However,Ive been enjoying Dynamax battles.
However, Gigantamax is going to change things.
Gigantamax Pokemon are the real gimmick of Gen 8.
While every Pokemon can Dynamax in the Galar region, only a select few can Gigantamax.
Its like Mega Evolution and Z-Moves combined.
But Pokemon Go has already messed up its implementation.
You cannot evolve Pokemon caught in Dynamax raids into their Gigantamax forms.
The perfect, 100 percent IV Charmander I caught?
It cant evolve into Gigantamax Charizard.
The shinies that others managed to snatch?
Nope, not them either.
In Pokemon Sword & Shield, this is also the case.
you better enter a specific Gigantamax Raid to capture a Gigantamax Pokemon.
However, theres a workaround.
This came in handy when I was breeding Lapras for a competitive tournament back in 2020.
However, I was soon surprised to find a shiny after just a handful of egg hatches.
Its IVs were mediocre, but it was shiny.
Pokemon Go has none of this.
This is because Pokemon Go is a live-service game.
It needs you to enter as many raids as possible because they cost money to do so.
Everything in Pokemon Go is designed to keep you playing the game and encourage you to spend money.
Pokemon Go will never add Max Soup, because it wants you to raid Gigantamax Charizard with 10-40 friends.
Its entire business model relies on you doing that.
It doesnt care that all your friends stopped playing when it made the remote raid changes.
It doesnt care that you got a hundo or a shiny Dynamax Pokemon.
It wants you to grind out Gigantamax battles all over again to get another one.
Pokemon Go is, in its heart, a wonderful game.
The summer of 2016 proved that much.
Finding monsters in your actual neighbourhood is a brilliant idea that Niantic executed perfectly.
Sometimes the best route to profit is by allowing your players to have fun.
Let me drink the soup, Niantic.
Let Charmander reach his full potential.
