Whoops! Pokémon GO has seemingly made Mega Evolutions far too powerful. Experts discovered the error and shared their findings with the players. What’s going on?
This is why Mega Pokémon are so strong: Mega Evolutions can be performed by players in Pokémon GO to significantly strengthen selected Pokémon. However, the system has faced criticism.
Currently, Pokémon GO is running the second event for Mega Evolutions. Niantic had already stated: When you evolve Mega Beedrill, it will become stronger than usual during this event.
As it turns out, all Mega Pokémon are currently becoming really strong. Not just Beedrill. This is happening due to a mistake, a bug. And when you take this bug to the extreme, Mega Pokémon can become up to 145% stronger. That’s a huge boost for these Pokémon.
What’s Behind the Mega Bug
This is how the experts explain it: The website Pokebattler, which is known for combat simulations in Pokémon GO, published their results on the bug. For more than a week, they and other trainers examined the bug to understand what is going wrong in the game.
- Beedrill is supposed to level up to level 44 when evolved to Mega Beedrill during this event
- In certain situations, Mega Beedrill receives extremely high CP after its transformation
According to Pokebattler, this is because every power-up that Beedrill receives after its evolution but before its Mega Evolution is counted twice during the Mega Evolution.
This is what it means for you: We can explain the bug more easily with an example.
- You have a 100% Beedrill that can no longer receive power-ups (maxed out). It was caught as a Kakuna at level 3 or 4.
- If you use the Mega Evolution on this Beedrill, it is stronger than if you had caught it at level 20.
These are the observations: The experts summarize their findings as follows and show how a buff of up to 144.5% damage can occur.
- As intended: The Mega Pokémon buff of 30% is credited to other Pokémon in raids that attack with moves of the same type as the Mega Pokémon.
- As intended: The Mega Pokémon buff of 10% is credited to other Pokémon in raids that do not attack with moves of the same type as the Mega Pokémon.
- As intended: If there are 2 Mega Pokémon in the raid and they have the same attack types, they boost each other by 30%.
- Bug: All power-ups given to a Pokémon are given a second time when it is evolved into a Mega Pokémon. When a level 1 Pokémon is leveled up to level 40, it receives a buff of 88.1%.
- Bug? Mega Pokémon do not buff themselves with the Mega boost, only group members do.
- As intended + Bug: If there are 2 Mega Pokémon in a raid and they are of the same type and were previously level 1, they receive a boost of 144.5%.