My spouse and I are sort of late to the celebration on this. We rely on a good friend of ours to maintain us updated on Pokemon Go, however she wasn’t up on this one… or was holding out on us possibly.
Whereas my spouse and I play Pokemon Go repeatedly, I don’t comply with the information of it as intently as I do, say, EVE On-line. So my first trace that one thing was occurring was once I observed individuals on my good friend’s checklist have been saving numerous my every day items as postcards, just a little used characteristic of the sport up till this level… as far as I can inform anyway.
I ignored this for a bit, considering it odd however no matter… nevertheless, when in endured for a few weeks I went out to look it up and came upon we had utterly blown by the Vivillon launch again in December and Niantic’s plan for it.
Vivillon, which additionally occurs to occupy place #666 within the nationwide pokedex, is a seventh era Pokemon that got here in with Pokemon Solar & Moon and is a kind of
“gotta catch em all” specials that doesn’t simply have a few evolutions, but additionally is available in 20 completely different coloration variations. I overlook how they labored that in Solar & Moon, however I’m positive the web buying and selling publish was scorching with exchanges internationally to get the variations individuals have been lacking.
Pokemon Go is extra “actual time” than the core RPG sequence, missing a Pokemon public sale home of types. So the plan was to make the assorted Vivillon variations out there by way of present exchanges.
While you get a present from a good friend you put it aside as a postcard… therefore the conduct I observed… and if you gather sufficient you get a Scatterbug that seems. That’s the larval state of the Vivillon and also you want 125 candies to get it into its full splendor.
The trick is that the placement of the postcard dictates which coloration variation of the Vivillon you find yourself with in the event you evolve that individual Scatterbug. They actually have a map that reveals you the place on this planet you could have pals ship you items if you’d like that individual taste of Vivillon.
The place to search out Vivillon… form of… additionally, no China, no Russia
It is best to in all probability click on on that to see if full dimension.
The 18 variations of Vivillon which are at the moment out there… they’re holding two in reserve I suppose… are the next locales:
- Archipelago
- Continental
- Elegant
- Backyard
- Excessive Plains
- Icy Snow
- Jungle
- Marine
- Meadow
- Trendy
- Monsoon
- Ocean
- Polar
- River
- Sandstorm
- Savanna
- Solar
- Tundra
So now you don’t simply want Pokemon Go pals around the globe to assist degree you up or get regional raid targets, you additionally want them for Vivillon.
There’s in all probability a Discord server someplace that dealer’s friendships to fill that obsessive want to gather all of them. I simply haven’t seemed but.
As a substitute, I’m making pals the quaint method… by hooking up with random strangers on the web. Or on Twitter, in my case. However the web has paid off thus far and I’ve managed to get at the very least the bottom degree Scatterbug for 11 of the 18 Vivillon variations.
My success thus far
However that leaves me with 7 extra to gather.. leaving apart the couple thousand Vivillon sweet I’ll have to evolve the whole thing… for which I have to get at the very least one Scatterbug.
I’m at the moment lacking:
- Backyard
- Icy Snow
- Meadow
- Ocean
- River
- Sandstorm
- Solar
You’d suppose, being in California, I’d have Solar coated… however we’re a Excessive Plains space. So I’ve to work on discovering some pals in these areas. (My coach code is 3216 2939 2424 in the event you occur to be in a kind of locations… or in the event you want some Excessive Plains items.)
And, after all, I would like extra items to feed the maw of this gentle Pokemon Go obsession.
