The Bug Out Event Sucked

Not all events are created equal, but the Bug Out event we recently had was pretty damn lame. There was very little good about it, and the event just didn’t really do anything.

Now, Bug Types aren’t a great bunch. They’re often the punching bag of the Pokemon world, and can be split into two forms: the crap you catch on early routes and the hard-to-catch stuff later on that gets a decent secondary typing or a mega evolution or something. This event though only really contained the former. Sure, we got Mega Heracross in raids, but, well, the only decent thing in normal raids is Pinsir. Kleavor coming back is fine but it’s far inferior to Scizor and its mega evolution, and Beedrill is such a cheap evolution that it being in raids is a waste of space. Level 1 raids were the worst: Shuckle and Nincanda spawn in the wild and Pineco has been in and out of raids for months.

Speaking of wild spawns, while sure, it’s nice to have Combee spawning, but everything else is just bleh. Caterpie, Weedle and Wurmple were all spawning in the wild BEFORE the Bug Out event, and Wimpod and Cutiefly were both spawns in the previous event! I did see a few Scythers (which I do like) but I think they were kinda there by accident, because I saw a bunch of them before and after the event as well. But since the weather for me was Sunny for most of the event, 99% of the spawns were Sewaddle, which wasn’t shiny, was a pain in the ass to catch and was EVERYWHERE. And unlike all the other 3-stage spawns, Sewaddle is a full-costs evolution, and you NEEDED 125 candy to evolve one for the Collection Challenges.

Honestly, the Collection Challenges were fine, but the fact that we only got ONE chance at a shiny Shedinja sucked, and only getting 50 Mega Candy is a bit cheap, especially since we didn’t get Mega Pinsir or Mega Scizor in raids at all. Come on, give us half a Mega Evolution at least.

The research wasn’t much better. Burmy was reduced to research tasks for some reason, when it should have been a wild spawn – I mean, it’s just Burmy. There WAS an easy research task for Paras, which I hoped to stack for the double stardust event on April 16th, but it was a 50-50 chance of Paras or Venonat and I got Venonat every time. Evolve 3 Pokemon for 25 Pinsir, Scizor or Beedrill Mega Candy didn’t seem too bad, especially since Caterpie, Weedle and Wurmple are all very cheap evolutions.

I’d say that the bonuses were good, but they were mostly wasted. Getting extra XP on Nice, Great and Excellent Throws is always appreciated, but the higher chance at XL candy and getting more candy overall wasn’t that useful. There wasn’t really much worth getting candy on.

Thing is, the basics were there, but there was no real allure to any of it, outside of Mega Heracross. And even Mega Heracross wasn’t that big a deal because it got a Raid Day and everyone got their Mega Candy and everything then. We should have had more. Pinsir, Scyther and maybe even Beedrill, Scizor and Butterfree should have been wild spawns, not locked away in raids, and we should have had a matching Legendary/Mythical in 5* raids as well. Considering we just had Kartana and Celesteela, bringing back Pheromossa wouldn’t have been ill-fitting at all. And you could always bring back Genesect. We should have also had an increased chance to hatch Larvesta, or maybe even have it debut in raids or something. After all, Volcarona is THE bug type Pokemon, and it was completely missing.

An event featuring a specific type should have lots of that type, and a chance to get rarer ones. But when the rarest thing was Pinsir and Heracross, then it doesn’t feel worth it.