Swinub Community Day is Here!
It's taken
Niantic Labs a bit longer than normal to announce the upcoming
Community Day for Pokémon GO, but we think we know why. We now shift our focus to
February, which will showcase a properly ice-bound tiny creature to fit the season, with
Totodile now a distant memory and
Feebas' short research day a kind of strange misfire.
Swinub will be the featured
Pokémon for
February Community Day, which will take place on February 16.
The
February Community Day in
Pokemon GO is only around two weeks away, so gamers are thinking about
Swinub and its evolutions.
Pokemon GO users will get
three hours on the
weekend of February 16 to capture as many of the
Gen 2 Ice-type creatures as possible and increase their collection with
shiny spawns, evolutions, and perhaps a few more surprises.
The core concept of
Community Day is simple: go out and capture a ton of
pokemon for
three hours, but things are different this time. For those that want a little more guidance, we've put up a detailed handbook with all the information you'll need for the big day.
At first glance, this does not seem to be a very intriguing feature.
Community Days often toggle between starting
Pokémon and uncommon three-tier evolution chains like as
Beldum, Dratini, and Larvitar.
Swinub is none of these things. It's been rather prevalent since it was initially introduced with the Ice-type event last year, and anybody who has played the game over that time period is sure to have plenty of candy for it, as well as an evolved
Piloswine somewhere in the mix. So, what's the catch?
Niantic is taking advantage of
Community Day to reveal
Mammoswine, Swinub's third-tier,
Gen-4 evolution. According to the release, you'll be able to use a
Sinnoh Stone to
evolve Piloswine into Mammoswine during or up to
one hour after the event, making this a unique kind of limited time Pokémon that we haven't seen in the game before.
During the event, we'll also be able to "
earn up to 5 Sinnoh Stones during trainer fights," but it's unclear if these will be guaranteed drops from bouts or not. If they are guaranteed, it makes sense: Niantic is utilizing the restricted evolution window to get people into the battling system who may not have used it otherwise, just as
Eevee community day was intended to encourage trainers to utilize the trade system.
It raises the issue of whether we'll be able to get
Mamoswine at some time in the future. Otherwise, there would be a lot of disgruntled trainers that missed out on this event.
Niantic has announced that the second
Pokémon GO Community Day of 2019 will take place in different areas across the world in
February. It will have increased
Swinub spawns, quadruple capture Stardust, three-hour Lures, and a special move for
Mamoswine, among other things. You must utilize the rare
Sinnoh Stone item on
Piloswine in order for it to develop into
Mamoswine. Shiny Swinub,
Shiny Piloswine, and Shiny Mamoswine will also make their
Pokémon GO debuts, based on prior
Community Days. Check the table below to see when event hours are in your part of the world:
- Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India: February 16, 2019, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. UTC
- The Americas and Greenland: February 16, 2019, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. PST
- The Asia-Pacific region: February 17, 2019, from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. JST
The remainder of the event is fairly normal fare:
3-hour lures, three times the catch stardust, and a special attack that might make
Mamoswine significant in trainer bouts or
raids. Otherwise, I'm all for greater experimentation when it comes to introducing or evolving new
Pokémon, so this seems to be a good idea. We'll see how it goes when it arrives.
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