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Tyranitar from Raids with Smack Down

Will Tyranitars from raids get Smack Down during the event?
If so, during all weekend or only on the 3 hours window of the special bonus?

Asked by duwejeferson6 years 5 months ago
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My understanding is that any event pokemon "caught or evolved" during the event will get the special move. My recollection during Larvitar day was that people from Asia confirmed this, catching SD Ttars in raids during the event. But that event was only 3 hours long, this one is 58 hours long. Big difference.

Of course, we've never done one of these before, so this is all speculation. My gut feeling is that is exactly what will happen - pokemon caught as raid bonuses will have the special moves.

Further, it's possible that, for the weekend, Venusaur, Blastoise, Charizard, and others will return as raid bosses. Not certain, but possible. I think it would be a good move on Niantic's part to do so.

Stay tuned - we'll have answers to these questions just after 4 PM EST or 1 PM PST. Say that there's a Ttar raid that starts at 12:40 PM PST (event starts at 1:00 PM PST). If one did that raid before 1:00, one would get a Ttar with Bite or Iron Tail. If one did the raid after 1:00, one should get a Ttar with Smack Down. Note this is for the reward encounter for the raid, not the raid boss itself. That's how it ought to work, since the reward is caught during the event (in the latter case), even though the raid started before the event began. If there are new raid bosses, their eggs won't hatch until 2 PM, an hour after the event begins.

Again, this is what I think will happen. No guarantees (especially about the raid bosses - that would be a new thing).

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The raid boss thing would be super cool but I doubt it would happen since they probably want people actually catching things. On the other hand, running Metagross, Tyranitar, and Dragonite raids simultaneously would print them a boatload of money - hell, even 2nd stage raids would probably bring a sizeable bump in raid pass sales.

Still, I'm leaning on the side of no. I feel like they would have announced it to some degree if it was to happen.

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Yup, any of those options would be brilliant on their part. Imagine Metagross raids! I am in platonic love with the idea lol

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Like the idea of Metagross raids, but don't think that or Dragonite will happen. What I suspect might happen (emphasis on might) is that old raid bosses like Venusaur could come back. Dragonite has never been a raid boss, although Dratini was. Beldum as a raid boss could be fun too, or even Metang, but not getting my hopes up for that.

Or they could just stick with the current rotation, which includes Tyranitar, and nothing else for the Community Weekend.

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I thought Dragonite was a boss in Japan once for a special event of some sort? Either way, seeing the CD families in raids this weekend would be nice.

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Yes, that's true. It was for a weekend, and I think it had a special move (that wasn't too good, if I remember correctly, maybe Hurricane.) So Dragonite could be on the list. That would be mighty fun, doing a Dragonite raid. Rayquaza for the win.

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Actually, weavile is better option agaisnt double ice weak dragons now (assuming you dont have windy weather), plus you dont have that self-weakness to worry about.

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Sure, but then again, you'd likely be happy if metagross was the only pokemon in the pokedex, .... :-)

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Theres a tyrantiar raid right near my dorm, but it ends just a hair before the event starts, I wish it lasted into the CD weekend so I could catch it and check.

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Obviously responding too late to this, but you could have done the raid before the event started, and sat on the Pokemon catch screen until it started.

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