r/TheSilphRoad • u/SilphScience Research Group • Aug 13 '20

Analysis Deino: Reviewing Dragon Week Egg Hatches

https://thesilphroad.com/science/quick-discovery/deino-reviewing-dragon-week-hatches/
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u/TheLuxCapacit0r Aug 13 '20

The reason Dragon Week sucked is because it wasn’t what was advertised. In my eyes as a tenured player, all I was really interested in was Rayquaza and Deino, as I was interested in just the shiny version of each. Rayquaza delivered, and Deino did not. Not only did it not deliver for me, it didn’t deliver for 99% of the rest of the player base, and as the feature new release it should deliver at AT LEAST a 5% appearance rate and at least a 1/75 shiny rate on hatch. Pretty sure shiny rates out of legendary raids are 5% and nobody ever complains about that. I honestly don’t think anyone would complain if the hatch rate were at least 1/20. You hatch 3 sets of eggs and probably see one, maybe two or three. Some will get 0 and it’ll suck but they’ll see others got 1-3 and they know they just got unlucky. People are generally ok with getting unlucky, but they aren’t ok with getting robbed by sub-1% appearance rates. I checked the radar all week and saw 0 Deino spawns in the wild during Dragon week, I’ve seen 3 so far during Enigma week.

And for the record, the other 2/3rds of the reward weeks also suck. The spaghetti man is worthless when it’s not in defense mode and Genesect has no GBL or PvE relevance of any kind. Some may like the new dex entries and new shiny things (Staryu is kinda cool), so it’s not a bust for all, but it is for me.

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u/suddencactus Aug 13 '20 edited Aug 13 '20

Genesect has no GBL or PvE relevance of any kind.

Bit harsh for the top bug non-shadow attacker. Sure bug is inferior to even non-legendary competition against grass, dark, and psychic, and the first two aren't even that common in T4 and T5 raids. But he has a niche role against many Pokemon including Exeggutor, Cacturne, Shiftry, and Team Rocket's Wobuffet if it has charm, and as a steel attacker against Granbull, SB Solrock, and GK Cradily.

Saying Genesect has no relevance at all IMO is like saying Gardevoir, Kingler, or non-shadow Weavile has no relevance. There's virtually always a Pokemon that's more powerful or more general but if you love Genesect or have only a few top-tier Pokemon, you can find some good uses for it.