Yeah, my CD was a bit of a bust. I didn’t get enough shinies to complete any family, as I’ve only managed to catch 2 red shinies, 1 white shiny and 1 orange shiny…so far.
Maybe in the special research available for the next few days I’ll be lucky enough to at least get 1 more.
At the very least I’ll enjoy the temporary lower requirement to evolve the different colours I have into a Florges, as that will be a new register for me. So, right now, this is the main goal as I want all 3rd stage evolutions of this pokemon of many colours.
I used both incenses this time and still had a much lower shiny outcome than in previous CD. I played for almost 2 hours and then checked the game sporadically. If this had been a CD for a pokemon I really cared for, I’d be very disappointed. As it is, I’m only a little bit. (And this is a personal opinion, but I think the shiny for a flower pokemon should be more colorful/visually impactful, I think it’s way too subtle).
Since it’s a Community Day, why not have all colours available everywhere for a single special event? I think this would’ve been better. I really liked the egg distance being greatly diminished, that’s for sure, as right now I’m hoarding a lot of 10km eggs, …
I think the general consensus of the Pokémon Go community is this was a massive fail CD not having all flower colours available.
Should have been a 2 Day CD just like Eevee was a few years ago allowing players to collect many of all the colours.
Region locking Pokémon needs to go full stop.
Change regional to traveller and have all current regionals changing locations once, twice or even three times a year.
Only interest was getting shiny to complete the family line. This is becoming a common thing for CD’s now.
Drove around letting the GoPlus get whatever while making some progress on Gym Badges.
Ran Lucky Egg(s), Star Pieces and Stink Bomb for 2 1/2hrs with Psychic Mega Slowbro. No ide of total gains.
Stats:
222 caught
8x Shiny
0x surprise 100%
Trashed all but the 3 best IV Shiny.
There was no field research with this one. Apparently special backgrounds were obtain some other way. Not that it matters as I don’t collect them.
I didn’t care for this one that much, but still tried to get some shinies to add to the collection. I played for almost 2 hours and managed 3 shinies in total, so at least the family is complete!
I had a lot more difficult finding them and not having the extra special research during the week was a surprise. I usually rely on that one for better stats and maybe surprise shinies (I only ever got better stats anyway), so I usually evolve the pokemon later in the week. I happened to evolve one on Sunday, so I got at least 1 with a special attack… I don’t use these pokemon, so it’s not a concern, but maybe people that use them missed out on it accidentally?
@NotanotherKangaskhan I did find some pokemon with backgrounds spawning in the wild (not in field research, just in the wild), which had never happened to me before. I only ever find them in that special community day research during the folowing days. That should have let me know something was different!
I wonder if the shiny spawns (for me at least) were lower than usual because they were mixed with some special background spawns…
(And this is a personal opinion, but I think the shiny for a flower pokemon should be more colorful/visually impactful, I think it’s way too subtle).
