Pokemon Go Global Unova Tour!

Well, that sucked...

The past weekend held the annual Go Tour, with this year's focusing on the Unova region. Featuring only Pokemon from said region, the events are usually a somewhat easy way to complete your regional pokedex, collect a few shinies, and catch new legendaries - who are usually some of the best.

Shinies are usually the primary reason I play these events, as well as the game in general. I went into this event optimistic due to the lack of a paid ticket, which usually includes boosted shiny odds. I am still a bit burnt from the Go Wild Area Global event which had a paid ticket with boosted odds, except I got significantly less than other paid events... These regional tours have no paid ticket, but instead have several Pokemon that have boosted shiny rates anyways, meaning you end up with less shinies than a paid event, but still usually a decent haul. For context, the last two regional tours I ended up with around 10-12 shinies per day. While the Go Fest events (paid ticket), nets me around 25-34 shinies. So a difference, but still great.

For this event, across one and a half days, I ended up with seven shinies in total... To say I'm disappointed would be an understatement. The only Pokemon that seemed to have boosted rates were the Deerling and Basculin found within field research tasks. There are claims that the starter you chose in the special research gave you increased odds for that particular Pokemon. I believed this since it was certainly the case last year. However, I only claimed that step of the research in the second half of day 1, and I barely saw enough Tepig on the second day to make an apt judgement on the shiny rates. At least in previous years numerous other wild spawns would have increased rates - this event had none.

Day 1 Shinies

Day 2 Shinies

This year also saw the removal of roaming legendaries and their associated snapshot task. This was another source of shinies in previous years, so seeing their removal even with numerous candidates for it, was a huge disappointment.

I also saw people complaining about the catch rate/difficulty for Kyurem, but I found them to be fine and I think I only had one or two flee from me. I also had forgotten to use either form's special moves on day 1. Using it made the overall catching process significantly easier. My group also had atrocious raid luck. Between the four of us we did around 100 raids and got a single shiny from it, but somehow got two perfects. I am a bit annoyed, but I had a hard limit on raids once I got enough candy to max one, so I didn't spend too much.

Anyway, that's an incredible amount of ranting and rambling. Now to reveal my amazing haul! Comprising my seven shinies are: four Deeling, one Basculin, and a Zekrom. I also got a shiny Genesect from my final encounter of the Road to Unova research, but I'm not sure if I really include that. Out of this wide assortment, I am most happy with the shiny Zekrom. The colour green is an obsession of mine and I have wanted a shiny Zekrom ever since I started playing Pokemon with Black 2. I raided an absolute ton of them a couple years back, but the shiny eluded me. I'm elated to finally have it (although the green looks much better in sprite form :p).

I also caught a whopping two perfect Pokemon during the event. I'm not actually serious with my sarcasm for this, since perfect Pokemon are super rare no matter what (except when mighty Pokemon are around). Anyways, the first is a Dunsparce which is something... The second day brought about a beautiful perfect Kyurem, which I immediately maxed once I was able to. I chose White Kyurem for it since I'd rather have the strongest pure ice attacker, and not Black Kyurem which is stronger but only really against other dragons. I still ended up with two of each Kyurem though (I still need 30 candy to fuse my last black one). 

Perfect Dunsparce

Perfect White Kyurem

White Kyurem (was my best before this event)

Will one day become a black Kyurem when I have the candy

Lucky Black Kyurem

Overall, an incredibly disappointing event although not everything is cloudy ahead, the leaks for the next Go Fest have it sounding pretty darn exciting. There's potentially a Volcanion as a part of the ticket, and it's the last thing I need for a full living dex in Pokemon Home! Also, two of my friends have had this event and the Go Wild Area as their first event respectively, and I feel annoyed that these were their first experiences with global events...

 

Pokemon Go - Last Year's Big Events!

Okay look, I may just be writing this post really quick so I can still attempt to write one post a month this year. Last year after my Sinnoh Tour post, Pokemon Go hosted another two major global events: Pokemon Global Go Fest 2024 and Pokemon Go Wild Area 2024 Global. I barely remember anything from these events aside from a couple things, but I did take screenshots of my haul, so I've got that going for me.

 

Pokemon Global Go Fest 2024

As usual, Go Fest was a blast and I ended up with a significant amount of shinies throughout the day. I didn't do too many raids on the first day due to it being comprised of mainly Ultra Beasts. The second day however, I primarily focused on completing Dusk Mane/Dawn Wings raids for fusion energy.

My main goal was a shiny Corsola, which I thankfully eventually got on the second day. Most of my other shinies are also great, and thankfully ones I mostly don't already have. My annoying shiny pikachu luck persists though, with another four to add to my collection... :) In terms of Necrozmas, I got a solid 94% one I fully upgraded and fused to Dusk Mane, and another high 80s that I used my remaining candy on and fused into Dawn Wings. I also got a shadow shiny Trapinch after the event which is pretty snazzy! 

That first shiny rattata I named Michael, we both caught the same shiny. It wasn't even a perfect but were both shiny and had the same CP and IVs somehow. I think the height might've been slightly different though. I also really love the shiny Espeon colour and I am slightly triggered that I can't trade them to home...

Day 1 Shinies

Day 1 Shinies

 

Day 2 Shinies

Day 2 Shinies

Day 2 Shinies

Shadow Shiny Trapinch!

My best Necrozma

My second best Necrozma

 

Pokemon Go Wild Area 2024 Global

I did not like this event. The thing that really bothered me was the shiny rate. It was around $20 for the event ticket here in Australia and that supposedly brought 'increased shiny odds' with it. Unfortunately said increased rates seem to be barely better than the regional tours, which are free events. I didn't move as much as I usually would have, but even so the rates were atrocious and left a sour taste in my mouth both days.

The Pokemon selection was also kind of meh, but that's to be expected given it was a poison and electric event. I'm mixed on the raids, on one hand I didn't really care for them since they were all previously featured in these big events. On the other hand, I do like candy XL, so I grinded a ton of them. I even finally got enough XL candy to max out my perfect Kyogre, which I think became my first maxed perfect!

The one thing I did enjoy about this event were the mighty Pokemon. I didn't play this game at it's peak in 2016, so I never got to experience everyone running over to check out particular Pokemon. Thankfully this feature recreated that craze. The Pokemon selection was also pretty good, and I wouldn't ever say no to easy candy for them. The only downside was everyone having the same stats, so there was no excitement if the first person didn't get a perfect. My only notable catch is a perfect Dragonite though - there was a perfect Poliwrath, but unfortunately it ran away from me. :( 

EDIT: I also got a perfect Scolipede which is something I suppose.

I don't know for certain what I traded for the Terrakion - I'm pretty sure it was a shiny Palkia though.

Day 1 Shinies

Day 2 Shinies

Day 2 Shinies

My fully maxed perfect best-buddy Kyogre!

 

Perfect Dragonite

Perfect Scolipede

Thanks for reading yet another post. I might as well continue to try to write at least one post a month at this rate. I am still working on my food blog website - currently writing reviews and compressing photos. After that I've got to clean and finish up a few parts of the website. Hopefully I'll be able to give this blog a cleanup as well after! Until next time!

 

Delukatio's 2024 Year in Review!

I swear I want to use this blog more 😂. Welcome to the Delukatio 2024 year-in-review. Over the past year this blog has had a whole two posts (one of which was the previous year-in-review), while the YouTube channel had around 60 short videos posted and a few livestreams. 

 

Blog Stats:

I don't really trust the statistics part of the Blogger software I use for this blog. Supposedly I had 7.32K views on the blog this year which I guess it somewhat believable except for the fact 95% of the views has 'Other' as the source; so I would assume it's a majority of bots making up these 'views'. In terms of blog posts though, most of them have gone up a significant amount, with both the 100 and 200 view barrier being broken. The most viewed individual post is... last year's year-in-review. See what I mean about bots, there is no way real humans would find that more interesting than my other more focused posts.

 

 

Youtube Stats:

The YouTube channel seems about right though. I didn't really upload anything of note and my releases consisted primarily of old clips that I uploaded in both short and clip form. I don't really know what caused the overall dip in the final third of the year but I'm not too bothered. The channel is basically just going to be a dumping ground for playthroughs of games as well as clips I still haven't uploaded over the past five years... The livestreams were fun although they had effectively zero audience. Going back to Minecraft with my Generations series was great though!

 

This Year's Plans:

As usual I would like to use this blog significantly more than I do. I was preoccupied with university studies last year and recently I've been focusing on developing/adding content to my blog focusing on my home city of Perth, Western Australia. I'm currently sorting through 380 venues that I have taken photos of the past 5 years and after that I've got to write a couple posts for it. After I finally release that (the idea is two years old at this point), I will hopefully have time to continually update this barring university studies overwhelming me. Anyways, hopefully I see you again soon!