Niantic Talks Pokemon Go Community Day Classic, Potential Pikmin Bloom Crossover, And More
Niantic is mixing up the Pokemon Go Community Day schedule with tomorrow's Bulbasaur-themed Community Day Classic, a first-of-its-kind bonus community event coming just a week after the Spheal event on January 16.
While we love the idea of extra Community Days--and we love Bulbasaur--this new initiative does raise some questions. We sat down with the live game director Michael Steranka, who shed some light on the strategy behind the extra event and whether or not we'll see more of them in the future.
The first question we had was a simple one: Why was Bulbasaur the best choice for this first-ever Community Day Classic? Besides our insisting it was because Bulbasaur is the best--something Steranka said was «up for debate»--the first Pokemon in the Pokedex was a logical choice for multiple reasons.
«Bulbasaur was one of the first ever Pokemon we featured in a Community Day,» Steranka explained, «as well as a Pokemon that is very relevant in PvP. Also, there's a great thematic element where in the Pokedex, he's literally number 001. So we thought, let's start with him and see where we go from there.»
The Community Day Classic event will also award the highly-effective Frenzy Plant move to any Ivysaurs who evolve into Venusaur during the event. While other Community Day events with returning Pokemon debuted new moves--Eevee's second Community Day, for example, featured Eevees knowing Last Resort--keeping Frenzy Plant on Venusaur here was a conscious decision.
«We brought in brand-new moves for re-featured Pokemon from earlier Community Day events, but we received a lot of feedback that players want access to the original hyper-powerful moves–Frenzy Plant, Blast Burn, Hydro Cannon, etc--and we wanted to honor that.»
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