I've been saving gibble and mudkip for such an event...how could they not tell us!!

Niantic didn’t disclose shit I would’ve played the event so much differently had I known all this before go fest

Yah I am so angry about Niantic not telling us about legacy evolutions! 😡 inexperienced players probably evolved their mons and got a legacy move they were not aware of. Old players are saving for legacy moves. Now I will have to wait till Decmber? 😒

2:00 no need to apologize man, you’ve helped me so much throughout my pokemon journey. Ur my go-to channel.

So terrible that they hid the LEGACY MOVES!!!! i was so gutted after i found out... also make content creator also look bad for missing this extremely important advice!!! they should REDO the legacy move evolution day in the compensation for rayquaza make it a 2 in 1 compensation

So basically, you don't have to be lucky friends to trade cosmog because even if you get the worst for whatever friendship level you are, after fusing, it won't matter. So if anyone is willing to trade you a cosmog, offer them say an extra shiny and/or legendary and it would be worth it.

I was confused when i evolved my 100% iv gible into garchomp and it had it's legacy move

Thanks for the info! This reminds me of when I purified my 98% shadow Larvitar before I knew shadows were better. He has been nicknamed Regrets ever since. Glad I waited to fuse my Necrozmas or I'd be SOL wanting to unfuse and fuse again based on your info.

There is so much missing information. If I knew about this the event would have actually felt special. I played f2p and it just felt like a regular day with more spawns and raids. I would have been very excited if I knew

oh yeh the party quests were soo nice, i was basically stuck on page 1 of the party special research, but managed to knock out like 80 party challenges in 2 days

Necrozma consumes lunala or solgaleo That’s the best way I’ve heard it explained and it makes it make sense that necrozma stats are what stay

Wow. Super pissed about missing legacy moves. And that was my one complaint… no legacy moves :(

They didn't tell us crap. That shit pissed me off . My pokemon were just waiting to evolve and they didn't even tell us. Screw them

Thank you! You answered the exact questions I was googling. Appreciate your work and you unfusing a dawn wings for “content”

You forgot Eevee to include with the legacy move of last resort for Espeon and Umbreon

Mistake already made and I can't unfused it anymore... 😭😭😭😭😭

16:14 they will release shiny ✨ cosmog in elite raids or special events by raids

I didnt even realize they were more pages for tasks after the initial one 😳 🤦 i fused both of em...

Thank you so much for your thoroughness and patience answering all of these questions, especially considering that you’ve already put up a Q&A!

typical niantic communication... horrible.

Thank you so much for this! I got one perfect Necrozma and was leaning towards using it with Lunala (and I don't do pvp) so hearing that ghost has been very useful for you in raids was good to know! I've only been playing for a few months so I appreciate the insight.

I did over 160 raids and did not get a 4 star, sad face. Got one 15/14/15 though. Definitely saving for lucky trades! My GF only did 6 raids so she sadly didn't get the fusion, really hoping they fix this and let people get more energy!

So glad I watched this, I was about to fuse him this morning but said no let me do some research first 😂 I’m only on page 4, thank you!!!

I’m so mad I had a perfect Deino I’ve been saving for when the Community Day move came back. And this wasn’t mentioned 🤬

I dont understand why u cant get energy by walking ur necrozma.. also it was so dumb that u cant get special background if ur necrozma dosent have that wormhole.. i paid ticket and all and i could not get decent iv necrozma with wormhole.. so that background was just wasted on me. I just hope they would never made this event so rng based. Like how the hell normal player can ever get shiny one and special background in it and decent ivs too like jesus.

I didnt even notice my Necrozma fusion lost the Lunala background until later.. now I cant be bothered unfusing. Idk why they dont add the solo background or at least tell us its gonna be gone. Also I just happened to notice on my phone in the last 30 minutes of the event a post about the elite TM moves.. I just yelled it out and saved a TON of people elite TMs people were so stoked but also annoyed Niantic didnt make it more obvious. I had a TON of fun this event don't get me wrong.. but would be nice to have more transparency. Its almost like they purposely didn't tell us about the elite moves and fusion backgrounds so we spend more money down the road.. very suspect.

You're the goat for answering everybody, I was scared of making a mistake by non-upgrading my cosmog evolution and I wasn't seeing any relevant info 👏

We should really get 100 fusion energy every 20km if Necrozma is our buddy Pokémon, that would be a great change!

I feel like most of the confusion surrounding Neceozma comes from them calling it a “fusion,” which implies that you’re taking two Pokémon and fusing them to create a third. When you reframe it as a “forme change” that consumes a second Pokémon to work, it makes more sense that only Necrozma’s data matters (except for the background situation).

I’m still working on the ticketed research since I’m waiting for free daily raid passes to satisfy the raid requirements. But if I didn’t see your video I would have immediately fused after I get the solgeleo, and miss out on page 5 of the research. Ty and no Ty to niantic for always giving us these traps

Props to you basically responding to the same questions over and over 😂

Love this video, you’re doing us a huge favor with this information. I know it’s a little late for me since I’ve already fused both a dawn wings and dusk mane for the research. But none the less this video is what I’ve been looking for after go fest. I’ll try and be a little more prepared next time.

Thanks for answering all the questions I had. You got a new sub.

Got a shiny Dratini and enough candy to evolve to Dragonite and was surprised but the Draco Meteor, glad I lucked out on that one. Good video, answered a lot of questions.

Tbh the fusion energy should be free when we already fused them like you need to do 10-12 raids and sometimes you lose the raids and the remote raids are overpriced they should add a discount when there’s events or smt bc sometimes you can only stay at home and you can’t go out.

Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get a 3 star shiny necrozma 😢

I knew about the route spawns before the event because it was actually stated on niantic’s website. The evolution moves were also mentioned.

Im so glad I checked Reddit and saw a post about Legacy movesets. I kept all my Deinos from 2023 CD for this ❤️

Thank you for grinding this one out so quickly!

When you fuse a Solgaleo that has the special research solar background with a Necrozma that has the wormhole background, it combines the two into a really cool solar wormhole background. A shundo with that background would be the rarest Dusk Mane Necrozma possible.

I would like to say, not knowing about the legacy moves was very irratateing, but the party play and the routes were on the blog poast, as they were added arround the same time as the announcement that espeon and umbreon would be in the wild for ticket holders. Never the less, thank you for answering all the questions, it’s very helpful!

After reading these comments, I feel so much better that I’m not the only person pissed off about the legacy moves

8:00 page 4 gives you the fusion energy to do it. I fused both of mine and still can do another

great video FYI leekduck had listed those xclusive moves MPGA!!

0:47 bro this is facts!! I literally saw Dandy evolve a Garchomp for Earth Power, and had just minutes left of the event to evolve one of my own. No time to lucky trade or roll for a good IV. It’s not good enough you bought a ticket, spend hours trying to get all the pokes you can during the event so they are tagged as “event” pokemon. They should just allow the CD moveset for any event Pokemon evolved.

I wish I new about the rare moves I have so many I need them to have

Still got more questions, since apparently I've been spoiled for choice. 1. Do I understand correctly, that the unique Sol/Luna background on the fusion will only work with the wormhole background and not with a in-person Go Fest location card? 2. I got a 12/15/15 Solgaleo from Madrid, with a location card as well. Keep for PvP or fuse, is 12 attack too low? 3. Dilemma: I've got two hundo Necrozmas, one with a Madrid catch card and one without any background at all. I also got 3 Solgaleos (one 12/15/15 with a Madrid catch card from the previous question) and two Lunalas, one of which has a moon background. I of course will be trading for shinies (got 3 in a row on day one as well) but considering all we know about backgrounds, PVP stats etc: what combinations would you fuse?

it was so messed up that they didn't talked about the legacy moves. the day before i was doing the teams for each ultrabeast that i wanted to raid (necro, kartana and xurk) and i managed to get a 98 Deino in that google play partner research, and i evolved it the day before cause i thought i would forget it.

I have two shiny Necrozma both 91.1% IV. One is 15/13/13 and one is 13/15/13. Which should I fuse with Lunala and which with Solgaleo? I also personally care more about the Lunala fusion because I think it looks cooler if that helps.

They also had Last Resort when evolving Eevee to Umbreon or Espeon . So another moveset that wasn't announced . I think they did the samething for Sinnoh tour too . Where every mon that was spawning that had a previous CD could evo to get it's Legacy move . So this might be a common theme / formula moving forward for big events like Region Tours & GO Fests

Hopefully Niantic will have those fuse candies in special, or event researches.

Dude, you're the Oracle of Pokemon GO, thanks for helping us mortals :)

AYYY tysm for answering my question AND featuring it in a vid!!!

In the main series games Necrozma is an ultra beast but its treated as a a legendary and it doesn’t have the ability Beast Boost like the other ones have

I didn't know about the legacy moves for go fest until the last couple hours. Glad I found out so I could evolve a few

I really wished Pokemon go explained all this better so many people made huge mistakes and now they can’t fusion

The lunala background makes the sky blue instead of that purplish hue

IMO once you get a three star Pokémon IVs really don’t make a big difference. People hunt so hard for hundos but it’s really not that big of a deal

Fuse a background Necrozma with the solga or lunala with their special background to get a mixed background as a result. This is mentioned no where. I wasted 2000 energy to redo my fusions since I had two Hundos but only 1 with the background 😂

I appreciate all the advice listed, very interesting stuff... I am just going to merge my zero star shiny necrozma with my 2 star solaleo, then complain when it gets knocked out because it is weak. Thank you😂

Niantic player tips: tell them about curveballs again.

I happened to evolve my Gible and learned this. I did other trials with Pokémon not knowing the if this would work and my Deino, but Pokémon not feature in habitats didn’t work. I did them one hour before midnight.

Funny enough I fought enough raids, fused with lunala, didn’t catch any shinies at all, and then caught a shiny Necrozma from the research lol. Now I’m gonna fuse it with my solgaleo

It looks like you can change the special/legacy move but I'm not brave enough to try it. In the case of dusk mane, I think it might be better if it were changed... at least in terms of GBL.

For question 10-11 I saw in another vid that Dawn wings need the max defence ivs otherwise it makes a slightly bad palkia match up extremely bad. For dusk mane both ivs flip the rhyperior match up to a negative due to the hp I think. Do with that what you will.

Main series player here, lunala solgaleo necrozma are ultra beast. Also ultra beasts are considered legendary pokémon whether people like it or not. Base stats. So when beast balls were announced I was thrilled before we started as this is going to be easy to catch necrozma.

Great Video! I have a question, what happens if I fuse my Solgaleo (which has the sun background) with a normal Necrozma?

im so jealous of your shiny scarf umbreon i wanted one so bad

honestly! i did get lucky by ending up with a Lucky shundo Gible on day one. and had i not been in a hurry to get that beast to lvl50 and fully evolved, i would have missed on Earth power. i even joked to my friend who made that random trade with me, that he owes me a Etm as i now have to use one. only to then be confused on weren't that Earth power a legacy move.

Ahh, they should have told us about the legacy moves. I had near perfect mudkips and charmanders saved up for that..

So if my lunala is a 98 and my nec... I'm joking. It would be awesome i would love to see a video going through your thought process for building raid teams. I recently started raiding/building teams and it can be overwhelming. I've seen tier lists go off different scales "ER vs DPS" and some use the optimal movements even though they are different type moves. Anyways sorry for tldr but I would love to see your take on how to approach building teams in general. Love your vids, keep em comin

i got a solgaleo with a background and it looks awesome! But seeing the fused background in your video, it makes me not wanting to fuse this one only because the fused background looks meh compared to solgaleo's background

Are there going to more events for legacy moves? I can’t waste any more elite tms because i wasted one on a bad swampert

Why do people worry so much about IVs? I always hear someone saying a 12, 12, 13 is trash, but the difference between that and a hundo in damage or defense is negligible.

How about a video on budget pokemon to power up for this year?

There was a research for cosmog XL Candy, i think it was something like spin 10 pokestops

I'm glad I was able to do as many Necrozma raids as I did. I have 5,180 Solar fusion energy and 5,830 Lunar fusion energy, and that's after fusing and unfusing with a Lunala once for the research.

Thanks for the video. I wondered to which either Necrozma or Solgaleo should I be using all those rare candies Iv'e been accumulating from doing so many raids (not XL candy), thanks for making it clear that it all depends on Necrozma.

8:00 The step 4 reward is "1000 fusion energy", so it's literally impossible to get to the step 5 "fuse Necrozma" research and not have the fusion energy to do it. Now, it's possible you can't fuse Necrozma for other reasons, but lack of energy isn't one of them.

Your videos help me so much. I left all of mine alone until you posted because i ended up with several really nice Necrozma but haven't fused anything yet. I didn't know which was better. Thank you! Going for Solgaleo first. My lunala i got years ago is a 15/15/13 so I'll leave her alone and fuse the crappy 2 star Sol.

Pretty sure you can easily get Cosmog XL candy by walking your Cosmog/evolutions. The chances for XL candy are pretty good, and now even higher with the season bonus. I don't see why thst wouldn't work with cosmog.

I did what I could for this even, ended up getting a single shiny Dawn Wings Necrozma that's pretty solid, but I ended up having to do army stuff. I got some cool stuff, but not all that I really wanted, but oh well

My Umbreon learned Last Resort, luckily I hadn’t used the name trick.

My question would be the following: I understand that the IVs of Necrozma pass to the fusion, but do you have to max both lokemon to get the optimal CP fusion, or just necrozma?

So I have over 1000 moon fusion energy and I'm at the "Basking In The Radiance Or Hidden In The Umbra". I should be going with basking in the Radiance then right. So I can fuse both?

niantic seems to be ill prepared for this edition of go fest

i think it would be a good idea to get fusion energy from the party play rewards

Thank you for unfuseing to test it ou for us ❤

When i see people there necrozma iv am happy wich my necrozma i got 2nd raid a 15/14/15 i fused it wich solgaleo and its super good its now lvl32 i need more rare candys time to grind raids

My research Cosmog has floor IV's xD saving for a lucky trade with my neighbor. Suggestions wise, PVP content can be really entertaining. @CallumOnToast maxed a bday hat Grimer and took it to great league battles for example, great content. Honestly I like watching PVP more than playing it.

Just wondering, what was the shiny rate of necrozma with ticket because I did 97 raids with zero shiny’s!!! 😭 And also wondering what’s the chance of getting a Hundo without a background or with a background because I lucky got two in a row!!!😅

Also, for the missing content, I remember seeing on leekduck that there were going to be Eevees with crowns, but there were none. A shame. I hate hatted pikachus, laziest special spawn.

They need to give us a make up day for the legacy movesets. Actually ridiculous they didn’t tell us about them

And the amount of energy we needed is so ridiculous.

For the ppl that didn’t play the main games or watch the anime yes Necrozma is a Ultra Beast. They some add it to the legendary category so you can find it easier in Pokémon Go.

Question regarding fusion. I have two necrozmas and I can't decide which one in should use for fusion. 1. 96% (14/15/14) 2. A shiny 91% (12/14/15). Slightly worse IV but shiny, compared to 96% non shiny. I already have a 100% dawn wing hunde, but can't decide for the dusk mane.

I wonder if the reason if we don’t have the ability to walk Necrozma for Fusion Energy is because Niantic wants to eventually give us the ability to walk Necrozma for something else…

Yeah, I only found out about the route spawns on day 2- didn't help me tho lol. Was on routes for 6 hours & didn't get single shiny let alone the ducklett I was after.

i’m rly debating if i should spend my money on this game after all they did…. and i went hard with the fusion energy and candies….

My OCD won't allow me to power up anything under 100%. But then we need 2 for each version XD Fingers crossed for lucky trades.