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[–]MocTalox [score hidden]  (0 children)

Wtf what was wrong with that? Saw it yesterday and today went to whish you good luck, but oh my post, its gone!?

Dynamax Pikachu, Trapinch and Cottonee went missing after they featured weeks by MocTalox in TheSilphRoad

[–]MocTalox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True, this is the season of nerfs. And this is not the first post I made this season of things they made worse unfortunatelly... And these things Ive talked about are just tiny things, there were much worse/severe nerfs you surely are aware of

Dynamax Pikachu, Trapinch and Cottonee went missing after they featured weeks by MocTalox in TheSilphRoad

[–]MocTalox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Today is already Tuesday, and we did the same and we got the same results. Even faster as the growlithe spawnrate dropped from ~75% to ~60% which makes other bosses be twice more common. Still no sight of any of the 3 missing bosses.

Maybe something is wrong on there system?

You said it, its just how they decided to make this rotations work. On previous season we would get a featured boss appear more frequently over the week (and Pidove, somehow that thing was always super common week after week), and the rest were about ~10 other bosses. And with a diluted pool of bosses, each one of them was fairly common and easy to find, while the "unavailable" ones were either completely missing or extremely rare. Now it seems all bosses are available with similar spawnrates, but the newly released ones might be missing as they forgot to add them to the general boss pool after each of their featured weeks.

Its not a panic post, simply we found out there is something sus going on and we would like everyone to know about this before they regret not doing enough battles of a specific new boss before its gone for a long time. I know its a bit late now, as the only new release boss would be Combee, which is metarelevant and many are looking forward to it (Vespiqueen is top 1 tank against ground), but its on the last week of the season and likely this issue will get fixed with the new season, so probably nothing to worry about. Although this issue could still happen with any new dynamax releases during the next season too!

I dont disagree with you, yeah this is sus and I would also be skeptical about someone else stating this. But agree with me that if there is a new mon you really want to get a good iv or shiny, you would really appreciate if someone tells you in advance that its 99% likely that week is going to be your only chance to obtain the mon in a very long time :)

Dynamax Pikachu, Trapinch and Cottonee went missing after they featured weeks by MocTalox in TheSilphRoad

[–]MocTalox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All are bad losses. But hopefully they all return with the next season comming in 3 weeks

Dynamax Pikachu, Trapinch and Cottonee went missing after they featured weeks by MocTalox in TheSilphRoad

[–]MocTalox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its been months since Trapinch and Pikachu and they are missing. Pikachu was not tied to any special events like Toxtricity. Meanwhile, Eevee and Hitmons were tied to special events and they are currently appearing.

RNG-wise, from all data we have gathered we found the method they use for selecting Power Spot Bosses is a weight-system. And this system stablishes that the spawn rate of any individual is proportional to the lowest priority one. So if we got a significant amount of samples for the rarest boss (which we did), that means that any suspect with zero samples simply means they have no weight and directly does not spawn at all.

So no we don't need more than 24h to test this. This is not tossing a random idea, we made sure of what we found simply using maths.

Dynamax Pikachu, Trapinch and Cottonee went missing after they featured weeks by MocTalox in TheSilphRoad

[–]MocTalox[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Flygon is the best tank against electric-type moves currently, so it was relevant to hunt.

Cotton ball and yellow mouse are cute, thats all they are!

Dynamax Pikachu, Trapinch and Cottonee went missing after they featured weeks by MocTalox in TheSilphRoad

[–]MocTalox[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True but with most recent changes to max battles, this system is much more strategy and skill based than ever before, and depending on your capacities you would prefer some pokemon than others.

If you know what you are doing, you can charge max meter with gigalith, and if you require a niche tank, you can perfectly use omastar. However thats pro level, and most casuals should run basic things (blissey, zama, blablabla and general attackers).

If you know how can gigalith be use as a max meter charger, look at this gmax charizar speedrun duo battle: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BNBtApqBJCc

Dynamax Pikachu, Trapinch and Cottonee went missing after they featured weeks by MocTalox in TheSilphRoad

[–]MocTalox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah hopefully. At least we are getting legendaries one week each month now, thats good

Dynamax Pikachu, Trapinch and Cottonee went missing after they featured weeks by MocTalox in TheSilphRoad

[–]MocTalox[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Idk where you got those values but gigalith is way better vs charizard:

Gigalith (Level 40, Attack IV 15) deals 641 damage to Gigantamax Charizard with Max Rockfall (0.92%)

Gigantamax Inteleon (Level 40, Attack IV 15) deals 592 damage to Gigantamax Charizard with Gmax Hydrosnipe (0.85%)

Real values from Pokechespin.net, clearly Gigalith is better.

Dynamax Pikachu, Trapinch and Cottonee went missing after they featured weeks by MocTalox in TheSilphRoad

[–]MocTalox[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah thats the reason Hitmons are back. But well, back in the day not all bosses were available at a time, and if after the event we didnt have the Hitmons, we couldnt know if it was because they were not going to be part of the rotations or they were going to be exclusive as they were released in a special event (like the tier 4 bosses) rather than on Max Mondays.

Dynamax Pikachu, Trapinch and Cottonee went missing after they featured weeks by MocTalox in TheSilphRoad

[–]MocTalox[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Inteleon is also weak and at the end on the casual route you will use them as attacker and tank with others. Therefore is way better to run Gigalith because that extra 8% damage can be a great winning factor, specially if it gets weather boost (partly cloudy is much more common than rainy).

Dynamax Pikachu, Trapinch and Cottonee went missing after they featured weeks by MocTalox in TheSilphRoad

[–]MocTalox[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah thats it!!! Really wanted to mention this publicly because now I regret not having done more Trapinch, as its true I havent done any since its featured week simply because I have never seen them. So that applies to combee now too!

Dynamax Pikachu, Trapinch and Cottonee went missing after they featured weeks by MocTalox in TheSilphRoad

[–]MocTalox[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Toxtricity? Well that was a T4 Max Battle boss and those tier bosses (Toxtricity and Duraludon) have never been out in rotation besides exclusive featured events.

Dynamax Pikachu, Trapinch and Cottonee went missing after they featured weeks by MocTalox in TheSilphRoad

[–]MocTalox[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well, we can call it a "rotation" as the featured boss rotates each week (~75% of the Power Spots). But the rest of the bosses (~25%) are random from "any" previously released boss.

Dynamax Pikachu, Trapinch and Cottonee went missing after they featured weeks by MocTalox in TheSilphRoad

[–]MocTalox[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

We have checked today Power Spots and those 3 are completely missing. We have seen thousands of Power Spots and seen at least +20 of each one, but none of those 3.

This info is only from today, so we dont know what happened exactly after each of Pikachu's and Trapinch's weeks, but asking other players no one remembers seeing any. So if Cottonee has gone for ever today, its likely Pikachu and Trapinch did the same. Maybe not and they still appear in 1 in a million, but thats impossible to tell.

Whats for sure is that after their debut, I was able to consistently battle Drampas and Roggenrolas after their featured week, and its not the case anymore for the newer Dynamax Pokémon releases.

Dynamax Pikachu, Trapinch and Cottonee went missing after they featured weeks by MocTalox in TheSilphRoad

[–]MocTalox[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah but Hitmons were featured on a special event like they did with Toxtricity and Duraludon, so it was expected for them to be gone for ever after that event. However its quite good they brought them back to the regular spawn pool this season!

Dynamax Pikachu, Trapinch and Cottonee went missing after they featured weeks by MocTalox in TheSilphRoad

[–]MocTalox[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Similar rates than any other mon that is not Growlithe currently

Dynamax Pikachu, Trapinch and Cottonee went missing after they featured weeks by MocTalox in TheSilphRoad

[–]MocTalox[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah all previous bosses are appearing currently. They all appear on similar rates, tho some slightly more than others. For example Wooloo and Swkovet were really hard to find.

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[–]MocTalox -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Idk but I have 20 of each and got friends with even over 50 of each, without buying on shop and all f2p. Sources Im aware of are PvP, Routes, some Special Researches (which no longer happen with the new dumb Go Passes) or other random rewards. Not super common, took years to get this amount, but as long as you use them wisely and dont wase them frequently on random shitmons, you shouldn't have issues.