The Sparkling Fantasy event ends today in Pokémon GO. In addition to the bonuses, you should take advantage of a mega development today.
What changes? Currently, if you want to evolve Brutalanda into Mega Brutalanda, you need 200 Mega Energy. But it won’t stay that way.
As announced by Niantic Support via Twitter, the Mega Energy required for development will increase after the Sparkling Fantasy event:
Trainers, we’re correcting the Mega Energy needed to Mega Evolve Brutalanda from 200 to 300 after the Sparkling Fantasy event. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Niantic Support via Twitter
The event runs until tonight, January 16, 2023, at 10:00 p.m. local time. So if you want to pay fewer mega energies for development, you should still carry out such a development today.
Why should I evolve Mega Brutalanda today?
In the Pokémon GO subreddit, a user warns that Brutalanda’s first mega-evolution should be tightened (via reddit).
Basically, Mega Evolution is temporary, but the first Mega Evolution of a monster is crucial for two reasons. This is due to changes introduced in April 2022.
First, when you Mega Evolve a monster for the first time, a “rest period” of several days begins. At the end of this phase you can develop the Mega again – without further energy costs.
With each mega evolution of the monster, the mega level also increases and the rest periods become shorter and shorter. Alternatively, you can also develop during the rest phase. Depending on how advanced it is, the energy costs will be lower.
Second, after the first Mega Evolution, you have the opportunity to collect Mega Energy while walking with your buddy.
In this respect, it is worth doing Brutalanda’s first Mega Evolution as cheaply as possible, because after that you don’t need as much Mega Energy. This is especially useful because mega raids can usually only be completed with many trainers.
Basically, Mega Brutalanda is only represented in the Mega Raids until January 18th. Then it is replaced by another monster. So there is not much time left anyway to secure the strong dragon attacker.
If you still want to challenge Mega Brutalanda to get the Energy you need, here are the best counters to Mega Brutalanda in Pokémon GO.