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Ultra bonus raids

Going off the increase in kanto pokemon the ultra bonus event will bring, I think its fair to assuming that a fair number of kanto raids will come back. Raids like Mawile and Absol I know will remain due to them only being raid obtainable, but as for the other raids, what do you guys think they'll do? I'm hoping if they do anything, they keep tyranitar, but what about the lower level raids? (and before someone says why should they matter when mewtwo's out, that is a good point but some of those raids can still be useful if you dont have a full mewtwo trio team ready)

Asked by MetagrossMaxis6 years 9 months ago

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I hope they leave out the starters, unless they do them fully evolved with signature moves. Electabuzz and magmar would tie into gen4. It would be cool to see some fresh faces like seadra or something in the oddish or bellsprout line, if only for the sake of novelty

Victreebell has been a Tier 4 boss before

For tier 3 solo challenges, bring back the purple shadow with the huge grin, the yellow spoon-bending fox, the purple dancing witch and the starfish with the gem! But not the rock snake, which is a terribly boring solo.

Absol and Mawile got yanked for the last Kanto event. They'll likely be pulled again for this one. Tyranitar got pulled for the last Kanto event but I could see him staying in with the introduction of Mewtwo. Odds are he'll be pulled as well until October.

I want to see Gengar and/or Alakazam come back. I've found Gengar battles to be pretty fun and fast paced if it's not packing Focus Blast and I never successfully soloed an Alakazam. I can see some of the fan favorite bosses returning like Snorlax and Lapras, those two had a fair bit of staying power after the first boss shuffle. I really hope we see the evolved forms of the starters over their base counterparts. And for the love of god I hope Onix stays the hell away. It's a boring fight with little payoff.

They took tyrnatiar out? I could have sworn they kept him in there because I remeber I got my tyrantiar around the same time latios was out, and I remeber latios was during the kanto event.

The Kanto event was only a week long similar to the Johto one, you probably got it just outside the event. But yes, to date the only Pokemon that hasn't been taken out of the raid rotation is Machamp.

If they wanted to bring back BB or FP as tier 4 raid rewards, 0 complaint...

BB? FP?

Guessing they meant Blast Burn Charizard and Frenzy Plant Venusaur.

Frankly I'd be okay with it, though it might leave many wondering why they should bother keeping high IV base forms if exclusive moves are raid-locked.

No point keeping high iv base forms of the gen 1 starters anyway, they’ve already had their community days with exclusive moves

Well maybe sludge bomb venasaur for something, but thats a big stretch, but yeah, high iv kanto starters are more or less junk now

There's always the "what if?" if they ever reintroduce them and keep evolution as a requirement that probably has some people keeping them. Frankly I wish I evolved more Bulbasaur but the weather was against me and I found very few passable IV ones. I agree though, beyond hypothetical scenarios we may never see again there's little reason to keep them.

They have an incentive to rerun the exclusive moves at some point. As time goes on, the amount of returning or new players who missed those events grows, generating interest in some kind of a rerun and interest is what drives the CDs and makes them profitable.
The only downside is reducing the value of the first run CDs, so they just need to delay the reruns sufficiently to make missing the first run enough of a big deal that nobody wants to if they can help it.
It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. Most mobile games rerun popular old stuff because it's profitable.

That will be a good idea. But I don't think Niantic will be that generous so even if they really bring them back, they are still in the potential moveset pool so each trainer needs to try their luck and do as many raids as possible until finally get one.