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Pretty mid event.
>Featured Pokemon is useless
>Featured Pokemon is ugly
>Featured Pokemon will eventually require Elite TMs if you want to ever use it.
>Featured Pokemon's shiny form is worse looking than it's base.
But... 5 free solo-able raids to get a couple extra rare candies, and all of them spawning on the two gyms near my house, and I got a shiny for posterity.
So I'll call it a win today, if forgettable.