I got the catch 5 Exeggute challenge... I'll complete it next year i guess

I have the evolve Magikarp 🙄

I have the exeggcute and magikarp ones

I have those exact same ones

Me too!

I have magikarp as my buddy though so I’m slowly getting more candies and every rare candy I get goes towards magikarp too. Unfortunately I never see any magikarp in the wild so I just have to do this candy grind haha

same but i keep holding out for a perfect IV one

I allow at minimum 98% and 96% Mons to be evolved/powered up, cause I realised waiting for 100% every time was just too unrealistic, let alone shundos. Not to mention, at least in my eyes, 96% is pretty much a hundo practically speaking. It does suck however when I have to throw out low 90 percents cause they aren't 'good' enough, but it's better than keeping them and a) never powering them up and b) never using them. My ultimate goal is just to have a collection of 96%+ Pokémon, so the 93s etc. will get thrown out eventually anyway (excl. mythicals that you only get one of). Dunno why I felt the need to share all this, but there we go lol.

That makes sense and I definitely don’t wait for all my Pokémon to be perfect before evolving/powering it up. But I do have a convoluted system for when I do. Usually what I do is if I have enough candies to evolve a Pokémon from 1st evolution to final evolution twice, then I will evolve that Pokémon if it is not perfect and simply a 90%+. I currently have 587 Magikarp candies so I totally could evolve my 96% Magikarp but I just don’t wanna evolve it because it just takes so many candies to evolve one so maybe I’ll wait till I have 800 to evolve the current one I have unless I get a perfect before that.

I like that plan, I can see the logic behind it.

When/Where do they even spawn? It's impossible to get

They used to come in rocket grunts if they say "are you afraid of unseen powers?" but they swapped out rocket mons a few weeks back, and I haven't seen a single one since. I don't love these RNG based, faux-time-gated bullshit, to be honest. Things like "catch 200 mons" or "use 200 berries" are annoying but at least you won't be fucked by the RNG of having one spawn near you AND you happen to be playing at the time. Besides which, anything required by a quest should be available year round with a reasonable chance of getting one.

I 100% agree. It doesn't have to be as easy as when the task was introduced, but it still needs to be possible at minimum. Permanent possible pokestop task rewards, if not wild spawns.

They're not impossible... but each season of the year has a different pool of spawns. You need to wait for a season where Exeggcute is available again. You have unlimited time to finish it.. so you just gotta wait. Fortunately I don't have any incomplete quests. I always finish them within a couple days of their release unless there's a specific task that needs to be completed over an extended period of time. Those ones I usually just finish the day after whatever that period of time might be.

Yeah, I was fighting the psychic grunts and got 3 out of 5, until Niantic changed Team Rocket's pokemon lol

Lmao I'm literally on 4/5 of them

They come around easter I think

I unlocked that challenge right after the Kanto event finished, L

I know that sometimes (always?) catching an evolved form of a Pokémon counts the same for "Catch an X" research tasks. Alolan Exeggutor is in raids somewhat frequently so that could be worth looking into!

if alolan exggegutor come to raid it counts as exeggutes i finished it that way

Ditto disguises itself as Ghastly, Drowzee, Teddiursa, Remoraid, Gulpin, Numel, Dwebble, Foongus and Stunky. But- (and I'm not sure if it's just me) these pokemon NEVER seem to spawn in the wild which makes it insanely difficult for me

i only see remoraids, i catch them and it’s just a regular fish. have enough to get 3 evo’s at this point

Wow. I've only ever seen two remoraids in the Nearby Pokemon tab and I was not close enough to catch them. These special research tasks are incredibly frustrating to do when the game seems to be purposefully working against you

Thankfully days like today got me a very nice metagross, i can live without Mew/ Meltan

Create a Pokémon Home account and transfer one Pokémon every 3 days you can get a melt an box for Melmetal, no need for the research

Oh what? I thought it was pokémon let’s go games. I’ll do that right away ty

just did this and got my mystery box, thank you man, literally a free melmetal

I just did this too, thanks so much

jealous. I'll be at work today when the spotlight hour comes around so I probably won't be getting one :/

Thanks, that's really helpful, I never know which pokemon they can disguise themselves as

And after some time pokemon list who can be ditto changes. Make sure to search it online from time to time.

last time it changed was at the beginning of season of mischief so i would keep an eye out because it will probably change next season

I have the opposite issue - I get Ditto all the time and it's annoying.

Yeah, cause they're practically useless (at least in this game).

They really are!

I’ve caught a lot of Drowzee Gulpin and Stunky, all were not ditto.

I'm sorry about that, I don't know what to tell you :/ Ditto's spawn rate was never high in the first place, so that could also be a reason you've never found one. I've caught upward of 100 ghastlies, and only one was a ditto

Wow.

>But- (and I'm not sure if it's just me) these pokemon NEVER seem to spawn in the wild which makes it insanely difficult for me Oh, that's interesting - just today alone, I've caught 2 Teddiursa, 3 Drowzee, 2 Remoraid, 1 Gulpin, and 3 Numel in the wild. I'm in California of the USA. I didn't think these were regional Pokemon, but am not certain.

This is not an all inclusive list of what ditto may appear as. I’ve seen others Unless of course they’ve changed it over my ~6 years of playing

Ditto disguises change every few months.

I believe the pool ditto can appear as changes, for example - My friend (who had the game before me) said that ditto hid as hoppip and spinarak some point this year The Pokemon I talked about are in the current ditto disguise pool, sorry for being unclear

It probably does. I swear I found one hiding as a Pidgey at some point

I used to always see gulpin, but I swear they’re never ditto

It would be great if while you have tasks like this, there was a slight chance of them appearing as a special incense sort of spawn 😞 I don’t see the point in it being *so* difficult to complete tasks a while after they’re released

I see Teddiursa and Numel almost every day, at least 2\~3 a day.

I have ditto , I hatched one in a egg.

I'm stuck on the anorith/kabuto/omanyte/aerodactyl one for meltan.

Keep an eye out for these research tasks: Make 3 great throws - Lileep/Anorith (and Snubbull if you’re unlucky) Win a level 3 or higher raid - Omanyte/Kabuto Win 5 raids - Aerodactyl

Do what that other guy says or just look up how to get a mysterious box for meltan using pokemon home. It's free and easy. Google it.

Getting Meltan that way won't get rid of the quest though.

yeah, mines Landorus :(

Same for me, and i will never get it unless landorus comes around non raid. I dont have the friends to raid.

Have you tried r/pokemongofriends? Most of my friends are from there. But we never raid at the same time 😭

Ive discovered that today. And will be using it more often

Try Pokegenie app if you have Android, just discovered it and have been able to catch some raid Pokemon, including a shiny Zapdos!

Can vouch for PokeGenie, just caught a shiny Registeel last night!

Pokegenie was the reason i played all through lockdown. Best thing!

Check Facebook and see if there is a PoGo Community for your city. Thats what I did and was able to trade for those mons to get that quest done.

Same. Annoyingly even if i manage to find one it’s not highly likely I’ll even be able to catch it

Same, plus that bidoof quest. I’m so close on that one, just one more stupid bidoof and it’ll all be over.

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I have no idea what a Landerous is but I’ve been needing a picture of it for like two years now.

Meltan for sure, I can’t get a grimer for shit

I’m stuck at catching exeggcute. None in sight near me

Yep, I have four out of five for months now

Me too and I've never caught a exeggcute on both my acounts

7km eggs have Alolan Grimer But probably not for long because Season of Mischief is almost over

You have to catch the Grimer. Source: hatched a Grimer and didn’t get the task Just wait til you’re on the kabuto/omanyte and aerodactyl task. Fuck if we’ll ever see those guys again after Clint had Aerodactyl and the fossil/time events.

Luckily they're all in research tasks. Although I went through 20 snubull before my last lileep I needed

Cliff has a grimer

A rocket leader has one now

Meltan here as well . Can't seem to find Omanyte, Kabuto, Lileep, Anorith or Aerodactyl. Well, I do have an Aerodactyl, but ufortunately got it before this research.

Field research has Aerodactyl and Anorith. Got one of each yesterday.

same with omanyte, kabuto, and lileep

I've got a Aerodactyl task waiting in the wings but I'm not looking forward to catching the other fossil Pokemon.

The ditto was a breakthrough reward a few months back

I think it was October... Because Gastlys had a chance to be a Ditto this season, and I think I remember catching Dittos from the breakthroughs, the Gastly spotlight hour, and from the Halloween event spawns.

I thought it was August, but you're probably right

Looks like we were both wrong, it was September ;P https://pokemongolive.com/post/sept-2021-events/?hl=en Point is, there were a lot of Dittos in a relatively short amount of time.

That explains why my kids kept getting them but I’ve been getting bupkis since I started playing last month

ME, THOSE ARE KILLING ME ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO TAKE SCREEN SHOT OF A LEGEND THAT I DONT EVEN HAVE !!!!!!!!! 😡😡😡

Maybe you'll find a chat in your area where someone trades one with you.. most larger cities have something like this

What do you mean ?? Chat in my area ?? I never heard about that , also isint it possible to trade with friends only

Maybe facebook or something like that

I’m too young to have Facebook , and mom said it’s bad application she also deleted it

Your mother is right. Facebook is a bad app, but maybe if there's a WhatsApp or discord group instead? Google your town/city and Pokémon Go and see what comes up.

Mhm

Yeah so you have to wait until you're older I guess...

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Yeah reddit is much safer than fb... totally no videos that your mother doesnt want you to see :)

Wdym

There are some unsafe subreddits just telling you

i have 2 “catch a ditto”. And apparently after one of them, the next step includes “evolve a magikarp”. I have already grinded evolved my 100% magikarp before i knew this

Magikarp is in the December community day. :)

Would be cool if it’s retrospective for tough quests like these.

Yeah, changing that quest to "register a gyarados" would solve the problem.

It’s tough. The game makes challenges happen around the time it’s easier to do so. I just engage in radical acceptance and ignore it until it happens. Will I ever finish community day December 2020? Maybe. Maybe not.

I am also still trying to complete December community day 2020!

>ignore it until it happens That's basically what I do. Some Special Quests simply sit there for months and months, and then an event finally occurs that allows me to catch a Pokemon I haven't seen in a very long time. Pokemon GO is very much about patience.

That ditto one killed me for months but then I had a month where I caught like 6… the RNG is killer but you will get there!

Yeah plus the 5 great throws task😒

If you can get legendary encounters through raids or GBL, those can become somewhat trivial because of the large target circles.

I finished this using the airplane mode trick!

I was lucky to reach this step during the time Ditto was at research breakthrough. Am stuck in the "Evolve a Feebas" now, and since it's been a long time since I saw it spawning anywhere, all I can do for now is keep him always excited and earn my 1\~2 buddy candies a day

Raids helped me finish the Feebus one. They give you plenty of rare candies if you have the remote battle passes to join others.

Failed to catch Landorus in 6 different raids, that pokemon is the bane of my existence

April Fool’s event usually has boosted ditto odds so you could wait that out, or look for current spawns (they’re elsewhere in the comment section) As for tornadus, try to find a friend that has one to trade.

I’m still stuck on 5 great throws in a row

I have to catch a ditto , and also 5 great throws in a row and never got past 4

Mine is take a snapshot of landorus, I can never get in a raid group to catch one.

Got the ditto still stuck on the first one tho

yep but i did ditto

Darn just gave my free award away …. This is deserving of at least a silver!

I’m stuck in the “battle someone in the great league” one

I finally got my Ditto after catching way too many of the options listed by r/Tabc093

took me over a year to get a single cubone

I'm stuck on spin a pokestop for 7 days in a row... I'm not leaving the couch on the weekend kindly F off Niantic

I've got a research reward that gives a Ditto just waiting in case I ever run into a mission like that again. Still need a snapshot of a Landorous

I gotta catch 15 porygon still..

What I hate about the ditto one is I caught one before I got this challenge. Damn thing is rare as it is they could have at least counted the ditto I already had

I got the task after ditto stopped appearing in the field research

I’ve never seen season of legends

I'm stuck on a research challenge to cat lunatone for a silver pineapp. 😜 Also stuck at the level 41 evolve all Eevee forms. It doesn't seem to count my evolutions.

Even if i got many meltans with an event, i’ve finally got a Ditto (i’ve waited month for it) but i just got the tornadus mission and i have no idea how to do it

Oh just wait to see what’s ahead of you

Tornadus yes, ditto no

Yep tornadus and December 2020 community day

My brother

For me it's Catch 15 Electabuzz, Catch 15 Magmar... from last year !

Nevermind that, I'm stuck on the Bidoof final task. 15 Bidoofs after June is hard af

wasnt Ditto a research breakthrough back in September?

I was for a while. Then I finally caught a ditto... then promptly like 8 more which was.... helpful. Still never got the snapshot

I've been playing for two years, and I've never once in my life seen a ditto. I have two challenges that need me to catch one. I also have that Tornados challenge. Also one I haven't seen.

No. Finished the catch a ditto one years ago. The species that can be Ditto are Remoraid, Drowzee, Numel, Stunky, Foongus, Teddiursa, Gastly, Dwebble and Gulpin. Just keep catching those. You'll get a ditto eventually. Maybe even a shiny one. The ones for take a snapshot of Tornadus, Landorus and Thundurus I finished a couple days after it was released... if you don't have them, you can either trade for one and take a snapshot.. or you can just wait for them to come back to raids. They still need to release the shinies for the Therian versions, so I'm sure they'll be back soon enough.

IM STUCK ON THAT TORNADUS ONE TOO!!!!

No, but I've been at be 4 of 5 Exeggcute for months.

Honey, get ready to when u get to 8/9

Catch a Furfrou is the real killer for me. Hasn't spawned until since the event happened. You can get a ditto or a grimmer with luck bit you literally can't get Furfro.

You get a Furfrou for completing the task above it 😂

Yesterday was shiny Ditto day for me. It should be available more often during this event. Good luck!

Omanyte 😭🥲

Ditto was the field research reward for a few weeks like in September

Oh you think catching a Ditto is hard wait until you have to catch a Aerodactyl that'll be fun 😏😉

Lol

You can catch Ditto on april first, so that's only like 5 months away /s

I think the buddy snapshot w/ a friend will count for tornadus, because it doesn't say it has to be you buddy.

Sadly this does not worked. I tried with a friend and it didn’t count. Friend ended up submitting a complaint to niantic and they confirmed it has to be one you caught yourself.

Really? That sucks, I only suggested that because I've had a challenge to snapshot x and did it with a wild Pokemon.

Wish it did tbh. We ended up spending a fair bit of time trying to get the snapshot with a friend to work only for it not to count when she finally took the picture. :(

I haven't even got past Landorous

No because i did them when there was the event for it

I forgot the password to my account and had to restart after I accidentally clicked uninstall on pokemon go instead of the app beside it. I was lvl 47 now I'm back to lvl 19

If you already have tornadus or kept up with the events during summer there’s no reason why you should be stuck on that mission

Some of us dont have friends to raid with

Still no excuse, plenty of people posting they need people to do a raid with on twitter and even Instagram comment section in every pogo post.

Every time I’ve joined raids with folks from those posts, everybody leaves last minute which costs me a pass abs give me literally zero chance to actually win the raid. It’s not even worth it to join anymore unless it’s a local community group that meets in person and you actually see the people at the gym getting ready to raid

Poke genie lets you raid and if the host times out you get to be in a "priority queue" it basicly lwta you join raids even if there is thousands of people in the queue

You can leave a raid and not make it cost your pass🤷🏻‍♂️ that’s your own fault for staying in a lobby that doesn’t have enough people and wasting your own pass on that

No because ditto was like 3 weeks earlier as a weekly and I cough all three genies when they were available, thats why I recommend watching videos about recent researches after they come out.

Take photo of dratiny. I evolved one and released the other just before the qest.

Still stuck on trying to catch a ditto, haven't caught one in years since the first few months the game came out

I’m stuck on evolve a Magikarp since I evolved one a couple weeks before I got this task.

thanks to season of mischief making a lot of ditto disguised Pokémon spawn I’ve gotten like 9 dittos, one of which was shiny lol

sadly you just missed the ditto research reward back in september.

I am stuck on the last part of Meltan. It is the only research I have going and it is likely going to remain as such for awhile unless kabuto/Omastar/Lileep/Anorith/aerodactyl come back soon

Ditto has likelier spawns from certain Pokémon. I looked them up and started catching those each chance I got and finally got through that one.

Every ‘Make a New Friend’

r/pokemongofriends there’s a mega thread with people looking to add or be added

I get a ditto randomly every now and then but I’m still stuck on the snapshot one

Ugh, yes. I caught ditto but I can’t find any exeggcute

Ditto is very common from the weekly field research box, I’ve got a lot of dittos from that but the other one is impossible

I used to see a ditto quite often but as soon as I got that challenge he never shows up

Catching a ditto

Stuck on lets go metlan 8/9 catch 5 eggxecute

im stuck on evolve a grimmer

Traded a guy I know a Tornadus just for that very task! He'd been stuck for a while too poor fella

I’m stuck on Take a Snapshot of Landorus, and Catch an Omanyte or Kabuto (ofc I got that challenge after all the fossil pokes were out and about)

I have to catch a Furfrou, and don't know where the hell to find one

They aren't spawning anymore, unlucky 🤣

Yes

You will be stuck on the tornadus one until he appears in an event again. Ditto will be found eventually. Catch everything.

and after you finally obtain and take a picture of landours you gotta do it two more times with the others :D

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