It's been a few months now since my last Pokemon Go post so I thought I'd post an update on my gains since then. Most of these events have been quite enjoyable and I've grown my shiny collection quite a bit! I've also started transferring my collection to Pokemon Home so I'll include most images at the end since all the shinies are jumbled up now.
Searching for Gold Research Day
My personal favourite event of the last couple months and nothing comes close. Compared to the usual hour or so I spend on community days, I played for almost the entirety of the three hour event time frame. This event was a research day, meaning I had to wander around my suburb spinning new PokeStops to provide a constant source of spawns. I had quite a few shinies I needed going into the event, with the only ones I already possessed being a Sableye and Nosepass. I bought the paid research and almost immediately got a shiny Caterpie from the first page. I walked around my local park and completed about 20-30 tasks there. I then traveled around my suburb, on roads I've never traversed before, purely for the sweet nectar from more stops. Eventually I had enough and headed home, with every shiny I needed for full evolution lines aside from Barboach.
I made the mistake of thinking the second page of paid research was the same as the first, so I didn't move onto the second page until I was done (The first page was entirely made up of 'Complete 1 Field Research Task' while the second climbed to 10 total). Fortunately my dog required walking so I took her to another park further away for the last half an hour of the event. Thankfully luck was on my side, and after completing my paid research as well as claiming more field research/spawns, I was able to amass three Barboaches meaning I had now obtained full evolution lines of every event Pokemon line! I also got a shiny Staryu from my auto-catcher during the day to boot! Overall I greatly enjoyed the event and would honestly consider it to be probably one of the best I've participated in.
Community Days
There have been several community days since my last post covering the Slowpoke one. Since then we've had Togetic, Swinub, Fennekin and Axew. They've all been pretty standard community days for me and I've been able to achieve my main goal of a full shiny line for each of them. Togetic day is remembered for the absolute pain in the butt that hatching a shiny Togepi was. I walked for quite a while and got nothing but finally got one on some of my last eggs that hatched after the event had already ended. Swinub wasn't very exciting. I had already caught one shiny Swinub so I really only needed to catch two more plus earn candy. I was on break from work during the event and an out of work coworker and I conversed for the hour break instead. Got the two Swinubs from an auto-catcher anyway.
Fennekin was one of those events where I end up with way too many. The first three weren't super quick by any means but I caught a few more later after I started doing other activities - like they just started popping up way more often. Axew was by far the worst community day i've had in quite a while. Very reminiscent of the Larvitar day where I struggled to get anything. From memory I ended up having caught 200+ Axews and only three of those were shiny which is atrocious luck. I think it was the closest i've been to giving up. I had walked the entirety of my somewhat large local park and was getting nothing out of it. Thankfully after a long wait I finally got the third shiny and almost immediately headed back home.
New 4 Stars!
I've gained a few new perfect Pokemon over the last few months with a nice variation from utterly useless to some of the best in the game. The latter includes the Gengar as well as the Charmander who I will later be able to evolve in Mega Charizard Y. According to gamepress.gg these two are S tier raid attackers so I will most likely try to best buddy them when I remember to do so. Magnezone, Haxorus and Roserade are all decent attackers as well so I'm honestly quite happy with my perfect luck. While the Shaymin isn't useful I'm still quite satisfied having another perfect mythical somehow (Zarude was my first). Oh and before anyone asks, I upgraded my Haxorus for the recent Go Battle Day. I know there were better choices but I like the look of him and I wanted to use him in future raids anyway.
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| Overall, a solid roster |
My Galarian Zigzagoon Curse
Okay this is something that is really getting on my nerves. Outside of events my recent shiny luck as been quite lackluster (if we exclude the past few days that is). Even with this curse however one single Pokemon continues to cause even further pain. These darn Galarian Zigzagoons must have an increased shiny rate or something. I swear the rates for these things for me is around 1/10 or so. Every time I see one on the map I sigh before clicking on them, only for my sigh to be warranted as a red and blue creature appears before me. Literally almost half of my recent shinies have been these incessant things. Honestly, I don't actually mind them as they're a decent shiny. However, I already had a full line from the community day though so all these extras are a bit pointless.
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| Please make it stop! 😠|
Stunfisk Research Day:
The stunfisk research day that took place in April was also pretty fun. I walked around the previously mentioned Pokestop full park and enjoyed it quite a bit. One task towards the start was a 'Battle in a Gym' task that I removed since the cloest gyms were my team. During the event I recieved two shiny Unovian Stunfisks during the event but still required a Galarian variant. Unfortunately I had already exhausted all the research at the park, except for a certain one. I remember when I initially removed it I thought it would be funny if it turned out to be the shiny and lo and behold, it was the exact mon I needed. I also caught the recently released shiny Drillbur which just added to my enjoyment.
Shiny Photos:
As stated early here are most of my recently aquired shinies, mixed between both Go and Home.
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| The shiny Riolu is quite sought after! |
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| This is where the jumbling is really noticeable! |
If you made it this far, thank you. I'm pretty sure this is my longest post so far so I appreciated you taking the time to scroll through the entire thing! ❤️
