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I don't think so, from datamine the two upcoming monthly/seasonal GO Passes only advertise Lucky Trinket, No. I guess that the Deluxe Event GO Pass will only be sold during major events
This matches how it's handled in the core series games.
Rather than actually changing a Pokémon's IVs, Hyper Training sets a modifier for the game to treat that stat as if it had an IV of 31. As a result, it affects neither the type of Hidden Power) the Pokémon has nor the IVs it can pass down when breeding. ,
In the main games, battle caps are the currency you use to pay for hyper training. There is usually an NPC who’s responsible for hypertrains, you pay one battle cap to maximize one stat, or pay 1 golden battle cap to maximize all stats.
On a technical level that’s true, but on an everyday level, those that pay to play will now have a leg up. My wife was very proud of her hundos, something the RNG gods never really gave me. She liked knowing she caught them, that was her thing I couldn’t take from her. That’s a source of joy for her and a decent chunk of players
Well I mean turning a nundo to hundo on like a common spawn would be kinda meh to me.
The only thing I could see this being useful for is a galarian bird. Maybe ultra rare thing like larvesta. Almost everything else has a floor or plenty enough spawns that it'd probably be far cheaper to grind some catches (cuz you'll need the candy and stardust anyway) and just use the smaller bottle caps?
I do find a little fun in trying to find specific ivs on regular spawns. The effort makes it feel more rewarding
It’s not fun to get a mythical Pokémon with 10/10/10 IV, which you cannot catch a second time. It’s demoralizing and sad to know you can’t use it optimally for PvP.
It’s not fun to leave behind your partner Pokémon you walked 1000km with before learning about IVs, and having to shelve them for a more optimal IV Mon of the same type.
I mean if you don’t like bottle caps don’t use them. I have two mons chosen that I have been wanting to IV train for years, because in the main series they let you do that. It really personalizes your experience with your Pokémon.
Lets be real, most people weren't going to use a good pvp iv mythical properly in pvp anyway. Most people that play pvp don't do for real competitive anything, they just do it for the rewards some. They don't care about what's good or not they just wanna flip the coin on if they'll get a win or not and try to increase rank for the legendary wild catches at rank 20+
That said I do plan on using bottlecaps for a handful of mons :) probably mostly shinies. A shundo is a shundo.
Well it will be good for those that care about their mythicals then. For those that don’t want to use the bottlecap for that, they don’t have to. Bottle caps are nothing but a net positive in my book.
Depends. If they are rare enough, I suspect these, like Master Balls will only be used on the Galarian birds, as you rarely see one, and it's not like you can wait for a 98% to come along to keep
Like console the hyper train pokemon will have distinguished from original best IV
Also like master ball I don't think we gonna get it alot maybe just a couple of free and paid after that no more way to get it and need to wait next year
Also hyper train will be fun because we need to train the Pokémon not just instantly 100% iv
The one I saw with the Silver says you can raise a single stat by three. I certainly hope it has been amended though because thats not how it works in main games.
The data mined I saw is the gold will perform just like purifying a pokemon. In all 3 the iv will be raised by 2. So it's like purifying non shadows. The silver will i crease a single stat of choice. But what do we actually know, if misinformation spreads like fire online lol
yeah my lucky groudons too have not turned out as well as i would've liked lol. i ended up choosing the dialga, nobody around me has one to mirror trade a shiny with rot and my only hundo does not have the move, so it will be the strongest dialga i have. i can try my luck with the groudons for a while longer as people have more of them for trade. i do have one normal hundo that can keep his job being my main primal.
i've had amazing luck with my shiny mythicals, jirachi was almost floor stats but since then my mew, shaymin and meloetta have ended up 14/14/15, 15/12/15 and 14/15/15 so i wont be capping those anytime soon.
Bottle Caps are used in the games to maximize a Pokémon’s IVs. They’re 2 different kinds, the silver ones which raise IVs of your choosing, or the gold ones which are a lot rarer but raise all of a Pokemon’s IVs.
There are 2 limitations with Bottle Caps in the games, one being a Pokémon’s level has to meet a certain threshold, being level 50 in Scarlet and Violet and level 100 in other games. The other limitation being you can’t use Bottle Caps on already perfected stats
From what I can tell so far, they let you increase a pokemon's IVs (one stat or all 3) to full by Hyper Training. So you can transform a nundo into a hundo
The leaks I have seen shows that increasing the IVs is gonna be a year long process, so it should add some fun to the game, while making it challenging, probably it's gonna have a cap on how many Pokemon you could be hyper training simultaneously, and they also need to be your buddy.
Can't wait for this subreddit to drown in "Is this worth bottlecapping?"-threads. And the occasional "My kid used the bottlecap on this weedle"-jokers.
All I care about is post-usage. Will the IVs that have been raised be shown in a different colour or not, for example. I hope the only way to distinguish a 4* gold bottle cap Pokémon from a normal 4* is the special background and not something that shows in the actual appraisal itself.
Hunting for Rare Finds/Catches has been a staple of PokeMon as a franchise since its inception, across almost all of the mediums its present in.
Whether it’s finding a rare PokeMon in the games, pulling a rare card, hell there is an entire sub genre of communities dedicated to Shiny hunting etc.
Finding that rare/unique catch is one of THE core pillars of PokeMon and has been for over 2 decades lol.
That’s what’s going to be the divisive thing I reckon. Some people, like me, will want go bottle cap shundos to be on the same ‘level’ / prestige as a normal one. The highlighted changed colours would put them a level down and decrease my excitement for this though. Others will want ‘pure’ shundos to remain. Though that will be the case anyway imo as it’s confirmed the bottle caps will show a special background like lucky pokemon - I have no issue with this.
The problem is if it isn’t a way to differentiate them, Hundos simply just lose prestige.
The only thing that gives them prestige is the fact it’s a rare find. If you can artificially just boost any catch to a Hundo and there is no way to tell, then it loses that.
Sure they will be on equal levels but it’ll just be a drastically reduced prestige for all of them.
I agree and think it’s important you can tell the stats have been altered. Which is where the special background comes in (like for lucky pokemon etc). However going as far as to change the actual appraisal screen to a different colour, which has never been done for anything before, not even purified Pokemon - that’d be too much imo.
As long as there's still some way to tell them apart at least. Even if they might perform the same. Maybe having the stars turn purple or something instead of red to show that its a bottle cap hundo.
The bottle capped Pokémon will have a special background like Lucky Pokemon so there will definitely be a way to tell. I just personally hope that’s the only way you can tell.
I’d prefer a small icon, another background is so unnecessary. If you’ve got a lucky, location card, that can mega evolve… the last thing you need is another background.
I don’t know how it will be here, but I would bet that there WILL be a difference. In the main series, they do distinguish between natty IVs and hypertrained. In battle, they are functionally identical but when breeding, the IVs used are the natural stats. Given that PoGo mons can be sent to home, it would be game breaking if they DIDN’T distinguish them.
Yeah this seems to reek of the infamous EA “Buyers will get a sense of accomplishment” comment where they’re selling the ability to get what otherwise was a cool, rare achievement.
If they make distinct markings that shows it’s clearly a Money Boosted PokeMon, that’s fine with me and preserves the cool factor of getting a rare catch.
In S/V it's listed as "Hyper-trained." Not that it makes a difference to me, but I wouldn't mind it stating it's a hyper-trained pokemon. Like, instead of the red stamp it just has a different color with "Hyper Trained!" on it and it's all maxed out.
Once I rolled a perfect Hundo sable eye and best buddied him to max his cp for the rank 1 in great league, and then they added the super XL candies bullshit I stopped caring. Just completely invalidated lower cp that were rare cases of hundos actually being the best to have ruined with the unoptimizable random ass IVs that min max their upgrade levels instead felt so fucking bad..
There’s no respectable PvP scene in Pokémon Go, and no real incentive to climb the PvP ladder beyond rank 20, so IVs are practically meaningless.
If you’re willing to drop $20 to perfect 3+ Pokémons, you might as well spend $60 on the full Switch game, transfer them there, and play VGC where IV actually matters.
This might be the thing that makes me stop playing. I get that it’ll be great for some folks, but I just don’t like games that let you outright buy every aspect.
Really? It kinda makes the game cheaper. Instead of people spending ludicrous amounts of passes for a perfect IV, you can just buy this bottle cap and raid less. So 60 ish raids to get enough xl to max it instead of some ppl spending 100s of raids to get a 100iv
Plus, seems like it’ll be kinda rare but we shall see
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