As Zaphod79 said, encounter rewards were indeed around. I came across four, pulled a shiny from one.
I hit lucky friends with my daughter for the second time 2 days after we became lucky friends the first. She got a hundo Mewtwo and a hundo shiny azumarill out of me. I got a 89 shiny yanma and a 96 Mewtwo. Wish it happened this much with other friends.
Really? Huh, I must've spun 30 or so stops but didn't get one. Guess we were just really unlucky. I don't think the hatch 5 eggs task was part of the CD though, as I've seen no other reports of it.
If it's the same problem I used to run into when I used PTC, it's a bug on Niantic's end, not the servers. I usually fixed it by force stopping the app (via the Apps menu in settings) and restarting my phone.
If you purify the Sneasel and TM the move away, the evolution would be open to getting any new time-exclusive move.
I wonder how much brand value they have lost by people being pissed about not having those stops/gyms anymore vs the brand value they have generated by being in the game. Doesn't sound like good marketing to me lol
Yup. My EX Raid was just canceled. Lost a gym and stop in my local downtown, which sucks, especially now that there is no EX Raid eligible gym down there.
Do they offer charging up your phone or power banks in those stores? We have no sponsored stuff here but I know the T-Mobile shops here offer power banks for your phone which brings in customers. But yeah, they probably just bought into the hype without thinking too much about it. I'd say it's still good advertising, as long as it stays in the game lol
Yeah, all McDonalds in Japan are gyms. Though, since October, even though they are an EX Raid Gym, the two we have in my town haven't had an EX raid. (Maybe it's the same for all.) I'm guessing that McDonalds didn't like the fact that normal raids were blocked by the EX raid, so every other week it was empty. So, they probably opted to prevent EX raids from happening.
I don't disagree about this event being a bit weak. But I would argue the newer and returning players will be more important for this event with those spawns. Esp Seinub, Machop & Rhydon. Murkrow evolved Pokemon is a decent dark attacker too. Those are the people who could really use these Pokemon. Esp if they are having trouble with go rocket leaders.
Ths problem is that yes, there are some decent spawns in it. Teddiursa for example is also pretty useful against Snorlax with dual fighting attacks. But who is gonna tell people who don't know it yet?
They seem fairly rare among the boosted spawns. I didn't come across a single one during a 90 minute walk.
I really hope some kind of feedback system is added to raids to help with this stuff. Hopefully they're moving toward that in some way.
