"Its the Perfect Time for a Crystal Onix Related Community Day!"

#PokemonGO: I noticed during the current Pokemon Day/Movie event, that while the community shares a general disregard/hate for the party hat pokemon, there is still is an appreciation for the Clone pokemon and Armored Mewtwo. I think this disparity shows the idea that the community as a whole appreciates meaningful costume/special pokemon despite the flooding of low effort costume hats on pikachu and eevee. Combine this appreciation with Niantic's need to slow down the generation creep on community days, and I think something quite cool can happen: Crystal Onix.A hypothetical Onix Community day could likely have details similar to the following:Wild spawning Onix with boosted shiny rates.The ability to evolve Onix to Steelix for a special move such as Ice Fang, Dragon Breath, or Earth Power.Complete special tasks ("Catch 5 Onix") that will can reward an encounter with the special Crystal Onix.Crystal Onix would almost certainly be unable to evolve to Steelix to prevent having to conceptualize a "Crystal Steelix" design, but in return could potentially either have a unique typing (Ice/Steel + Ground) or boosted base stats.I think in general most people who strive to have a shiny onix likely have one by now due to the increased shiny rate and frequency of event tie ins. I believe however that such a fact shouldn't disrupt the value of an Onix Community day.Community support for Crystal Onix is far from new, but there is evidence that Niantic listens to community desires from time to time.Most specifically, fans clamored for the inclusion of Squirtle Squad on Squirtle's Community day due to recent (at the time) pushes by niantic to feature costumed pokemon in events. Niantic even went so far as to tease the inclusion before the event. Other examples of requests for Squirtle squad litter the subreddit if you search around.12Another Community day taken from the community is Rock Wrecker Rhyperior, which was hyped up as far back as before the release of Gen4.123and the guy who was potentially convinced to evolve his rhydon to rhyperior merely weeks before the community day announcementSo what do you think? Is it time for another appreciable costumed pokemon?TL;DR? Niantic does listen to what happens here. Let them hear that we care about Crystal Onix still. via /r/TheSilphRoad https://ift.tt/2HZ5NlS