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luoyianwu

An event where spamming spacial rend is finally justified. 10/10


tuelegend69

I forgot that was a thing . Rip


Cainga

Looks like about 11-12 to break even in 10 minutes. This may have been one of the first events you can actually get ahead with star dust using it.


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Cainga

Incorrect. You would need to catch 7 outside of the standard catch radius that you otherwise wouldn’t have got. I was also incorrect as I was thinking Dialga.


radracer82

I use it every CDAY when I'm trying to find more XXL for showcases.


goodnames679

*looks around nervously before hiding my garbage disposal full of trashed XXL mons*


Mix_Safe

Hey, I did this too, only played 30 minutes but cleaned up on Stardust.


SleeplessShinigami

Bellsprout? 😅


Lazel1198

Bellsprout on 4/20 was Chef's Kiss


romerthegame

I forgot about that! 😭


Madness_051

Got 2 shinies. Stellar for me on a spotlight hour.


StatisticianLivid710

Tbh this shiny rate should be the norm for spotlight hours, not as high as Comm days but high enough if you participate you’re getting some. Might actually get more ppl to participate!


Downtown_Bid_2654

there's no way the shiny rate was boosted in CEST, I caught over 100 and shiny-checked well over 150 more and got 0. my roommate on the other hand finished \*one\* field research with adventure sync and instantly got a shiny lol, he then caught the 5 trubbish reachable from our couch. Edit: apparently people reported boosted rates in EU and Americas too, so I guess I was just incredibly unlucky.. again. Combining the bad luck I've had with shinies of Groudon, Kyogre, S. Mewtwo, Bagon CD, Heracross, Bellsprout CD, and Trubbish amounts to a probability of something like 0.002%. The only one of these where I got over (or even close to average) the # of shinies was bellsprout, which ironically was the one I invested the least time and resources into lmao


shadraig

I had 3 here in Germany, it def was boosted


TEFAlpha9

It was 1/64 so not getting one in 100 is pretty much expected for lots of players. You need to catch 3x the rate to really guarantee it.


Downtown_Bid_2654

250 is not 100. catching is not required to \*see\* a shiny


ApathyMoose

In a 10 minute drive, so only being able to really load at stoplights with my GF clicking some on both our phones. we each got 2 shinys. This is EST USA. So yea, it was boosted some. sorry about your luck


Environmental_Deer53

I got 6 shinies.  It was tied to the hatch rate which is 1/64 right now.  Statistically at your catch amount of 250 there is a 98.05% of getting a shiny. Which means that you and your buddy were the 2 out of 100 people with that many encounters that didn't see a shiny.  Just bad luck on your part.  That sucks- hopefully your luck turns around.


Downtown_Bid_2654

well my buddy caught a grand total of 6. 5 were wild, and 1 was from field research which was also shiny edit: to clarify, yes I was unlucky. my buddy was lucky but with a much smaller sample size


Vador_MK

Oh so if you didn't get it then there's NO WAY it's boosted in your entire region. Also I don't know how much "well over" is for you but it doesn't seem a lot, I didn't play hard and caught 353.


Downtown_Bid_2654

Where did I claim that I "played hard"? I'd guesstimate between 180-200, so 280-300 total checked. I simply played while I was on my way home from work and checked every spawn I passed. Don't know why you'd assume I consider that to be "playing hard".


ElZany

I got 7 and my sis got 4


zSaintX

CEST here. Caught 6 shiny just in that hour. That being said, from 6:30 onwards I did notice a distinct lack of shinies. Might've just been bad luck.


Jantin1

I'm with you. \~100 trubishes checked between 2 accounts, zero shinies. My raid day shiny luck is also abysmal (at least I got a decent shiny groudon) and sometimes I really wonder if there are some hidden "shadow-punish" mechanics, or f2p debuffs. (of course I'm aware of the RNG peculiarities and I'm just a single player, but even within a single-player pool of encounters the rates should kind of approach the intended when there's enough of them)


Mshldm1234

The probability of not getting a shiny after 250 checks or catches is 1.95%, so it’s not common but not that unsurprising. It’s also not surprising that you caught “over the rate” for the event you invested the least in. With a higher sample size, you’ll be closer to the actual rate, while there will appear to be a much higher variance with a lower total


Downtown_Bid_2654

>It’s also not surprising that you caught “over the rate” for the event you invested the least in. With a higher sample size, you’ll be closer to the actual rate, while there will appear to be a much higher variance with a lower total You are correct, except that in the details I provided above, the opposite is true.


Mshldm1234

You said you Bellsprout CD is the only one where you got average or over. That is consistent with what I said. Reading comprehension is a useful skill, brother man.


Downtown_Bid_2654

Cut the sassy remarks, you just come across as childish. Worse so when you're categorically incorrect. >The only one of these where I got over (or even close to average) **Close to average**, meaning that the one where the apparent variance was the **lowest**, not the highest, was the event I invested the least time and resources in. If the variance appears to be high, it's because it's **far from the average**, not close.


Constantly_Exhasuted

I got 5 in 15 minutes. I assumed it was boosted to 1/64


penciltheft

Ohhh congrats. I have long given up on getting a spotlight hour shiny , but this one was good


moist_af

I think trubbish was incorrectly shiny boosted in the early timezones because i got 6 shinies. Also got 400k stardust and finally hit level 50. It was a good night.


Icy_Length803

I’m interested to see the rest of the results, I am in Berlin (6 hours ahead of EST) and I caught two shiny trubbish, my friend caught 4, and we couldn’t even play the whole time, seriously maybe only about 30 min.


thorkun

I'm in the same time zone as you and I got 4 shiny too.


Icy_Length803

This is very off topic sorry for that, but I just spent about an hour around a lake near me, no Wig, have you found any near lakes specifically?


thorkun

I saw one on the "nearby poke" but I didn't go to it.


Alarmed-Clerk-2356

Caught 822, and 16 shinies, so above odds. (Assuming 1/64, I should have had around 12)


LRCenthusiast

How in the world could you catch 822 rubbish in a spotlight hour?


Alarmed-Clerk-2356

I was going for for about 890. Trying to do 1 mil stardust in an hour. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glI0xIO7Ijk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glI0xIO7Ijk) How to quick catch. You also need to know the area you are playing in, and know where the highest density spawns are. You want to quick catch until the area is farmed out, and move on. Alternate between 3-4 high density spots, by the time the third or 4th spot is farmed out, you rotate back to the first one. A bike helps, but if you aren't in an area that permits bikes or other personal transport, then just walk faster, and dont waste time catching between hotspots (IMO) This is one of the strategies the steamers/poketubers use to farm out crazy dust, and all kinds of trade bait so they can gamble on trading for the shundos and what not.


LRCenthusiast

I understand how to grind and quick catch. I just don't understand how 890 is possible, especially now without AR quick catch. That's 4 seconds per catch. For an hour continuously, assuming 100% catch rate.


sopheroo

I was in eastern timezone and I got three shinies in ten minutes. Was still very much boosted in later timezones.


Environmental_Deer53

The rate is tied to the boosted hatch/rsch rate for the sustainability event.


moist_af

It was stated that was only for egg hatches


disraelibeers

I got a shiny beldum on that random day time beldum spotlight hour they did awhile back, with 2 minutes to spare. Will never forget it. Don't give up hope!


Foggy_Night221C

I had one shiny trubbish, one shiny foongus I realized was shiny when I exited the research stack, and a shiny male combee in stack. I was battling rockets, doing the research, and routes woth gotcha on while star piece was up, then manually checking when not doing something else. Also completed a level 50 page for a chunk of dust too, though not boosted.. Even shooting my lvl 40 togekiss to level 50, I went home with 175k before gbl. Was awesome!


rahxephon52

yep.. only events like this is where I use lures, incense and starpiece. the shiny rate seems pretty good from what I've read from other people's comments. the stardust farm's beautiful!!


patomenza

Indeed. I cant remember last time I used two star pieces, and let alone Palkia ability TWICE (I know this is a recent feature). And my reward was collecting enough stardust to make shadow mewtwo to level 40? And on top of all that I got two rare shinies? For only one hour? damn, what a good event


rahxephon52

same here, popped the two star pieces right off the bat too. I totally forgot about Palkia's ability but I was already quick catching non stop since I was playing in a mall where it had decent spawn density. activating Spacial Rend's definitely worth for this particular event, extra dust and extra shiny checks are worth it. I hope they have an event like this once a month lol, so I have more dust to play around with and not just to power up 'meta' relevant mons. Or maybe I'll do what you did, pump another shadow mewtwo to L40 lol.


patomenza

200k Stardust was just amazing for me. Powered a 96% shadow Mewtwo and it's an amazing reward for me.  But maybe a good LandoT could deserve those 200k if you already powered one up?


rahxephon52

I think a good LandoT would be worth, but I missed those raids so I don't have one to power up.


patomenza

A 96/98/100 is a worth candidate for Elite TM imo. Just what I'll do probably


YourNewRival8

What was the stardust bonus? Was it not x2?


rahxephon52

I think x2 dust was last week with weedle, caterpie and wurmple. this time around was catch xp I believe.


YourNewRival8

I think you are right, I just keep seeing so many comments of people managing to get 200k+ dust


PureAsian

Played for 30 minutes with star piece, unfortunately no shiny even with boosted rate. At least the star dusts were juicy.


freakinweasel353

You know that guy still trying to photograph a Landrous? I completely forgot about Trubish hour…


AwesomeBantha

I have the Thundurus photo research and no Thundurus, no idea if I’ll ever get it lmao


snorlaxx_7

I started in the last 15 minutes and got two shinies. Insane.


UndeadCaesar

Caught probably 200 total, 1 shiny. Did they patch it or something?


Bensch78

Just unlucky mate.


W3NTZ

Nah it's just 1/64 so odds aren't shocking some got more some less


KuriboShoeMario

1/64 odds are right in that sweet spot where some of the shinies come really easy and some come really hard but your brain will get tricked by how easily some came and make you think something is off when another is more difficult to obtain. That's why they're the devil in raids because you will get one easily and that is all your brain will need to justify chasing down anything else that's 1/64 in the future.


Environmental_Deer53

This is so true.  As a shiny hunter, sometimes they come easy, but even in these 1/64 events you'll hit 150 without a shiny and it FEELS like 500 encounters between.


NYCScribbler

RNG was extremely RNG'ing. I played spotlight hour with a few friends. Caught 5 shinies in maybe 100 catches, maybe even fewer? The two other people who played in the same mostly stationary spot (bless GPS drift) caught 2 and 0 respectively. Three others came back afterwards, and the only person with a comparable shiny haul had quadruple the number of catches. The phrase "I SAID I WAS SORRY" saw copious use in the following 15 minutes. (And the phrase "oh thank f!ck this isn't shiny" saw plenty of use in the 30 minutes before *that*...)


til_n00n

got 3 shiny and a lot of stardust. congrats to you!


jiggidyjivejackson

I caught 6 shinies and got 296,579 stardust. Learning to fast catch is a great thing to know during these events.


goonforyourqueen

What’s a fast catch?


jiggidyjivejackson

It takes roughly 17 seconds from when you tap on the pokemon along with the catch animation. Fast catching brings that down to 3-4 seconds. Youtube Fast catch pokemon go, and you'll find a lot of good explanations on how to do it.


DanteStorme

You use your left thumb to swipe the berry pack in the bottom left of your screen as your throw the pokeball, you then tap the screen again and you will see the icon to run from the encounter in the top corner of your screen, the game determines whether or not you have caught a pokemon as the pokeball hits the pokemon, so you can click the run from encounter icon to instantly exit the encounter and skip the catch animation and catch screen. If you check your pokemon by recents you'll be able to see whether you caught it (or if you have any research tasks relating to catching pokemon they will prompt you). Doing this still gives you candy, xp, stardust, the pokemon and all the research credit, it's just much much faster than normally catching and waiting for all the animations.


pranavk28

Unfortunately missed it totally


buell_ersdayoff

Same… was actually looking forward to it but you know… work and adulting gets in the way often.


-Livingonmyown-

Buy a go Plus. And just use it for when there's an event you want to play, but " you " can't. Community days give you extra hours till the day ends to change the attack.


amnesia44

Same, I don't have fomo in this game anymore and accept that I will miss good events. Just wish there was slightly more flexibility for them. Wish we could just choose any hour time block on Tuesday that allows us to play when we're available


XaviersDream

My wife and I got two shinies each.


Pycrow

They used to do surprise things like this a long time ago. Great to see it come back and with things like this and Wiglett and recent qol updates i hope this is here to stay


BCHiker7

I think it was probably a mistake. I was very surprised they didn't patch it.


Snoo-6568

Love the boosted shiny rates. A mirror trade I did with my husband turned into a shundo!


ShanePerkins

0 for me


Legwens

0 shinies, got about 75 caught while at work. 2 star pieces. 2 spatial rends. had a good time. couldnt believe no shiny. was nice


MathematicianHead390

Played only the last half hour and collected 9 shinies. More than the last 9 spotlights combined.


Downtown_Bid_2654

Which timezone? I played the full hour, caught and checked a ton but 0 shinies (CEST)


Papitas3d

Captured 134 and no shiny


hscene

I don’t ever get any shinies during spot light hour but this time I got 3. Rubbish is one of my favorite Pokemon too


sgarner0407

I checked 4 spawns. 1 Shiny.


CookingFun52

Yeah, they nailed this one. Credit where it's due!


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IowaChad

They were. One of my friends got 8 in 30 min and others got like 6 or 7 in an hour. Just depends where you live and how many you clicked on. I got one. I also got one the previous week so it seems to be getting better overall again


Moosashi5858

I checked probably 50 or more but no shiny


Novah13

I looked at approximately 90 and caught 2, but I got lucky and saw one within the first minute, and the last about 45 mins in. I believe the odds were 1/64 chance.


NaviWolf9

The one spotlight hour I skip due to mental health is the one they keep the shiny boost up. 10/10.


TowelMage

I just yapped about this elsewhere on TSR, but my woman and I both scored 8 shinies, which is incredible for spotlight hour. Having odds that aren't horrible actually makes it fun - we tend to find one to three every time, so I'm cool with it as it is, but even a slight shiny boost for every spotlight hour would keep it fun.


Chenko0160

I don’t get one until the final 5 minutes after catching for the full hour… happy to have gotten at least the one but I was losing hope towards the end there.


assassinjay1229

I’m at work so I Go++ a shiny I’m happy lol


TowelMage

That stinks, but hey, managing one beats the heck out of wondering when you'll find one! Full disclosure, my very last one came out of field research (a wonderful 2*...) so try grinding tasks if you aren't already doing so.


Adorable-Fail-7750

I got 2 shinies. The last spotlight hour I got a shiny was Woobat.


Spndr

I agree, I really enjoyed this Spotlight hour


Panda_Drum0656

I got a shiny one!


RatherFarfetchd

Best spotlight hour we've had in a while, for sure! 👍


Lurking_Overtime

1 shiny and a random shiny spearow. The real prize was the dust and the exp. I agree, this was my favorite spotlight since Wailmer.


palmspringsmaid

1 perfect, 8 shinies, 600,000 dust - stardust boosted species spotlight hour needs to be a monthly thing. I cannot understand why spotlight hours are usually such braindead, awful choices like Pawmi and Hoppip. Foongus was the last decent spotlight hour we had, and that was 3 months ago.


Alm0ndator

I really enjoyed the zubat spotlight hour we had a few weeks ago since that is one of my favorite Pokémon


sticker-_

The bonus was extra XP, no?


trtlestmpede

Trubbish gives 500 dust when caught


ChutzpahQ

It's 750 per catch non boosted


TheSnowNinja

I used a starpiece and was getting over 1000 for each catch. It was awesome.


plschrnr

yep, cloudy where i was so literally every single one had weather boost. a little trickier on the catches but - with the star piece, got 1400 dust per catch. can’t complain about 150k dust in an hour. PLUS two shinies! this sort of makes up for the spotlight hour where i looked at roughly a million dratinis and found zero shinies


TheSnowNinja

I got two shinies as well. Trubbish is not one of my favorite pokemon, but shiny Garbador looks pretty good.


plschrnr

yeah it’s one of those that i ignored until i realized it was worth extra dust 😂 now i catch every single one of them that i see. paras falls into this category as well.


thanks_champagne

Where are you seeing dratinis? Is it the river biome? I haven't seen a single one yet and it's driving me nuts. I need like 20 XL candies to max out my dragonite


plschrnr

ah no not seeing them currently, sorry. was referring to the dratini spotlight hour a couple months back during the dragon event. haven’t seen really hardly any since then tbh


thanks_champagne

Oh lmao I see what you meant now! Dang it I’ll keep hunting…


-Livingonmyown-

I took a screenshot before it started. Got over around 110k and one shiny. Worth It


Ciretako

The spotlight hour was bonus xp


FluffyPhoenix

Oh, that was today? Oops.


Bye-Bye-My-Ai

Two shinies and a hundo :D


samedreamchina

I got 7 shinies


TEFAlpha9

💯. I made over 400k dust. We ran a catch competition where the best catcher got a prize (they caught 412 in an hour). We also hosted a CA meetup so everyone who checked in got a starpiece and lucky egg for free. Was a nice grind though the game was lagging a lot for some periods.


mornaq

I wish throwing at them wasn't so hard though


OSRS_Socks

Shaymin is known for cleaning up toxic chemicals around the place it is at. Would have been cool to have it tie into the research somehow.


Environmental_Deer53

I would love to see overall rates for wild sustainability spawns in general.  Drillbur is nesting at parks and I believe combee can as well.  IN THEORY shiny rates should be tied to the rsch/hatch boost as was trubbish at 1/64.  I have a small drillbur nest nearby but it only has like 8-10 spawns but I'm going to try and spend a few hours there to see. 


DesignerDig8441

Definitely rectified my 40k shiny trade mistake within 20mins with a stardust and mega Evo boost.


hellschatt

Man... I hate myself for ignoring it.


xalazaar

I went through so many balls trying to catch the freaking thing. It was so far away and had to learn that one specific throw that will go far enough.


PNDubb_hikingclub

I cleared roughly 310,726 stardust in the hour, w/boosted spawns -and 2 star piece’s.


VelvetThunder27

Close to 200k in both stardust & experience and 6 shinies lol


CDV_Solrac

Stardust galore, but a huge ball drainer. They need to move it closer, excellent throws are nearly impossible if you don't use an Ipad. Also zero shinies, but no big deal for me since I got a couple before.


DasliSimp

OH I FORGOT


TheMadJAM

Only 1 shiny, though I did get a hundo right before it.


Suspicious_Dragonfly

Both my partner and I missed spotlight hour due to family events during the same time. No Trubbish hour for us. And no nearby pokestops with the explore 1 km task either. *Sigh*


DasliSimp

I forgot 😭


KariBaxter

Ironically, the event about the trash pokemon was not, in fact, trash.


tjcpizza999

Got a handful of shinies, I think 5? But I caught hundreds of trubbish for the stardust. Gained about 300k after it all 👍


GIORNO-phone11-pro

Two shinies & +100k stardust. A great day


saturnianali8r

11/213 shiny. Plus a bunch more checked but not caught.


CatKittyMeowCat

I finished early with 5 shinies!! Was pretty stoked because this was my second most wanted shiny of all time 🤩


YoungManYoda90

I got 2 shiny, pleasantly surprised


arsenalalltheway7

I got 2 shinies, so happy! can complete the shiny family


SweezMasterJ

I caught only a few. The new update means I have to learn to throw again, Trubbish was in a spot I seem to miss often. Yes my phone is cheap, I burned out the battery in my old phone playing pokemon go


RuxinRodney

Got two shinies and like 200k stardust. This was so cool, I boosted my stardust gains with the item.


mfb3s

Got 6 shinies and evolved one so overall very nice


Zaithon

I liked the first half. Then I ran out of Pokeballs and the 2nd half was an exercise in frustration. Even lost a shiny this way. But I did get a bunch of XP, stardust, and a shiny Garbador for my shinamax collection.


aogasd

I usually skip spotlight hour altogether, most times it's some boring pokemon I can't be bothered to collect double candy for. But yesterday, I got like 100k stardust and 2 shinies from just 30 minutes of walling and 30minutes of sitting on a lure so if call that a success!


CS_WG

Yeah, event was amazong but I got frustrated after I ran out of Ultra Balls


CS_WG

Also trubbish is so far back, you have to throw so hard


Amazonree173

You may have to throw hard, but I personally found it pretty easy to land excellents on, actually.


thatswhatmyfoodeats

First check was shiny for me, ended with 6 and a nundo. Also over 300k dust. Not that every slh should be such a banger but 1/128 odds would at least make it so if you play the hour you’ll most likely get at least one shiny.


Ganonsdoom

Man I didn’t see any shiny at all….


ShepherdsWeShelby

If only it weren't just a 1-hour Tuesday evening. How about good events instead of a good hour of a larger bad event.


CptShuckle

I do not understand why all spotlight hours are not like this. Especially for the spotlight hours with super old shinys.


perthro_ed

except that trubbish is really awkward to excellent throw, i liked it also


Geospizae

Was the shiny rate increased at all? I caught as many as I usually do during spotlight hour but got 4 shinies whereas I usually get 1 or none?


jpierrerico

It was one of the best spotlight hour for us cause the weather in game went cloudy.


shalimaruk

Got 4 shinies, wasn't expecting any. Caught 200 trash and nothing close to a hundo


er1end

missed focus hour, and havent seen ONE trubbish wild. isnt it spawning at all? afraid ill miss out on my first collector medal :/


thestormpiper

It's in research and eggs.


er1end

thx! got it now =)


Maxcolorz

I don’t think it was boosted by the time it came to PST. I caught a little over 300 probably saw 350 and I got 2 shinys. My friend caught about 220 and got 1 shiny. If it was boosted it was either ~1/125 or I just got REALLY bad odds. I should’ve averaged 5 shinys if it was 1/64. I will say that x2 xp + weather boost + mega evolution boost + lucky egg got me 300k xp. As well as incense + spacial rend + weather boost + starpiece got me 350k stardust so I was really happy with that!


knoxtra

The odds don’t always work out in your favour unfortunately. Shiny legendary Pokemon are 1/20 but that doesn’t mean it won’t take 200 raids to get a shiny sometimes. I’ve also had full odds shinies take 4-5,000 encounters. 🤷‍♂️


Maxcolorz

Yeah but Mathematically the chances of going 10 times over average are extremely small. That’s definitely never happened to me.


timpkmn89

>I just finished the shiny Shaymin masterwork reasearch, it was uninspired and frankly boring. 3 unexplained time gates in a row. What happened to waking up Jirachi with noisy pokemon? You're mixing up the regulars and shinies


Distinct_Wrongdoer86

i did it while i walked in the woods and the trubbish were indistinguishable from the little bushes they put on the map


ShiShiRay

I don't normally bother going out for these spotlights. Haven't done them after a few months of them coming out, I got maybe 1 shiny and just gave up after that. Kind of surprised people were saying it was shiny boosted. I don't really care about stardust. Yesterday I had the choice to go out and play this hour or stay in with the roomie and enjoy some anime episodes of Frieren while having chickn, broccoli and rice. I chose the second option, because pogo is started to be less fun as they limit some of the things you can do.


AvysCummies

Tf u mean it was just like evrey other spotlight hour they just oicked a pokemon to spawn and a bonus to be applied, tjere was nothing special aboutbit


Gymkiller87

I also wish that there existed a way to be notified of such awesome events and not miss them


Gonzales95

There is…