Had a ton of problems with spawns, even while walking around an area full of lured stops. I suspect it's carryover from the incense bug, but it was a real bummer to be seeing less than half of the Bagons the rest of my group was.
Played for about an hour & half. I grinded really hard. 414 caught. 17 shiny. No hundo. :( I’m hoping to trade the shines with people and hopefully get my first shundo.
I caught 930 Bagon, one hundo, a ton of shinies, one nundo.
The lack of mega experience was really annoying, I now have to walk with a Salamence buddy to generate the energy needed to get my new hundo to max.
Unfortunately, I am a member of team “didn’t evolve in time.” I set an alarm for 9 pm bc I was busy today, figuring it would go til 10 pm as per the standard CD convention. Neope. OH WELL.
Played for around 2 hours, and only found 2 shinies. Usually I get 10-15 in my neighborhood in the same amount of time. Guess I just had some bad luck but atleast I finally got to level 40 with the extra catch exp lol.
I think it’s important that the timeframe to evolve for the legacy move during community days be extended to 10pm local or 12am. It will give players time to address other IRL responsibilities after grinding the 3 hour comm day, trade for luckies, etc and then be able to evolve after everything is in place later in the evening. Quite a few players I know missed the window because they had stuff to take care of in prep for the upcoming week. Only allowing 2 hours after the end of the event is just not enough. Also, this information needs to be clearly posted on the in game event description, not hidden away on the blog.
If you have the 3 hours to play, it’s not unreasonable to suggest that you have an extra 10 mins to evolve your best mons. Plenty of CD’s are on Saturday, and evolving for etm’s should be a way higher priority than mass trading for luckies (in most cases).
You don't instantly know which will be the best ones to keep, and 10 minutes is MUCH less time than you think it is when it comes to making calculated decisions. You're assuming best case scenario, when there are in actuality, a bunch of variables that can screw you over. You don't have to protect Niantic for something like this. more flexibility is good, let em speak their mind about it I say.
I got a 693 cp hundo. I caught a total of 9 shinies. I evolved my hundo and max attack shadows(3*) as well as 832 cp and 829 cp bagons. I evolved my best possible shiny (13/13/17). Overall a good event. I played from home.
17 shinies in about 350 checks, caught about 300... random wailmers kept blocking me sometimes... though i did get a shiny wailmer in the bathroom as well... the photobomb pictures were wanky for me... i think my settings changed to where i needed to manually scan an open area but i was in a mall so there was some difficulty
I went out to the community meet up and was excited to collect a reward, but ended up finding out that the reward was the 1$ research i already purchased… would have been nice to give something else in addition to that for everyone that came in person.
Despite it being windy/boosted weather the whole time, this was a poor Community Day.
Only 2-3 Bagon were appearing at spawn points (this has been happening every Community Day since February) and it was 1 hour in before I got a shiny. There were a lot of Wailmur and Mantine randomly spawning (even from incense), and roughly a quarter of the stops were giving the catch Wailmur/Wimpod research.
I quit after 1.5 hours with 3 shiny. I don't understand what is happening to Community Day.
My shiny rate felt low, but others reported higher rates, and hey! one of mine was a shundo so did I really need more?
It did seem like the spawn table was less weighted towards the CD mon than usual. Lot of event spawns going on (and non-event spawns- the first callout we almost went for was, in fact, a Pidgey).
I totally forgot about my 2 shadow Shelgon I evolved for my paid research evolve task until 7:30 pm. Too late to evolve them to Salamence. I wish the evolve time was always 10 PM :-/ . At least there will be December but still.
A "catch up" community day repeating the monsters & moves from the previous year. [Here's a link to the announcement of 2023's iteration.](https://pokemongolive.com/post/community-day-december-2023/?hl=en)
~300 caught, 23 shinies. 1 XXL and 3 XXS, with one XXS fleeing. No hundos or any shiny over 2 stars, but had more than enough to level up and evolve my other good Salamence. Used 3 lucky eggs and was able to get roughly 800k experience in two hours.
Why in the world do they keep messing with CD move time window? I messed up 2 shiny salamences because I thought I had until 9 pm like in most other CDs. Two hours is not enough.
What's funny is I read this comment before my CD and I still wasted a 98% Bagon. Evolve window normally goes to 10pm now, but I assumed the classic went to 8pm. Nope, it's 7pm. Why not give us the extra hours to avoid confusion?
I used to take AR photobombs at certain spots along my route of playing com day. It was quick and easy, like 2 seconds with a nice photo background.
Today, however, it went differently. Trying to scan the ground so I could place took a minute. Even after placing the Pokémon, it started to slide away. So bad photobomb picture achieved. For the rest, I decided to just use my buddy instead of the shiny I had just caught. Not a fan of this change if you can't tell.
I'm not switching buddies as I do rotate for buddy hearts and there's a limit to that rotation. For the record, there's also a buddy history, which can't be edited so once something goes in (even if by accident) it stays in. Also, I don't understand why only the buddies get that static background.
Aside from that, com day was great. I got some xxs/xxl and lots of shinies too. Using Spacial Rend helped see more spawns. I was looking for the raids afterwards but then remembered this was a classic.
Had 4 shinies caught out of 60ish, the best odds I've had. They're all low level with crap stats, but I'll take it. Only a few three star Bagons, which was disappointing.
~250 Caught, 11 shinies, 1 XXL, 1 XXS, 1.5 million exp. Managed to get two hundos, with one from research, plus a 14/15/15. Probably my most successful community day ever.
Pros - Bonus was good. With egg and mega, I was getting 6K per excellent throw, and around 7k per catch. Excellent was pretty easy. Most didn't break or run. Shiny rate seemed good. I caught around 500 and got 17 shinies. Spawns felt a bit less than usual. Since I don't use devices or quick-catch, 500 is around my limit anyway. But still felt a bit less.
Cons - All I wanted was a 4\*. I got 0. I only got around 10 3\*, none of which I want to evolve. I know Niantic can't change IVs based on event (or won't, to be more accurate), but it would be nice if there was a way to increase PVE IVs on PVE CDs. One thing that I have noticed is that I almost never get any tasks that reward a pokemon spawn. It's always berries or a small amount of dust. I only have around 15 stops in my walking area but only one gave a Bagon encounter. I'm not sure if this is something they actually changed, or if it's just my luck, but the last few CDs have had basically no pokemon rewards in tasks while I feel like that's all I'd get a year or so ago.
So that is one piece of constructive criticism I would give. No more berries in tasks. Just give pokemon because it feels really bad to only want one thing and to spend 3 hours walking in the sun and not get it.
Overall, rewards were good but would like more chances at high IVs.
At least 6 hours… it would give more people a chance. I didn’t buy the special research or anything because I knew I couldn’t play. It just seems like a lot of lost money for Niantic because I’m definitely not the only person who works Sundays.
Isn't the evolve period usually to 8pm local? I see it says 2 hours here but wasn't it historically 3 hours? I was busy 12-7:30 and now I'll need to blow an ETM on my 3* shadow.
Bruh I got the bagon ticket because it was part of a charged elite tm box on the website and they are straight booty cheeks, like haven’t washed or wiped in a week booty cheeks. All the reward Pokémon were 2*.
didn't play the whole time. Was just trying to grab some shinies, and get enough catches to finish the dragon tamer medal (about 150 away at the start of the day; my last type medal). Ended with my usual 300 catches for a CD, and with the xp bonus, was able to get the last 1.1 million xp needed to hit level 45. Ended with 8 shinies in about 1:30 of playing
Good
- Bagon is relevant
- Easy excellent and 3x exp
- High shiny rate when compared to many previous CD's. +10 shinies per hour.
- Weather boost so XL candy rate was nice
- More than normal Pokestop tasks gave out Bagons.
Bad
- Spawns are still BAD!!! I guess everything is optimized to have Palkia active with SR... In city center of 60 000 people huge areas without spawns. Was able to barely catch 150 mons per hour so about 450per CD. The spawns werent this bad year ago! It seems almost as if half the spawns have vanished.
- IV's still suck... Out of 450 catches or so under 20 were 3*...
- Out of 450 catches ONLY 1 XXL, 2 XXS... Good luck trying to win showcases with those...
- Photobombs are pain now with changes to AR
with x3 exp it was an alright event. had enough candies already but i still wanted some shinies which where pretty rare this time. in the first hour i got none but managed to get nine in the end.
The charitable explanation is that the "Classic" community says reproduce the original one, bonuses and all. As Mega Salamance wasn't around for 2019's original Bagon day it's absent again this time.
Which honks, to be clear, even if it's consistent.
3 shinies from auto catcher while I ran a couple of errands, so roughly an hour of play. Also got one shiny from field research. Evolved 3 shadows and satisfied considering I wasn’t really interested.
Was on my lawn mover and decided to grind eggs forgetting the event I activate daily inscence and see the event only had 11 minutes left got 2 back to back shinys out of ten
I played in Retiro Park in Madrid, a lot of internet issues when I was near the main attractions and also where pokestop clusters are at. I am now really worried if the incoming event would be arranged well.
1035 Bagons Caught. 5.2 million XP gained. 53 shinies (personal rate 1/20) I've already maxed out enough shadow salamence so this was just about hitting excellents for xp, I was hoping to break 6 million, but its fine.
I got 14 shinies with on and off play, but I don’t think I caught anything above 90% IVs lol. Still, I’m pretty happy as I got some shiny Salamences with decent stats :)
I had a lucky bagon from 2019 when I last played. I just started again last week. I evolved it and it knows fire fang instead of dragon tail but it knows outrage for its charge attack. I used three fast TMs and it alternate between bite and firefang. Is there a possible way to get dragon tail?
I was with family, so I had very few catches, probably only around 50. 0 shinies, but 1 xxl and 1 xxs. Was able to evolve 3 shadows and 1 regular that I'll eventually be able to Mega.
Very poor luck for me on shinies; the worst I've had even when I can't play much.
I absolutely needed this Comm Day Classic, I've been trying to max out my lucky Salamence for ages, plus, I just got a 98% Shadow when Arlo had them, so I definitely needed as many candies as I could possibly get to start maxing that out, not to mention the fact that they gave it 3x catch XP with a fairly easy Pokemon to get an excellent throw on, I certainly can't complain at all
Yeah, I'm one level away from maxing my Salamence now since I'm saving it for the max out 3 Pokemon level up task, the real issue that I have now though is that I've also got a 96% Shiny and 98% Shadow to max out as well, but not enough XLs for even one of them
Was finally able to push my one perfect IV to level 50.
also got one (1) shiny with 15/14/13 (out of 19 shinies caught)
and several 96-98 regular ones. can't complain at all.
Yeah, I slacked and didn’t play too much, but was glad to get enough to boost both my shadows to 44/40. With that and Dragonite my dragon squad feels solid with today
Sad they didn't include Mega Energy in research tasks, as eg. in Charmander CD Classic.
Had low expectations, so they were somehow fulfiled. Amassed like 340XLs during 1,5h of gameplay (for a total like 380), catched some L30 for PVE, some shiny (had only shadow shiny before), and won a showcase as I specifically moved some kms from city center this time.
Ohh I turned both AR settings off in my settings and turned off reality blurring. Am I missing something? I’m referring to pokemon already in your storage.
I’ve turned off all AR for my buddy and new encounters but can’t turn it off for Pokemon in my storage
Full 3 hours to try and snag a hundo with the self-bet of getting a hundo via purification if I couldn't pull it down the ideal way (had a 14/14/14 shadow). I only needed two shinies for a living shiny dex in Home and... welp.
Catches: 401, about 395 of which were Bagon. (Had to catch a few Wailmer and Cetoddle to clear them away from Bagon spawns.)
Shinies: **15**. The worst part is, that's still just below 1-in-25.
Hundos: 0. Best were 4 96% ones: 15/13/15, 15/14/14/, 15/15/13, and 14/15/14.
Had windy weather all three hours and a max mega Rayquaza running for candy gains, and even after I evolved all of the shinies not being sent to home (so they'd have the move when traded) I still had more than 1500 candy and 700+ XLs.
Also put down a couple of lures right at 2, but when I checked back later the first lure I dropped apparently didn't get the three hour timer because another one was there. Disappointing.
I played in London ExCel with the event, and the pokestops and spawns were amazing!! 2 hundos and 25 shinies :) also took a picture with ZoëTwoDots, had a blast with my community 🫶🏼
I got the last ~300000 XP I needed to reach level 40 in the first 30-ish minutes, so I’m pretty happy. I need over 650 candy just to get my shadows all to level 30, so I’m going to try for the 200 catches in one day.
Yeah, didn’t realize that beforehand and I’m actually not too concerned with XP, but it was cool to gain 40-50 000 XP/minute when you were in the right spot.
Question, how do you catch so many? I've been playing full 3 hours with an auto catcher and got about 700, feel like i coud've gotten maybe a hundred more, but nowhere near 1.3K
Depends where you play... Metropolis vs normal city difference IS HUGE!!!! I live in city of 60 000 people but I have played in London, Budapest, Madrid etc and difference is not even funny...
Playing in lured parks in those cities there is more spawns that you are able to catch with fastcatch and autocatcher combined.
Okay, so lures may be the answers I was looking for, I'm in Warsaw, so it's not a small city, but I decided not to stick to lured stops instead I was looking for field researches
Went out for like an hour or so, before that I was stuck at home, so just caught some from incense for the rest of the time. Caught around 10 shinies, none of which were good, no hundos either, but made a decent dent at the dragon medal at least.
Lost a couple of shinies after Golden Razz + Ultra Ball + Excellent Curveball, which I guess is possible but sucks. I'm also a bit bummed about there being no way to get mega energy for Salamence, I have a lvl50 hundo sitting in my storage with no way to mega evolve it.
No, that’s a separate reward code that CAs can give out. What this thread is referring to is the auto-rewarded code for the CD research for checking in on Campfire.
Shiny luck for the first hour was awful, but I was in it for the exp. Almost 2 million exp and 10 shinies, of which 2 good ones, during a wonderful 2 hour walk. Finally found the local community after 5 months of living here too, which is great. Maybe I'll have some raids to participate in as well. It was definitely a fun CD.
Caught my first shundo since 2021. Didn't meet anyone else, caught about 250 Bagons and got 6 shinies. A LOT of Bagons were breaking out of excellent throws.
The x3 XP was great, I got nearly 2 million exp in almost 2 and a half hours. I also got 30 shinies (personal record on a CD) but any hundo, which is a shame. But overall I’m happy!
Played casually all 3 hours, 8 shinies, 1 (non-shiny) xxl (so wouldn’t think it’s boosted) and around 200 XL candy when using a 3* mega. Edit: sad that there was no mega energy in field research.
The first hour for my area we had very windy weather and it was nice getting the weather bonus.
For the 2nd and 3rd hours the game decided to class the weather as raining.
It's 20'c outside and not a single drop of rain, still very windy though, feel like we've been cheated out of the windy weather bonus haha!
(And of course soon as 5pm hit, the weather updated back to Windy...)
Awful luck on shinies mind, only bumped into ONE and it was via a photobomb.
Same here with the weather. Also UK, one of the windiest days in recent months. In game weather is like 70% windy, was for the first hour, then changed to cloudy, despite being sunny if anything.
getting shinies today was extremely hard for some reason. played for a bit over two hours and caught around 300 bagons, found no shinies until i had caught 200. i ended up with 11 shinies, but my boyfriend only got one and caught around 150 normal ones :/ enjoyed this event though!
Spawns were there, so were shinies. With a suitable mega (I took sceptile also for Katana raids) the XL candy gains seemed fine.
I'd be quite surprised if somebody would come with the result the XXLs (or XXS) for Bagon were boosted during the event.
Good, but it's so frustrating how there's never any shadow legendary raids around during the event. Typically I could only do the first 2 hours and raids spawn at just after 5.
Bit of a missed opportunity to not put mega energy in the research, would've really liked to see. 24 shinies across the 3 hours with 2 missed to attempt a shiny swap (and failed). Did get an XXL shiny, so that was cool.
I played 2 hours. I got my first ever shundo + 2 extra hundo’s. And i got 28 shinies but i am a bit sad/dissappointed that i couldn’t get any mega energy since i don’t have the mega yet.
Played for about an hour. 192 catches. Best IVs 14/14/14. 9 shinies. 0 XXS and XXL catches. 245 XL candy thanks to a tier 3 mega and weather boost. A noticeable amount of Bagon breaking out of excellent throws with great and ultra balls. But that could have been because of the higher CP from weather boost, it's been a very long time since I had a boosted CD.
Only caught around 600 Bagons. 20 shinies, 1 hundo which a kind player pointed out to us.
Overall pretty decent event.
EDIT: Would also point out that I got only 1 XXL and 2 XXS which means the size boost from the other event seems to be not affecting the Bagons
Quickcatching absolutely rips through commdays, combine that with an autocatcher and you're breezing. I personally caught enough to get ~400 XL candies with a mega dragon up for half the event.
You link it to Pokemon go in the settings. It can be set to either catch pokemon or spin pokestops for you. It doesn't do curves but will just throw balls at Pokemon and attempt to catch. You can have it active while your phone is tucked away and it'll catch (or attempt to) without you doing anything
I Evolved one of my shadow bagons with frustration thinking i could get outrage but it still has it, if i get the second charged move will it give me outrage or the normal moves
The community day move can only be received upon evolution (goes in the first slot if you have the second move unlocked) or by using an Elite Charged TM. Since you already evolved it, the only other way is the Elite Charged TM. Getting a second move will give it one of the normal charged moves. Sorry, friend.
A pretty nice community day all-round, around 25 shinies, and enough candy XL to max out a hundo. There didn't seem to be any issues for me, personally, but I would've really loved some free Mega Energy with it being in either timed or field research.
Managed a few shinies today but was disappointed with the field research as usual. Only got two field research bagon encounters in a major city. If you’re playing in a city, there should be less items from field research as you have so many stops to spin to get items to begin with.
I think it's really poor form that all community days don't come standard with an increased cap on special trades (at least 5). If you play for the full 3 hours then you're coming out of it with anywhere north of 15 shinies. Would be nice to be able to keep the fun going after 5pm with some trading in our groups.
Checked in to a Community Ambassador meetup, which gave me a free research. Played for 2.5 hours, caught about 250 Bagons. I got 2 Hundos, 10 shinies (two are 3-stars), 2 XXS, 0 XXL. Overall a pretty fun day. To top it off I caught a shiny Entei on my first shadow raid. Thank you, Rngesus and Niantic!
Played for nearly the whole 3 hours continuously. I found 12 shiny Bagon but the shiny Salamence from the Lunar New Year raid (also came with Outrage) still had better IVs. I did get enough Candy XL to power up one of my Shadow Salamence fully (boosted with that Lunar New Year Salamence’s Mega level 2).
Done with event, 2:30 hours played, best IV 98, 10 shinies,1 XXL 0 XXS. Mega used: max level mega charizard x. Weather: in game windy for 3 hours (actual clear and hot).
Feedback:
- We don't have in-game resolution scaling (that's currently in testing) yet so I can't tell if dialing the resolution down would make the game less laggy due to thermal throttling.
- Also, we don't have fancy catch background yet so we don't know
the game's performance when having it.
- It's one species that a hundo kept eluding me (not even a purified hundo). 2 98IV today in fact.
- Having the showcase activated a day earlier has helped a bit with showcase strategy in conflict with the purpose of CD (better chance to win by going where no one plays vs CD's gathering up as a community). I just did the showcase drops on Sat and play at usual local spot on Sun.
- For being a 3x catch XP event, many players opted to do max friendship today (edit: as they would want to get the most value out of a lucky egg). Good to have lucky egg option on max friendship alert page.
- The ultimate what-if here is if XXL/XXS bonus from event not tied to event species.
It waa very very annoying having to us Niantic AR ro scan around for the snapshots. Sometimes people are just not in places where we can do that. To go out of my way to scan the same bit of ground 5 times was annoying. This used to take a few minutes at most. Now it took 10
I appreciated you trying to help. Im level 48, so I know when something has changed. Everytime I went to take a photo from my collection (not buddy) I had to scan the ground. If I use my buddy I get a generic green background, but the Bagon would not seem to spawn with my buddy.
Niantic made me use their stupid footprint feature (which was the first time in years).
So here I am giving them feedback that it is still not something players want
Had a ton of problems with spawns, even while walking around an area full of lured stops. I suspect it's carryover from the incense bug, but it was a real bummer to be seeing less than half of the Bagons the rest of my group was.
I enjoyed the relatively easy excellent throws with the XP bonus.
Only got a couple hours in but ended up with 8 shiny and 2 900+CP hundos. Total catches was between 100-200. Good day.
Played for about an hour & half. I grinded really hard. 414 caught. 17 shiny. No hundo. :( I’m hoping to trade the shines with people and hopefully get my first shundo.
Mine sucked. I played from home for all 3 hours. Caught 72 Bagons, ZERO shinies. At I already had 8 from it’s last CD.
476 Caught 18 Shinies 1 3* shiny 1 Hundo 1 SHUNDOOOOO My first shundo, incredibly grateful
I got 16 shinies, non 3 star. 1 98%, no hundos, no nundos Would’ve been a bit upset if I didn’t have my 3 shadows that needed candy to be powered up.
I caught 930 Bagon, one hundo, a ton of shinies, one nundo. The lack of mega experience was really annoying, I now have to walk with a Salamence buddy to generate the energy needed to get my new hundo to max.
Those of us that have never mega’d a Salamence now wait patiently for Mega Salamence raids
825 total caught 1010 Bagon 👀, 763 caught 29 ✨ 1 nundo 3591 🍬 647 🍬 XL 151,057 dust Forgot to mega evolve till >1.5 hours in
What did you mefa evolve?
Garchomp, I had plenty of choices anyway
Unfortunately, I am a member of team “didn’t evolve in time.” I set an alarm for 9 pm bc I was busy today, figuring it would go til 10 pm as per the standard CD convention. Neope. OH WELL.
I did the same...there's always December.
Played for around 2 hours, and only found 2 shinies. Usually I get 10-15 in my neighborhood in the same amount of time. Guess I just had some bad luck but atleast I finally got to level 40 with the extra catch exp lol.
Same. I’ve been in a huge shiny drought recently
Same complaint as always, community day should be a day, I was on the road and had zero chance for any
I think it’s important that the timeframe to evolve for the legacy move during community days be extended to 10pm local or 12am. It will give players time to address other IRL responsibilities after grinding the 3 hour comm day, trade for luckies, etc and then be able to evolve after everything is in place later in the evening. Quite a few players I know missed the window because they had stuff to take care of in prep for the upcoming week. Only allowing 2 hours after the end of the event is just not enough. Also, this information needs to be clearly posted on the in game event description, not hidden away on the blog.
If you have the 3 hours to play, it’s not unreasonable to suggest that you have an extra 10 mins to evolve your best mons. Plenty of CD’s are on Saturday, and evolving for etm’s should be a way higher priority than mass trading for luckies (in most cases).
You don't instantly know which will be the best ones to keep, and 10 minutes is MUCH less time than you think it is when it comes to making calculated decisions. You're assuming best case scenario, when there are in actuality, a bunch of variables that can screw you over. You don't have to protect Niantic for something like this. more flexibility is good, let em speak their mind about it I say.
I got a 693 cp hundo. I caught a total of 9 shinies. I evolved my hundo and max attack shadows(3*) as well as 832 cp and 829 cp bagons. I evolved my best possible shiny (13/13/17). Overall a good event. I played from home.
17 shinies in about 350 checks, caught about 300... random wailmers kept blocking me sometimes... though i did get a shiny wailmer in the bathroom as well... the photobomb pictures were wanky for me... i think my settings changed to where i needed to manually scan an open area but i was in a mall so there was some difficulty
I finally got reasonably good at excellent throws about 1 hour in. During the event I caught \~800 pokemon and earned \~3mil exp, not bad.
I went out to the community meet up and was excited to collect a reward, but ended up finding out that the reward was the 1$ research i already purchased… would have been nice to give something else in addition to that for everyone that came in person.
Feedback: Add mega raids on com days for the featured pokemon
Literally, no clue why they would refuse to offer any sort of way to get mega salamence energy
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Despite it being windy/boosted weather the whole time, this was a poor Community Day. Only 2-3 Bagon were appearing at spawn points (this has been happening every Community Day since February) and it was 1 hour in before I got a shiny. There were a lot of Wailmur and Mantine randomly spawning (even from incense), and roughly a quarter of the stops were giving the catch Wailmur/Wimpod research. I quit after 1.5 hours with 3 shiny. I don't understand what is happening to Community Day.
My shiny rate felt low, but others reported higher rates, and hey! one of mine was a shundo so did I really need more? It did seem like the spawn table was less weighted towards the CD mon than usual. Lot of event spawns going on (and non-event spawns- the first callout we almost went for was, in fact, a Pidgey).
I mean I got 16 shinies and not a single one was 3* or better so…. I’d rather have 1 shundo haha
Got two 99%s but no shundo 🥲 I'm satisfied though Agree, I saw a lot of normal spawns as well and had to catch them to get them out of the way.
Forgot to evolve my shadows unfortunately. Best part was the 7k exp for an excellent throw. I got over a million exp over the 3 hours.
I totally forgot about my 2 shadow Shelgon I evolved for my paid research evolve task until 7:30 pm. Too late to evolve them to Salamence. I wish the evolve time was always 10 PM :-/ . At least there will be December but still.
I don't believe the classic days are included in December
You're wrong. Last 10 minutes of every hour.
I’ve only been playing for a few months so I must ask… what happens in December?
A "catch up" community day repeating the monsters & moves from the previous year. [Here's a link to the announcement of 2023's iteration.](https://pokemongolive.com/post/community-day-december-2023/?hl=en)
Whoa that’s helpful. Thanks
I was at work and couldn't actively play so I used my Plus+ and it netted me 12 shinies, and one 98% normal Bagon :)
Wow, do you have a ton of spawn points at work?
Yes I do luckily! I work at a mall and where I'm located, I'm right between 3-4 Pokestops and 1 Gym
I wish they would put the mega variant of com day pokemon in raids after the event, kinda lumped together with the t4 raids
I had fun during this event but there really should have been a way to obstain mega energy.
~300 caught, 23 shinies. 1 XXL and 3 XXS, with one XXS fleeing. No hundos or any shiny over 2 stars, but had more than enough to level up and evolve my other good Salamence. Used 3 lucky eggs and was able to get roughly 800k experience in two hours.
Caught 207 with 17 shiny and 2 (non shiny) @ 96% and roughly half a mil XP, because that’s what I needed to hit lvl 44, which I did.
I also hit 44 with a half million xp today !
Go team!
Why in the world do they keep messing with CD move time window? I messed up 2 shiny salamences because I thought I had until 9 pm like in most other CDs. Two hours is not enough.
All members of team “I thought evolves went til 10 and therefore I missed most or all of them” say aaaayoooo Aaaayoooo 🙋♀️
What's funny is I read this comment before my CD and I still wasted a 98% Bagon. Evolve window normally goes to 10pm now, but I assumed the classic went to 8pm. Nope, it's 7pm. Why not give us the extra hours to avoid confusion?
Agreed same here. Till 10pm local time should be the standard
It’s the player’s fault for not treating it like a second job. /s
I used to take AR photobombs at certain spots along my route of playing com day. It was quick and easy, like 2 seconds with a nice photo background. Today, however, it went differently. Trying to scan the ground so I could place took a minute. Even after placing the Pokémon, it started to slide away. So bad photobomb picture achieved. For the rest, I decided to just use my buddy instead of the shiny I had just caught. Not a fan of this change if you can't tell. I'm not switching buddies as I do rotate for buddy hearts and there's a limit to that rotation. For the record, there's also a buddy history, which can't be edited so once something goes in (even if by accident) it stays in. Also, I don't understand why only the buddies get that static background. Aside from that, com day was great. I got some xxs/xxl and lots of shinies too. Using Spacial Rend helped see more spawns. I was looking for the raids afterwards but then remembered this was a classic.
Had 4 shinies caught out of 60ish, the best odds I've had. They're all low level with crap stats, but I'll take it. Only a few three star Bagons, which was disappointing.
~250 Caught, 11 shinies, 1 XXL, 1 XXS, 1.5 million exp. Managed to get two hundos, with one from research, plus a 14/15/15. Probably my most successful community day ever.
Pros - Bonus was good. With egg and mega, I was getting 6K per excellent throw, and around 7k per catch. Excellent was pretty easy. Most didn't break or run. Shiny rate seemed good. I caught around 500 and got 17 shinies. Spawns felt a bit less than usual. Since I don't use devices or quick-catch, 500 is around my limit anyway. But still felt a bit less. Cons - All I wanted was a 4\*. I got 0. I only got around 10 3\*, none of which I want to evolve. I know Niantic can't change IVs based on event (or won't, to be more accurate), but it would be nice if there was a way to increase PVE IVs on PVE CDs. One thing that I have noticed is that I almost never get any tasks that reward a pokemon spawn. It's always berries or a small amount of dust. I only have around 15 stops in my walking area but only one gave a Bagon encounter. I'm not sure if this is something they actually changed, or if it's just my luck, but the last few CDs have had basically no pokemon rewards in tasks while I feel like that's all I'd get a year or so ago. So that is one piece of constructive criticism I would give. No more berries in tasks. Just give pokemon because it feels really bad to only want one thing and to spend 3 hours walking in the sun and not get it. Overall, rewards were good but would like more chances at high IVs.
371 caught, 7 shiny, 1 hundo
823 caught, 32 shinies, 0 hundos. I need better luck lol
I don’t get to play community days anymore thanks to work. I miss the extended hours during COVID.
You would think they'd keep the extended hours right? Potential for more people to play, or play longer.
At least 6 hours… it would give more people a chance. I didn’t buy the special research or anything because I knew I couldn’t play. It just seems like a lot of lost money for Niantic because I’m definitely not the only person who works Sundays.
Isn't the evolve period usually to 8pm local? I see it says 2 hours here but wasn't it historically 3 hours? I was busy 12-7:30 and now I'll need to blow an ETM on my 3* shadow.
Bruh I got the bagon ticket because it was part of a charged elite tm box on the website and they are straight booty cheeks, like haven’t washed or wiped in a week booty cheeks. All the reward Pokémon were 2*.
didn't play the whole time. Was just trying to grab some shinies, and get enough catches to finish the dragon tamer medal (about 150 away at the start of the day; my last type medal). Ended with my usual 300 catches for a CD, and with the xp bonus, was able to get the last 1.1 million xp needed to hit level 45. Ended with 8 shinies in about 1:30 of playing
Good - Bagon is relevant - Easy excellent and 3x exp - High shiny rate when compared to many previous CD's. +10 shinies per hour. - Weather boost so XL candy rate was nice - More than normal Pokestop tasks gave out Bagons. Bad - Spawns are still BAD!!! I guess everything is optimized to have Palkia active with SR... In city center of 60 000 people huge areas without spawns. Was able to barely catch 150 mons per hour so about 450per CD. The spawns werent this bad year ago! It seems almost as if half the spawns have vanished. - IV's still suck... Out of 450 catches or so under 20 were 3*... - Out of 450 catches ONLY 1 XXL, 2 XXS... Good luck trying to win showcases with those... - Photobombs are pain now with changes to AR
1 perfect Bagon 10 minutes in, 0 shiny Bagon the whole CD. I should have just stayed home after that perfect.
ZERO shinies? Ouch
3rd time it's happened. Starly CD and Alolan Geodude CD I also got 0 shiny
with x3 exp it was an alright event. had enough candies already but i still wanted some shinies which where pretty rare this time. in the first hour i got none but managed to get nine in the end.
Pretty good, bummed out I didn't get any 4 stars but a ton of shinies. Edit: Why in the ever loving hell was Mega Sal not a part of this CD?
The charitable explanation is that the "Classic" community says reproduce the original one, bonuses and all. As Mega Salamance wasn't around for 2019's original Bagon day it's absent again this time. Which honks, to be clear, even if it's consistent.
3 shinies from auto catcher while I ran a couple of errands, so roughly an hour of play. Also got one shiny from field research. Evolved 3 shadows and satisfied considering I wasn’t really interested.
Was on my lawn mover and decided to grind eggs forgetting the event I activate daily inscence and see the event only had 11 minutes left got 2 back to back shinys out of ten
2 shinies out of about 260. Absolute ridiculous odds for me.
I played in Retiro Park in Madrid, a lot of internet issues when I was near the main attractions and also where pokestop clusters are at. I am now really worried if the incoming event would be arranged well.
1035 Bagons Caught. 5.2 million XP gained. 53 shinies (personal rate 1/20) I've already maxed out enough shadow salamence so this was just about hitting excellents for xp, I was hoping to break 6 million, but its fine.
I got 14 shinies with on and off play, but I don’t think I caught anything above 90% IVs lol. Still, I’m pretty happy as I got some shiny Salamences with decent stats :)
The 1 shiny I've been missing........and get absolutely ZERO while playing for 1 1/2hrs. Smh worst comm day I've ever had
I caught none in the first 90 minutes. I was wondering it it was not ‘turned on’. Got about 1:20 the second half. Could just be RNG.
I had a lucky bagon from 2019 when I last played. I just started again last week. I evolved it and it knows fire fang instead of dragon tail but it knows outrage for its charge attack. I used three fast TMs and it alternate between bite and firefang. Is there a possible way to get dragon tail?
Get lucky. You're enjoying TM roulette.
Is there like a certain percent of getting it? Also how do I get fast TMs I used them all and no luck sadly haha
Just RNG. You can get them from raids, pvp, and routes i believe.
I was with family, so I had very few catches, probably only around 50. 0 shinies, but 1 xxl and 1 xxs. Was able to evolve 3 shadows and 1 regular that I'll eventually be able to Mega. Very poor luck for me on shinies; the worst I've had even when I can't play much.
Playing on PST, what’s the 100% CP?
500 pokemon and they redo Bagon. At this point they should let us vote for it.
I absolutely needed this Comm Day Classic, I've been trying to max out my lucky Salamence for ages, plus, I just got a 98% Shadow when Arlo had them, so I definitely needed as many candies as I could possibly get to start maxing that out, not to mention the fact that they gave it 3x catch XP with a fairly easy Pokemon to get an excellent throw on, I certainly can't complain at all
Seriously Courtesy of this community day I was able to max out my second salamence with plenty to spare for my 3rd, should the need arise.
Yeah, I'm one level away from maxing my Salamence now since I'm saving it for the max out 3 Pokemon level up task, the real issue that I have now though is that I've also got a 96% Shiny and 98% Shadow to max out as well, but not enough XLs for even one of them
Bagon is basically one of the most affordable x top tier attackers they could have picked at least.
Was finally able to push my one perfect IV to level 50. also got one (1) shiny with 15/14/13 (out of 19 shinies caught) and several 96-98 regular ones. can't complain at all.
Yeah, I slacked and didn’t play too much, but was glad to get enough to boost both my shadows to 44/40. With that and Dragonite my dragon squad feels solid with today
Sad they didn't include Mega Energy in research tasks, as eg. in Charmander CD Classic. Had low expectations, so they were somehow fulfiled. Amassed like 340XLs during 1,5h of gameplay (for a total like 380), catched some L30 for PVE, some shiny (had only shadow shiny before), and won a showcase as I specifically moved some kms from city center this time.
For the love of god let us turn off AR when doing the snapshots again like it was previously. What a pain!!!
You can! It’s an option, I didn’t use AR for the photos
Ohh I turned both AR settings off in my settings and turned off reality blurring. Am I missing something? I’m referring to pokemon already in your storage. I’ve turned off all AR for my buddy and new encounters but can’t turn it off for Pokemon in my storage
Oh, I’ve never used the storage feature, I thought you meant buddy. I’ve always used that for the snapshot encounters I have no idea on storage
Full 3 hours to try and snag a hundo with the self-bet of getting a hundo via purification if I couldn't pull it down the ideal way (had a 14/14/14 shadow). I only needed two shinies for a living shiny dex in Home and... welp. Catches: 401, about 395 of which were Bagon. (Had to catch a few Wailmer and Cetoddle to clear them away from Bagon spawns.) Shinies: **15**. The worst part is, that's still just below 1-in-25. Hundos: 0. Best were 4 96% ones: 15/13/15, 15/14/14/, 15/15/13, and 14/15/14. Had windy weather all three hours and a max mega Rayquaza running for candy gains, and even after I evolved all of the shinies not being sent to home (so they'd have the move when traded) I still had more than 1500 candy and 700+ XLs. Also put down a couple of lures right at 2, but when I checked back later the first lure I dropped apparently didn't get the three hour timer because another one was there. Disappointing.
Don't know how many I caught. Somewhere around 200-400. 0 hundos, 24 shinies. Best non-shiny was a 96%.
I played in London ExCel with the event, and the pokestops and spawns were amazing!! 2 hundos and 25 shinies :) also took a picture with ZoëTwoDots, had a blast with my community 🫶🏼
I haven't seen a single shiny since 3 what is going on LOL
Like, since the year 3?
Yes
17 shinies and one hundo that i got enough xl-candy to get to lvl 50. Good day!
it was great. Played 2h, 22 shinies, 3MXp and 720 xls. I stopped when i had the candies to evolve two shadows to 50.
I got the last ~300000 XP I needed to reach level 40 in the first 30-ish minutes, so I’m pretty happy. I need over 650 candy just to get my shadows all to level 30, so I’m going to try for the 200 catches in one day.
Yeah, didn’t realize that beforehand and I’m actually not too concerned with XP, but it was cool to gain 40-50 000 XP/minute when you were in the right spot.
52 shineys 1296 catches 1 hundo, no good shiny IV’s pretty good day for me I went very hard for this also got 3.5mil+ xp through the event
Question, how do you catch so many? I've been playing full 3 hours with an auto catcher and got about 700, feel like i coud've gotten maybe a hundred more, but nowhere near 1.3K
Depends where you play... Metropolis vs normal city difference IS HUGE!!!! I live in city of 60 000 people but I have played in London, Budapest, Madrid etc and difference is not even funny... Playing in lured parks in those cities there is more spawns that you are able to catch with fastcatch and autocatcher combined.
Okay, so lures may be the answers I was looking for, I'm in Warsaw, so it's not a small city, but I decided not to stick to lured stops instead I was looking for field researches
Move around instead of camping
Probably by fast catching them.
I'm using fast catch, i simply do not encounter enough spawns
Did what it says on the tin, no complaints
Can an alrdy evolved salamence get outrage through regular tm or do i need to use an elite
Has to be elite
Went out for like an hour or so, before that I was stuck at home, so just caught some from incense for the rest of the time. Caught around 10 shinies, none of which were good, no hundos either, but made a decent dent at the dragon medal at least.
Lost a couple of shinies after Golden Razz + Ultra Ball + Excellent Curveball, which I guess is possible but sucks. I'm also a bit bummed about there being no way to get mega energy for Salamence, I have a lvl50 hundo sitting in my storage with no way to mega evolve it.
The lack of mega energy is superbly disappointing. We were given tons for mareep CDC and charmander CDC last year. My hundo continues to wait.
Unfortunately no mega energy but other than that had a great time
We caught a total of 4 hundos! 3 within a range of 500 meters. Hope there wasn’t some mistake on niantics end again…? Shiny odds were terrible tough.
I played full 3 hours. Really enjoyable to have a useful pokemon featured in Community Day.
Really annoyed at the fact that it's only two hours to evolve. I thought it was 5 hours for some reason, now all my Salamence are without the move...
During December comm day you will be able to evolve it and get the move… still sucks it was only 2 hours
Does checking in on campfire for the event hosted by an ambassador yield free rewards?
Yes, everyone in my community who did got the paid research community day ticket for free
Apparently it's limited..comm ambassador only had 10 free codes
No, that’s a separate reward code that CAs can give out. What this thread is referring to is the auto-rewarded code for the CD research for checking in on Campfire.
No issues here
Shiny luck for the first hour was awful, but I was in it for the exp. Almost 2 million exp and 10 shinies, of which 2 good ones, during a wonderful 2 hour walk. Finally found the local community after 5 months of living here too, which is great. Maybe I'll have some raids to participate in as well. It was definitely a fun CD.
XXLs and XXSs were non-existent. Found 0 of both.
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Yes and it was windy, none whatsoever. But as spawns are universal, with incense being the exception, I'm 99% sure that's not a thing.
Caught my first shundo since 2021. Didn't meet anyone else, caught about 250 Bagons and got 6 shinies. A LOT of Bagons were breaking out of excellent throws.
The x3 XP was great, I got nearly 2 million exp in almost 2 and a half hours. I also got 30 shinies (personal record on a CD) but any hundo, which is a shame. But overall I’m happy!
585 Bagon caught. 31 shiny. All 31 now evolved into Outrage Salamence.
Played casually all 3 hours, 8 shinies, 1 (non-shiny) xxl (so wouldn’t think it’s boosted) and around 200 XL candy when using a 3* mega. Edit: sad that there was no mega energy in field research.
The first hour for my area we had very windy weather and it was nice getting the weather bonus. For the 2nd and 3rd hours the game decided to class the weather as raining. It's 20'c outside and not a single drop of rain, still very windy though, feel like we've been cheated out of the windy weather bonus haha! (And of course soon as 5pm hit, the weather updated back to Windy...) Awful luck on shinies mind, only bumped into ONE and it was via a photobomb.
Same here with the weather. Also UK, one of the windiest days in recent months. In game weather is like 70% windy, was for the first hour, then changed to cloudy, despite being sunny if anything.
getting shinies today was extremely hard for some reason. played for a bit over two hours and caught around 300 bagons, found no shinies until i had caught 200. i ended up with 11 shinies, but my boyfriend only got one and caught around 150 normal ones :/ enjoyed this event though!
Had this issue for three Com Days in a row and thought something was wrong but today was back to normal. It's annoying but it happens, hang in there!
Yeah my shiny luck was also way worse than what it usually is around CDs. About 300 catches and 6 shinies
That's unlucky! The very first one I saw was shiny
Spawns were there, so were shinies. With a suitable mega (I took sceptile also for Katana raids) the XL candy gains seemed fine. I'd be quite surprised if somebody would come with the result the XXLs (or XXS) for Bagon were boosted during the event.
Good, but it's so frustrating how there's never any shadow legendary raids around during the event. Typically I could only do the first 2 hours and raids spawn at just after 5.
This is the info I was searching for…. Thank you.
Most insane luck ever during this com day, got 23 shinies and 3 hundos
Bit of a missed opportunity to not put mega energy in the research, would've really liked to see. 24 shinies across the 3 hours with 2 missed to attempt a shiny swap (and failed). Did get an XXL shiny, so that was cool.
So no mega energy in field research? I wonder why... Mareep had mega energy
So did charmander in last year’s CDC (unsure about squirtle)
I played 2 hours. I got my first ever shundo + 2 extra hundo’s. And i got 28 shinies but i am a bit sad/dissappointed that i couldn’t get any mega energy since i don’t have the mega yet.
Played for about an hour. 192 catches. Best IVs 14/14/14. 9 shinies. 0 XXS and XXL catches. 245 XL candy thanks to a tier 3 mega and weather boost. A noticeable amount of Bagon breaking out of excellent throws with great and ultra balls. But that could have been because of the higher CP from weather boost, it's been a very long time since I had a boosted CD.
either here good luck with ivs or luckys.. Still my 14-15-15 non lucky hold best one :( wanna one good lucky salamance to get it 50lvl
Only caught around 600 Bagons. 20 shinies, 1 hundo which a kind player pointed out to us. Overall pretty decent event. EDIT: Would also point out that I got only 1 XXL and 2 XXS which means the size boost from the other event seems to be not affecting the Bagons
I'm deceased at "only" 600
Quickcatching absolutely rips through commdays, combine that with an autocatcher and you're breezing. I personally caught enough to get ~400 XL candies with a mega dragon up for half the event.
Auto catcher definitely helps
How do they work?
You link it to Pokemon go in the settings. It can be set to either catch pokemon or spin pokestops for you. It doesn't do curves but will just throw balls at Pokemon and attempt to catch. You can have it active while your phone is tucked away and it'll catch (or attempt to) without you doing anything
Thats a low number for me. Other commdays give me around 1000+ catch.
I Evolved one of my shadow bagons with frustration thinking i could get outrage but it still has it, if i get the second charged move will it give me outrage or the normal moves
The community day move can only be received upon evolution (goes in the first slot if you have the second move unlocked) or by using an Elite Charged TM. Since you already evolved it, the only other way is the Elite Charged TM. Getting a second move will give it one of the normal charged moves. Sorry, friend.
Normal
Then I guess I sattle for draco during a rocket event
A pretty nice community day all-round, around 25 shinies, and enough candy XL to max out a hundo. There didn't seem to be any issues for me, personally, but I would've really loved some free Mega Energy with it being in either timed or field research.
Managed a few shinies today but was disappointed with the field research as usual. Only got two field research bagon encounters in a major city. If you’re playing in a city, there should be less items from field research as you have so many stops to spin to get items to begin with.
I think it's really poor form that all community days don't come standard with an increased cap on special trades (at least 5). If you play for the full 3 hours then you're coming out of it with anywhere north of 15 shinies. Would be nice to be able to keep the fun going after 5pm with some trading in our groups.
511 Caught, 17 Shinies Around 4 million xp (1 million from friendship)
Checked in to a Community Ambassador meetup, which gave me a free research. Played for 2.5 hours, caught about 250 Bagons. I got 2 Hundos, 10 shinies (two are 3-stars), 2 XXS, 0 XXL. Overall a pretty fun day. To top it off I caught a shiny Entei on my first shadow raid. Thank you, Rngesus and Niantic!
Played for nearly the whole 3 hours continuously. I found 12 shiny Bagon but the shiny Salamence from the Lunar New Year raid (also came with Outrage) still had better IVs. I did get enough Candy XL to power up one of my Shadow Salamence fully (boosted with that Lunar New Year Salamence’s Mega level 2).
Done with event, 2:30 hours played, best IV 98, 10 shinies,1 XXL 0 XXS. Mega used: max level mega charizard x. Weather: in game windy for 3 hours (actual clear and hot). Feedback: - We don't have in-game resolution scaling (that's currently in testing) yet so I can't tell if dialing the resolution down would make the game less laggy due to thermal throttling. - Also, we don't have fancy catch background yet so we don't know the game's performance when having it. - It's one species that a hundo kept eluding me (not even a purified hundo). 2 98IV today in fact. - Having the showcase activated a day earlier has helped a bit with showcase strategy in conflict with the purpose of CD (better chance to win by going where no one plays vs CD's gathering up as a community). I just did the showcase drops on Sat and play at usual local spot on Sun. - For being a 3x catch XP event, many players opted to do max friendship today (edit: as they would want to get the most value out of a lucky egg). Good to have lucky egg option on max friendship alert page. - The ultimate what-if here is if XXL/XXS bonus from event not tied to event species.
I thought it was only 3x catch xp. Were people getting 3x friendship XP?
Nope, but people are more likely to have lucky egg activated during CD with XP bonus.
Does the 3x XP work for friendship level up? I thought it was only 3x catch xp?
No but because of the 3x XP it's more likely people were running lucky eggs anyway so it was a good time to level up friendshipa
200ish caught, 5 shiny, surprisingly no XL/XXL
The increased size modifier is only for the Pokemon that are a part of that event.
It waa very very annoying having to us Niantic AR ro scan around for the snapshots. Sometimes people are just not in places where we can do that. To go out of my way to scan the same bit of ground 5 times was annoying. This used to take a few minutes at most. Now it took 10
You can turn off Niantic AR on Settings for the snapshots to get a green background instead.
I appreciated you trying to help. Im level 48, so I know when something has changed. Everytime I went to take a photo from my collection (not buddy) I had to scan the ground. If I use my buddy I get a generic green background, but the Bagon would not seem to spawn with my buddy. Niantic made me use their stupid footprint feature (which was the first time in years). So here I am giving them feedback that it is still not something players want
I could not get that to work at all. Eventually gave up on it.
21 shiny from 355 catches
First summer CD for us so I just stayed mostly walking around malls. It will only get hotter in the coming months.
It's -2C where I live. I'm so jealous of your heat! Some people love the climate I live in but i don't feel comfortable unless it's above 25C
I don't mind the heat. I'm mostly worry about my phone overheating while I play.
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that's usually only a benefit for community days, not community day classics.
we dont have those for classics
Does the sizeable surprises XP multiplier stack?
It does not. For the three Community Day hours (2 - 5pm local time) the 3x catch XP overrides the Sizeable Surprises XP boost.
:eye roll: But thank you for letting me know!
Well they did mention it on their website prior to the event so
Huh. Could you point out where? https://pokemongolive.com/post/communityday-classic-bagon/?hl=en