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The February Community Day for Pokémon GO has been announced! Since we had a Community Day featuring Beldum a few months ago I thought we might be getting one featuring Bagon or Trapinch after Totodile. Though that does not seem to be the case. As the announcement shows us the February Community Day will feature Swinub. Which does make sense as the Year of the Pig is starting in February. Swinub is an Ice- and Ground-type Pokémon bearing similarities to a pig.
The event will be taking place on February 16 during the usual Community Day's time. Once again Lures will be active for 3 hours when activated after the start of the event. We will receive triple Stardust on Catching Pokémon. So I might consider activating some of my Star Pieces then if I don't forget about them!
As many people might be aware we currently have Swinub evolving into Piloswine. Gen 4 has a new evolution for Piloswine, being Mamoswine, which has not been introduced into the game yet. This Community Day will bring Mamoswine into the game. In the main games Piloswine needs to know the move Ancient Power and then level up to evolve into Mamoswine. I was wondering how they would handle those Pokémon that evolve only when knowing a certain move. As none of those gen 4 Pokémon have been released yet. It seems like they will simply also evolve with the Sinnoh Stone!
This brings us to another bonus for this Community Day. During the Community Day weekend all Trainers can earn 5 rewards per day from Trainer Battles. With up to 5 Sinnoh Stones to be earned on Community Day. I'm personally not sure if this means you can 5 Sinnoh Stones on Community Day if you battle enough with other Trainers, or if this means that there are multiple rewards possible so you can earn 0-5 Sinnoh Stones from the Trainer Battles.
Does anyone know that?
As usual there will be an exclusive move available too. As Mamoswine will be added to the game this means the move will be for Mamoswine and not for Piloswine. So if you evolve Piloswine to Mamoswine during or up to an hour after the event then the Mamoswine will learn this special move. Shiny Swinub will most likely be added to the game then too.
Are you excited to get Mamoswine?