Pokemon Go - Slowpoke Community Day!

Today was the slowpoke community day in Pokemon Go and to be completely honest, it was absurd. Not only was it a shiny goldmine, it was also one of the best XP events i've played. Most of my community days result in me gaining at least enough shinies for the evolution line with a couple having more. However the last community day for Noibat only netted me 3 shinies despite playing it slightly more committed than usual.

Today was completely the opposite however. I was at work during the beginning hours of the event so I took a 30 minute break to play. In that 30 minutes I ended up with 5 shinies, more than the last four community days. Was composed of three galarian and two originals. Ended up with another seven through both an autocatcher as well as just pure luck. Felt as if they were spawning constantly, especially the galarian ones. Ended up with an amazing 12 in total, heaven knows what to do with all of them.

This is also not mentioning the absurd amount of XP that was possible to gain during the event. The catch reticle for an excellent on slowpoke is incredibly easy to hit and combined with triple XP bonus and a lucky egg resulted in 7000XP+ per catch. I will be honest though, once I reached level 40 from it I decided i'd rather spend my day doing other stuff, especially considering I already had a ton of shinies. Oh yeah, I also forgot to mention that I only played properly for probably 45 minutes out of the three hour window, about my usual playtime for these events.

All in all, was an amazing community day and probably one of the best i've participated in.

Pokemon Go Global Hoenn Tour!

Day 1
So recently it was the Global portion of the Hoenn Tour event in Pokemon Go! I took time off for both days and decided to head to the most popular spot to play in the city. Started playing around 11 and continued until around 4pm. The day was marked by the incredible heat we had to endure the entire day. Solid 35° C tempeatures and direct sun light required several layers of sunscreen which was fun. Now for commentation on the event itself. For a free event I believe it was actually pretty darn good. My friend quickly realised the research encounters were shiny boosted so we set about the park to complete as many tasks as possible. However, the shinies I recieved were actually pretty evenly distributed through the different methods. My first shiny was a rainy castform which was pretty soon after I started playing. Next couple were from research tasks and then my gotcha claimed two more on the walk back to the cars to charge my phone (got down to 1%). After this I completed my second Kyogre raid and was presented with shiny number 6. I traded I forgot what to my mate in return for a shiny shuppet which I then evolved into Banette to complete the line. No other shinies during the event for the Saturday. Later checked for hundos later in the day and scored a Avalugg. Amazing luck followed however. After walking my dog later in the day I hatched through my 10km eggs for the day. Just as I had finished my walk the egg hatching screen appears and I am presented with a shiny relicanth followed by a shiny tropius. The relicanth was my first one caught as well. I excitedly message my mates on my find. I then check the stats, and the tropius is, a shundo, my very first one. The gods decided to bless me with two incredibly rare Pokemon one after another. I am amazed. 

The two shinies hatched one after another on the hatching screen!

Turns out the tropius was infact a shundo!

The best IV Groudon I caught over both days!

Day 2
The second day was significantly less eventful. My mates from the previous day had work commitments and I myself did not possess the energy to spend another day out in the heat. I did go out for the 4th hour however as clamperl's evolutions were the last Pokemon required to complete my Hoenn dex. I caught a shiny duskull pretty quickly and evolved it into a dusclops. Walked around the park completing all the research available but recieved nothing worthwhile. I did end up with 100 clamperl candy so I rolled the dice and thankfully ended up with both it's evolutions, completing my dex. Later in the day I decided to work on catching a shiny Groudon through remote raiding and PokeGenie. After exactly 20 I finally ended up with one (talk about accurate odds bahahah). It was getting pretty late so I decided to do one last Kyogre raid. Completed it and it's CP seemed very high so I sensed something was amiss. Did suffer quite a bit of stress since it refused to be caught but at the very end, the very last ball was what it took. It was a hundo. Went to bed soon after, satisified. Eggs hatched the next day and I recieved a hundo tropius, which was something I guess. I forgot to mention that on both days I stacked my field research and I caught them all the following Thursday when my stack reached 100. I recieved nothing super amazing aside from a 96% Brendan pikachu and a 98% duskull. 

A suprisingly high CP

Turns out it was the hundo!

 

Thoughts on the event.
Given it was a free event I thought it was more than sufficient. Given I didn't spend even an entire event day playing I am quite happy with the Pokemon caught. Shiny odds seemed to be more than sufficient for myself although I have heard of people recieving signifcantly less. In person raids were also fine for me since I had quite a few raid passes saved up since I rarely use them. The only other global event I participated in was the final Global tour last year and having a look now, i'm pretty sure I recieved less shinies from it despite it being a paid event. I don't personally understand how people are able to play the entirety of both days. I finished all the special research and timed research tasks on the Saturday and recieved more than enough rare Pokemon during it. I could not imagine doing the same thing all again on Sunday. Although to be fair it was also incredibly hot here which probably had a large influence on my decision. 

Shinies from the event!