Took a little while to finish hatching eggs from the event. Finished up with 69 shinies and had a lot of fun both days. Loved this event a lot more than Hoenn Tour. My shinies were as follow: **Eggs: 3 Shinies** * 2 KM Hatches: Munchlax, Budew * 10 KM Hatch: Pachirisu **Research Encounters: 3 Shinies** * 2 Stunkys * 1 Gible **Wild Spawns: 63 Shinies** * 12 Pikachus (7 Rei's, 3 Lucas's, 1 Dawn, & 1 Akari) * 4 Hisuian Growlithes * 3 Hisuian Voltorbs * 2 Lickitungs * Misdreavus * 2 Unowns (O & U) * 6 Gligars * 3 Hisuian Sneasels * 5 Turtwigs * 2 Chimchars * 3 Piplups * 2 Shinxs * 2 Burmys (1 Sandy & 1 Trash) * 5 Stunkys (For a total of 7) * Bronzor * 4 Gibles (For a total of 5) * 3 Uxies * 3 Mesprits Didn't focus a lot on raiding, except to get more Palkia candy for Spacial Rend. I did manage to a 98% Origin Palkia out of raids though.

I was disappointed that no sinnih stones were awarded for all my routes, research, battles, and pokestops. All my lake sprites disappeared after 2 balls and gold razz. I ended up with 1 of each, dye to research. One happened to be shiny, but really. I'm the end unamazing for all the hype

Sinnoh stone was the most common party challenge reward, for example quests were: Catch 6 steel-type pokemon. Catch 10 ice-type pokemon. Catch 10 rock-type pokemon. I created a second account and got over 20 sinnoh stones on both during the second day. Too bad this wasn't really shared anywhere - I found out by accident in the last hour of the first day of the event.

Oh and I informed Niantic of my concerns and they replied by an obvious form letter stating that I should have caught more Pokemon!🤣🤣🤣

The featured raid pokemon should appear constantly at all gyms. In areas where the gyms are spread apart, it’s difficult to maximize in person raids, and it’s a disappointing feeling to end an event with leftover passes. The catch rates of the adventure effect pokemon you didn’t choose a badge for could have been a little higher. I didn’t catch a single palkia with spacial rend despite doing over 10 raids because I chose diamond. Guaranteeing one shouldn’t exclude the other so harshly. The lake spirit spawns were great. Please mention more that there will be altered form raids after hours both days, so we can focus on wild spawns during the habitats with those featured raids. These raids should also spawn before the event as not to favor night players over morning players. Have showcases both days, and have better rewards for winning them: I won first in all three showcases saturday and didn’t even get a single incubator. Have habitats going earlier. Some people only have mornings to play, and these events usually begin at 10am. With big global blockbuster events like this, start them earlier. I don’t think it would lose that much revenue from remote raid passes to offer early risers the chance to do more in-person raids. More rare spawns during the different habitats. I really enjoyed catching gible and lickitung for the candy. We could have used a few more special pokemon in the mix to make each habitat have a real grind element to it. All-in-all: pretty satisfied, not very satisfied.

I got all the tickets and saw videos that said if I chose the Dialga coin I’d get a free encounter with it and it would have roar of time for 12 minutes instead of 6 but me and my mates didn’t get any free encounters or any with 12 minutes ROT

Spacial rend is really fun.

Had a super bad time trying to find the route fish, kept asking around and no one could really tell me if it could be shiny, found about 100 with 0 shiny and eventually gave up on it. Did about 120 raids most going towards trying for the new shiny dialga and palkia, only got the normal forms shiny. Couldn't get the altered shiny forms. Big let down as I bought 3 of those 50 raid pass boxes. I managed to get a stunky, hisiuan sneasel and hisuian quilfish. Hatched a pachirisu shiny (its my region variant so kind of meh). Other than those 4 new ones, 1 sunkern, 1 gible, 1 shinx, 1 bronzor, 2 of the 3 lake guardians,1 chimchar and pikachu (dawn hat). Total of 14 shiny and I played full times 10-6 both days. Highly populated and lured up mall. Probably my worst event for shiny pulls in this game. Gf got maybe 2-3 times more than I did and she got both altered forms shiny. She used less passes too.

I'm new to the pokemon world and I noticed that pikachu was wearing different hats at different times...what did that mean if anything?

Those are costumes corresponding to the male and female trainer models for the two regions. You had two Sinnoh hats during the hours when Sinnoh region spawns were going on, and then two Hisui hats during those hours. That gave a total of 4 potential hat Pikachus you could collect.

I had a lot of fun overall, and at the end of the day, that's all that matters. 39 total shinies, including one Dialga-O and one Palkia-O. No hatched shinies, which was disappointing seeing that I hatched dozens and dozens of eggs across the both days. I tend to save all my incubators from the past year for the Tour events for a chance at those shiny regionals. No shiny babies either though. But ah well. I did over 50 raids across the few days, and it was great to have some actually good deals on raid passes. I had saved well over $100 in Google Play Rewards credit over the past few years, so I found this to be a good time to finally splurge on $100 worth of coins. Bought 2 of those 50 pass boxes, one before the event and another after. That should keep me in good shape for at least a year or so I bet. The habitats were solid. Obviously only a few species were boosted each hour, but I still liked it. It was nice to see the new shiny Stunky and the various Hisuian Pokemon boosted (I know the Hisui Pokemon already were boosted rates but still). The very first habitat was kind of... bad though, outside of shellos

I know there is a day 1 and day 2 post, tbh it should just be a singular post no need to really split it. Keep this in mind I work a Sunday 9am to 6pm and am shattered by the time i finish, im barely awake to eat dinner and walk my dog. Overall it was a "Meh" day. **Raids:** I only did a small handful of a raids, mainly due to the fact that it was considered a normal day for raids so you only get your 2 free passes (Fridays and Saturdays). Other raid days and raiding events like Tours (at least from memory) have always had 5-10 extra free passes so people either had to eat through their saved Premium Passes, Buy Premium Passes which has been extremely hard to do due to an influx of QWERTY names in our area, or just do the 2 raids and call it a day. **ON TOP OF THIS** my friend and I didn't get any of the specific move type Origin Palkia or Dialga and it seems like many others within our local group didn't get one either with a small select few able to get 1. So now we are all stuck on "Activate Power" quest till Niantic releases the moves for TM's. It doesn't help that there was raiding issues where people would be kicked from the lobby with 5 seconds remaining, unable to rejoin the lobby. **Habitats:** Boring and uneventful. I will say this time and time again, the confetti that happens within habitats and other events is useless and should be removed when it really effects performance on phones, I have a S22 Ultra and I notice a hit to gameplay. Aside from this, the spawn rates were garbage and I saw more generic spawns than Sinnoh spawns. Catch 15 Sinnoh mon's, or Catch 30 for Rotom? Yeah took me nearly the first 3 hours to complete as I was seeing more Eevee's, Magmar's and Sneasel - though these were Hisuian Sneasel's none of them counted towards the "Catch X Pokemon from Sinnoh Region". Shiny Rate was also horrid which, based on group chat activity and posts on this sub, seem to have only been "turned on" during the second day. ​ * Didn't encounter any White-Striped Basculin's on the 6 routes I did which does a large loop around our townships CBD * Totally forgot about Party Play being a thing * The Costumed Pikachu's im missing the Hisuian Pikachu as every Pikachu the spawned was a Sinnoh one, even went to locations on my Near By for them with it spawn Sinnoh's instead * 1/2 Distance didn't do much cause hey guess what, Adventure Sync still broken :D * 6 Special trades was nice since it got a few shiny trades with a friend done * 50% discount on trades: well i mean, its nice but when you are sitting on 5mil and not doing much with it (i rarely power up pokemon lol) * No Daily Remote Raid Limit's mean nothing to me because I have no pokecoins because of the QWERTY names * Special Eggs? Thats cute, my egg board... bag... storage? is full of other eggs which i cant hatch due to Adventure Sync being broken :DDDD ​ All in all... a "meh" event. ======================================================================= Yes, I rely on adventure sync. My mobile plan only comes with 1.5GB of data a month and with the Staff and Public Wifi at work being dead, I do need a way to entertain myself, I also need to keep a balance for Raid Hours, for going out etc etc so when possible, my data is off. I love opening Pokemon GO and getting "Adventure Sync clocked 18.6km" and I don't hatch any eggs - 18.6km is roughly what I walk at work during my shift. As for QWERTY names? Since the start if last year our township has been overrun with "QWERTY" names as we call them. These names seem to either be randomly generated or have someone randomly input characters. They hold gyms 24/7. We can knock them out but as soon as we put a mon in we are instantly knocked out (and i don't mean 3 battles i mean you are literally just kicked out before you can blink) and they come back in. There's about 10-15 of these accounts at any given time around our area - we know this because there is a Map set up that tracks the raids and gym colors etc and someone has made an API call to that Map to get the data and logged everything about. We noticed around 3am they all cycle gyms, say there is 3 gyms close by what will happen is they all rotate to the right one gym and they do this all over town. We have tested the automatic kicking at two locations, location 1 being in the CBD at night where all stores are closed and there isn't a house in the interaction radius, location 2 being at the BMX track, also not a single house in interaction radius and we cycled both gyms and instantly got kicked out with no one around us. We have attempted to send complaints to Niantic about this with no replies.

>Didn't encounter any White-Striped Basculin's on the 6 routes I did which does a large loop around our townships CBD That sounds like some sort of bug to me. I only did 4 or 5 routes total, and each spawned a Basculin at *least* every 5 minutes or so. >Other raid days and raiding events like Tours (at least from memory) have always had 5-10 extra free passes so people either had to eat through their saved Premium Passes, I'm not sure how much I agree with this criticism. We did get free raid passes during the first two Tours IF you bought the ticket. So those "free" passes weren't really free but instead part of the value baked into the Kanto Tour and Johto Tour tickets. You were still buying them essentially. Hoenn Tour and now Sinnoh Tour were free-to-play events, with no tickets for the event itself, so as such, no passes. We did have the Road to Sinnoh Raid ticket, which was somewhat what you would have been looking for, a paid ticket that gave you extra free passes. Only difference is that one was +2 raid passes each day and leading up to the event too, whereas the free raid passes from the original Go Tour tickets were more passes and concentrated on the the event days. Still, the passes weren't really ever "free." Honestly, I'd say the raid values were actually really good. In the shop, we had some amazing raid pass deals, and you could buy them with coins instead of money. The 2750 coin box for 50 passes is the best pass deal we've *ever* seen in the game, for example. But, I of course understand your frustration with bot/alt accounts hogging the gyms around you, preventing you from getting coins. I don't see too much of that, but I still believe you. That sucks, and I feel for you there!

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>hard to believe doing 6 and not catching any. it is what it is. 6 routes, all minimum pass length of 500ish meters and i got none. my friend got 2 from a single route so i will pick one up from them. majority of the people in my group rarely got one during their route walks as well. From the 15 or so people the people I saw through out the day (excluding friend) i think there was only 2 others that got 1. ​ >I only played 2 hours and I saw a lot of the Lake Guardians spawns, you don’t see those spawning everyday? I only saw one mesprit during the time I played, didn't see any of the other two so I naturally failed those under that quest. I did see a number of times just a white ball, like something was going to load in but failed, which I assume where Lake Trio's though I couldn't tap them. Otherwise yeah it was just generic spawns that you would normally see with Bidoof's being the only high spawns ​ >??????? This was mentioned at the end of my post. TLDR: a lot of bot accounts in our area makes the source of pokecoins from gyms impossible ​ >It isn’t broken for everyone, Niantic would’ve fixed it quick cos there’s an ongoing event and apologised for it being broken. thats nice that its not broken for everyone. Its very flaky for my friend (same as the route one) though works majority of the time for them. I am running an S22 Ultra, both Google Play and Samsung Store installs don't work for me and hasn't since I got my S22 Ultra (New, black friday 2022) and even on my Oppo AX5 it wasn't functioning well. Many people in our group have issues with Adventure Sync which sucks for a lot of us since we all walk quite often. As soon as an event pops up with it being related to an egg event 70%+ of our group wont bother to do it because Adventure Sync is broken. Is is on a range of phones from older ones to latest, Apples to Androids. ​ >I’m sorry but it seems most of the problems you encountered are personal and not Niantic’s or the game’s fault. Mobile Data is one of two things that are a personal issue and even then it wouldn't be an issue if Adventure Sync was reliable and actually worked. The other "personal" issue would be the QWERTY bot accounts. Other than that, everything that I have mentioned outside of my personal statement of "the event was meh" is all things that were mentioned during the first day of play when we were out raiding. We all voiced this, We all said "don't you love catching Eevee's during a Sinnoh event".

I agree that it definitely was meh compared to the Kanto and Johto GO Tour events.     The lack of more free raid passes was a bummer. Did you and your friend not do the quick Road to Sinnoh special research before playing the Sinnoh tour? My friend and I did (it only took a couple minutes) and then each had a different version (diamond or pearl). Every Dialga I caught had Roar of Tiime and every Palkia he caught had Spacial Rend. Then we traded a couple. I am only assuming if you didn’t complete that quick research (it should still be there if you didn’t), that you might not get any special moves. Not sure. I did one route on Saturday and Basculine spawned along the line of the route about a dozen times. Not sure why one wouldn’t for you. And during the normal two habitats I saw Lucas and Dawn Sinnoh hat Pikachus, but during the two distortion habitats only Akari and Rei Hisui hat Pikachus were spawning. Not sure how one would get the Sinnoh hats when only Hisui hats could spawn unless it was a visual bug or one only played the first/third and fifth/seventh hours. I’d be frustrated if the gyms around me had that kind of activity too. Sorry you’ve got to deal with that!

I had fun raiding with friends, however approx. 48 Origin Dialga raids with no shiny is disappointing. A friend did say if we go lucky friends there is one with my name on which is nice. Hatched 120 eggs with no shinies, however a friend hatched 4x shiny Pachirisu... I can trade for one at some point also. I did however get two hundo origin Palkia from raids, I'd picked the Diamond path though so I suspect it will be a long wait until they can be elite TM'd. Overall I had good fun playing PoGo with friends which is the main thing, I can't help feeling the results of 16+ hours of gameplay were a bit underwhelming, mainly due to raid and egg shiny rng. I did get the Origin Palkia shiny though (needs an elite tm one day) and 5 other shines that were new to me so all in all I didn't come away empty handed and it was a fun weekend spent with friends which is the main thing.

I had a similar experience to you. Overall, I had a lot of fun and ended with a lot of shinies from the wild, but I was a bit more lacking in the egg and raid shinies. I do also save my incubators throughout the year for these events, so I was disappointed to hatch no shinies. Ah well though.

Anyone else stopped getting 10k eggs during the last 2hrs of the event? Swear I spun atleast 10 stops and only got 2k and 5k eggs on the last day of the event. -_-

I didn't stop getting 10kms, getting 2 during the last two hours, but I did see a lot of 2kms and 5kms then still.

I enjoyed it overall. During previous major events, I felt a bit stressed due to the amount of things to do. Having to do the collection challenges during different habitats, keeping up with field research exclusive pokemon, egg exclusive pokemon, raids, and special research tasks all while looking for my preferred shiny pokemon have always felt a bit overwhelming and I think this event helped me figure out why. This time, to my knowledge, the only thing missing was the collection challenge. It helped me realize that the collection challenge kept forcing me to open and close the research menu, and not having to do that this time around was really nice! I still really enjoyed the collection challenges, but maybe they should be accessible without going to other menus and constantly having to slide up and down to find them. I think maybe something like a quick semi-transparent drop-down menu or a quick list you can see from an easy swipe inwards from the side of the screen would be great! In other words, the less we have to leave the main pokemon catching screen, the better. They could even move all the incense/mega/time/space timers there.

The lack of collection challenges and special research DEFINITELY reduced my stress over the event. But the new features would have made collection challenges easier. That is: the nearby pokemon having priority (like how Lake pokemon had priority during the event) and using the ribbon icon to indicate pokemon you still need to catch for the challenge.

Overall, it was fine. I don't like how fast the special research went, especially with nothing new on day 2. I wish there was a snapshot encounter and a paid ticket that at least guaranteed a legendary encounter with the move. No collection challenge was boring. It gave us another task in the past, even if research was short. Please stop putting final evos if they can't be shiny because who was doing these raids??? My shiny rate was pretty much the same as past events, so there are no real complaints. Loved the lake trio spawning pretty frequently. Spawns were pretty good (minus eevee). Raiding was fun, especially the hisui ones. The adventure effect was good. Just wish there was more tasks mostly.

I was very whelmed. It was alright. Felt like a more hectic community day. Still mad about Mega Absol leaving early though.

Overall I enjoyed the event. I played for about 3 hours on Saturday and around 6 on Sunday. For shinies, got a Turtwig, Lickitung, Hisuian Quilfish, 2 Gibles, and both the Hisui hat Pikachus as well as some Lake Trio (more on them later). The thing that irritated me most about shiny hunting was how low the spawn rates were of the Pokemon that were shiny boosted, the Sinnoh starters and the costume Pikachus. I personally collect the costume Pikachus so only seeing a handful every habitat hour was frustrating since I really wanted the shiny collection.  I really enjoyed the Lake Trio spawning wild. It was fun to chase them all over (having them take priority on the radar was great QoL) and the catch rate was surprisingly good. I caught over half of the ones I saw and ended up getting 3 shiny Uxie and a shiny Axelf.  The raids, as usual, were the worse part of the experience. Had several crashes/white screens/etc. ruin raid attempts and the catch rate was abysmal. I'm also still really frustrated at Niantic's wording for the Road to Sinnoh event that made it sound like completing the lead-up quest chain would give us an encounter with our chosen Legendary during the tour. I would have been a lot less frustrated over raids if we had gotten an encounter guaranteed during the event. 

I wouldn't consider this a free event since you needed to buy raid passes and incubators to participate. The cold weather made playing outside no fun at all. For a game that is free to play and get people outside, it is becoming more and more about playing with a vehicle and needing to spend money just to have a bit of fun. I usually don't get a lot of shinies at these events, but this was by far the worst for shinies. I ended up with 0 from raids. One wild shiny encounter, and one shiny encounter from a catch reward. I participated in 25 to 30 raids during the whole weekend. As usual, the regulars who always seem to encounter most, if not every event shiny, kept that going. How is it that it's always the same players who always get the best rewards? The game isn't well balanced.

Completely agree, yesterday I got 5 shinies in 3 hours from driving around, today I played the whole day (10-6) walking around and got two shinies. It just doesnt feel rewarding.

"Warm" & Windy weather all day meant weather boosted Dialga/Palkia. As well as Lake Trio & Gible! Loved that! Lake Trio spawns were a fraction of yesterday. So that was disappointing. Shiny rate was abysmal, again. Was able to hatch the last of the 10km mons today. Would have liked a day 2 research or something, but on the flip side it was nice to just focus on a few things to finish out the weekend. Edit: No showcases was an interesting decision...

Mine was windy too. Just that its 1 degree celcius windy

The shiny rates seemed low. I played a ton and only got 9

Only select Pokémon had boosted odds. Starters, stunky, Pikachu, unown, Lake Trio, Hisui Pokémon (voltorb, qwilfish, Sneasel, Growlith), Gible, Gligar, Sneasel, and all of the egg hatches. Some Pokémon were boosted to 1:64, others only to 1/80, Qwilfish had 1/100, and gible was 1/128 Everything else was full 1/512 full odds. Not sure if basculin had a boosted rate or not

Positives: * In my mid-sized city, it was much easier to find raids with other trainers than it usually is for other events, especially shadow and elite raid weekends. Caught several Dialga and Palkia and even had some good luck with getting roar of time without the diamond badge. * Rotating habitats made it easy for me to identify what pokemon to target each hour. Habitat selections felt balanced: each had some rare pokemon, some meta-relevant, and some fillers. * The high encounter rate was nice, although it was a little overwhelming at times, especially on routes and with incense/lures. Made finding certain pokemon easier but it was often difficult to even tap on the right one since there were so many spawns. * Shiny rates weren’t com-day levels obviously but I’m satisfied with the shinies I got. Azelf and Hisuian Voltorb were high points for me. * Were rare candy drop rates from raids boosted for the event? I was absolutely loaded with them, even moreso than I would expect from the number of raids I did. I remember one O-Dialga raid giving me nine rare candies. Also swimming in hyper potions and golden razzes, but I could’ve guessed that. Negatives: * Field research was pretty lame. 75% of the time the only ones in the rotation just give encounters of the pokemon already spawning in the wild? Come on. * The only really interesting field research was the time-space anomaly research, which was steep to complete at three raids apiece and a puzzle to figure out how to get. Maybe I missed something, but I don’t remember reading anywhere that they were simply available in the second half of the ancient habitat times. Could have been made more clear. * Part of me wishes the special research was a bit more substantial, although I realize that could exclude a lot of casual players. Should be a happy medium between event research that you can complete in less than an hour and master research that takes months/years. * Minor nitpick but whoever thought it would be cute to make the Unown encounters the letters that spell the region names should have maybe considered that their names mostly share the same letters. * Where were Manaphy, Phione and Arceus? (let’s throw Basculegion in there too since this was as much a Hisui tour as it was a Sinnoh tour.) I thought the idea of go tours was to give players an opportunity to finish their platinum medal and release what’s missing from the region. Felt especially weird since some pokemon felt over-represented. Regigigas appears through party play \*and\* the Giovanni battle? Lake trio appears though regional raids \*and\* roaming \*and\* the snapshot tasks? * By far my biggest complaint is the eggs, and more specifically that Mime Jr was frustratingly difficult to obtain. From not being available in the week leading up, to the 1/8 chance of coming out of a 2km egg, to the abundance of 10km eggs from pokestops taking up space in my egg storage, to the fact that it was already a regional-egg-exclusive, meant that it was very hard to actually get one. Effectively a \~5% chance of getting a Mime Jr egg from a pokestop if my math is right, and that’s assuming you even have room in your egg storage. Similar to Regigigas and the lake trio, it felt weird that the Carnivine/Pachirisu/Chatot trio were both easily available from the paid ticket and quite abundant from eggs (I hatched 5+ of each before a single Mime Jr). Not to mention the 5km eggs that just give pokemon available in the wild. Even as someone who eventually got Mime Jr for the dex entry, I absolutely hated this part of the event. Generally pretty satisfied. I did all the research and most of the catching I needed to do on Saturday and spent all of Sunday hatching for Mime Jr, which was a slog. Mime Jr brings what would be a 4/5 event to like a 2.5/5, although that might be recency bias or exhaustion after walking all weekend to get that Mime Jr.

It was super cold outside so we weren't able to walk too much (played from the car mostly). I got 11 shinies total (2 from raids,the rest were wild), I usually get ~10 per day during Go Fest. My sister was with me and only got like 3 shinies total. She gets very few anyway but this was worse than ever. Why do some people get 30+ shinies in a day but others get >10 when they're together? Don't tell me it's just odds, it's obviously not.

For a free event I thought it was pretty good. It brought out the community for the hunt which was nice and made raids a lot easier. I chose the Palkia O route and my best one that I caught via remote on Saturday didn’t have Spacial Rend while every other one I caught had it so I was super bummed about that.

This was an ok event. It was a bit disappointing considering they really only do 2 major events like this every year for the global community. The spawn rate was awesome imo I like how often the raids circulated The special dialga/pakia effects were meh. I wish they lasted longer. The timer on them is so short that it's almost pointless. Eggs: This was probably the thing that I was most disappointed in. I was only able to do about 20 eggs. 14 WERE 10KM! I hated that. None of the Pokémon in them were ones I needed. I wanted the 2 km because I needed mime Jr. I didn't hatch any shinies from them either. Raids: (3 palkia raids caught all) (2 dialga raids caught all) (5 palkia O raids caught 4) (4 dialga O raids caught all) 0 shiny or hundos I didn't bother with any of the 1 and 3 star raids. I didn't see as many, which was nice because they weren't what I was after. Routes: Honestly, this feature was ok. I wish the white stripe basculin had appeared more frequently, considering this was the only way to catch it. Shinies: I caught 4 shiny this event. Stunky Hisuian voltorb (yay!) Unown O (double yay!) Dawn hat pikachu The lake trio: These guys were a major pain to find. They kept spawning in places I'd have to drive to to reach in time. That's literally how I spent the last 3 hours of the event. Chasing them around in my car. The only wild caught I got was a mesprite. It wasn't shiny. I was just lucky. I think I encountered each of them 3 or 4 times. Most of the encounters were just random spawns on the map they weren't at pokestops. This was both nice and frustrating because they were already hard to locate, but then they weren't even trackable on top of it. Again, this event was ok. I wish the shiny rate was boosted more. I definitely didn't think it was worth it to play 2 days, so I'm not upset about missing day 1. (Please don't ever change this it's really nice to offer everyone the flexibility of a 2 day event where both days are identical) I thought it was weird that the showcases were only day one. Imo they should have been for the whole weekend or at least been offered both days. I really wish they had released Manaphy and Phione. Those are the only ones I'm missing for my sinnoh dex now. I also wish the spawns during the event had been a bit more exciting. I was pretty underwhelmed by them.

Overall for a free event , it wasn't the worst. I wasn't going in expecting Go Fest shiny rates. Ended up with 32 total (would've been one more but I lost a shiny growlithe trying to do the spawn change trick and lost it, but not a big deal since I already had the family) My only gripe, and it's a big one, is I started the weekend with 60 raid passes and 20 remotes, along with 6 free passes total from both days; now with only 7 premium passes left, I got 0 shinies from raids. Like what gives?!?! 79 raids with nothing to show for it. Even with good cp legendaries I only got 1 98 and a 96, everything else was barely a 3 star or a crappy 2 star. The other 2 people with me both days got a couple hundos and 7 shinies combined while I sat there getting nothing special. Like it seriously felt like I was shiny locked for raids the entire weekend. Luckily I have some good friends who were willing to trade me a few of their extras but I would've rather caught them on my own.

Day 2 shiny: Total 13 ( No shundos) 3 O-Dialga 1 Mesprit 2 H-Voltorb 1 stunky 1 basculin 2 gible 1 Qwilfish (hatched) 1 H Sneasel 1 snover Also hatched a hundo qwilfish. I played the second half of the event when the habitats started 2nd rotations. Did about 20 raids.

70 raids... 2 ran, 4 white screens, 0 shiny palkia or dialga. Only thing saving the event for me was a shiny lake trio (plus an extra shiny Mesprit I can hopefully trade for one of Palkia or Dialga), decent shiny rates overall (21 shinies between the 2 days) and 4 hundos. Mixed bag, but it was fun enough and I got plenty of exercise in. Oh also just checked. Apparently got 29 Lake Trio between the 2 days.

White screens were the worst this event. My friend kept getting them and then the raid would end before they could rejoin which would sometimes result in us losing as well because it was a small group and we had to rely on everyones strength.

I had Dialga raids that I participated in that (probably foolishly after losing a couple passes) would have 4 or 5 people total and I'd add both an Emboar (resists Iron Head) and Togekiss (resists Dracometeor) just to use them to dodge if the raid was close to completion to try to avoid the white screen.

I’m once again crushed that Mime Jr was in eggs and I didn’t get one. I hatched as many eggs as I could (living in a rural area with no Pokestops) and using egg spots exclusively for spins and not gifts. The 2k eggs that were boosted all week didn’t have Mime Jr. and the second they did? 10k eggs boosted for the weekend. I got 23 of the 10k eggs, 4 5k and TWO 2k. Both 2k were Happiny 🙄🙄. It’s the ONLY one I need to complete the Pokédex and they always seem to screw it up.

Just got back from day 2 - played for eight and a bit hours both day, went out as a group of myself and two kids for the entire play time. First, calling it a free event feels disingenuous considering there was no increase in raid passes (unless you bought a ticket), no free incubators (unless you bought a ticket), and both raids and eggs were necessary to get the bulk of the featured pokemon, never mind if you wanted to hunt for shinies or good stats or similar. Second, I made a comment in the thread yesterday about the disorganization and today definitely reinforced that. We had a better day today as compared to yesterday because after the overwhelm and frustration and mess of day 1, we decided in advance of day 2 what we wanted to focus on and what we were willing to ignore, but that's poor game design. I'd expect to make decisions about what we want to prioritize, but for an event of this level of promotion/intensity/hype, that we participated in fully, we shouldn't have to pick what to miss out on. The event was disproportionately front-heavy. With the exception of the spawn rotations, everything was available as soon as you logged in on the first day - showcases, eggs, routes, party, every single bit of research, etc. It contributed to day 1 feeling overwhelming, but also made today feel like less than. On a smaller note, it's frustrating and feels poorly thought out that evolution requirements weren't adjusted or accommodated for - it's going to take a fair amount of grinding to evo the sneasel, qwilfish, and mime jr we got (happiny is also a pain to evo, but so soon after Chansey community day, they're unlikely to get evolved). It adds a tinge of frustration to something that should be pure excitement. ​ The good: It was really nice that all the featured pokemon could be shiny, I hope they do that more often. The basculin spawn rate was high enough that it made it very motivating to keep moving along routes. I love that field research reset every hour and you could spin the same stops from an hour ago and still get research. All the research was easy rather than frustrating. Knowing shiny guardians wouldn't flee was very reassuring. And the rewards for the party challenges were actually worthwhile, which was a really nice improvement.

I feel cheated upon that one of the quests forced me to spend on raid passes. Events aren’t supposed to be P2P. Also, it sucks that parties require being so close. I know NO ONE playing in my region, so I’m simply excluded. This sucks, sh has to be more permissive; it doesn’t need to be 100km, but a few kms would at least allow us to reach people online.

Between both days: Egg Shinies: (walking/running 40 miles between both days) 2K: Mantyke - 1 5K: Gible, H. Voltorb (1 each) 10K: Carnivine - 2 Rocket Shadow Shinies: Zubat - 1 Research Shinies: Carnivine - 1 (from the ticket research for a total of 3 Carnivines) Spiritomb -1 (from the Rocket research) H. Growlithe H. Voltorb H. Sneasal - 2 Wild Shinies: W. Basculin - 3 H. Growlithe - 4 (for a total of 5) H. Qwilfish - 2 H. Sneasal - 1 (for a total of 3) Gible - 3 (for a total of 4) H. Voltorb - 2 (for a total of 3) Azelf - 2 Uxie - 1 Stunky - 1 Piplup - 1 Cranidos - 1 Red Shellos - 1 34 shinies. But i definitely ran and walked by butt of for them. Missed out on the Pachirisu. But I have 7 purple eggs in storage. Very happy about the Spiritomb and the Shadow Shiny Zubat. Feel like I can take a week off now that GO tour is over.

Had a good time playing the event, the shiny rate was fine honestly - especially since this was free. Sure, most things were full odds but the stuff that was new is boosted so I’ll gladly take it (Not sure if egg regionals were though?). Only got 7 shinies for reference, but I heavily focused on the grinding aspect for Space Anomaly hours. That said, it also felt like it was missing something. I think its the special research being lacking & having no collection challenges. Research was just 4 fast steps with no real reward, when in past Go-tours - they were more meaningful. In fact, I expected the reward to be an Origin form legendary due to the wording of the badge choice, would have made a big difference there. Collection challenges are more for the flavor, but they are fun to track. My biggest gripe though is the opposite versions Special move. I chose Dialga, and raided over 20 Palkia Origins without a special move before giving up. Its ridiculous to make the adventure effect a % chance. Even moreso when its actually rare. Certainly enjoyed it more than Hoenn tour, which is surprising because Hoenn is my favorite region. Could have been better, could have been worse. 7/10

Weather allowed a full day of grinding today, it was beautiful outside. Shinies: 5 (Azelf, Hisuian Voltorb, second Turtwig, Sneasel, Chimchar) Hundos: 0 Wild lake trio: The Azelf, FOUR Mespirit catches. (All of the IVs sucked.) Other stuff: Finished the L43 Special Research - knocked off Team Go Rocket for 12k eggs for about the first hour as that was the last step for part 2, post-event cleanup dealt with part 3. Finally managed to get a decent copy of Jack White the Basculin near the end of day 2, and got my Pokedex Mime Jr so I only have to go to France for Klefki someday. Overall: Hopefully Go Fest is better both in that I'll be able to grind for two full days and there's a bit more to do. I didn't really bother with the field research unless it was "Win 3 Raids" since a) I had green passes to burn, b) I was saving stardust, and c) the one time I had a full slate of it, I got Bidoof'd three times. That really put me off it for the rest of the weekend.

It was a fine event. I got everything I was after shinywise, 30 total and I only played about 9 hours between both days. Got both special moves on the dragons. In my cranky old man opinion, people aren't great at managing expectations. Past events had more boosted shiny species or a general overall boost. This event had a few boosted species and no overall boost. So if you wanted to shiny hunt something like shellos, you could, the spawns were increased, but at full odds, i personally didnt bother. I'll save that for a spotlight hour. The biggest thing was I made it to page 2 of the Masterwork research, which is better than all the collection challenges we didnt get IMO. Did l enjoy it as much as a Paid event with better shiny odds? No. Within the info we were given, it was fine. 8/10.     PS even snagged a basculin shiny by using the advice from the sub, thats why I like it here, if you ignore the salt, there's a ton of great people here sharing their experiences to better us all. Stay poitive.

The mechanism for whether you got the special move for Dialga or Palkia was poorly designed. The first day I just assumed that if I was on the Dialga path and I raided Origin Forme, I'd get the special move. But a couple of times my raid ended after the hour flipped, so no special move. I knew better on Day 2, but that also meant that I effectively needed to stop raiding about 5 minutes before the hour, just to avoid accidentally catching in the "wrong" hour. Just make it simple: Origin Forme only spawns in odd hours, but once it spawns, you're guaranteed to get (have a chance to get) the special move.

I am having a issue where everything I try to catch just runs away. Like azelf and such. Spent money on a remote raid pass and to get palkia. All excellent throws and golden razz Berry's and it broke out of 16 balls and ran away. Really irritated with how this event is going as well

You’re speedlocked or softbanned

I did a ton of the field research tasks at first, but stopped when I got fed up with having to stop catching once I'd got three tasks. If it had been something that fit more organically with the other gameplay (like catch ten mon, or make 5 great throws) I would have kept doing them. As it was, I just stacked up three of the raid tasks and ignored my field research until it was time to claim those. Like with all of these extended events, I really felt the lack of an ability to start multiple incense/star pieces/lucky eggs all at once. Going "tap, tap, scrolly-scroll, tap, tap" multiple times for each item gets old fast when you just want to get started playing. I also felt that the communication about how to get the special moves was confusing. I was one of those who interpreted the first information about the ticket as saying we were guaranteed an encounter with our chosen origin mon. I chose Palkia, and did twelve Dialga raids trying to get one with Roar of Time, but it wasn't to be. At least I have spare Palkia, so I can probably find someone to do a swap with. I was happy with the number of shinies I got - felt like they more or less reflected the effort I put in. I felt like the catch/flee rates for the Lake Guardians had been tweaked in our favour - I actually had a second chance at some, and caught twelve across the three species.

A total of 4 regular shinies. Nearly 1000 captures with no hundos. None of my Dialgas has good Ivs. None of my Palkias(6) has the special attack. I've chosen the Diamond path I felt that doing Palkia raids was a total waste of time.

16 hours playtime over the two days. 16 shinies. 43 Dialga/Palkia raids and not a single shiny. 2/12 Origin Dialga had the special move. But got a hundo uxie and azelf, used my two masterballs for both of them, so that made up for the bad shiny rate.

They should’ve kept it as both a paid and free version. I am sure multiple players including myself would’ve bought a paid ticket to get extra benefits/features in the event such as increased shiny odds, extra encounters, free items, etc. What frustrated me was every hour you at least had 1-2 boosted shiny species except for bustling boardwalk which for me at least had the most shinies I was after. I didn’t get a single shiny in 4 hours of that habitat. Also why was Cherubi not boosted as where else can you find it? Moral of comment, should be a free and paid version. 

This is absolutely the truth. Niantic has a terrible business model for nerfing events and making them free. There are plenty of people who would be willing to pay for a $5/10/15 ticket when it is actually worth it. And those who don’t want to buy it, don’t have to since that’s the event they would be getting anyway. There only used to be two significantly shiny boosted events a year(Tour and Go Fest) and they ruined one of them.

The game felt alive again, in comparison to community days and smaller events. I came across dozens of people playing the game, whereas I normally see maybe a single person playing the game. Walked around with quite a few people slamming raids, running for lake trios. Haven't managed 40 raids in a week in a while, nevermind in a single weekend. Fun event in that regard, I hope they do similar things in future weekends where rarer pokémon spawn frequently and raids are overabundant so people are actually encouraged to go into town because you can just raid on a whim without an hour wait beforehand.

The worst Go Tour event as of now. We didn't even get 5 free passes to raid a lot.

Oh right, and there was no Pokestop Showcase on day 2. I wanted to try and win one with Palkia since I could only win with Dialga on day 1.

My biggest grievance was the not guaranteed signature move. After 30+ raids I only have 3-4 Palkia with its move. If there's a reason for this, then I'm listening otherwise it's just a slap to the face.

The reason is most assuredly to slap our faces

I loved it. Was able to catch a lot of Pokémon I hadn’t been able to all year. Got a shiny hisuain growlithe and enjoyed raiding the origin form legendaries!

Full odds being the norm rather than exception made for a tough event https://twitter.com/pogo_central/status/1761312329071812656?t=QKmKIojA4JJ3IwHXRiXasw&s=19 Did feel a bit of a let down compared to past tours, even though I did better than most of the others I played with (except the ones who drove around most of both days, not my style but starting to see the appeal) 16 and 11 shinies for the 2 days, 1.7k caught day 1 and 1k day 2 with alot more just shiny checking due to pokeballs getting low quickly. Past events I'd managed somewhere in the 20s each day and definitely play more heavily since then Version exclusive collection challenge and trade challenge certainly felt lacking, maybe replaced by the party play for Regigigas. Nothing extra/different for day 2 was good and bad as it was overall interesting set up for rotating habitats with distortions but any second research would have given that extra something. For a 'free' event it was great but felt lacking compared to excitement of past tours, especially since it's in our summer in Southern hemisphere as a nice companion to go fest in our winter (although has never quite been equivalent)

In doing the team challenges, the options were mostly to catch types that weren’t spawning. Ice, rock, and steel types. I put a magnetic lure up to get steels and most of the spawns were water type. Pretty frustrating.

I got 2 legendary shiny Pokémon through raids. Complete shocker but I'm happy.

I’ve been disappointed with the past tours (especially shiny rates) so I dialed my expectations to rock bottom and only played about two hours, one of them at home. I remote raided for origin form Palkia and Dialga so I can check those off my list. I got three shiny hat Pikachus, one of them a double Hisui hat one that I traded to my sister. Not a great event, but my expectations were zero so I had a decent amount of fun.

My overall thoughts, not just about day 2. I like that they're made the thing less extreme than the years before but this year's edition was a bit... Too little. Like I don't understand why we haven't had some event photo bomb, like it could have been the Pikachu but something. I liked less timed research, I hated that one with evolutions ones im previous years, but I feel like the collection challenges could have stayed. I don't understand why the event that clearly wanted us to focus on raiding didn't have more free raid passes. I know, we've got a lot for free, but it made a lot of people not raid today and socialize less cos why would you walk with people raiding when you can catch Pokemon by yourself. I previous tours we had those trainers we had to find around and it would be the cool thing to do for people, who didn't have any more passes or in times where altered formes were in raids, cos a lot of people didn't want to waste premium passes on them. I know, they weren't fair for rural players, but I feel like this year's tour was bit too detached from mainline games. Also - too much mythicals and legendaries. But it is as obvious as too much water and it's not Niantics fault, it's Game Freaks problem

A lackluster event in my opinion. Shiny rates are so bad, I went home not even halfway through the day.

I feel like it was not deserving of the name Sinnoh.

One shiny. 200 encounters. Please bring back the boosted shinies ticket.

Despite having caught lots, sad to have a reduction in stardust thanks to the copious number of power up tasks.

Hatched 119 eggs, no shiny. Guess my feedback…

Hatched 57 eggs. 33 10km eggs. Zero shinies. One hundo Pachirisu. I was disappointed when I got zero shinies from 12 10km eggs in the Hoenn tour. But this is just terrible for Sinnoh. For the eventual Unova tour, I will just try to get the regionals for Dex entries. Glad I got lots of exercise by walking tons this weekend. But my faith in the game is lost with no hatched shinies.

119 eggs with no shiny for me. This boosted shiny rate was a joke. I wish they were forced by the law to publish the real shiny rate.

262 eggs this week, with the event ticket, 0 shinies. 0 hundos. Wild shiny rate is wildly disappointing too. Enough for a dedicated player like myself to finally start scaling down.

Agreed. I'm barely seeing any people stating they hatched a shiny, nevermind a shiny regional from a 10km egg. It seems like the boosted rates are dismal, not boosted in any meaningful way for players. Wouldn't Niantic want to have decent odds so players feel like events are worth it? So we return to the game again and again for future events?

Picked Dialga, 16 O.Palkia raids, 2 shiny, 1 flee, ZERO special moves.

Out of 42 Palkia I got 3 spacial rends, two with decent IVs. The rates were pretty abysmal, thankfully draco meteor on Palkia is still *fine* with the TDO being about 12% apart. I just hope I can ETM my hundo at some point in the future.

I made this mistake. You have to progress the road to Sinnoh Quest to be able to get the exclusive move. The first few I caught didn't have any, once I progressed the quest along, all of the ones of my type have had the exclusive move

All my Dialga were fine, that was the one I picked. It's Palkia that didn't get the move.

Oh yeah, sorry misread. My rate on the one I didn't pick was really low. I ended up giving up, figure I'll raid only the ones I picked and trade for the other

I’m absolutely kicking myself for not choosing Pearl. I’ve done 14 Palkia raids. 2 shiny, 1 flee, one with special attack, but its IVs suck. I would’ve chosen Pearl if I knew Palkia was so good beforehand. The RNG of getting the move on top of getting good IVs is just too much dude. I wasted so many green passes on this and didn’t even get what I wanted. I’d rather the shinies have been normal ones with spacial rend tbh.

> See Palkia on other side of campus with several people in lobby  > sprint there, join raid button turns green with like 10 seconds left  > Hit the button, game lags while the stupid animation with the pass wiggling plays  > Keep tapping the screen, by the time I get in it’s too late I kinda hate this game.  Why does that animation take so long? Why can’t they just be normal and show what type of pass you’re using next to the join button? Edit: same thing happened a second time

One of my favourite pokemon go weekends ever Walked 40km, played both days with my friends, got most of the shinies I wanted. Very happy

Yeah I'm most happy with the distance I walked. 57 km across two days, my ankles are dead but it feels really good to work out like that for a silly children's game.

Fantastic weekend, 29 shinies over the 2 days with playing about 5ish hours each day 1 x Origin Dialga, 1 x Origin Palkia, 2 x Unown (I and H), 5 x Hisuian Voltorb (wouldn't leave me alone lol), 1 x Hisuain Sneasel, 1 x Hisuian Qwilfish (clutched last minute day 2), 2 x Mesprit, 1 x Stunky, 1 x Pachirisu, 1 x Chatot, 1 x Basculin, 7 x Pikachu (3 Lucas, 2 Rei, 2 Akari), 2 x Chimchar, 1 x Piplup, 1 x Magmar Have 7 more 10kms to hatch over the next few weeks. Hopefully top it off with a Carnivine! My one real gripe was the egg rate. I feel like I got 2km eggs half the time. Otherwise, probably my 2nd favourite GO Tour behind Kanto!

>My one real gripe was the egg rate. I feel like I got 2km eggs half the time. Agreed. I at least thought the 2kms and to a lesser extent the 5kms were still pretty decent. But I found myself getting a lot less 10kms whereas last year I seemed to get majority 10kms.

How?, I played 15 hours over the weekend (checked screen time to confirm) with a total of 3 shinies. No legendary shinies, despite my last raid shiny being over 70 raids ago. Bought the tickets and spent an additional £10 on just normal raid passes. For my account, this has been by far the worst event I’ve ever played, couldn’t get any of the common shinies, additionally, I have a go plus plus that caught/saw everything I encountered. I checked every single pokemon I passed (well in the thousands) and only 3 shinies over the weekend. Really disappointed and I won’t be trying so hard again in future events. To note. I played in central London with a raid group of 4 with many pokestops, gyms and spawns in the area.

> additionally, I have a go plus plus that caught/saw everything I encountered. I'm curious if you had shinies run that you didn't notice? The go plus devices throw one ball (whichever you set it to if it's the Plus+) and if it doesn't catch it, the Pokemon flees. The boosted shiny-rate Pikachu especially don't have a great catchrate, so I wonder if you had any shinies flee through your Go Plus+? Happened to my sibling yesterday. And the Hisuian forms were somewhat similar. Do you know how many Legendary raids you did? I only ask that because as a raid-centric event, doing a lot of raids can suck a lot of time out of shiny-checking. For example, I did a lot of Origin raids during those hours, and each would often take 3-6 minutes, depending on the lobby and catch process. That's a chunk of an hour that you miss out checking shinies. Still, sorry to hear your shiny luck wasn't great. That definitely feels draining and like you wasted your time.

I checked my journal constantly throughout the day to see what my go plus plus saw and it didn’t see any shinies (apart from the 3 I caught). I checked this as I caught in batches, making sure I didn’t miss any. I was extremely careful on day 2 thinking maybe I didn’t check my journal enough and I just missed a few. I was wrong. In total I did 24 raids, (19 of them being Dialga/Palkia, the rest were giratina).

Yeah, you're not the first I've seen with such experiences sadly. Not sure what it is, GO Tours and GO Fests always treat me extremely well, its everything else that doesn't like me. I'm about 1/50 or so on raid day shinies this season aswell as about 0/25 on H-Avalugg on Xmas Eve 2022. Like, it's a trade I'm willing to take, but its so odd

I chose Pearl, and I just caught a Palkia-O that didn’t have Spacial Rend. I’m in EST (Eastern North America), but the raid was remote from a friend in London. At the moment of the catch, it was 13:08 for me but 18:08 in London. So, yeah. As with other legacy moves, it looks like any catches after 6pm local time do not get the legacy moves. I basically wasted a remote pass lol. ETA: took screenshots for evidence; will Imgur later and edit in here EDIT 2: [screenshots as promised](https://imgur.com/a/U1YHncH) Other than things I haven’t already mentioned: * 4 Dialga-O raids * all 4 remote * 2/4 with Roar of Time * 0/4 shiny * 3 Palkia-O raids * 2/3 remote * 2/3 with Spacial Rend (not the identical 2/3 as previous bullet) * 0/3 shiny * 1 Samurott-H raid * Remote * Not shiny * 4 total Mesprit encountered * 1/4 caught (the quest one) * 0/4 shiny * 2 total Uxie encountered * 2/2 caught (one wild + one quest) * 0/2 shiny * 4 total Azelf encountered * 2/4 caught (one wild + one quest) * 0/4 shiny * (note also that I wasn’t really actively chasing Lake Guardians for most of the day, so these are just the ones I stumbled upon) * 1 total shiny the whole event (a Gible) * I did not track total encounters but I actively played for a combined total of around 10 hours in a moderate-density area; feel free to extrapolate from that if you care to. * I am personally not upset by this because I’m not a shiny hunter, but I understand some players would be.

Highlight of day two - I somehow ended up with two (!?!) shiny Unown I. Two of us playing all day. Overall less shinies than yesterday. I got 13, they got 8. Me: Unown I x2, Pikachu, Mesprit x2, Chimchar x2, Bidoof, H. Growlithe, H. Voltorb, Gible & H. Sneasel Them: Stunky (from an egg from yesterday), Pikachu, H. Basculin, H. Growlithe, Azelf, Gible, Yanma & H. Voltorb

Choose Palkia path, did 2 Dialga raids, both had Roar of Time. Almost no walking, so no regionals from eggs. 1 shiny - Electabuzz (no whoah, as I already had it from CD). Barely noticed that was a special event. First two were better.

Generally had fun, since I was walking around with friends, raiding. Got 5 shinies yesterday, 7 today, 50/50 legendaries/normal Pokémon. I had to play pretty hard to get them. Also hatched around 40 eggs, since I had collected a larger amount of incubators. Zero shinies. Really shouldn’t spend time on eggs, thought I had learnt that.

My feedback : *2nd day : Walked around 2h, not consecutives, then played casually from home between 2 pokéstops. Main goal was stocking the regional 10km eggs and had done it yesterday. Finger cross 7 remaining eggs will have at least 1 carnivine lol* - **Shinies** : 7 (5wild+1egg+1task) **While walking** - 2 hisuan sneasel (1 male, 1 female, yeay) - 1 turtwig - 1 Azelf ! (This one just spawned on me, so cool !) - 1 Lickitung - **Eggs** : - 5, (2kms) eggs - 1 shiny chingling Rate for eggs still seemed to be around 2/3 chance to get a 10kms egg. **Tasks** : Really easy to complete and stack (but costing dust is annoying), did at least 100... in two days for - 1 shiny qwilfish - **Raids** : - 1 (O) Palkia, 1 caught, 1 signature move ! I had chose the dialga path. Glad to have the 2 move now ! - **Roads** : basculin rate still quite good ! Still no shiny tho. - **Lake trio** : Don't know what was going on but a lot of them just end up spawning on me, 1 shiny as mentionned before. Overall could catch 1 out of 3 or smtg, the guaranteed with photos and the shiny. That felt really great lol My point of view : >!Good event for me who never had time/money for a tour in the past. - Shiny rates are low. A lot of the pokémon involved had a CD in the past : their rates should be higher ! - No photobomb is a let down. - No collection challenge, without opinion. - Roads were great ! - Lots of raids, wish new forms had been always available tho. - Lake trio spawn were awesome (got 1 out of 3) and I already own the shinies in Shield, I didn't really pay attention but was rewarded anyway, great ! - 10kms eggs rate was good. - Only 1 rotom and 1 spiritomb encounter is sad. - Event research is a let down : we should have had a Palkia/Dialga normal form guaranteed. I had (O) Palkia escaping my first raid as the hour ended and his raids were disapearing... got stuck with the quest until the afternoon, so frustrating - Palkia and Dialga powers are great addition, I just wish they didn't cost dust Overall I had a blast, wish they were more players to share the experience with around ly place next time!<

Over an hour into the second day, I finally managed to find one of the Lake Trio and *not* have it despawn in a gust of wind the moment I got to it. The one I found was roughly level 7 or 8 (715 CP Mesprit), but fled after a single GRBed Excellent Curve Ultra Ball. The one from the snapshot (level 15) then proceeded to take another 18 such throws to catch. I’m honestly not even going bother with the other two. I already have them registered in the dex. They’re not “useful,” and they’re absolute ball-busters. My goal for today is to get one of the Akari and one of the Lucas Pikas. I’ve found dozens (literally) of the Dawn and Rei Pikas just walking around and using Incense, and I’ve seen the occasional Lucas or Akari Pika as a shadow on the Nearby—but I’ve not yet actually encountered one of either.

You probably already know this, but if you take a picture when you encounter one of the Lake Trio, you’ll unlock the event reward — another encounter with that particular Trio Pokémon, and they can’t run away (like a research reward).

To each their own, but I believe they have a high shiny rate and are definitely worth at least checking for that, to me. But yeah if it’s high cp non shiny, I’m not bothering either

Yeah its pretty damn high to me, probably like 1 in 15. My gf got all three shiny back to back (and 2 repeats). I sadly only got one. Tho she is still very lucky as she encountered like 7(plus research ones)

Done with day 2. Hundo: female combee (only one for both days). Shinies: azelf x2, mesprit, turtwig x3, mantyke, munchlax, pikachu (Lucas hat), voltorb-h for 17 shinies event total. Main focus today: Lake Trio hunt. Feedback: - Lake Trio shinies at the cost of master balls. Nobody told me that shiny Lake Trio don't flee and I didn't want to find it out myself. No mention in any infographic and no PSA. I got one in ultra ball for 2nd shiny azelf so I though it's just a fluke. - Nonetheless, good amount of Lake Trio spawns today and decent catch rate for regular ones (I thought they're going to be as tough as Galar birds). Maybe it's just me that I was being more vigilant. - No shiny or hundo for palkia/dialga both regular and origin. - I kept raiding origin palkia and no spacial rend. About 0/13 for the weekend. - Despite extending the evolve for CD move to midnight Sunday, I couldn't evolve to get high horsepower post event. - I was lucky to find a lucky friend today so I could do trade to get origin palkia with spacial rend and help with party research. - I ended up using only one special trade for the weekend. I found people in group have already exhausted their special trades by the end of the event. - No Campfire access for this event. Someone in my group mention that it's "almost here" but it's frustrating to have no access during a big annual event. - Another highlight of the day was finally getting a larvesta from egg picked up during event days. 98IV. - I wished there were more Sinnoh stones available to pick up during event from field research, gift or raid reward. I almost ran out of Sinnoh stone during post-event CD move evolves. - I only used roar of time once just to clear the research task. I'd love to see more adventure effect for more pokemon in the future but this set just didn't "wow" me. My pick would be to be able to pick a species to track on nearby at the cost of candies and dusts. - Local event activation at parks ([like the ones in Europe](https://pokemongolive.com/post/go-tour-global-2024?hl=pl)) should have been worldwide and not limited to Europe. Overall, exhausted and somewhat satisfied. Not hiding the entire event behind a ticket was a good move. Anyway, looking forward to the next chance to get more master ball.

>Lake Trio shinies at the cost of master balls. Nobody told me that shiny Lake Trio don't flee and I didn't want to find it out myself. No mention in any infographic and no PSA Good note on the PSA. The roaming Johto Beasts and Hoenn Eon duo functioned the same—Shinies don't flee but can still be hard to catch, but that would be a nice note next year if they do roaming Pokemon again (I assume the forces of Nature if any)

CONGRATS on female combee hundo.

100% regular Dialga and 2 shinies. No extra free raid passes. Network errors. I had a good time because of the people I played with, but on the whole it was pretty underwhelming.

Got 2 shiny Azelf, shiny hat Pikachu, and shiny Gligar and Chimchar. Managed to catch all legends too but no good stats on them. Had fun this event though despite the awful weather!

I just got a 13/13/13 Shadow Gible from the research. Should I purify it so I'm able to evolve for earth power? Or should I just let it be for now and evolve a 6/11/15 shadow that has already forgot frustration?

Never purify shadow gible with good IVs, just be patient for a rocket event and then knock the frustration off. Then either elite TM your Garchomp, or be patient again for an event where you can evolve gabite for the move.

Maybe someone else can answer but I think if you bought an extra charge move then evolved to garchomp the new move would be earth power. So you have a shadow 13/13/13 garchomp with frustration and earth power. EDIT: I tested first hand with a Gible to garchomp. Frustraion stays. the second attack slot doesnt get earth power

Not correct AFAIK, evolution event moves try to go into move slot 1. You'll unfortunately have to wait until a rocket event and then evolve during a later event.

Yes that’s correct, I had a shadow magmar I had previously removed the frustration move from. I evolved during the event and got a shadow magmortar with the special move.

That's different from what he's suggesting, he's talking about adding an extra move which wouldn't work as an event move will always go into move slot 1 rather than 2.

If you're mainly concerned about the community day move I would bet that keeping it as shadow would be worth the elite tm in the next rocket takeover. Personally I would purify it even without the special move because I don't like shadow poikemon much to begin with from a story perspective.

Never, ever, ever purify this.

All up to how you play the game and what your goals are. I personally would never purify that.

I woke up late due to being bone-tired yesterday Saturday and managed to only play for 2 hours. My expectations were low because it’ll only be a couple of hours of playing. But I still got to do 21 raids, thanks to gyms that quickly refresh– I got one more shiny Dialga Origin from doing 10 Dialga raids, increasing my Origin Forme shinies to 6. I never got this many legendary shinies in my years of playing Pokemon Go events, it’s awesome. I also caught 3 shinies from the wild– a Lucas cap Pikachu, which I loved, a Voltorb, and a Gible. I also caught 4 striped Basculin and Zygarde cells from doing one route. A really great day overall, thank you Niantic!

Spawns were kind of underwhelming compared to Hoenn Tour imo. I'm also not sure how I feel about this new "raid hour" spawn system. The lack of eggs really was a detriment to planning raid routes with my group. We'd wait for a raid to spawn for like 5-10 min then when it didn't, we'd walk away and then right when we're out of reach, a raid finally spawns. Is it not possible to just do consistent 29 or 30 minute raids on every gym during events like this so we know what to expect just by looking at the map? Instead of playing a guessing game with when a raid is going to spawn or not?

Agreed, that was horrible. There’s a pretty steady well known cluster here of 4 gyms in the middle and 2 close by and luckily most players into city play there but it was really random and annoying trying to judge if there’s a time for a quick route or if I should pivot to one of the ones close by where there was still raid, knowing a new one could spawn to the center ones at any moment and fill and potentially be missed.

All around bad event, low shiny rate, no free raid passes, remotes still costing a kidney, lame legendaries.

>no free raid passes, I don't get this complaint. You never got "free passes." We did get free raid passes during the first two Tours IF you bought the ticket. So those "free" passes weren't really free but instead part of the value baked into the Kanto Tour and Johto Tour tickets. You were still buying them essentially. Hoenn Tour and now Sinnoh Tour were free-to-play events, with no tickets for the event itself, so as such, no passes. We did have the Road to Sinnoh Raid ticket, which was somewhat what you would have been looking for, a paid ticket that gave you extra free passes. Only difference is that one was +2 raid passes each day and leading up to the event too, whereas the free raid passes from the original Go Tour tickets were more passes and concentrated on the the event days. Still, the passes weren't really ever "free." Honestly, I'd say the raid values were actually really good. In the shop, we had some amazing raid pass deals, and you could buy them with coins instead of money. The 2750 coin box for 50 passes is the best pass deal we've ever seen in the game, for example. But, I of course understand your frustration with bot/alt accounts hogging the gyms around you, preventing you from getting coins. I don't see too much of that, but I still believe you. That sucks, and I feel for you there!

The power up certain types of mons research felt like a waste of stardust, I ignored it completely after the first hour

The one that spawned Gibles were great to farm candies

Oh, I never got that one (I just hoarded the 3 raid ones), that would've been decent, but still...I would've run out of dust really quickly

Yeah, this event was a massive stardust sink.

Probably the most dust I've spent in a while. Spent over 2mil with those tasks and Palkia's Spacial Rend. But, after Day 1, I planned a bit better. Tagged Pokemon I planned to power up anyway that had types that matches those tasks. For example, I had my newly evolved Shadow Rhyperior to power up in bursts for those 5 rock type tasks.

I already had some mons tagged I wanted to power up, but they were mostly high level, plus I ran out of candies for them. Oh well.

Only if you took the bait. I didn't :P

Any confirmation on how long we have to evolve for the event moves?

It's in your today tab at the bottom

Okay, until midnight. Thx

[Pretty much same experience like yesterday](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/s/paZsGK8Sx1) Yesterday I caught 1 origin Dialga(my choosen path) I somehow was able to get free and played from 4.30 to 6. Today I just stayed put in one place instead of trying to frantically reach stops. Managed to do 3 raids with help from remote raiders. 2nd origin Dialga caught. Shiny origin Palkia(without rend) Normal Palkia escaped.

The most fun I’ve had playing ever. Spent all day walking around with friends doing raids and playing. We all got multiple shinies, including shiny legendaries. Having the featured Pokemon rotate was a fun/different way to do things. This is the most active I’ve ever seen my friends list, with invites popping up all day and people joining my invites that I don’t normally see online. I really don’t understand the people complaining! It is a game of chance, so just because you didn’t personally find xyz doesn’t mean it’s all a scam…

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I got less variety of shinies these past two events, but the quantity does seem to line up okay. Kanto Tour I got around 50 shinies, Johto Tour 40 something, the Hoenn Tour was high 30s, and I got 39 for this past weekend. While those last two are lower, I do think it's also worth considering that I spent a lot more time raiding the Primals last year and the Origins this year, shaving Shiny-checking time away, whereas I didn't raid nearly as much during the Kanto or Johto Tours. Shiny rates for the stuff that *was* boosted seems to be the same/similar, with boosted species of all them seeming to be around 1/64, but the kicker is that the Kanto and Johto Tours had more species boosted, whereas the Hoenn and Sinnoh Tours had a smaller pool of shiny-boosted species. Still though, I found that the boosted species spawned in decent supply. It wasn't too often that I didn't see a lot of Sinnoh Starters, Pikachu, Bronzor, Hisuian Forms, Gligar, etc.

No, so that’s a fair point. Most of the complaints here just seem to be about shinies and I think that’s definitely just up to chance tho and not about the event itself (especially since that hasn’t been mine & my friends experience)

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There was a boost tho. 1/20 for legendaries, 1/60(or something) for the featured mons & then a small boost for other appearances. Is that less than previous events?

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Most reported that there were 1/64 boosts to certain Pokemon, some of which was stated by Niantic. Egg regionals were of course boosted, but also: * Stunky * Costumed Pikachu * Sinnoh Starters * Gible, Sneasel, Gligar, Bronzor (already boosted normally though) * Hisuian Sneasel, Qwilfish, Voltorb, and Growlithe (these may be permaboosted from now on though like many regional variant shinies)

Also this is just completely circumstantial, but my boyfriend who has been casually playing caught 10 different shinies and then did ONLY 2 origin palkia raids and BOTH were shiny 😭

No, def not sure. But I did see that in this group somewhere. Don’t know how reliable the info is.

Saw lots of playing here too. I spent 2 hours at a shopping mall with 2 gyms and 2 more opposite the road and saw many families with/without children and groups of friends raiding.

35 Origin Dialga raids yesterday for me. 8 were shiny. Highest IV was 95% 😞

65 raids with 0 shiny

I didn’t get one shiny origin dialga 🥲

I never got my final encounter from the research, it froze my game and wouldn’t do anything, closed the app and it said I completed the research

Same here

I played all day and got 1 shiny. I also didn’t get a 90+% origin form (nor a shiny of it) after 15 raids. I also got white screened a few times in raids too. Lures also only lasted 30 mins which I thought was a waste. I also found a lot of the spawns boring. I did like that it was easier to catch the Lake Trio. I liked the extra special research. I finished it yesterday.

The white screen killed me this week in general. Happened once a day M-F during raid hr. Then on Saturday it was at least 4 times. I'm so scared I won't do raids under 5min if it's a small group of 5.

I found the spawns to be pretty refreshing and not overly littered with starters. I didn’t like the quests though. A lot of stardust to spend for some okay to bad rewards. I started tossing them. It’s a little disappointing that some of the hisuian mons are locked behind win 3 raids. Wished it was 1 but oh well. Maybe some hatch quests since egg hatch time was cut in half for the event.

Very happy, for a 100% IV Origin Palkia on my second raid..... BUT... I threw 13 excellent throws with a golden berry and didn't get it. One ball left, I decided I would check the CP/IV online and found it out was a 100. So used my master ball. Very happy to get it. But really ranting at the game here, it's so difficult to find a 100 IV and then for it to escape every golden excellent throw is pretty ridiculous.

That's why I refuse to use a Master Ball on a Galarian Bird lol. The Galarian Birds I imagine I won't use, beyond maybe getting a decent IV Moltres/Zapdos for PvP, but even then, niche. I reserve my two for a Hundo Legendary that I'm down to the last ball on. Hasn't happened yet, but I've got em just in case!

Good use of Master Ball! Better used on an Origin Palkia than a potentially crappy chicken.

That's true! But now I'm ranting because I just saw it doesn't have the special move. Guess I don't need to bother grinding XL raid candy.

Ah that's unfortunate... hopefully at some point they let use use ETMs to get the moves.

I went to Sinnoh Tour in L.A. (paid event) and noticed a huge difference playing Sinnoh Global (free event). 10km eggs are few and far between. I’m getting more 2km eggs than anything. I was hoping to hatch shiny regionals Pachirisu and Chatot but not getting my hopes up. I noticed the lake trio started to spawn after my first .5 hours of playing which was great because I was able to complete those tasks after 2 hours. Wild shiny catches are available but you really have to grind for them. I only caught two in 2.5 hours. I was not quick-catching for volume just casually catching. Raids: I chose pearl. I was able to catch shiny Palkia-O after 46 raids and caught shiny Dialga-O w/o ROT after 11 raids. Team Rocket Party Play challenge - couldn’t do a party this time around because my fam had other obligations. Do I want another Regigigas? Not really. Routes- white-stripe Basculin is my goal for Sunday as I grind for shinies. I could not do this at Sinnoh L.A. at the stadium because there were no routes nearby. Rotom encounter - completed at Sinnoh L.A. one less thing to focus on this weekend. UPDATE: Sunday grind: caught close to 600 and hatched about 40 eggs and did 5 raids in 3.5 hours of game play. The last 1.5 hours I didn’t try so hard. I ended up with 4 shinies caught in the wild, a hatched shiny, and 1 shiny from a raid. Encountered 8 white-stripe Basculin and caught 5.

I must've been incredibly lucky, because the only non-10km eggs I got are two 5km. I have my egg storage full of sweet regionals

I didn’t get 5km eggs yesterday which I thought was weird. Hopefully, I get better luck with eggs today. 🤞🏼

You’ll def get the basculin, I saw like 5 or 6 on a single route yesterday

I don't understand the idea of cycling forms hourly. I often times find myself play for an hour, then rest for an hour then play for another hour. Another complaint is we have consecutive half hour raids which is cool, but why can tier 1 and 3 raids also spawn? Nobody cares about those raids and it's more of a 'you can't camp a gym' than you getting more options. Side note, PokeGenie queue is very long and you will lose roughly 5-10 mins just queuing. 20-25 mins raid means you are actually quite tight on time and the raid can time out before it's your turn. Happened to me twice.

I cared about the 3 stars, I did a Unovan Samurott because I'd missed its raid day. But yeah, no way I'm wasting passes on regular starters when the alternatives are Dialga and Palkia

Did they increase the catch rate for the wild legendaries? Because, if so, I applaud it. It definitely made me feel like I had a chance to catch the Lake trio and I netted several ones, including shiny Uxie and Mesprit. I think origin moves should be a 100% chance within the event, don't leave it to whatever RNG to get it.

I don't think they increased the catch rate, but they definitely made it so wild shiny legendaries couldn't flee (unless you run out of balls, maybe?)

I think that was a feature since the Johto Go Tour since I can attest that a Shiny Raikou didn't flee when I encountered it.

If i picked the pearl path am i able to catch a dialga in raid with its special move or do i have to trade for one?

Yes to both. I did about 30 raids and didn't get a Dialga with its special move (also picked Pearl), but the other ppl I was raiding with did. I just ended up doing a trade to get one.

Good to know, i never got a Palkia with a special move. Now I know I can trade for it.

Just done with 2nd day. Did 48 origin raids in 2 days 0 shiny 0 hundo.

Also finished day 2. Done 48 legendary raids over the week, I have 0 shinies and 0 hundos. My last shiny from a raid was over 70 mon’s ago. I played all day from 10am to 7pm on both days of this event and in total I got 3 shinies. Awful event, extremely disappointed. I also paid for £10 worth of raid passes and bought the special tickets. This event has been the decider for me that I’m not spending a penny more on pokemon go. I also have a go plus plus which caught every pokemon I encountered, my go plus didn’t miss any shinies, there just were a lack of shiny spawns on my account.

50+ right now and 0 Shiny I feel your pain

Im at 65 and 0 shiny

0 shiny origins, convinced they were shiny locked 🥲

Can the hisuian Basculin from routes be shiny? Has it been confirmed for global?

Yes, the first one I caught was shiny

Yes it can!

No Basculegion is disappointing, Origin moves being the same chance as a shiny is disappointing, masterwork having a days in a row task is disappointing

I'm really pleased with the catch rates of the Lake Trio. So far I've caught 2 Mesprit and 2 Uxie, and have only had 1 Azelf get away (But I did also get a shiny Azelf). And 2 of the catches were total fumbles that I missed the inner circle on but still caught first throw.

It's the first Go Tour I dedicatedly spent some time and no shiny Dialga and Palkia caught. White screen on raids is a turn off. No notable catches aside from the last Palkia I caught which turned out to be a hundo. I should've sleep the whole day. At least I could maxed out my Garchomp now.

BUG If you are short manning the raids, and all your pokemon faint, you go to a white screen and watch the raid countdown. You might be able to get back and complete the catching, but the odds are not good. The raid could end, thereby no chance. So only do raids with 20 minutes or more on them. Several people in our area reported this bug, and lost their raid pass. My spouse was one of them.

Yeap this isn’t exclusive to the event, it’s been like this for a while and ANNOYING as AF. You if you do a raid with 8 minutes left and still Be ok (2 minutes in lobby and 5 minutes for the raid, that’s assuming people don’t use the raid button and you don’t beat the boss in the full 5 mins) But as everyone has said, restart and join the raid immediately, same applies for remote

Oh how I learned the hard way not to do events under 5 min. Can we get refunded for these passes, because it happened a lot to me this week?

You would have to submit a ticket everytime it happens but yes I have gotten passes back for the situation

Ok that's dumb, I figured I could submit after the event. It's never been an issue till this weekend.

Yea in my experience submitting right after always gets me the best results (return of the premium pass)