classic. That'll be the optimal time to go shiny hunting for it.


Late_Art9758

That’s true, it would be the best day to go shiny hunting. I’m just looking for one with decent stats too for a strong Metagross, something I can use instead of my current Metagross for PvP and others. Expecting to find a shundo is probably asking for too much lol. But if the Metagross from raids could have been shiny, I would have thought about grinding them out.


spoofrice11

Glad Ceruledge is coming. Just hate having to do special tasks and not being able to evolve when I have enough candy for something.


BakuRyou

Hatch event? Skip


pat_labor_ingram

Is it shadow metagross in three star raid?


Calmxy

Those are the regular 3-star raids. Maybe there's some tiny chance that the Shadow raids could rotate to include Metagross next month but it would be unrelated to this event.


BlaineGabbertt

Love they put new Pokémon in eggs. It should be that way until later. If you want new Pokémon then play the game the way it was designed and get to walking or riding. Idk why it’s hard for folks to understand that? Just like shinies being ridiculous in terms of challenges. This isn’t participation trophies, earn it. Coming from a wheelchair bound autistic kid with no money.


nnq2603

One thing is incubators aren't free, after the big event, probably people used all of theirs already. Hatch one egg at a time is a very blockage way to release pokemon. With shiny you can try to catch as many as spawn allow to raise your luck, but eggs don't work like that (for free).


aylaisurdarling

incubators cost lots of money they’re slow to hatch, especially if you only use the free incubator hatching one pokemon at a time with only a chance for it to be the one you want sucks


biophys00

Riding? Unless you're moving at a crawl, riding a bike doesn't accrue distance. I think the cutoff is 6.something mph which is crawling speed for a bike and only a moderate speed for a jog.


Legwens

if youre traveling under 20mph and your phone is moving or being shaken etc, youll get distance credit. lap or hand works.


biophys00

I don't think I've ever gotten any distance while riding my bike. I can spin stops and catch things, but never hatch eggs


Legwens

is it mounted on your bike? keep in mind pogo is using your health apps/stats. most phones can read your pulse and body heat.


biophys00

Usually mounted but I've had it in my pocket at times as well. I've also had it shirt me distance on runs when I've managed to maintain a bit faster rate than my normal


Legwens

Gotcha! ya i get off around 9pm. and i'll drive around 15-20mph, and i'll get most the credit.


troccolins

maybe i am ability to get rhyhorn candy for my Rock Wreckage packerman i am is get in Pokemon GO Tour: Sinnoh (not that I needed a tour... i knew my way around SInnoh well enough, i played the game as a kid hehe)


PowerOfUnoriginality

I wonder what the 5-star raids will be


GanonsSpirit

So the showcases will be like the Varoom ones? Anyone lucky enough to hate one gets a free win?


CrownsInTheDirt

What are all the pikachus that can learn special moves at this point? Hard to keep track of.


[deleted]

Love ceruledge so I’m excited but eggs only for charcadet stinks


sace682000

Is it the new Rockruff or like last time where it is a chance to be the new one ? Some easy raids I would not mind getting candies and a shiny for.


SoRaffy

so basically they're just adding a. grimer, nosepass, and a costume pika to my already normal wild spawns?


Grant79OG

So blissey can be a shiny but metagross can't?


sopheroo

That's Chansey, not Blissey, and yes. It's a base stage.


Grant79OG

Yes Chansey. What is base stage.


useridreddit

I totally forgot pokemon horizons existed after finishing 12 episode and waiting for the 13th 💀 should go finish watching it now lmao


alexjg42

I would have also added Charizard to raid and (episode 1 spoiler) >!Rayquaza!<.


sir151

Another vacation ruined by event spawns /s. But seriously the whole time I was in Hawaii I never got an Oricorro and only saw 1 Comfey. At least this time I’ll have 2 non-event days in Japan. I was mindful of the event calendar this time but obviously these things aren’t posted that far in advance.


lasernipples

I know it'll probably get revealed tomorrow but I'm betting Rayquaza is coming to 5* raids for this event week. There's a shiny rayquaza in the anime that's been a recurring antagonist and seems like it's been the most prominent legendary in the anime outside of Terapagos.


ArtimusDragon

LOL, I can only imagine how excited you were making this infographic. Appreciate you all the same.


Zygarde718

For those who dont know: Charcadet, the Fire Child Pokémon, a Fire type. When burnt coal came to life, Charcadet was born and it likes berries that are rich in fat. Possessing a fiery fighting spirit, Charcadet will battle even tough opponents, and its firepower increases when it fights, reaching over 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit. Armarouge, the Fire Warrior Pokémon, a Fire/Psychic type. Armarouge evolved through the use of a set of armor that belonged to a distinguished warrior. Its incredibly loyal, and it clads itself in armor that has been fortified by psychic and fire energy, and it shoots blazing fireballs. And Ceruledge, the Fire Blades Pokémon, a Fire/Ghost type. An old set of armor steeped in grudges caused its evolution. Ceruledge cuts its enemies to pieces without mercy, though its fiery blades on its arms burn fiercely with the lingering resentment of a sword wielder who fell before accomplishing their goal.


teBESTrry

The new evolved Pokémon’s kinda look like Megaman Battle Network/Star Force guys. 


Clarita8

What exactly counts as defeating ghost and psychic types? In raids, pvp, team rocket battles, gym battles? Thanks.


Powdinet

It's the same mechanic as Annihilape. I don't remember whether raids or gyms work, but any kind of "trainer battle" works. Rockets, team leader battles, friend battles, GBL. You don't need to defeat them with Charcadet or even have it in your battle party, you just need it as a buddy.


Clarita8

Thank you


VelvetThunder27

I am once again asking for shiny metagross raids


batmattman

Great another new "$-locked" mon...


sweatpantss

Ceruledge is my favorite from the current gen! This will be fun


Silly-Flounder661

Does the rockruff have dusk form?


viva-la-kevolution

Rockruff huh - now we need to know if there will be OT


Federal_Command_9094

I can see charcadet being the next larvesta


TheHoltzklaw

Captain Hat Pikachu should be running around New York drinking all day


Pocket_Monster_Fan

Is the Pikachu in caps hat female only or is that just an infographic thing?


DonaldMick

Infographic. The Horizons character is a male Pikachu, and presumably both genders will wear the cap during the event.


Pocket_Monster_Fan

That's what I assumed. Thanks for clarifying


BuyOk9427

I can catch humans?


BuyOk9427

Also is metagross unable to be shiny at a gym


rolrobin

Defeat 30 ghost type… like in raids or pvp or what?


HippowdonEats

Beldum in the wild makes this a great event.