New 7 day research reward
So it seems the reward is now just legacy Snorlax? Was really hoping for Raikou or Entei. Then again, I personally would find it cool if they did other Pokémon with legacy moves like Omastar and Gengar. Unlikely though
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I have 4 body slam Snorlax and never spoofed and only briefly used maps when they first came out (but didn't get a Snorlax on one, and didn't travel to get stuff, rather just used it to make up for the garbage tracking system at the time when I wanted something on my nearby).
I honestly feel sort of crushed by this. I saved those Snorlax for ages thinking they'd be good legacy Mon, and now everyone will have them - and with better IVs. The move going legacy made keeping the 40% range iv Snorlax worthwhile...
I am annoyed by this as someone who was lucky enough to hatch a 96 L/BS Snorlax ages ago. It was probably my best trade chip and now it is going to be much less unique and valuable. This in a nut shell is Niantics problem. They create trading only to make mons less valuable because legacy moves comes back for everyone!!
I would keep a 96% legacy anyway. IVs re-roll. Such high IV makes it bad for trading. Specially in this early period of the feature. You would end up loosing a high IV pokemon and the person who traded would get something with worse IVs.
Only regular/bad IV legacy pokemon had potential for trading at this moment.
The main issue I find with this is that the metagame has changed much since Body Slam Snorlax was not legacy and was then top of the metagame.
The gym defence metagame is so insignificant that Body Slam returning means little. And Machamp is now a very potent attacker sadly for Lax. Offensively, the metagame has shifted away from generalists to specialists, which makes a Normal-type attacker largely pointless. At least the birds were good attacks of their specialised attacks - even Articuno was one of the best Ice-types (second best DPS behind Jynx but has much better TDO), and Zapdos is the 2nd-best Electric-type behind Raikou.
The idea that Niantic would reintroduce the best Legacy moves (ie Shadow Claw Gengar and Rockslide / whatever it was Omastar) is really exciting but will be divisive between those who have and those who do not. To be fair they could justify the reintroduction since most of us early players did not know when PMGO started that these were good moves NOR did we know that moves could go legacy. The game has changed so much due to raids and the focus on "best counters" that most trainers now understand optimal moves, types etc. On my part, in 2016 early 2017 I had many high IV Gastly / Haunters (due to first Halloween event) but did not realize that SC was such a winner and never bothered to evolve them ... same with Omastar ... who knew it could be a double rock star! IMHO the few who have legacy Gengar and Omastar were either lucky or clairvoyant to realize this.
