After a rough week without shinies I expected a change for today. With the Luvdisc Research Day and an amazing spawn pool, with even three Permaboosted Pokémon and a lot of full odds Pokémon with Shinies I still needed, all I hoped to find this event was one single shiny from the wild that I wanted, which was any of them but Feebas. Surely that would be doable, right? Especially considering I always happen to get the duplicates, and this time it would not be possible, as Feebas spawned approximately four times total at all, right?
Well, how wrong I was…
Three random non-event Shinies appeared, all of which I already have dozens of, and then Ugly Fish in the last six minutes came in to make it even more ridiculous. While it was definitely a Shiny-packed day, I think I would’ve appreciated it more if I didn’t get any at all because these just completely ruined my odds as well. I swear the devs at the Niantic headquarters are currently laughing hysterically.
Congratulations!! How many research tasks did you complete to get that many shinies??? Even if the shiny rate was a stellar 1 in 20, it would take 180 tasks completed.
I got 4 shinies from about 40 tasks, using the same strategy of deleting tasks. Of all Luvdiscs only one of the non shinies was over 90 IV, the rest rubbish. But on the way I found 9 other shinies, something very strange for my account. Between them was an interesting one, a shiny Frillish.
Really we have no idea about the decisions which actually can be found shiny, which will be retired from the pool, which enter next week…
Maybe it’s in hand of one person, and then the memory on short distance will play his power. He/she remember without taken account of these Research Days this Pokémon and put them again…
They don’t usually turn off shiny forms, the only Pokémon that had their shiny forms out but can’t currently be encountered shiny are Unown, Smeargle, Genesect, all Shadow Pokémon besides Magnemite, Male Nidoran and Beldum, and Meltan. However there have been multiple occasions where they accidentally turned off a shiny.
