>>56006018>>56006993They could honestly go either way with screwing over players or not depending on how much they want to be faithful to the games and how much that intersects with “MUH VISION”
In sword/shield in order to gigantamax in the base game you had to do a max raid battle against a gigantamax pokemon once you find a raid battle in a den on the map. Once you win the battle, the pokemon you catch MAY have the chance to have the gigantamax factor, I guess that specifically is a genetic mutation or condition that will allow that specific pokemon to gigantamax. Getting one like this also comes with a low encounter rate and a high catch rate.
In the DLC, after getting 3 max mushrooms, you can make a Max Soup that will just give any able pokemon the gigantamax factor. For Urshifu’s case, you have to beat up a Dynamax Vespiquen for some Max Honey. Melmetal is the only pokemon that can’t be souped or honey’d, as gigantamax factor melmetal is only available through Home distribution. Maybe Niantic could make up a Max Metal…? Since it eats metal.
With this there are two says they can do this:
1.)
>Gigantamax Raids -> Raid for mon and resources loop -> You will have a CHANCE to find one with the G.max factor -> your preexisting hundo is cucked -> Max soup? No shortcuts to your goals!2.)
>Gigantamax raid -> Raid battle for mons and resource loop -> your raidmon will have two stars but who cares you have a hundo CHARIZARD -> Soup up your bad boy so it can fuckin g-max -> Show that girl at the park your gigantamax level 50 hundo CHARIZARD -> SexBut knowing Niantic, we all know it will be the former with the addition of making them local only raids or some shit. As for the g-max moves, I don’t know how they’d do those other than just replacing your moveset with hopefully good g-max moves. Who knows how they’d affect any meta but it’s the only solution to more dripfeed as Niantic is running out of megas depending on what Z-A does.