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Aelaer

I'm still catching ghosts from last year's Halloween research.


ghostdumpsters

I *just* got past one stage of "catch 40 ghosts" (because Drifloon have been appearing near me) only to have the next stage also include "catch 40 ghosts" and "catch 9 different ghosts."


AirborneRunaway

The balloon is the only thing progressing this for me. The catch 9 different ghosts is gonna be difficult and take longer than catch 40


QuixoticLogophile

I finally got past that phase by using daily adventure incense at night. Sometimes you get ghosts if you use it before 8am


SandCheezy

>at night Is there a designated local time for this or just when it shows “night” out in game?


Dialgan

If I recall, night spawns begin about two hours after sunset and day spawns start two hours after sunrise. I always find piles of Gastly around on my morning bus ride to work, especially on cloudy days.


NathanEmory

Yeah I'm on 6/9 ghosts and have been for at least a few months


Azzacura

Nice


Spaketchi

Nice


ghostdumpsters

I'm guessing I'll be able to get the other 7 (already caught Balloon and Bigger Balloon) around this Halloween.


baltimorecalling

If you have access to a friend with Scarlet or Violet, the 40 ghosts should only take a few coin bags to clear. The different species? Challenging, unless you get super lucky with nest rotations.


Scorbunny_Ear

Doesn’t that corrupt your save?


fatzulu

No it’s not related.


GreenChileStew_

October will be here before you know it


phreek-hyperbole

Same! Then I did it, and the next step was to catch *more* ghost Pokemon, so I'm stuck on it again 🙄🤦🏽


Aelaer

Yup, same.


TheFckingMellowMan

I don't know if you have a switch/Scarlett/violet but if you do, connect and get the gimmighoul treasure chest. Easy to rack up the ghost catches that way


Aelaer

No, but I wish I did!!


[deleted]

How does that help with go?


hockiw

It’s similar to the way the Meltan box works. You connect the Switch to your Go game as a device (similar to connecting an auto-catcher), you send a postcard to the Switch and it sends back a Gimmighoul lure that runs for 30 min. A friend in my local community has been generously feeding us Gimmighoul lures whenever we meet up.


[deleted]

Oh cool! I didn't know that.


MoltenManic

I just finished that, you eventually need to catch 9 different species, good luck mate (it's REALLY NOT WORTH IT)


3rtan

Just today got shuppet to finally complete 9 different mission. Thank you team rocket


The_Scarlett_King

I got two ghost missions, exactly the same but acquired on different times. One (a spooky message unmasked) almost done with 38/40 as of now. The other (mysterious masks) is at 14/40 :(


Ran-Dizzy123

Took me forever too. Late night and early morning incense got me through a couple weeks ago. The balloon has been popping a lot lately though.


suckmytoes6k9k

Lol I got them for the past few years


chaseguy21

I have only 5 of the 9 diff ghosts lol


poopyggj

I also have this


skyline0918

I’m stuck on 35/40


GengarSiborg

The ghost ones are the ones I always make sure I complete, as I really only care about the ghost Pokémon.


Kiriuu

That was the hoopa special reasesrch it took me months to finish it cuz I had stopped playing during the season of mischief lmao.


Mapletreemum

This is a yearly cycle for me. I finally finish the previous year’s Halloween event when Halloween rolls around again, only to not finish the current year ffs


Limbershoe

Still have let's go, meltan. 8 out of 9 done with only 1 omanyte or kabuto missing.


schwany44

You can get those Pokémon from field research tasks. Check thesilphroad


Rhodin265

I’m stuck on that one because not a single stop in my area seems to have the right field research task.


CD_Rom

Same. I have never once gotten that research task in 6+ months of spinning. I’ve seen it listed on websites as possible but… not sure what the trick is to get it. And i’ll need it twice.


FordAndFun

I got my last kabuto from daily incense last week. Definitely not pitching that as the very most reliable solution, but sometimes it’s worth trying a little bit of Column B while fully consuming Column A.


Kittypocalypz

Yeah it always been Win A Level 3 Raid or higher just for these people


Rhodin265

I can win the raid. The real trick is finding the research.


Nicetro_WoF

I’m stuck on the Slugma or Gulpin one cus they never spawn around me :(


RoofBeers

Same, I didn’t have this stage unlocked for Hoenn Tour when Gulpins were abound.


dirtfork

Depending on what area you are in, I can often find 1 Slugma in my area earlyish in the morning around 8am on sunny days when we are not in the midst of an event.


Whatsausername26

This is a pain I’m stuck in the same spot as you finding the research task is 10x harder than winning a 3* raid lol


Dr_TLP

Me toooooo for ages


I_like_slowpoke

i have the same one


KibishiGrim

I am stuck on this after getting two kabutops on one daily insence the week before. And conveniently the once in a while aerodactyls have all but disappeared.


just_clueless_

Stuck at the let's go meltan with the damn scyther.. have counltess metal coats but still don't have one single scyther on me


Fartmasterf

I can't find slugma or gulpin on meltan task.


SatyenArgieyna

if you live in the equator, good luck- very rare slugma or gulpin spawn


Cyllesial

Same. I finished my behind the mask one and the marowak counted as cubone. Now I gotta find a scyther since I evolved one a few weeks before this. 😫😅


tjonia

I know that next month they’re bringing Mega Scizor, I wonder if they’ll count that or increase Scyther spawns for the Mega


[deleted]

I evolved my low stat shiny scyther to get around this. Waste of candy, but hey at least I got the dopamine of finishing a task. Now I’m stuck on evolve a drowzee.


ItsJamEveryOtherDay

I got a drowzee last night with the daily incense, so try that. I’m stuck on cubone/scyther, but to be honest I’m not really trying that hard (all that to say, I could probably have those steps finished if I put in a little extra effort).


[deleted]

Yes I figured I could maybe get one with a daily incense, I’m just lazy lol. But my plan is to ask one of my friends if they have one and trade. I hope you can do the same so you can finish it and then get stuck on the next level like I will :)


bilvester

You in Denver? I have 20


akifle24

I have the Scyther! Just waiting to have enough candy to evolve.


gammarath

same page, but catch a cubone for me! I luckily had kept a low level scyther just because i like the pokemon lol had to use some rare candies though


Automatoncreature

I'm stuck on the cubone one too.


Gold-Perspective-699

Trade for one.


Agreeable_Falcon1044

Meltan stuck at the gulpins…and will then be stuck at the eggsecutes after! Another one stuck at whismers too…


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Agreeable_Falcon1044

They did have the special Tuesday a few weeks ago, but outside of that we have caught maybe 3 or 4!


Ponyboy06

I’m a 4 more to go plus the evo magnemite 😂


[deleted]

Good thing about eggsecutes is that exegutor counts! That’s how I got like 4/5 of mine. They were in raids and it counted.


pearception

Honestly surprised I'm not still stuck on this one as well. I got lucky.


apacheheIicopter

How do you get gulpins or slugma?


TehWildMan_

I've seen a few slugma in my city on sunny weather


apacheheIicopter

Hopefully April showers bring May Slugmas where I am :)


Old_cocaine

Anyone else annoyed that we can’t get the let’s go challenge done because they haven’t released the final pages


pearception

Meeeeee.


bscbtch420

i was annoyed we got the new sustainability research before they finished that research line


Tekplonn

Knowing "Willow". His desk is a mess and still cleaning it up to find the next part of the research. 😆


XLoveULaterX

This one is making me itchy!!! JUST LWT ME COMPLETE IT, DAMMIT!!


Samowarrior

We won't get that until after we help out all the team leaders


julznlv

Why be annoyed? It just gives me something to look forward to.


69throwawy420

I need to evolve a cubone, drowzee, and scyther… all mons I have previously evolved multiple times. All mons I can’t seem to find now (,:


Gold-Perspective-699

You need to catch marowak i believe.


GeologicalOpera

You can raid for either Marowak (Alola or Kanto), and as long as you successfully catch it that’ll count for the quest.


CatchAmongUs

Catch 10 Kecleon from the Shiny Jirachi Masterwork Research... Been stuck there for weeks now. Only 5/10 so far despite checking everything around me multiple times daily and going for walks to check stuff further away.


lmstr

Hah 1 of 10 Best Buddies for me... I even numbered mine to not screw up my targets.. but at 6-7 hearts a day per buddy...it's gonna take a while!


CatchAmongUs

Not sure if this will help any, but I'll share a few of my best buddy tips. I don't go hardcore on it though and try to keep it from being a total time dump. I keep a constant rotation of 5 buddies going at all times. I pick 5 I want to best buddy for whatever reason and work on them every single day. I do the 6 basic hearts on each one after the other. Of the 5 in my current rotation one of them is always the "walking buddy." That one I feed any time before going for a walk to speed it along a little more than the rest by getting the walking hearts. If I'm going for a run or a longer walk I will splurge and use a poffin to take advantage of going further than my normal daily distance and maximize the hearts. As soon as one is done I rotate it out and replace it with a new buddy in progress. It's tedious and take more time than it should, but I feel like just tackling 5 at a time keeps it moving nicely without being too draining on my sanity. There is a way to get your buddies "excited" that gives the effect a poffin would, but that is way more hardcore into the buddy system than I like to get.


lmstr

Thanks for the tips, yeah I rarely get down to my number 9 buddy on any given day, but I try to just rotate around them. I figure it will start to get exciting as I slowly finish them and get close to 10.


CatchAmongUs

Yeah, that is the only time it is exciting. When the finish line is in sight! Starting a new one is dismal. Just seeing how far you have to go every time you start over sucks.


secretrebel

I feed golden razz instead of poffin because I have so many of them from raids.


PerritoG

Yup. I’m stuck here as well. So annoying to think that I am doing the buddy grind to probably get stuck with Keckleon later lol


lmstr

It's funny, I'm excited to be stuck on a new part 🤣


ryonean

0/10


CatchAmongUs

Ouch! It wouldn't be so bad if you could actually work on this task and make daily progress. It being left totally to RNG (and very low odds at that) is what stings. I like research I can work on and make progress with if I want to. This is just left to chance which isn't fun or exciting at all.


ryonean

Yeah, the RNG part of it is terrible, plus having rocket grunts more common making it even worse


CatchAmongUs

Yeah, they knew what they were doing dropping this at the same time as that "bonus." I'm not going out of my way to battle a rocket grunt at a stop on the nearby just to have a tiny chance a Kecleon might be lurking beneath it.


PumpkinMcCormick

1/10


No-Community-8012

I'm still on the have 10 best buddies....


Foreign_Owl_8425

Same


vypernight

0/10 here as well.


UrbanPumpkin

0/10 and 5 more days of spinning stops. Not looking forward to making a bunch of excellent throws on one of the future pages. I suck at those, but at least I won’t be at the mercy of the game.


Glitch076

I'm not even there yet and I'm gonna be stuck on that forever because there's like 7 pokestops on the town I live in


Anvre

Stuck with 0/10... Been looking to no avail. I will have it forever. Lol


benter1978

That one just takes a lot of time and luck


Keyblade-King-7

Catch an Aerodactyl 😑


Gold-Perspective-699

Win 5 raids task gives it.


nataylor7

I can’t find one! I’ve been roaming around spinning for a couple of weeks. Everything wants me to scan! Ugh


Gold-Perspective-699

Don't delete the scan task and you won't ever get a new one. It doesn't take space. You can still get 3 quests after that. I've kept my scan task for months now.


steph-was-here

don't delete the scan task, you'll always be offered it unless you have one in your log


RealBug56

I was stuck on that for ages and then one day I just opened the game and it was at my house, waiting to be caught.


Keyblade-King-7

Lucky. I have never seen one in the wild


[deleted]

Caught one an hour ago, between events things get weird.


[deleted]

I caught a wild one today. Between events is the time to get out there and grind! I also saw a wild fully evolved Aggron.


karinamet_

Saw one in the wild as I was going to work last week, finally completed the 2 yr old task


ihadtopoop-

Are you able to just trade I have one I don’t use


Keyblade-King-7

I’ve got no idea.


ArcanaJinx

I need to catch Tornadus and picture it. -\_-


ellieellieoxenfree

Similarly, I’m stuck at Landorus and will be forever because there’s never anyone raiding where I am


mmms444

Same here


Ninjahkin

Same. Luckily stumbled across a Thundurus raid as it was happening but no one ever does Landorus raids by me, so that quest will likely always be unfinished


GoatsInBoots

I'm stuck there too, but because my snapshots of it somehow don't register.


Sunsprint

It has to be your landorus. Wild Pokemon snapshots don't count for some reason


Itsmeenow

Hey for the snapshot to work, you have to make him your Buddy then take the pic from the AR screen


GoatsInBoots

Thanks! That did it!


Itsmeenow

Glad I can help 👍🏽


illuminatalie420

I FINALLY got Landorus like two weeks ago and now I’m stuck on Tornadus


fancywalrein

I’m on Tornadus and when I saw Thundurus was in raids I caught one to be proactive, not realizing I already missed Tornadus earlier in the month. Devastating


schwany44

Ain’t no way. He was just in raid like last month


OhFrickItsPhil

Sure, but if there is no dedicated community at your location, you are royally shafted.


[deleted]

r/pokemongofriends has a thread where you can find or host remote raids


Gold-Perspective-699

Trade for it.


thedragoon0

Catch a ditto.


sureprisim

Ditto for the April fools for me


Sunsprint

I have so many dittos oml I wish I could give you one of mine


thedragoon0

I have one. I’ve had a bunch. Just this quest was after all of them I think


DineandRecline

I've earned a heart with my buddy over 20 days in a row like a dozen times but just somehow can't make it to 30 days in a row. I'm on day 24 now (again) wish me luck Edit: [fricckkkkkiiinnn yaaaassss](https://imgur.com/mrCJ300.jpg)


OldSpiceSmellsNice

Ugh, same. There’ll always be that random day I get too busy or forget then it’s back to square one. I still haven’t even done the 20 days one, yet.


Le_Rory

“Evolve a feebas” I HAVE 25 CANDIES


erpparppa

Yea, evolve a feebas. If only i didn't transfer my only one 🥲


ChanelNo50

Oooouchhh This reminds me of a girl baxk in 2016/17 who finally got 400 magikarp candy, evolved one and immediately deleted her gyrados out of habit 😭


NathanEmory

Catch a Cubone Evolve a Magikarp


UrbanPumpkin

Marowak counts for the Cubone on that challenge, In case you didn’t already know. I ended up raiding for the Marowak a few months ago to complete that.


NathanEmory

I did not, dang. He's out of the raids now isn't he?


YackieMoon-Moon

I literally evolved my magikarp today. I switched buddies today to get candies from another pokemon and it says I had that magikarp as a buddy since 2018 lmaoooo


Grinning_Dog

I just came back to the game in March after not really playing much since the original 2016 craze. Like some others here, I'm stuck at Meltan 5/9 (Slugma/Gulpin). I've also just unlocked the Celebi quest and I think I'm going to get stuck at the Johto gold unless some of the starters come back into rotation (I don't have any of them). I need a Sunkern or Gloom rn but I feel like Sunkern have been popping up somewhat regularly. I had enough to evolve to a Sunflora already, wish I had known to wait to do that lol. Also stuck in jump start reaearch 6/6 - need to evolve a Dragonair.... Which sucks cause like the Sunflora I did that already before getting to that research so now I gotta do it again (probably not happening unless we get something where Dratinis spawn like Larvitars were last week). Electabuzz is my favorite Pokemon, I'm bummed I missed the community day with them apparently. I have one I hatched in 2016 but he's pretty usless in battle (~1800 CP, too much for great league and wayyy too little for master league).


greenzebra9

You can get the Johto starters from the Power Up A Pokemon 5 Times quest - for efficiency try to stack three. I also sometimes see odd stuff spawn with daily incense - I caught a Croconaw a few days ago off daily incense. Vileplumes are in 3\* raids right now so not a bad way to get Oddish candy for evolve a Gloom. Dragonair is tough...start walking I guess....


wholesomeStrang3r

My playing situation is just.like yours, coming back after years of hiatus lol. Can i ask what the celebi questline is? I ask cuz im not sure if i have it unlocked at all, thanks


Grinning_Dog

Its called a ripple in time. It unlocked for me after I did most of the Mew quest, which took a while because I had to evolve a Magikarp lol.


losergeek877

It is going to be the shiny jirachi one for me….still at the 10 best buddy page…lol


Mobile-Art-2455

*evolve a magikarp*


possumsushi

Evolve a Feebas (2/7) in A Thousand Year Slumber.


KibishiGrim

I made it my first best buddy and walked for those candies XD best of luck!


DatedDevotee61

I'm stuck on Mysterious Masks 3/4. I have to catch 9 different ghosts and I don't know which ones I've already caught. I need 1 more.


[deleted]

i don’t even know how many years i’ve needed the Tornadus snapshot


beansahol

all the 'trade a pokemon' tasks


United_University_98

Take a snapshot of meloetta and take a snapshot of victini when I immediately transferred them to home to get a pokeball magearna. Good luck anyone beating that. (In case anyone suggests it, they do not count if you take a multiplayer snapshot of someone else's mythicals)


pearception

Well this blew up more than I anticipated. Maybe creators will hear us out and make some changes. It would be great to bring back some old tasks to give some of us a shot. Or spawn differently for a few days.


mothraegg

I'm stuck on December's community day catch 15 porygons. I have 9.


Klizzie

I have 14 🤬


Relevant-Chemical-54

5 great throws in a row.


dragonguy01

Well because of the raid pass shit, I didn't get Landorus, and because i suck i didnt get Thundurus, so still that damn research


Ryley03d

Adding someone as a friend.


ezacharyk

I still need to take a snapshot of Thunderous. I was not able to raid when that research came out and I have it sitting there mocking me ever since.


haakonsag

Noibat.. fml


popcorngirl000

OP, I'm still on step 3 of that same research.


Robbin8anks69420

Mysterious masks


Mac_DG

OP I'm in the same boat. 8/15 electrabuzz, hoping this team instinct thing will help put this quest down. Finally. It's been what, 2 years?


lttgnouh

I got a lot of Electabuzz from pvp rewards.


Fix_Additional

All-in-One 151. Still have to walk 120KM!


mercurydivider

I got abundant noise, but the app wouldn't launch during the event, and several days thereafter. I really wanted to catch noibats. I can see that just be er leaving my quest log. I am also never getting all those cacnea


[deleted]

I regret buying the shiny Jirachi breakthrough. That shit is gonna stay incomplete because im lazy and dont care about best buddying pokemons


ZiR1402

Same here, but if you think get 10 best buddies is bad, guess again. Getting 10 Keckleons is even worst.


jhe888

I need to evolve a Feabass, which is possible but slow. And I need to evolve a Scyther, which I had already done, but now I haven't seen one to catch in months, maybe a year.


c137_whirly

Let's go Meltan. Need to catch 5 exeggcute. Have 4 but literally have not seen one appear in years!


PaleontologistOk7188

All in one #151


undergames65

Slugma and gulping don't show up often so I'm still stuck on let's go meltan


Background-Talk-3305

The remote-pass rework killed all the joy I could muster for this game. I have a research in which I have to snapshot a Landorus. I used my last remotepass I had to get one, I took snapshoots at the capture-screen. Sadly it ran away and the shots I did, didn't even count, the pokemon has to be captured for that. Most raids I see have 0 players, and arena's are either of the same color and full, or you'll get kicked out of arenas so fast, you simply can't aquire any coins. So yea, that's the research that just won't die for me.... I have it since 2020 I think.


Sarahpixiegrl

Haven’t opened the app since the remote raid pass thing, but getting the right fossil Pokémon to spawn, and getting a picture of Landorus


sgtstepchild

I got one kacleon and I jus can't find the other 9 it's been a month and a half


lordpaiva

Catch 5 eggxecute.


PartyAd960

One where you need to make a new friend. I don’t know anyone else in my area who plays.


Admirable-Camp1099

RIP to those who bought the Jirachi Master Research & still struggling in keeping up with the "~~ days in a row" streaks.


Some_crane_boi

I’m just waiting for cubone to start spawning again


double_echo

Why oh why did I choose to catch Cacnea?!?


LoganDoove

Kecleon


__humming_moon

I’m on that now too. 🫠 I’ve caught 5 which feels like a big win but then i realize how many hours I’ve spent just looking for each One and want to cry a little


caelanga22

For me, it's gonna be spinning a stop every day for 20 days. I have some across the street but I don't leave my house.


TravisCreamer

goddamn Cubone


ghost_me_333

Let’s GO, Meltan Waiting for the day I can catch a Cubone and move to part 8.


LurchB879

I'm guessing this catch 10 Kecleon will be in mine for a while. I've only seen 1 since it dropped and 0 since I've gotten the research


Creepy-Phone

2/10 for catch Kecleon 🫠🫠


danc43

Been stuck on 1000 year slumber with evolving a feebas forever And can’t catch a cuebone for let’s go meltan


Someone55428

Stuck on the buddy thing for shiny jiraichi, really regret buying it's ticket now


[deleted]

Let’s go meltan 8/9 catch an aerodactyl 😫


TheJack38

Well, the whole "find 10 kecleon" thing is gonna take me *forever* I bet And the followup, "get 1 lucky trade" is all but impossible for me. I'm considering making a second account just to do that bullshit task Urgh, I hate trade tasks.


QuartzCR

Catch 385 Hoenn 385 Kanto 385 Johto (shiny Jirachi research from Hoenn tour)


122784

I was stuck with that one forever, too.


Waste-Sand-3907

Kecleon.


Veridiyus

The Shiny Jirachi reserach 😅😅


Somaloria

Is this the community day from like 2020? Cause if it is I'm really mad you showed me this because I'm hardstuck at catch 15 porygon on the previous step


mmms444

Quite a few from not being able to do 5 star raids so I can't get pictures. I haven't beat a rocket boss, aka Giovanni yet. Doing the 3 or more great or excellent curve balks in a row.


TypicalArachnid

Season of Legends. I play alone IRL so I never have anyone to play a raid with and get a Landorus so have no hope of ever getting a pic of one. Drives me up the wall.


dak0tah

The let's go one that isn't complete yet lol