swarms in unova

[skouley]

hey guys I am newer to pokemmo and after beating the main story lines I am extremely interested in the competitive scene. that being said I am interested in breeding a hippowdon but do not know how swarms work in unova (the only way to get a good hippopotas). can someone fill me in i can't seem to find this information anywhere.

 

-thanks

[Matoka]

Swarms in Unova have just been incorporated into the route's base encounter rates. (for most of them, a few such as Scyther have not, if I recall correctly).

Hippopotas is just a rare encounter in the sand at Desert Resort.

Your pokedex will give you specific details of if it requires a swarm or not, e.g.



Hippopotas is just a regular rare encounter.



However you see that for Kangaskhan, it has specific entries to say if it has a Swarm or not.



Lastly, for Alomamola, Phenomenon encounters (and some other special cases) have the Rarity column as "Special" to show they are, well, special encounter types. Zorua for instance is a non-phenomenon example of a "Special" encounter too, as is Feebas.

[skouley]

so what is a special encounter then?

 

thanks for the speedy reply!

Edited August 19, 2019 by skouley

[ThePrettyPetard]

3 hours ago, skouley said:

so what is a special encounter then?

 

thanks for the speedy reply!

Special mean it's a case by case type of thing. You should be able to get a good anwser fairly quickly in the in game chat if you ask for a specific pokemon with a special encounter type