Pokémon GO's Latest Event Is On Right Now, And There's A Brand New Shiny Pokémon

I grabbed a bunch of dog pokemon yesterday and will continue today and tomorrow to get that 3x Stardust. I didn't realize there was a shiny variant of Poochyena, that's good to know! I'll nab as many as I can in my pursuit. And before people ask, yes, I'm still playing Pokemon Go. It makes for some good entertainment when walking to/from work, and when walking my dogs.

Pokémon Go is pointless.

I caught a shiny poochyena last night and evolved him so exciting! About 30 min later my son caught a shiny luvdisc

I quit playing Pokemon GO when they made it easier to take over Gyms, it sucked because before that change I was able to get about 20-30 gold coins in a day, sometimes more. After the change I would capture a gym and it would be gone within 2 minutes. That and the lack of events when I was playing killed the game for me.

I don't think I ever really understood the whole thing with shinies.

@-DG 2 minutes? Bloody hell. Where were you playing? Must have been a really competitive area. My Pokemon usually hang on long enough to get the full 50 coins.
Personally, I'd never want the gyms to go back the way they were.

@-DG It's not easier to take down gyms at all, not solo like before. You don't even knock the lowest pokemon out when you win, just lower its CP. It takes a long time to take one gym by yourself, so you must be getting hit by organised groups.

Oh yeah, that still exists.

@Baker1000 I was wrong, what they did was they made it easier to take gyms out, but they made it incredibly hard to build them up beyond like level 2 or 3. So before the change I could take a Gym, get it to level 4 myself, and be pretty confident that other trainers would fill it in and build it up to level 10 by the end of the day, making the gym stable. The change made it to where I could take a gym, and build it to level 2, but a rival trainer could take the gym down in less than 5 minutes.

I live in Cincinatti OH. Btw. The competition was fierce over here.

Edit: Also keep in mind everythi g I just said was related to changes that were made about a year ago. Things could be vastly different now.

You know you are a professional journalist, when you have to rely on a clickbait title to get views. Thankfully not many people didn't fall for it on this one (proud to say I am an adblock user)

No thanks, got better games to play.

I quit playing Pokemon GO when they made it

@Pod just extra bling. Also since they have high trade value in the mainline games, breeding shinies with perfect IVs and egg moves allowed me to trade up to get very good legendaries to round out my collection back in XY.

@SomeWriter13
But the shinies are not actually stronger in any way? They just look a bit different?

@-DG nah it's still the same. It is hard to keep a gym occupied for long, but you can only gain a max of 50 coins a day regardless of how many gyms you have with pokemon on. And you only receive the coins when they get knocked out so even if they are there for 3 days you get no more than 50, maybe less if you've taken coins from another gym that day. That's what killed the gyms off for me, and smacks of trying to get players to spend more real money. Before this people were holding 10+ gyms for days/weeks and taking coins from them all. In a way, it's better that people can't hog gyms but there's no reward for doing so now.

@Pod yup. Identical gameplaywise aside from the sparkle when they enter combat. So I don't feel bad about trading them away if I get Pokedex or combat-useful Pokemon in return.

I really wish I cared, seriously. Was so good, but the lack of big updates early on, almost becoming a chore to play effectively, and eating away at my phone (and time for that matter) made GO impossible to continue for me.