After everything trainers have said about a severe lack of Gible in Pokémon GO, those committed to the Sinnoh Throwback Event are now guaranteed an encounter with one.
Pokémon GO might have gripped the world during the summer of 2016, and has been downloaded more than one billion times since then, but it hasn’t been smooth sailing for Niantic. As has become the norm with games that are free to play, Pokémon GO has received its fair share of complaints, especially when it feels like Niantic is low-key trying to force its players to part with a little, or a lot, of cash.
One of the ways it has been accused of doing that is via the Pokémon it selects for Community Day events, and the ones which remain reserved for hatching events. Common, less sought-after Pokémon tend to make the cut for Community Days. However, rarer Pokémon are saved for hatching events. That means trainers are more likely to spend their hard-earned cash on incubators for those special days.
The most infamous example of this to date is the rare dragon-type, Gible. Gible debuted during an egg event and while it can be found in the wild, chances are most trainers won’t stumble across one any time soon. However, it seems as if the running joke that is Niantic making sure as few trainers as possible catch a Gible is over as by the end of next week, a lot more players will have one in their arsenal.
That’s because the rewards for completing the Sinnoh Throwback Event’s research tasks include a guaranteed Gible encounter. One of the tasks during level seven of the research is to evolve a Pokémon. Every trainer who makes it that far and completes the task will earn an encounter with a Gible.
Chances are Niantic had the Gible encounter planned well in advance. However, that’s a stroke of luck after the Community Day/hatching event controversy reared its head again this week. Trainers can vote for June and July’s Community Day stars this weekend. However, none of the four options are exactly headline-grabbers. A guaranteed Gible encounter, on the other hand, that’s front-page news.
