Mewtwo raids; another smart Niantic money grab?

I think the shiny will be released with Psystrike during some event/community day like we saw with the legendary birds. They have enough time to slowly roll out legendaries with new moves and shiny variants to keep people raiding and for several Pokémon to powercreep above Pokémon that power creeped them before.

For example, Groudon. Groudon will likely be surpassed as a ground-type attacker in gen 4 by Garchomp, possibly Rhyperior, and possibly Mamoswine. After that happens, Groudon’s shiny form will probably be released alongside Precipice Blades.

The same goes for Kyogre with Origin Pulse, Rayquaza with Dragon Ascent, etc.

So when exactly did harrytipper2 quit being the most hated person on this forum and start playing again? I haven't seen the old you for quite a while now and I'm still amazed.

They have done this for each one of the legendaries. One general release, one second round including the shiny form and finally a limited time with special move. The only difference is that they added new moves to reward those who caught an EX Mewtwo.

There are 32 days to catch one Mewtwo/day = 160 free candy. Plus IB is the strongest ice attacker currently available.

Shiny and Psystrike will be a definite release later on, but I think the big cash grab for niantic in this isnt the raid passes, its the storage increase (though passes and incubators do generate a lot of money). Theres a lot of gen 1 pokemon that are fantastic but otherwise hard to come by, namely Rhydon, dratini, lapras and chansey and with those being more frequent as well as October likely to have a double candy event, they likely think players will be stocking up on these pokemon to trade/junk when the double candy happens, stocking up means you may need to buy more storage space (even just for the mewtwo, 30 mewtwo is almost a full storage upgrade and people are catching a lot more than just the mewtwo to save)

From my perspective, this month's release of Mewtwo has been one of the greatest things Niantic has done. My town does not have an EX eligible gym. We got one raid in the very early stages of the test period, so I got my 78% 14 attack Mewtwo (that I maxed anyway) and I was thrilled. I got a second Mewtwo during the bugged EX pass release for a gym that I spun once 60 miles from my home. Thankfully, a generous friend was able to raid it for me so I got another with basically identical IVs.

In the meantime, any mention of EX raids and Mewtwo was just frustrating as I knew I never had a chance of getting another. However, in the past 3 days, I've gotten 7 Mewtwo and caught 6 with a Pinap berry. I've never had more fun at a level 5 raid and the raid scene in my small town hasn't been this active since last summer. All in all, this weekend has been awesome for Pokemon Go.

TL;DR this money grab is working. Niantic, take my money.

Can you not use TM to get the moves you want???

My raiding community has been going ham on Mewtwo raids since the day it dropped. Pretty much any plan involving a widespread Mewtwo release will print money for Niantic; the casual players who have been burned by the EX system have a full month+ to bag a few and those of us who had multiple from the start will get extra candies to dump into them, especially now that you get 5 per catch. While it hurts to see it go, making Shadow Ball (and to a much lesser extent, Hyper Beam) legacy was a nice nod to people who have been able to make EX raids.

Speaking of the EX front, people have said that having Deoxys will hurt raid pass sales going toward EX chances. Having a high-demand boss like Mewtwo lead the T5 scene pretty much negates any potential "loss" they might have incurred. With the revisions to the EX system as well (tagged gyms, sharable passes) I think we'll see more people actively trying for passes as well.

I've been pretty critical about some of Niantic's methods before but I gotta give credit where it's due.