Pokemon Go’s Wild Area event is being held November 23rd-24th, but despite being advertised as a new yearly event akin to Go Fest or the Go Tours, it really isn’t exuding the usual pre-event hype, in spite of the fact that several people I know went to the recent live event. In fact, I’m going to frontload this by saying that if you’re a PvE POGO vet on the fence about whether or not to grab a ticket still, I’d say don’t. As usual, we learned a fair bit from the earlier live event, this time held in Fukuoka, Japan, but there have been few good surprises in my opinion.

Despite this, today’s Massively on the Go will still try to help you prepare for the event, with or without a ticket. We will keep things a bit shorter due to the underwhelming nature of the event, but we’ll try to keep commentary for a post-event write-up.

As most long-time readers will notice, the checklist hasn’t changed much. For paths, this is specifically for ticket holders, and again, we may not know everything but there’s a bit we can say.

For the most part, you’re choosing whether you want Rockstar Pikachu and Low Key Toxtricity (bluish-hued one in the header) or Pop Star Pikachu and Amped Toxtricity (yellowy one in the header). There are really no differences for Toxi here despite there being move differences in the main games, and you’ll be aiming for the Gigantamax versions anyway, not to mention that Toxi’s just irrelevant to most of the game already. The double damage bonus is nice but only really relevant if you consider Zacian’s return, as it’s weak to Fairy. Unless you’re very new to the game, there’s really nothing else to consider for that bonus.

Buddy Rank 2 (Great Friends) is nice because your ‘mon will rally knocked away pokeballs back at the wild ‘mon, saving you balls and potentially time. Megas are kind of a tough call here, as there’s no Electric/Poison Mega. Looking at event ‘mon at the options below, you may notice that Primal Kyogre nabs all the Electrics, but getting bonuses to Bug and Water also nabs a bunch of the Poison types too. As it’s also one of the raid options, I feel comfortable recommending it if you’re going to do only one Mega per day.

WILD AREA: GLOBAL