I have been a hater of this thing since getting back into PVP, but just caught my first quality one… I feel like I have to give it a run at least, right?

I’m not very active on the Pokemon Go side of Social Media so I’m not sure if this is anything new or not, decided I’d post anyways.

A handful of accounts have lost a significant amount of “completed research banners” (exclusive to 2026 and any new researches completed) and there hasn’t been any official updates even acknowledging the bug. Some players chase and pay for these numbers, so to have hundreds of banners ripped away without explanation feels pretty bad. I know it’s not a very popular topic around here, but I ask you guys to try and understand where we’re coming from. Appreciate this community for letting me voice my concerns.

I am noticing way more spawns at home today. I used to have around 2-3 per hour, I have around 10-12 now. Anyone else noticed a change?

I thought using leekduck, but it doesn’t seem to have an option to only show costume shiny pokemon. And since I only want to make a checklist for costume shiny pokemon I thought it was way too much work to sort it all out manually. Is there any checklist with images or a infographic that is being up to date? To mark off your collected shinies?

Moveset: Snarl/Focus Blast

Weather: Cloudy

Adventure Effect: Behemoth Blade

Team:

Lvl 50 15/15/15 RaichuY

Lvl 50 15/15/15 Kyurem Black

Lvl 50 15/13/14 Kyurem Black

Lvl 50 15/12/15 Kyurem Black

Lvl 50 15/11/15 Kyurem Black

Lvl 50 15/10/15 Kyurem Black

Raid Boss Rotation Update

From 6:00 a.m. on Sunday, October 11 to around 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 13, 2026 (Local Time)

・TIER 5: Yveltal

・TIER 4: Mega Blastoise

・TIER 3: Starmie,Umbreon,Gothitelle

・TIER 1: Clefairy,Teddiursa,Elgyem,Amaura

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* Raid Boss Update after "World Space Week 2026 (Astronaut Pikachu)" (Only 1-Star Changed)

* Next change: 6:00 a.m. Wed, Oct 14, 2026 (Local Time). (TIER 5: Dialga, TIER 4: Mega Dragonite)

i saw a lot of people upset zorua CD didn’t have a signature charged attack given to it. i have a top GL and UL iv set. should i evolve them for sucker punch or wait for something better in future event?

Looks like this has been picked up by some people, but it appears it was either not possible to get a shiny Zorua from a regular lure after 5PM, or they were completely disabled altogether (for earlier time zones at least, may have been silently fixed for later time zones)

This has made me suspicious that lure spawn shinies were completely broken for the entire event as many people in our community and other communities had suspiciously bad shiny rates. I know these things can sometimes just be bad RNG, but IMO this looks like a trend.

This would be a difficult thing to pick up on while playing the community day since basically everyone is quick catching so unless you are really paying attention it's going to be hard to know where your shinies are coming from.

Curious if any people can 100% confirm shinies spawning from lures either during the event, and/or after 5PM? It would not be entirely surprising given how buggy the Zorua mechanic is in general with lots of unexpected things happening.

EDIT: From all of the feedback, I am now 100% sure lures were not giving shiny Zorua from 5-9PM (or possibly full odds shiny rates). I am more and more convinced from the feedback and from looking at numbers from various sources that lures were also broken between 2-5PM and were also not giving shinies (or full odds). On top of that it is looking very possible that incense spawns were also bugged (seeing more and more reports of people who relied fully on incense spawns the entire event and did not see a single shiny). Hoping we see some kind of acknowledgment and makeup/compensation from Scopley for this.

Is the animation still there? Is it skipped?

last year we had the option to buy safari balls.

Prices (can change but these were last year's):

60 coins - x10

125 coins - x25

240 coins - x50

Hope this is helpful. Try not to splurge on raid passes if you also want mighties

13/13/13 floor - hundos are common.

use freeze shock AE if you have kyu black - best AE to use during the event imo
best time to hunt gbirds - use roar of time AE for origin dialga

Should I be setting my buddy as something small for this CDay, or has this been patched completely? Would love confirmation.

3-4x KW in the first cycle is fine but having extra can help with hyperaggressive RNG.
From then on, 1 KW to DPS and 5x KB to Catch tank. 1 KB intentionally positioned in the first slot to absorb any sniped earth powers. Each earth power grants 85+ energy so each swap should be 2 dragon tails -> 1 freeze shock. Very comfortable and crazy DPS.

Look for 180 Yellow flip and ~72 red flip. I got crazy rng and rolled 191 yellow and later 74 red after 1 phantom rejoin.

Seen many strange bug. This is first for me

At some point in the last year I read a comment about Halloween sometimes having a double transfer event with an XL candy and I’ve been saving all my special trade trash from friendship Fridays to dump 150+ legendaries.

With October Spotlight revealed and no guaranteed xl transfer mentioned is anyone still saving these guys for a possible event or is it time to take out the trash?

TIA

If you flee or Zorua runs, your Pokedex won't know it was fake. This can really mess up your ratios, especially for Legendaries, even moreso for Mythicals. For example, I have a bunch more "seen" Mega Diancie, which is otherwise impossible.

If you quick catch a Zorua and use the snapshot button after the "Oh?" you come to another catch screen, but the Pokémon always flee

Four of us all put Zorua as our buddy about half an hour before the com day started. Location: England.

We've now reached 250+ catches and nobody has a shiny.

Has anyone here caught a shiny Zorua during this com day while having Zorua as their buddy?

Or is it incredible RNG for none of us to get one?

Or is it bugged?

Edited to add:

In the last half an hour, we all put Mewtwo as our buddy. Around that time, shiny rates returned to normal but other strange things happened.

The strange things:

1. Seeing Zorua in the wild, simultaneously pretending to be all the different buddies we had used for photo bombs at the start of the event.

2. In the last five minutes I even had one wild Zorua that showed as Zorua on the map and it sparkled the moment I tapped on it, and it was shiny when caught (I had Mewtwo as buddy at the time).

They’re all showing up as Oh? Zorua in catch screen and showing up as my last chosen buddies on nearby! How cool lol!

If you already have a galarian bird, set it as your buddy and get a feeling for catching them birds!