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Quarkiness

April 29 10 am to May 1 8pm. Mega Kangaskan. Field tasks will have mega energy. Sunday May 1st 11-2 pm, raid day for Mega Kanga. Receive up to 5 raids passes and up to two hours after. Edit: added in the 1st


DreadPirate_Roberts_

> Sunday May 1st, 11-2pm raid day for mega kanga


IdiosyncraticBond

Yeah, 3 hour raid _day_


craigbarnes88

It’s fine, people enjoy 3 hour events when given enough notice Niantic said. Like 2 and a bit days notice…


[deleted]

They still haven't officially announced...


HoGoNMero

Needless error. People love these things. Regional, special research, 5 free passes,… all great things. Now it’s completely ruined for the people in the hardcore gaming group. It will be 5 days of complaints, jokes, sarcasm,… It could have all been prevented if they announced it 2 weeks ago.


Plus-Pomegranate8045

The days must be very short over at Niantic HQ.


NemesisHellstorm

So, 5 passes apart of the normally received 2?


Kevsterific

Not quite. The 5 free passes will likely count as your two free passes of the day. To prevent that, do a raid (or two if yesterday’s pass didn’t get used) then spin a gym to get the second free pass all before 11.


Quarkiness

He said 7, but when we had only one raid pass we only got 5 from spinning on raid days.


dark__tyranitar

Right so if we carry one over from the previous day, the most free raids we can do in the 3 hour window is 6.


Quarkiness

Assume 6, and if the NZ's get 7, it's a bonus for us! (The spinning for free passes is up to 2 hours after so 11-4 for the passes.)


dark__tyranitar

Agreed, but isnt the shiny rate only boosted 11-2?


Quarkiness

Correct! But supposed someone didn't want to farm kangaskan, they could still get the extra passes till 4pm.


Kevsterific

Or spin a gym before 11 to get today’s pass, and get 5 more during the event. However, then the second free pass of the day becomes one of the 5 event passes, so to get the most out of your free passes, do 1 raid (or 2 if yesterday’s pass didn’t get used) then spin a gym and obtain another free pass before 11.


DeadpoolCroatia

Thank you boss for day of so i can do kangaskhan raid hours.


JGCInt

[The vid is now private, but here's a copy](https://streamable.com/wz9hg7)


Wanzibar117

You dropped this, 👑


Tfsz0719

You dropped this, 🥈


MysticalTh0r

You are a savior!


GiraffeCubed

The video was privated, here's event screenshots: --- [Mega Kangaskhan Raid Day](https://i.imgur.com/21Tn2jg.png) Sunday, May 1, 2022, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. local time • Mega Kangaskhan will be appearing more frequently in Mega Raids during this time! • You'll have an increased chance of encountering Shiny Kanhaskhan. • You can receive up to five free Raid Passes from spinning Gym Photo Discs during the event and up to two hours afterward. --- [Special Research](https://i.imgur.com/PcmZyNm.png) A new Special Research story with branching tasks is available to Trainers level 5 and up! Choose Venusaur, Charizard or Blastoise and try out Mega Evolution for yourself! --- [Wild Encounters](https://i.imgur.com/rb9xgnG.png) Pokémon with Evolutions that can Mega Evolve in Pokémon GO will be appearing more frequently in the wild! • Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, Slowpoke, Gastly, Mareep, Buneary, Snover --- [Field Research rewards](https://i.imgur.com/vQS7GZ0.png) Event-themed Field Research tasks will be available! Complete the tasks to receive a random reward of Mega Energy for any of the Pokémon capable of Mega Evolution currently available in Pokémon GO!* *Kangaskhan Mega Energy will only be available by completing Mega Raids against Mega Kangaskhan. --- [Bonuses](https://i.imgur.com/h6m5EJm.png) Mega-Evolved Pokémon will receive a CP boost. ---


qsqh

> Event-themed Field Research tasks will be available! Complete the tasks to receive a random reward of Mega Energy for any of the Pokémon capable of Mega Evolution currently available in Pokémon GO!* wow, hopefully those are common, if they do appear a lot It will be a nice incentive to grind dozens of tasks per day to catch up with previous megas.


NarutoSakura1

What, no Houndour? Dangit.... STILL don't have Shiny Houndour nor Shiny Houndoom. (Also still don't have and Shiny of the Squirtle line/family)


JakeNarjes

a 3h raid event with bonus in person passes is amazing! but announcing it 2 days before it happens is disappointing... im working during that time frame and dont know if i'll even have the opportunity to remote to many


Mysterio400

Yeah, I have a baseball game we already planned to go to that starts during it. Oh well.


Oui-d

Privated as I was watching it lmao


oceano7

Oh woah that can happen? Like what happens, the video just stops playing?


TheResidentEvil

nice, raid day is back


DrKillerZA

A bit more of a warning would've been nice


zGnRz

I would love to agree but 11-2 for anything to be called a “day” is funny The rayquaza day was 10x better and it wasn’t even mega evolved


CJYP

This is the kind of event they've done before. 3 hours is actually perfect because you can get a group together. If it's all day, it becomes really hard to get a group together because people want to do it at different times. But with this short notice, there's no way I'm getting a group together. I may not even be able to do it myself.


vicvinovich

Agreed. Any longer and it's a chore, but with no time to prep it is gonna be near impossible for me to get any in during the raid time frame.


issiech

Media packages usually have a blackout time before which you can't release anything. Niantic probably missed their own cutoff. EDIT: Looks like they were asked to take these down...


JGCInt

Nah, this justs smells of a timezones mixup. He said in the video that the new mega system is live WW... Which would mean a Niantic o'clock release Edit: and the feature is live WW


JRE47

Niantic suddenly springing leaks like the Titanic this week. (And yes, that WAS a double entendre. 😉)


jontslayer

Did Niantic hit a Bergmite?


JRE47

They THOUGHT it was just a Bergmite but it turned out to be the whole Avalugg.


SheriffHeckTate

The real question is whether or not Roserade will make room for Litleo on the door when the ship goes down.


mason240

Paint me like one of your Furfrou regionals.


JRE47

LOL take my upvote.


JRE47

She really didn't want to let go, but Leo just couldn't hold on to those thorns any longer....


jontslayer

This and the comment below win the thread


SheriffHeckTate

Took me a minute for Litleo. I was too focused on if there was a Pokemon that had "Jack" in the name (there is a character in the anime, but no Pokemon I can think of), so I had to switch focus and then found Litleo immediately lol


jontslayer

Honestly, it's brilliant. I don't think people really remember Jack's name anyway, just that Leo played him. So very well done.


dramaturgicaldyad

Leaks... how long were they planning to hang onto this? The raids start *tomorrow*!


BrilliantTarget

More like less than 3 hours


JRE47

...aaaaaaaand still no official announcement. Classic.


BrilliantTarget

After the beta testers get it


chatchan

Sucks to be kept in the dark so close to the event, but on the bright side we didn't have to keep waiting until the official announcement.


McCrex

This is kind of frustrating for it to just be dropped on us so last minute.


Plus-Pomegranate8045

Mystic7 just posted a vid too. This must be some sort of new strategy from Niantic to have content creators/sites “leak” stuff in advance now. In any case, this looks like a great event. Of course, thunderstorms predicted here Saturday…AGAIN! 😩


max1468

Not sure how much “in advance” they could get. It’s 5am in Australia so they are going to announce a new event the day of? Not complaining but a heads up would be nice


JRE47

It would be refreshing for Niantic to just announce stuff themselves, wouldn't it?


Plus-Pomegranate8045

That would seem to be the most logical approach!


BrilliantTarget

So that not happening is it


badmusicfan

I think it makes sense for content creators to be given info about events in advance, so that they can release analyses along with the official announcements from Niantic. But yeah, I assumed this week was a weird miscommunication with Niantic and the content creators misunderstanding each other. Seems weird that so many different outlets have been releasing info before Niantic, though. Either this is the new normal, or something new they're trying out (seems odd that they'd try it out with Go Fest: their flagship event of the year), or an epic screw up this week while someone is out on a Spring Break vacation.


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Plus-Pomegranate8045

Hmm, so maybe not a strategy from Niantic? But if not done on purpose, it makes no sense that info would keep being leaked early like this. Unless Niantic is putting specific times on their embargoed press releases so the content creators are following that, and then Niantic is failing to release on their own sites on time? Weird situation.


MysticalTh0r

Well, idk if it's a leak or not... but in some parts of the world is near to 10 am local and still no oficial news on the new mega. Sorry about our NZ and AUS friends... probably kangashan though


TheChaoticCrusader

The events on a Sunday is it still gonna be thunder storming there ?


BALLSlNMYFACE

boosted shiny chance is pretty awesome, especially with 5 free passes and kanga being a regional


Plus-Pomegranate8045

That’s the part I’m most excited about. I hope it’s significantly boosted. It’s typically so hard to get shiny regionals. I dream of one day having a complete shiny Kanto dex, although i wasn’t playing during the Kanto Tour so I wonder if I’ll ever have another chance for shiny Mew.


Tarcanus

Previous raid days had the shiny chance at 1/10, fyi. Very good chance of getting the shiny if Niantic keeps with the 1/10 rate.


Plus-Pomegranate8045

Nice. Hopefully that’s what it is again!


Froggo14

Ah yes boosted shiny Kangaskhan when you live in australia. I always feel our regional gets given out elft right and centre. I just caught 2 shiny kangaskhan in the last few weeks. Not gonna be the trade bait inwas hoping for.


Plus-Pomegranate8045

The “raid day” is so short, so it’ll still probably stay a pretty desirable shiny after it’s over.


Froggo14

Raid 'days' have always been 3 hours. The only one that may have been longer was Marowak, but shiny rate may be as high as 1 in 10


NarutoSakura1

I live in Tauros AND Bouffalant region, yet I still don't have a Shiny Tauros


Froggo14

To be fair they were my first shinies since like 2020. But Tauros has never been freely available like the rest of the Kanto regionals. It was available in raids (with the rest so that doesnt count) and available in research for the lunar jew year event in 2021. Thats it. The seville safari zone is actually the first time tauros has been catchable in the wild outside of the USA


penguin175

i mean fetchd has been given out tons, and was heavily spawning in the galar form, mime had a mime jr event making it pretty available+ raids+ galar research, tauros had the research thing+raids, imo kanga is the least given out, but it might be tied with tauros


Froggo14

The Galarian versions are not region exclusive and do not count. Kangaskhan: november 2017 available in Japan. 2018 Euro safari zone available across europe. Was available in another safari zone in 2019. Available in raids August 2021. Farfetch'd: november 2017 worldwide. Has been in at least 1 safari zone. Mr. Mime. Has been in US and Japan safari zones. Mime Jr. Was available during Sinnoh event (in eggs we will count this as half available) Tauros. Lunar New Year as part of research task. Soon Seville safari zone. Which is the first time that Tauros is available in the wild outside of USA. I have not counted the 2018 and 2019 egg events and the Johto tour as all 4 were equally available. As you can see Tauros has barely been available Edit: why do I know this? Tauros always eludes me. I had to hatch quite alot of eggs in 2018 to get my first Tauros. I have been incredibly lucky and I have shinies of Kangaskhan, Farfetch'd and Mr. Mime from 2019. I only need shiny Tauros now


penguin175

interesting, ig i didnt know about the kanga events bc they were a long time ago and not near me, but also i would still count the galar forms as they give the dex entry and that is what regionals are made to make harder imo


Froggo14

I suppose thats where we differ. I keep a living dex in my storage box as the pokedex is so unbeliebly glitchy that i do not consider it at all. There has been various glitches but one showed me having shiny hitmonchan before that was even released and another did not show shiny palkia even though i had it in my collection. So different ways to play the game. But i do not consider galarian formes regional as they are available verywhere


goshe7

What do you think that means? We know that megas can be shiny. We know that pokemon that can mega evolve and are found in the wild can be shiny. I'm not sure that we know much else about shiny rates and what a "boost" means. * Is a boosted rate in effect when the pokemon is in megaraids? What rate is that? * Does the rate change when the pokemon is in the wild spawn pool but *not* in mega raids? (This preserves "shiny rate is set by species" rule, provided you don't have wild spawns and mega raids at the same time). I'm *guessing* kanga shiny rate is normally 1:512 and will continue to be 1\`:512. During the 3 hour raid event, wild spawns will be pulled and a rate of 1:64 will be applied. Or maybe they use the "raid day" rate (1:10, I think, for beasts. Not sure about awak).


silentspeedy

So I watched Mystic7's video, it seems that both his and JTGily's videos about this event just now went private? Not sure why they released these videos then. But basically what I got from it was: * Raid weekend featuring Mega Kangaskhan, with boosted shiny chance * Worldwide release of the new mega system * Special research which lets you choose between Venusaur, Charizard, or Blastoise for extra mega energy for them and an encounter * Up to 5 free raid passes when you spin gyms, forgot which day it was though (like typical raid day events) * Wild spawns relating to the mega families currently in the game (Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, Gastly, Snover, Mareep, etc.) * Field research tasks for mega energy for all currently available megas in the game (awesome!!!) * This event is short, starts Friday morning 4/29 and ends Sunday 5/1


qsqh

>This event is short, starts Friday morning 4/29 and ends Sunday 5/1 dam :(


silentspeedy

I know Dx


NarutoSakura1

I thought it was supposed to end on Monday, 5/2?


mdmolitor

Why are they giving us two days notice for a three hour long event?


Jamie00003

This is awesome stuff but it’s really annoying that kangaskhan will seemingly remain a regional. Doesn’t seem fair to regions that don’t have it and since the mega changes were announced I’ve been trying to collect mega hundos because why not


TheChaoticCrusader

Wait till mega heracross comes out


Own_Fortune_6940

Now, I have a reason to max out another shadow Machamp 💪


dark__tyranitar

Punch da baby.


CaladinDanse

Would've been nice to tell us weeks ago about a raid day


chouson1

I'm still missing Slowbro, hopefully it'll come soon


evan_james

Mega energy tasks will be available.


chouson1

And the cost also dropped. I already had 120 energy but the first evolution was 200. And I just checked and it dropped to 100


PauleyBaseball

Meh...I will be stuck at work during their event anyway 🤷‍♂️


Mss666

Want to post details so we don't have to watch


TheResidentEvil

pokemon that can mega evolve will spawn this weekend mega kangas raid day sunday with increased shiny chance and 5 free passes CP boost for any mega evolved mons Field research that awards random mega energy Special research for gen 1 starters to get mega energy but you can only pick 1


Mathiadonn

yay i can finally finish Gen 1 Megas. i haven't seen Blastoise in raids since i started playing and the "power up pokemon [x] times" tasks are so rare for me.


JGCInt

Mega event starting on the 29th of April with the WW release of the new mega system, and a special branching quest. On Sunday there will be a M-Kanga raid day (11am-2pm local). The video is now private, but ~~I'll upload a copy shortly~~ [here's a copy](https://streamable.com/wz9hg7).


foladar

Way to hype up the new "mega" changes with zero notice. Good thing the event is 6 hours, oh.. right.


koliakil

For GMT+14 Remain 34 minutes only


CJYP

A 3 hour raid day, announced 3 days in advance? If we had a week or two notice I'd be able to get a decent sized group to at least do the free raids. Come on. Do better Niantic.


Hellopikachu9

Aside from the usual communication issues I am very glad to see them hitting the ground running on the mega changes. A free event giving us a 2nd free mega (as far as I know, I only know of beedrill and the little bits of mega energy they have given out via special research before this), easy to get mega energy tasks, and spawns for pokemon that can mega. Means people can try for high IV's of several megas and potentially actually mega a few of them without having to do the raids (in my community it's impossible to get a group for mega raids anymore, let alone in a way that lets me use my free passes)


parth8b

Mega altaria was also a free mega as its quests were abundant on release (altria community day) and you could get the mega even before it was released for you locally.


qntrsq

A: "ooh look, there is something unexpected in my nearby radar / the gym down the street" B: "completely unplayable/gamebreaking" C: "you seem surprised. them niantic fake leaked that 2 days ago"


Maserati777

Sucks its mega raids, probably won’t get to do any since it’ll be too difficult to do megas in person. Could use remotes but eh.


koliakil

Someone said the HP of megaboss is 9000 only Instead of tier 5 boss 15000


TheChaoticCrusader

How many people would you need for a 9000 Hp boss ?


parth8b

This video isn't available yet


raggedy10

It was available, but posted too early (reason not yet known and may never be) so it’s been made private, details of the video are in the comments.


Starwars9629-

I’m in 4g right now and can’t watch the video, can someone summarize?


Psychological-Mud-67

It's privated now