New Limited-Time Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Distribution Is Now Available

It feels like they give a gastrodon after every championship 😅

Gastrodon's one of my favorite Pokemon but this does seem like a rather pointless giveaway.

"Receive a free Gastrodon"

.... no thanks.

=P

Ok now I know I’m not crazy, they give this Pokémon away like every few months right? This is not the first time lol.

These event Pokémon used to be rare, often shinies with unique movepools. Now they are just very random and boring. Even the free mew isn't that special. (You can get one in BDSP)

@sanderev Yep. It seems TPC can't even be bothered to put any effort in giveaways either anymore. /shrug

We don't need constant legendaries during giveaways, but they can put a little more effort in these giveaways, like more unique pokemon, shiny versions, osv.

@Jeronan Most of these have been in the form of tera raids and knowing that the general public will pay for DLC, TPC/ GF will just throw their effort content into that.

@sanderev Yeah, I don't know how it has come to this but now everyone can easily get Mew, I got 3 on the Switch alone, with pretty much no effort.

One from poke ball plus, one from the gen 4 remakes because I own the "Let's Go" games, and now one from the code.

Mew used to be this special Pokemon that you had to work for, Usually involving getting your butt to a physical event location.

Now they just hand it out. Heck I could probably farm Mews by just replaying the Gen 4 remakes and transferring them to Pokemon home.

Yet another underwhelming Pokémon distribution. Doesn't really seem like there's anything special about this one. At least the last Arcanine WC Pokémon we got was shiny.

Gastrodon seems to be the go to Pokémon for these championships. Since 2019, Gastordon has been distributed five times, all of which had the same moveset more or less.

All five Gastrodon had Earth Power and Protect.
All five had an Ice-type move (usually Ice Beam, but this latest one had Icy Wind instead).
And the last move was either Recover (1st Gastrodon), Surf (2nd Gastrodon), or Yawn (3rd, 4th, 5th Gastrodon).

Nintendo needs to start distributing other Pokémon from these winning teams if they're going to keep doing this. Gastrodon has become ad nauseam at this point.

@sanderev yeah but BDSP was a terrible trip down memory lane. I love Pokémon but that game was so meh. Personally I did not enjoy it, and I'd consider it the worst remake in the series.

@HXLXIII Actually I liked it a lot. And still do. More than Scarlet and Violet. Which is my least favorite Switch Pokémon game. My most favorite being Legends Arceus and then Sword & Shield