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Water Research Day Only got to play on my hour break but managed to bag 8 ✨

@wine_018 I take things that didn’t happen for 200

@Mr_JTT 3 blue with the back ground. Traded little man one and one tagged ready for remotes which I’ve got about 20 coming in the next 3 weeks.

Just a little survey for curiosity to see how everyone is getting on finding any shiny Dittos with the hats and Backgrounds

I WIN!!!🏆 Shiny Ditto Hat and Background Only took 30 mins and 8 Ditto catches 🎉🥳

@InstictPtrainer Ok that’s a keeper as it’s as rare as hens teeth!

Caught my first nundo legendary 🤯🤯🎉🎉

@eekjoanna They are. Outside of events where they boost specific rates there are no more perma boosted shiny spawns in the wild.

Anyone else feel like Pokémon Go nerfed all the shiny rates???

All out day one: 42 spawns, 4 caught. Feel bad for those with no freeze effects. Great idea but yet again poor execution. No wild shiny boost No legendary shiny boost No boosted catch rate. God forbid they give stuff away that we didn’t pay for. Disappointed! #PokemonGO

@CalebbA13 I’m with you. Still got both of mine from in person Go Fest last year 🤣

The audacity of this game thinking that I’m really gonna walk 20km at max with a poffin to complete this research with this piece of shit Volcanion 🤣🤣 #PokemonGO

@theverybest5000 Caught mine last year in Paris and didn’t expect to see a worse one this quick.

Bitch over my dead body 😑

@theverybest5000 That’s defo a better idea

@jqmagic Hmm fair enough. An 8 hour event is plenty of time, maybe 4 hours of rotating megas and 4 hours of rotating legis? And this format for each day

So... Kalos tour happened and I wrote an essay about it 🤣 there were certainly some positives in terms of game mechanics that I enjoyed, but unfortunately many negative things too.... Let's talk about them!!! THE GOOD 🔥 👍 You guys how incredible was it that event eggs AND half hatch distance were available starting midnight and continued outside event hours on both days?! Pretty sure this is the first time theyve ever done this and it was AWESOME 🙏 👍 Arguably one of the best bonuses in the game... High catch rate with premier balls 😭 catching legis on the first ball with pinap berries >>>>> 👍 I noticed starters had boosted catch rates in the wild which was much appreciated, especially after the road to kalos event chomped through my ultra balls 🫠 👍 I'm pretty sure pika was advertised to only be in raids? I was so excited to find out it ended up in the wild, in incense, AND in field research 🥹 I know I am one of 5 people who give a fuck about costume pika, but... it made me very happy OKAY 🤣 👍 It was really cool how raids were ongoing outside the event hours, and that in the evening all bosses from the entire week spawned. It was kind of exciting to see so many legendaries together like that! 👍 Rotating field research 🔥 it's to be expected at this point but it's just a really amazing feature and deserves to be acknowledged 🫡 wish this was implemented more in other types of events like community day or spotlight hour (catch 3 of the featured slh mon 👀) or raid hour (win a raid?) 👍 Pretty good wild shiny rates imo but I've seen conflicting reports on here so maybe I was just very lucky 💀 THE BULLSHIT 👎 🗑️ SUPER MEGA RAIDS 🤮 this feature needs to be reworked somehow. You should not be allowed to enter a lobby unless you have a mega mon, nor enter the raid if the mega is not active on your team. If the boss REQUIRES 10 megas and there are fewer than 10 trainers, the game should prevent ALL TRAINERS from entering the battle since at that point it's a guaranteed lost pass. Idk. Something needs to be done 👎 🗑️ The bonus task for unown was terrible... after we chose a path, x or y should've been added to incense spawns. WHY WERENT THEY IN THE INCENSE SPAWNS?!????! 🗑️ Spawns were generally fucking boring and way too many non kalos mon. With kalos being a notably smaller dex, they should've gone out of their way to do cooler things with what we've got. Some examples: 1. ALL FLABEBE SHOULD HAVE SPAWNED IN THE WILD!!!! WHY WEREN'T ALL FLABEBE SPAWNING IN THE WILD???????? 2. Locking regionals in eggs sucked. I get it for expansive regions (where there are plenty of other mon to hunt in the wild) so eggs are a way to give us access but still keep regionals rare. Fine. HOWEVER for such a small dex they could've just been chill about it. Rare spawn in the wild would've been a massive improvement 3. Honedge should not have been locked in raids and the win a raid task. It should've been made more widely accessible, or at least in a non pay to win task. Ideally it would've been another rare wild spawn 🗑️ Im generally not a fan of the massive pool of raid bosses, which we frustratingly have for basically every major event. A rotating mega, 2 super megas, 2 legendaries, fuckass pika and honedge?????? It's TOO MUCH. Impossible to seek out what we individually want. Possible solution?: ^ Day 1 should've been hourly rotating megas, maybe 2 super megas mixed in. So max 3 raid bosses per hour. ^^ Day 2 should've been legi focused. Alternating hours of yveltal and xerneas so we can plan accordingly and raid what we want to. Maybe 2 super megas mixed in, again 3 per hour. 🗑️ I don't raid for backgrounds myself but streets are saying rates of shiny with bg were abysmal and that really sucks :( shinies and hundos should have automatic bg imo Ok that's all I got. Did I miss anything important??? Thank you to the approximately 3 people who will read through all my bs ily 🥰🤣

@JoBluntyPG 155 over the week for me. Just the 3 shiny but 1 of them was the Mexican Bird 😁

150 eggs hatched this week 🐣🤓😯 what about you guys? Also I just needed .9 km more fml lol 🚶🏻‍♀️

✨ Scatterbug number 5 (Garden) Didn’t get one the whole event from almost 200 but of course the first one straight afterwards is white 😅

Kalos Tour day 2 round up ✨29 for me ✨22 for the child. After the 1st 90 mins with just 1 between us we thought the day might be 🗑️ Highlight of the day ✨ Xerneas with the background for me. No shiny 🗡️ for moi but after over 💯 raids and research he finally got a red 1.

@JollyNotNow @scopely Page 2 has a 21 day one. 😡🤣

Ohhhh and BTW!!!! The shiny Diancie masterwork research … of course it has a time gate on page one!!!🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 Better not be a 2* @scopely ! #pokemonGo #PokemonGoapp

Kalos Tour day one complete. 23 ✨ for me, 26 ✨for the little man. 1st time he’s beat my total. 0 💯😢 0 ✨ background And most sad 0 ✨🗡️ from 49 encounters. 1 ✨🥚 but it was the best one. Overall a solid and fun 1st day 😁 #PokemonGOTour2026

@DoubleXforcee Kalos special research all pages then it will come after. Little man has it after smashing through the 5 pages

How come I can’t see the masterwork research for shiny Diancie even tho I have the ticket?? Pls don’t say I have to finish the other masterwork research first 😭

@TonyTMPokemon1 So I just did my first with 13 megas and we only had to break 1 shield? Shield went up then broke it and went straight to less than half health and no more shields.

PSA PLEASE MEGA EVOLVE !!! No one wants to lose a pass ! #PokemonGOTour2026 #PokemonGo

@gnarlyrita 1 in 27 total. 162 raids total with 6 shiny (2 with the background).

I NEED to know..how are your shiny rates from raids this week? #Pokemon #PokemonGO

@italiangirl0411 @PokemonGOHubNet Can definitely be shiny as I got 2 last year so I would assume background this time as well will be available

@PokemonGOHubNet I always ask myself when we Remote raid for this event can it be shiny & or have background? Or is it shiny or BG only in the place with event? Thank you.

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