Lured the park I live next to and caught over 1,000 with 6 hundos (1 of which was a shundo), 56 shiny of which the 2nd best iv was a 96 and gained over 6k candy and 500 XL candy. Didn’t bother to put on lucky eggs/star pieces the whole time since I am level 50 and the cap probably won’t be raised for at least another 5-10 years.
This was probably my best CD to date and lived up to the hype without any technical difficulties that sometimes plague large events because Niantic.
I already had the hundo and the Shiny, so this CD was devoted to getting the required Candy XL needed to level up my hundo Garchomp to Level 50. I had waited to evolve the hundo until that day to get Earth Power, and boy was it worth the wait.
Did the 200km drive again for CD as I need more <100km Trade stuff for XL’s.
Dropped an incense and Lured 2 of the 3 stops. Mixed my time up between sitting in the car manually catching and going for a walk around with the GoPlus doing the work.
Took 75min to get my first Shiny and only had 2 after 2 1/2hrs.
Ended up with 16/651
Again no 100% luck.
Evolved a 100% one I already had for the move. Forgot to evolve any Shiny’s.
Happy I averaged just over 100 catches an hour.
Until now I have controlled about 40 Tepig around my house (can’t move until autumn), and found one shiny. Not one with good IV, but well, I will evolve one for the move.
Work left me only half (3 hrs) of the CD. Everything had for IV, until the last one I encountered before having to stop (which was a hundo). Got half a dozen shinies in about 260 catches during those 3 hours.
Stardust was my main aim, and I collected about 170K… not too bad.
Best community day yet so far for me. Played actively for about an hour and a half and caught a total of 9 shinies. In addition, I also caught the opposite of a 100% IV Tepig. (one of the Tepigs are named after me because I’m using it for a heavy shiny Tepig contest)
Shiny rates on CD vary widely between different users at the same location, and for same user at different locations. At least from my personal experience (not some systematic study or knowledge of the source code).
This CD was great. I played the first half of the CD at home. I used an incense and got some shinies early, so I was relaxed. I got 7 shinies in total. Later, I went outside. I did a Deoxys raid. Although the Tepig weren’t weather-boosted I found several with good IVs. I was also lucky this time with the special research. I got many good-IV Tepig and 1 Emboar and as a cherry on top I got a shiny with great IVs! I found one more shiny with great IVs! I evolved 11 Emboar with Blast Burn and got 1 from the special research.
Day 1 was insane. Spent 75 minutes on Pokemon go during community day; got 21 shinies. And got Leafeon to level 48. Tomorrow I plan to get the rest of the XL candies to level up to 49,5 and have spare left for level 50
Only 3 more hours before Day 2 starts for me.
Need to do a ball run to fill the bag ready for it.
Day 1 spent the first 4.5hrs riding around on the bike with the Go Plus going the whole time. Started with 1050 Red Balls and by the end of 4.5hrs I had just over 100 remaining. Last 1.5 hrs was manual cacting with Blue or Black balls only to run their counts down ready for today to do much the same today or until I run out of bag space. Need to do some more trades to get some more space back.
Day 1 summary
Total catches ?
27 Shiny, seems a bit low for # of balls I used
No 100%
No evolutions
5 Raids on non Gold Gyms