Niantic didn’t. I sent you my Shiny luck with the gift, so now you have it😉
Kind of a lame reward for spending more than an hour of making Snapshots trying for a Smeargle with Red Paint on its Tail…
“Red Paint”…
Shiny Smeargle’s graffiti is written in blood !
(Just like ordinary Smeargle uses its own urine). We can only be thankful that the paint isn’t white or brown!
Anyhoo… the good news is… you can do it all again tomorrow
Seen 508? That’s insane😅
Well a lot of those encounters are from trades before I got a lucky. And I swap my buddy 20 times a day - and take a photo of each, for the heart - so I get a genuine Smeargle encounter on most days too.
Another shiner in tonight’s batch…
Wait… what…? Setting a Pokémon as a Buddy increases the encounters by 1 each time?
Eh? No.
Sorry, probably didn’t explain it well enough.
All I meant to say was that I hardly ever miss the single daily encounter with Smeargle because I take a lot of photos (for the reason I mentioned above).
And that’s why I’ve got 508 Smeargle encounters. (It’s actually 523 now because of the 15 today).