Summary
APokemon GO-playing parent walked into a Christmas Day nightmare, realizing that their young child had wasted one of their precious Master Balls on a lowly Tynamo. While there are currently around 900 varieties of Pokemon that players can catch inPokemon GO, players have only been able to get their hands on a few Master Balls, and a common Electric-type is clearly not their intended target.
Players have beencatching Tynamo inPokemon GOsince March 2021, when it began appearing in wild encounters, 5k eggs, and raid battles. The little electric fish traces its roots back to the Japanese release ofPokemon Black and Whitein 2010, where its fully evolved form, Eelektross, gained fame for being the first Pokemon with no type-based weaknesses thanks to its Levitate ability, which makes it immune to Ground-type moves.
Its stock in Niantic’s augmented reality mobile game is significantly lower, however, so it was quite the shock for Reddit user Jeanious90 to walk into a room and find that their 4-year-old child had caught a Tynamo using one of the player’s covetedPokemon GOMaster Balls. Master Balls are special inPokemon GO, not only because they are guaranteed to catch any Pokemon they hit, but because players have only been able to unlock four of the consumable items since the game’s launch in 2016, sometimes locked behind paid content. This parent said they were only out of the room for two minutes before they discovered their child had used one of their Master Balls on an unexpected and disappointing Christmas present for them.
Pokemon GO Player’s Kid Wastes Master Ball on Christmas
While it’s certainly not the Pokemon that this parent wanted to use their Master Ball on, the Tynamo isn’t completely worthless. Its individual values, while not flawless, at least rank it at two stars, and its HP registers at a perfect three bars. That’s better than some players with similar horror stories can attest to, like a player in October who reported seeing theirMaster Ball wasted on a 0-star Pokemon.
Despite the disappointing nature of the more-recent waste of a Master Ball, this parent is taking the catch in stride. Remembering the sense ofcommunity inPokemon GO, they’ve named the tiny fish after the Master Ball that caught it and added it to their favorites list, stating the memory of this in-game Christmas disaster is one they’ll always cherish. Told by one commenter not to let their kids near their phones, this loving parent simply stated, “Enjoy PoGO once by yourself. Enjoy it infinitely more times with your kids (even at the expense of a masterball).”
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