Vipsoccermaster
Well-Known Member
I think the only reason why Niantic chose Mareep is due to the fact that they are not easy to find, like Dratini are. This event will help build up your Mareep Candy count to get Ampharos.
My prediction is that Dragon Pulse will be the Ampharos exclusive move. Here's fingers crossed to maybe they'll introduce Mega Ampharos. Not holding my breath but.... Who knows!
No chance for Mega Ampharos at this time. Mega Evolutions are in Generation VI. We're in Generation III. There's three generations to go before Mega Evolutions arrive.
No chance for Mega Ampharos at this time. Mega Evolutions are in Generation VI. We're in Generation III. There's three generations to go before Mega Evolutions arrive.
Typings are completely different things from Mega Evolution. There's absolutely no correlation there. Mega Evolution was a Gen 6 gimmick, there's no reason to introduce it prior. Just like how introducing Alolan forms and Z-Moves prior to Gen 7 would be illogical.I don't think that the state the game is in right now is in any way conducive to introducing Megas anytime soon, but with that said, I don't think Niantic is any way bound to wait until Gen VI to release them. Just as we have moves and types that didn't exist in Gen III, there's nothing stopping them, in theory at least, from releasing the Mega Evolutions of Pokémon already in the game.
Typings are completely different things from Mega Evolution. There's absolutely no correlation there. Mega Evolution was a Gen 6 gimmick, there's no reason to introduce it prior. Just like how introducing Alolan forms and Z-Moves prior to Gen 7 would be illogical.
There's nothing holding them back, sure, but there was nothing stopping them from adding weather pre-gen 3, but they added weather along with gen 3.Admittedly, it's not the best correlation. The point I was trying to make is more that there's nothing actually holding Niantic back from releasing Mega Evolution if they see fit before Gen VII Pokémon are released. Sure, it seems to make the mos sense to wait to release them until then, if it's planned at all, but there's really nothing that could actually hold them back.
To be clear, I don't think it will happen before Gen VII, if at all, but I do think it's something that Niantic could do if they are so inclined.
There's nothing holding them back, sure, but there was nothing stopping them from adding weather pre-gen 3, but they added weather along with gen 3.
There is absolutely no logical reason for Megas to be introduced prior to Gen 6 Pokemon.
The 8-bit sprites leave on Saturday, April 7, 2018.I'm sure a lot of people enjoy the 8-bit sprites and would be disappointed when they leave, but I for one would be glad simply because I can't tell what Pikachu are my event ones and w/o paying close attention to my Shiny Pokemon, I have no clue what is what.
I kinda got the same outcome with the Egg-centric Event as well. Best thing that happened was that my 10km hatched and gave me a Snorlax with ~50 candies. I think I also hatched a Larvitar with ~30 candies? Other than that everything else was mostly baby Pokemon or common Pokemon that I really, really didn't need more candies for. I even hatched over 24 eggs! Was really hoping to hatch some starters or Pokemon I need to evolve like Phanpy, Aron, or Feebas, or Pokemon I needed in my dex like Bagon, Chimecho, or even Cacnea.That last Egg-centric Event was terrible for me! I gathered up a ton of 2K eggs hoping for a good spread of pokemon, but out of the 8 that I had managed to get and hatch, only 1 was a 10k pokemon (Aron). Four of the eggs were Swinub! I'm swimming in Swinub candies now!
Hopefully the next community event with Mareep treats me better. I've been sitting on a Flaafy forever since I can only get them via Egg (there are NO electrical types anywhere around me). I've got high expectations of there being shiny Mareep available too, so if the world ends up being flooded by sheep that day, I'm gonna get me a Shiny Ampharos! (Or at the very least, an Ampharos in general).
I kinda got the same outcome with the Egg-centric Event as well. Best thing that happened was that my 10km hatched and gave me a Snorlax with ~50 candies. I think I also hatched a Larvitar with ~30 candies? Other than that everything else was mostly baby Pokemon or common Pokemon that I really, really didn't need more candies for. I even hatched over 24 eggs! Was really hoping to hatch some starters or Pokemon I need to evolve like Phanpy, Aron, or Feebas, or Pokemon I needed in my dex like Bagon, Chimecho, or even Cacnea.
I'm ready for eggs to be hatching very frequently during Community Day! Also hope the weather in-game is Rainy so I can snag some weather boosted Mareep. I managed to get lucky during both Bulbasaur and Dratini's community days as it was Sunny/Cloudy for Bulbasaur's and it was Windy during Dratini's so I ended up snagging weather boosted shinies.
Frankly I think it was luck because near the end of the Dratini Community Day it changed to Cloudy and sometime in the middle of the Bulbasaur Community Day it changed to Partly Cloudy, but a while later it went back to Cloudy.Was the weather luck or was it intentional? I hadn't noticed what the weather condition was for the Dratini day, but given you're 2/2 on weather during days where that specific pokemon is in high abundance, it may have been intentional on their part.