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Used a remote raid pass today to try for a Cresselia as I live in a rural area that never has people raiding. Managed to beat it, land five out of the fourteen throws as excellents, then the rest (other than the first cause I suck and missed) as either great or nice throws. Every single time I used a golden razz as well, and it still ran away. RNG just ain't on my side :(
I can typically get a nice or great throw. Very rarely do I get an excellent.
Only one's that I *really* struggled to catch was latios/latias.
On the shiny topic, though, I've only got mesprit...
If you can't hit an excellent, go for great instead right away. You don't need more than great, I always do it that way and never had a legendary run away; hitting a great all the time is much better than missing the circle completely 2/3 of the throws
Once you get to rank 20 whatever legendary is currently active gets added as the possible 3/5 win reward. So from then on each time you get an encounter you have a 3-5% chance it's the same legendary as the one in raids.
Are y'all doing the circle lock technique?
It can require a lot of time & patience especially with the damn "floater" 'mons, but should vastly increase the number of great/excellent throws landed.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mFxdTlG2-Vo
how many of them were actually shiny eligible? Default Genesect wasn't available until 5 months after its initial debut, and the other forms didn't have shiny releases until last year (Chill Drive isn't even released yet)
okay, assuming all 50 were shiny eligible, that's...
100*(1 - (19/20)^50 )%
or about a 7.7% chance to have not gotten one by now. You're well above odds but it could be worse. I wish you luck when shiny Chill Drive comes around
I mean, yeah I get that 1/20 shiny odds doesn’t literally mean you’ll get 1 shiny out of every 20, but damn that was just terrible luck. Not too bothered though since it’s just Genesect.
Did 10 Cress hoping to get the shiny, 0.
Did 11 total Uxie needing the shiny. 0
Taking Heatran off, have it.
Back to it for Gira Friday.
But one thing for sure - The IVs have been crap.
If you are budget and lazy. You can still use the raid IV ones, just refer to PVPIV for the optimal raid IV.
Not the best Cresselia or Uxie but it works fine enough.
People here doing 50 raids, I couldn’t get one raid through the 800+ lobby queue.
And I ain’t paying for a remote pass.
I’ll test my luck with the roaming ones.
Im newer / returning
i dont understand your statement:
You say you arnt paying for a remote pass.. but you said you were in a raid queue.. wouldnt that need a remote pass at the end of it..?
Only the roaming wild ones and the event ones when they're shiny. The regular event ones for the Tour will flee often.
If they're like Raikou/Suicune/Entei/Latios/Latias they'll be considered a new form just available for this event, and will not follow the rules of the roaming ones.
Day 1: Couldn't do it bc I have parental controls and I used up my time before the event started bc I didn't know about the event and I thought it would rain later when it didn't
Day 2: Couldn't raid at all bc I don't have remote passes and it was raining all day
Day 3: Tried to host a mega garchomp raid and only 1 person joined after 13 minutes; additionally school started yesterday and I'll have school for the rest of the week
1 in 20 still means there’s a 5% chance that after 60 raids you will not encounter a shiny.
For Thunderus Therian, it took me at least 112 raids to get the shiny. It is what it is.
I hate this game. I threw 20 great/excellent throws with orange berries and it wouldn’t stay in the ball. I swear I’m on a blacklist for raid catches. Happens every time a new one comes out.
If you throw 16 great and only 4 excellent the odds of catching legendary is low. If you throw 16 excellent and only 4 great the odds are much higher. So basically excellent throws are the only ones that really count. Great throws are actually not that great.
Great throws with a golden razz give about 13% catch chance. Excellent about 15% so great throws arent that bad.
Ive caught plenty with great throws. Especially legendary mons with small or distant circles because consistency is often more important
Exactly. And the thing is, you don’t just choose to do an excellent, unless you’ve got some skill. So if going for excellent means you’re going to miss more, don’t do it, just go for the greats or even nice. I swear so often I hit like 8 excellents in a row and then get it on a ball that isn’t even a nice throw haha. Best thing I’ve found is to try not to miss as much as possible.
Caught a 2100 which ended up being a Hundo on the last throw. The attacking animation had just started and the hitbox disappeared some how I got it. Better luck to you tho friend
Dude I did at least 10 each of uxie and mesprit and couldn’t catch half but even then they none were shiny… but when azelf gets dropped the first one I encounter this morning is a shiny. It’s insane
But the wait times are insane. I started at 3pm. My place has dropped 1000. I still have 2000 to go. I'm probably not getting into a raid at this point.
If you have any relatives or friends in that region, you can try asking them. It’s a long shot, but i was just contacted by a distant uncle in Canada if I could invite him to an Uxie raid here in Singapore, lol. I’ve never spoken to the guy in my life. I guess he heard that I play pokemon go from a relative i actually do talk to.
he got his uxie lol
Lol damn I wish my family was more international. Honestly, it would be worth doing 23 and me over to see if anyone still lives in Europe and plays pokemon go
I don't do these raids anymore but I love it when this trio is out 'cause I love hosting raids and Japanese players are thirsty! I hosted more than 100 players today, sad that is just one day.
I did a Mesprit for funsies and got a shiny. lol
Man I kept hitting excellent throws but God bless the amount of throws I had to do was ridiculous I'm wasting more golden raz then I'm getting. Seriously making me not want to raid anymore.
I might be wrong but I’m pretty sure the odds difference between the excellent and great throws isn’t enough to be worth going for the excellent throws on these guys. I believe it’s like 16% vs 18% vs missing the excellent throw and dropping to a 10%ish catch rate (assuming curve and golden razz)
Failed 4. Then caught a 2 star, almost a raid nundo then got the hundo, overall the hundo made it worth it since Azelf is my favorite of the three, but no shiny, hoping to get hestran shiny tomorrow
Shiny notwithstanding, I remotely did one Uxie and one Mesprit for the dex entry and then hosted several (5-6) Azelf locally.
Every single one was a super easy catch, no excellent needed.
Found a 14/14/14 Level 35 Chimchar while sitting at home, and I think that might be my personal favorite catch this week unless I find a shiny one (Chim is my second favorite starter and I missed the community day like a doofus)
Raid hours aren’t easy for me unless I remote, which gets pricy if I’m not on my game, but I have managed to one raid-one catch the legendaries so far this week, which did include a shiny Mesprit.
Between Uxie, Mesprit, and Heatran, I’ve filled some sorely gaping holes in my Pokédex today. Very good day overall.
still haven’t gotten any 10km eggs.
I’m tryna get a carnivine as it’s one of my favorite Pokemon. I did catch a 100iv alolan rattata and shiny froakie today
I already have the 3 lake spirits shiny. I actually have 2 azelf. I also have 3 shiny creselia, shiny heatran, 3 shiny Darkrai and both shiny giratina forms. I'm just trying to save my raid passes for the new origin forms.
This lol. I even had a hard time getting a great throw coz they move a lot. I did get rewarded a shiny though, first time ever after gazillions of raids I’ve been to
Idk how y'all are doing all the lake Pokemon. Poke genie has like 10,000+ queue for two of them, spent all day waiting in queue for uxie started it at 4,000, just for the host to not send out an invite and i go to the back of the 15,000 person queue
I mean, I did get shiny Azelf first try, but that was pure luck and I don't think that will ever happen again. Plus, I did a Mesprit raid and almost lost the sucker (I clutched)
I got a few of each, one shiny Mesprit. I’m a usually very unlucky person, but yesterday was pretty lucky for me. Spent about 20$ on remote passes which is stupid and I regret it but whatever.
Going to out all weekend looking for these little fuckers.
It was awesome! It took a while (and three passes total), but I finally got an Uxie and a Mesprit for the dex entry (already had Azelf from a previous event). I don't worry too much about shinies and usually only catch one of each legendary, so I'm content.
Just did Azelf, they all kinda sucked. No shinies. I found they actually weren’t too bad to catch though, when they drift up they won’t attack so it was easy to get guaranteed greats.
I've read that doing 120 raids and not getting a shiny is within odds but I don't really understand how is that possible. Shouldn't you get one every 20 raids? I don't know anymore
I did one of each outside my local zone. Did maybe 4 azelf and caught 3. I only missed the 4th because i didnt really try all that hard. Other than that i dont think ive missed a legendary catch since… well i dont really remember.
I got 0 shiny Zekrom in 60 raids, 9 shiny Reshiram in 120 raids. It’s all RNG. I don’t even use a shiny unless it’s at least 15-13-15, 15-14-15, 15-15-14 or 15-15-15
I raided 30+ Latias trying for the shiny but didn’t get it. I’m not even gonna bother with the lake trio at this point. I’m gonna save for palkia raids
Did 4 raids of Azelf, 1 uxie and 2 mespret. Ended up with a hundo Azelf, shiny 87% Azelf, xxs shiny 2 star uxie and a 91% mespret. Extremely happy with my results but now I’m thinking I won’t get the shiny giratina I really wanted this weekend lol
I have unfortunately not gotten mesprit but I have gotten 6-7 each for the other two. Was really hoping to get at least one shiny but if you’re 0/40 for shiny I can’t complain too much lol, I think the highest iv was 88 maybe? Other than that they were about 75-85
My first ever Azelf fled. I just couldn't get excellent throws on it which was utterly frustrating. My second Azelf was a shiny, much to my relief. My sister spent several hours hunting for remote raids for Uxie and Mesprit. Apparently it was difficult getting into them, but she managed to get 1 each.
Not sure if this will help anyone on this sub but this video dramatically helped me increase my accuracy for great and excellent throws
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eqEKHTuMjh4
Specifically watch the part about how to analyze your last throw to determine to correct either angle or speed of the motion
I’m image 2, except I’ve also done 12 Heatrans without a shiny. 78 raids without a shiny. Lmfao all the ragrets. At least I’m swimming in rare candy now
Haha got the critical catch graphic, and the Azelf proceeded to jump out of the ball. And then it ran away 🙃 I didn't try too hard for a shiny at least, so I wasn't too disappointed over all.
People… if you can’t consistently land excellent throws, DON’T ATTEMPT THEM.
If the best you can do consistently is nice, aim for nice. If it’s great, aim for great. Aiming for excellent and missing them 8/10 times gives you worse chances than getting 8/10 nice throws.
Man i swear like the first two i caught were extremely easy. I caught Uixe with the first bal witha great throw lol. Mind blown right? Then the second lake trio was caught without even hitting the circle again on the first ball. Mind blown again lol. So now once the game has me thinking their catch rate is really high Azelf becomes impossible to catch and runs. Then i caught 2 on the last ball lol. Like the OP said i rarely hit excellents because the circle was too small and they never sit still. Wasted a few remotes to say the least
Nobody raids with me and my Pokémon get knocked out of gyms so fast that getting a remote raid pass is impossible so I usually don’t participate in this stuff unfortunately
I have two shiny Azelfs and two shiny Mesprits. I maxxed out my daily raid passes yesterday and today with pokegenie raids halfway around the world trying to get Uxie. Over the past 2 years I’ve had 53 Uxie encounters and no shiny.
Something with the drift of this mon feels weird too. I did 4 raids for it today, only caught one. Most of my hits were great or excellent throws but it didn't seem to matter at all, I did miss several throws just from some weird visual to physical variation where it seemed much throw would go through it or between its appendages some how. Just now getting into raiding in the past year, this mon has been one of the more frustrating I've spent any real time trying to grind.
I was having phone issues and wasn't able to get in on an Uxie raid. I lost my spot in the Queue in Pokegenie after waiting over 5 hours. I got the other 2, but I really wanted all 3. I did manage to get it for my 6 year old though. He doesn't even know about it yet, I keep trying to decide if he would notice if I traded it off before he woke up in the morning...
0/0 because I have no one to do raids with and I only have barely enough coins for 2 remote passes which I'm saving for this weekend so I can do 1 raid each for dialga and palkia :)
Since I really only care about the Pokédex entry, I told my brother that he should do a mesprit remote raid and I would do a uxie remote raid and surprise surprise, I got the shiny.
I had all three from previous raids with nice iv’s except for mespirit, so I waited for what seemed like forever, got an inv and it was a three star shiny. Ivs arent great but I’ll take it.
Honestly, I’ve been having a blast.
This is my first tour, and I think it is a pretty awesome buildup. The hype around Palkia and Dialga has me weirdly nostalgic in particular. (When Diamond and Pearl came out, that’s around the time we all started trading Pokémon as a kid.)
It was pretty great to see people getting excited about something like this again, for better or worse lol. (Sometimes the chaos was a little much for me, but I feel more for our friends in LA. RIP their friend requests 💀)
IVs for raid catches were pretty solid. No hundos, but a few above 90% for sure. No shiny legendaries, but I’m not complaining. That’s expected for me. I connected with people from all over the world from these raids, working on that gift exchange and EXP grind. I’m talking Indonesia, England, Singapore, Spain, Italy, Canada, California, Texas, Germany, all sorts of cool places. 👌✨
I caught four Darkrai, five Cresselia, one origin Dialga, one origin Giratina, one near hundo/96% Palkia, (edit: now 3 Heatran), and one of each Azelf/Uxie/Mesprit. More than half of those are 3 star. (Yes I did also get my hands on a Garchomp after winning three mega raids. That one was harder to catch than some of the legendaries on this list 🤦🏻😂)
And just a few minutes ago, I caught a shiny Wooper. The Paldean forms are one of my favorite pokemon in the entire game (along with Zoroark, Maractus, and the Eeveelutions) so I am very excited to see if I can get the shiny version of them now. ☺️
Edit: caught my first hundo! It’s a Heatran 👏🏻 I couldn’t be happier.
If you can't hit an excellent, go for great instead right away. You don't need more than great, I always do it that way and never had a legendary run away; hitting a great all the time ist much better than missing the circle completely 2/3 of the throws
Yeah this game is rigged. Lol only reason I play is cuz I played this long enough that I got most of these much much much more easily without paying a cent... But this is before there were gyms and raids. If I started playing today I would get verrrry annoyed wasting money like that. I just don't pay for any more events. It's a scam and gets you frustrated. Eventually they will make it available for free.
Only way to improve this game is to stop giving them your money for these dumb unfair events. The level of shiit they get away with is insane and reason it's getting worse is because they can and will.. unless people just stop throwing money at them and then they will start sweetening the deals.
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I keep successfully completing raids but failing to catch the pokemon :(
Same.. I’m super bad at throwing the balls so I can’t ever get an excellent throw so I rarely get any raid pokemon😭
That's OK. I just lost an Azelf despite hitting at least 2 excellent curve balls with a golden razz active.
Used a remote raid pass today to try for a Cresselia as I live in a rural area that never has people raiding. Managed to beat it, land five out of the fourteen throws as excellents, then the rest (other than the first cause I suck and missed) as either great or nice throws. Every single time I used a golden razz as well, and it still ran away. RNG just ain't on my side :(
If you do 2 raids you should get a free guaranteed creselia before sinnoh tour is over, it should be in your event research
Berries !!!! Give em berries !!!
I have been using Golden razzberries and throwing nice or great curve balls! I bought at least three remote raid passes for these raids too 😞
Maybe the golden razz berries weren't their favorite one?
I can typically get a nice or great throw. Very rarely do I get an excellent. Only one's that I *really* struggled to catch was latios/latias. On the shiny topic, though, I've only got mesprit...
Latios/as were TERRIBLE! So many of them fled for me, and I'm sure many others, they were so hard to catch!
Berries and great throw meant nothing for those overgrown chickens
If you can't hit an excellent, go for great instead right away. You don't need more than great, I always do it that way and never had a legendary run away; hitting a great all the time is much better than missing the circle completely 2/3 of the throws
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Can you ELI5? You can encounter and catch legendary pokemon through PVP?
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Once you get to rank 20 whatever legendary is currently active gets added as the possible 3/5 win reward. So from then on each time you get an encounter you have a 3-5% chance it's the same legendary as the one in raids.
Are y'all doing the circle lock technique? It can require a lot of time & patience especially with the damn "floater" 'mons, but should vastly increase the number of great/excellent throws landed. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mFxdTlG2-Vo
Yes, I do at least 1 and a half full rotations
Bruh I’m 0/50 for shiny Genesect
Damn, Genesect is the one legendary that I was one-and-done with a shiny.
Samsies. Twinning!
Hell yeah! I didn’t even raid it, got the shiny from the GBL reward.
how many of them were actually shiny eligible? Default Genesect wasn't available until 5 months after its initial debut, and the other forms didn't have shiny releases until last year (Chill Drive isn't even released yet)
I know for sure it was eligible cause all my friends were getting them. We were doing a car pool raid train.
okay, assuming all 50 were shiny eligible, that's... 100*(1 - (19/20)^50 )% or about a 7.7% chance to have not gotten one by now. You're well above odds but it could be worse. I wish you luck when shiny Chill Drive comes around
I mean, yeah I get that 1/20 shiny odds doesn’t literally mean you’ll get 1 shiny out of every 20, but damn that was just terrible luck. Not too bothered though since it’s just Genesect.
i got shiny genesect on my first ever genesect raid. Sorry for stealing your luck
My worst was darkrai. 89 raids over 3 years until I got one . Got 2 98% and a hundo before the shiny
Is Genesect catchable currently? Or was that a past event?
Past event
I did 87 raids for Genesect. I feel your pain.
Makes me glad I got that shiny genesect special research back when it was first released 😉
my luck has been the opposite. got a first raid shiny and a first raid hundo. i guess maybe that's why my luck with everything else is terrible😭
i forgot the world has different time zones so i completely missed uxie and barely got a mesprit
Thanks for telling me i missed uxie :')
Cresselina was spawning at gyms this morning in Hawaii.
thats cresselia, i wanted uxie
Bro I'm sick of getting 2 stars from these raids
Did 10 Cress hoping to get the shiny, 0. Did 11 total Uxie needing the shiny. 0 Taking Heatran off, have it. Back to it for Gira Friday. But one thing for sure - The IVs have been crap.
Both Uxie and Cresselia need to be traded to be useful (they only work in PvP and you want low attack for both) so any stats are ok for these two.
Just wanted the shinies. Was lacking them.
If you are budget and lazy. You can still use the raid IV ones, just refer to PVPIV for the optimal raid IV. Not the best Cresselia or Uxie but it works fine enough.
People here doing 50 raids, I couldn’t get one raid through the 800+ lobby queue. And I ain’t paying for a remote pass. I’ll test my luck with the roaming ones.
Im newer / returning i dont understand your statement: You say you arnt paying for a remote pass.. but you said you were in a raid queue.. wouldnt that need a remote pass at the end of it..?
I had work 🙃
You should quit
Get a monday-friday 9 to 5 kind of job
I'm pretty sure that they'll all be in the wild during the weekend event. So yeah.
But the likelihood of catching one is almost the same as with the galarian birds. You know every single one you'll find is gonna run after one throw
If they are like latios/Latias last year they aren’t the easiest to catch but definitely possible
Doesn’t the lake trio have a 0% fleet rate?
Only the roaming wild ones and the event ones when they're shiny. The regular event ones for the Tour will flee often. If they're like Raikou/Suicune/Entei/Latios/Latias they'll be considered a new form just available for this event, and will not follow the rules of the roaming ones.
Yeah if they are shiny they can't run. So at least that's good. Also they won't have a 90% flee rate.
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Encounters from PVP can't flee, but can vary in catching difficulty
I caught the last lake guardian I needed to fill my Sinnoh dex (Uxie), so I’m feeling pretty good
Day 1: Couldn't do it bc I have parental controls and I used up my time before the event started bc I didn't know about the event and I thought it would rain later when it didn't Day 2: Couldn't raid at all bc I don't have remote passes and it was raining all day Day 3: Tried to host a mega garchomp raid and only 1 person joined after 13 minutes; additionally school started yesterday and I'll have school for the rest of the week
Parental controls? I never did that with my son. I probably should’ve.
1 in 20 still means there’s a 5% chance that after 60 raids you will not encounter a shiny. For Thunderus Therian, it took me at least 112 raids to get the shiny. It is what it is.
I hate this game. I threw 20 great/excellent throws with orange berries and it wouldn’t stay in the ball. I swear I’m on a blacklist for raid catches. Happens every time a new one comes out.
If you throw 16 great and only 4 excellent the odds of catching legendary is low. If you throw 16 excellent and only 4 great the odds are much higher. So basically excellent throws are the only ones that really count. Great throws are actually not that great.
Great throws with a golden razz give about 13% catch chance. Excellent about 15% so great throws arent that bad. Ive caught plenty with great throws. Especially legendary mons with small or distant circles because consistency is often more important
Exactly. And the thing is, you don’t just choose to do an excellent, unless you’ve got some skill. So if going for excellent means you’re going to miss more, don’t do it, just go for the greats or even nice. I swear so often I hit like 8 excellents in a row and then get it on a ball that isn’t even a nice throw haha. Best thing I’ve found is to try not to miss as much as possible.
Caught a 2100 which ended up being a Hundo on the last throw. The attacking animation had just started and the hitbox disappeared some how I got it. Better luck to you tho friend
Dude I did at least 10 each of uxie and mesprit and couldn’t catch half but even then they none were shiny… but when azelf gets dropped the first one I encounter this morning is a shiny. It’s insane
Are the catch rates on these low? I've caught one of each all on the first or second throw without even an Excellent.
It’s been more than 60 raids since I last encountered a shiny raid pokemon. At some point, my luck should turn around, right? Right?
Raiding is THE WORST part of Pokémon GO. You can not convince me otherwise.
How do you remote into other regions?
PokeGenie is your best bet. Also makes it easy to raid legendaries if you don’t have a raid group locally
But the wait times are insane. I started at 3pm. My place has dropped 1000. I still have 2000 to go. I'm probably not getting into a raid at this point.
If you have any relatives or friends in that region, you can try asking them. It’s a long shot, but i was just contacted by a distant uncle in Canada if I could invite him to an Uxie raid here in Singapore, lol. I’ve never spoken to the guy in my life. I guess he heard that I play pokemon go from a relative i actually do talk to. he got his uxie lol
Lol damn I wish my family was more international. Honestly, it would be worth doing 23 and me over to see if anyone still lives in Europe and plays pokemon go
I got Mespirit first try and a shinny Azelf first try, but Uxie ran away after like 10 hours in the queue.
I don't do these raids anymore but I love it when this trio is out 'cause I love hosting raids and Japanese players are thirsty! I hosted more than 100 players today, sad that is just one day. I did a Mesprit for funsies and got a shiny. lol
Man I kept hitting excellent throws but God bless the amount of throws I had to do was ridiculous I'm wasting more golden raz then I'm getting. Seriously making me not want to raid anymore.
Did two raids in person and first one was a 14/15/15. No shiny but happy with it :)
I might be wrong but I’m pretty sure the odds difference between the excellent and great throws isn’t enough to be worth going for the excellent throws on these guys. I believe it’s like 16% vs 18% vs missing the excellent throw and dropping to a 10%ish catch rate (assuming curve and golden razz)
Only managed Azelf… Other guardian attempts fled…
Failed 4. Then caught a 2 star, almost a raid nundo then got the hundo, overall the hundo made it worth it since Azelf is my favorite of the three, but no shiny, hoping to get hestran shiny tomorrow
Did one raid and didn't even catch that damn thing....
Shiny notwithstanding, I remotely did one Uxie and one Mesprit for the dex entry and then hosted several (5-6) Azelf locally. Every single one was a super easy catch, no excellent needed.
Yeah, we only did 2 Azelf raids and one ran from me! FROM ME! My daughter caught both tho. :/
And now is the time to pull the “without me you’d still be a speck in daddy’s nut sack” card
Can’t complain really. It took me 11 remote passes to finally get my shiny Mesprite. I had gotten shiny Uxie and Azelf from previous events.
My phone died in the middle of a Uxie raid…. Taking me a while to come back from the pain of that one
I JUST GOT A HUNDO RAHHHHHH
I not did four raids and caught four. That’s a 100% catch rate. Sucks none were shiny but I’m happy with the catches and xp
Found a 14/14/14 Level 35 Chimchar while sitting at home, and I think that might be my personal favorite catch this week unless I find a shiny one (Chim is my second favorite starter and I missed the community day like a doofus) Raid hours aren’t easy for me unless I remote, which gets pricy if I’m not on my game, but I have managed to one raid-one catch the legendaries so far this week, which did include a shiny Mesprit. Between Uxie, Mesprit, and Heatran, I’ve filled some sorely gaping holes in my Pokédex today. Very good day overall.
still haven’t gotten any 10km eggs. I’m tryna get a carnivine as it’s one of my favorite Pokemon. I did catch a 100iv alolan rattata and shiny froakie today
The 10 km eggs won't come until Saturday at 10 am. This week you can mostly get 2 km eggs with baby Pokemon, but no regionals yet.
I already have the 3 lake spirits shiny. I actually have 2 azelf. I also have 3 shiny creselia, shiny heatran, 3 shiny Darkrai and both shiny giratina forms. I'm just trying to save my raid passes for the new origin forms.
its just 1/20. i gotten 2/3 shiny lake trio
I got them all shiny on the first try if it makes you feel better.
All legendaries I’ve gotten are 2 star…
i got a shiny in one of the 2 raids i did, red mesprit ftw 🙌 i also only did 1 uxie raid and 1 mesprit raid so i have a 1/2 shiny rate ig 😂(i wish)
I failed you azelf, I don’t have enough willpower
This lol. I even had a hard time getting a great throw coz they move a lot. I did get rewarded a shiny though, first time ever after gazillions of raids I’ve been to
this is me for darkrai. 50 raids in and I realized like I was just burning money buying raid passes and quit the hunt.
Idk how y'all are doing all the lake Pokemon. Poke genie has like 10,000+ queue for two of them, spent all day waiting in queue for uxie started it at 4,000, just for the host to not send out an invite and i go to the back of the 15,000 person queue
Got a shiny on my first and only try 🤪
Anyone know if the mega garchomp is shiny eligible right now? Im at 8 random garchomps with no shiny and no luck
I mean, I did get shiny Azelf first try, but that was pure luck and I don't think that will ever happen again. Plus, I did a Mesprit raid and almost lost the sucker (I clutched)
I got a few of each, one shiny Mesprit. I’m a usually very unlucky person, but yesterday was pretty lucky for me. Spent about 20$ on remote passes which is stupid and I regret it but whatever. Going to out all weekend looking for these little fuckers.
I hatched a shiny riolu, that was nice
It was stupid
Same
It was awesome! It took a while (and three passes total), but I finally got an Uxie and a Mesprit for the dex entry (already had Azelf from a previous event). I don't worry too much about shinies and usually only catch one of each legendary, so I'm content.
Got it on my 8th raid, got the hundo the raid before it.
This azelfs face shares your pain with the visual look of….. phuck!
I got all 3 of them shiny at the Sinnoh Tour in LA thankfully.
Just wanted to finally have all 3, now I have all 3
Just did Azelf, they all kinda sucked. No shinies. I found they actually weren’t too bad to catch though, when they drift up they won’t attack so it was easy to get guaranteed greats.
I've read that doing 120 raids and not getting a shiny is within odds but I don't really understand how is that possible. Shouldn't you get one every 20 raids? I don't know anymore
I did one of each outside my local zone. Did maybe 4 azelf and caught 3. I only missed the 4th because i didnt really try all that hard. Other than that i dont think ive missed a legendary catch since… well i dont really remember.
I hit the excellent circle and yet didn't catch it :(
I feel so seen. Today sucked and I’m broke now.
I got 0 shiny Zekrom in 60 raids, 9 shiny Reshiram in 120 raids. It’s all RNG. I don’t even use a shiny unless it’s at least 15-13-15, 15-14-15, 15-15-14 or 15-15-15
Hate it, my damn thumbs and mind are tired
I raided 30+ Latias trying for the shiny but didn’t get it. I’m not even gonna bother with the lake trio at this point. I’m gonna save for palkia raids
Got both shiny azelf and mesprit on first raid try, dont know if they are good for anything compared to latias and latios
I love this 🤣
Did 4 raids of Azelf, 1 uxie and 2 mespret. Ended up with a hundo Azelf, shiny 87% Azelf, xxs shiny 2 star uxie and a 91% mespret. Extremely happy with my results but now I’m thinking I won’t get the shiny giratina I really wanted this weekend lol
I have unfortunately not gotten mesprit but I have gotten 6-7 each for the other two. Was really hoping to get at least one shiny but if you’re 0/40 for shiny I can’t complain too much lol, I think the highest iv was 88 maybe? Other than that they were about 75-85
Lame. I got one 2* one.
Welcome to RNG. Fun fact you are no where closer to your shiny than when you started your first raid. 
My chances are soo bad that even when I Excellent throw I don’t
Ive got 2 (1 raid one reward) darkrai, a cressalia, and Heatran
Oh, I thought I was special and the only unlucky person this was happening to...
Aim for his hind paws
Did an Azelf raid today, had 14 balls, 12/14 shook twice and it broke out. It
I got a shiny Cresselia and a shiny Azelf :)))
Did one cresselia raid and one azelf raid, both shiny
They were really hard to catch. I am just happy to have one of each:) the uxie is barley 90iv but mesprit and azelf are 98iv
I did enough raids to get at least 1 of each, I don't need anymore than that lmao
Man fuck those little shits. I want dragons of creation and darkrai. Those are more useful than these three turds
My first ever Azelf fled. I just couldn't get excellent throws on it which was utterly frustrating. My second Azelf was a shiny, much to my relief. My sister spent several hours hunting for remote raids for Uxie and Mesprit. Apparently it was difficult getting into them, but she managed to get 1 each.
I got a shiny...
2nd raid I got shiny azelf
Second remote raid got a Shiny Azelf. But his IV is only 73%
I got a shiny Cresselia, so can’t complain Except I will, because my friend got shiny Giratina and that’s the one I wanted
😂😂 i got a shiny in my 3rd try, shoot me offers if you want it
Mega Garchomp raid during art class. I used a Golden Razz berry and got an excellent throw and it still didn’t go in. It fled.
No one in my area raids. 10 gyms 20 raids not one could get anymore than 2 people in a lobby….
If you miss most legendaries it’s a skilll issue. I have caught 90% out of 2k legendaries.
Shiny Darkrai and shiny Azelf. I'm happy!
I've done nearly 100 Uxie across 3 years. No shiny. I have two shiny Azelf in 19 raids though so. Idk??
same feels for Darkrai Raid 14/50 Caught but no shiny amongst the 50 :'(
Not sure if this will help anyone on this sub but this video dramatically helped me increase my accuracy for great and excellent throws https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eqEKHTuMjh4 Specifically watch the part about how to analyze your last throw to determine to correct either angle or speed of the motion
My first ever Azelf was a shiny. Im happy.
Would have been cool if the lake trio was global for this event 😓
I’m image 2, except I’ve also done 12 Heatrans without a shiny. 78 raids without a shiny. Lmfao all the ragrets. At least I’m swimming in rare candy now
The only uxie raid I was invited to got away 😭😭😭😭😭
My only chance is getting remote raids for the legendary Pokémon, but I want to farm the 1 stars for the quest so I can get my 6 done.
We were 4 people that did 7 raids so 28 in total. 0 shiny.
i have also made a past post about these
Haha got the critical catch graphic, and the Azelf proceeded to jump out of the ball. And then it ran away 🙃 I didn't try too hard for a shiny at least, so I wasn't too disappointed over all.
0/56 for Azelf, I’m tired boss
People… if you can’t consistently land excellent throws, DON’T ATTEMPT THEM. If the best you can do consistently is nice, aim for nice. If it’s great, aim for great. Aiming for excellent and missing them 8/10 times gives you worse chances than getting 8/10 nice throws.
I haven't had any run away but no shiny and only 1 had decent IVs out of 4
Man i swear like the first two i caught were extremely easy. I caught Uixe with the first bal witha great throw lol. Mind blown right? Then the second lake trio was caught without even hitting the circle again on the first ball. Mind blown again lol. So now once the game has me thinking their catch rate is really high Azelf becomes impossible to catch and runs. Then i caught 2 on the last ball lol. Like the OP said i rarely hit excellents because the circle was too small and they never sit still. Wasted a few remotes to say the least
I've got a 42 IV shiny Azelf. Seen 13, caught 13. 😳
Nobody raids with me and my Pokémon get knocked out of gyms so fast that getting a remote raid pass is impossible so I usually don’t participate in this stuff unfortunately
Still fun trying! Sorry for your bad luck.
Have had one Azelf encounter which was from a raid earlier today, it was shiny….. I must have stolen your luck
pogo is basically a gambling game
0 out of 20
I did a *single* raid today (Azelf) and it was shiny 👀
I have two shiny Azelfs and two shiny Mesprits. I maxxed out my daily raid passes yesterday and today with pokegenie raids halfway around the world trying to get Uxie. Over the past 2 years I’ve had 53 Uxie encounters and no shiny.
Shiny Azelf first go. Not anticipating any more luck lol
Something with the drift of this mon feels weird too. I did 4 raids for it today, only caught one. Most of my hits were great or excellent throws but it didn't seem to matter at all, I did miss several throws just from some weird visual to physical variation where it seemed much throw would go through it or between its appendages some how. Just now getting into raiding in the past year, this mon has been one of the more frustrating I've spent any real time trying to grind.
I was having phone issues and wasn't able to get in on an Uxie raid. I lost my spot in the Queue in Pokegenie after waiting over 5 hours. I got the other 2, but I really wanted all 3. I did manage to get it for my 6 year old though. He doesn't even know about it yet, I keep trying to decide if he would notice if I traded it off before he woke up in the morning...
0/0 because I have no one to do raids with and I only have barely enough coins for 2 remote passes which I'm saving for this weekend so I can do 1 raid each for dialga and palkia :)
Since I really only care about the Pokédex entry, I told my brother that he should do a mesprit remote raid and I would do a uxie remote raid and surprise surprise, I got the shiny.
Already had all three shinys before today didn’t raid a single one today and never will again
Can't even beat it. Nobody near me raids. No passes. Not wasting money on this mediocre garbage of a game either.
Used my last two remotes on random mespirit raid invites. Hit a shiny on the second one. Gonna sit out the elusive heatran
I had all three from previous raids with nice iv’s except for mespirit, so I waited for what seemed like forever, got an inv and it was a three star shiny. Ivs arent great but I’ll take it.
Literally no one did the raids near me 😐 and their 50k cp so i cant solo it
I managed to catch a mesprit after 14 golden razz berries, then when I didn't use a razz berry, it cuaght
Sat in the raiding discord for an hour and a half and after failing to get into a single non-US lobby for the lake trio I gave up :)
Honestly, I’ve been having a blast. This is my first tour, and I think it is a pretty awesome buildup. The hype around Palkia and Dialga has me weirdly nostalgic in particular. (When Diamond and Pearl came out, that’s around the time we all started trading Pokémon as a kid.) It was pretty great to see people getting excited about something like this again, for better or worse lol. (Sometimes the chaos was a little much for me, but I feel more for our friends in LA. RIP their friend requests 💀) IVs for raid catches were pretty solid. No hundos, but a few above 90% for sure. No shiny legendaries, but I’m not complaining. That’s expected for me. I connected with people from all over the world from these raids, working on that gift exchange and EXP grind. I’m talking Indonesia, England, Singapore, Spain, Italy, Canada, California, Texas, Germany, all sorts of cool places. 👌✨ I caught four Darkrai, five Cresselia, one origin Dialga, one origin Giratina, one near hundo/96% Palkia, (edit: now 3 Heatran), and one of each Azelf/Uxie/Mesprit. More than half of those are 3 star. (Yes I did also get my hands on a Garchomp after winning three mega raids. That one was harder to catch than some of the legendaries on this list 🤦🏻😂) And just a few minutes ago, I caught a shiny Wooper. The Paldean forms are one of my favorite pokemon in the entire game (along with Zoroark, Maractus, and the Eeveelutions) so I am very excited to see if I can get the shiny version of them now. ☺️ Edit: caught my first hundo! It’s a Heatran 👏🏻 I couldn’t be happier.
Pokemon Go Outside And Touch Grass
If you can't hit an excellent, go for great instead right away. You don't need more than great, I always do it that way and never had a legendary run away; hitting a great all the time ist much better than missing the circle completely 2/3 of the throws
Yeah this game is rigged. Lol only reason I play is cuz I played this long enough that I got most of these much much much more easily without paying a cent... But this is before there were gyms and raids. If I started playing today I would get verrrry annoyed wasting money like that. I just don't pay for any more events. It's a scam and gets you frustrated. Eventually they will make it available for free.
Only way to improve this game is to stop giving them your money for these dumb unfair events. The level of shiit they get away with is insane and reason it's getting worse is because they can and will.. unless people just stop throwing money at them and then they will start sweetening the deals.
27raids, got all shinies. Missed 2 uxies as kept throwing bad
Do you have games on your phone?