The year 2020 will bring significant changes for the Community Day in Pokémon GO. The reason for this is the missing Pokémon.
This is what the Community Day currently looks like: Since 2018, Niantic has been following the same pattern for the Community Day. First, a starter Pokémon is featured, followed by a special monster that is otherwise rare. They alternate monthly.
However, this could change in a few months. Niantic is simply running out of Pokémon.
How the Community Day could evolve
Here lies the problem: If Niantic stays true to this line, they will have a major issue by September: There will be no starter Pokémon left that they can feature in a Community Day. In March, May, and July, they would be featuring the starters from Gen 5, thereby exhausting all currently available starter Pokémon.
Generally, it’s questionable whether there will even be a Community Day with Serpifeu in March, considering that the Pokémon has only been available in the game since September 2019. Many trainers probably don’t even have enough candies for an evolution.
What about other Pokémon? According to Niantic’s rules, a strong Pokémon that is not a starter should be featured in February, April, June, and August. Ideally, it should have 2 evolutions and shouldn’t be available as a Shiny in the game yet. This has been the case for most Community Days so far. We have already arrived at Pokémon from Gen 4. Recently, Knacklion, the last potential candidate from Gen 3, got a Community Day.
There aren’t really any hot candidates for a Community Day from Gen 4. Kaumalat was a possibility, but it has surprisingly already been released as a Shiny in the game. Therefore, a Community Day would have to be held for a Pokémon that is already available in its shiny form.
Other candidates include Koknodon or Schilterus, but both have only one evolution and would thus already fall a bit off the grid.
You can find a list of potential candidates for a Community Day here.
This is how the changes could look: It is a fact that Niantic must break some of their guidelines. Either there will be no starter Pokémon every two months, or they will regularly include Pokémon that do not have two evolutions. Both scenarios are conceivable. Changes will surely happen at the Community Day.
Another scenario would be that Niantic takes additional Pokémon from the first generations and gives them Community Days. Pokémon like Abra, Rihorn or even Hornliu have multiple evolutions and are not yet available as Shiny in the game. It would then need to be special moves or the Shinies that would motivate players to participate. The Pokémon itself likely wouldn’t attract many people outside.
It’s also conceivable that past Community Days will be repeated. After all, old raid bosses are also returning. So a Community Day from 2018 could definitely be repeated.
It will definitely be exciting to see how Niantic will handle the issues surrounding the Community Day and what solution they will come up with.
Another problem Niantic currently has is with the eggs from Adventure Sync. There have been no updates regarding this for months:
