Although I've written quite a bit about Pokémon Unite this month, I've somewhat "fallen off the wagon" in writing about the events that go on in the game. Fortunately, there is one recent (more specifically, ongoing) event that I can write about, and it's a pretty significant and fascinating one. It concerns a group (or type) of Pokémon and having them duke it out against one another as well as others already in the game. By the title of the event, it becomes clear that no ordinary Pokémon are involved.
The Dragon Carnival, as it is called, involves the six Pokémon species of the Dragon type that are already in the game (Dragonite, Garchomp, Duraludon, Miraidon, Dragapult, and Goodra) and playing with them in various ways. The primary part of the challenge involves selecting them two by two for a series of tasks that require either their usage by the player or at the least their presence in a battle. Completing these tasks rewards points, which can then be traded for a set of goodies, the most significant being a clothing set based on Raihan the Duraludon Trainer. This may be the only enticing part, apart from completing the set of Unite Licenses for these Pokémon and getting experience of using them in battle.
Like previous "festive" events (Pika Party and Eevee Festival), this event also features a unique map, called "Full-Burst Battle! Dragon Dustup", which allows all six - and only those six - Pokémon above to be played, with repetition allowed much like the Eevee Festival unique map. The base of the map is Mer Stadium with only Swablu and Altaria as the regular wild Pokémon, Regidrago as the only "boost" Pokémon (which also marks its debut, appearing intermittently), and Rayquaza in the legend pit with similar effects as with Theia Sky Ruins. The map is an intense one - losing footing once could mean losing the entire battle at the end, though as always, anything can happen.
In order to encourage playing the map, aside from the challenge above, there is also a selection of missions with daily tasks and repeat tasks that can be played to earn points, which at specific milestones will allow the earning of useful items that can be used day in and day out. Even so, the missions as well as the above challenge also have tasks that don't require (and in fact require something other than) the unique map, although admittedly the map is more helpful in certain circumstances. Still, the effect is that the unique map is definitively incorporated into the event, and it as a whole presents a unified aspect that demands lots of play with the Dragon-type Pokémon species as above.
Dragon-type Pokémon are significant in their own right, even those that have appeared in Pokémon Unite. With that, the current Dragon Carnival event is a fitting tribute to them, being also a significant and definitely writeable event that is also fitting of my current run of Pokémon Unite posts. Fittingly, it should prompt any player to duke things out with the involved Pokémon - which in fact has happened for me to prepare this writeup - and challenge things supremely with the aid of some extraordinary Pokémon.
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