In Pokémon GO trainers can secure the new Elite TMs. They are likely to have a significant impact on the game – making everything a bit more relaxed.
These are Elite TMs: Elite TMs were introduced with the recently launched first real season of the PvP Battle League in Pokémon GO. They are part of the rewards that you can secure for participating in the league.
Trainers can secure an Elite Charged TM, for example, if they reach rank 7 or higher at the end of Season 1. The special thing about them: With the new Elite TMs, you can choose which move your Pokémon should learn. With the previous TMs, your monsters were only assigned random moves.
Furthermore, it will also be possible to teach your Pokémon moves with the new TMs that were previously only available during events like Raid Days or Community Days.
This means: If you want to evolve a Rhydon to Rhyperior and want the special move Rock Wrecker, you can easily achieve this with Elite TMs. Even if you may have missed the Community Day or couldn’t utilize it sufficiently. And that could significantly change the game.
Less Stress Thanks to Elite TMs
This was the situation before Elite TMs: If you’re playing the game just for the sake of collecting Pokémon, you probably won’t notice a significant difference with the Elite TMs. However, for everyone who looks at moves, stats, and usefulness of the monsters, Elite TMs could mean a big difference.
Many of the best attackers are only useful with the right move combination. Besides gyms, raids, and Rocket battles against Giovanni and Co., there is now also the PvP League which requires not only strong stats of the best monsters – the moves are also extremely important. Therefore, the focus is increasingly shifting towards properly equipped monsters.
Since some moves can only be obtained during certain events, you had to stick to Niantic’s schedule. You want a Swampert with Hydro Cannon? Community Day! You wanted a Metagross with Meteor Mash? Unfortunately too late. Your Sceptile doesn’t come from Community Day and therefore hasn’t learned Flora Statue? That’s unfortunate!
If you don’t catch or evolve the right Pokémon at the right time, you also miss out on good moves. And even if you catch the right time, you still need a monster with good stats. To make it worthwhile to learn the move – so everything is quite stressful.
This could change with Elite TMs: Since Elite TMs are not distributed in large quantities, they won’t completely remove the stress from the game. After all, you can only change one move – so you have to think carefully about what to use the rare items for.
But at least they allow you to get good moves outside of events. This also means that when you’re just playing normally, you might just catch a monster with perfect stats and then teach it a really good move. Thus, Elite TMs could help to ease some of the pressure of the event schedule. Which makes sense given the many events.
Fans Are Excited About Elite TMs
This is what the community says: The announcement of the new TMs is well received among players. Discussions are already underway about which monsters should get a new move first – Mewtwo is a favorite among many players. One thing is for sure: the new items will make the game more enjoyable:
- “As soon as the backlog is caught up, we can stock up on special moves and not worry so much about Community Day moves. I like that. It’s long overdue,” says Reddit user Tidea, who still has a few strong Pokémon up his sleeve.
- “The scarcity of Elite TMs keeps Community Days relevant. I think the purpose is for people who made mistakes by evolving their monsters too early. I think this will benefit the game in the long run,” says user Tweak8.
- “My old 100% Blaziken, I can finally use it!” says user oceano7.
The Elite TMs are likely to give many players the opportunity to better equip their monsters for battles. Additionally, the Shadow Pokémon are also useful now:
