Pokémon GO Easter Event Announced

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The rumors are true, Pokémon GO will be hosting an Easter Eggstravaganza Event!

From 1:00pm PST today until 1:00pm PST on April 20th, trainers will be able to take advantage of the following benefits:

  • Double EXP
  • Greater variety of Pokémon hatching from 2km eggs
  • Increased candy quanity for egg hatchs
  • 50% off on Lucky Eggs in the in-game shop

No word yet if the new Pokémon added to the 2km egg group will be brought down from the 5km and 10km groups, or if they’re simply Pokémon that usually cannot be hatched from eggs at all. For the official press release you can visit Niantic’s official blog!

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2,775 thoughts on “Pokémon GO Easter Event Announced”

  1. I love how two of the Alolan starters are actually in the upper caliber of starers (Disregarding megas) at this moment

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      • Imagine Bewear getting Drain Punch……
        After a Bulk Up or two……it will be unstoppable by anything physical

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      • Trust me, they will stay up considering Alolan mons are the only ones without tutors. In fact, I dare say they might just get even better. Deci has plenty of support options coming and probably several other moves.
        And Prim will probably get wish

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        • Idk, it’s the other Alola Mons getting things like Gunk Shot and Knock Off that has me worrying, and I personally feel like they’ll be joining Incineroar either way in the next Gen or two

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          • Trust me when I say this.
            Prim, considering its place in the meta, is staying in UU unless next gen is all Poison types
            I’m slightly worried Deci will drop to RU, but it’s role doesn’t exactly seem like it can be replicated by other mons so I doubt it will drop

          • The thing is though, it doesn’t matter of the role can’t be replicated if the role becomes uneccesary

            And its only going to take one or two good grass or Poison physical attackers (bulky or sweepers) before Primarina sinks because of how slow and physically trail it is

          • True but Prim won’t sink below IMO
            Additionally, chances are that Deci will be getting a certain Move Tutor move that will give it a lot more viability
            And its role won’t become unnecessary, physical ghost damage is quite important

          • Low sweep obviously… nah I’m kidding of course
            Those of course are a huge issue for Deci, but they aren’t crippling. I know knock off is common but I don’t think it’s impossible to get around. As someone who frequently uses Deci, it and a Fighting type make an amazing combo and you rarely should find yourself in a situation where you will be fighting a dark type with Deci if you are careful enough

          • Deci is one of those mons who only should come in once certain mons are dead. Once those mons are dead, it puts in a lot of work

  3. On the topic of Incineroar getting Intimidate.. even if it got Knock off, there are a bunch of better intimidaters….. even some that are dark type

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    • Real question though, if you hate Incineroar so much why do you bring it up so much? It’s just a fictional character, it’s not like it’s super negatively effecting your life in any way, and by obsessing over it you’re just making it worse for yourself and others.

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      • I’m actually not doing it out of hate this time. I’m trying to express opinions of what I see the starters doing once everything is out for them. (Albiet it usually is out of hate though, consider it stress relief

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        • Right, except the fact that this still reeks of bias considering that you’re not even mentioning what Incineroar has over potential competitors, only what it has in common.

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          • I’ll back this up right now
            Scrafty has knock off, higher defenses, isn’t weak to water, ground, or stealth rock.
            It may have access to snarl, but so does Arcanine
            It has fake out, but will it really be that helpful compared to other mons who have it?
            I GUESS u-turn is a strong point but I don’t really see any use for running it
            And it has zero forms of recovery where Scrafty has at least drain punch and Arcanine has Morning Sun
            And additionally for intimidaters, Gyarados exists too

          • Leech Life, which can’t be taunted and offers some form of recovery

            Slow U-Turn, as part of a hit and run stat drop (such as switching something in safely or predicting a switch you just forced) or Volt-Turn

            Slightly higher bulk and offense than Arcanine

            Better HP than Scrafty (a whole thirty points) meaning they’re actually closer in bulk than you think, as well as being slightly faster if we’re being pedantic

            Can actually realistically run Vest unlike the other two meaning it becomes bulkier with Vestimidate

            Has a great offensive type combo

            Has a Z-Move to break walls

            STAB Knock Off is a possibility, unlike Arcanine

            Scrafty has other abilities it might want to run (*cough moxie cough*)

            Fake Out can break sashes, always handy

            Counters any ghost slower than it that can’t run Focus Miss because they don’t usually have Water, Rock or Ground moves

            No quadruple weaknesses unlike Scrafty

            True, intimidate may not help much at all, but ignoring these is idiotic if you’re just going to scream about how useless incineroar is

          • I’m not saying it’s useless, I’m just saying I see no reason to run it compared to other ints
            Wait what ghosts besides Doublade, Palo, and Garbage anchor have lower than base 60?
            Leech life is resisted by a LOT of mons who are prevalent in the doubles meta rn (Cause lets be honest, that’s where it would be best)
            And I did mention U-turn
            And it may not even get knock off, you never know

          • If you actually took two seconds to read, I said that it’d either tank or outspeed ghosts. That still makes it handy for when anchor, Palo and Doub show up, as well as tanking ghosts that can’t do anything to it (read: Deci, Dusclops and its Evo, Cofagrigus, Meganette etc, just a bunch of Pokemon thoroughout different tiers)

            Also, slow U-Turn. You didn’t mention the advantage of that at all, it’s extremely helpful for pivoting because as long as incineroar lives, you’re getting a team mate in as safe as possible

            I’m taking about the meta in general, where Leech Life immediately becomes more useful. Not just one tier or format, because for all we know incineroar might drop and then rely on intimidate.

            Riiight, unless Knock Off isn’t a tutor at all it’s laughable you’d even suggest it isn’t getting Knock Off.

          • I did read, I was just asking what ghosts was it outspeeding besides them, I meant that as a legit question
            I guess it might be helpful
            Would it not getting knock off REALLY be the weirdest thing that we’ve seen? I mean, Machamp didn’t get mach punch or drain punch and I believe they were both available by tutor in ORAS
            (was mach punch available?)

          • No, Mach Punch wasn’t available, and whereas Drain Punch has a rather exclusive distribution, Knock Off is literally giving to everything, its mother, and its unborn child.

          • The thing about it that annoys me is that with long reach you’re encouraged to run a physical set. So if that’s the HA, why did they friggen give it that sp attack stat!!! You could’ve put it into speed!!!!!!!!!!!!!

          • Owls are fast fliers, and Decidueye can’t use the move fly or have the flying type. For all we know that speed is exclusive to its Z-Move (I mean Snorlax becomes an Olympic sprinter in the base normal Z-Move soooo)

          • True
            I do wonder why it got so little special attack
            (Inb4 they give it fucking heat wave)

          • That’s such a load of malarkey
            Some are a tad far fetched but their the closest things to actual fucking data on their biology

          • Could literally just be referring to bursts of speed and not prolonged performance speed, or it needs to build up its speed.

          • Well, yeah, but that’s just a generic z move. This is an exclusive one. I mean it’s a weird situation that they’ve shown decidueye to fly yet don’t give it fly. And I’m just kinda angry that they put it in sp attack when they could’ve done it to HP or def or something. It’s just a waste where it is now, imo

          • It they wanted to display it could fly fast enough to give it good speed though, they would’ve. It could easily just be Z-Power giving it that ability.

            Also, it doesn’t just fly on its own strength in its Z-Move, its mostly working off of its descending momentum.

          • Well it at least jumps and then glides if it’s not flying. Either way, owls are pretty fast, I think they made a mistake when distributing stats. All well though

          • But people claim Deci is based off of a terrestrial (if not completely non flying) bird as the reason it lost Flying, you can’t just claim its based off fast owls for stats and then slow (non flying owls) for the our of nowhere type change

          • Deci was apparently based off a stilt-owl… but … ummmm
            “While they were well able to fly, they may have stalked sleeping birds on foot, or raided seabird colonies at night.”
            “WHILE THEY WERE WELL ABLE TO FLY”
            Why doesn’t this thing get fly again?

          • It’s still based off of archers though, whose fighting style doesn’t need speed and thus Deci doesn’t need it (theoretically)

            And I mean Deci doesn’t look bulky at all so I don’t see why they’d invest into HP or Def seeing as it’d then be a poorly conveyed design

          • except Decidueye looks about as spiritual as a labrador and looks more like the emo kid at the back of the class’s fursona

            It’s not just simple enough to say ‘owls are spiritual’, you have to display this spirituality in some way, whether it’s through making Deci look somewhat spiritualistic/ancient, giving it a more appropriate colour scheme (or even just a colour scheme closer to the owls the Hawaiians saw as spiritual), or just outright making it look more imposing/intimidating..

            I like the design, but it looks Grass/Flying, Grass/Dark, or even Grass/Ground over Ghost IMO

          • Yeah, I can certainly agree with the color scheme part
            (I’m calling it now, the reason it’s a ghost is under its cloak

          • That’s what I’m saying. It has literally two special attacking moves, both of which are outclassed by physical ones

  6. My favorite quote of the day
    Smogon NU boardperson : Personally I don’t see anything besides Durant and Machamp looking broken here
    (Cresslia, Yanmega, Scrafty, and more are right there)

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  11. Well I’m asking final advice for a Vikavolt build
    It’s already being trained in sp atk

    It is mild (SpA+ Def-) with 4IVS in Hp, SpA, SpD and Speed
    I’m considering speedy scarf or bulky specs

    Taking all offers and opinions

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  17. Bored and i got a half hour til dinner
    Pestuzz
    Mosquito Pkm
    Bug
    Essence Thief: increases the damage of HP draining moves by 20%
    a small blackish purple insect pokemon with a round ovoid body and bright red beady eyes (females have a hook eyelash), a long pointed nose and triangular ear like antenna, four black legs that are pointed and shaped like #7
    “Swarms set out at sunset and attack people and pokemon relentlessly, they leave itching wounds from each attack causing them to be despised”
    male do not evolve but the female that are leveled up past 35 at night evolve into

    Vamsipher
    Mosquito Pkm
    Bug/Dark
    Essence Thief
    a large black red and purple insect pokemon with a glossy hairy body, it has a large harpoon proboscis on its face and long sets of eyelash-like antenna, it has 2 jagged bat like wings that often wrap around its body like a cloak when not in flight, 4 long legs with spikes on the tips, a very large abdomen shaped like a cylindrical tank,
    “cruel and cunning, they stab their noses into prey and drain their fluids until satisfied, when the sun sets the sound of their buzzing pieces the night”

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  19. Everybody loves Final stage pokemon they are so awesome and tough. And just look straight up cool. Most of everyone favorite pokemon is a final stage.
    The basic stage pokemon are the cute ones that everyone enjoys. It’s the part of the stage that adores most people.
    But what’s forget is mid-stage pokemon. They are like the teenage years of pokemon. Some pokemon stats are bad because they are adjusting (vibrava) and some just look very weird. So Im gonna ask what’s everyone top 5 or 10 midstage pokemon
    Personally my lists consists of pokemon in which I perfer midstage over other stages.

    10. Kadabra– I think Kadabra is really cool looking despite it’s controversy ( I still have Kadabra pokemon card :P), especially it’s big fluffy tail is just so cute on it. I remember using Kadabra in my Red not knowing how to evolve it.

    9. Haunter– Haunter is just so funny, and every time I see it I just want to laugh. It’s smile is also pretty cute. And I love how it just has floating hands.

    8. Ivysaur – I think this pokemon looks cuter than bulbasaur, but not fat and ugly like venusaur. The semi-bloomed bud fits it so well, also I loved it’s appearance in smash.

    7. Dewott– It still very cute from oshawott, and it has two shell swords like samurott. Basically the best of both worlds

    6. Rhydon– I know certain people think it’s stupid to perfer this but whatever. It’s a cool mon, and it has such a cool design to me. I have a pokemon card of it, so I have some bias towards it, and having seen Rhydon+Eviolite makes me appreciate it more.

    5. Dragonair– Elegant, cute, and has those little orbs, and mini rings. This pokemon is just precious. I also have a pokemon card of it that makes it look so cool.

    4. Vigoroth-This feisty attitude, and the polar opposite to it’s other evolutions just makes it so awesome. I remember when I was a kid playing Emerald I refused to evolve my Vigoroth.

    3. Wartortle-The ear wings, and the fluffy tail is just so cute, and those teeth stick out makes it even better. Blastoise literally got rid of all these qualities.

    2. Shelgon-Am I weird when I think Shelgon is better than Salamence?

    1. Sealeo-This thing is honestly the cutest. AND its an Ice type. AND I used it. Just so adorable. I cant handle it.

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  23. What’s everybody’s favorite non-Pokemon battle theme?

    https://youtu.be/BiXfl0EIvxw

    Baby Bird from Bravely Default, mostly because I had this OP combo where I’d have Edea use her special Withering Wave (which this triggers music) which I specialised to lower fire resistance and Magical Defense (more than it already did), before having her summon Promethean Fire (the game’s fire summon, if not obvious) multiple times, which would just get stronger and stronger due to her support abilities, Summoning Surge (every summon is stronger than the last) and Summon Amp (summons are stronger but cost slightly more magic). By the second onslaught of Promethean Fire, she was dealing max damage in no time!

    I should probably recreate this in the second game with a Summoner/Wizard fusion character, Promethean Fire Rain for days boys

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