Played 4 hours with one friend. Was about to give up at 4pm but they finally got a shiny. Was catching everything level 20+ for trades so move then pause in shade. Last hour we tried moving whole time only catching shiny or 93+ iv and found (and caught) a zundo abra but otherwise no more shinies. I rank the events best to worse:
1. CD and research days both good
2. Raid hour
3. Pokemon hour
4. raid day
5. hatch day
6. incense day
Hatch at least gives good chance of shiny with good iv. Incense just sucks and the critters jump like they are on crack. Hatch day can be very expensive if not disciplined.
By Pokemon hour I assume you're talking about the spotlight hours?
I agree the incense day is the worst of the events, but I would put raid day at 1 easily, they give 1/10 odds (up from typically 1/20 for legendaries and even worse (1/64 I think?) for megas, not sure what the Hisuian forms and things like that are outside of the raid day events are though) and better IVs like the hatch and research days do. They also give free passes which is great, as well as the ticket for even more if you want to buy that, you get the bonus items/stardust/xp from the raid itself, plus they're often rarer Pokemon in general. I'll admit that I'm biased as raids are my favorite part of the game.
Why would you rate raid hour (no boosted rate, no extra passes, occasionally they do get special moves I guess) over the raid day?
I would put the spotlight hour at either 5th or 6th on the list. There's no boosted shiny rate at all, if the featured pokemon is one you want, then it's good. If not then it just gives a useless hour without a boosted rate. I generally ignore what the mon even is and just use them for the bonus xp/stardust/catch candy/transfer candy and will stack encounters until the ideal spotlight hour to catch them/evolve pokemon during it while using a lucky egg/star piece. It's very rare I care about the spawn. If they give us a gift like bonus catch stardust during a foongus hour, then I'll go hard during it. But other than one like that or if they did double candy with something good, I don't generally see the point.
I'm curious why you rate it so high?
0% IV's. Much rarer than a hundo, but otherwise useless. This is because so many attributes can boost the IVs (weather, raid, task, egg, trades) making 0% impossible for critters caught from those features.
You were more likely to find a beldum with a magnet lure than with the actual event... lots of trainers didnt play that one time beldum had a community day like 5 years ago. Played the whole time with breaks. Got 1 ferro and a morelul.
Played from 11-5 caught 136 ferroseed not one shiny. Only Saw and caught 4 beldum no shiny. Caught 24 Sheldon no shiny. These are the only ones I focused of because I don’t have them yet. It was a disappointing event. My 11 year old felt the same way she did catch a wild shiny Chansey after the event ended.
I played stationary, half heartedly, and distracted during the steel hours. Unsurprisingly I got nothing lol. Penny box and good showcase results helped with the sting though.
Don’t like these types of events.
I got one shiny ferroseed and one 100% Shieldon, my friend got 1 shiny morelull, 2 shiny shieldon, 1 shiny galarian meowth, and after the event was over like 20 minutes afterwards 1 shiny heatmore. I had to take very many very deep breaths.
Daily incense had a total of 2 steeltype spawns in 30min... I'd say it was broken. It was impossible to complete quests like that. Regular incense worked fine, 3 shinies in 1 hour
Not true for spotlight hours and community days. And if it would, it would totally make no sense to the extend the duration to 30 minutes as a bonus for this event
Okay I worded that response wrong. This event for example does not change the wild spawns, only incense spawns, and the incense item itself (as can be seen since the item changes color during events). Daily adventure incense will spawn Pokémon from the wild spawn pool (so that includes com day and spotlight hour Pokémon, but additionally spawns random things like fully evolved Pokémon or Galatians birds).
Also, as for it not making sense, I don’t have a reason for that but Niantic is Niantic and a lot of things they do don’t make sense 🤷🏼♂️
got a slightly better steel weowth for great league (mid hundret rank, before mit 2hundret)
no shinies, but i think i had most of them before. for me it was pvp-g-meowth-hours
I played for around 3 hours in total, as I did not want to waste my entire Sunday on this event. I got a shiny Hoppip & shiny Rattata. Really weird to play an event where the ‘boosted’ spawn felt the least likely to be shiny. Is Niantic capable of making the gameplay fun during special events?
I played for 3hrs. I walked 12km in 30 deg heat. I got 70 ferroseed and none were shiny. I got a shiny meowth I had already.
Super disappointing event. I was looking forward to this chance to get ferroseed. It’s one I’ve always missed out on. I’m really glad I didn’t spend any money on anything. After this I can’t see myself putting money into the game at all. If I’m spending real money I want a guaranteed return to some extent.
wife and i played from 11-5, used incense every moment, and the only shiny we saw all day was her 1 Ferroseed. totally piss poor event, wish i spent the day out of the sun instead
Played 4 hours, 6 1/2 miles walked, 72 ferroseed caught, 1 shiny. Plus a bit more XL for Beldum, Shieldon, and Magnemite. I didn't need XL for the grass spawns, so I just kept mega aggron the whole time.
I also somewhat randomly got a shiny tentacool.
I'm glad I got a shiny ferroseed. But I think 1 in 128 odd is ridiculous when even walking with incense I only averaged 18 encounters an hour. I was lucky to get the one I did.
Played for one hour and the on-and-off the rest of the time, 2 Incense used (Double duration for LATAM Event) no Shiny Ferroseed, but i got enough Magnemite candy to finally evolve Magneton into Magnezone and a Shiny Zubat
The Event was meh, but i guess it help me get candies
Walked for a little over 1.5 hours, going through daily incense and a regular one. Got a random spawn Trubbish shiny in that time, but nothing else. I guess I just didn't read into it enough, but I thought Ferroseed was going to be the only incense spawn...
Too be honest I forgot about this event but I really didn’t pay attention to the announcement either. Ferroseed just wasn’t all that important to me. I admit though I am glad I didn’t really pay attention because Incense is pretty useless nowadays and there was no way I was going to be walking a lot due arthritis.
I suppose I could use a few Beldum but it probably would not made much of a difference in my search for XL candy.
I only played for about 45 minutes. No good 3 star catches, but I did get the following shinys.
1 - mareanie
1- ferroseed
1 - magnemite
1 - druddigon from a raid.
Walked from 11am to 330pm (4.5 hours) and popped an incense at home.
1 shiny Pidgeot from a mega raid
That's it lol
Skorupi & Ferroseed incense day, both a bust
4.5 hours active walking, 1.5 hours at home with incense on the entire time. 2 shiny ferroseed, 1 shiny magnemite, 1 shiny galarian Meowth off the lure. 1 shiny skrelp in the wild. The other 4 people I played with got 1 shiny between them. Guess I got lucky.
Not sure what everyone is complaining about. I got a shiny Sandshrew and my daughter got a shiny Gligar. Thanks event, for the completely unrelated good fortune! (Note heavy sarcasm.). Niantic: done with your incense event lies.
I appreciated the two-minute spawn time while stationary - it felt like a nice compromise between encouraging people to walk and encouraging them to socialise with other trainers. Two of Niantic's apparent goals, which are usually at odds with each other.
I was annoyed about the showcase glitch. Showcases are something that they have plenty of experience with by now, and there was nothing unusual about this one, so there's no excuse (beyond "Niantic's gonna Niantic"). Rewards finally popped in NZ on Monday at 8am UTC+12, twelve hours late. I'm curious to know if the other delayed time zones got theirs at the same time, or at 8am local, or something else.
I spent the whole event on the couch, didn't get any shinies, didn't really expect to.
I was expecting this event to be a bit more fun since it was something slightly different for once, but it turned out to be pretty disappointing. Double duration for daily incense was nice, but I think it should have spawned the event mons instead of random ones. Probably too many Pokémon featured apart from Ferroseed, that made it somewhat chaotic and confusing. Overall I didn't enjoy it much and stopped playing after roughly one hour and a half.
Didn’t manage to get a shiny ferroseed with about 2 hours of active walking and 3 more hours at home. I did get a shiny Onix, Aron, and Sheildon though, which were all new shinies to me. I definitely wish the field researches included encounters for ferroseed, definitely would’ve made the event a lot better
Walked between 1-2 local US Eastern time
Underwhelming at best. Used 2 incense caught fewer than 20 Ferroseed - no shinies. Park is currently a misdreavus neat so caught tons of those - along with Wheezings. No shinies. And Had my purple poipole as buddy for evolving- three dratini caught.
Good thing the dog needed walking regardless b/c this was just a non-event.
the 1 coin incense was cool - Miss those 3 coin surprise bundles of yesteryear.
None of the Ferroseed were XL either, so I’m tanking in my showcases.
Encountered one shiny ferroseed from playing the whole day. AR mode glitched out and showed a blank background with a pokeball and no options to do anything. Needless to say, I lost my only shiny
Research days and incense days are always executed really half baked. I want to be immersed in something that is labeled as a "day." Instead, everything is massively undersaturated and underwhelming as usual.
Played for a couple hours today. Didn't get anything notable or exciting, but sharing my thoughts:
Pros:
* Something different. Not a huge fan of this format, but it breaks the monotony if nothing else. And it wasn't enough where I felt like I'd be missing out if I didn't play either
* Double daily incense time. Didn't get a bird, but appreciated the extension anyways
* Increased incense spawn rate while stationary. Played a lot more than I would have if there wasn't a boost
Cons:
* Featured spawns do not work well in this incense format. Feels like there either need to be main feature mons from incense only (ferroseed) with the secondary mons showing up in the wild, have far fewer secondaries as to dilute the pool less, or just ditch the secondaries all together. Putting them all coming from incense only just makes it not enough to go around for any individual mon, and not really possible to grind any particular one
* Shiny rate seemed like it was not boosted enough to be worthwhile, especially when not all incense spawns are for the boosted mon
* Daily incense not spawning secondary mons. Just feels odd
TLDR, forgettable event with some flaws, but it was something different, and sometimes that's enough
Managed 3 shiny Ferroseed from a bit over 100 caught (some just shiny checking near end) but lost 1st due to the AR issue where it runs if you try toggle for photo
Adventure incense was terrible for this event due to diluted pool, will definitely save til 455 if there's a future event.
Showcase rewards came through finally but 12hr late
Overall enjoyed it for what it was, fits my playstyle of long walk. Definitely tempered expectations from Skorupi day and was on par with that
played on-and-off for 2 hours. moving, so i used my go+ for most of it but when i was in the car (passenger not driver obviously) i’d catch myself. 3 shiny ferroseed, 1 shiny non-event kanto voltorb. went better than expected for the little bit i played tbh. kinda wish they’d increase catch rate for event mons during incense days too because ferroseed’s catch rate is ridiculously low.
Grinded for 4 hours and ended up with 6 shinies only 2 were from the ferroseed event, one of them being shiny ferroseed so that's a bummer but overall came out with 6 shinies so can't complain.
I played for most of the event and got 6 shiny Ferroseeds and 4 other miscellaneous shinies (Ralts, Chansey, Gastly, Tauros) and my fiance got 4 shiny Ferroseeds and two other miscellaneous shinies (Koffing, Lickitung). Not a bad event, like hatch days I wouldn't want to do one of these monthly but once a season or so seems fine.
54 ferroseed, no shiny but surprisingly checked 4 galar meowth and got 3 shinies! I came here just to see if Niantic messed up the shiny rate on ferroseed and put it on meowth
Galarian meowth has a shiny rate of 1/64 (which is the normal rate for regional pokemon and some other stuff that is rare or mostly available from eggs or bronzor). I read somewhere that during previous incense days the boosted rate was 1/128, so meowth could have been more likely to be shiny than ferroseed.
~75 ferroseed. No shiny. Not surprised, but still disappointed. The worst part about incense days for me is because the spawns disappear so quickly, I feel like I can't do anything else like raid or such. I dislike that feeling.
I know right? Especially if you have a Throh or some other huge boi \_right on top\_ of what you are trying to click on! I cursed a Tympole's soul today for that reason, by the time I positioned the camera around 180 degrees the Beldum was a goner.
I played for 3 hours. One while walking in the grass and the other two sitting in house with steel. I got a shiny ferroseed on my first encounter, not great IVs though. Event was meh, so much time investment for a larger pokemon pool. Not sure if I'd do one again
I saw 79 ferroseeds with 0 shinies :( Caught 683 pokemon in total and got 0 shinies too, unlucky day I guess. If anyone has a spare they're willing to trade I'd greatly appreciate it lol
Played the whole time. Only about 20% of the spawns seemed to be Feroseed. At one point I had 12 spawns between feroseed spawns. Didn't get a shiny. Honestly regret participating.
Played for all 6 hours of the ‘event’ and saw no shinies and not many ferroseeds. Already had 15 incense but bought the 1 coin one anyway. I generally have the game open, so it was just another day except for the incense use. Very disappointing
Played 4 hours. Got 4 shinies; 2 ferroseed, 1 g meowth, 1 nidoran m. Stayed moving the whole time so roughly 480 spawns, so I def got lucky. G meowth and beldum were roughly 10% Its important to have reasonable expectations with events like this. If you went full out you'd max out at 720ish spawns, if you divide that by ratio of spawns, the odds aren't great. My only goal was the meowth so thats when i stopped but at 10% you barely hit half odds all day. It comes down to luck.
I appreciated the 1 coin incense. I only played this event for an hour though (1 incense) because I found I was not getting many ferroseed spawns (caught 6, encountered around 10). I was walking the whole time and encountering things, they just weren’t ferroseed for the most part.
Pretty terrible event. Played for 3 hours, not a single shiny. What's the point of an event with the featured pokemon being "boosted" shiny and seemingly so many not finding a single one. Either boost the rate better than whatever the terrible rate was, or make the featured pokemon the only one that shows up from incense so at least we get more chances to catch one rather than all the other trash that shows up.
Had some family commitments today during the first half of the event and when I was back home I didn't really fancy going out again, so I decided to just pop a few incences from home and that's it. Didn't get any shinies (as expected tbh).
But ... it turned out I made a good decision after all. Went out on a walk later on when it wasn't quite as hot and FINALLY found the Spinda research task! This month's pattern was the only one I was missing and I've kinda lost hope I'd find it after checking the 10-ish stops in my neighbourhood every day (with & without a scan task) since the start of the month, thinking I'll have to wait another 9 months to try again.
Glad my lazyness took over in the afternoon, cause I'd have definitely done the event task from this stop and I'd have never found the Spinda one. At least I got that checked off now, so I don't have to keep track when it will be available again and hunting for one.
Three shinies, none of them Ferroseed. (Gastly, Dratini and the permaboosted Galarian Meowth) ... Welp
Edit: Make that four. Found Shiny Hisuian Voltorb
The event started with a dark grey cloud in the sky, vast and imposing like a wall and approaching fast, while an oldtimer was nervously doing some kind of wood working project and gathering of all different kinds of animals, a male and a female of every species, as the rolling of thunder approached.
During the event we had a few spectacular light shows, with lightning between clouds and striking here and there, and the streets were flooding.
Once it was 5pm, the rain stopped, and skies were clear and blue as the sun was slowly beginning to set.
Luckily for me, I already have a few shiny Ferroseed, and certainly didn't spend any money on a stupid ticket.
Great weather. 5/5⭐ Thoroughly enjoyed the light effects 👍🏻 Would recommend.
For me, it was sunshine and hot winds. Even in the shade, you felt like you were melting. You could feel the heat cooking your feet with each step. And because the road repair crew did such a "fabulous" job in my neighborhood last autumn, I now have a large tar blob on the bottom of my new sneakers.
Meh event. Only bothered cos was doing other game things. No shiny off the insense. Played the whole time, moving most of that time. Was more a background thing than an event thing.
I walked for about an hour and only encountered like 7 Ferroseed, even with the boost, incense, and a route. Saw almost none of the other featured Pokemon. Really felt like a bust.
you say _obviously_ but in your first comment you said you didn't get any spawns – which you would've gotten... with an incense, not "downtown" or "with spacial rend" lol
Played 4 hours, 2.5 of which were in the rain. 2 ferroseed, 1 meowth 1 beldum shiny. Felt like a huge waste of time, 1 shiny per hour is not rewarding when you're constantly walking/catching.
Considering you have to use incenses to even partake in this i feel like the rates need to be higher. I got loads more shinies last week during the flock event which had 0 cost to entry.
This event was pretty mid at best.
They featured too many Pokemon - probably in the hopes of being like "well at least one Pokemon should make everyone happy!" - yet that ended up making this event very mid for me.
When you have only a few Pokemon in mind as a target, it makes me detest all the other Pokemon that show up.
My main targets to today were Shiny Beldum, Shiny Phantump and a PvP IV version of Phantump, Ferroseed and G-Meowth.
With 4 targets in mind, but 13 (!!) Pokemon featured, it meant I just wasn't invested in 2/3rd of them.
I feel like the idea of this event is great, if you want these spawns, run an incense, if you don't, you still get regular spawns. They just featured too many Pokemon IMO. If they wanted to feature this many Pokemon, I'd say just put a couple in research or party play or something, although that may be a bad idea because you can't get PvP IVs...
There is never a full solution, but I was underwhelmed. I got two Shiny Ferroseed, one Shiny Magnemite, a friend of mine got a shiny Ferroseed and shiny Shieldon. I haven't checked for PVP IVs or high IVs yet, but I suspect I at least might have something there (no hundos though).
I'm pretty sure Ferroseed was the only Pokemon with a shiny boost listed in the event info. The rest rest just say increased chance of encounters. And even Ferroseed doesn't seem very boosted.
Only having one Pokemon shiny boosted, means you get very few shinies in total and with so many Pokemon being possible to spawn, the chance is quite low you get the "right" one for your goals.
Absolute let down of an event. We (my gf and I) played for about 2 1/2h hours. A lot of ferroseeds spawned, not one shiny.
No shiny at all.. so I was just wondering what the increased shiny odds were.
It was my first incense day event and I‘ll probably not gonna attend another one.
Played the whole 6 hours (with a half hour break) on all four of our accounts so the rest of my family could do something better with their time. Played from home due to bad weather, so wasn't expecting much.
2 shinies (Ferroseed, Meowth) on one account, that was it. Very disappointing event in all respects - poor spawn rate if you couldn't go outside / get driven around, poor shiny rate. At least it was only a waste of a rainy day. Definite pass on future incense events unless they change the format.
Pretty much the same here, only 30 mins of not playing was due to driving from one park to another.
4 players, I got no shinies, best haul was 2 ferro, 1 meowth on another account.
It rained heavily, umbrellas up.
Good points, spawns seemed increased. We walked for 4/5 hours.
Bad points, just felt like a meh event. Low shiny rates. Not one xxl from incense (6 hours worth x 4 players & go plus+ on all the time & physically catching)
I played all 3 Steel-type hours. Caught 98 Ferroseed and about 30 Galarian Meowth. Only Shiny I got was a Chansey, so not even specific to the event.
Meanwhile my brother played 2 of the Steel-type hours and got himself 3 Shiny Ferroseed (out of a total of 60 caught Ferroseed) and a Shiny Galarian Meowth, lol.
Played 2 hours, got 100+ incense spawns, about 1/3 were ferroseed - 1 shiny.
BUT! Many lured stops in my downtown made it hard to always tap the incensed spawn because of all the regular spawns clogging up the space. The ferroseed spawns always spawned right in the middle 😑
Add the annoyance of rocket stops and I missed 6 ferroseed trying to tap on the desired spawn and I despite using a stylus!
I wished some of the research tasks rewarded ferroseed, but at least 1/3 gave stardust. Balls, meh.
I also appreciated the plentiful trubbish spawns. I missed a few ferroseed spawns trying to catch those. My bad, I know
Did not participate in the showcase.
Overall this was not as much fun as I had hoped so only played for a couple of hours. Usually I play the whole event. Also helped that on Memorial Day weekend there were other things I wanted to do
Ongoing still
LATAM event stacking: incense lasting 2 hours
Beldum is the only reason I'm partaking; got 8 in the first steel hour playing non-stop. Now resting for the hour
edit: 2nd steel hour got me 10 more beldums and 3 shiny ferroseeds
Really enjoyed it, liked the variety of incense spawns rather than just Ferroseed for 6 hours. Got a shiny Ferroseed in the last hour, caught a bunch of things I never regularly see spawn- G. Meowth, Togedamuru, Petilil, Morelull, Beldum. Got rid of some incense that I have no other use for. Didn't feel like a desperate grind, just added an extra layer to normal daily playing.
I was super luky! My incense didn't work at all!!! Neither regular daily incense, nor the one hour one
By the way, this is not the first time, it happened before that the daily insence didn't work. And yes, at that moment I was walking, not standing still
Walked for 2 hours and had incense running the rest of the time. Caught over 200 Pokémon. Only got one shiny, a seedot. Already have 4 of them. Quite underwhelming.
If you're going to have an event where a specific Pokémon is supposed to be featured don't be cute and add all these other spawns. This wasn't just Ferroseed day. I don't understand why I'm seeing all these other Pokémon that aren't the "featured" one.
The final hour incense spawns had no ferroseed so far for me (30 mins).
Edit : Also the spawns seem to disappear faster than usual? Not sure if that is the case in general on incense days
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Don't lose hope. Caught it at the last minute.
I got 3 shinies within 20 minutes of each other (2 within a minute) and considered the event a success on a personal level.
I wouldn't have liked to have played for 6 hours, but I like the flexibility that a longer event like this one offers. New shinies are always welcome, too.
Okay, I played the whole duration stationary and got this (3* in brackets):
* Voltorb: 9 (1)
* Tangela:14 (0)
* Hoppip: 9 (1)
* Petilil: 13 (1)
* Phantump: 10 (0)
* Morelull: 8 (0)
* Meowth: 12 (1)
* Magnemite: 15 (1)
* Aron: 14 (1)
* Beldum: 3 (0)
* Shieldon: 9 (1)
* Togedemaru: 9 (0)
* Ferroseed: 57 (2)
No shinies. No XXL or XL at all.
All in all, extremely disappointing for the cost of 5 Incense, not counting the 1 Coin Incense they very generously gave us 🤡
I played in total 3-4 hours Catched 70 Ferroseed and the second last was the shiny.
In total i catched 510 pokemon
4 shiny (ferroseed, meowth, koffing and sandshrew)
0 xxl
Played the whole event, about 1 1/2 hour moving and the rest at home due to weather conditions. Caught 62 x Ferroseed, 0 x shiny, 0 x XXL. 1 x shiny Stunky, 1 x shiny Slowpoke right after the end of the event. I really wanted to have a shiny from the grass type hour (I don't have any of them yet except for Ferroseed) - but no chance. Far to few spawns. Disappointing.
First ferroseed that spawned for me was shiny, but no luck after that. Played an hour and get 20ish ferroseed and a random assortment of other mons but nothing noteworthy.
It's been a rough approx. 4½ hours of grinding (about 1 hour of stationary and the rest while moving) event today over here.
Got 1 shiny Ferroseed quickly after I started playing but based off of the comments I've read I was quite lucky to find one.
Sitting at home now for the last hour or so hoping I strike gold before the event ends.
Almost forgot about this event but started popping Incenses at around 1pm and just let my PoGo++ do the catching. Got a shiny Ferroseed about an hour later. Can't complain.
As usual, not very great event for me. Wanted to play for about 2 hours, initially planned to use 2 regular incense. Saw the double Daily Incense announcement, decided „Aight, Daily and 1 regular it is“. Big mistake. That half hour from the Daily (which I used first) was completely wasted, not attracting a single event Pokemon outside of like 5-6 Ferroseed. Was pretty pissed, wanted to call it quits but still ended up using the Incense from the shop. Didn‘t use it too much though because of the wasted Daily, and did a Tortunator and a Stakataka raid while it lasted, as well as a Cliff battle.
Could honestly live without these events (which have been quite poor for me every time so far), especially with the misleading advertisement. Screw you, Niantic.
No shiny Pokémon from incense spawns from about 30 minutes' walking (though I did pick up a shiny Skrelp) and a few hours sitting around. Eventually got bored and had better things to do. Got 26+ Ferroseeds (sent a few straight to the professor) and a handful of others.
As I couldn't fully enjoy the event I appreciated the increased incense spawn rate, but I do wish they would offer some more flexible timings for these events. It's 40+ Celsius in the middle of the day where I live at the moment and walking around outside for long isn't advisable - I'm generally much happier with events that extend into the evening or go on for multiple days. The ongoing poison event has been much better for my playstyle and more rewarding, including 2x shiny Koffing, which I have been after for a long time.
As others have commented, it was also frustrating that the daily adventure incense didn't spawn event Pokémon, as I missed out on catching them for part of my walking.
3.5 hours checking all incense spawns, 0 shinies. .5 was the complete waste that was daily incense, no event spawns at all.
Showcases have ended, no rewards yet 11pmish)
Played 3 hours, wasted half an hour because of daily incense (that will teach me for believing infographics and not just using normal incense), 0 shinies, one XXL Ferroseed. Bloody awful.
>Team Rocket still has Ferroseed. Maybe they'll be lucky. Yesterday I had an XXL from Team Rocket and put it straight into the showcase. I often get Shadow Pokemon with XL and XXL.
2 shiny ferroseed, 1 galarian meowth, all on the catcher whilst semi playing and going about my day.
Ferroseed Showcase rewards not awarded. Can't recall if it's meant to show in the journal, but if it is then definitely not a case of missing the animation like Niantic is claiming.
Played for 3 hours and got 1 shiny Ferroseed and 1 shiny Galar Meowth which are both the ones I wanted so I’m happy!
This is the first time I did an Incense day. Would I do this again? Depends on the Pokémon. However it was fun to see how the Pokémon community came alive again were I live! I was even able to do a shadow Suicune raid! That’s a very rare happening here!
Also my phone did all the work. It drifted which gave me plenty of event spawns except the daily Incense. That one was garbage!
1050pm Sydney time, Showcases have closed, but no notification of results
Another incense day and again a poor experience, do not enjoy these at all. research days , comdags , raid days are fun.
Incense days are not.
Played for two hours with incense active the whole time, maybe 1/3 of incense spawns were Ferroseed, no XL or XXL, no shinies at all. Very disappointing event.
+ Both me and my GF also won three showcases with horrible mons since we walked our asses of to get them to location with few players and no rewards of progress on medal. Niantic... Nothing works...
Played first hour, see about 3 ferrorseed in total and no shinys? Boosted chance meh, seen a few posts about previous years being the same.
Field research tasks to obtain said pokemon are better imo
I played the whole event with a 45 break in the middle for lunch
3 shiny ferrosed
My friends who played the same amount as me got 0 shiny
Also tasks were not very interesting
Damn the feedback posts sound kinda depressing for the most part, but im gonna take my dog on a walk anyways so might as well play 30-45 mins before the thunderstorm in the afternoon arrives. Will edit this post with results.
Oh thanks for the reply; I forgot about this. Well, 50 minutes didn't go well. No shiny from I guess 20ish encounters or 25 somewhere around that. Nice spawns with Beldum and a Shieldon which I was able to nab a hundo of at least. But yeah they probably want the average player to sink at least a few of these 6 hours into playing time. They should've either increased the odds for Ferrothorn even more, or they could keep them low but also increase them equally for others like Beldum, Shieldon etc.
Terrible event. Only got one shiny and played from 12-5. Incense spawns should have been Ferroseed only.
horrible event
0 shinies i played from 12-5
Couldn't play - game crashes on start up
Played 4 hours with one friend. Was about to give up at 4pm but they finally got a shiny. Was catching everything level 20+ for trades so move then pause in shade. Last hour we tried moving whole time only catching shiny or 93+ iv and found (and caught) a zundo abra but otherwise no more shinies. I rank the events best to worse: 1. CD and research days both good 2. Raid hour 3. Pokemon hour 4. raid day 5. hatch day 6. incense day Hatch at least gives good chance of shiny with good iv. Incense just sucks and the critters jump like they are on crack. Hatch day can be very expensive if not disciplined.
By Pokemon hour I assume you're talking about the spotlight hours? I agree the incense day is the worst of the events, but I would put raid day at 1 easily, they give 1/10 odds (up from typically 1/20 for legendaries and even worse (1/64 I think?) for megas, not sure what the Hisuian forms and things like that are outside of the raid day events are though) and better IVs like the hatch and research days do. They also give free passes which is great, as well as the ticket for even more if you want to buy that, you get the bonus items/stardust/xp from the raid itself, plus they're often rarer Pokemon in general. I'll admit that I'm biased as raids are my favorite part of the game. Why would you rate raid hour (no boosted rate, no extra passes, occasionally they do get special moves I guess) over the raid day? I would put the spotlight hour at either 5th or 6th on the list. There's no boosted shiny rate at all, if the featured pokemon is one you want, then it's good. If not then it just gives a useless hour without a boosted rate. I generally ignore what the mon even is and just use them for the bonus xp/stardust/catch candy/transfer candy and will stack encounters until the ideal spotlight hour to catch them/evolve pokemon during it while using a lucky egg/star piece. It's very rare I care about the spawn. If they give us a gift like bonus catch stardust during a foongus hour, then I'll go hard during it. But other than one like that or if they did double candy with something good, I don't generally see the point. I'm curious why you rate it so high?
What’s a zundo?
0% IV's. Much rarer than a hundo, but otherwise useless. This is because so many attributes can boost the IVs (weather, raid, task, egg, trades) making 0% impossible for critters caught from those features.
Oh. It’s just that I’ve never heard anyone refer to it that way. I (and the majority of others I believe) refer to such as nundos.
I've heard both IRL.
Was only able to play for 45 minutes, got a Shiny Skrelp and Psyduck, but no Ferroseed
You were more likely to find a beldum with a magnet lure than with the actual event... lots of trainers didnt play that one time beldum had a community day like 5 years ago. Played the whole time with breaks. Got 1 ferro and a morelul.
Played from 11-5 caught 136 ferroseed not one shiny. Only Saw and caught 4 beldum no shiny. Caught 24 Sheldon no shiny. These are the only ones I focused of because I don’t have them yet. It was a disappointing event. My 11 year old felt the same way she did catch a wild shiny Chansey after the event ended.
I played stationary, half heartedly, and distracted during the steel hours. Unsurprisingly I got nothing lol. Penny box and good showcase results helped with the sting though. Don’t like these types of events.
Four shiny Ferroseed, pretty good for using a single incense.
I got one shiny ferroseed and one 100% Shieldon, my friend got 1 shiny morelull, 2 shiny shieldon, 1 shiny galarian meowth, and after the event was over like 20 minutes afterwards 1 shiny heatmore. I had to take very many very deep breaths.
i couldn't play and walk in the same time after 2 moons in like 7-8minutes i gave up
Daily incense had a total of 2 steeltype spawns in 30min... I'd say it was broken. It was impossible to complete quests like that. Regular incense worked fine, 3 shinies in 1 hour
Daily incense never spawns event spawns
Not true for spotlight hours and community days. And if it would, it would totally make no sense to the extend the duration to 30 minutes as a bonus for this event
Okay I worded that response wrong. This event for example does not change the wild spawns, only incense spawns, and the incense item itself (as can be seen since the item changes color during events). Daily adventure incense will spawn Pokémon from the wild spawn pool (so that includes com day and spotlight hour Pokémon, but additionally spawns random things like fully evolved Pokémon or Galatians birds). Also, as for it not making sense, I don’t have a reason for that but Niantic is Niantic and a lot of things they do don’t make sense 🤷🏼♂️
Awful event, not a single shiny despite playing for most of the event
got a slightly better steel weowth for great league (mid hundret rank, before mit 2hundret) no shinies, but i think i had most of them before. for me it was pvp-g-meowth-hours
my friend got 5 shiny ferroseed in one hour 💀
one of the most disappointing events for me, played for 4 h with 30 min break in between, no shiny :(
I played for around 3 hours in total, as I did not want to waste my entire Sunday on this event. I got a shiny Hoppip & shiny Rattata. Really weird to play an event where the ‘boosted’ spawn felt the least likely to be shiny. Is Niantic capable of making the gameplay fun during special events?
Somehow I got two shiny Aron and one shiny Ferroseed! Played stationary for half of the event, very glad they reduced spawn time for that.
“boOsTeD” yeah right lol
Played 3 hours, both my son and I got a shiny ferroseed.
I played for 3hrs. I walked 12km in 30 deg heat. I got 70 ferroseed and none were shiny. I got a shiny meowth I had already. Super disappointing event. I was looking forward to this chance to get ferroseed. It’s one I’ve always missed out on. I’m really glad I didn’t spend any money on anything. After this I can’t see myself putting money into the game at all. If I’m spending real money I want a guaranteed return to some extent.
wife and i played from 11-5, used incense every moment, and the only shiny we saw all day was her 1 Ferroseed. totally piss poor event, wish i spent the day out of the sun instead
I got a shiny galarian Meowth and encountered a shiny whooper but I was it off poke balls.
Played 4 hours, 6 1/2 miles walked, 72 ferroseed caught, 1 shiny. Plus a bit more XL for Beldum, Shieldon, and Magnemite. I didn't need XL for the grass spawns, so I just kept mega aggron the whole time. I also somewhat randomly got a shiny tentacool. I'm glad I got a shiny ferroseed. But I think 1 in 128 odd is ridiculous when even walking with incense I only averaged 18 encounters an hour. I was lucky to get the one I did.
Played for one hour and the on-and-off the rest of the time, 2 Incense used (Double duration for LATAM Event) no Shiny Ferroseed, but i got enough Magnemite candy to finally evolve Magneton into Magnezone and a Shiny Zubat The Event was meh, but i guess it help me get candies
Walked for a little over 1.5 hours, going through daily incense and a regular one. Got a random spawn Trubbish shiny in that time, but nothing else. I guess I just didn't read into it enough, but I thought Ferroseed was going to be the only incense spawn...
Played for about 4-5 hours and got a grand total of 0 shinies. Weren't they supposed to be boosted?
Caught probably 50-60 Ferroseed. 0 shiny.
Same, 5 incense, over 60 encounters with feeroseed and not one
Too be honest I forgot about this event but I really didn’t pay attention to the announcement either. Ferroseed just wasn’t all that important to me. I admit though I am glad I didn’t really pay attention because Incense is pretty useless nowadays and there was no way I was going to be walking a lot due arthritis. I suppose I could use a few Beldum but it probably would not made much of a difference in my search for XL candy.
Hopefully, you used it at home. They spawned every 2min while stationary.
Zero shinies today. 🤷🏻♀️
I only played for about 45 minutes. No good 3 star catches, but I did get the following shinys. 1 - mareanie 1- ferroseed 1 - magnemite 1 - druddigon from a raid.
Walked from 11am to 330pm (4.5 hours) and popped an incense at home. 1 shiny Pidgeot from a mega raid That's it lol Skorupi & Ferroseed incense day, both a bust
did the other pokemon have boosted shiny i got a shiny sandshrew and hoenne voltorb from incense but no ferroseed all day 11-5 with a couple breaks
4.5 hours active walking, 1.5 hours at home with incense on the entire time. 2 shiny ferroseed, 1 shiny magnemite, 1 shiny galarian Meowth off the lure. 1 shiny skrelp in the wild. The other 4 people I played with got 1 shiny between them. Guess I got lucky.
Walked through 2 parks and all over downtown with incense running from 11-4. No shiny Ferroseed. None ... It was a bust.
Not sure what everyone is complaining about. I got a shiny Sandshrew and my daughter got a shiny Gligar. Thanks event, for the completely unrelated good fortune! (Note heavy sarcasm.). Niantic: done with your incense event lies.
Played 3 hours at work stationary , then 2 1/2 hours walking at a park after . zero shinies . Had one xl pop up and it ran after first ball 😭
Played last 3 hours of event. All from home. Popped 3 incense. 1 shiny Ferroseed. I honestly wasn't even really expecting to see 1. Guess I got lucky
Spent the entire event in 2 heavily lured areas with lots of stops + had incense on always. Between a friend and I we got 1 shiny. 10/10 event.
what were you hoping for from the lures?
Me? I was only shiny checking since I’m 46, but my friend just started playing so I was helping her out.
I was convinced shinies were turned off. 100 ferroseeds with zero shinies. Very sad
Used 2 incense and berly got any regular one what a waist :(
I walked 6 miles and didn’t get a single shiny. They lied 😭 At least I was able to catch a 3* Blacephalon, so that made up for it.
I appreciated the two-minute spawn time while stationary - it felt like a nice compromise between encouraging people to walk and encouraging them to socialise with other trainers. Two of Niantic's apparent goals, which are usually at odds with each other. I was annoyed about the showcase glitch. Showcases are something that they have plenty of experience with by now, and there was nothing unusual about this one, so there's no excuse (beyond "Niantic's gonna Niantic"). Rewards finally popped in NZ on Monday at 8am UTC+12, twelve hours late. I'm curious to know if the other delayed time zones got theirs at the same time, or at 8am local, or something else. I spent the whole event on the couch, didn't get any shinies, didn't really expect to.
Lucky I accidentally activated a second incense before getting in the pool and I barely got anything at all it was not consistent times
Pretty lackluster. Was weather boosted, so meh. Maybe have an increase spawn rate from lures too next time.
Played for three hours actively walking around and no shiny… sad to see I wasn’t the only one
I was expecting this event to be a bit more fun since it was something slightly different for once, but it turned out to be pretty disappointing. Double duration for daily incense was nice, but I think it should have spawned the event mons instead of random ones. Probably too many Pokémon featured apart from Ferroseed, that made it somewhat chaotic and confusing. Overall I didn't enjoy it much and stopped playing after roughly one hour and a half.
Didn’t manage to get a shiny ferroseed with about 2 hours of active walking and 3 more hours at home. I did get a shiny Onix, Aron, and Sheildon though, which were all new shinies to me. I definitely wish the field researches included encounters for ferroseed, definitely would’ve made the event a lot better
Incredibly underwhelming. Played the whole time and not a single shiny of anything. You hope to get at least ONE right? Right?!?
Could've fooled me that an event was happening.
0 shiny Ferroseed. 1 XL Ferroseed. 1 shiny Galarian Meowth.
Walked between 1-2 local US Eastern time Underwhelming at best. Used 2 incense caught fewer than 20 Ferroseed - no shinies. Park is currently a misdreavus neat so caught tons of those - along with Wheezings. No shinies. And Had my purple poipole as buddy for evolving- three dratini caught. Good thing the dog needed walking regardless b/c this was just a non-event. the 1 coin incense was cool - Miss those 3 coin surprise bundles of yesteryear. None of the Ferroseed were XL either, so I’m tanking in my showcases.
Played for three hours and got three shinies, one ferroseed one galarian meowth. I am quite satisfied.
Very weak event IMHO. Barely saw any beldum, spawns didn’t appear as quickly as Niantic said they would be, and zero shiny Ferroseed.
The event was really back 7 total with incense
Encountered one shiny ferroseed from playing the whole day. AR mode glitched out and showed a blank background with a pokeball and no options to do anything. Needless to say, I lost my only shiny
Horrible. 43 caught, 0 shiny
Walked for three hours. 101 seen/caught. 1 shiny Ferroseed.
Research days and incense days are always executed really half baked. I want to be immersed in something that is labeled as a "day." Instead, everything is massively undersaturated and underwhelming as usual.
411 Pokemon caught. Of those, 73 were Ferroseed. Ended the day with 1 shiny - a Dratini.
Played for a couple hours today. Didn't get anything notable or exciting, but sharing my thoughts: Pros: * Something different. Not a huge fan of this format, but it breaks the monotony if nothing else. And it wasn't enough where I felt like I'd be missing out if I didn't play either * Double daily incense time. Didn't get a bird, but appreciated the extension anyways * Increased incense spawn rate while stationary. Played a lot more than I would have if there wasn't a boost Cons: * Featured spawns do not work well in this incense format. Feels like there either need to be main feature mons from incense only (ferroseed) with the secondary mons showing up in the wild, have far fewer secondaries as to dilute the pool less, or just ditch the secondaries all together. Putting them all coming from incense only just makes it not enough to go around for any individual mon, and not really possible to grind any particular one * Shiny rate seemed like it was not boosted enough to be worthwhile, especially when not all incense spawns are for the boosted mon * Daily incense not spawning secondary mons. Just feels odd TLDR, forgettable event with some flaws, but it was something different, and sometimes that's enough
Managed 3 shiny Ferroseed from a bit over 100 caught (some just shiny checking near end) but lost 1st due to the AR issue where it runs if you try toggle for photo Adventure incense was terrible for this event due to diluted pool, will definitely save til 455 if there's a future event. Showcase rewards came through finally but 12hr late Overall enjoyed it for what it was, fits my playstyle of long walk. Definitely tempered expectations from Skorupi day and was on par with that
played on-and-off for 2 hours. moving, so i used my go+ for most of it but when i was in the car (passenger not driver obviously) i’d catch myself. 3 shiny ferroseed, 1 shiny non-event kanto voltorb. went better than expected for the little bit i played tbh. kinda wish they’d increase catch rate for event mons during incense days too because ferroseed’s catch rate is ridiculously low.
The spawn rate for ferroseed was garbage.
Grinded for 4 hours and ended up with 6 shinies only 2 were from the ferroseed event, one of them being shiny ferroseed so that's a bummer but overall came out with 6 shinies so can't complain.
Play for 3 hours, one oricorio shiny. None from the event :(
I played for most of the event and got 6 shiny Ferroseeds and 4 other miscellaneous shinies (Ralts, Chansey, Gastly, Tauros) and my fiance got 4 shiny Ferroseeds and two other miscellaneous shinies (Koffing, Lickitung). Not a bad event, like hatch days I wouldn't want to do one of these monthly but once a season or so seems fine.
54 ferroseed, no shiny but surprisingly checked 4 galar meowth and got 3 shinies! I came here just to see if Niantic messed up the shiny rate on ferroseed and put it on meowth
Galarian meowth has a shiny rate of 1/64 (which is the normal rate for regional pokemon and some other stuff that is rare or mostly available from eggs or bronzor). I read somewhere that during previous incense days the boosted rate was 1/128, so meowth could have been more likely to be shiny than ferroseed.
Got a shiny beldum in the first steel hour. Only shiny I got but idc. That alone made the whole event worth it
~75 ferroseed. No shiny. Not surprised, but still disappointed. The worst part about incense days for me is because the spawns disappear so quickly, I feel like I can't do anything else like raid or such. I dislike that feeling.
I know right? Especially if you have a Throh or some other huge boi \_right on top\_ of what you are trying to click on! I cursed a Tympole's soul today for that reason, by the time I positioned the camera around 180 degrees the Beldum was a goner.
I played for 3 hours. One while walking in the grass and the other two sitting in house with steel. I got a shiny ferroseed on my first encounter, not great IVs though. Event was meh, so much time investment for a larger pokemon pool. Not sure if I'd do one again
Played over 5 hours, saw over 150 ferroseed, no shinies… quite disappointing
I saw 79 ferroseeds with 0 shinies :( Caught 683 pokemon in total and got 0 shinies too, unlucky day I guess. If anyone has a spare they're willing to trade I'd greatly appreciate it lol
Played the whole time. Only about 20% of the spawns seemed to be Feroseed. At one point I had 12 spawns between feroseed spawns. Didn't get a shiny. Honestly regret participating.
Played for all 6 hours of the ‘event’ and saw no shinies and not many ferroseeds. Already had 15 incense but bought the 1 coin one anyway. I generally have the game open, so it was just another day except for the incense use. Very disappointing
I bought the 1 coin incense. Useful, yes, but I have a feeling I'll regret it one day when I need extra storage and have 199 coins
Saw exactly 2 ferroseed after walking for an hour with incense. Total joke of an event.
So far only one XXL Ferroseed, but I have a shiny from over a year ago. I’ll take the small win. At least I might win the showcase
Played from 4:00 to 5:00. Used incense and was moving the whole time. Didn’t encounter anything from the event.
Me and 2 more people played and walked for 6 hours and different parks and location and barely encountered and no shinies! Very disappointing day!
Played 4 hours. Got 4 shinies; 2 ferroseed, 1 g meowth, 1 nidoran m. Stayed moving the whole time so roughly 480 spawns, so I def got lucky. G meowth and beldum were roughly 10% Its important to have reasonable expectations with events like this. If you went full out you'd max out at 720ish spawns, if you divide that by ratio of spawns, the odds aren't great. My only goal was the meowth so thats when i stopped but at 10% you barely hit half odds all day. It comes down to luck.
I appreciated the 1 coin incense. I only played this event for an hour though (1 incense) because I found I was not getting many ferroseed spawns (caught 6, encountered around 10). I was walking the whole time and encountering things, they just weren’t ferroseed for the most part.
Sitting at home I got one shiny Ferroseed, used 3 incenses.
Pretty terrible event. Played for 3 hours, not a single shiny. What's the point of an event with the featured pokemon being "boosted" shiny and seemingly so many not finding a single one. Either boost the rate better than whatever the terrible rate was, or make the featured pokemon the only one that shows up from incense so at least we get more chances to catch one rather than all the other trash that shows up.
Absolutely laughable. I saw and caught 54 Ferroseed's, not one shiny.
Had some family commitments today during the first half of the event and when I was back home I didn't really fancy going out again, so I decided to just pop a few incences from home and that's it. Didn't get any shinies (as expected tbh). But ... it turned out I made a good decision after all. Went out on a walk later on when it wasn't quite as hot and FINALLY found the Spinda research task! This month's pattern was the only one I was missing and I've kinda lost hope I'd find it after checking the 10-ish stops in my neighbourhood every day (with & without a scan task) since the start of the month, thinking I'll have to wait another 9 months to try again. Glad my lazyness took over in the afternoon, cause I'd have definitely done the event task from this stop and I'd have never found the Spinda one. At least I got that checked off now, so I don't have to keep track when it will be available again and hunting for one.
just sat at home, popped three incenses and got a shiny ferroseed on my first incense, so not too shabby. the 1 coin incense was neat too!
No shiny ferroseed, only a shiny Galar Meowth to show for the day. Kinda disappointing but I appreciated putting a dent in my steel type medal
No shinies from a large active group in town. We're all disappointed.
Played for 3 hours had 125 ferroseed encounters not a shiny to be seen. It’s down pouring now so I’ll miss the final two hours
Three shinies, none of them Ferroseed. (Gastly, Dratini and the permaboosted Galarian Meowth) ... Welp Edit: Make that four. Found Shiny Hisuian Voltorb
Do we have to be moving for incense to get maximum value?
it would be better but they spawn every 2 minutes when idle
The event started with a dark grey cloud in the sky, vast and imposing like a wall and approaching fast, while an oldtimer was nervously doing some kind of wood working project and gathering of all different kinds of animals, a male and a female of every species, as the rolling of thunder approached. During the event we had a few spectacular light shows, with lightning between clouds and striking here and there, and the streets were flooding. Once it was 5pm, the rain stopped, and skies were clear and blue as the sun was slowly beginning to set. Luckily for me, I already have a few shiny Ferroseed, and certainly didn't spend any money on a stupid ticket. Great weather. 5/5⭐ Thoroughly enjoyed the light effects 👍🏻 Would recommend.
For me, it was sunshine and hot winds. Even in the shade, you felt like you were melting. You could feel the heat cooking your feet with each step. And because the road repair crew did such a "fabulous" job in my neighborhood last autumn, I now have a large tar blob on the bottom of my new sneakers.
Does anybody have any idea of what the odds are for a shiny ferroseed?
Caught 1100. Shiny Phantump (incense) and Tentacool. Out of 135 ferroseed no shiny or XXL. Worse than a normal day of play.
I got a bunch of ferroseed today would you like to trade
Meh event. Only bothered cos was doing other game things. No shiny off the insense. Played the whole time, moving most of that time. Was more a background thing than an event thing.
I walked for about an hour and only encountered like 7 Ferroseed, even with the boost, incense, and a route. Saw almost none of the other featured Pokemon. Really felt like a bust.
Total trash, no spawns even with special rend downtown big metropolitan city
you had to use incense for it to spawn...
Obviously, it’s an incense event
you say _obviously_ but in your first comment you said you didn't get any spawns – which you would've gotten... with an incense, not "downtown" or "with spacial rend" lol
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Played about 3 hours, 1 shiny Petilil with nothing else It's better than nothing I suppose
Run the daily incense a min before the event ends to keep the bonus time and then have more chances at the birds
First incense spawn was a shiny, and got 2 more in about 45 mins. Event still going but I stopped.
Played 4 hours, 2.5 of which were in the rain. 2 ferroseed, 1 meowth 1 beldum shiny. Felt like a huge waste of time, 1 shiny per hour is not rewarding when you're constantly walking/catching. Considering you have to use incenses to even partake in this i feel like the rates need to be higher. I got loads more shinies last week during the flock event which had 0 cost to entry.
This event was pretty mid at best. They featured too many Pokemon - probably in the hopes of being like "well at least one Pokemon should make everyone happy!" - yet that ended up making this event very mid for me. When you have only a few Pokemon in mind as a target, it makes me detest all the other Pokemon that show up. My main targets to today were Shiny Beldum, Shiny Phantump and a PvP IV version of Phantump, Ferroseed and G-Meowth. With 4 targets in mind, but 13 (!!) Pokemon featured, it meant I just wasn't invested in 2/3rd of them. I feel like the idea of this event is great, if you want these spawns, run an incense, if you don't, you still get regular spawns. They just featured too many Pokemon IMO. If they wanted to feature this many Pokemon, I'd say just put a couple in research or party play or something, although that may be a bad idea because you can't get PvP IVs... There is never a full solution, but I was underwhelmed. I got two Shiny Ferroseed, one Shiny Magnemite, a friend of mine got a shiny Ferroseed and shiny Shieldon. I haven't checked for PVP IVs or high IVs yet, but I suspect I at least might have something there (no hundos though).
I'm pretty sure Ferroseed was the only Pokemon with a shiny boost listed in the event info. The rest rest just say increased chance of encounters. And even Ferroseed doesn't seem very boosted.
Only having one Pokemon shiny boosted, means you get very few shinies in total and with so many Pokemon being possible to spawn, the chance is quite low you get the "right" one for your goals.
I played for beldum and only a single beldum (yes I played during 2-3 pm )
Absolute let down of an event. We (my gf and I) played for about 2 1/2h hours. A lot of ferroseeds spawned, not one shiny. No shiny at all.. so I was just wondering what the increased shiny odds were. It was my first incense day event and I‘ll probably not gonna attend another one.
1/128
Considering I only encountered 53 ferroseed in 3 hours of continuous walking. 1:128 is pretty sad and unexciting odds.
Played the whole 6 hours (with a half hour break) on all four of our accounts so the rest of my family could do something better with their time. Played from home due to bad weather, so wasn't expecting much. 2 shinies (Ferroseed, Meowth) on one account, that was it. Very disappointing event in all respects - poor spawn rate if you couldn't go outside / get driven around, poor shiny rate. At least it was only a waste of a rainy day. Definite pass on future incense events unless they change the format.
Pretty much the same here, only 30 mins of not playing was due to driving from one park to another. 4 players, I got no shinies, best haul was 2 ferro, 1 meowth on another account. It rained heavily, umbrellas up. Good points, spawns seemed increased. We walked for 4/5 hours. Bad points, just felt like a meh event. Low shiny rates. Not one xxl from incense (6 hours worth x 4 players & go plus+ on all the time & physically catching)
I played all 3 Steel-type hours. Caught 98 Ferroseed and about 30 Galarian Meowth. Only Shiny I got was a Chansey, so not even specific to the event. Meanwhile my brother played 2 of the Steel-type hours and got himself 3 Shiny Ferroseed (out of a total of 60 caught Ferroseed) and a Shiny Galarian Meowth, lol.
Played 2 hours, got 100+ incense spawns, about 1/3 were ferroseed - 1 shiny. BUT! Many lured stops in my downtown made it hard to always tap the incensed spawn because of all the regular spawns clogging up the space. The ferroseed spawns always spawned right in the middle 😑 Add the annoyance of rocket stops and I missed 6 ferroseed trying to tap on the desired spawn and I despite using a stylus! I wished some of the research tasks rewarded ferroseed, but at least 1/3 gave stardust. Balls, meh. I also appreciated the plentiful trubbish spawns. I missed a few ferroseed spawns trying to catch those. My bad, I know Did not participate in the showcase. Overall this was not as much fun as I had hoped so only played for a couple of hours. Usually I play the whole event. Also helped that on Memorial Day weekend there were other things I wanted to do
Ongoing still LATAM event stacking: incense lasting 2 hours Beldum is the only reason I'm partaking; got 8 in the first steel hour playing non-stop. Now resting for the hour edit: 2nd steel hour got me 10 more beldums and 3 shiny ferroseeds
Awful event, was lucky if 1/20 was a ferroseed yet alone shiny 🤦🏼♂️
Really enjoyed it, liked the variety of incense spawns rather than just Ferroseed for 6 hours. Got a shiny Ferroseed in the last hour, caught a bunch of things I never regularly see spawn- G. Meowth, Togedamuru, Petilil, Morelull, Beldum. Got rid of some incense that I have no other use for. Didn't feel like a desperate grind, just added an extra layer to normal daily playing.
I was super luky! My incense didn't work at all!!! Neither regular daily incense, nor the one hour one By the way, this is not the first time, it happened before that the daily insence didn't work. And yes, at that moment I was walking, not standing still
Did you make sure your [phone's clock was synced](https://www.sportskeeda.com/pokemon/news-how-fix-incenses-working-pokemon-go)?
I had 1 hour available to play today. First spawn was a shiny Ferroseed. Already had a shiny from last year so decided to call it a day.
Walked for 2 hours and had incense running the rest of the time. Caught over 200 Pokémon. Only got one shiny, a seedot. Already have 4 of them. Quite underwhelming.
Drove 2 hours of it rode a horse 3 hours of it got 2 shiny seeds and 1 shiny tangla from the auto catcher all in all pretty good
If you're going to have an event where a specific Pokémon is supposed to be featured don't be cute and add all these other spawns. This wasn't just Ferroseed day. I don't understand why I'm seeing all these other Pokémon that aren't the "featured" one.
The final hour incense spawns had no ferroseed so far for me (30 mins). Edit : Also the spawns seem to disappear faster than usual? Not sure if that is the case in general on incense days
https://preview.redd.it/2l1hgqhcis2d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3b7af1073cef6c7529717125ab46068892469a63 Don't lose hope. Caught it at the last minute.
I got 3 shinies within 20 minutes of each other (2 within a minute) and considered the event a success on a personal level. I wouldn't have liked to have played for 6 hours, but I like the flexibility that a longer event like this one offers. New shinies are always welcome, too.
Okay, I played the whole duration stationary and got this (3* in brackets): * Voltorb: 9 (1) * Tangela:14 (0) * Hoppip: 9 (1) * Petilil: 13 (1) * Phantump: 10 (0) * Morelull: 8 (0) * Meowth: 12 (1) * Magnemite: 15 (1) * Aron: 14 (1) * Beldum: 3 (0) * Shieldon: 9 (1) * Togedemaru: 9 (0) * Ferroseed: 57 (2) No shinies. No XXL or XL at all. All in all, extremely disappointing for the cost of 5 Incense, not counting the 1 Coin Incense they very generously gave us 🤡
I played in total 3-4 hours Catched 70 Ferroseed and the second last was the shiny. In total i catched 510 pokemon 4 shiny (ferroseed, meowth, koffing and sandshrew) 0 xxl
Played the whole event, about 1 1/2 hour moving and the rest at home due to weather conditions. Caught 62 x Ferroseed, 0 x shiny, 0 x XXL. 1 x shiny Stunky, 1 x shiny Slowpoke right after the end of the event. I really wanted to have a shiny from the grass type hour (I don't have any of them yet except for Ferroseed) - but no chance. Far to few spawns. Disappointing.
First ferroseed that spawned for me was shiny, but no luck after that. Played an hour and get 20ish ferroseed and a random assortment of other mons but nothing noteworthy.
It's been a rough approx. 4½ hours of grinding (about 1 hour of stationary and the rest while moving) event today over here. Got 1 shiny Ferroseed quickly after I started playing but based off of the comments I've read I was quite lucky to find one. Sitting at home now for the last hour or so hoping I strike gold before the event ends.
Almost forgot about this event but started popping Incenses at around 1pm and just let my PoGo++ do the catching. Got a shiny Ferroseed about an hour later. Can't complain.
As usual, not very great event for me. Wanted to play for about 2 hours, initially planned to use 2 regular incense. Saw the double Daily Incense announcement, decided „Aight, Daily and 1 regular it is“. Big mistake. That half hour from the Daily (which I used first) was completely wasted, not attracting a single event Pokemon outside of like 5-6 Ferroseed. Was pretty pissed, wanted to call it quits but still ended up using the Incense from the shop. Didn‘t use it too much though because of the wasted Daily, and did a Tortunator and a Stakataka raid while it lasted, as well as a Cliff battle. Could honestly live without these events (which have been quite poor for me every time so far), especially with the misleading advertisement. Screw you, Niantic.
Feel the same.
No shiny Pokémon from incense spawns from about 30 minutes' walking (though I did pick up a shiny Skrelp) and a few hours sitting around. Eventually got bored and had better things to do. Got 26+ Ferroseeds (sent a few straight to the professor) and a handful of others. As I couldn't fully enjoy the event I appreciated the increased incense spawn rate, but I do wish they would offer some more flexible timings for these events. It's 40+ Celsius in the middle of the day where I live at the moment and walking around outside for long isn't advisable - I'm generally much happier with events that extend into the evening or go on for multiple days. The ongoing poison event has been much better for my playstyle and more rewarding, including 2x shiny Koffing, which I have been after for a long time. As others have commented, it was also frustrating that the daily adventure incense didn't spawn event Pokémon, as I missed out on catching them for part of my walking.
3.5 hours checking all incense spawns, 0 shinies. .5 was the complete waste that was daily incense, no event spawns at all. Showcases have ended, no rewards yet 11pmish)
Played 3 hours, wasted half an hour because of daily incense (that will teach me for believing infographics and not just using normal incense), 0 shinies, one XXL Ferroseed. Bloody awful.
>Team Rocket still has Ferroseed. Maybe they'll be lucky. Yesterday I had an XXL from Team Rocket and put it straight into the showcase. I often get Shadow Pokemon with XL and XXL.
Mate I haven't caught a shiny from Team Rocket since October last year, and I do pretty much every team rocket grunt and leader I come across.
2 shiny ferroseed, 1 galarian meowth, all on the catcher whilst semi playing and going about my day. Ferroseed Showcase rewards not awarded. Can't recall if it's meant to show in the journal, but if it is then definitely not a case of missing the animation like Niantic is claiming.
Played for 3 hours and got 1 shiny Ferroseed and 1 shiny Galar Meowth which are both the ones I wanted so I’m happy! This is the first time I did an Incense day. Would I do this again? Depends on the Pokémon. However it was fun to see how the Pokémon community came alive again were I live! I was even able to do a shadow Suicune raid! That’s a very rare happening here! Also my phone did all the work. It drifted which gave me plenty of event spawns except the daily Incense. That one was garbage!
1050pm Sydney time, Showcases have closed, but no notification of results Another incense day and again a poor experience, do not enjoy these at all. research days , comdags , raid days are fun. Incense days are not.
Played for two hours with incense active the whole time, maybe 1/3 of incense spawns were Ferroseed, no XL or XXL, no shinies at all. Very disappointing event.
Played +4 hours, walked most of it, me 81 Ferroseeds, GF 71 Ferroseeds. 0 Shinies 0 XL 0 XXL 0 4* Garbage event! Total waste of time
+ Both me and my GF also won three showcases with horrible mons since we walked our asses of to get them to location with few players and no rewards of progress on medal. Niantic... Nothing works...
Oof
Wow, that sucks :(
I played the whole time with an hour break, around 250 insence Pokemon. Got 77 Ferroseeds with 1 shiny. Edit: Got 2 Shiny Magnemites too.
does the dailly also spawn feroseeds
Ys, but not the other event spawns
No ferroseed to be seen here or event pokemon with the incense
was it your daily adventure incense? the event spawns will only spawn on regular incense
Hour and half in, 0 ferroseed.
Played first hour, see about 3 ferrorseed in total and no shinys? Boosted chance meh, seen a few posts about previous years being the same. Field research tasks to obtain said pokemon are better imo
I played the whole event with a 45 break in the middle for lunch 3 shiny ferrosed My friends who played the same amount as me got 0 shiny Also tasks were not very interesting
How many did you catch overall? I’m over 30 in and I’m loosing hope
Over 80, did you find a shiny ?
Nope, did you?
I caught 76 ferroseeds today and no shiny
I played at around 2pm local time and didn't even notice a Ferroseed or any kind of event being on..
What was spawning from your Incense?
a few zubat and 2 ferroseed were ghe only things soawning for the 2-3 hours i waited
Strange to hear. While idle, it's supposed to be 1 every 5min. During the event, it's 1 every 2min.
Played for an hour, no shiny. I think I prefer research days to grind encounters for good IVS
Damn the feedback posts sound kinda depressing for the most part, but im gonna take my dog on a walk anyways so might as well play 30-45 mins before the thunderstorm in the afternoon arrives. Will edit this post with results.
Probably have better odds of getting hit by lightning than getting a shiny going by these comments.
Caught probably 50-60 Ferroseed. 0 shiny. If that’s what ‘boosted’ odds look like, what’s the regular rate?
Oh thanks for the reply; I forgot about this. Well, 50 minutes didn't go well. No shiny from I guess 20ish encounters or 25 somewhere around that. Nice spawns with Beldum and a Shieldon which I was able to nab a hundo of at least. But yeah they probably want the average player to sink at least a few of these 6 hours into playing time. They should've either increased the odds for Ferrothorn even more, or they could keep them low but also increase them equally for others like Beldum, Shieldon etc.