Pokémon GO added Dynamaxing to the cellular recreation solely simply over a month in the past, with the accompanying addition of Max Factors, all-new Pokéstop-like Energy Spots, and the flexibility to Max Battle your monsters. And as we speak, it’s adopted up with the announcement of the arrival of Gigantamax Pokémon, with a relatively splendid trailer.
Dynamaxing was added to the Pokémon universe in November 2019, with the discharge of Gen VIII mainline Change video games, Pokémon Sword and Protect. It was primarily a particular transfer given to your pocket monsters, profiting from the sport sequence’ returning to massive screens by permitting them to grow to be pink-hued colossal variations of their regular selves in battle, to dish out a handful of extra-powerful “Max” assaults.
Pokémon GO, which exists in a deeply muddled model of the franchise’s timeline, has extra just lately been including Gen IX Pokémon whereas its Gen VII Pokédex stays riddled with vital holes, then solely launched Dynamax Pokémon in August this 12 months.
5 weeks later, we’ve been given the main points of the additional addition of Gigantamaxing, a particular type of Dynamax that was additionally in Sword and Protect, which relatively than merely enlarging the Pokémon, additionally transforms their bodily look, and provides extra-special G-Max strikes. So far, solely 32 Pokémon ever gained the flexibility to Gigantamax, the idea by no means translating to the TCG (which as a substitute acquired VStar and VMax), and was changed completely with Terastallization in 2022’s Scarlet and Violet, in each the Change recreation and card recreation.
As has grow to be an odd however good custom, Niantic has chosen to announce the brand new characteristic within the type of a horror movie-like trailer, this time displaying folks reacting to what appears to be like like an alien assault on their cities. Given the perfect of all of the Gigantamaxes, Orbeetle, turns into a literal UFO, that’s fairly applicable.
Then, with barely disappointing cheese, we see world leaders calling on Pokémon trainers to step up and save us from these menaces, as a bunch of standard folks seize their cellphones and look proudly at each other, almost certainly fist-bumping.
It doesn’t present us how the characteristic will work within the recreation, however given absolutely the clusterfuck of how Niantic added Dynamaxing with out really explaining any of it, there’s a good likelihood they wouldn’t be capable of in the event that they tried.
But, for all my infinite cynicism about how Pokémon GO seems to be in some Producers-like quest to destroy itself, I can’t wait so as to add a Gigantamax Gengar and Snorlax to my Pokédex.
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