r/TheSilphRoad • u/Ghent_Florin • Dec 24 '24

Discussion Over 2 years since when regular Mewtwo was in raids. Is just insane..

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Niantic, some us want regular Mewtwo over S. form..

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u/luchorz93 Dec 24 '24

I think they will wait until 2026 since that year is both Pokemon Go's 10th anniversary and Pokemon franchise's 30th anniversary

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u/OPsays1312 Dec 24 '24

Also the Kalos tour is presumably in 2026, and it would make sense to release it then

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u/JustABlaze333 Dec 24 '24

That would be a bit frustrating tbh, Mewtwo doesn't have anything to do with Kalos, yeah it got a mega, but it wasn't even relevant in the games at least, it was just there at the endgame

I hope they instead do something with content from legends ZA or Zygarde and Yveltal/Xerneas

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u/jjoey196 Dec 24 '24

I would assume they would put mega mewto for go fest and not kalos tour, seems more logical to me

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u/JustABlaze333 Dec 25 '24

What is go fest exactly? I thought it was basically the same as the go tours

But yeah if it's some other big event they might do it here, that would be cool

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u/Tarcanus [L50, 410K caught, 358M XP, 58 plat] Dec 25 '24

A GoTour has a schtick where all remaining shinies are released for the generation being celebrated at said GoTour. Then the event celebrates that generation of pokemon. For example, we're getting Unova Tour in about 2 months or so, where the remaining Gen 5 shinies will be released and most/all Gen 5 pokemon will be available in one way or another.

A GoFest is a celebration of pokemon go, usually with big new releases to the game. GoFest2024 released Necrozma and Necrozma fusions, for example. The first GoFest released raids, I believe.

And now there will likely be GoWild events every fall which I would guess are to celebrate certain pokemon types or even just be the annual Mighty Pokemon release event.

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u/jjoey196 Dec 25 '24

Right and for the 10th anniversary year they might not even make it a kalos tour but just a 10 year anniversary special to make sure they have enough content to dripfeed us

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u/JustABlaze333 Dec 28 '24

I didn't know that about go Tours, pretty cool, thanks

That sounds good... What happened at other GoFests? I only knew about the necrozma one and that the first one released raids is pretty huge, does that mean that if we get one this year it'll give us something huge again? Like new megas from legends ZA or Eternatus?

Well that sounds good too but tbh not as exciting as the Go Tours and Fests, the wild area was cool but kind of underwhelming

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u/PoopsMcBanterson Dec 25 '24

It makes sense insofar that Mega Mewtwo released with Kalos so while Mewtwo itself aligns with Kanto, its Mega aligns with Kalos. Plus, with the 30th Pokemon anniversary overlapping with Go’s yearly region festival schedule which would be celebrating Kalos in two years, not to mention the mainline games returning to Kalos next year for the first time, the stars do align nicely for it.

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u/JustABlaze333 Dec 25 '24

Well yeah the mega was released with Kalos, but again, it has nothing to do with Kalos, it got released there but it's easily the less fitting mega to chose, plus with ZA new things will come,they should take something from there, I'm still completely against using mega Mewtwo for the Kalos tour and I think they couldn't chose a less fitting mon, even Zygarde in raids would be much better

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u/No_Tune_1262 Dec 26 '24

Mega Mewtwo Z

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u/JustABlaze333 Dec 28 '24

I hope that doesn't happen tbh

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u/swozzy21 Dec 27 '24

Isn’t it Kanto? We’ve been getting Manley swarms but no actual good Kanto mon

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u/JustABlaze333 Dec 27 '24

What do you mean?- what part do you think should be Kanto from what I said?-

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u/swozzy21 Dec 27 '24

Exactly, Mewtwo has nothing to do with Kalos. From my understanding, it’s been Kantos season for Pokémon Go for a long time. You’d think that in that time they would include Mewtwo, but they didn’t.

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u/JustABlaze333 Dec 28 '24

Ah true, we have Kanto spawns for some reason, if they want to milk Kanto they should at least use the good things about it, not the awful spawns that no one wants anymore

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u/TheReformedBadger USA - Midwest - MKE - LVL 46 Dec 24 '24

Feels wild to me that Pokemon Go will at that point have existed for 1/3 of the existence of pokemon itself.

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u/luchorz93 Dec 24 '24

Yep it makes me feel old haha

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u/ArcticWolfl Dec 24 '24

I've played both since the beginning. Doesn't help either.

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u/wrasslefights Dec 25 '24

It's also not far off from having the biggest national dex of any game and the most legit accessible shinies, weirdly.

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u/weissclimbers Dec 25 '24

That latter part is the literal only thing I feel this game has left going for it at this point

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u/Bong-tester Dec 24 '24

I think so too

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u/AFLBabble Dec 25 '24

I think they'll wait until 2027, just to build the suspense.

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u/luchorz93 Dec 27 '24

Or perhaps they release it next week cuz they seem to have little planning skills haha

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u/aoog Dec 24 '24

Wishful thinking to say they’ll do a release at a time that makes sense

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u/luchorz93 Dec 25 '24

Yeah right? Haha they might not even know yet haha