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I want to know if I had every mew ever released, (not literally I mean one mew from every event ever) how many would I have? (I mean main-line games not Pokémon go or any or other mobile game) this means events like the mew-Mewtwo event in SV or the faraway island event in emerald or the actual Red and Blue event where it was the ‘secret’ Pokemon (not the glitch)

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Are you asking how many mew events there have been total? Or, considering the total number of events and every game that could have received it, how many potential Mews could currently exist? (ie, if there are 1,000,000 copies of ORAS, and there were two events for Mew for those games, 2,000,000 Mews would exist)
I’m asking the amount of events sorry I should change that
EDIT: done :D
Do you count in game gifts like the pokeball plus one for let’s go?
Yes I count in-game gifts
The ones I mentioned in the question were in-game right? Or at least the SV one
And I count non-in-game ones aswell

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At the time of writing, Bulbapedia lists 61 distinct events for Mew. Due to the length of the list it would be easier to view it here. Thus, if you were able to obtain just one Mew from each distinct distribution, anywhere, anytime, on just one of the participating games, you would have 61 of them.

Note that some of these events share the same Mew set but are considered distinct due to different distribution locations or time periods (e.g., there were 5 "Fall 2010 Mew" events for 5 different languages). If you want to count events with the same name as the same event, there are 45 unique events. The only caveat with this approach is that one of the five "Game Freak Mew" distributions was for Gen 1 Virtual Console, whereas the others were for Gen 6, so that one is technically different from the other four due to the limitations of Gen 1.

Conversely, some events contain multiple different Mew sets but only one could be obtained per player (e.g., the "My very own Mew" event for Scarlet and Violet could have different Tera types).

Additionally, 3 of the listed events are Poke Ball Plus distributions; one for LGPE in Mainland China that spans from September 26, 2024 to May 15, 2026, one for LGPE everywhere else with no end date, and one for Sword/Shield with no end date.

I am not counting the possibility of obtaining more than one Mew from the same event, although it is possible, whether it's by using another copy of the game or visiting the same in-person event multiple times. So for instance, for the German Aura Mew event where you could get Mew at McDonald's, I am not counting the ability to go to more than one McDonald's.

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The McDonlds event sounds too good to be true, I can’t believe I missed it