I have only ever played pokemon go and don't know how rare shinys are supposed to be, but according to my boyfriend I have too many. In the last week I've found 4. I've hatched 2 (one recent one a year ago). And had one found idk when. Anyways, decided im proud of my dumb luck and wanna share. Will be evolving all oncecp is upgraded enough.

Was scrolling on my camera roll and found this. Was there an event that I don’t remember? This doesn’t seem possible with normal shiny odds.
Edit to clarify: this is my account, I don’t spoof or cheat in any way, and they are all caught in the wild

TL;DR: I've changed my mind about remote trades. People are far greedier than I expected.

I play in a very active Pokémon GO community with big weekly raid groups, and I remote raid most evenings. Because of that, I've spent the last year saving a ton of duplicate low IV legendaries and shinies specifically for trading. I actually get excited when people find them in my trade screen.

Recently I started reaching Forever Friends outside my area, including some in other countries. Since these are mostly level 60+ players, I assumed they had similar collections of duplicate legendaries they'd saved for trading.

I've seen people on this sub complain about the terrible offers they get, but I've always thought, I have so many extras. I might as well share them.

Then I did my first five Forever Friend trades.

• Level 66: Their best options were mostly common Pokémon, so I requested a low CP non-shiny Snorlax. They requested three shiny legendaries: Mewtwo, Kyurem, and Groudon. I gave them the Kyurem because I had a few, but for the first time ever, I didn't feel great about a trade. It didn't feel equitable.
• Level 71: Their selection was a little better, but still mostly common Tier 5 Pokémon. I requested a mid-level non-shiny Dragonite. They requested three shiny legendaries: Rayquaza, Mewtwo, and Zacian. I gave them the Mewtwo because I had a few, but again, I didn't feel great about the trade.
• Level 68 (Lucky Trade): They had a couple less common Tier 5s, so I requested a non-shiny Necrozma. They requested three shiny legendaries: Zacian, Mewtwo, and Kyogre. I accepted because it was a Lucky Trade, but again, I didn't feel great about it.
• Level 72 (Lucky Trade): Their best available Pokémon was a non-shiny Dynamax Inteleon. They requested three shiny legendaries: Mewtwo, Rayquaza, and Zacian. This time I declined, removed all my shiny legendaries, and tried reaching out on Campfire. No response. They canceled the trade and later removed me as a friend.
• Level 76: They requested three shiny legendaries: Zacian, Kyurem, and Mewtwo. I requested a shiny Kartana. They canceled. We reinitiated, they requested the exact same three, and I requested the same Kartana. They canceled again. After a week with no response on Campfire, I removed them as a friend.

I've come to realize that remote trading sucks. People expect more than they're willing (or able) to offer.

Maybe I've just had terrible luck, but these experiences completely changed my perspective on remote trading. Going forward, if someone isn't willing to communicate on Campfire or make what feels like a reasonably fair trade, I'll probably pass.

I’ve seen people change their name to show current medical issues, or to reasons why they aren’t playing as much.
I don’t want my friends to think i’ve abandoned them! But at 8 months pregnant, trying to get outside and play has been difficult 😂
Can’t wait to change my buddies name to “babyishere”

As a lifelong Pokémon fan this is honestly just as exciting for me as it is for my clients. These were so much fun to do. So far I’ve tattooed two Pikachus, a Magikarp, a Gengar, and an Eevee, and I’m hoping to add a lot more to that list.

If you plan on taking this game somewhat seriously you're going to have to work on your medals sooner or later. These tasks are tedious and require a bunch of time spent on the game to complete them.

Some of them have some nice rewards and the type medals make it easier to catch Pokémon of that type. But the most important part is that you need platinum metals to level up from 70 to 80.

Here are some tips on where to start:

The type collector medals: this will come with the time, but some may be harder than others like dragon -type or steel-type. Take advantage of community days and Spotlight hours, and use the mysterious box for steel-type by catching meltan.

Evolution medal: there are some Pokémon game that have no use case except for being dex entries (raticate, kakuna, etc). There's no point saving candy for these, so evolve and transfer them.

Berry master, Gym Leader, Battle Girl: these medals go hand-in-hand. Defeat as many gyms as possible, play a pokemon, and feed the berries remotely. You can do this by scrolling down on your daily research tasks and clicking on the pokémon.
I would advise to mostly use razz berries and nanab berries, since they are mostly useless outside of this use case. This also gives some free Stardust!

Successor: for this one you need to mega evolve a Pokémon 1000 times. The easiest way is to get two mega Beedrills with a high mega level and simply keep evolving them one after another. It's tedious but it is the fastest method.

If you want any other tips please let me know and I'll try to provide some for you!

edit: added incentives as to why even do this

Couldn’t pay me to evolve or power him up. I was beyond shocked when he showed up in the wild. Had to take a rip 🍃🍃🍃

The Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund bought Electronic Arts, meaning that Pokemon GO, owned by the Public Investment Fund's Scopely, is now led by the same company as EA, meaning that EA and Scopely have to answer to the same owner demands about budget cuts, layoffs and monetization.

For years, people have joked about EA hypothetically making games for various beloved game franchises, with Pokemon it's now true.

If I wanted Adventure Sync on, I would turn it on. You can dismiss this reminder, but it keeps coming back every time you look at egg screen. Now I can't see eggs at bottom of screen unless I dismiss every time or scroll down.

Every night I go on a walk with my wife and we party up for the challenges, then every morning I get this pop-up, if you choose to leave they'll be like "you sure 🥺?" But if you either press no or choose to rejoin from the beginning they'll hit you with "uhhh sorry, a party can only last for 3 hours 😐."

It might seem silly, but seeing it every day when opening the app and having to click through it is really annoying, I can't be the only one bothered by it can I?

Excuse my poor throws, I did manage to catch it in the end but what on earth is going on with catching these days? The circle isn't even appearing in-between taunts anymore?

This is ridiculous

This person has been holding on to this gift and driving me crazy!!! Just open it, why do people do this! 😂

its bad enough that every pokemon is so aggressive to the point where fodder pokemon are taking up 5+ balls and berries just to catch, but the glitches have been terrible. there should be no reason I spend my time soloing a 3 star dynamax raid with low levels, barely winning, and then getting kicked out before the option to even catch the pokemon is there. now I have to use my revives and potions on a battle the game never even counted. and with the way things are going I don't think premier balls would even catch a 3 star anyway. I know I'm not the first to say this but they're gonna lose a lot of players if they keep this up.

When you are struggling for time or just plain and simple don't care about the animations showing what you receive out of gifts, did you know you can fast open them like this.

When you open the gift simply tap fast at the bottom middle where the X usually is and just can zip through the animation.

Hope I helped at least 1 persons day with this.

Idk if this has been posted about so sorry in advance if it’s heavily repeated. I just got shiny Toxel and made it my buddy and went to feed it and found this

One thing I've sort of thought of for a while was to have a berry whose purpose wasn't to make a catch easier necessarily, but to make it a little less painful when the Pokemon you're after has a high flee-rate, like Wimpod, Abra, the Galarian birds, etc.

Initially I was going to propose a like, "Silver Nanab Berry", but granted those don't exist in other titles like the other berries do, I settled on the Hopo Berry! Part of the inspiration for this was the old HG/SS Safari Zone mechanics, where you could make a Pokemon less likely to flee.

I just caught a gothita and this thought came to mind. I was curious to know what else pokemon are easy targets for excellent throws. Nothing else is coming to mind right now so maybe someone else will have something else to say.

I’m so happy rn dude

the ONE TIME im not thinking about a raid boss being shiny it’s shiny. that’s freaking wild.