After much speculation, we can now confirm that Swablu will feature as the May Community Day Pokémon, and that Mega Altaria will be appearing afterwards!
Trainers,
The featured Pokémon for this May’s Community Day will be Swablu, the Cotton Bird Pokémon!
Saturday, May 15, 2021, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. local time For US$1 (or the equivalent pricing tier in your local currency), you’ll be able to access the Swablu Community Day–exclusive Special Research story, Cotton-Winged Bird. Cotton-Winged Bird 1/4 Cotton-Winged Bird 2/4 Cotton-Winged Bird 3/4 Cotton-Winged Bird 4/4 Mega Altaria will be making its Pokémon GO debut in Mega Raids at the conclusion of May Community Day on Saturday, May 15, 2021, at 5:00 p.m. local time. This is your chance to collect Mega Altaria Energy to Mega-Evolve any of the Altaria you’ve collected during the event! For a full analysis of Mega Atlaria check out our analysis here. For a full indepth PVP analysis please check out our Moonblast Alteria and Mega Alteria Analysis. Moonblast is a Fairy type Charged Attack. Currently Altaria has access to Dazzling Gleam as a Fairy type Charged Attack, so let’s compare the two. Both moves have the same amount of power as a PvP move, but with Moonblast costing less energy. Currently PVPoke has Dazzling Gleam listed as their lowest priority for a PvP Charged Attack for Altaria, which might leave you wondering why a different Fairy type move is the Community Day pick. The biggest advantage of Moonblast is that it has a 10% chance to decrease the attack of your opponent by one stage. With access to Sky Attack and Dragon Pulse that both have access to STAB, Fairy type moves just feel a little lacklustre, but could be a spicy choice if you fancy a more unusual choice your opponent won’t be expecting, especially if it successfully lowers your opponents attack. Altaria is already a popular beast in Great League PvP, PVPoke have it as their 6th best Pokémon for the whole of Great League, and with the introduction of Candy XL, it has jumped up the rankings in Ultra League as well. It is well worth evolving your PvP eligible Swablu during Community Day to get this Legacy move, as you can always use a regular TM to get rid of it later, but you would need an Elite TM to gain it back!
Swablu
Date & Time
Bonuses
Features
Cotton-Winged Bird Special Research Story Tasks and Rewards
Sprites
Normal Sprites
Shiny Sprites
Mega Altaria Debut
Altaria (Mega)
Dragon Fairy
Max CP at Level 40 3163 | Max CP at Level 50 3576
ATK 222
DEF 218
HP 181
Weak to
Strong Against
Fairy Ice Poison Steel
Dragon Dark Fighting
Moonblast Analysis
Moonblast
Dazzling Gleam
PvP Power
110
110
PvP Energy
-60
-70
PvP Turns
6
6