Niantic Talks Pokemon Go Community Day Classic, Potential Pikmin Bloom Crossover, And More

Niantic is mixing up the Pokemon Go Community Day schedule with tomorrow’s Bulbasaur-themed Community Day Classic, a first-of-its-kind bonus community event coming just a week after the Spheal event on January 16.

While we love the idea of extra Community Days–and we love Bulbasaur–this new initiative does raise some questions. We sat down with the live game director Michael Steranka, who shed some light on the strategy behind the extra event and whether or not we’ll see more of them in the future.

Bulbasaur is the bulba-star of the first Community Day Classic.
Bulbasaur is the bulba-star of the first Community Day Classic.

Bulbasaur!

The first question we had was a simple one: Why was Bulbasaur the best choice for this first-ever Community Day Classic? Besides our insisting it was because Bulbasaur is the best–something Steranka said was “up for debate”–the first Pokemon in the Pokedex was a logical choice for multiple reasons.

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