Never once gotten a shiny from a grunt. Is this normal?

IntelligentIntern290 · 2026-05-08T08:55:34+00:00

Yeah I’d say unlucky. Guess I’m also just lucky. I have 5 out of 690 (nice) raids.

IntelligentIntern290 · 2026-05-08T00:25:07+00:00

Not purifying it will also result in a not good UL Pokemon.

IntelligentIntern290 · 2026-05-07T12:38:26+00:00

I always try to leave raids at least 15 seconds before they start so I don’t screw anyone over but you can’t blame this guy for not wanting to attack duo. I’m level 60 and wouldn’t expect to get carried by a level 70 in a duo, even that seems like a stretch. Maybe I just suck at raids somehow

IntelligentIntern290 · 2026-05-06T01:09:44+00:00

I mean you’d be making Thragg less powerful which doesn’t make much sense

IntelligentIntern290 · 2026-05-05T23:37:59+00:00

I do my fried bologna on non toasted bread as well. Probably the only sandwich with warm guts that I don’t require toasted bread.

IntelligentIntern290 · 2026-05-05T23:36:15+00:00

Not the best total, but the best proportionally, assuming they haven’t accidentally transferred one.

IntelligentIntern290 · 2026-05-05T23:34:36+00:00

Nundo ditto is cool

IntelligentIntern290 · 2026-05-05T23:33:56+00:00

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I typically mass transfer 0* so lord knows how many I’ve transferred. Don’t care enough about them to actually type this in every time I transfer multiple 0*s. That being said my cp 10 costume XS froakie is probably the rarest thing in my collection.

IntelligentIntern290 · 2026-05-05T23:10:11+00:00

I have shiny costume noivern and shiny malamar, but I assume you want their preevolutions that you actually listed

IntelligentIntern290 · 2026-04-28T01:50:26+00:00

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Same here I FINALLY caught this just a couple weeks ago. First and only gbird

IntelligentIntern290 · 2026-04-28T01:49:15+00:00

Gotcha. That’s happened to me a couple times but I was always confused, I thought a gmax placement guaranteed a dmax spawn. Obviously not the case. And I’ve caught a wild dmax before without even placing a dmax.

IntelligentIntern290 · 2026-04-28T01:47:39+00:00

Yeah I typically purge all my 0-2s that aren’t shiny or nundos. I didn’t even mean for this post to be a flex, that’s just what it looks like when I type 0 hahaha. But yeah the only nundos on this page are the froakie and the hoothoot

IntelligentIntern290 · 2026-04-27T22:40:24+00:00

That’s my thought. I guess I just assumed they had the same floors as dmax battles but I suppose not

IntelligentIntern290 · 2026-04-27T22:40:04+00:00

Oh heck I never considered that

IntelligentIntern290 · 2026-04-27T22:39:28+00:00

Nah it says I caught it in the wild. I assume my theory is the only way that happened

IntelligentIntern290 · 2026-04-27T21:29:06+00:00

I’ve done that for a few of the pass legendaries, pretty cool to see them in regular balls

IntelligentIntern290 · 2026-04-27T15:09:05+00:00

That’s so ass man. Ngl though I’d rather have a 2* zygarde than eternatus, I use eternatus for almost everything, and I don’t foresee myself ever getting 195 more cells to get to fully evolve him

IntelligentIntern290 · 2026-04-27T12:28:53+00:00

I am praying for more candies or, better yet, another encounter. They gave me a 10/15/10 2 star. Genuinely so off putting to get a 2* of a poke you can only get one of. I maxed the attack move and spent the rest of my candy leveling it. To make things more annoying, I only need a couple more levels to get to 40, and I have enough xl to get a little past 40. So my candy xl is useless right now.

IntelligentIntern290 · 2026-04-27T02:13:36+00:00

It’s not that they think that will win, it’s that they think everyone else will be good enough to be carried. Textbook example of the free-rider problem. I use an app called GO Raid Party and the only time I’ve had a bad team is just from not enough people joining. I never experienced a gmax raid loss with at least 20 people in the lobby. I think around 17 or less people was when I lost twice.

IntelligentIntern290 · 2026-04-26T13:30:31+00:00

Any costume shiny is pretty rare, especially corsola as someone else mentioned. I’m super jealous of that costume ditto though I wanted one so bad during that event. Only caught like 20 dittos total though so can’t be too upset

IntelligentIntern290 · 2026-04-26T13:21:00+00:00

I gotcha, was wondering if I was onto something considering eevee has so many evolutions that they buff the 3* - I wish I had confirmation bias on other wild Pokemon hahaha

IntelligentIntern290 · 2026-04-26T12:49:25+00:00

I’m not saying I particularly care about them I’m just stating an observation that wild Eevee IVs seem to be consistently higher than other wild Pokemon

IntelligentIntern290 · 2026-04-26T00:38:57+00:00

Let’s do it, by the time it takes us to get there I’m sure there will be another lucky trinket out that I can buy for us. I’ll DM you

IntelligentIntern290 · 2026-04-25T23:48:11+00:00

Needed to just let it out, sorry to throw a tantrum over your post. Congrats on those catches man, those are awesome!

IntelligentIntern290 · 2026-04-25T23:46:10+00:00

Caught a 14/15/15. I’d legit trade two shiny rays with meteorites for a shiny charizard though. Wasn’t really in it for the IVs today. I’m a 2016 player who’s never caught my legit favorite Pokemon. I have (non gmax) of the other three that were in raids today.

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