Community Note: Pokémon can now be found in more places around the world
Update 8/25/2020: As the world changes in real time, so do the locations where Pokémon can appear around you. Locations where Pokémon can be found could change as often as every month, reflecting efforts by Trainers to explore the world around them and interact with the world of Pokémon GO.
In the next few weeks you van expect to see less of me posting. School has restarted again, and it’s my final year before going to uni. I’ll stay at least a “lurker”, but I’ll try and find better times for me to go here. Yes I’ll check up every day, but I don’t always have something to post. I think I’ll be more active again in about a week.
Hope you all are doing great, and I’ll see all your messages tomorrow morning!
isn’t this a weekly repetition with spotlight hours?
Spotlight is just boosted spawns, not boosted shiny rates. With the average 1 in 450 chance, you’ll need multiple accounts at once to statistically get just 1. Also, double catch candy, for houndour, who cares?
Of course, every rate in the game is arbitrary and at Niantic’s discretion. But would 1 in 100 be too much to ask for a spotlight event? A sort of happy medium between that ridiculous rarity and the ridiculous frequency of community day.
At least they didn’t make us burn a raid pass for every shiny check, the way it was with Unown during the Ultra event. The way things are, though, I might as well be resigned to never getting shiny for at least half of the species that have shinies.