Overview
- The invitation-only activation took place Thursday evening in Times Square and staged a Unity raid that filled billboards with the game action and players’ avatars.
- About 2,000 trainers were invited through vetted community ambassadors to control crowd size and participate in the live Mega Mewtwo Y battle.
- The event introduced Mega Mewtwo X and Mega Mewtwo Y and a new Super Mega Raid format that needs high‑level teams and at least eight trainers to break shields with Mega‑evolved Pokémon.
- Players at the takeover received event‑specific rewards, including catches using a Master Ball and one guaranteed perfect‑stat (“hundo”) Mewtwo, and the showdown was livestreamed for global audiences.
- Scopely, which acquired Niantic last year, framed the stunt as fulfilling the original 2016 trailer promise and rolled the same Mega Mewtwo experience into a free Go Fest Global weekend on July 11–12 to reach all players.