So, its ancient power it seems
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/aobt6y/according_to_the_chinese_promotional_email/
Well, at the very least good to know not to be in a rush to evolve and such. And avalanche wont be legacy too.
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Haha, im suprised someone remembered that.
It didnt shock me they did this, mamoswine's already godtier ice type wise, so another even better ice move wouldn't really make sense.
Earthpower as a ground move would have been great, but it probably never would have been the go to ground attacker
Ancient power, while It will be a novelty, I at least like it, it connects to its main series evolution and having a mamoswine on my main series team in a playthrough at the same time mamoswine's coming was near perfect coincidence. Might be fun for PvP against fire or even other ice types.
Not sure; I don't do a lot of PvP right now (probably more in the spring/summer), so I'm thinking more of Raids. And Dig would be an upgrade to Bulldoze (though maybe not by much).
I'm suddenly uncertain if I want to have any Mammoswine's with Ancient Power, because it's going to cost me 50,000 stardust to get Avalanche - and I'm not really sure I want to spend that much on getting the only Charge Move that I really want on Mammoswine.
Meh.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/aobt6y/according_to_the_chinese_promotional_email/efzq7h3/
The authenticity of the email has not been fully verified. I can vouch for the Chinese writing and translation though.
If the move is indeed Ancient Power, I can go ahead and spend a Sinnoh Stone on my perfect Magmar.
People on Silph have also suggested turning off your GPS when evolving during the 3 hour CD window to avoid getting the exclusive move. Apparently, this is a thing because if they can't be sure you are in the correct time zone to get the move, you won't get it. I personally want all my Mamoswines to have Avalanche.
Can vouch for this. My fiancee lost GPS during Beldum day and ended up with a 96-98% EQ Metagross...
At least one of her shinies was a 96% and she got 4 luckies from me that were 93% or higher, so at the end of the day it wasn't the biggest loss in the world. Which is weird to say about losing out on a near-perfect MM Metagross, but it's whatever when you have 6 more lying in wait. Everything's relative.
As fun as it was to theory craft about how broken of an ice-type move or ground type move they could give it, it's extremely nice to know I don't have to rush to evolve any during the CD window, maybe 2 or 3 for collection purposes. I like the broken stuff but also wish the moves always remained novelty and didn't become meta-defining.
