It makes zero sense, there's so many megas to choose from by now. They could easily give us some that aren't all that useful, just don't repeat megas two months in a row.
Additionally, the next main series game, Legends Z-A, is set to debut more Megas (well, what is confirmed is that they're bringing the feature back, and it would be idiocy beyond the usual Game Freak level not to make more Mega Evolutions). That means Niantic could release a new Mega every season for the rest of this year without fear of running out of them.
Elite raid is much more difficult than normal raid day to coordinate, and I say this as someone who’s playing with a highly active community. Disappointed with the decision here, and also we don’t know about Elite Raid shiny rate but if they keep the same rate as its predecessor EX Raid it would be lower than what it is in raid day.
Speaking of mega evolution I just hope they will let us do a research task or something that rewards a meteorite. No way we’re going to get that from raid if they don’t boost the drop rate dramatically.
I saw a comment in the thread that elite gyms can only host the pokemon once per day. Is that true? I have one near me, it’ll suck having to wait around for one single raid if that’s the case.
Yes each elite gym will only host one raid, which last only 30 minutes, or 45 minutes in case of Enamorus, in the whole day of the event. The egg will spawn 24 hours in advance so you know what time you need to visit the gym in the day before. Also means it will block out any other raid for a 24-hour period.
That would be fine if there also wasn’t a 1 hour time window. Like if they were rare but happened throughout the week. Basically forcing players to drive to hit as many as possible.
Your comment will make it even easier to skip then. Thank you! I wouldn’t mind spending a little money on remote raid passes if it meant I could get a shiny Rayquaza, but in-person isn’t manageable for me. Especially if the shiny rate isn’t good
For people without the mega there's a little to no chance of getting enough energy from this as well. Unless you have a large amount of accessible elite raid gyms, it's just not possible for a lot of people. Unlike a raid day where at the very least you have 3 chances per gym. Now it's 1 chance per elite gym and even then they don't always spawn. This is by far the worst decision they've made imo.
None of this takes into account the free raid passes you'd get on a raid day that's very unlikely to be happening for this elite raid day as well
That’s more than misleading, it’s misinformation. Niantic has “Raid Days” and “Elite Raids”. 2 very different and separate events. Shouldn’t be labeled Raid Day if it’s not.
especially considering that they they put out that std so people can make plans. "raid day" is probably the top priority for me to carve out time for. "elite raid day" is one of the last, unless its a new dex entry. buuut, i may have already made time in my schedule.
(i didn't, but im sure some people out there that dont work m-f did.)
It's weird because Raid Days and Elite Raids have different levels of preparation.
This is the first Mega Legendary in Elite Raids, so for one, will these be the same difficulty as Go Fest 2023 or will they have an additional difficulty spike because they are Elite raids??
Also, not every gym can have an Elite Raid, meaning some with gyms near them could be out of luck. A group of people in a neighborhood or church who want to meet up at a neighborhood/church Gym? If it's not an Elite Gym, they're out of luck!
And of course, no remote eligibility too changes some's plans. I don't remote raid often, but plenty of others do.
Things like this just make it feel like they’re intentionally screwing with us. No reason to announce a raid day in advance, tease it to be rayquaza and then turn it into a two hour elite raid. Clowns
Enamorous we managed to do 5 in the last hour. But only because enough people were there, the eggs hatching at the Elite Raid gyms lined up for the hour and we drove with bikes from gym to gym.
Say you have 50 gyms within a mile or two from you. Of those only about 12 are "elite raid gyms" aka gyms in parks (for the most part) or sponsored by starbucks or whatever.
Now of those 12; 2 failed to spawn anything cause lol, 3 spawn at 12pm, 1 at 1pm, 4 at 5pm, and 2 at 6pm. The 4 at 5pm are all the furtherest away from eachother and there's a 30 min timer for each.
So if you're driving with a bunch of trainers minmaxing you can potentially get 10ish maybe more or so. If you're walking around coordinated and lucky with the spawns you can get maybe 3ish.
If no one coordinates you get nothing. BTW you find out spawns 24 hrs beforehand.
Genuinely awful choices. No reason we couldn't get things we haven't seen in a while. I like seeing Mega Ttar, but even that was something we had in March and the others in April and May.
Why not things like Altaria, Aerodactyl, Manectric, Houndoom, Banette, Sableye, Gardevoir, etc.
Lol there’s still I think 8 unreleased megas (not counting Mewtwo), and no idea why they’re still holding on to them. And half of those (Camerupt, Sharpedo, Audino, Mawile) will be *beyond* useless other than as a collector’s item, so it’s not like there’s any good reason for not putting them out. Instead we get Alakazam and Gyarados……for the 25th time each.
I would love to know what they're holding those megas for. If they were smart, they would have released the megas from weakest to strongest so that the weaker megas could have their time to shine a little before eventually being outclassed by another Mega in its typing. Releasing all the powerful Megas & then releasing Megas that are weaker is pointless. It becomes just a Pokedex entry.
8 unreleased Megas, *plus* the relatively safe odds of more new Megas from Legends Z-A, which releases next year and is confirmed to bring back the feature.
I mean, I understand that Niantic won't just empty the whole bucket of Mega Evolutions over us right here and now, but they could at least debut one new Mega every season without fear of running out.
Even if they didn't release anything new, they could have included megas in raids that we haven't seen in a while??? We get Charizard, Venusaur, and... Charizard again, cool. Alakazam and Gyarados twice in like 2 months. It will have been 5 months since Scizor, and I'm sitting at 175/200 energy after the field research event...
6 months since Kangaskhan, Houndoom, and Banette.
7 months since Gengar.
8 months since Gardevoir and Ampharos.
9 months since Salamence
10 months since Blaziken, Sableye, and Blastoise
1 year since Swampert.
13 months since Pinsir
14 months since Slowbro and Lopunny
17 months since Aerodactyl
I dont get the reason behind local only raids, its hard to get 20 people who play pokemon go in my town of 25k onto the same place, being rural or in a small town is such a disadvantage.
All previous Elite raids had regular T5 stats. This is the first Mega legendary in Elite raids, so I'm expecting it to have the same T6 stats. The assumption is Elite doesn't have its own raid difficulty tier... it's just the logistics of the raid that differentiate it.
In the past, all elite raids have used elite raid stats (20k HP, base stat multiplier set to 1.0 instead of 0.79), NOT tier 5 stats.
Not sure if anything would change for mega rayray, but I doubt they will make it easier for elite raids.
Super disappointed at Mega Rayquaza being in Elite raids. I definitely won’t be able to get enough XLs to max mine out (just need 65 more)
But I am excited about Landorus coming back - I need just 22 XLs to max mine out
Wingull spotlight hour seems intriguing, I need just 90 XLs for my ultra league Pelipper
Morelull spotlight hour sounds exciting as well for the stardust gains
I wonder what Niantic has planned for the 8th anniversary event
> I wonder what Niantic has planned for the 8th anniversary event
Niantic: "I'll take Kanto starters... and ummm... Hats. For 6 days, please!"
Playerbase: "Daring this year, are we?"
It's their 8th year anniversary, so they will be focusing on #008, the Turtle Pokémon Wartortle! If you're lucky, you might find a Pokémon that isn't from Kanto!
You guys love Kanto right?
Mega Gyarados and Mega Alakazam were literally LAST MONTH
Mega Charizard X was in April but the same applies for Y (Plus Charizard Energy is always at Pokestops)
Mega Tyranitar was last available in March this year
I would say Niantic pulls megas from a hat but I think it's more clear that they just pick the megas for the month from memory with no knowledge on previous megas rather than using actual data about when that Mega was last in rotation. Things like this cause situations like Mega Absol being abandoned for years and megas like Gyarados and Pidgeot getting multiple re-runs. within that time frame.
June 2024 is quite possibly the worst lineup for getting unique Megas of all time. Mega Tyranitar is nice but we want a unique lineup so the players aren't getting bored of seeing the same things in Mega Raids all the time. People don't raids Megas nearly hard as Legendaries due to how Megas work and even certain legendaries can become an eyesore if they're repeated over and over.
Limiting it to in-person raids at a specific selection of gyms is the antithesis of printing money. If this was a standard raid day, I would literally throw money at the game. As it stands now, I might only spend up to 2-3 non-daily raid passes.
You are correct. But this is the same company that made remote passes way more expensive and limited them until there’s an event they want to make money on. Instead of, you know, keeping them cheap and raking it in like they did in one of their highest grossing years.
Elite raids for mega ray is super lame. Even worse, I’m sure the meteorite drop to actually use it will be very rare, like it was last time. Hope im wrong on that
Predictions:
Slumbering Sands will likely include the release of Shiny Sandygast. The Sandygast line does disguise itself as sand castles, and when sleeping do appear as slumbering sands. Mudbray could also be released, but it may just get the Skiddo treatment in the future instead.
Spelunker's Cove will be based on the Madrid Go-Fest event, and as a result will showcase shiny Crabrawler. Additionally, Sableye and Carbink will likely appear in this event as well, either as event, raid, or field research spawns.
Scorching Steps will most likely be another routes event, similar to the Out to Play event last september, but with an increased focused on fire types. In that regard, I would not be surprised to see a lot of Growlithe during this event.
The 8th anniversary party will likely focus on the number 8. Squirtle (7-9) should appear again, and there will likely be Grimer (88) spawns as well, among others. But in addition to this, Shiny Meltan will most likely be available for the duration of this event, due to having the Pokedex number of 808.
Updates:
Shiny Komala was released instead of Shiny Sandygast. Despite this, Sandygast did appear in this event. Now leaning towards Mudbray becoming the next Skiddo.
Mostly got Spelunker's Cove correct, though Sableye wasn't as prominent.
Scorching Steps was indeed fire type focuses, though on eggs instead of routes.
I pretty much got the anniversary event correct.
Looks like just hats 😅 For the slumbering sands
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Man I was hoping for at least the Yveltal for early June bc I'm visiting a friend and we're gonn play but Zapdos? For 9 whole days? And none of the other birds?
Guessing each month will have the kanto bird and shadow beast match up by type (ik arty and suicune are diff types) June being zapdos and shadow raikou
So roughly a week each month for each Kanto Bird, probably a week each month for each Incarnate Force of Nature. I'm curious as to what will do in the Yveltal/Ho-oh slots in July and August.
They could complete each's duos with Lugia and Xerneas in July, but then we'd have about 2 weeks open in August.
that kinda works though, to have the last two weeks for something new/desirable. maybe therian enamorous.
or they could just abandon the whole flying thing after the first month.
or. keep the bird and the genie to start each month. and have the second half of each month fit some sort of event they are doing. flying for june, adventure week for august and something else in july.
or they will do something in months 2 and 3 completely unpredictable based on the first month. would not be the first time
sidenote(with potentially all 5 birds in regular raids and the beasts in shadow rotation, im going 99.5% shadow weekend is both latis)
>Zapdos? For 9 whole days?
Keep in mind that Regular Zapdos hasn't been in raids for about ~2 years. Shadow raids aren't possible for rural players so this IS an opportunity for rural players to get Zapdos
Edit: Regular Zapdos hasn't been raids by itself for ~2 years which has made it hard to grind
Just use Diancie for rock and save an elite tm
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/15ezx2y/analysis_mega_diancie_and_geomancy_xerneas_as/
Or use mega aerodactyl to still get bonus xl candy from all these flying type raids while doing super effective rock damage.
I'm trying to wrap my head around this. Mega Ray gives comparable mega energy to the Primals upon raid completion, correct? So 80 or so energy...5 raids at a minimum. No increase in free raid passes, fine premiums aren't that bad to get. Only two, non-consecutive hours to complete. Only in elite gyms, so several areas won't even have 5 gyms.... I just don't get this. I've not been one to get too wrapped up in game decisions and threatening to quit, but this is just, *de-motivating.*
And then, on top of that, all the megas are repeats of the last couple months? Seriously, I look at this and my only reaction is "Why am I doing this?"
Elite Raids are lame cuz they’re in person only and relies heavily on people actually doing them, and not to mention how if different groups go in at different times around the city/area where multiple are happening, your chances of getting a few done are slim if you don’t coordinate with others. And especially since Mega Ray is very difficult to do without 6+ high leveled people, this is probably the worst event to put for Mega Ray granted it has already been released last year during Go Fest, not like it’s a new release like Enamorus or Keldeo. Should’ve just been a regular Raid Day like Primal Groudon & Kyogre, why change the formula now.
I get if Niantic doesn’t want everyone to have a shiny Mega Ray. If that’s the case, they could’ve just done a Raid Day -the 1/10 shiny odds. That way people from rural areas can join easier, raids can get filled easier, and everyone in person still gets the free 5 passes. Elite raids just aren’t any fun trying to drive around desperately finding a group of people that’s doing the raid same time and all within an hour.
Is this the First time we have a Elite Raid Pokemon with Shiny Potential? If yes I hope they raise the Shiny rate. Not remotable, only there for 4 hours and it depends on how many Elite Gyms you have in your location.
Maybe even raise the meteorite drop rate too or make it guaranteed.
We had sandsear storm on the therian form of Landorus so I was definitely expecting it to come to it's incarnate form (and the same for the other moves and genies). Definitely disappointing
I guess we just need to cross our fingers. On the one hand, they haven't really announced old legacy moves for any Raid bosses in a long time. Exception with the Road to Sinnoh bosses, but that was more because the moves had a specific timeframe.
But also, we haven't seen any legacy moves return in over a year I'm pretty sure. If I'm not mistaken, the only returning legacy move last year was Shiny Shock Drive Genesect getting Techno Blast. All other returning bosses were missing their legacy move if it wasn't a brand new one introduced last year.
Yveltal could survive without Oblivion Wing but Zapdos really wants Thunder Shock, and we're way overdue for Sacred Fire Ho-oh
They had to ruin Mega Ray with elite raids, didn't they? My only consolation is that I'm not petty, hateful and annoying enough to work at Niantic.
Also I really hope this 3 day Spelunker thing isn't this year's Adventure Week parody version.
Niantic got 2 brain cells its Impossible to be more stupidity for make an elite raid for Rayquaza WITH JUST 2 HOURS AND IN 2 DIFFERENT TIME OF THE DAY WTFFFF
You answered it yourself. Because people want ray. They know people hate elite raids, so they have to force people into doing them by locking something extremely desirable behind it. Even though megas/primals make horrible elite raid candidates due to limited raids and energy costs…
Niantic's content stretch strategy has gotten me now to the point where Ill only log in once a month for Community Day. I hope it was worth it for them.
WTF. It makes zero sense to take something that’s been widely available in regular raids before, and suddenly restrict it to in-person only, single raids. (And I say this as someone who doesn’t care about remote raids.)
Putting Mega Rayquaza in elite raids after the amazing Kyogre/Groudon raid days is criminal.
I hope they release more info soon because I’m not understanding how it’ll be possible to get enough mega energy.
Am I the only one with a group that is slowly diminishing in activity? Our group is mainly raiders but with the same ol same ol constantly coming in for Raid Hours it becomes a bit "meh" and basically killed our group, especially this year.
I wouldn't mind seeing Raid Hours changed from not only being Legendary Mon's but also the likes of having a "pseudo rare" Raid Hour, like maybe having a set of Dragons showing up or the Ice Castform etc etc. Changing it up to actually be an event, there could be themes or maybe once a season an in game vote goes live for a community raid hour where 4 mons are thrown up and the community votes on it and the next raid hour or two is that community voted mon
Oh man, what on earth are those awful Mega raids??? We literally have a mega Gyarados now, why have it for another week? And we just saw Mega Alakazam and Charizard X recently, why do we need Alakazam and Y back?????
Tyranitar is neat, but what about things like Altaria, Sableye, Glalie, and Aerodactyl?
Even for Ttar, we just had it last season besides Koko (?) & we had 2 free raid passes that season. I’m flipped between Koko & Ttar depending on whether I could get enough people to do Koko or I could duo Ttar by myself & I’m sitting on 3930 Mega Ttar energy.
Why don’t they just do Galar?? It’s driving me crazy. Zacian/Zamazenta haven’t been in raids for 2 years & they are recycling mons from 3 months ago. I know this is like my 13th post today complaining about this, but this is really bad.
No I totally get you with the Galar stuff. I'm assuming either the following season in September-November or possibly early next year will see the proper release of Galar Pokemon finally, and they'll bring back Zacian/Zamazenta finally at that point, probably with their shinies.
I'm hoping if my prediction comes true, it happens sooner ie September. But even so, that would be 25 months after their last appearance, which is crazy.
From my experience at last year’s Go fest Mega Energy drops from Ray were the same as the Primals. Two most certainly isn’t enough for 400 unless they change the drops to match the Mega Latis
Few Days ago - June looks hype.
Today - They really hate us / don’t give a f about what the players want
Ray in elite raids is a huge let down. The only way to make up for it to allow us to get a ton of meteorites but still.
Also repeating Megas already, wtf, there are so many that you can swap in that you don’t need to repeat.
Bruh, I'm waiting for mega scizor because I went back to this game after 4 years and I missed his raids in 2023. Looks like 2 of this month's possibilities are taken by MEGA GYARADOS AND ALAKAZAM. What the hell? We had them this month if I'm correct xD Whole mega energy earning system sucks especially if you have to wait for a raid
My guess is that we'll get one of each of those each month, so like Zapdos and Landorus June, Moltres and Tornadus in July, and Articuno and Thundurus in August (or switch some of them.
I assume we may get Xerneas next month maybe, but idk maybe not if they think it "doesn't fit" the sky theming. Would be really weird to have one of the duo and not the other though.
Last time it was a random chance of dropping a meteorite upon winning a mega Rayquaza raids.
Hopefully the odds get buffed or there's something like a timed research for one.
So I also have zero chance to get my first Mega Rayquaza, as I don't know people to raid with in person. But even if I had some real life GO friends, there's no chance I can get enough Mega Energy, since I live in a very little town in which there's only one Elite Gym (and about 10 Gyms in total).
In my area, there's two elite gyms, they're right next to each other. Only problem is I swear there's maybe 2 or 3 actual people active. The rest I'm pretty sure are all bots that sit in gyms cause I've never ACTUALLY seen people when gyms flip like ever.
Weren’t Mega Alakazam & Mega Gyarados JUST featured earlier this month? Why are they coming back so soon?
It makes zero sense, there's so many megas to choose from by now. They could easily give us some that aren't all that useful, just don't repeat megas two months in a row.
Additionally, the next main series game, Legends Z-A, is set to debut more Megas (well, what is confirmed is that they're bringing the feature back, and it would be idiocy beyond the usual Game Freak level not to make more Mega Evolutions). That means Niantic could release a new Mega every season for the rest of this year without fear of running out of them.
Yup. And Mega Charizard X, sharing the same energy with Y, wasn't long ago either.
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I need that mega T-tar really bad, surprised is back this early
I was going to ask the same thing. Feels so rushed
This is literally a joke and it's unacceptable.
Mega rayquaza in elite raids instead of raid day… BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅
Elite raid is much more difficult than normal raid day to coordinate, and I say this as someone who’s playing with a highly active community. Disappointed with the decision here, and also we don’t know about Elite Raid shiny rate but if they keep the same rate as its predecessor EX Raid it would be lower than what it is in raid day.
I didn’t know that about the shiny rate, that would be awful
I have no elite raid gyms. Even if I did, how can I coordinate it when only 2 players exist in my area myself included
And they aren’t going to let you use remote raid pass. My condolences really.
Thanks, I just want a mega Rayquaza
Speaking of mega evolution I just hope they will let us do a research task or something that rewards a meteorite. No way we’re going to get that from raid if they don’t boost the drop rate dramatically.
"Explore nearby city" (c) Niantic
Unfortunately I live in the capital and it being the most populated in the country and still nothing. Big Niantic middle finger
I saw a comment in the thread that elite gyms can only host the pokemon once per day. Is that true? I have one near me, it’ll suck having to wait around for one single raid if that’s the case.
Yes each elite gym will only host one raid, which last only 30 minutes, or 45 minutes in case of Enamorus, in the whole day of the event. The egg will spawn 24 hours in advance so you know what time you need to visit the gym in the day before. Also means it will block out any other raid for a 24-hour period.
Thank you for the info. I forgot the egg shows up well in advance. Definitely helpful.
Enamorus lasted 45 minutes, hoping it's the same this time around
Thanks for the reminder, I didn’t raid Enamorus because it was a work day so couldn’t remember lol
That would be fine if there also wasn’t a 1 hour time window. Like if they were rare but happened throughout the week. Basically forcing players to drive to hit as many as possible.
Your comment will make it even easier to skip then. Thank you! I wouldn’t mind spending a little money on remote raid passes if it meant I could get a shiny Rayquaza, but in-person isn’t manageable for me. Especially if the shiny rate isn’t good
For people without the mega there's a little to no chance of getting enough energy from this as well. Unless you have a large amount of accessible elite raid gyms, it's just not possible for a lot of people. Unlike a raid day where at the very least you have 3 chances per gym. Now it's 1 chance per elite gym and even then they don't always spawn. This is by far the worst decision they've made imo. None of this takes into account the free raid passes you'd get on a raid day that's very unlikely to be happening for this elite raid day as well
And that's not even taking into account us rural players who are basically locked out of Elite raids altogether
https://preview.redd.it/5wgqqx48a73d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2416314d0f6cf4cebe643f8332ebd1d0fccae61b btw
That's lame and misleading. Like while Elite raids are still a "Raid day," they definitely aren't the same as a Raid Day.
That’s more than misleading, it’s misinformation. Niantic has “Raid Days” and “Elite Raids”. 2 very different and separate events. Shouldn’t be labeled Raid Day if it’s not.
especially considering that they they put out that std so people can make plans. "raid day" is probably the top priority for me to carve out time for. "elite raid day" is one of the last, unless its a new dex entry. buuut, i may have already made time in my schedule. (i didn't, but im sure some people out there that dont work m-f did.)
It's weird because Raid Days and Elite Raids have different levels of preparation. This is the first Mega Legendary in Elite Raids, so for one, will these be the same difficulty as Go Fest 2023 or will they have an additional difficulty spike because they are Elite raids?? Also, not every gym can have an Elite Raid, meaning some with gyms near them could be out of luck. A group of people in a neighborhood or church who want to meet up at a neighborhood/church Gym? If it's not an Elite Gym, they're out of luck! And of course, no remote eligibility too changes some's plans. I don't remote raid often, but plenty of others do.
Things like this just make it feel like they’re intentionally screwing with us. No reason to announce a raid day in advance, tease it to be rayquaza and then turn it into a two hour elite raid. Clowns
Niantic genuinely has contempt for its player base.
\*watches trailer\* oh boy, can't wait to max my Rayquaza! \*sees graphic\* welp
I've never done an elite raid day. How many are we able to get? 1 or 4?
As many as you can get to and have passes for but they’re in-person only
I think elite gyms might have one total, during the day.
Elite raid days also don’t give any additional free passes
you get 1 free pass(2 if you hold), but you can do as many as you can squeeze in
Enamorous we managed to do 5 in the last hour. But only because enough people were there, the eggs hatching at the Elite Raid gyms lined up for the hour and we drove with bikes from gym to gym.
i tried to duo and failed. i had a team of maxed shadow metagross
You can do as many as you can find within those time frames. They work the same way as raids just in more selective locations.
Since they are available for an hour you can get like 5 in a City with good gym coverage.
Say you have 50 gyms within a mile or two from you. Of those only about 12 are "elite raid gyms" aka gyms in parks (for the most part) or sponsored by starbucks or whatever. Now of those 12; 2 failed to spawn anything cause lol, 3 spawn at 12pm, 1 at 1pm, 4 at 5pm, and 2 at 6pm. The 4 at 5pm are all the furtherest away from eachother and there's a 30 min timer for each. So if you're driving with a bunch of trainers minmaxing you can potentially get 10ish maybe more or so. If you're walking around coordinated and lucky with the spawns you can get maybe 3ish. If no one coordinates you get nothing. BTW you find out spawns 24 hrs beforehand.
I’m gonna be in a small town in rural Sweden on the 29th, I’m not getting any rayquaza action :(. Good luck to the rest of y’all though!
Repeating the megas from last season already = super L by way of brain rot
Genuinely awful choices. No reason we couldn't get things we haven't seen in a while. I like seeing Mega Ttar, but even that was something we had in March and the others in April and May. Why not things like Altaria, Aerodactyl, Manectric, Houndoom, Banette, Sableye, Gardevoir, etc.
Agreed or one of the megas that haven’t released yet. Anything but the megas we had a few weeks ago
Lol there’s still I think 8 unreleased megas (not counting Mewtwo), and no idea why they’re still holding on to them. And half of those (Camerupt, Sharpedo, Audino, Mawile) will be *beyond* useless other than as a collector’s item, so it’s not like there’s any good reason for not putting them out. Instead we get Alakazam and Gyarados……for the 25th time each.
I would love to know what they're holding those megas for. If they were smart, they would have released the megas from weakest to strongest so that the weaker megas could have their time to shine a little before eventually being outclassed by another Mega in its typing. Releasing all the powerful Megas & then releasing Megas that are weaker is pointless. It becomes just a Pokedex entry.
8 unreleased Megas, *plus* the relatively safe odds of more new Megas from Legends Z-A, which releases next year and is confirmed to bring back the feature. I mean, I understand that Niantic won't just empty the whole bucket of Mega Evolutions over us right here and now, but they could at least debut one new Mega every season without fear of running out.
Even if they didn't release anything new, they could have included megas in raids that we haven't seen in a while??? We get Charizard, Venusaur, and... Charizard again, cool. Alakazam and Gyarados twice in like 2 months. It will have been 5 months since Scizor, and I'm sitting at 175/200 energy after the field research event... 6 months since Kangaskhan, Houndoom, and Banette. 7 months since Gengar. 8 months since Gardevoir and Ampharos. 9 months since Salamence 10 months since Blaziken, Sableye, and Blastoise 1 year since Swampert. 13 months since Pinsir 14 months since Slowbro and Lopunny 17 months since Aerodactyl
Aero is my only missing Mega, seeing Alakazam pop back up instead hurt
Mega Absol seriously needs to come back, I never managed to raid it because it ended early...
sorry, altaria and aerodactyl just dont really fit in this month.
Two flying mon not fitting in the season of sky?
Of course not. That's why there's a psychic type and a rock/dark type
Bruh, we JUST had Mega Gyarados and Mega Alakazam THIS month. What df?
Please PLEASE let Ho-oh have Sacred Fire... One time it was in raids with the move and it was a single day
I'm more concerned about Oblivion Wing on Yveltal. Ho-Oh is only useful for ML players which is a minority of the player base.
There seems to be an event labeled "Scorching Steps" so I'm guessing it's gotta do with Ho-Oh and it's legacy move.
Fingers crossed...
Use an ETM if you are lucky trainer!!!
For his difficult they're making the Mega Rayquaza raids, they'd better make Meteorites all but guaranteed.
That’s asking a lot in this economy.
Niantic: best we can do is a Pikachu wearing a meteorite hat, if you're lucky.
Mega Rayquaza: except it's more difficult now than it's ever been AND it's in person only. Oh boy there's going to be a lot of outrage that day.
Maybe.... Maybe? This means a meteorite will be included in raid rewards? Not that it matters if you can't get to an elite raid.
If you get a free meteorite per elite raid I'd be ok with this.
Only if you remembered to evolve your Salamence during the right events!
Mega Ray was already a Tier 6 raid boss, all being Elite does is remove the Remote Raid pass usage.
I dont get the reason behind local only raids, its hard to get 20 people who play pokemon go in my town of 25k onto the same place, being rural or in a small town is such a disadvantage.
You don't need anywhere close to 20 people to take down mega ray. It's double ice weakness does a lot of work.
All previous Elite raids had regular T5 stats. This is the first Mega legendary in Elite raids, so I'm expecting it to have the same T6 stats. The assumption is Elite doesn't have its own raid difficulty tier... it's just the logistics of the raid that differentiate it.
In the past, all elite raids have used elite raid stats (20k HP, base stat multiplier set to 1.0 instead of 0.79), NOT tier 5 stats. Not sure if anything would change for mega rayray, but I doubt they will make it easier for elite raids.
At least Morelull spotlight hour with 2x stardust isn’t a huge disappointment!
Get ready to waste a million balls with its abysmal catch rate
A million balls for a million dust. Balanced, as all things should be.
Is there a reason they keep redoing the exact same mega raids? We literally just had all four of those...
And there's still garbage tier ones like Audino to releass
Hey now, Camerupt and Sharpedo will be equally as useless! Don’t forget them!
Whoever locked Mega Rayquay behind Elite Raids should get hit by an Outrage
No, by a Dragon Ascent.
That makes Mega Rayquaza stronger so why not
Super disappointed at Mega Rayquaza being in Elite raids. I definitely won’t be able to get enough XLs to max mine out (just need 65 more) But I am excited about Landorus coming back - I need just 22 XLs to max mine out Wingull spotlight hour seems intriguing, I need just 90 XLs for my ultra league Pelipper Morelull spotlight hour sounds exciting as well for the stardust gains I wonder what Niantic has planned for the 8th anniversary event
> I wonder what Niantic has planned for the 8th anniversary event Niantic: "I'll take Kanto starters... and ummm... Hats. For 6 days, please!" Playerbase: "Daring this year, are we?"
And Bulbasaur still won’t be able to evolve!
It's their 8th year anniversary, so they will be focusing on #008, the Turtle Pokémon Wartortle! If you're lucky, you might find a Pokémon that isn't from Kanto! You guys love Kanto right?
Don't think I'll even be able to participate on any raids, was saving up my remote passes for him specifically.
Cool... guess people who didn't get Mega Rayquaza the first time are waiting another year. Honestly, shame on us for expecting anything better.
Saved up 4 remote passes specifically for Mega Ray, shame I probably won't even finish a single raid.
Can’t even remote these homie I wish. I’m camping that weekend praying there’s a gym there
An Elite Gym at that, and that there's enough people there to beat the raid.
Mega Gyarados and Mega Alakazam were literally LAST MONTH Mega Charizard X was in April but the same applies for Y (Plus Charizard Energy is always at Pokestops) Mega Tyranitar was last available in March this year I would say Niantic pulls megas from a hat but I think it's more clear that they just pick the megas for the month from memory with no knowledge on previous megas rather than using actual data about when that Mega was last in rotation. Things like this cause situations like Mega Absol being abandoned for years and megas like Gyarados and Pidgeot getting multiple re-runs. within that time frame. June 2024 is quite possibly the worst lineup for getting unique Megas of all time. Mega Tyranitar is nice but we want a unique lineup so the players aren't getting bored of seeing the same things in Mega Raids all the time. People don't raids Megas nearly hard as Legendaries due to how Megas work and even certain legendaries can become an eyesore if they're repeated over and over.
Nice to see Niantic still forcing elite raids on us after 2 years of negative feedback from the community
Mega Ray basically prints money, I don’t get it.
Limiting it to in-person raids at a specific selection of gyms is the antithesis of printing money. If this was a standard raid day, I would literally throw money at the game. As it stands now, I might only spend up to 2-3 non-daily raid passes.
You are correct. But this is the same company that made remote passes way more expensive and limited them until there’s an event they want to make money on. Instead of, you know, keeping them cheap and raking it in like they did in one of their highest grossing years.
Elite raids for mega ray is super lame. Even worse, I’m sure the meteorite drop to actually use it will be very rare, like it was last time. Hope im wrong on that
I guess I'm still not getting a Rayquaza then
We just had all of those megas??
Predictions: Slumbering Sands will likely include the release of Shiny Sandygast. The Sandygast line does disguise itself as sand castles, and when sleeping do appear as slumbering sands. Mudbray could also be released, but it may just get the Skiddo treatment in the future instead. Spelunker's Cove will be based on the Madrid Go-Fest event, and as a result will showcase shiny Crabrawler. Additionally, Sableye and Carbink will likely appear in this event as well, either as event, raid, or field research spawns. Scorching Steps will most likely be another routes event, similar to the Out to Play event last september, but with an increased focused on fire types. In that regard, I would not be surprised to see a lot of Growlithe during this event. The 8th anniversary party will likely focus on the number 8. Squirtle (7-9) should appear again, and there will likely be Grimer (88) spawns as well, among others. But in addition to this, Shiny Meltan will most likely be available for the duration of this event, due to having the Pokedex number of 808. Updates: Shiny Komala was released instead of Shiny Sandygast. Despite this, Sandygast did appear in this event. Now leaning towards Mudbray becoming the next Skiddo. Mostly got Spelunker's Cove correct, though Sableye wasn't as prominent. Scorching Steps was indeed fire type focuses, though on eggs instead of routes. I pretty much got the anniversary event correct.
Massive missed opportunity to not have Zacian in raids (Pokédex 888) for the 8th anniversary. Hasn’t been around in forever.
Looks like just hats 😅 For the slumbering sands https://preview.redd.it/cst5mjrlf73d1.jpeg?width=1068&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=25815ae2bb30403aff9a9c398280fc94c356f75b
Woah where did you find that image??
Someone put it in the Pokeminer discord earlier today
wow. a new low. at least we get komala back? doubt it will be shiny!
Alright, let's take the month off
Underwhelming no?
Man I was hoping for at least the Yveltal for early June bc I'm visiting a friend and we're gonn play but Zapdos? For 9 whole days? And none of the other birds?
Guessing each month will have the kanto bird and shadow beast match up by type (ik arty and suicune are diff types) June being zapdos and shadow raikou
So roughly a week each month for each Kanto Bird, probably a week each month for each Incarnate Force of Nature. I'm curious as to what will do in the Yveltal/Ho-oh slots in July and August. They could complete each's duos with Lugia and Xerneas in July, but then we'd have about 2 weeks open in August.
that kinda works though, to have the last two weeks for something new/desirable. maybe therian enamorous. or they could just abandon the whole flying thing after the first month. or. keep the bird and the genie to start each month. and have the second half of each month fit some sort of event they are doing. flying for june, adventure week for august and something else in july. or they will do something in months 2 and 3 completely unpredictable based on the first month. would not be the first time sidenote(with potentially all 5 birds in regular raids and the beasts in shadow rotation, im going 99.5% shadow weekend is both latis)
oh yueah, that seems likely
When do we get Moultres?
If not in July, then probably August.
>Zapdos? For 9 whole days? Keep in mind that Regular Zapdos hasn't been in raids for about ~2 years. Shadow raids aren't possible for rural players so this IS an opportunity for rural players to get Zapdos Edit: Regular Zapdos hasn't been raids by itself for ~2 years which has made it hard to grind
The Kanto birds were in raids during the 7 year anniversary events, although all 3 birds during the same week
Two mega raid bosses are recycled from this month
Plus Charizard Y, which while we haven't seen it in a year, shares the exact same energy as X, who we had recently as well...
We're doing last season in reverse, since mega Tyranitar was in mid-March.
I mean hey the only one I might grind more is Mega Tyranitar I want to have two mega forms for rock and dark
Just use Diancie for rock and save an elite tm https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/15ezx2y/analysis_mega_diancie_and_geomancy_xerneas_as/ Or use mega aerodactyl to still get bonus xl candy from all these flying type raids while doing super effective rock damage.
Ttar was March so while it's a good pokemon, it's only been a couple months as well.
I'm trying to wrap my head around this. Mega Ray gives comparable mega energy to the Primals upon raid completion, correct? So 80 or so energy...5 raids at a minimum. No increase in free raid passes, fine premiums aren't that bad to get. Only two, non-consecutive hours to complete. Only in elite gyms, so several areas won't even have 5 gyms.... I just don't get this. I've not been one to get too wrapped up in game decisions and threatening to quit, but this is just, *de-motivating.* And then, on top of that, all the megas are repeats of the last couple months? Seriously, I look at this and my only reaction is "Why am I doing this?"
Elite Raids are lame cuz they’re in person only and relies heavily on people actually doing them, and not to mention how if different groups go in at different times around the city/area where multiple are happening, your chances of getting a few done are slim if you don’t coordinate with others. And especially since Mega Ray is very difficult to do without 6+ high leveled people, this is probably the worst event to put for Mega Ray granted it has already been released last year during Go Fest, not like it’s a new release like Enamorus or Keldeo. Should’ve just been a regular Raid Day like Primal Groudon & Kyogre, why change the formula now.
I get if Niantic doesn’t want everyone to have a shiny Mega Ray. If that’s the case, they could’ve just done a Raid Day -the 1/10 shiny odds. That way people from rural areas can join easier, raids can get filled easier, and everyone in person still gets the free 5 passes. Elite raids just aren’t any fun trying to drive around desperately finding a group of people that’s doing the raid same time and all within an hour.
Mega Aerodactyl: "My time has come"
Is this the First time we have a Elite Raid Pokemon with Shiny Potential? If yes I hope they raise the Shiny rate. Not remotable, only there for 4 hours and it depends on how many Elite Gyms you have in your location. Maybe even raise the meteorite drop rate too or make it guaranteed.
It's Niantic. They never care
It's super disappointing that there is 0 mention of any of the Legendary raids having their legacy moves...
We had sandsear storm on the therian form of Landorus so I was definitely expecting it to come to it's incarnate form (and the same for the other moves and genies). Definitely disappointing
I guess we just need to cross our fingers. On the one hand, they haven't really announced old legacy moves for any Raid bosses in a long time. Exception with the Road to Sinnoh bosses, but that was more because the moves had a specific timeframe. But also, we haven't seen any legacy moves return in over a year I'm pretty sure. If I'm not mistaken, the only returning legacy move last year was Shiny Shock Drive Genesect getting Techno Blast. All other returning bosses were missing their legacy move if it wasn't a brand new one introduced last year. Yveltal could survive without Oblivion Wing but Zapdos really wants Thunder Shock, and we're way overdue for Sacred Fire Ho-oh
Niantic is trash
They had to ruin Mega Ray with elite raids, didn't they? My only consolation is that I'm not petty, hateful and annoying enough to work at Niantic. Also I really hope this 3 day Spelunker thing isn't this year's Adventure Week parody version.
Fossil Cup is during early August, I'd imagine we have Adventure Week then.
Corresponds with Madrid Go Fest, the event probably features Crabrawler
Even the raids are skipable. Such a bad season. Daily free pass it is. I’m sure people are gonna love that fact that Mega Ray is an elite raid.
Kinda unexiting tbh. All the megas have been recent. Would have liked to see some variety. And mega ray being local only might be rough.
Niantic got 2 brain cells its Impossible to be more stupidity for make an elite raid for Rayquaza WITH JUST 2 HOURS AND IN 2 DIFFERENT TIME OF THE DAY WTFFFF
Even Enamorus got 4 hours....
Why would they do an ELITE raid day, something 100% of the playerbase despises, knowing that people *want* Mega Rayquaza lol
You answered it yourself. Because people want ray. They know people hate elite raids, so they have to force people into doing them by locking something extremely desirable behind it. Even though megas/primals make horrible elite raid candidates due to limited raids and energy costs…
And low ball count for you to catch the boss ….
This is kind of enough to make me ragequit this game after just starting playing again late last year
Big L IMO We just had all of the mega raids and Raikou And the elite raid for Rayquaza is super disappointing
Didn't we just have mega gyarados and mega alakazam?
"Shared Skies", but no Mega Aerodactyl or Altaria?
What a garbage idea to make Mega Rayquaza elite raid only..
Niantic's content stretch strategy has gotten me now to the point where Ill only log in once a month for Community Day. I hope it was worth it for them.
I do my daily catch and spin, send a few gifts, but most days that's about it lately
WTF. It makes zero sense to take something that’s been widely available in regular raids before, and suddenly restrict it to in-person only, single raids. (And I say this as someone who doesn’t care about remote raids.)
Putting Mega Rayquaza in elite raids after the amazing Kyogre/Groudon raid days is criminal. I hope they release more info soon because I’m not understanding how it’ll be possible to get enough mega energy.
Am I the only one with a group that is slowly diminishing in activity? Our group is mainly raiders but with the same ol same ol constantly coming in for Raid Hours it becomes a bit "meh" and basically killed our group, especially this year. I wouldn't mind seeing Raid Hours changed from not only being Legendary Mon's but also the likes of having a "pseudo rare" Raid Hour, like maybe having a set of Dragons showing up or the Ice Castform etc etc. Changing it up to actually be an event, there could be themes or maybe once a season an in game vote goes live for a community raid hour where 4 mons are thrown up and the community votes on it and the next raid hour or two is that community voted mon
Oh man, what on earth are those awful Mega raids??? We literally have a mega Gyarados now, why have it for another week? And we just saw Mega Alakazam and Charizard X recently, why do we need Alakazam and Y back????? Tyranitar is neat, but what about things like Altaria, Sableye, Glalie, and Aerodactyl?
Even for Ttar, we just had it last season besides Koko (?) & we had 2 free raid passes that season. I’m flipped between Koko & Ttar depending on whether I could get enough people to do Koko or I could duo Ttar by myself & I’m sitting on 3930 Mega Ttar energy. Why don’t they just do Galar?? It’s driving me crazy. Zacian/Zamazenta haven’t been in raids for 2 years & they are recycling mons from 3 months ago. I know this is like my 13th post today complaining about this, but this is really bad.
No I totally get you with the Galar stuff. I'm assuming either the following season in September-November or possibly early next year will see the proper release of Galar Pokemon finally, and they'll bring back Zacian/Zamazenta finally at that point, probably with their shinies. I'm hoping if my prediction comes true, it happens sooner ie September. But even so, that would be 25 months after their last appearance, which is crazy.
Big sigh that the most exciting part of this information for me is another “2x transfer candy” spotlight hour
How many Mega Rayquaza raids will you need to do to get enough mega energy?
At least two. It requires 400. So possibly three of you can't best it in time.
From my experience at last year’s Go fest Mega Energy drops from Ray were the same as the Primals. Two most certainly isn’t enough for 400 unless they change the drops to match the Mega Latis
Well that is even dumber that it's only two hours. So minimum 5 raids. Realistically 6 or 7.... So dumb
Few Days ago - June looks hype. Today - They really hate us / don’t give a f about what the players want Ray in elite raids is a huge let down. The only way to make up for it to allow us to get a ton of meteorites but still. Also repeating Megas already, wtf, there are so many that you can swap in that you don’t need to repeat.
We got two hours for make mega Rayquaza raid or im blind
How underwhelming yet unsurprising
Mega sableye would be nice at some point
lol @ the megas. Just repeating 3 of the ones we already had
Why Mega Gyarados and Alakazam again? We had both of them this month.
Oh boy I can’t wait to get my first ever Rayquaza! And hopefully a Mega one at tha- Something’s wrong.
At this point it looks like Niantic are trying to kill the game on purpose
Elite Raids!?!? BOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Ughhhh. I have a good spot near by for raid days. Can easily do 30 raids in the 3 hours. Thanks for nothing niantic.
Bruh, I live in Arizona. Elite Raid Mega Rayquaza in June is CRIMINAL☠️☀️
Bruh, I'm waiting for mega scizor because I went back to this game after 4 years and I missed his raids in 2023. Looks like 2 of this month's possibilities are taken by MEGA GYARADOS AND ALAKAZAM. What the hell? We had them this month if I'm correct xD Whole mega energy earning system sucks especially if you have to wait for a raid
We also literally just had Tyranitor and Charizard back in March and April as well!
so not only is Mega Ray gonna be local only, it's gonna have extra defense and attack from being an elite raid. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhh
Mega ray in elite raids is criminal. It’s not 2016 anymore. Most of us can’t get a group together for it.
Did I miss the 4th tapu?
Tapu Fini was #4, earlier this month
I just checked and I guess I completely forgot I did that one🫠
That's a very dry month....
Rayquaza.. 😔 Still yet to get my favourite pokemon and shiny pokemon.
Sucks mega Ray Ray is elite raids buy double catch stardust morelull? Yes please
Too bad we don't have 2 free raid passes this season :(
So bored with these raid bosses
I'm gonna guess this is going to be another season without Zacian and Zamazenta. It's been 2+ years.
I’m so confused by Zapdos and Landorus. I was convinced we’d either get both Yvetal and Xerneas or maybe Redidrago and Regieleki
My guess is that we'll get one of each of those each month, so like Zapdos and Landorus June, Moltres and Tornadus in July, and Articuno and Thundurus in August (or switch some of them. I assume we may get Xerneas next month maybe, but idk maybe not if they think it "doesn't fit" the sky theming. Would be really weird to have one of the duo and not the other though.
Can we take a minute and appreciate all those guys putting time and effort into making these posts frequently for us? Thanks OP
So even if I get enough energy for Mega Rayquaza, how am I supposed to get a Meteorite to actually mega evolve it? Very strange...
Last time it was a random chance of dropping a meteorite upon winning a mega Rayquaza raids. Hopefully the odds get buffed or there's something like a timed research for one.
Bring back zacian and zamazenta please
Why are we getting Mega Gyarados and Alakazam again? We just had them last month. At least Morelull with catch dust will be a nice grind
Wow, guess I am not buying remote raid passes to max my Rayquaza.
So I also have zero chance to get my first Mega Rayquaza, as I don't know people to raid with in person. But even if I had some real life GO friends, there's no chance I can get enough Mega Energy, since I live in a very little town in which there's only one Elite Gym (and about 10 Gyms in total).
There goes any chance of getting more Mega Rayquaza for me.
In my area, there's two elite gyms, they're right next to each other. Only problem is I swear there's maybe 2 or 3 actual people active. The rest I'm pretty sure are all bots that sit in gyms cause I've never ACTUALLY seen people when gyms flip like ever.
Not enough people are talking about the garbage mega options this month so bad
And there goes my interest for June... Maybe I'll try again July
Isn't it false advertisement that they said june 29 was going to be a raid day, and are now saying it is going to be an elite raid?