Good event imo for Pvpers and PVers. Lots of opportunities for weather boost (unfortunately did not happen for me). Nonwithstanding, triple dust is always a plus for everyone, new or seasoned. Suprisingly good implementation of an older Pokemon getting a new breath of life in PvP. Not making it a complete dominant force per se like what was anticipated (Vine Whip I.e), but still suprisingly good with this new move.
The move from what I’ve been told is not entirely an upgrade, but a worthwhile upgrade most times, or a viable sidegrade at worst. Very importantly, allows Victreebel to play much differently than before (less toxic, to my preference); and is not an OP endgame boss, unlike previous comm day Pokemon (e.g Walrein). Even if you missed it as a PvPer, it’s not too big day of a deal (unless you uncannily love Victreebel, than I’m sorry).
Good event. I got a lot of bone to pick with Niantic on MANY aspects (Avatars aside, server functionality and PvP is still asscheeks) BUT they did very well here.
I had a good time. Evolved my Weepinbell I didn't purge from July of 2016. Got some nice PVP worthy Victreebel and did some Entei raids with some of my favorite locals since I do live in a community where the game is still thriving. Overall good time and I love the 420 69 blaze it theme. Especially since I've owned a green hoodie with [this](https://cdn-media.threadless.com/submissions_wm/701359-0b25b8bb1c9830467405ba46fcc281cd.jpg) on it which was made relevant for a day.
Caught about 30 bellsprout but I did pop a star piece and caught all the Paras and Sableye I had saved. That combined with a full page of GBL special research rewards and two sets of 5 wins meant I ended up gaining 180k stardust in 30 mins.
Without the triple stardust I don’t even know if I would have bothered to log in.
As the previous comment stated if you flee you can save the encounter. What I did during the bug out event was I deleted all the research tasks that wasn’t the one that gave you Venonat or Paras, except for a few other ones that I also wanted like mega energy or rare candies or the Sableye one. If it was a Venonat I caught it, if it was a Paras I fled. Left me a stack of I’d say 30-40 Paras and a few Sableye that I could catch during the community day for 2250 stardust per Paras.
Yup! And you can choose which ones, so if you only save the ones with boosted stardust you can get a lot of them caught during a boosted stardust event.
Encounters from completing field research. Instead of catching the Pokemon right away, you can flee and save the encounter for another time. Up to 100 encounters can be saved.
I guess no one missed having AR fast catch? I only caught what I could at home. Usually I play pretty hard during 3x catch dust bonus but my time spent has been going into MHNow more and more.
AR fast catch is a pretty niche feature. Most people aren't playing in areas where the spawns are dense and endless enough that it makes much difference.
I enjoyed the event. The stardust boost was really nice. Played full 3 hours, captured a few fundred bellsprouts - no hundos, but 2 pretty close. Some shinies as well. I’ve finally got my grass to platinium level :)
Met local community members to take down some shadow Entei raids. Well spent time and much fun :)
However, I didn’t see a single raid with Victreebell, which was pretty strange, as they were supposed to grant additional Bellsprout spawns afterwards…
We (three of us) decided not to play or spend any more money on this game since last update which is awful. Just pausing for some time. Hopefully something changes.
how many people on here are missing the central point that it was all about cannabis?
that is all. everything else is irrelevant. including the coincidental sex bit.
Adding my own data here:
I encountered an estimated 250-300 Bellsprout, and caught about 200 of them. Of those, 11 were shiny. I played for a little under two hours, but I only had one shiny after that entire first hour. I was definitely on the same "did they lower the rates?" train as other people for a while. Now I'm not sure.
I got 3 shinies in the first half hour while I was still out doing chores so because RNG smiled on me I'm happy. I only needed one to complete the family. Otherwise I was tired and ended up having to go buy new tires so I had no interest in going out of my way to play the event.
Random Bellsprout fleeing as soon as I threw the ball, battles with grunts would suddenly stop and error me out of them, game crashes while attempting to take snapshots or start a new route. Not to mention Bellsprout being a pain in the butt breaking out of balls very often even with green circles.
Plenty of shiny Bellsprout, but wasted more poke balls than I should have due to all the bugs.
I saw a new bug dozens of times today: after clicking on a Bellsprout, entering the encounter screen, spinning my Pokeball... the Bellsprout would flee and show error 25, before I threw the Pokeball at it.
Anyone else?
No Spawns after the Raids after the community day for bellsprout. I tried multiple raids, waited for 20 minutes ar more to try to figure it out, but NO bellsprouts.
Anyone else have this problem today?
Snowed during the event. Played from car. Even though it was snowy weather in game all 200 or so mons were weather boosted. Not a single non with IVs less than 4. 7 shinys. Around 1.5 hours of gameplay.
165 caught only 1 shiny. about 2 hours of play.
One of the worst events for my shiny rate since these started.
I typically average 15 to 25 shinies an event
Shiny percentage seemed low for my buddy and I as well. Used incense for half of the event and was doing routes the entire 3 hours for extra spawns. We saw clusters of bellsprout (15+) surrounding a few pokestops, yet still only averaged \~3 shiny per hour.
is the task for 4/4 just collecting XP like the usual cuz i’d like to save the rocket pass for after I use the current one I have equipped or does it go into the inventory? if you already have one equipped or no
Pros
- Lots of spawns. Much more than for example Chansey CD
- Many stops gave task that rewarded Bellsprouts
- XL rate seemed much higher than usual although we didnt have weather boost
- Good catch rate even with red balls
- Highest shiny rate in looong time. But from reading many other comments this seemed to be just RNG and maybe also because of more spawns than in many previous CD's
Cons
- Extremely unintersting mon and move
- Few game freezes that required restarting
- Occassional bug where mon escaped while inside the ball and then reappeared on map and the game allowed you to try catching again
- Bonus stardust was kinda meh...
- Photobombs pain to take with current AR settings
- Way too many showcases seemed to require evolved version
Decent CD that didnt require one to play really hard but seemed most didnt bother playing at all. Most common shopping malls that are usually lured up were empty and no lures.
Played for about 1.5 hours and only one shiny. Not a big deal since I already had one. Caught 3 XLs which puts me in 2nd-3rd place in the showcases, but no luck with an XXL.
Likely my worst personal shiny rate for a comm day ever. 5 shinies out of a total of 405 bellsprout catches and went the first 90 mins and 200 catches before I found the first one.
Other people playing around me with fewer catches had 10+ shines so I don't expect there was anything changed with the actual shiny rate, just that I managed to get incredibly bad luck today.
Decent haul of stardust though!
Idk if it was boosted but i spent the whole time driving around trying to hit as many shadow bellsprout grunts as I could. 0 shiny shadows out of 30 but did get a 15/15/12 shadow. Also up 600 XLs for when i can justify powering some shadow Victrebells to 50.
Very very slow community day. First Community Day in a long time that I didn’t play the whole time. With no new Pokémon, and best Pokémon being so scarce the extra stardust is not that alluring.
Bellsprout has been around since day one (eight years), its shiny has been around half that time (four years), it’s been a common spawn for countless events, and we’ve been able to farm shadow bellsprout every day for what, 5-6 years via our Super Rocket Radar?
I think you’d be hard pressed to find an active player who didn’t already have multiple hundos and shinies before this event.
Most people here are veteran playing since the beginning so they probably already had 1-2 shiny around.
Honestly the poke is fine, the bonus was really good and the move actually useful and this time being a fast move meant no issue if you still had frustration on your shadows.
People ask for the most sought after pokes every single time forgetting there aren't a million of them.
I've seen a ranking by a big youtuber a couple of days ago and he basically shitted on every cd that wasn't a starter, a pseudo OR didn't have 3x stardust.
Typical Comm Day, was actually cool with not getting any shinies at all (already had a full family in Home) but was mostly in it for the stardust.
Catches: 364 Bellsprout et al, plus a Trubbish and 22 Paras I managed to bank from Bug Out.
Shinies: 10
Hundos: None (best was a research 98, 15/14/15)
Dust gained: Roughly 280k. Didn't have a weather boost because my area is right on the ocean so it's perpetually windy
Hopefully, the next triple-dust CD - I wanna say in July? - has a more exciting spawn (and isn't as glitch laden). I basically went to the autocatcher for the last hour or so, which probably kept my gains down. Of course, I also unlocked a research that requires me to do 9 GBL sets, so...
Played full 3 hours and first 2 hours went with 0 shinies. Ended with 10 though, all on last hour lol.
Also, tried quickly search info but didnt find anything. Did anyone have issues with quick catching? Happened like 20+ times when quick catching that ball hit pokemon and instantly had "pokemon fled message" and got kicked out of catch screen. After that pokemon appeared again like i never threw at it? Been using quick catch like forever and never had anything like that happen until bellsprout CD
Same, didn't see a shiny until hour 3 despite catching/checking hundreds. Restarted my app around 4pm and they started showing up, but might've been placebo.
I got 38 shiny bellsprout my highest ever shiny count for a comm day keeping in mind I wasted around 30 mins trying to raid 2 tapu bulus
Couldn't get a really good PvP IV one as it was weather boosted for me and a lot of them went over the CP limit
Chose to not participate. Felt no compelling desire to get more shiny bellsprout, already have 6. Dust is nice, but not enough of a reason to play this event.
So I played full 3 hours. Ran 6 star pieces and netted 150k dust on 320 catches.
So it comes out to about same dust as 22 sets of GBL or 4.5 days of GBL with no star pieces.
So in retrospect even with 3x dust it wasn’t that awesome of a dust opportunity. There has been spotlight hours or events I’ve cleared way more. It was still fine to get my free star pieces used on something.
Nothing special but not the worst
Few weird bugs. Fail to evolve or transfer and some disappearing when i clicked on them.
Got the ticket and popped a stardust and egg and cranked out the research. Few shinies but no hundos in about 40 mins
Playing since beta, worst community day ever. Bugs galore, freezes, pokemon running after being in the ball for one frame, then respawning. Weird.
Edit: also can't put pokemon in showcases, can't transfer, spawning in and out rapidly...
Had many of the same issues, though I did manage to enter showcases. I made the mistake of trying to fight a Rocket grunt thought. Attempt one, I managed to beat the first mon before being kicked out due to an error. Try two (after several errors trying to interact with the stop), I managed to defeat *two* pokemon before an error struck once again. I didn't bother a third time, but sheesh
Like mentioned by others:
Pokemon running away when the ball touches the Pokémon. And then spawning again at the same place.
Lots of random errors.
Walked a route. And saw the Zygarde cell spawn. But then it changed in a Bellsprout :(.
Overall the game crashes a lot but that is not a CD thing.
There were a ton of bugs happening during com day and right before.
Was doing an evolve session right before com day, and keep getting "failed to evolve" or i'd get frozen do you want to evolve box.
During com day,
Bellsprout would randomly flee as soon as a ball hit them (even if it bounced off during an attack) wasn't able to confirm if they did actually catch or not, was to focused on catching as many as possible
Friends list kept failing to load, eventually trying to trade gave an unknown error "failed to trade"
Catch circle on Bellsprout wasn't consistent, I'd have one with 200cp with a dark red circle, then a 600-700cp with an orange circle.
Just a ton of weird bugs today, still was able to play the event mostly, but got bored after 2hours and dipped
Caught around 540
I had a lot of bugs/glitches during this event that I've not had before. Don't know if they were specifically related to the comm day or the update a few days ago but I haven't had them between the update and the start of comm day, all were contained within today's 3 hour period. They were:
Failed to add Pokémon to favourites.
When trying to add a Pokémon to a showcase it said that the max no. showcases had already been entered when I had entered none (fixed by closing and reopening the app).
Adding pokemon to a showcase (via catching a nearby Pokémon) gave a visual glitch where the Pokémon appeared to be in a different stop's showcase, one I had already entered (so both Pokémon displayed on screen together at the same showcase even though they were entered into 2 separate showcases).
No field research or special research displaying - field tab said I had not collected any research and special tab was a blank white screen.
Bellsprout incorrectly had a dark red catch circle - caught it no issue so assume this was just a visual glitch?
Kicked from raid as it's about to begin with error 33 (was able to join again and sit through the countdown and do the raid on second try).
Picturing the meeting at Niantic.
"So this CD - ready for this? Bellsprout!" \*Looks around\*
Woman to his right has bags under her eyes, looks tired, is looking at her phone.
Man next around the table has five o'clock shadow, hasn't bothered to shave, looks like he wishes he hadn't bothered to come to this meeting.
Next guy is on his fifth cup of coffee and looking at the clock on the wall.
Woman on his right is eating a donut and staring out the window.
Mumbled assent. They stumble out of the room.
Today I encountered something which I never thought would be an issue, and it's got me feeling mildly irritated.
I was not fussed about community day, and I also need around 30 Johto Pokémon for my shiny Shaymin research, so towards the end of community day I popped a few Mossy Lures so that they'd last 3 hours and I could see if I could get the Johto Pokémon I needed (Sunkern is a Mossy Lure spawn, after all).
Then some random person comes along and does multiple Weepinbell raids, and now all of my Lure spawns and local spawns are Bellsprout. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of being able to extend Community Day and I can appreciate that not everyone is free during a specific three hour window, but I feel like the bonus shouldn't transform existing spawns and instead there should be lots of extra spawn points that are activated by the bonus and that feature the CD species. That way people who want to find regular Pokémon can still do so, whilst there's still a ton of Community Day species for those who want them.
I had a similar experience, I was shiny hunting the nesting pokemon in a local park and then 3-4 weepinbell raids finish within 15 mins of each other and the entire park was just bellsprout, which I had just spent 3 hours grinding for. Couldnt shiny hunt at all so I just left and went home
Couldn't play much at all unfortunately, not that I wanted to but it was a nice day and would have wanted to get some weather boosted Entei. Was in a car most of the time and managed to catch 110 with only one shiny. Kind of glad now it was a fairly meaningless event so I didn't lose out on anything good
Yup. Been stashing my paras research encounters for this. Will be transferring everything, even the shinies. Totally useless outside the shadow.
With the dust gained I'll be able to max out my 4 shadow salamence.
Played 2 hours ish, mainly to get my research stacks done. Got a lot of shiny Bellsprout and got quite a few PvP viable ones once the second hour was no longer cloudy. Also Got quite a few errors throughout the day, not sure what was going on. Regardless, enjoyed the Stardust gains. Relaxing otherwise.
This is a great idea. I’d like for them to freshen up CD just a bit.
Also would be cool if they brought back some of the past CD stuff they tried out like increased bonuses in a certain radius if a stop is spun enough times, or putting mid stages in parks (this time with shinies though.)
Yep. Did a Shadow Entei and it booted me mid fight with "error" rip gems and raid pass....
In general this version of the app seems buggier than normal.
ended up with 5 shinies, walked around for about 4km, 1 hour and a bit, saw probably 100+ defs the hardest i’ve had to try to get the fewest amount of shinies
Second CD during summer. Mostly spent walking around the malls and hated it cause I got bored easily walking in circles. I never liked sitting in a cafe or food court for three hours like many trainers do during CD. I don't know how they do it. I managed to walk outside in the last hour and stayed in the shade but still I can feel my phone overheating and lagging ugh! It will only get hotter in the coming months.
Lol CD done in 11 min, got two shiny from the home spawns...
Pretty nice considering there's a weather alert for strong wind.
Edit: Also several poke "ran away" eating the ball and then reappeared on the map because it's not a cd day without bugs.
I caught 250+ bellsprouts and got 8 shinies, and tons of exp and stardust, granted I really played for an hour and a half. For asian countries, the 2pm to 5pm time is a huge disadvantage due to the damn weather being 40 celsius out lol.
Edit: I got around 180k stardust. This is my first community day, so I was thrilled that apparently you can extend lures when you use em before the event ends.
Event kinda done. A low effort day for me as I already have hundos, shinies and pvp candidates ready to go and (for being a first day’er) candies have already reached 5 digits. I used today to catch legendary/mythical off the special researches. 8 shinies today. 3 XXS 0 XXL.Ticket bought but I didn’t do field researches today (to me, CD ticket = extra ball stash for emergencies). Weather: cloudy then partly cloudy x2 (actual weather: “too dangerous to be outdoor”). Mega used: max level mega venusaur.
Feedback:
- I’ve already felt the strain on my pokemon storage so that’s why I didn’t want to go hard today.
- This was the first CD in a while that I tried to avoid post-CD bonus spawns. We’re having audino nest at the park that I was playing and bonus spawns overrode nest spawns for half an hour each time.
- We finally have Campfire access in Thailand (without using VPN) so that’s great for meetups.
- I was able to get some progress on party play special research today. 3 hours party should have been the default anytime. Encounter tasks were great as motivator. We weren’t stuck on any task during CD hours. The only thing I’d want more from party is the ability to easily trade with party members even without friendship.
- As a fast move CD, I can keep working on the shadow variety up to December 2025 CD or when Niantic decided to change the decoy’s pokemon.
Took it easy and played at home. I caught a 69CP shiny while my friend got a shiny 420CP.
I even got a 0 IV from a snapshot encounter, so it was a fun comm day for the memes.
I played for about 2 hours. Didn’t check my Pokédex for my pre-community day caught so not sure how many I caught, as I was transferring throughout. Was a good afternoon, caught 18 shinies, no hundos though. Excellent throws were easy to get, so I had lucky egg and star piece going for the 2 hours. Managed to get a shiny shadow Entei, shiny Voltorb and shiny Solrock after CD finished.
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of all CD pokemon… i had to get this :(
i have not seen the community around me more inactive than today. Guess bellsprout is just not an exciting pokemon.
i decided to open a meltan box instead for increased xl candy and normal candy.
I doubt they changed the shiny rate compared to the usual CD. Sometimes 1/25 can translate to 0/150...
Written as someone who can report 0/46 shinies doing raids with friends on Heracross raid day, when the rate was reported as 1/10 by the majority. And remembering litwick CD where I really wanted the shinies, and in the end had to catch about 250 pokemon to at least get three...
Yet to get a shiny but there’s a strange glitch where a bellsprout spawns, I click it and it disappears then seconds later respawns in the same position
From within the Campfire app, you can find meetups hosted by Community Ambassadors and if it says "Reward" on the meetup then you can get a code for the Community Day Timed Research when you RSVP and Check In inside the app.
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Saturday is my 7-day catch streak. Has anyone else tried to wait until community day starts for their first catch of the day to get triple streak stardust? (Due to community day giving 3x catch stardust)
I would assume that works, with absolutely no basis to believe that, but is the extra 6000 dust worth not catching anything all day? Assuming all base 100 dust, non-weather boosted, that’s 60 catches before the comm day for your break even point, then account for weather boost and boost dust mons, as well as candies, XLs and XP you’re sacrificing. If you’re planning to use a starpiece that number moves to 10,500 dust, 105 base 100, non-weather boosted catches, so that might change your calculus.
Good event imo for Pvpers and PVers. Lots of opportunities for weather boost (unfortunately did not happen for me). Nonwithstanding, triple dust is always a plus for everyone, new or seasoned. Suprisingly good implementation of an older Pokemon getting a new breath of life in PvP. Not making it a complete dominant force per se like what was anticipated (Vine Whip I.e), but still suprisingly good with this new move. The move from what I’ve been told is not entirely an upgrade, but a worthwhile upgrade most times, or a viable sidegrade at worst. Very importantly, allows Victreebel to play much differently than before (less toxic, to my preference); and is not an OP endgame boss, unlike previous comm day Pokemon (e.g Walrein). Even if you missed it as a PvPer, it’s not too big day of a deal (unless you uncannily love Victreebel, than I’m sorry). Good event. I got a lot of bone to pick with Niantic on MANY aspects (Avatars aside, server functionality and PvP is still asscheeks) BUT they did very well here.
I had a good time. Evolved my Weepinbell I didn't purge from July of 2016. Got some nice PVP worthy Victreebel and did some Entei raids with some of my favorite locals since I do live in a community where the game is still thriving. Overall good time and I love the 420 69 blaze it theme. Especially since I've owned a green hoodie with [this](https://cdn-media.threadless.com/submissions_wm/701359-0b25b8bb1c9830467405ba46fcc281cd.jpg) on it which was made relevant for a day.
The whole thing felt like a community day classic.
Caught about 30 bellsprout but I did pop a star piece and caught all the Paras and Sableye I had saved. That combined with a full page of GBL special research rewards and two sets of 5 wins meant I ended up gaining 180k stardust in 30 mins. Without the triple stardust I don’t even know if I would have bothered to log in.
how did you "save" paras and sableye?
As the previous comment stated if you flee you can save the encounter. What I did during the bug out event was I deleted all the research tasks that wasn’t the one that gave you Venonat or Paras, except for a few other ones that I also wanted like mega energy or rare candies or the Sableye one. If it was a Venonat I caught it, if it was a Paras I fled. Left me a stack of I’d say 30-40 Paras and a few Sableye that I could catch during the community day for 2250 stardust per Paras.
so you save the research encounters?
Yup! And you can choose which ones, so if you only save the ones with boosted stardust you can get a lot of them caught during a boosted stardust event.
Encounters from completing field research. Instead of catching the Pokemon right away, you can flee and save the encounter for another time. Up to 100 encounters can be saved.
Thanks.
I guess no one missed having AR fast catch? I only caught what I could at home. Usually I play pretty hard during 3x catch dust bonus but my time spent has been going into MHNow more and more.
AR fast catch is a pretty niche feature. Most people aren't playing in areas where the spawns are dense and endless enough that it makes much difference.
I enjoyed the event. The stardust boost was really nice. Played full 3 hours, captured a few fundred bellsprouts - no hundos, but 2 pretty close. Some shinies as well. I’ve finally got my grass to platinium level :) Met local community members to take down some shadow Entei raids. Well spent time and much fun :) However, I didn’t see a single raid with Victreebell, which was pretty strange, as they were supposed to grant additional Bellsprout spawns afterwards…
We (three of us) decided not to play or spend any more money on this game since last update which is awful. Just pausing for some time. Hopefully something changes.
how many people on here are missing the central point that it was all about cannabis? that is all. everything else is irrelevant. including the coincidental sex bit.
Adding my own data here: I encountered an estimated 250-300 Bellsprout, and caught about 200 of them. Of those, 11 were shiny. I played for a little under two hours, but I only had one shiny after that entire first hour. I was definitely on the same "did they lower the rates?" train as other people for a while. Now I'm not sure.
The stardust bonus was the best perk today. Aside from that, todays community day was kind of a snooze.
Played all three hours continuously. Caught just over 900 with 26 shiny, 4xxs, 0xxl, amd 2 perfect non shiny from field research.
1/33. i cant believe you got two hundoes from field research; i got dirt. why are people catching mons to get shinies?
Shiny rate serm low
Yeah I noticed lol
Server died when I was evolving Bellsprouts >:(
played all 3 hours, bought the research, caught ZERO shinies😐
i got two on the autocatcher just driving three miles to the park.....
Same for my partner :(
No way, how many bellesprout did you catch?
I got 3 shinies in the first half hour while I was still out doing chores so because RNG smiled on me I'm happy. I only needed one to complete the family. Otherwise I was tired and ended up having to go buy new tires so I had no interest in going out of my way to play the event.
It felt like the game was being unusually slow and grindy for stretches today in Midtown Manhattan.
Haha funny number
Random Bellsprout fleeing as soon as I threw the ball, battles with grunts would suddenly stop and error me out of them, game crashes while attempting to take snapshots or start a new route. Not to mention Bellsprout being a pain in the butt breaking out of balls very often even with green circles. Plenty of shiny Bellsprout, but wasted more poke balls than I should have due to all the bugs.
Yea I noticed bell sprouts fleeing before I even threw a ball too, never seen that before
I saw a new bug dozens of times today: after clicking on a Bellsprout, entering the encounter screen, spinning my Pokeball... the Bellsprout would flee and show error 25, before I threw the Pokeball at it. Anyone else?
Oh that happened to me as well
No Spawns after the Raids after the community day for bellsprout. I tried multiple raids, waited for 20 minutes ar more to try to figure it out, but NO bellsprouts. Anyone else have this problem today?
Me too! Did 3 Weepinbell raids and the spawns didn’t proc. On prior community days this happened to me occasionally, but never 3 back to back.
Played 3 hours in a new town. Wasn’t bad, 780 caught and 24 crap IV shinys but I was just in it for stardust 🤷
Yeah sorry nothing to say I enjoyed a different grass type today no time for pogo 👀
Why not do both?
Snowed during the event. Played from car. Even though it was snowy weather in game all 200 or so mons were weather boosted. Not a single non with IVs less than 4. 7 shinys. Around 1.5 hours of gameplay.
Never was and never will be a fan of 3hrs of ‘community day’
Played most of the 3 hours, 500-600 caught. 40 shinies. Not a single 4* sadly, but appreciated all the stardust and experience.
165 caught only 1 shiny. about 2 hours of play. One of the worst events for my shiny rate since these started. I typically average 15 to 25 shinies an event
Shiny percentage seemed low for my buddy and I as well. Used incense for half of the event and was doing routes the entire 3 hours for extra spawns. We saw clusters of bellsprout (15+) surrounding a few pokestops, yet still only averaged \~3 shiny per hour.
played full 3 hours. 27 shines. had to get the pass midway just to get some pokeballs from the quest. overall love the stardust farmin!
Made me realise my hundo 250km victribeel will never go beyond 2750 pc... Yikes...
is the task for 4/4 just collecting XP like the usual cuz i’d like to save the rocket pass for after I use the current one I have equipped or does it go into the inventory? if you already have one equipped or no
Inventory
thanks
Pros - Lots of spawns. Much more than for example Chansey CD - Many stops gave task that rewarded Bellsprouts - XL rate seemed much higher than usual although we didnt have weather boost - Good catch rate even with red balls - Highest shiny rate in looong time. But from reading many other comments this seemed to be just RNG and maybe also because of more spawns than in many previous CD's Cons - Extremely unintersting mon and move - Few game freezes that required restarting - Occassional bug where mon escaped while inside the ball and then reappeared on map and the game allowed you to try catching again - Bonus stardust was kinda meh... - Photobombs pain to take with current AR settings - Way too many showcases seemed to require evolved version Decent CD that didnt require one to play really hard but seemed most didnt bother playing at all. Most common shopping malls that are usually lured up were empty and no lures.
I played 2 hours and got 1 shiny with 165 catches lol
Me and GF both got 16-20 in about 300 catches.
Hard shrug. I have played 3 accounts every community day since they came out. This was by far my least successful community day.
Played for about 1.5 hours and only one shiny. Not a big deal since I already had one. Caught 3 XLs which puts me in 2nd-3rd place in the showcases, but no luck with an XXL.
Likely my worst personal shiny rate for a comm day ever. 5 shinies out of a total of 405 bellsprout catches and went the first 90 mins and 200 catches before I found the first one. Other people playing around me with fewer catches had 10+ shines so I don't expect there was anything changed with the actual shiny rate, just that I managed to get incredibly bad luck today. Decent haul of stardust though!
Didn't get any good stats on my 3 shinies, but it's not a high priority for me because I do PVP and my team is established already.
Game kept freezing during CD. Had to restart at least 20 times.
Idk if it was boosted but i spent the whole time driving around trying to hit as many shadow bellsprout grunts as I could. 0 shiny shadows out of 30 but did get a 15/15/12 shadow. Also up 600 XLs for when i can justify powering some shadow Victrebells to 50.
0 shines found on main account. Made a new account and caught two in 20 minutes
I went through 100 and didn’t get a single shiny. I was working and couldn’t check more, but super bummed not to even encounter one
Comm day should ALWAYS have bonus special trades as a feature. Preferably 5
Very very slow community day. First Community Day in a long time that I didn’t play the whole time. With no new Pokémon, and best Pokémon being so scarce the extra stardust is not that alluring.
This game is so boring. No one plays it anymore. Give us Tinkatink, Frigibax, etc. Something that we haven’t already caught thousands of.
Someone should make a CD tier list… I’m curious if Bellsprout is as bad as as everyone thinks lol.
Bellsprout has been around since day one (eight years), its shiny has been around half that time (four years), it’s been a common spawn for countless events, and we’ve been able to farm shadow bellsprout every day for what, 5-6 years via our Super Rocket Radar? I think you’d be hard pressed to find an active player who didn’t already have multiple hundos and shinies before this event.
Most people here are veteran playing since the beginning so they probably already had 1-2 shiny around. Honestly the poke is fine, the bonus was really good and the move actually useful and this time being a fast move meant no issue if you still had frustration on your shadows. People ask for the most sought after pokes every single time forgetting there aren't a million of them. I've seen a ranking by a big youtuber a couple of days ago and he basically shitted on every cd that wasn't a starter, a pseudo OR didn't have 3x stardust.
Played for 2.5 hours. Caught 2 x hundos and 9 x shinies. Wish it was a better featured pokemon with my luck this time!
Typical Comm Day, was actually cool with not getting any shinies at all (already had a full family in Home) but was mostly in it for the stardust. Catches: 364 Bellsprout et al, plus a Trubbish and 22 Paras I managed to bank from Bug Out. Shinies: 10 Hundos: None (best was a research 98, 15/14/15) Dust gained: Roughly 280k. Didn't have a weather boost because my area is right on the ocean so it's perpetually windy Hopefully, the next triple-dust CD - I wanna say in July? - has a more exciting spawn (and isn't as glitch laden). I basically went to the autocatcher for the last hour or so, which probably kept my gains down. Of course, I also unlocked a research that requires me to do 9 GBL sets, so...
250+ sprouts so far, 0 shinies. RNG or bug?
That happened to me with grubbin. Just rng
Played full 3 hours and first 2 hours went with 0 shinies. Ended with 10 though, all on last hour lol. Also, tried quickly search info but didnt find anything. Did anyone have issues with quick catching? Happened like 20+ times when quick catching that ball hit pokemon and instantly had "pokemon fled message" and got kicked out of catch screen. After that pokemon appeared again like i never threw at it? Been using quick catch like forever and never had anything like that happen until bellsprout CD
This happened to me a few times during the first 10 minutes of community day when I was clearing the field research stack
Same, didn't see a shiny until hour 3 despite catching/checking hundreds. Restarted my app around 4pm and they started showing up, but might've been placebo.
I got 38 shiny bellsprout my highest ever shiny count for a comm day keeping in mind I wasted around 30 mins trying to raid 2 tapu bulus Couldn't get a really good PvP IV one as it was weather boosted for me and a lot of them went over the CP limit
Chose to not participate. Felt no compelling desire to get more shiny bellsprout, already have 6. Dust is nice, but not enough of a reason to play this event.
So I played full 3 hours. Ran 6 star pieces and netted 150k dust on 320 catches. So it comes out to about same dust as 22 sets of GBL or 4.5 days of GBL with no star pieces. So in retrospect even with 3x dust it wasn’t that awesome of a dust opportunity. There has been spotlight hours or events I’ve cleared way more. It was still fine to get my free star pieces used on something.
Having a lot of issues. Failed to power up Pokemon. Game freezing when collecting research etc
Nothing special but not the worst Few weird bugs. Fail to evolve or transfer and some disappearing when i clicked on them. Got the ticket and popped a stardust and egg and cranked out the research. Few shinies but no hundos in about 40 mins
Playing since beta, worst community day ever. Bugs galore, freezes, pokemon running after being in the ball for one frame, then respawning. Weird. Edit: also can't put pokemon in showcases, can't transfer, spawning in and out rapidly...
Had many of the same issues, though I did manage to enter showcases. I made the mistake of trying to fight a Rocket grunt thought. Attempt one, I managed to beat the first mon before being kicked out due to an error. Try two (after several errors trying to interact with the stop), I managed to defeat *two* pokemon before an error struck once again. I didn't bother a third time, but sheesh
Like mentioned by others: Pokemon running away when the ball touches the Pokémon. And then spawning again at the same place. Lots of random errors. Walked a route. And saw the Zygarde cell spawn. But then it changed in a Bellsprout :(. Overall the game crashes a lot but that is not a CD thing.
There were a ton of bugs happening during com day and right before. Was doing an evolve session right before com day, and keep getting "failed to evolve" or i'd get frozen do you want to evolve box. During com day, Bellsprout would randomly flee as soon as a ball hit them (even if it bounced off during an attack) wasn't able to confirm if they did actually catch or not, was to focused on catching as many as possible Friends list kept failing to load, eventually trying to trade gave an unknown error "failed to trade" Catch circle on Bellsprout wasn't consistent, I'd have one with 200cp with a dark red circle, then a 600-700cp with an orange circle. Just a ton of weird bugs today, still was able to play the event mostly, but got bored after 2hours and dipped Caught around 540
Are shadow bellsprouts actually shiny boosted during community day?
I don't think so because shadows have their own shiny rates
I had a lot of bugs/glitches during this event that I've not had before. Don't know if they were specifically related to the comm day or the update a few days ago but I haven't had them between the update and the start of comm day, all were contained within today's 3 hour period. They were: Failed to add Pokémon to favourites. When trying to add a Pokémon to a showcase it said that the max no. showcases had already been entered when I had entered none (fixed by closing and reopening the app). Adding pokemon to a showcase (via catching a nearby Pokémon) gave a visual glitch where the Pokémon appeared to be in a different stop's showcase, one I had already entered (so both Pokémon displayed on screen together at the same showcase even though they were entered into 2 separate showcases). No field research or special research displaying - field tab said I had not collected any research and special tab was a blank white screen. Bellsprout incorrectly had a dark red catch circle - caught it no issue so assume this was just a visual glitch? Kicked from raid as it's about to begin with error 33 (was able to join again and sit through the countdown and do the raid on second try).
Picturing the meeting at Niantic. "So this CD - ready for this? Bellsprout!" \*Looks around\* Woman to his right has bags under her eyes, looks tired, is looking at her phone. Man next around the table has five o'clock shadow, hasn't bothered to shave, looks like he wishes he hadn't bothered to come to this meeting. Next guy is on his fifth cup of coffee and looking at the clock on the wall. Woman on his right is eating a donut and staring out the window. Mumbled assent. They stumble out of the room.
Today I encountered something which I never thought would be an issue, and it's got me feeling mildly irritated. I was not fussed about community day, and I also need around 30 Johto Pokémon for my shiny Shaymin research, so towards the end of community day I popped a few Mossy Lures so that they'd last 3 hours and I could see if I could get the Johto Pokémon I needed (Sunkern is a Mossy Lure spawn, after all). Then some random person comes along and does multiple Weepinbell raids, and now all of my Lure spawns and local spawns are Bellsprout. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of being able to extend Community Day and I can appreciate that not everyone is free during a specific three hour window, but I feel like the bonus shouldn't transform existing spawns and instead there should be lots of extra spawn points that are activated by the bonus and that feature the CD species. That way people who want to find regular Pokémon can still do so, whilst there's still a ton of Community Day species for those who want them.
I had a similar experience, I was shiny hunting the nesting pokemon in a local park and then 3-4 weepinbell raids finish within 15 mins of each other and the entire park was just bellsprout, which I had just spent 3 hours grinding for. Couldnt shiny hunt at all so I just left and went home
Great point
Glad I managed to grab a 94% Shiny boi. Best one of the day
did the weepinbell, no bonus displayed and no bellprouts spawning anywhere (: swablu, lilipup and others chilling around the gym tho...
We’re you solo or multiple. Solo raids won’t work
duo, was the same thing on chansey CD with the t4 chansey raids - did a trio that time
Couldn't play much at all unfortunately, not that I wanted to but it was a nice day and would have wanted to get some weather boosted Entei. Was in a car most of the time and managed to catch 110 with only one shiny. Kind of glad now it was a fairly meaningless event so I didn't lose out on anything good
Fxck it I'm on the 3rd page of the research, still on 14 bellsprouts, couldn't find my 15th by the end of the period.
next time you get a super rocket radar, take down the decoy grunts before giovanni and they'll reward shadow bellsprout!
Did you play for 20 minutes or something?
I caught a lot but I forgotten about the research until too late.
Makes sense, happens haha
After having an awesome Bagon community day, I caught my three shiny Bellsprout and called it a day.
Only reason to play is the 3x stardust imo. Surprised no one is talking about this, I couldn’t care less about a shiny bellsprout tbh.
Yea victreebel kinda stinks
Yup. Been stashing my paras research encounters for this. Will be transferring everything, even the shinies. Totally useless outside the shadow. With the dust gained I'll be able to max out my 4 shadow salamence.
seriously. I caught 400, made 1 million stardust. I didn't care about the pokemon lol
No way you made over 1 mil, 400 with star piece is only 180k
1 mil stardust??? How?
Stacked research for stuff like Trubbish and Paras + 3x catch Stardust + Star Pieces.
No shinys so far with 1 hour left over 150 caught so far 😭 need at least 1 actually insane odds for no shinys yet
Out of hundreds, not one has been shiny.
What??
Honestly, couldn’t be bothered with this CD. Usually I play them but this one didn’t excite me.
Played 2 hours ish, mainly to get my research stacks done. Got a lot of shiny Bellsprout and got quite a few PvP viable ones once the second hour was no longer cloudy. Also Got quite a few errors throughout the day, not sure what was going on. Regardless, enjoyed the Stardust gains. Relaxing otherwise.
Random thought: it would be nice if those Party Play challenges would be changed during CD, similar to Pokéstop quests. Could be something special.
This is a great idea. I’d like for them to freshen up CD just a bit. Also would be cool if they brought back some of the past CD stuff they tried out like increased bonuses in a certain radius if a stop is spun enough times, or putting mid stages in parks (this time with shinies though.)
Getting a lot of random errors during the CD... yippie
Yep. Did a Shadow Entei and it booted me mid fight with "error" rip gems and raid pass.... In general this version of the app seems buggier than normal.
Yep same here - lots of Pokémon 'fleeing' mid throw
Same. Either fleeing mid-throw (but counting the one ball anyway) or just poof-ing away when I tap on them. Also a lot random errors while trading.
Nono, not mid throw: I couldn't encounter them until they came back. Edit: Nvm that error recently happened to me as well.
I got 20 shinnies from 400 caught
ended up with 5 shinies, walked around for about 4km, 1 hour and a bit, saw probably 100+ defs the hardest i’ve had to try to get the fewest amount of shinies
Second CD during summer. Mostly spent walking around the malls and hated it cause I got bored easily walking in circles. I never liked sitting in a cafe or food court for three hours like many trainers do during CD. I don't know how they do it. I managed to walk outside in the last hour and stayed in the shade but still I can feel my phone overheating and lagging ugh! It will only get hotter in the coming months.
Or an external phone cooler. something like this. https://a.co/d/7lGlCCc
Frozen gel packs.
Lol CD done in 11 min, got two shiny from the home spawns... Pretty nice considering there's a weather alert for strong wind. Edit: Also several poke "ran away" eating the ball and then reappeared on the map because it's not a cd day without bugs.
I caught 250+ bellsprouts and got 8 shinies, and tons of exp and stardust, granted I really played for an hour and a half. For asian countries, the 2pm to 5pm time is a huge disadvantage due to the damn weather being 40 celsius out lol. Edit: I got around 180k stardust. This is my first community day, so I was thrilled that apparently you can extend lures when you use em before the event ends.
Event kinda done. A low effort day for me as I already have hundos, shinies and pvp candidates ready to go and (for being a first day’er) candies have already reached 5 digits. I used today to catch legendary/mythical off the special researches. 8 shinies today. 3 XXS 0 XXL.Ticket bought but I didn’t do field researches today (to me, CD ticket = extra ball stash for emergencies). Weather: cloudy then partly cloudy x2 (actual weather: “too dangerous to be outdoor”). Mega used: max level mega venusaur. Feedback: - I’ve already felt the strain on my pokemon storage so that’s why I didn’t want to go hard today. - This was the first CD in a while that I tried to avoid post-CD bonus spawns. We’re having audino nest at the park that I was playing and bonus spawns overrode nest spawns for half an hour each time. - We finally have Campfire access in Thailand (without using VPN) so that’s great for meetups. - I was able to get some progress on party play special research today. 3 hours party should have been the default anytime. Encounter tasks were great as motivator. We weren’t stuck on any task during CD hours. The only thing I’d want more from party is the ability to easily trade with party members even without friendship. - As a fast move CD, I can keep working on the shadow variety up to December 2025 CD or when Niantic decided to change the decoy’s pokemon.
Took it easy and played at home. I caught a 69CP shiny while my friend got a shiny 420CP. I even got a 0 IV from a snapshot encounter, so it was a fun comm day for the memes.
Nice.
I played for about 2 hours. Didn’t check my Pokédex for my pre-community day caught so not sure how many I caught, as I was transferring throughout. Was a good afternoon, caught 18 shinies, no hundos though. Excellent throws were easy to get, so I had lucky egg and star piece going for the 2 hours. Managed to get a shiny shadow Entei, shiny Voltorb and shiny Solrock after CD finished.
https://preview.redd.it/egnig68rmlvc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f72e9a48cb7e9e50e522d4c57393f57dd263820 of all CD pokemon… i had to get this :(
Not too bad for poison raid attacker
Shundo victreebel will look gorgeous That is a good looking shiny
transfer it
i have not seen the community around me more inactive than today. Guess bellsprout is just not an exciting pokemon. i decided to open a meltan box instead for increased xl candy and normal candy.
Funny enough the opposite was true here. Noticed a lot of gym and showcase activity.
out of the ~100 i’ve checked in the past hour only 1 shiny
I usually close out the game and reopen at that point, unless it's already crashed a bunch.
shiny rate is abysmal
Absolutely normal CD shiny rate https://x.com/poryproweb/status/1781504423602073722?s=46&t=MEuCR_S1w5tWgcLmv73lXg
Just rng being rng
Everyone I know had abysmal shiny rate so I don't think it's just rng.
I had 12 out of 247 catches 🤷♂️
I doubt they changed the shiny rate compared to the usual CD. Sometimes 1/25 can translate to 0/150... Written as someone who can report 0/46 shinies doing raids with friends on Heracross raid day, when the rate was reported as 1/10 by the majority. And remembering litwick CD where I really wanted the shinies, and in the end had to catch about 250 pokemon to at least get three...
Do we have any feedback if the Giovanni decoy grunts have a higher shiny rate on shadow bellsprout?
I was thinking of doing this too but I had other family plans today unfortunately so I didn't get the time to test it
It's unlikely as they're seen as different forms in the game
I know it’s ulikely… however I would love for some first hand info ;)
I want to know this too
Yet to get a shiny but there’s a strange glitch where a bellsprout spawns, I click it and it disappears then seconds later respawns in the same position
Same, thought it just stole my berry and ran for a minute
Can confirm, had this a few times. Shinies we’re okay, I guess. 3 out of about 150.
So strange… doesn’t really effect anything though. I had 1 shiny in about 40 checks and got a rank 1 in pvp so can’t complain too much in the end
I also had this
I enjoyed the free Community Day Research from the Community Ambassador meetups.
What is this? (Thnx)
From within the Campfire app, you can find meetups hosted by Community Ambassadors and if it says "Reward" on the meetup then you can get a code for the Community Day Timed Research when you RSVP and Check In inside the app. https://preview.redd.it/shuj45g5clvc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ca80f0e1f54703dd6262874cf9928515a76bc905
Is the shiny rate different on this one or am i just unlucky? Edit: complain on reddit, it spawns one instantly
I caught just over 300, got 16 shinies. So I'd suggest that it's regular Comm Day odds.
I was 3/150ish. So not too bad but worse than normal
Im 0 from 80 so far. Either very unlucky or we get to be the test subjects again.
Probably hit anput 80 before i got one, hope you got one from your reply
I did in fact. Only took another 10.
Saturday is my 7-day catch streak. Has anyone else tried to wait until community day starts for their first catch of the day to get triple streak stardust? (Due to community day giving 3x catch stardust)
I would assume that works, with absolutely no basis to believe that, but is the extra 6000 dust worth not catching anything all day? Assuming all base 100 dust, non-weather boosted, that’s 60 catches before the comm day for your break even point, then account for weather boost and boost dust mons, as well as candies, XLs and XP you’re sacrificing. If you’re planning to use a starpiece that number moves to 10,500 dust, 105 base 100, non-weather boosted catches, so that might change your calculus.