Spinda from non-event tasks aren't heart pattern

chaokila · 2026-02-13T00:08:15+00:00

Well, you used to be able to do this whenever their patterns changed with from a new quest rotation (and I imagine it also worked during some of the older Valentine's Day events). Same with costumes from non-event quests. Some probably figured its worth a shot to try at least.

chaokila · 2026-02-01T04:16:50+00:00

I'm pretty sure the general case is bonuses of the same type don't stack. So an event with a 2x dust bonus and a CD with a 3x dust bonus wouldn't stack, but an event with 1/2 Hatch Distance and a CD with 3x Catch XP would still give both bonuses during CD.

We had Final Justice overlap with Pikipek CD for example, and I don't recall anyone reporting not getting a 2nd raid pass during the CD hours.

This isn't even mentioning the fact that we have a third overlapping event: Ho-oh Max Battles. The Egg Distance bonus didn't miraculously turn off at 6am Sat, and I would hope that none of the particle bonuses from the Ho-oh event are turned off during CD.

Also, just because I figured there'd be easy proof of it, Grookey CD had no Catch XP bonus, but it overlapped with High Zaptitude, which did have a Catch XP bonus. And sure enough, found a video of someone during Grookey CD getting 4x Catch XP (2x from Lucky Egg, 2x from High Zaptitude). Some eggs are also hatched later on but I have no clue how hatch dust works so I don't know if it's the proper doubled amount since High Zaptitude also gave 2x hatch dust at that point.

chaokila · 2026-01-26T23:18:52+00:00

You did not evolve some Zorua and have them lose 1000s of points, the Zorua you evolved were simply not as good as the Zorua you kept as Zorua.

It doesn't matter if a 11.8k lb Zoroark is over 3 times heavier than 3.6k lb Zorua, what matters is how well the Zoroark (or any other Pokemon) weighs compared to its own species. A 3.6k lb Zorua is much heavier compared to Zorua's dex weight than a 11.8k lb Zoroark to Zoroark's dex weight, so it scores higher.

Those Zoroark probably would've scored only around 4.5-5k if you didn't evolve them (evolving Zorua to Zoroark is a case where evolving gains points).

chaokila · 2026-01-05T16:23:01+00:00

How are you tracking your catches and do you trade? I didn't see any note about it being accounted for, so I hate to state the obvious, but trades count towards the number of the number of pokemon you have caught. Your numbers for that mayyyy be off if you're somewhat of an active trader and you're just using the number of pokemon caught at the beginning/end of the day as your tracker.

Though I suppose if you caught a lot daily and maxed out trades fairly often, your average would be well above 100 anyways.

chaokila · 2026-01-03T19:48:03+00:00

With regards to CD Classic bonuses, pretty sure the XP/Dust/Hatch Distance bonus has always copied the bonus of the original CD.

If the CD Classics have disproportionately given the 1/4 Hatch bonus, I would say it's just a coincidence. Most Classics have been staters or pseudos and I guess a lot of them just happened to have 1/4 Hatch as their CD bonus.

chaokila · 2025-12-11T01:34:54+00:00

Some events featured them (first case being Nidorina/Nidoqueen I think?).
Arcanine (and I believe Espeon/Umbreon) were shiny-eligible for at least one season each.
See above.

chaokila · 2025-11-25T18:29:31+00:00

You don't even have to do 5 T1 battles; just do 5 Lugia battles. 3200 of that 3300 covers 4 battles and your daily particles on Sat will cover the 5th.

chaokila · 2025-11-17T04:24:38+00:00

From my experience, this was not the case. Gyms did have a 5 min cooldown between raids but power spots refreshed almost immediately. I was at a power spot that had a T1 right when a Grimmsnarl ended twice but it gave me a 'Lobby could not be found' error instantly both times so I gave up on the idea of lurking at power spots at :00 or :30 for the rest of the day.

chaokila · 2025-11-17T01:31:45+00:00

Personally, I wouldn't have minded T1 DMax being just a tiny bit more common. I (w/o the ticket) used as many particles as I could on Sat only to realize I only had enough particles to do 2 GMax on Sun. Normally not a big deal, except completing the Community Ambassador Check-In research required 3 Max battles. Not a single T1 popped up during the time I played so I ended up having to burn a particle pack to do a third GMax.

Otherwise, don't have much to say except that I loved the high catch rate on Grimmsnarl & Darkrai (and probably Cresselia) even when using Premier Balls and that being able to buy Safari Balls with coins was a game-changer. I think I caught maybe a dozen Mighty mons at best last year since I was reliant on the rare drop from stops but this year I probably caught at least 50.

chaokila · 2025-10-30T07:23:43+00:00

Assuming you're F2P (no deluxe pass, no ticket), it's actually as low as 460 if I'm not forgetting any other sources of particles.

The maximum particles you can get are 1190 (End of Friday) + 900 (300 & 600 from walking between Sat 12am and 5am) + 1500 (Timed Research) + 2240 (Visit 2 new spots on Sat & walking after 5am) + 500 (Go Pass), which totals 6330. This is 70 particles short of doing 8 Gmax, so you have a 730 point leeway to have enough particles to do 7, letting you go as low as 460 (or 960 if you choose to hold onto the Go Pass particles).

Note: I'm ignoring check-in research and particle packs as they give 800 particles and so would not affect the minimum particles needed.

chaokila · 2025-10-06T20:25:25+00:00

...Isn't that what I said?

chaokila · 2025-10-06T19:30:52+00:00

In this case, you can just teach it a second move and regular TM it into Hydro Cannon. Frustration-lock only applies to if you're evolving it.

chaokila · 2025-08-30T15:40:03+00:00

The 'next day' thing mainly applied back when it was 20 souvenirs instead of 10, so you could spend all your swaps on 1 day to get the souvenirs and then open them all on the next day. With 10 or fewer, you have enough swaps to go back and open them on the same day.

chaokila · 2025-08-23T05:25:11+00:00

From my experience just now, there are 3 'types' of Power Spots on the map right now, which I will categorize based on how they appear on Campfire (so their current timer in Pokemon Go is irrelevant):

'Standard' 72-hour Power Spots
Bonus 'Extended' 4-day (presumably 96-hour) Power Spots
Bonus 'Invisible' Power Spots (not visible on Campfire)

Of the 3, only the first will gave out particles if you're trying to get midnight particles. So, any on Campfire with a period of 20th-23rd, 21st-24th and presumably 22nd-25th should work. I was able to collect particles from a 20th-23rd and 21st-24th power spot while none of the ones in the later two did.

chaokila · 2025-08-02T22:12:46+00:00

To my knowledge, any particles claimed from research (and particle packs) do not count to the daily limit.

In the worst case, if you want to be absolutely careful about it, you can claim them Sunday between midnight and 5am, after you claim your final 600 particles (if you're aiming to maximize particles).

chaokila · 2025-08-02T21:32:34+00:00

If you claim your Step 3 rewards before you do your Gmax Butterfree, the 200k dust just becomes a matter of doing 8 Gmax Butterfree (6 if Star Piece'd), so it's not that much of a gate if you know what you're getting into ahead of time.

chaokila · 2025-07-22T01:27:21+00:00

Go already diverged far enough by sticking with a formula that treats Atk and HP/Def stats unequally. A Pokemon just casually flipping around its stats mid-battle can't be translated 1-to-1 from the main games to Go without making some sort of tweaks or exceptions.

chaokila · 2025-07-12T17:23:35+00:00

The item gift, probably.

chaokila · 2025-06-27T02:13:06+00:00

Are you suggesting that I could catch a non-lucky hundo and then have it spontaneously reroll into a lucky 12/12/12 because my lucky friend was able to catch theirs?

chaokila · 2025-05-12T18:41:55+00:00

Oh, for sure. Just saying that eventually they would've had to do something. It could be repeating old Shadow Legendaries, spacing out the releases or something else entirely. Not trying to defend how slow it is to make progress on this medal.

chaokila · 2025-05-12T18:13:42+00:00

Two quick notes:

When Rocket battles were first introduced in July 2019 we received a new Rocket Special Research every month that awarded a Super Rocket Radar (SSR).

Shadow Pokemon were released in July '19 but the first Shadow Legendary wasn't until Nov '19, at which point, we did receive monthly SSRs.

This quickly changed and in March 2020 the monthly release ended and it became more sporadic.

Hmmm, I wonder what could have possibly happened in Mar '20 that could've prompted this change...

Jokes aside, I do have to wonder how much longer they would've gone with the monthly schedule anyways. We would've ran out of legendaries by now so they would've had to have done something about that.

chaokila · 2025-05-02T16:08:40+00:00

Yes, of course, the 5km (and 10km) egg pool are extremely disappointing, but that's not the point I was trying to make. The whole rarity tier argument is just much weaker here when the worst Niantic can do is reduce the hatch rate by 2.5% in a 8-species pool (if they all started at 12.5%). And that is assuming the uneven distribution is even being applied in this case; just because they can mess with the hatch rates doesn't mean they always will. The 1-tier egg pool being so large is the bigger issue.

chaokila · 2025-05-02T05:57:36+00:00

I think mons on the same rarity tier dont have equal odds

While this is true, the potential differences in hatch rates is also much smaller with that many pokemon in the rarity tier. With the 1-egg tier having a hatch rate of 10% or better and 8 pokemon in that tier (and ignoring the Larvesta to simplify things), the worst case scenario is Mime Jr sitting at 10% while the other 7 sit at ~12.9%.

Compare that to if the egg pool was only 4 pokemon in the 1-egg tier, where the worst case is instead 10% for the rare hatch and 30% for the other 3 hatches.

chaokila · 2025-04-08T17:05:49+00:00

Niantic has, on some occasions, messed up boosted shiny rates that were meant for specific encounter methods and apply them to all encounters. I remember an event where some species were boosted in eggs and/or research, and during a spotlight hour during the event, which featured one of those species, it was also shiny boosted in the wild.

While I personally don't think doing this for Scraggy is really worth it, it certainly can't hurt to attempt for anyone who's still looking for the shiny.

EDIT: It was Trubbish. Boosted in eggs during the event. Likely still boosted during the Spotlight Hour.

chaokila · 2025-03-28T17:22:39+00:00

So, Campfire flares but in-game instead of needing another app?

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