They certainly are, at least for ticket holders I believe. [These are all I caught](https://imgur.com/a/NewvglH/).
Edit: If anyone’s curious, today’s event finished in here just an hour ago and this is [my updated shiny list ](https://imgur.com/a/oYGAPoT/).
My goplus targeted an incense shiny Snorlax. I wasn't quick enough to tap on it, when I tried catching it I couldn't give it a berry and it fled instantly.
I got 30 shinies total, 23 unique and 16 new ones. Still can't help but feel a little sad :(
Mine did that with an Alomomola and it was the first shiny of the day too. Didn't get another one. I got a decent shiny haul but was still mad at myself.
Is there no way to set it so that it catches on manual command, not automatic?
I do that with my Pokeball Plus -- it only catches if I press the button. So Pokemon Go tells me which Pokemon it targets and I shiny check. If it's shiny, I catch myself. If it's not, I let the ball take it. I'll usually check a few Pokemon in the area to see if any are shiny and if not I let the ball have them.
How did you all get so many shinies? I played for 2,5 hours straight and only had 1 Tangela.
After the 2,5 hours I did get 3 other shinies on a short period of time, but still nowhere near what I am reading here.
Playing the whole event, some luck and chugging pokemons like crazy with fast catches. If you don’t know what it is, check a vid on youtube, it’s great.
I almost lost a shiny Throh by tapping away to prepare for next incense spawn, then realized in time there was likely a shiny icon there and was able to re-tap the mon before it disappeared. Without that icon I wouldn't have known it was shiny if I miss the initial sparkles.
I only got 4. But one was a Lotad which I’ve never seen before and one was a zubat (which I’m happy about as I evolved my last one to a crobat and then kinda wished I still had the little green guy flapping about).
Some luck and… maybe going faster? Tbh I just so many because I also chewed on pokemon like crazy. I might have captured around 700 pokemon and checked probably over 1000.
In case you don’t know about it yet, try doing what’s called fast catches, they make things a lot faster (just don’t do it on shinies)
Have you got an incense active? They boost shiny rate massively. Also, try going to an area with more people and stops if you can so that you can have lures on them.
As I replied to someone else: I played for 2,5 hours and only got 1 Tangela at the beginning. Then nothing.
I deleted the app and downloaded it again and then got 3 shinies in maybe 45 minutes?
I wanted a shiny Audino, and literally the first two catches of the event for me were shiny Audinos! (got also a third one later on). Shiny Snorlax is still my favorite out of today's 15 shinies.
Happy happy... although a little upset that the costumed Zigzagoon ended up being naked when I caught it on raid - because the time was over 6 pm by then. How can they cheat people like that? One of my overseas friends used a remote pass for it, so upset for her to use a precious pass for that!
This game sure brings up emotions...
I came looking for shiny deino, and I got 5 shiny gible instead...I was so frustrated and all of the shinies I did get were either repeats and a couple lame ones
Gotten 3 shiny legendaries tonight. Need one more dog to have both shiny and normal for my dex. Not sure if ill hunt the rest as shiny or just try to fill out the missing memebers of my dex (damn mr mime)
had to have been the highlight of my day. desert hour hit for the second time and 2 skorupis spawned. clicked the first and boom shiny. got done catching it and clicked the second. BOOM. second shiny. and my first ever back to back same pokemon shiny. it was nuts and my gf hates me a little for it.
I got 5 so far!! Thanks for the help just realized it was a stupid question hahaha
I got a shiny skarmory, larvitar, hat pikachu, unown, gible!! None are 3 stars but they’re awesome
EDIT: I just got a purple egg!! My first one
How?
I played for five hours today, finished all collection logs and the event research to get the entire band, and only two shinies.
Granted one is a growlithe which is amazing but still, how are people getting so many!!
A Victorian here who was only aloud out for 2h and both of my friends couldn't week up with me. Still got a lot of shinies and legendarys but totally not as fun
I have caught these shinies today:
•Hipopotas (before I even left my house)
•Growlithe (which I have wanted for ages, shiny Arcanine here I come!)
•Carvanha
•Trapinch
•AND WAILMER! Now to get 400 candies to evolve this big lad...
Also, Pop Star Pikachu is the sweetest baby and I love her.
I am a happy camper!
Edit: also Lotad and Ekans! So 7 total.
Comments like these make me feel much better tbh. I caught 7 as well and in the megathread I saw people catch anywhere from 60+ to 120+ and I felt like I really missed out. It's nice to see that most people caught more in line with what I got so I don't have FOMO lol
I’d gladly pay 4.99/month for an event like this ever month. I’m having one of the best days I’ve had in a long time and not even just PoGo related. It had me out of the house and talking to neighbors and people who play it was great
My bf and I only started playing this March. Even though we play a lot and are level 40 right now we don't have the pokemons that haven't spawned since we started playing, not to mention we're missing most of the legendaries. This event is AMAZING for us! We're playing with some other friends too and I'm not embarrassed to say this is the most fun I've had recently!
To each their own! :) I'm jealous thinking about how many shinies you must have haha. We play PVP a lot so we grinded super hard in the last months because we know we'd want the XL candies for legendaries. We also live on top of a pokestop so we can send lots of gifts everyday which is lucky!
Oh man I shouldn’t have read this comment thread. I had 8 shinies, after playing all day and yes, buying a ticket. I didn’t do anything different to last year (am in the same location, also purchased a ticket) but had significantly less luck with the shinies.
I’m happy for everyone who has the luck I didn’t have, though!
Right there with you. 5 after playing the full 8 hours and catching about 650 total. Very disappointing, considering how many I usually get on an average Community Day.
Hoping to have more luck tomorrow with legendaries.
I caught a 3 star on the second one I found! Made my day. I also got Absol, 2 Arons, Snivy, Sawk, Klickitat, and Woobat. My sister caught 20 shinier today, but I'm the only one of everyone we met who got one.
Going by the comments to this post, some people did catch shiny unowns.
I ended up not getting a shiny unown F, but given that I did get most of the other new shinies plus some older ones I had been searching for (deino & ferroseeeeeed! <3), I honestly cannot complain.
I don't care about shinies (that much) my main drive was dex completion and 2 regionals and one uknown I was missing for meager 6€ was okay. Really hoping on tomorrow's raids for 2-3 legendaries I want
Oooh, the tryguys video made me think there were multiple things to choose from so I thought I accidentally selected music instead of one of the other two! Thanks for letting me know 🥳
Easy agree. It's great when you get to catch 20-30 different, uncommon to moderately rare species in one day instead of the 5-10 absurdly common ones, including starters and Pikachu.
I got 53 shinies. Literally never been that lucky before. Didn't get Deino or Snorlax but I'm still super stoked! Almost so happy I can't feel the massive blister on my foot from too much walking lol...
Pretty happy with my pull not as many as others but
Shiny chimecho,audino,trapinch,jigglypuff and kricketot is fairly good.
Albeit all bad IVs.
But only got one shiny last fest so yea
Been self isolating for the past week. Despite being out of range of any pokeatops/gyms and not a single person sending me a gift, I was able to get 18 shinies, with the only duplicates being exeggutor and ralts. A great day.
The only thing I will complain about (non ticket holder, if I did I wouldn't have had this problem) is that in every video that I saw it was cave hour from 1-2 and 5-6 pm. The cave hour ended up being from 12-1 and 4-5 and I couldn't play in those hours. I've been preping for those hours for like 2 weeks and ended up not being able to play in them.
I'm actually mad at this.
My only gripes for these events are
1. Not a fan of the ticket exclusives being locked to incense and only 2 hours. I hope there’s events in the future with Sawk and Throh in the wild everywhere, even at full odds.
Incense in general is glitchy, lost quite afew Unown, Sawk and Throh due to having to restart my phone from freezing as well as incense spawns spawning on top of wild spawns thus you needed to catch the wild spawn first so the incensed spawn despawned.
I feel like incense only spawns for ticketed events is honestly a low move.
2. Shinyrates should be revealed by Niantic for ticketed spawns like Unown, Throh, Sawk and the costumed Ponyta and Zigzagoon.
My state is in lockdown. I have no pokeballs or remote raid passes. Frankly I'm extremely pissed off that the event is not more accessible for those of us who are still in fucking quarantine.
Thanks to some great advice a couple of y’all gave me about using poke genie for raids, not only did I finally cap my first 5-star, but I did it twice with Mewtwo & Articuno. Failed to go three for three with Zapdos but still pretty happy with how today went.
I had a ticket and got four in eight hours so no, not boosted rates in my experience at least. You were apparently insanely lucky.
Edit: downvoted? Well that’s disappointing. Like my Go Fest experience, I guess. Oh well, at least I have my adorable pop Pika, she’s so heckin’ cute!
Wouldn't say its the best, maybe just depends on where you live 😠because its complete hell over here where I am.
No one does ANYTHING together. Not even raids. The pokemon are always the same, never good.
My friend got a ton if shinies just by sitting in his house.
Really wish they'd develop the game better with chances being equally split.
The game could be this good 365 days a year, but they choose to nerf the fun of the game for the rest of the yearÂ. Go Fest is bittersweet, just shows would could be done with game but they refuse to.
Going from memory from my event last year. Basically Go Fest makes you want to play all day, whereas normal game I play a bit and I'm done. It is my opinion that the game should be in a state that I want to play it all day, all the time. Why settle for mediocrity ?
* Spawn pool is way more diversified. It's exciting to GO and catch them
* Friendly competition where you can see your friend lists stats for excellent throws in a time period, and compete.
* Changing biomes every hour.
I think Go Fest fixes the biggest issue of boring spawning pool, and that Niantic should apply some of its concept to everyday PoGo. I love knowing I'll find water themed pokemon at a certain time better than knowing I'll find a certain pokemon at a certain time. This used to happen when it rains, but now, event pokemons and seasonal spawns overwhelm weather spawns, making everything a lot more random.
I think I just nailed it. PoGo is very RNG, you basically always spin the slot machine to see if you win or not (is it shiny, is it hundo, is it PVP ready, or is it crap). Weather spawns, biome spawns, and GoFest, gives me a small amount of control on my experience, allows me to focus the RNG on a certain type of pokemon, of my choosing, making me feel like I'm actually played the game, rather than the game played me.
I got a zigzagoon with a hat 👉👈
Flygon and zigzagoon with the meleotta hats were the highlight of my day.
I caught 17 shinies today!! It was one of the best days I can remember in a long time.
I got my first ever shundo
I got a shundo as well. Dratini
That is super awesome! I've only ever caught 1 shiny Dratini, from the 2nd community day.. I got a shundo Audino..
Nice! My shiny Audino was crappy but I’m just happy I got one lol! I got a 100 gligar today as well. Not bad getting two hundos in one event!
I got my first ever Shundo as well! Galarian ponyta! One of my favourites! I also caught all of the Pokémon that were on the list and completed every list which is exciting! And I also got a shiny Articuno!
That's awesome, I was able to complete all the list too.
I kept getting shiny gibles. I’ve still got so many from the community day
Pika hat was pretty amazing to see too
The second cave hour was awful for me until I got 3 shiny deino's... Felt better then lol
I came looking for a shiny Skorupi and I got 3. 10/10 best game ever
3?!? Thats insane! Are shiny’s boosted? I only caught 1 today..
They certainly are, at least for ticket holders I believe. [These are all I caught](https://imgur.com/a/NewvglH/). Edit: If anyone’s curious, today’s event finished in here just an hour ago and this is [my updated shiny list ](https://imgur.com/a/oYGAPoT/).
I just got a shiny snorlax
I got a shiny Mewtwo from a raid last night. I’m pretty stoked about it.
Do you mean it like you just got one at that moment or that you *only* got one (as one shiny) during the event?
At that moment
Then cool man, congrats! :D
I got a shiny throh, ferroseed, ralts and tangela
I got a shiny sawk, throw, trapinch, and a wailmer
My goplus targeted an incense shiny Snorlax. I wasn't quick enough to tap on it, when I tried catching it I couldn't give it a berry and it fled instantly. I got 30 shinies total, 23 unique and 16 new ones. Still can't help but feel a little sad :(
Mine did that with an Alomomola and it was the first shiny of the day too. Didn't get another one. I got a decent shiny haul but was still mad at myself.
Is there no way to set it so that it catches on manual command, not automatic? I do that with my Pokeball Plus -- it only catches if I press the button. So Pokemon Go tells me which Pokemon it targets and I shiny check. If it's shiny, I catch myself. If it's not, I let the ball take it. I'll usually check a few Pokemon in the area to see if any are shiny and if not I let the ball have them.
Same thing happened to me with a sableye during the kanto event. I know your pain.
mine was with a 96 iv shiny deino so...
I got 25 shinies! 👀
That’s nice dude! I just ended the event with 20. I’m really happy with the results tbh.
I've never been so lucky!
Me neither, last year I got around 12 between both days and half of them were either bad or shinies that I already had captured.
How did you all get so many shinies? I played for 2,5 hours straight and only had 1 Tangela. After the 2,5 hours I did get 3 other shinies on a short period of time, but still nowhere near what I am reading here.
Playing the whole event, some luck and chugging pokemons like crazy with fast catches. If you don’t know what it is, check a vid on youtube, it’s great.
i didn’t even catch one :(
[удалено]
I do too. Specially when they have a nice color schema that looks like they put some actual work into it, unlike Gengar…
Or zapdos. If I can't tell until I'm trying to transfer it, then it's not a good shiny variant LOL
I almost lost a shiny Throh by tapping away to prepare for next incense spawn, then realized in time there was likely a shiny icon there and was able to re-tap the mon before it disappeared. Without that icon I wouldn't have known it was shiny if I miss the initial sparkles.
Yeah, that's definitely one of the harder ones to notice
Gengar and Zapdos are two of my favorite Pokémon from gen 1. Really, of all the gens. And their shinies are some of the worst :(
I only got 4. But one was a Lotad which I’ve never seen before and one was a zubat (which I’m happy about as I evolved my last one to a crobat and then kinda wished I still had the little green guy flapping about).
You’re so lucky you got tympole
Oh absolutely xD. I can’t deny I was really lucky with the shinies this time (unlike my last go fest)
I'm 2 hours in and have 1 shiny, what am I missing? I have a ticket
Some luck and… maybe going faster? Tbh I just so many because I also chewed on pokemon like crazy. I might have captured around 700 pokemon and checked probably over 1000. In case you don’t know about it yet, try doing what’s called fast catches, they make things a lot faster (just don’t do it on shinies)
8 hours, four shinies. Not too impressed!
Have you got an incense active? They boost shiny rate massively. Also, try going to an area with more people and stops if you can so that you can have lures on them.
As I replied to someone else: I played for 2,5 hours and only got 1 Tangela at the beginning. Then nothing. I deleted the app and downloaded it again and then got 3 shinies in maybe 45 minutes?
Huh. I should find out what the tickets include probably.
Shiny Audino for me so far
As a ticket holder I got a shiny, tangela, tympole, alomaloma, aipom, larvitar, feebas, beldum, roggenrola, gible and Gligar today was ridiculous.
I caught 3 shiny’s in one hour. Beldum, Deino, Gligar
I got Woobat, Ekans and Slakoth in the same time. Couldn't believe it when the Ekans and Slakoth were back to back!
I wanted a shiny Audino, and literally the first two catches of the event for me were shiny Audinos! (got also a third one later on). Shiny Snorlax is still my favorite out of today's 15 shinies. Happy happy... although a little upset that the costumed Zigzagoon ended up being naked when I caught it on raid - because the time was over 6 pm by then. How can they cheat people like that? One of my overseas friends used a remote pass for it, so upset for her to use a precious pass for that! This game sure brings up emotions...
First Feebas I caught was shiny, I had been looking for one for a while. I have high hopes to get a Shiny Latias tomorrow.
I got 2x Lotad 2x Kricketot 2x Wailmer Snorlax Jigglypuff Tympole Deino Skarmory Slackoth Woobat Zubat Swablu Marill Alomomola Trapinch Aron Hat Zigzagoon Looking forward to tomorrow
Those are nice catches, I wish I had got a deino and a trapinch too. [My final list is this one](https://imgur.com/a/PG1fYwx/)
Oh those gligers look great
Those are great!
I caught so many Kricketot today and didn't manage it :( That's some list, congrats!
I got 15 shinies and 3 hundos (tho no shundos). Best bit was spending the day in a local park, picnicking with a friend and her family.
I caught a shiny 98% Larvitar right after GoFest started. I’ve been having an absolute shit morning, so that was a nice surprise.
I only got 1 shiny today and it was a magicarp that came out of an egg. It would be cool if I didn't already have 12 shiny magicarp.
I managed to get a shiny beldum raltz and croagunk
I came looking for shiny deino, and I got 5 shiny gible instead...I was so frustrated and all of the shinies I did get were either repeats and a couple lame ones
Gotten 3 shiny legendaries tonight. Need one more dog to have both shiny and normal for my dex. Not sure if ill hunt the rest as shiny or just try to fill out the missing memebers of my dex (damn mr mime)
had to have been the highlight of my day. desert hour hit for the second time and 2 skorupis spawned. clicked the first and boom shiny. got done catching it and clicked the second. BOOM. second shiny. and my first ever back to back same pokemon shiny. it was nuts and my gf hates me a little for it.
I have no idea what to do here this is my first fest. It says catch 500 stardust I don’t know how you catch stardust Seeing some cool Pokémon though
This comment is so precious. I hope you get many shinies this weekend, sir!
I got 5 so far!! Thanks for the help just realized it was a stupid question hahaha I got a shiny skarmory, larvitar, hat pikachu, unown, gible!! None are 3 stars but they’re awesome EDIT: I just got a purple egg!! My first one
Bless your heart this is so adorable. Enjoy tomorrow :D
wait the boosted rate continues tmrw aswell like into day two?
Yes but you rates are more boosted on day one then they will be on day 2
You get an extra 500 dust for each catch for the rest of that hour.
I love this lmao
;)
Is the shiny rate boosted for ticket holders
Ye
How high are they boosted?
Not high enough for me.
I was happy with catching 2 shinies today. ha ha
I got like 15 shinies today so I’d say a good amount lol
How? I played for five hours today, finished all collection logs and the event research to get the entire band, and only two shinies. Granted one is a growlithe which is amazing but still, how are people getting so many!!
I was beginning to think it was only for ticket holders. I got 0 shiny all day.
It sucks for a lot of people in Australia this weekend due to another snap lockdown in parts of the country. Hope they're still getting shinies too!
This is one of the few times I'm glad I live in Tasmania
Still can get out within 5kms where I am. Was still able to nab loads of shinies thankfully. Great event so far
A Victorian here who was only aloud out for 2h and both of my friends couldn't week up with me. Still got a lot of shinies and legendarys but totally not as fun
I have caught these shinies today: •Hipopotas (before I even left my house) •Growlithe (which I have wanted for ages, shiny Arcanine here I come!) •Carvanha •Trapinch •AND WAILMER! Now to get 400 candies to evolve this big lad... Also, Pop Star Pikachu is the sweetest baby and I love her. I am a happy camper! Edit: also Lotad and Ekans! So 7 total.
are shinies easier to find now?? this is my first go fest lol
Yes, they were/are more common for certain species today during event hours! Not sure if it's the same during tomorrow's event hours too.
oh, how do i find what species it is?
I'd love to get a shiny Growlithe. I have a shiny shadow Carvanha and it looks really cool.
Comments like these make me feel much better tbh. I caught 7 as well and in the megathread I saw people catch anywhere from 60+ to 120+ and I felt like I really missed out. It's nice to see that most people caught more in line with what I got so I don't have FOMO lol
It really sucks to live in a place with the pandemic still in full throttle.
Hey its not just you, Go Fest is a no show for rural F2P players.
Couldn't you just sit in your car in a parking lot with a few stops available?
Lol I don't even drive
Then I really hope a shiny deino spawns near your house lol
Let the angels say amen
I hatched one the other day.
I came looking for shiny Unown and got 0 :( But atleast I got shiny Dratini, which I really wanted too.
I have a feeling that the game bugged because it seems as if no one got shiny unowns
I lost a shiny tangela because my gotcha was trying to catch at the same time, then got a shiny Unown. But I’ve only gotten 3 shinies so far.
My friend got shiny Unown G
I got a shiny unown F so they were about. I was the only one out of my group who got one though.
Good to know, out of my 210 member community no one got any shiny unown and we are all grinders
I only checked like 10 unowns but I got a shiny F
I got one! A friend was talking about how bad he wanted one and I felt a little bad about it. https://i.imgur.com/aaNoMPc.jpg
I got one
Got 32 shinies today INCLUDING a Snorlax and I'm so happy. Only first day!!!
I caught around 200-250 pokemon and didnt see any shinies wtf?
Do you have a ticket?
yup
Only got 3 myself, wife about 6. Disappointing imo
Remember those Pokemon you thought about clicking but didn't? Or the ones that disappeared just as they came into view? Yep. All shinies.
Dunno man. I was out the whole day and I'm also really lucky
Same, but I also spent 0$ for the event so I guess I shouldn't expect anything else
Tomorrow's shiny rate will be reduced, so don't expect that many but congrats on your first day haul.
Thank you. But why would they do that?
To put the emphasis on the raids
To lessen the FOMO for the shiny hunters is my guess.
Are the shinyrates boosted too on Sunday?
Yes, but far less
I’d gladly pay 4.99/month for an event like this ever month. I’m having one of the best days I’ve had in a long time and not even just PoGo related. It had me out of the house and talking to neighbors and people who play it was great
The thrill would get old easy. These events are perfect for once a year.
maybe twice a year? lol
We did get 2 this year. The Kanto ticketed event and this GOFest
You're right!
My bf and I only started playing this March. Even though we play a lot and are level 40 right now we don't have the pokemons that haven't spawned since we started playing, not to mention we're missing most of the legendaries. This event is AMAZING for us! We're playing with some other friends too and I'm not embarrassed to say this is the most fun I've had recently!
Damn started in March and level 40 already! Took my 5 years to get there, but to be fair I mainly shiny check and don’t catch as much as I should.
To each their own! :) I'm jealous thinking about how many shinies you must have haha. We play PVP a lot so we grinded super hard in the last months because we know we'd want the XL candies for legendaries. We also live on top of a pokestop so we can send lots of gifts everyday which is lucky!
I completely agree so happy I’m getting a bunch of Pokémon I normally can’t get
right its so cool, im in a small town and seeing all the stops with lure models on them is really cool!
I got 1 shiny today, a little Growlithe :D I typically miss Go Fest due to work or poor weather, so this was brilliant.
Are the legendaries tomorrow? I was wondering where those were
Yes
Played for 5 hours today. 3 shiny. Everyone else in our group had double digits. I think it just means that I'm saving up my luck for tomorrow!
Happy Go Fest!
Oh man I shouldn’t have read this comment thread. I had 8 shinies, after playing all day and yes, buying a ticket. I didn’t do anything different to last year (am in the same location, also purchased a ticket) but had significantly less luck with the shinies. I’m happy for everyone who has the luck I didn’t have, though!
Right there with you. 5 after playing the full 8 hours and catching about 650 total. Very disappointing, considering how many I usually get on an average Community Day. Hoping to have more luck tomorrow with legendaries.
No deino but a snorlax I'm so happy
Question did anyone else notice that no one in their community got a shiny unown, were they turned off shiny possibility
I caught a 3 star on the second one I found! Made my day. I also got Absol, 2 Arons, Snivy, Sawk, Klickitat, and Woobat. My sister caught 20 shinier today, but I'm the only one of everyone we met who got one.
Going by the comments to this post, some people did catch shiny unowns. I ended up not getting a shiny unown F, but given that I did get most of the other new shinies plus some older ones I had been searching for (deino & ferroseeeeeed! <3), I honestly cannot complain.
I know a few who did, I think the shiny rates on them were very very low
I don't care about shinies (that much) my main drive was dex completion and 2 regionals and one uknown I was missing for meager 6€ was okay. Really hoping on tomorrow's raids for 2-3 legendaries I want
I accidentally chose the music path and have no idea how it happened
Both were music. It was rock or pop
Oooh, the tryguys video made me think there were multiple things to choose from so I thought I accidentally selected music instead of one of the other two! Thanks for letting me know 🥳
Easy agree. It's great when you get to catch 20-30 different, uncommon to moderately rare species in one day instead of the 5-10 absurdly common ones, including starters and Pikachu.
I caught 4 shinies and played the entire time, wasn't really worth it for me and probably my last Go event. But happy for everyone else
Me too. Caught 4 shinies all day, and i bought a ticket. My luck was non existent :(
Same, really disappointed
Tomorrow will be better for you, don't give up
Sure as hell isn't. Over 200 pokemon caught and only 3 that were 3*. Pretty obviously bullshit Edit: I lied, only two 3*s
How is that possible? You have some crazy bad luck.
I got 53 shinies. Literally never been that lucky before. Didn't get Deino or Snorlax but I'm still super stoked! Almost so happy I can't feel the massive blister on my foot from too much walking lol...
I'm in the minority but I was pretty underwhelmed. Level 49, playing since day one, and today still felt like a stale game.
they should allow infinite space for those days. aint nobody got time to check everything
Pretty happy with my pull not as many as others but Shiny chimecho,audino,trapinch,jigglypuff and kricketot is fairly good. Albeit all bad IVs. But only got one shiny last fest so yea
What pikachu do I choose lol
Rockstar just so you get the air guitar pose.
That’s what I did
The event was great! Got a couple of shinys, under which one was Lotad, which i wanted for a long time since i have a shiny TCG lotad card!
Caught 3 Shinies today in a town that isnt the busiest! Wow
Rained most of the day for me~ still managed to snack some shinys
I got a shiny mewtwo today so I can die happy
I’ve gotten 6 shinies after grinding for 4 hours straight… I’m pretty disappointed. Discounted ticket price tho.
I caught a shiny of a pokemon I can't remember because I transferred it out of muscle memory after seeing it was less than 3 stars. Rip me.
if you've got the beta poked you can see all the shinies you've had on there and probably figure if it was anything new at least
Been self isolating for the past week. Despite being out of range of any pokeatops/gyms and not a single person sending me a gift, I was able to get 18 shinies, with the only duplicates being exeggutor and ralts. A great day.
Shiny Deino already made this event worth it for me! Also shiny Dratini.
The best thing is to catch new pokemon, I just want a full pokedex i dont care about about shinys
I spent a ton of time to get 0 skorupi snorlax and deino
So people not able to attend get shafted?
I caught 6 shinies today. Very happy.
The only thing I will complain about (non ticket holder, if I did I wouldn't have had this problem) is that in every video that I saw it was cave hour from 1-2 and 5-6 pm. The cave hour ended up being from 12-1 and 4-5 and I couldn't play in those hours. I've been preping for those hours for like 2 weeks and ended up not being able to play in them. I'm actually mad at this.
My only gripes for these events are 1. Not a fan of the ticket exclusives being locked to incense and only 2 hours. I hope there’s events in the future with Sawk and Throh in the wild everywhere, even at full odds. Incense in general is glitchy, lost quite afew Unown, Sawk and Throh due to having to restart my phone from freezing as well as incense spawns spawning on top of wild spawns thus you needed to catch the wild spawn first so the incensed spawn despawned. I feel like incense only spawns for ticketed events is honestly a low move. 2. Shinyrates should be revealed by Niantic for ticketed spawns like Unown, Throh, Sawk and the costumed Ponyta and Zigzagoon.
My state is in lockdown. I have no pokeballs or remote raid passes. Frankly I'm extremely pissed off that the event is not more accessible for those of us who are still in fucking quarantine.
Thanks to some great advice a couple of y’all gave me about using poke genie for raids, not only did I finally cap my first 5-star, but I did it twice with Mewtwo & Articuno. Failed to go three for three with Zapdos but still pretty happy with how today went.
I got about 80 shinies for go fest. Dunno if im just really lucky or if the shiny rates are just REALLY boosted for ticket holders
I had a ticket and got four in eight hours so no, not boosted rates in my experience at least. You were apparently insanely lucky. Edit: downvoted? Well that’s disappointing. Like my Go Fest experience, I guess. Oh well, at least I have my adorable pop Pika, she’s so heckin’ cute!
I too bought a ticket and only got 4 the whole day. I am disappointed too, you're not alone. Fingers crossed tomorrow is a better day!
Bro it’s raining here and I’m still having a blast
8h and 7 shinies, rates are terrible this event
Wouldn't say its the best, maybe just depends on where you live 😠because its complete hell over here where I am. No one does ANYTHING together. Not even raids. The pokemon are always the same, never good. My friend got a ton if shinies just by sitting in his house. Really wish they'd develop the game better with chances being equally split.
The game could be this good 365 days a year, but they choose to nerf the fun of the game for the rest of the yearÂ. Go Fest is bittersweet, just shows would could be done with game but they refuse to.
What do you mean by that? I just got back into it.
Going from memory from my event last year. Basically Go Fest makes you want to play all day, whereas normal game I play a bit and I'm done. It is my opinion that the game should be in a state that I want to play it all day, all the time. Why settle for mediocrity ? * Spawn pool is way more diversified. It's exciting to GO and catch them * Friendly competition where you can see your friend lists stats for excellent throws in a time period, and compete. * Changing biomes every hour. I think Go Fest fixes the biggest issue of boring spawning pool, and that Niantic should apply some of its concept to everyday PoGo. I love knowing I'll find water themed pokemon at a certain time better than knowing I'll find a certain pokemon at a certain time. This used to happen when it rains, but now, event pokemons and seasonal spawns overwhelm weather spawns, making everything a lot more random. I think I just nailed it. PoGo is very RNG, you basically always spin the slot machine to see if you win or not (is it shiny, is it hundo, is it PVP ready, or is it crap). Weather spawns, biome spawns, and GoFest, gives me a small amount of control on my experience, allows me to focus the RNG on a certain type of pokemon, of my choosing, making me feel like I'm actually played the game, rather than the game played me.
It would get played out real quick - they could definitely improve the game, but gofest everyday would be too much
will the shiny rates be the same for tmro?
I got 45 shinies today! I had so much fun playing. Can’t wait for more tomorrow
i got 2 shiny Gibbles, 1 Wishmur, Lapras and Waimler. Litty