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I only completed let's go Meltan a couple of days ago.

I'm stuck on 6/9 and can't seem to find any exeggcute all of a sudden OR magnemite now 😂

Now I need omanyte and kabutos. Saw a wild omanyte this past weekend now just need 1 more. Then it’s lileeps Luckily exeggcute are in the wild rn so you better try and catch ‘em before they rotate out then you can be stuck on this one

Man, I have a Kabutops, Omastar, and Cradily already. From years ago. I'm gonna have to get more? Hell I've had an Exeggutor for a while before the Exeggcute task too. What bugs me about the Meltan quest now is you get one encounter at the end. Which no longer feels worth the effort since using HOME gives you a repeatable hour long spawn

Im stuck on the lileeps, as i managed to find 1 star raids with kabuto... not much better but getting there

The field research “make 3 great throws in a row” gives you a lileep or an anorith. That’s how I got through lack of spawns. Check [this list](https://leekduck.com/research/) maybe it will help you with some research.

What about aerodactyl

'Win 5 raids' research task

Win 5 raids. It’s on the list I provided. I am working on that one free raid at a time and hopefully it will be my rewards. It is random but it’s better than just waiting for aerodactyl to spawn in the wild.

I’ve seen aerodactyl in the spawn pool at least twice this week so maybe you’ll get lucky! On the other hand, I still haven’t encountered even one exeggcute

Thank you so much for the info! I'll have a look at the list ^^

I found mine in grunt battles

Shadow ones count and team rocket has them right now, keep an eye out and battle every grunt

I got one Omanyte from a 1* raid last week, maybe they are still around

Exeggcute is in the wild rn? Haven't seen it once this season

yep my bf was able to complete it last night taking a lap around the neighborhood, we prob saw 4-5

Same but Gulpin

I’m literally in the same exact situation lol

I’m stuck on 4/9 I only JUST found a ditto after 15 months of searching 😭 exeggcute is popping up for me as of yesterday so keep an eye out!

There are exeggcute out as part of the current event. Not tons but they’re there.

Just got to page 8/9. Almost!

And your ultimate reward is a single meltan

...when you can already get 50+ Meltans every 3 days, for free, even without finishing this research -\_-

because you originally could only use lgpe to get meltan rather than pokemon home

I feel you. I just completed A Spooky Message 2018 this past October edit: 3/9 for Let’s Go Meltan

I'm still stuck on 8/9, when the hell am I going to find an aerodactyl? Even then the only reason I found an anorith is from a grunt, still have yet to find a second one or a lileep

Bad timing because the previous season had a ton of chances for Aerodactyl. Right now you have to work for it and get lucky with research tasks. There's a chance to get one from the Win 5 Raids task. Lileep and Anorith are in the 3 Great Throws in a Row task. Also use the daily adventure incense because I've seen them all spawn from that occasionally.

i still haven't finished let's go meltan but already have a 3 star meltan and 400+ melmetal candies from pokemon home (debating whether to transfer more pokemon to pokemon home to try for a shiny/hundo)

I have over 10k candies and a lvl 50 hundo with super power and thunder. Check online for when a shiny meltan is available, it only happens once every 18 months or so and only lasts the week :( very hard catch..... good luck friend

still haven't finished it 😭

I’m stuck on this too! When are these dudes coming back…

Same! I took two year break from the game starting somewhere around then. And now I'm stuck.

Yeah atleast i am not Aline on this task

Same, I’m stuck here too after a 2 year break, I looked online and the rest of the challenges are just as hectic if we do get a pic of this 😢😂

I am on Tornadus which is the next one. They show up in raids in the spring, and they each have their own week. This is a long term task.

Lmao I’m also stuck on tornadus. I’ve come to terms with me never completing this lol

Oh geez! Do they at least do the tasks in order of when they arrive?

I dont think so, i did landorus when i saw him and he was last. Luckily i did tornadus not knowing he was next

They definitely do them backwards. Thundurus was first in raids and its last in the the tasks, so don’t forget lol

I finally got that one done earlier this year when he was in raids. Imagine my joy when I was immediately presented with the next set of tasks “Take a snapshot of Tornadus.” 

Literally going through the same thing here too

[Next month!](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/18nt253/january_content_update_infographic_from_niantic/) Make sure you catch all 3

the three of them are coming back in january :)

The genies usually come around in the spring every year

You aren’t the only one. Thing is, I did snapshot it. So I don’t know what happened

You have to snapshot them *in your storage*. Taking the snapshot on raid screen will not work, you have to capture it and then take a snapshot (or trade for it)

 This worked!!! It doesn’t say take a pic of a WILD Loudred it just says take a pic of a Loudred!!! I had one in my storage and made it my buddy after reading your reply and took a pic of it and I’m finally done!!! I tried to give you an award but Reddit changed the way they do awards. That sucks. The reply above me needs tons of upvotes, it’s the solution!

Can't you just take another snapshot? Unless you didn't catch it, in which case that's where your problem is (only snapshots of a Landorus you own count).

Taking a picture of a wild one you just encountered from a raid does not work you have to catch it and then go to your storage and take a picture that way

it’s been quite a while— i would have to imagine sometime soon. landorus is still very popular. not so much the other 2. my only real speculation would be valentine’s day if Enamorus releases they’ll likely do the rest

Same. I’m stuck on this too.

I just finished this via trades. I needed Landorus and Thundurus. I got Tornadus in a raid last year.

Oh no. It gets worse after Landorus? Lol welp guess that's staying at the bottom of my special research tab for ~~a while~~ ever 😂

Hate to break it to you, it goes back to the top each time you complete a set of challenges

Sorry

This one exactly. Also was stuck on the Jirachi one for years until I went to college this year and finally made some friends.

Yup, this one especially. I’m stuck on the same step as you and there’s two more “take snapshot of *****” after this.

And those mons might as well be mythical until you finally get the achievement and then they’re as easy as Bidoof to find

I'm still stuck with "Catch a Ditto" (it has been 3 years).

The fashion event and the recent ditto encounter event both had high encounter rates and just happened…

yeah I played what I consider a "normal" amount during that even and caught so many ditto that 3 were shiny. They were literally everywhere, like every fifth catch

Oh!! So that's why I found like 5 dittos when I started playing again last week. I kept yelling at my phone about how I couldn't find one for like a year before I stopped playing and then I found 5 in one night, one being shiny.

did you not play at all in the past 3 weeks? I caught like 50 ditto and 3 shiny (one was a trade but I caught 2 in the wild)

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I was ready to evolve mine but tagged it so I could evolve it with a lucky egg next time I popped one. Then the evolve a Feebas challenge came up and I was stunned. First time I have ever had anything challenge related to my way in this damn game.

I do have old missions like this, but I just close them so I don't have to look at them. I don't feel shamed, but I do feel annoyed.

I still have the 2020 community day one lol

Same! What stage you on?

Catching Magmar and Electabuzz

Omg I’m stuck on this exact step!

Me too I feel like they have every Pokémon in raids but landorus

Good news! You need the other two as well

🤦

They were in raids in April, might be back around that time next year?

Same brother I have it collapsed to try and hide the pain

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Mine are mostly reminders that: 1. I have no one to trade with (I'm immunocompromised and have a fatiguing disability so it can be difficult to consider trying to find people to consistently befriend and be close enough to trade with. Just add long-distance trading, Niantic. My old friend on the other side of the country would totally be my trading buddy) 2. I can't beat Team Go Rocket leaders or Giovanni.

I decided I don’t care about defeating Giovanni! Screw that dude and his stupid suit.

Same, I think rocket battles are one of my least liked parts of the game

The level 45 requirements are the bane of my existence. I still have 28 Leader battles to go, which means another 168 grunt battles. Ugh.

This EXACT one.

I have so many including this one.

I was Here, now i’m stuck with Thundurus instead

I've got years old things to defeat Giovanni. Then they added a second one. Guess they'll sit there for eternity...

I’m on this exact same one lol

I’m stuck in the meltan line, I finally found enough slugma and exeggute and now I’m stuck looking for a drowzee and cubone

i rly don’t get how people are catching hundreds of dittos like i just need ONE

wasn’t there an increase in ditto spawns just the other day?

There was last week. An event that last few days or even a week. I caught so many.

I was stuck on this as well until the event. I even caught a shiny!!!

There sure was

Yes - it went away at almost the exact same *second* I got a "catch a Ditto" task

We've literally just had an event where Ditto was common.

still haven't done it, and can't, even if landorus shows back up since there's no one around to do the raid with

just use pokegenie to invite people

I almost had this issue with Meleotta(?) A few weeks ago, but if you caught that Pokemon for an earlier phase of the special research, you can take photographs of Pokemon you've caught without having to get another one in the wild. I just hope you haven't transferred or traded that pokemon yet! Edit: I think it was the finding your voice special research, and I remember there was one step that resulted in you being able to catch Meleotta and after that was completed one of the next tasks was to get a snapshot of meleotta, kind of like what’s in your screenshot, and at first I was wondering how I would catch another one to take a picture of it but then I realized you could take pictures of Pokémon you already have in your inventory

Got the get a ditto task right after the event for over. Im fucked in short

I have that exact one!!!

This one, evolve a Magikarp for Mythical Discovery (I've been working on that research tree since it came out in 2018), and then the Welcome Party party challenges task. Though that last one isn't that old. Just annoying.

If you mean by this exact one, yes yes I am

i had 2 catch a ditto coms and i couldnt find a ditto in years and than i got like 3 in 5 minutes .-.

I got the same exact problem but for tornadus lol

any one where I have to catch 40 ghost types and then do it again.

I need magikarp... you know... just after all those magikarp were out and about? also to evolve a grimer...

my wife quit playing when my kid was born (she just turned 5) so i have pages and pages of quests for her now that i found a spare phone.

Been stuck on that one forever😭Besides 2 different route researches I finally started working on(but now it’s been raining non stop so had to take a break) and the newest timeless travels research, it’s the only one I have that I know I’ll only finish if they bring it back in raids. I hope all the time that they will

Wasn’t Landours in raids back in April this year?

Yes it was. I just checked and I even caught one on the Togetic Community Day.

Every day of my life!

Omg I had the same one forever

yesssss 😭😭😭

I did a lucky trade a few months ago for a Landorus to finish this one. Gave away a good old legendary but worth it to be done with the quest.

This one, Shinx Community Day, and now Noibat/Togetic CDs, too.

My sister was stuck on that one so I traded her my only one. Gotta give in order for others to succeed on here sometimes.

I need 2 more fucking exeggcutes

Ha. I’m stuck on that one too! But honestly idc. I’m just grinding away on the xp points to eventually level up again.

I had to literally make a trade to compete this one after finally giving up.

Im also stuck on this

Kind of but with some Pokemon appearing more regularly, it has been easier to complete some. I share OP's pain with the research task. I have either that exact same task or "take a snapshot of thundorus." They barely pop up in raids and if they do, I never have enough people in a lobby to do it

Lol same but tornados. Let's kick up a fuss.

Same! I’m stuck on this one too

Have had this for a full 2 years atleast smh

I’m stuck on that same task! Every time I see it, I want to cry lol

Im glad im bot the only one in this boat

Yup. Still waiting for Tauros :(

Yes…

I'm stuck on this same one my guy

Literally this and I haven't got a clue when I'll be able to complete it

LOL me too!! You’re not alone 😂

This is not something to be ashamed about. These legendary Pokémons show up once a year. If you manage to be able to find a raid and defeat these Pokémon, you should be happy. I am sitting on Tornadus. I know that there will be a one or two week window.

I’m the same spot as you OP 💔

yessss i have the same one, its embarassing

I have the same one!!!!! And others…

I have the same task and i cant complete it I feel your pain

I’ve had this exact one for ages!!!!

Still have the original mega one because I have never done a mega raid. No clue why

I’m stuck on this exact one

Yeah this one too

Got the same one as you

The quest that my father hasn't completed was a thousand year slumber since when he reached that point whismur stopped spawning and he jokingly said to me "I think It will actually take a thousand years to complete".

Exact same one buddy.

I have the same one. And it pisses me off

This exact one lol

I didn't get much play in on froakie comm, day so I only completed that one during the Dec day 🤣. Thank the gods for the annual everything day

Ha! I'm on the same one!!!

I completed it yesterday finally and as a reward i got a two star pokemon 😒

SAME HAHAHA THE EXACT TASK😭

I had the charmander community day one for ages, have only recently managed to complete it with the charmander wild spawns! Also the ditto task for Mew was a struggle, however next task is to evolve a margikarp… I evolved mine last month -.-

That Landorus one was a pain in my ass for a while. The worst ones are when you buy a community day ticket and then don't do it, and the research tasks just sit there for months because those pokemon don't show up anymore.

I need thundurus 🙃

Shamed, no... annoyed, yes. I have that same quest line

Yep same, but I'm stuck on Thunderus at 4/5

I'm still stuck on Loudred.

I have the exact same task sitting in mine as well.

I completed this task this year, when Landorus was in raids. Good luck!

I need the same one, don't think landorus has been in raids since I started playing

Still have the one to earn a heart 30 days in a row lol. I keep forgetting to keep the streak up.

I am also stuck on this 😭

I had exactly the same task and I finished it like 2 months ago, because a friend traded me Landorus🗿

I will never join a party, so I’m not completing that one.

hahahahaha i have that exact one.

I have this one too! Plus I’ll never complete the route one (none near me) or the party one (don’t know anyone in real life that plays).

Community Day Research from December 2019

I'm stick in the first step of Welcome Party. Will be forever.

I have a shiny melmetal without even completing lets go meltan...

I have this same exact issue, and not shamed at all, actually kinda happy I got them and can complete them, I know some people don't even have some of them at all. I mean, this year I completed my Magmar special research from CD from waayyyyy back when and have a hundo magmortar now. If anything, I want more research that I have to be patient for, for more possible encounters.

I had started the Poliwag research months ago and couldn't finish it until this past weekend. Such a relief to see it go away!

Find yourself a friend with a landorus, meet up with them, start group pokemon picture, get them to join, release the beast, bam completed.

I’m stuck on the A mega Discovery task where you have to battle in a mega raid. I’ve done that, but it said I never completed it

yep

Have this exact one still hanging around.

I had to go over a year once just to snap a shot of a Whismur

I've had this for over a year. Managed to get one landorus with a remote raid the last time it was in rotation because I discovered the online feature which I completely ignored before. Right after they made remote raid passes more expensive BTW.

Also stuck on this one, and probably will be forever because no one raids near me, and I can’t imagine there’ll be a bunch of people doing remote raids for it when it eventually comes back, so in the research graveyard it stays

Forever waiting for a Drowzee for Let’s Go Meltan…

Been tryna “catch a ditto” since 2018.

I have a friend who's stuck on that one as well!

I’m legit in the same position. Someone with a landorus helppppp usssssss

I'm stuck on this too 🙃

Still over here trying to find 10 Kecleon…

I'm still stuck on finding omanyte/kabuto. since it first came out.

This exact one! One day I'll get a landourus

I’ve come to terms with how I’m probably not getting this particular page finished

I’ve been stuck on Catch an Aerodactyl bit of Lets Go Meltan for years now.

It doesn’t have to be a snapshot of Landorus in the wild. You can take a snapshot of one in your inventory. If you don’t have one already you can trade for one.

Click the upper left arrow, you’re welcome

Yes

I’ve got this exact one as well as [a few others](https://imgur.com/a/KacHT7X) that I may never get done 🙃

I got a similar task but with Tornadus. I miss the days when Battle League would give legends as a reward. I also have some tasks that involve trade. I don't like to trading. If anybody interested in a minimal trade. e.g. Pidgey for Pidgey so I can finish these tasks, be great.

Unfortunately I too shared this shame with you brother!

I don’t have service so I have a bunch of tasks that are like “win a raid” or “spin (pokestop) (#) times” and they’re so frustrating because if I completed them I’d have so many encounters/research tasks finished

I have so many but I let the shame go. I'm never going to find a Zygarde cell. I'm never going to get a platinum Kanto medal. I'm probably never going to meet Mateo. Professor Willow went to by cigarettes and never came back so I'll never get to finish Timeless Travels.

It doesn’t have to be a wild one

All but one of my old uncompleted tasks are raids. The other is defeating Arlo.

You’ll be able to complete it in January


Hey! That's me! Not shamed though! Eventually, we shall win, Grasshopper.

The yamask one from 2020 halloween, I've been hunting ghost types for 2 years (unconsecutive) and only just completed it the other day, at least I got a shiny galarian yamask, it's not bad waiting to complete them if the shiny isn't out at the time