Pokemon Go Global Sinnoh Tour!

One of Pokemon Go's largest events of the year - the Global Sinnoh Tour, took place last weekend. I spent a majority of both Saturday and Sunday playing and gained a few new nifty Pokemon. In a complete flip from last year's event, the weather on both days was drizzly and humid. While still uncomfortable, it comes nowhere near the effort 35° heat requires. Lots of sweating either way though. Also unlike last year I stayed at my big local park for the majority of both days and only missed probably three hours or so in total.

Day 1

As per my usual schedule I spent most of the first day of the event simply exploring around and completing research tasks. I brought a friend who had never played before and within 10 minutes he had caught himself two shiny Uxies which was insane. I myself had caught both a shiny Turtwig and Pikachu from my autocatcher on the way there so I wasn't entirely out the game. I completed around thirteen Dialga/Palkia raids throughout the day but didn't end up with any that were shiny or had relevant IVs. I completed a ton of field research tasks thanks to how incredibly easy they were (every single one was power up a certain type 5 times) and netted two shiny Gibles in total from them. In terms of other shinies, my annoyances towards shiny Pikachus continues with another three of the darn things. Caught a full shiny line worth of Turtwig's though which I'm thrilled about. Shiny Turtwig might honestly be up in my top three shinies after having a proper look at it! I also ended up with a perfect Hisiuan Qwilfish which I evolved on the second day after completing the 10 raid requirement. I'm happy with it since I'm pretty sure it's a decent poison type attack (not that the type is useful very often).

Shinies from Day 1

 

My only perfect Pokemon for the event

Day 2

For the second day I decided to focus moreso on the Dialga and Palkia raids as I hadn't gotten anything worthwhile the previous day. In a similar vein to yesterday, I ended up with a shiny Azelf within the first hour or so of the entire day. As opposed to yesterday where I completed 13 legendary raids, today I completed a tad more than double at 27. My luck was definetly on my side today however with a dazzling 5 shinies in total despite the shiny rate being 1/20. Now that I'm thinking about it, this is probably the resulting karma from my atrocious Chansey community day luck (more on that in another post). Oh and to top it off the top two Palkia/Dialga were caught back to back! The stats for the majority were unusually low though and I only got a handful of them with 90%+ IVs. In terms of other shinies I ended up with a Croagunk, Kricketot and Hisuian Qwilfish as my new ones.

Shinies from Day 2

 

Thoughts on the event

I mean in all honesty it was basically the same as last year's Hoenn tour in terms of things going on. The shiny rate felt pretty similar, definitely not up with last year's Global Go Tour event but that's to be expected given the latter cost money. I did enjoy the field research this year as it reset each hour meaning I could complete an absolute ton of them without running dry. I do wish they had more bonuses such as 2x catch XP or similar. The only real bonuses were from the paid hatch/raid research which I did enjoy but a general bonus would've been more useful (still love 30k raid xp though). Another big thing I enjoyed was the abundance of dragon, ice and steel pokemon as they are the last type medals I need to complete, and I got pretty darn close to completing the ice one. Overall I'd say it was still a worthwhile event to attend no matter what goal you'll aiming for since you'll still accomplish some progress on whatever it is.

My best Dialga while also being shiny!

Same stats but not shiny :\

The best Palkia I caught

Delukatio's 2023 Year in Review!

Hi guys and welcome to my 2023 year in review!

First of all I would like to thank every single one of you that takes the time out of their day to read these posts. This blog has seen moderate success this past year, especially given how sporadic my posts have been! Saying this, I also reached a record 6(!) posts last year which is a new record. I am partially joking when I state that as an achievement and I do hope to post at least once a month if not more in the following year!

Uh, I suppose I'll include a statistics section. This blog received apparently 20,000 views over the past year although given how unusual the spikes are, I would estimate probably a few thousand of them are legitimate. The most popular post last year was my Pokemon Go Hoenn Tour summary with it achieving 73 total views (see what I mean about the 20,000 total being a bit suspicious). That was probably near the top of my favourite posts to have written probably due to my success in the event as well as the fact I wrote it soon after.

Total views for the blog over 2023

In terms of my main YouTube channel I would say I also found moderate success. My channel was rather inactive for the majority of the year but I started uploading a short and clip a day during September and October. The biggest event of my channel this year was The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (TOTK)'s release, which skyrocketed a few of my related videos. My uploads of the cutscenes featuring the character Sooga from Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity have always been my most viewed videos but they somehow activated another stage of rocket thruster this year. Sooga himself wasn't even in TOTK but I'm assuming the hype around the game aroused interest in him anyway. Thank you Sooga for paying for a couple meals! Also on a side note I'm 90% certain these videos have attracted the ex-Tumblr crowd, as a few of the comments about a fictional character are wild!

YouTube views over the year with the major spikes coinciding with TOTK's release

I also started watching quite a bit more Anime this year and I've enjoyed the majority of them. I'll most likely be creating a tier list for them soon but the standout this year is easily Attack on Titan. I started watching it a few weeks after the finale aired and I cannot describe how incredible of an experience it was, even on 1.5x playback. My favourite arc is easily the Marley arc purely due to Reiner's arc. I really warmed up to his character and he's probably my favourite character by the end of the series. My man just really wanted to end things all the time. :( I also watched the entirety of Bleach which was decent but nowhere near the top. Chainsaw Man was pretty banging although I feel like it lost steam towards the end of the season.

I could honestly write more but I currently have plans to make write ups on a lot of things I would've included so you'll have to wait until I eventually release those! Thanks for taking the time to read this post and support me over the past year. I hope to provide more riveting content over the next year and beyond. Bon Voyage!