9 Insanely RARE Pokémon you DON'T HAVE!

[@adriel.013]

I'll always remember my wild J Unown ❤ I got him on 11/13/2018, before they even released him in events or raids. I was playing at night with my bike and I saw the silhouette on the nearby. I run to him the fast as I could, almost got hit by some cars but finally was able to get him on both my accounts!! Such a cool memory haha then I ran back home and saw some friends who played the game, I told them there was a Unown nearby and gave them my bike so they could get him in time, luckily both my friends also got him!! That was the rarest spawn I've seen in the whole game

[@Brandon-jy9qk]

J is probably one of the rarer unowns in general. Since they usually spell words in events, unown rarities are relative to points in scrabble

[@patrickbjordahl3239]

If any one used pgan mapsnbots back before 20 we've caught a few of those and a bunch of hundos ... Looking back jumping fences and trespassing just to catch a digital Mon before it despawned was stupid but so much fun !

[@tjyoung9996]

I know the feeling. I saw a Q pop up on my radar once and my jaw hit the floor. I breathlessly raced across the neighborhood to (successfully!) catch it. Good times!

[@filideeznuts]

I got a unknown in my neighborhood when I first started playing again 2 years ago I transferred it lol

[@filideeznuts]

I’ve hatched over 10 larvestas and I got my galarian moltres with a trash throw and buddy assist. And a G articuno with a excellent and a ultra ball

[@nixequestrian3721]

Regarding PHD Pikachu- we get one for every 100 wins ie. 100 wins = claim 1st Pikachu, 200 wins = claim 2nd Pikachu. So they'll become more common as the years tick by I imagine... I'm rural & already have 2 of the PHD Pikachu's. I'm a third of the way to 300 wins atm, so no doubt will have a third PHD Pikachu in the next few months... I'm mostly just keeping them in the hopes big city players will see them as a decent trade since I don't have many shiny legendries to offer for overseas regional dex entries I need. When I first started playing, an Uxie would camp out at a Pokestop on a hiking trail out in the forest, about a 60 minute walk from my house (the stop is at the bottom of the mountain we live on, so is quite far away IRL, but super close by on PoGo's map lol)... The only issue is it kept showing up at the worst times- like between 11pm-1am & I was not about to go bushwacking down a mountain at that hour... It taunted me for about 3 or 4 months, only ever showing up at that one stop, late at night a few times a week... I found out about 6 weeks after it stopped popping up on my 'near bys' just how rare it was...I have no regrets about not going after it tho.

Oh wasn't aware that makes sense - cool to know!

[@colecampbell1906]

Bruh you're rural, it's going to seem easier to you because there's no competition. Go to any big city and you won't even get to enter in them because they're always full.

[@nixequestrian3721]

@@colecampbell1906 Have another read of my comment- nowhere did I say it was easy to do, I noted: 1- I keep mine as trade bait for visiting city players because it is harder for them to get. 2- I said as time passes, they will get more common because that was the case when I wrote the comment ie. They may seem rare now because so few people have completed their first 100 wins, but in 3 or 4 years a lot more players would have them, as back when I wrote the comment, we got 1 PHD Pika for every 100 wins we had, so 300 wins = 3x PHD Pikas per account. Turns out the PHD Pika for every 100 wins was yet another Niantic stuff up & once they found out, they put an end to it, so it's likely PHD Pika will stay quite rare now most people will only get one.

[@colecampbell1906]

@@nixequestrian3721 blah blah blah I'm not reading a novel. You're acting like they're gonna be a common thing because you were able to get 2 in bumfuk nowhere. It simply won't ever be common and the vast majority of players won't ever have 1.

[@saber-seathearn82]

One of the rarest Pokémon collections is having all 6 copies of Shaymen. 3 for each in person, 1 during global, 1 free one and 1 shiny version.

[@liltaco9726]

Wait I have 4 already and i dont have the shiny one yet. I think you missed one. I went to one in person, one global, and 2 free ones I believe.

[@saber-seathearn82]

@@liltaco9726 I meant like the global go fest for that year. You still had to pay for a ticket.

[@matt9618]

That’s not rare at all, 100s of content creators went to all of the events. Basically just paid to get those.

[@saber-seathearn82]

@@matt9618 Still rare to the average person.

[@improgamer7829]

I only have the shaymen from the free one but it’s a hundo so I am happy. Also can anyone tell me the chances of that?

[@ianallen738]

I play casual because my young son wanted to see the game. I hatched a larvesta on one of my first 12km eggs, soon followed by a 15/14/15 larvitar. Two months into the game we went to sweden and I met a galarian articuno while walking in the evening in a national park. It ran on the first throw. I got home and realized golden raspberries are a thing I have in my inventory and chastised myself for missing what I was sure at the time was a legendary (casual remember). The next evening I took the same walk, popped my daily incense again, and got another one. It escaped my first ultra ball but I caught it with the second (and last) ultra ball, using golden rass's this time. So now I have that bird.

[@joer1513]

I have 3 Larvestas and I caught an Articuno in the wild on my 2nd throw. Cause, I didn’t know anything about the game (my son and I started playing in July 2023, he’s 5 now), and I hit an excellent throw with a golden raspberry and it didn’t catch. I figured that was probably an indicator I should use the Master Ball on it…and that’s how I caught it. Also, insanely enough, my son’s first Pokemon Go Fest, we went to my alma mater and he got to do an in person raid for the first time, he got a Shiny Shadow Articuno! Moments like that are why we play so much today. He does most of the remote raids, I do most of the battles, he and I both go walking everywhere to catch Pokemon almost daily and I legitimately went from hypertensive blood pressure to normal in the last 7 months since we started playing. It’s a blessing.

Love to hear stories like these thanks for sharing!

[@joer1513]

My son is going to geek out when he sees you responded to our story. Thanks for being such a great part of this gaming community!

[@basara5496]

I've hatched 4 female salandit - but only 1 Larvesta, and caught only one Galarian bird. And I buy boxes with large numbers of incubators. I've seen wild unowns, and a wild lake trio, but couldn't catch. I even saw a wild spawn Carnivine 40 miles north of the TN line in KY (well north of where they usually spawn, and long before they were in an event that had them globally). I do have a surprising number of shiny shadows from grunts and leaders, but then I do at least 4 a day (the 4 balloons). Hilariously, I help a friend's son with Pokemon Go. He CAN'T buy anything except with coins from gyms, and only gets event tickets if someone gifts him one. He started playing 2 years after me (I started US Thanksgiving 2019, he started in 2021, but lost access to his original account and restarted in 2022). He's caught 2 Galarian Birds. He's hatched 4 or 5 Larvesta. He's even evolved a Baxcalibur from just hatches (they mostly spawn when he's asleep and not near his phone), and has a Charcadet. He also has caught more shiny legendaries than me, just using free and mission reward passes.

[@paulinexong]

So happy to own one of the pokemon mentioned here! I live in a city, but used to work 5 days a week in a very rural area. I had found 6 different showcases along my commute that usually had 0 participants. By the end of 2023 I had around 90 wins, and started a new job in 2024. I hit 100 not too long before they released Ph.D. Pikachu. So I'm very happy to have one with bugged IVs 🥰

Haha congrats on the bugged IV ph.d pika!

[@mattjackson1149]

What do you mean by bugged IVs ? Like is it poor IVs ?

[@vibrantsquadofficial]

I've 3 Wild Non-event Unowns,wild Uxie, Shiny Mesprit,Larvesta(evolved into Volcarona) and 2 Galarian Birds(Moltres and Zapdos)😎😎😎

[@shadowvesko2720]

You can get gimmighoul for free if someone around you has lured a pokestop with a golden lure it can spawn that's how i got mine without having an a Nintendo switch

[@jmoriarty8000]

I’ve had gold pokestops but never had one spawn

[@Kinggibbon182]

I got mine because my friend traded it to me

[@eleonoracsonka402]

I just saw one 2 days ago at a golden lure and he fled with golden raspberry and ultraball 😭

I thought this was a thing thanks for confirming

[@Sicko2005]

I thought i would never get one. Thought the golden lure was just for coins so i just spun and left. If i knew, i would sit and stay. Thank you, now i hope someone lures with goldens

[@generationsproductions-bon9970]

I’ve got literally nothing on that list other than the Galatian Birds. I used my only Master Ball on a 3151 CP Galarian Articuno back in October 2023, and then in February I got a critical capture on Galarian Zapdos only a week before I caught a 41 CP Galarian Moltres.

[@grimfriends4600]

I figured Shiny Sleepcap Snorlax would be on this list since I don't hear about too many people having that.

[@tjyoung9996]

I was expecting it too. I thought I hit the lottery when I got my shiny. Do we know for sure if nightcap shiny is full odds though?

[@markusundaus9468]

it is not that rare - only pay to have.

[@grimfriends4600]

@@markusundaus9468 5 chances per account that requires a month of play at full 1/512 odds. I think that's rare. Any chances beyond that are essentially against ToS because it requires a new account. It's like saying Salazzle or Larvesta aren't rare because you can just buy incubators. It still takes time and rng to actually obtain, and Shiny Night Cap Snorlax is harder than both of those simply because again, you only get the 5 chances per account.

[@tORIpeejbJorK]

I encountered a wild Uxie the other day. It was on a canal towpath in a rural county, no town, no houses nearby - I was only there at that time and rare that anyone is there. I was walking from my parents' house to a bus stop, a 3.5-mile walk. I'm not normally there but it is also very rural and not reachable by road. I was the only one around as only canal boats (and hardly any) are ever down that stretch, with the very odd exception. I was in a rush, the sun was very bright and I was down to 60 Ultra balls if that, so limiting what I was doing with PoGO as I was preserving balls, it was difficult to play, and I needed to pay attention to where I was walking (uneven grass/stone/dirt path, tree roots etc). But I saw it, and didn't clock what I was even seeing at first (because of the Tour not being that long ago), but then realised... what the... 😅 Very pleased to say that after two break outs, I caught the little trickster and I'll never transfer or trade it (obviously!). Such a find. And thank you for attending my life story. 😂

[@joshward7238]

I see Larvesta possibly having a Community Day at some point in the future

[@BubblyStick3]

Maybe a hatch day

[@David_Mattox]

@@BubblyStick3They’d have to put it in 5K+ eggs for better candy output.

[@gwvaio]

Absolutely

[@michaelnolan9416]

No Pokémon is worth working hard for. It will always have a community day the week after you finish the grind

[@dogsact]

@@michaelnolan9416 Yep, they got me with the Noivern grind

[@Lucky69K]

4:40 even when elite raids waa 1st released with hoopa unbound Wild kantonian legendsry free birds were spawning within a radius and catch rate was garbage until its shiny

[@garcia-buckner7702]

My greatest rare catch is my G Moltres. Caught with a Poke ball on April 1, 2024 during the “An excellent opportunity” event, where most throws were automatically excellent throws.

[@supersaiyankirby]

The excellent from that event didn't affect catch rate just XP so that was an even harder catch

[@garcia-buckner7702]

@@supersaiyankirby Wow. I was under the impression that the catch rate was increased but lucky me.

[@doopness785]

I’m 99% sure that an excellent throw increases the catch rate more than just a nice throw.

[@Smivzz]

Yo same but with G zapdos

[@BootifulLife-oz5ik]

I think you forgot shiny Rotom. Original shiny detective Pickachu without the animation could be #1

[@togliz]

I got a wild non-event Unown! A D spawned not too far from my house, so I made a mad dash to get it. And I did! And on the Discord channel that notified me of it, I said “insert jokes about me getting the D here.” Last I checked, there were ten eggplant emoji reactions to it.

[@支持民進黨下台]

I had one too, transferred away though, I just thought it was very random to have this spawned in the wild😂

Haha let's go what a catch!

[@PurpleBear763]

4:26 I've caught a wild Mesprit outside of Go Fest/Go Tour events! I'm happy that now I know it's rare

YO Nice!

[@deloen]

I actually have a wild azelf that wasn't during an event, it was at a stop i had never been to and now the area is one of my favourite places to grind

[@jonniefast]

happened to me too 😢 i was really surprised

[@Farmbot-Birdy]

same got one a couple days ago before i was about to workout is saw it on the nearby tab and i was like ? so i went to go check it out and got it

[@BasedRanger]

I've done *_A LOT_* of walking as a park ranger, so I managed to hatch a Larvesta pretty early on after it released. Once Adventure Sync started actually working properly for me (It didn't count 95% of my steps when I was out of cell phone range, which was most of my day), I was able to hatch 2-3 eggs daily just from my infinite incubator. I also caught a wild Galarian Articuno on what I believe may have been the first throw. Apparently, the trick there must be to feed it a golden razz berry, then proceed to stare at it anxiously for several minutes before daring to actually throw an ultra ball at it.

[@xcyphs]

I found a wild Azelf about a year before the sinnoh tour event in my small town. It did indeed change my life

[@KoOkYmOnStEr1988]

I just found one a couple days ago. I had no idea it was even rare. Not good stats though. 6A/7D/0HP on it and it's really low level with a cp of 130. I'm really glad I didn't transfer it out!

[@DanteDedicatoria7625]

Same here. I caught mine a month ago during a non event.

Damnnnn congrats!

[@TheFatefulOne]

Mine has the same CP 😮​@@KoOkYmOnStEr1988

[@jordangede3726]

can confirm just just caught one 30 mins and a buddy of mine actually got a shiny, life changing

[@serg.i0]

Turns out Galarian bird spawns are not random, I have seen multiple people find repeating spawn locations for all the birds.

[@damienhardy289]

Yup. It switch of location and specific time I don’t know every weeks or months (I’d say months), but regarding all my screenshots of accounters and stuff, I noticed that it was only when the day was windy, a specific day in the week at a specific time on a specific route (not just at one spot but there’s maybe only 200meters for the spasm in the route). That’s how I got my Zapdos (used the Masterball, I mean the first I got 🤦‍♂️) and then on another route in another village where I found out the spot, an Articuno, great ball this stime, not even an excellent throw, I got lucky af despite the stats ahah) I think it might change at every new season of PoGo imo. The first route where I got my Zapdos, none showed up since maybe November of last year). Sometimes on just few meters, I had one and then an another bird lol. I noticed a lot of people were not aware when I’ve made a story on my Insta for those who play

[@serg.i0]

@@damienhardy289 Thank you for all the info. I’m glad I’m not the only one who realized this. It is really y useful information for anyone that is still looking for them. Sadly I don’t see anyone making videos about this.

[@Thewo1verine]

I have an unown wild k, Also hatched 64 larvesta so far,

[@vinayak.thombre]

Bro WTF why it says 1 month ago he just uploaded a video

[@oneonone8855]

@@vinayak.thombreHe's a member if you didnt realize

[@Thewo1verine]

@@vinayak.thombre member’s video first

[@vinayak.thombre]

@@Thewo1verine so he uploaded a month ago oh

[@Thewo1verine]

@@vinayak.thombreyes become a member and you get exclusive videos and behind the scenes videos

[@Massivechungus]

Few days before I discovered this video, I managed to caught a wild shiny uxie spawn randomly around my dorm. After watching this I finally realized why I ran out of luck at many things throughout that day afterwards lol

[@nguyen925]

I'm at 98 show cases won lol. Can't wait for it 😂

[@danieliusblackius1130]

Of these, I have the PHD Pikachu, all 3 Galarian birds (I even traded a low level G. Articuno to Pokemon Home for trading purposes, because I have caught 3, and traded a Moltres to a friend because I also caught two of those), Salazzle, Larvesta (with enough candies to evolve it now - but I am holding off), and a maxed out hundo Gholdengo. I have seen a wild Azelf spawn - but it ran when I tried to catch it.

[@m66ads]

Been playing since 24/01/23, I have 1 salazzle, 4 hatched larvestas, 2 galarian birds and have won 80 showcases! Didn’t realise these were rare things. Brilliant 👍👍👌

[@vibrantsquadofficial]

I've almost the same collection as yours broo🤝

[@Chief_Nubz]

How tf u got 4 galarian birds

[@m66ads]

@@Chief_Nubz I haven’t, Iv got 2 birds. 4 larvestas

damn 4 larvestas is crazy

[@m66ads]

@ cheers mate, love the videos keep posting… your my go to guide! 🙌👌

[@danielknight8716]

On 5/11/2021 I caught a wild Azelf in Clearwater FL. One of my most exciting POGO moments. I couldn’t believe it spawned, then was even more hyped once I actually caught it.

[@BubblyStick3]

I have a salazzle! 3:41

[@reganhumphreys5221]

Iv got one evolved and one unevolved they arnt that rare

[@UnknownHero57]

I have a hundo Salazzle!

[@marcoruffoni5567]

Me too

[@gattinafatata]

me too!

[@namednpc]

Me too and now I tagged it to never dex it 😂😂

[@somekidnamedtapu]

I caught a wild Azelf during no event, later I told someone about it and showed me their Azelf, caught on their way to the location we were at. The chances of that happening twice at my town within a week from each other were slim to none!

[@GlennEpps]

I have a hard time believing they are THAT rare because I caught the azelf a couple weeks ago. And then my friend caught one as well last week, and then caught the other regional in New Zealand a few days later. But we’ve never encountered a unown

[@Shiny_KingT]

98% Shiny Shadow XXL Moltres. Pretty insane. Not to mention 2 96% Shadow Shinies as well (Raikou and Cubone)

[@Lavenderland114]

The only rare Pokémon I have from this list is a hundo salazzle, a hundo gholdengo and 9 hatched larvesta (One of the larvesta being a 98%). For salazzle it took me less than 20 eggs to get and for gholdengo me and a friend spam traded gimmighouls everyday until we both got the hundos.

[@BeadTube]

As a pretty casual player, it was surprising that I have hatched 2 Larvesta with one of them being a HUNDO!!!!

[@Aud-dogs]

Same

[@CellaDragon]

I didn’t know Azelf was THAT rare. I recently was sitting at home and a bus stop near me had the silhouette and I totally got in my car, drove to the bus stop and caught it! So glad I did then.

[@RobertoHermanos]

Well 2 days ago i caught a azelf at a micheals and i was amazed!

[@fax2459]

HEY me too!

[@kukumalu255]

Pokedaxi could have mentioned that suring *rediscover kanto" the lake trio spawns are definitely boosted a lot

@@kukumalu255yed, but in individual spawn. Only one person can catch it.

[@travvdawg]

I got one about a week ago

[@SeptaGoat-pe5ml]

Same at booster juice with a great ball!!! At 2500 cp not a nice throw

[@Sufiyan07]

Awesome video, out of all these rare Pokemon I have 2, 1st is wild unown H and female salazzle

[@cesarkaisersanchez5048]

Can say I got the shiny Libre 💪

[@panch0bill]

Respect 👏

[@Damien2004]

W

[@arnoldramirez3789]

Ur insane

[@WhosBrazy]

Got a 98 but not shiny 🥲

Yo let's go nice!

[@chrisculver5940]

I caught a wild lake guardian 3 days ago. I didn't realize it was so rare. I knew it was rare, but not that rare. It's staying in my collection forever.

[@deanolivier6014]

while watching this video i just caught a SHINY wild azelf....

[@TheCokeRL]

Cap

[@Soccergladdiater]

Niceeee

[@improgamer7829]

I got a salandit which was female on my pokidex registry. One time I had got a wild mesprit which was a hundo. Sadly my friend transferred it😢 and that friend only hatched a hundo larvesta,so I made him evolve it and then transferred it to take revenge 😅

[@The_C1O]

I saw an unown spawn during college, i couldnt go cuz it was too far Also,almost at 100 wins for phd pika Caught a galarian zapdos yesterday, now have 5 total galar birds

[@ChristinaMD-dt9vp]

My 5 year old also caught a G Zapdos with an Ultraball yesterday. He just needs the articuno. How many times have you encountered the birds so far?

[@The_C1O]

@@ChristinaMD-dt9vp i have encountered 15+ birds in the past two years, out of which ive caught 5 total. My first 2 galar birds i caught in one incense itself, Molt & Artic

[@ethanl4931]

Did you use any masterballs for those 5? I've seen at least 40 galarian birds, and I've only caught 2 without a masterball😭 Your stats are WILD

[@The_C1O]

​@@ethanl4931i used only for zapdos since ive been looking for it for a long time. Remaining with ultra, great and a regular pokeball as well 😅

[@ChristinaMD-dt9vp]

@@The_C1O Thank you for your reply!!! That is impressive! Very cool! We encountered Zapdos 7 times and now caught it with the ultra ball. We saw Moltres 3 times and caught it with the Ultraball (on the first encounter). Only seen Articuno twice- and not yet caught. My offspring will probably use his first Masterball on the Articuno to complete the trio. He only started playing in February but I guess he is encountering them quite frequently as it seems.

[@tomfinley9249]

I caught a wild Azelf on May 5th of this year. I posted it to campfire because I never new they were super rare wild spawns. It has almost no IV's at 2100+ CP and I was gonna transfer it tonight for the 2× transfer candy. If it was not for you, POKE DAXI, Making this video, I would of done that. You stopped me because I never knew the rarity until I saw this video. Yesterday, the day before I was gonna transfer it. What are the odds of me seeing it in the wild, using 15 ultra balls and 15 berries to catch it. Yes, every time it jumped out, I was expecting it to run. Than you post this video 2 days later and 1 day before I was gonna transfer it. That's like 1 in a Google plex. ( that's a 1 with 390 million zeros after it). It's crazy but, THANK YOU POKE DAXI for saving me from doing one of the dumbest things someone playing could do. Keep doing what do and I love your videos. I've learned so much from you! Thank you and have a lovely day!

[@PilfUndWilf]

I masterballed my Galarian moltres

[@geographyfan662]

Same

[@Leto85]

I got all three the Galarian birds now in Go. The Zapdos was caught by my Pokéball Plus + by accident and I was stressing out at first that I'd missed it, but nope: got it! XD

[@tf8327]

My daughters and me each have the PHD Pikachu. And you can only get this one with 12/13/14 IV also. So a hundo is currently impossible, as well as a shiny. And you forgot to mention Charcadet...

[@maganhassan2627]

Huh? Is this confirmed those iv spreads only??

[@rampantpikachu]

You're incorrect. They changed it a few weeks ago. I held off claiming mine until they changed it.

[@rampantpikachu]

​@@maganhassan2627it was until a few weeks ago.

[@GabSi99]

Since you mentioned shiny shadow hundo, I’d like to mention traded nundo. If your very first interaction with a new friend is a trade you have a 1 in 4096 chance of getting a nundo. After that trade your friendship level increases and the trade floor IV becomes 1-1-1.

[@galaticwarrior213]

Imagine banning people who join your discord

[@bestoflui]

Yea I was banned a while ago by the staff, they never unbanned me

[@ghosthost4073]

🧢

[@bestoflui]

@@ghosthost4073 it ain’t cap

[@billybrown00]

Cool to see some of my Pokemon in the list❤ I’ve got the female salazazzle, and 4 galarian birds (2 moltres & 2 articuno)with only one master ball used. I refuse to use my other master ball on the Zapdos

[@YChess]

Last week I encountered a wile Uxie at the end of a route as a route spawn! It was a crazy experience

[@aisumasuta6304]

I got a random Unown when it was just released. It was close to my metro station and got out to get it. Never knew it would be that rare back then

[@ezramalakai9899]

I caught a wild Azelf in the wild not too long ago and i knew it had to be a rare thing but i didnt realize it had a worldwide spawn limit each day

[@jonahferguson5965]

As I was leaving for work one morning last week I saw an Azelf silhouette pop up on my radar and was able to catch it on the way

[@Craziikiitii]

About 3 weeks ago , 6 houses down from my home , Azelf appeared in the wild , I threw SO many ultra balls & different berries , but I finally did catch it . 💖

[@GameAndKirby]

Well I have a Larvesta, so i guess i messed up the video title.

[@soydipi]

Since the change in the way regionals spawn Mesprit, Ixie and Azelf are waaaay more often than before the change

[@determineddaaf3]

1: I found a wild non-event Unown B. When I saw it on the radar I told my dad about it and we immediately drove there. 2. I don't have this. 3. I don't have this, but my dad has a shiny 100% shadow Articuno which is absolutely crazy. I actually caught a pretty decent (∼80%) shiny at the exact same raid too, so when I caught mine first and saw that his was even higher that set off some alarm bells lol. 4. Nah, screw 12km eggs lol. 5. No 6. No, I suck at GBL 7. I have four of these. I think I've gotten pretty lucky with them since I don't hatch a lot of eggs. I tend to just incubate one at a time with the endless incubator. None of them are good unfortunately. 8. I'm too lazy to get Gholdengo, maybe I will eventually, who knows. 9. I've had a good amount of encounters, but caught none of them :/ I'll only throw my master ball if I encounter a 3000+ cp galarian zapdos. Otherwise I'll try to catch it normally.

[@NintendoTugs]

Got my first 2 unown BEFORE the events made them globally available buuuuutttttt, it was back when there was trackers on Twitter. In my opinion though this was the most fun I EVER had playing the game. You'd get a notification with the location, and it would say how much time left, so you had to jump in your car and MOB sometimes and hope you got there before it despawned. Just got my 50th showcase win yesterday, halfway there! Never gotten a Shundo even, been playing since day one. Got 4 Salazzle, never spent money to battle leaders. I HATE PVP but tried for that Pikachu one season, before realizing it used to be WAY EASIER to get when it first came out. I have a win ratio of 60 percent, but just didn't play enough I guess, despite playing what I thought was a ridiculous amount and until I hated myself and the game daily. Got 4 Larvestas, ALL after the event when I hatched 0. Gimmighoul was annoying AF, but not bad if you're part of a Facebook group. Masterball'd 2 Galarian birds, caught a 27cp Articuno in and ultra ball, and then I think a 2000cp Zapdos in an Ultra Ball. TOTALLY forgot about the time roar thing, never used it.

[@dtown902]

Rural player here...yes you should be jealous lol, I have 158 Showcase wins. I have 3 showcase stops nearby that no one ever enters except my gf. She's mad because I win them all the time. A little caveat I think I should mention, for the golden lure you don't need to send a postcard 5 days in a row. It just needs to be 5 uses. You can take days off in between.

[@brocklee9202]

I remember my first dusk form Lycanroc was a shiny, and I got the shiny Smeargle without even going for it. I hatched a shiny Riolu once, and caught a shiny Drilbur two weeks ago. Four pretty rare shinies. Salazzle, Galarian Moltres, Sigilyph, Klefki, Comfey, Skiddo/Gogoat, Gimmighoul/Goldengo, Hawlucha, Lunala, the pink, red, & purple Oricorio, and the red & blue Flabébé lines are the only Pokémon I need to have caught everything they've released so far lol

[@Epyxoid]

5:19 A few days ago, I walked to a nearby gym, only to do a 1-star raid (I only do 1-star raids because I play alone and those are the only ones I can win). This was my first time ever to specifically go out for a raid. I only started playing less than half a year ago, and my current buddy needs raid wins, so I was kinda on a mission on that day, I guess. 😆 I usually just catching mons or defending gyms. (I still don't have 10 raid wins for my buddy.) When I was getting close to the raid I noticed an unregistered mon at the bottom right corner. I'm not familiar with any mons really. I've never played any pokemon games ever. It was Mesprit btw. It was just a regular new mon to me. I first only used a regular razz berry. I know. Even now, I get sweaty just thinking about it. It didn't fled, but broke out way too easily, so I was like: okay, the target circle couldn't even get redder, so it's time for a golden razz berry... I caught it with the second throw. Neither of them were an excellent throw, obviously. And that's how I caught my first legendary mon. (If Zygarde is not counted, because it was free from a research.) After I realized it's a legendary I searched it up and found out that it was an extremely rare encounter. Btw, that's how I completed the "catch a legendary pokemon" task of my research I got when I choose Palkia when its new form got introduced. XD It didn't change my life, but it was a crazy encounter for sure! 🙂

[@RickyTrain5]

Caught Galarian Zapdos on my first encounter ever. Didn’t realize how hard that was until people said something. Of course, I’ve missed all the others after it.

[@eburpees]

I saw the silhouette of an unown x once on my nearby, but it was 2am and pretty far from my house so i didn’t catch it. That was probably 4/5 years ago and i haven’t found a non event unown since.

[@michiel5028]

Didn't know about the PHD Pikachu untill this vid. Checking my showcase win stats... 140 wins 😅 Claimed it right away. Thanks!

hey nice how were the ivs

[@michiel5028]

@ 11-15-14 could have been worse I guess

[@Shivian124]

Some guy on Reddit posted his THIRD shiny pikachu libre and his ultimate flex was that it was little cup sized!!! 🤯🤯🤯

[@chrisanders713]

I used a Master Ball on my Galarion Moltres! I have seen a few spawns of it as well with Galarion Zapdos but have never been able to catch them normally or even see Galarion Articuno in game yet.

[@currykingwurst6393]

I'm pretty sure I've just seen a Mesprit silhouette at a nearby pokestop, but it was gone before I could even get there.

[@bald_gorilla]

Me and my mum found the uxie yellow one we each got it and traded it and we got a lucky but I also saw one on that little pokestop thing it was the pink one but we couldn’t go out to get it. But the lucky yellow one was so cool (non event)

[@OE_kuL]

I will say, seeing a wild mesprit on my nearby changed my life, specially since I was stuck in traffic ._.

[@antonissotirakis7861]

I have caught a Azelf recently last Saturday to be specific. It was next to a gym while I was hunting high iv shadow Suicune. ❤

[@KingPeenor]

I was having breakfast with pokefriends 4 of us and we wer talking about catching the lake trio. We finished eating and as we left i saw the wild outline of a azelf. We all ran to its location and cought it. What are the odds after talking about it we manafested one of the rarest mons in the game, and called our groupchats to get it for everyone else in the area. One of the best pokemon go memories 😂

[@fdrngm266]

Yeah, I got a wild Azelf caught in the wild on Jan 1, 2023 .. so definitely not apart of any tour events and tag in Kingston, Jamaica so no funny stuff was done. Back then, it wasn't in the dex so the shadow pops up on the nearby and I was wondering what was that, 😅 was very happy when I caught it

[@reptiledisfunction9232]

dude i found 2 wild azelfs in the same 24 hours… no lie i have screenshots. 1 was on my own at 3am in san francisco and 1 was with my friend in the city the next day. awesome moments but i had NO IDEA just how rare it was, im humbled fr

[@chrismayberry9850]

Caught an Azelf in the wild when I was living in Tulsa, Ok. I remember it being one hell of a battle to catch him, but once it was caught I was ecstatic, that was back on 6/6/2022.

[@jakejoholske8725]

just caught a wild Azelf in DC during during the flock together event! i didn’t even know they occurred in the wild

[@Hatch6670]

I’ve caught a wild azelf during a non event at it was at a little pond in the town I live in. It’s deff the craziest rarest encounter I’ve had. I’ve also caught all 3 Galarian birds without a master ball it took a lot of grinding every day haha

[@A.n.TBenTrill]

This video actually made me feel pretty special because I consider myself a pretty normal daily player and I've hatched 2 Larvesta, (never buy incubators) evolving one into Volcarona (rare candy and best friending both Larvestas) and I have 2 Galarians Articuno (Golden Razz, Ultra Ball, Excellent Throw of course) and like a week after getting my first Masterball Zapdos spawned while I was walking around my neighborhood saving the one i have now for Moltres buuuuuut before I caught them I've seen ~ 7 Moltres even recorded a back to back encounter now he wont pop up. And even though it was during Sinnoh, got a shiny Mespirit in the wild. Trying to get Salazzle hatched 8 males so far and I haven't gotten a legit Shundo yet I had to get one by lucky trading a hatched shiny Gligar 😂

[@360fearlessadventures2]

I got a wild Azelf in the wild and it wasn't a event 2024-04-26. Pretty cool!

[@colecampbell1906]

Salazzle really isn't that crazy. I got 2 females, but only evolved the 1 so far due to lack of candy (though I could do it any time with rare candy's). And I got 2 wild Azelf about a month ago within like a day or 2 of eachother lol, but their stats were both garbage sadly. I've also got like 6 larvesta from eggs and I rarely even buy the incubators.

[@OcionTVOfficial]

Tip on gholdengo and I've tested, you are not required to have a Switch and Scarlet/violet, you are required to have a friend who has it. I got the Coin Case for both me and my friend on the same day from one Scarlet save :)

[@LuisMarcelo-c6z]

I'd like to nominate Charcadet and Vivillon (Sandstorm, Sun and Ocean) to your list! Missed the event for Charcadet... and those three regions are the hardest to find friends from... not to mention the amount of candy you need to collect to evolve all forms of Vivillon.

[@mr_fantastic4281]

I have a hundo best buddy goldengo, he's so cool and I love how he surfs around on the map when I have him out!

[@dprahn02]

As a fairly casual player I am lucky enough to have hatched a larvesta. Was walking it until I got my Shadow Mewtwo recently. Not sure I'll stop walking this. I started doing daily incense religiously last September walking to pick up my son from school. Encountered a Moltres in December and used a master ball. Then, oddly, just today had my second ever encounter... Another Moltres. Tried my luck and.. it ran.

[@RedRaven889]

I hatched 9x larvesta’s to date. It felt like the hatch rates were boosted for a short period which is when I hatched mine.

[@TheSteezin117]

I caught a wild Azelf at a Starbucks near the park I was at by my house. I saw it pop up in the bottom right hand corner and had no idea what it was, so I made my way over. To be honest, I've only been playing again for a month or so and I had no idea that it was as rare as it was. Also, I have a Salazzle and I had no idea that was hard to get either lol. Too cool!

[@TheSteezin117]

The wild Azelf was 2 weeks ago, so not part of any event that I know of.

[@kielivelho]

I got 2 galarian bird's (zapdos&moltres) from one incense last summer 😮‍💨 (I didn't even use the masterball, I got lucky)

[@BenjaminBurlingame]

About two weeks ago I caught an Azelf in the wild. It was in the parking lot where I work. 15/14/14 IVs. I couldn’t believe it

[@attn.]

I started 3 weeks ago and encountered a Uxie! Didn't know they were that rare, glad I caught it

[@emilieguillory2724]

I actually randomly found a random wild azelf at a local university. It doesn't have the best IV's but it happened lol. I've hatched only 1 larvesta, got 2 gholdengo's, and caught 2 galarian Moltres. Used both my master balls on them though

[@billy7975]

I grabbed a uxie last weekend!! I’d seen one on my wild meter a few months ago too, never knew they were so rare!!

[@itschaosuphere]

I can safely say i have 1 Female Salandit and i did have a wild Mespirit spawn in the wild outside of sinnoh tour, 3 Larvesta that i have at least hatched one of each egg it comes out of and i have An Galarain Zapdos & Moltres both caught with a Ultra ball both of which very lucky 😅

[@AbrahamVillanueva1]

This last Friday I got a wild Azelf near my house! Out of nowhere, I was just walking to my nearest pokestop because I hadn’t spin any that day, and it spawned, and I captured it. IVs: 5/8/1

[@marisMeow]

I caught a Galarian Articuno with my autocatcher in a Pokéball 😂 I was so shocked when I viewed my summary of the daily incense! 😮

[@invisiblewarriorairsoft161]

I caught a wild Mesprit in London on 7/6/2024 and forgot to drop the location by accident for those in the area

[@shanerodriguez8335]

My wife and I both just caught a wild Azelf right now at home. I had to tell her about this video as we were catching them and then we watched and tried multiple times to catch ending up with a 0/1/9 IV with 2210 CP!

[@harryandrews5996]

Holy crap, there's me casually walking along a street in Spain on holiday when I see the greyed out icon, so I run over and it's UNKNOWN P in the wild! I'm now ecstatic to think 5 hours on I'm watching this video and I'm now only just realising how rare that is, WOW!

[@joaoalves2349]

Last rotation of rocket leaders i got so lucky. I got a shundo shadow bagon. Currently im walking with him as my buddy to max him out

[@miloquinn2478]

I found a lv 1 Azelf in the wild. I was so excited just seeing it in the wild.

[@jamilali7650]

Just watched this and was blown away by these odds… I caught an Azelf in the wild in Miami Beach Florida right on the water. I ran from my apartment to the ocean when I saw it pop up on my radar. I thought it was a Mew! 😂 I caught it on 7/16/2020

[@malevolancee]

Wouldn’t that be crazy if Margarette’s eyes were straight and you questioned her appearance and she said, Yes I’m coming from the eye doctor now, I just had surgery” (they take the brown off the blue in the real real surgery). The only way to fact check it would be to call whoever lives with them and that’s if they’re even home. What if Dr. Aftan got LASIK and now he looks super weird without glasses? Or what if someone ends up needed glasses lmao. So many possibilities!!

[@MrXerx666]

I accidentally evolve my female salandit and don't regret it after, I don't know if that was rare I hatched it last year. thanks for sharing now I know :)