Pokémon Go Event Rollup, 11/29/2019

I find some event rollups for Pokémon Go are hard to write, in the sense that their scheduling is difficult, not in that I'm lacking content for them. A previous example of this occurred seven months ago with the event rollup for that month. This month, that seems to be the case, as a particular event had only started a day ago. Because I wanted to include it in this month's event rollup, I wanted to experience it for at least that one day, which means I could only write the rollup starting yesterday. But then I'm due for quite a bit of chaos on the weekend, as previously noted on a special Thursday. That means the rollup has to be today, but that's fine; at least now I can definitely write about them.

One of the definite events of this month is the Colossal Discovery event that many participated in early this month, but the "core" of that event is a paid one, and I already discussed it then. But even if one didn't pay to access the "core" of the event, one could still participate in the "remnants" of the event, as the increased raids and the return of the Three Titans in raids could be raided by anyone, and during the actual event duration, one could still stock up on Candy from the additional featured Pokémon. Further, if one purchased the access to the event but then couldn't participate at any time, one would receive another kind of "remnant": the Special Research tasks would change into a more general form, allowing for ease of completion at any time, but the rewards do not. All of the perks for this are still great in any case.

In the third week of this month, there was an event called Super Effective Week. During that week, Pokémon that are strong and potentially useful in any kind of battle appeared more often. In fact, Level 3 raids absolutely exploded with them, and many could also be raided solo under most conditions. Healing items, as Potions and Revives, were also featured in greater amounts, which should also have helped with the battles that require them. If anything, this event became an incentive to conceive the necessary troops for those battles. I personally would love for this event to be repeated at some point, and so would perhaps some of my raid fellows.

The Team GO Rocket expansion this month is not really an event - more like the greater form of a feature - though the Special Research almost makes it seem to be that way. However, one effect from it could almost certainly be construed to be as such. In similar fashion to what happened in July, all PokéStops were taken over by them for a period of three hours, this time from 11 AM to 2 PM - though the execution of this personally ended up conflicting with a different agenda on that day. Regardless, I was right back then that this could stand to be repeated, and it happened this month. There's no telling if this will happen on a regular basis, but that would still at least provide a little something to do.

The latest event, the one I had mentioned as starting only a day ago, is called Friend Fest and will last up until all this weekend. The event features not only "friends", but "family", as it also features Pokémon with a "familial" appearance to them, including some multi-headed "friends". Some unique Field Research tasks are also especially devoted to the Nidoran "family", more so if one is willing to go through them. As well, trades are cheaper by half and Trainers can make two Special Trades a day, and friend boosts become more beneficial in raids. Those are all neat features to be sure, even if the event duration is somewhat short. I may think any of these could be replicated in another event, though not necessarily the same one.

With all of the events that have happened this month, one thing is definite: events in Pokémon Go are not short on the things they offer, provided they happen. What may be short is the window I have, in being able to write about them (another indication being the time that this post was finally posted). Still, all of these events definitely provide some progressions within the realm of Go, and that much I can expect. I also might expect difficulties in deciding to write the rollups of further months, but that's to be dealt with if it definitely happens.

One year ago: Multiple Pathways to Evolution?
Two years ago: The Words of a Pikachu