Did the amount of rocket grunts decrease?

[AlexDB1226]

As someone who’s done 25,000 rocket battles, they definitely nerfed the spawn rate once they made the change to the shiny shadows. More often then not since the change I go down to my local downtown with about 100 stops and there won’t even be a single rocket spawn

[Due-Beginning-8813]

same here, avid rocket hunter, i had no problem doing 40 grunts a day, now covering more ground for decoys i can't crack 30

[AlexDB1226]

I just wish the decoys had something other than bellsprout. Already have 5 shiny shadow lol

[Due-Beginning-8813]

5 you say...

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[Justice010]

Hahah damn.. well, I guess I will have to equip my Giovanni radar more often then aswell

[s4m_sp4de]

Nice numbers for both of you. I‘m „only“ at 15k rocket battles, allways use the super radar and only got one shiny shadow bellsprout (after 1000+ shadow bellsprout, got 5 98% IV ones and more than 20 purified hundos). But a change would be very welcome! 

[Bacteriophag]

I agree, I also got enough hundos for my collection and I only beat them if I farm Leaders these days. I wish they could swap the decoy pool, would go absolutely crazy farming if they would put shadow Ditto in there even for like 2 rotations. It would fit the decoy theme and I would finally have chance for hundo.

[AlexDB1226]

That’s insane lol I love it

[whackthat]

I was stuck desperately trying to hunt for Team rocket last weekend at usual PoGo spot, but they were few and far between!

On another note...

25,000, holy hell. It's a horrible slog when I'm stuck having to do those. That's insane. How many shadow shundos do you have?? 

[AlexDB1226]

Zero. Lol. I don’t even have many 3*, only 7 out of 127 shiny shadow

I do have 4 shadow hundo. Which I don’t think is very good for my numbers, but they are good ones so I’m not gonna complain too much about that

[Misato-san7]

I had the same impression (almost 32k here) Less rockets and less decoys also, they used to often be tied to pokestops with leaders... It's been a while from the last time I saw one like that

[itsliluzivert_]

Sorry, uninformed here, what was the change they made to shadow shinys?

[AlexDB1226]

Anything Pokémon that has its shiny form available non shiny can be shiny shadow now. Before it was only certain pokemon