The BIGGEST Event of the Year!! Pokémon GO Fest 2022

[@ZoeTwoDotss]

So glad to see Adam traded you one of your favourite shinies!! I thought he was going to be mean and give you one you didn't want 💖 Such a nice guy.

[@SCOTTCOD4]

Played both days, ticket holder, walking about 6 hours first day & 4 hours second day. 16 insense used, lures on most stops, walking around a good park and my local area. (Played the full 8 hours both days) I got a total of 5 shiny. Incredibly poor. I caught hundreds and shiny checked even more! Very disappointed and will think twice before buying another ticket.

[@Arnold_808]

Played 7 hours on day 1 and 4 hours on Day 2, but also 5 shinies (only caught on Day1). 1st time buying a ticket and most likely won't be buying a ticket for the next Fest.

[@thomaslenno4718]

​@@Arnold_808 ​ But remember there is a third date later in the year (August 27th) with hopefully increased rates.

[@maxxschanback9900]

Played 6 hrs got 1 shinny

[@7Lonestar7]

I caught 24 shinnies and only played about 5 hours combined with both days

[@Arnold_808]

@@thomaslenno4718 I know but they specifically mentioned increased shiny rates. I know some people had it but a lot didn't. Judging from the comments, a lot didn't have shinies. I am not a player who demands 50 shinies, and know that you are sometimes unlucky. But this time it feels off.

[@Sindory]

I played 15 hours through rain and thunderstorm in Germany and got 3 shinys, 1 of them I already had from the community day. Total bummer for me.

[@noahparker9681]

Same kind of deal here

[@tomelliott73]

Same 1 shiny groudon 1 shiny mudkip and a slakoth .

[@Triple_Y_turn]

Same, alsonin Germany. Fortunately a friend invited me to a raid in nyc and I got a 98% of the new ultra beast

[@Leto85]

Constant rain? Poor you. I hunted/raided in Arnhem, the Netherlands and the rain only started at around 4:30 pm.

[@AbdallaHassanAboodHss]

Glad i learned the lesson from the last event and didn't bought the ticket for this one.. I knew it will be a scam

[@claudiel4660]

I've played both days save for 30 minutes for lunch, incense on constantly, went outside for a few hours and raided. I got 2 shiny and 4 good IVs, literally had more of both on Friday for free. The despawn bug caused havoc for shiny checking in dense spawn areas/ by rocket stops.

[@Zer0-W]

I stayed home the whole time and got 12 shinies

[@Floppy_Squirrel]

I played at a different city for each day for the entire 8 hours and got 5 shiny in total, and the despawning bug got me good because I clicked on a wild axew that was shiny and when I went to feed it a berry and I got the “this item can’t be used” prompt, I was livid.

[@glittergurl8853]

Yeah the despawning glitch was a huge bummer.

[@TheUnitedfan93]

I think if you added up all your shiny points, you still would have enough to beat most of Europe combined I think.. Utterly ridiculous event! Felt like a scam. Still, nice to see you out and playing with your friends again. Looking forward to more travel videos in the future.

[@Biblioot]

Had a nice weekend, but was pretty annoyed with the incense bug. Most of the spawns disappeared in thin air shortly after spawning. Was acknowledged by Niantic, but still happening on day 2...

[@matthewmoore1356]

This!!!

[@proeuk3205]

Yeah it was annoying

[@JTw729]

Shiny odds sucked too

[@AhhhSukeSuke]

Omg. I thought I was imagining it

[@StandardGary]

This was my biggest disappointment for sure. I got lucky with the shinies but lost so many Unown, Axew, etc from the incense glitch, when incense spawns were advertised as a main feature for ticket holders. Really hope they give us a make-up event for this.

[@GetCraftyCrafty]

I’m seriously starting to think Niantic gives these Pokémon KZbinrs a higher shiny boosted rate. I literally got 2 shiny Pokémon on Saturday, and 3 shiny Pokémon on Sunday. None of them being the new shiny Pokémon. I actively played 6 of 8 hours each day, I used an incense every hour, and I finished both of the special research. I can’t help but feel like I was ripped off by Niantic. I’m also not surprised since this suspicious feeling of the lack of shiny Pokémon happened in the past Pokémon Go Feat events.

[@PedroSanchez-fe5xu]

That's how I feel. That Niantic boost KZbin creator's shiny rates higher than us common folks. I played from 10 to 6 pm none stop just catching first day 2 shiny and second day 3 shiny. None of them were of the new shiny. And idk if my walking distance is broken. But I only hatch 5 eggs and all 5 were 2km eggs. Shouldn't have I hatch more in I walk for 7 hours. I took 1 hour lunch break but was still playing.

[@googleknowsus8184]

Nah. It’s RNG, I got 35 playing both days.

[@holtz9644]

Same, the 1st day was alright for me, but the 2nd day was SOOO disappointing... Got 7 shiny pokemon on the 1st day and only 1 on the 2nd day, on both days I played for 7 hours

[@XXLRebel]

It feels suspicious but I saw trainer club and daxi's videos who both got atrocious rates as well so... Kinda annoyed by the titles of a lot of them. It should have been adressed immediately to let everyone including Niantic what a rip off this was

[@klausresch5844]

Just a question of ones playstyle ^^ Got 52 shinies on the weekend, having caught about 5000 Pokemon. People can't just expect to get all the shinies thrown at them ^^ If you want them you gotta play hard. But most important is, that the Go Fest is about enjoying yourself - you buy the experience, not the shinies ^^

[@forgethought8174]

Shiny rates wwere wretched. Even on raids. Niantic is screwing themselves out of a good fanbase. I agree with others. 2 years ago was the best and it's been downhill. The rewards, bonuses, it was all pretty mediocre. I got my tickets from a friend and glad I did. Still love the community. But the game is slipping.

[@amitnaik7513]

And yet Niantic keeps making things worse cause there are plenty of people buying stuff and keeping Niantic rich for their pathetic decisions.

[@myescape101]

AGREED!!!!

[@hawktalon7890]

I got a 100% Axew, but nothing else. Granted, I've never been to an actual Go Fest location as I'm poor and don't have much in the way of financial autonomy.

[@jasonk.9170]

Yeah it does suck but I like playing, but they won't do anything about what we have any probs with so just stop playing. Life does go on

[@maxxschanback9900]

Felt like last year had enough raids of legendaries to combat the shinnies

[@Trubbish26]

“Sometimes you have good luck and sometimes you have bad luck.” No, Nick, the shiny rate was cranked way down for this event. I’m amazed you got as many as you did. I had incense going all day both days, walking the entire time except 1/2 hour each day for lunch- 3 shinies on day 1 and one shiny on day 2. Do better, Niantic.

[@Ronnie_R87]

Casually, KZbinrs had a pretty good shiny rate overall. Casually.

[@gos1a]

@@Ronnie_R87 I got 10 on Saturday and 5 on Sunday. And I don't run neither youtube or instagram 🤷‍♀️ Shiny luck was increased but they didn't guarantee anything.

[@2736492821]

@@gos1a your case as an one of the few outliers does not invalidate the overall low shiny rate

[@Tangarisu]

@@gos1a it's looking like from my estimates that 50/1000 people had the shiny rates as advertised.

[@eNVyArT83]

Shiny rate was so bad and no1 is going to address it. My whole family, friends, even ppl on social media are all complaining about just getting 1 or 2 shinys all day. I get that it's random but wow everyone I know? It was really disappointing.

[@Tangarisu]

Notice all the major youtubers games work perfectly. Hmmm

[@jelkluz112]

@@Tangarisu I got 18 after 2 days while not playing all of the time. I must be a major youtuber then.

[@grandtheftgameryt]

@@jelkluz112 *lucky

[@quasimodoff]

they’re not gonna complain cause people playing and paying benefits them. do you wonder why nick constantly make videos nowdays? do you think its because the game is fun again or more because his videos werent watch enough like his old ones? people are sick of being scammed by niantic

[@BryJovi17]

​@@jelkluz112 you're more than likely a filthy casual then (in the words of KZbinr ZoeTwoDots)... basically her husband got a hundo jellyfish as well as a shiny Axew lol and he hadn't played the game in a while. She got neither of those

[@jon33709]

More like the most disappointing event of the year. How is that I have better shiny odds in your standard week long events than I do with go fest? Makes so sense at all!

[@andiqalfizaputra5987]

Just ask niantic about it.

[@poop917]

@@Ilostmyairpod how does it feel

[@sistergiblits7795]

Maybe you should be grateful for your apparently amazing regular shiny odds?

[@whaleking6445]

@@Ilostmyairpod literally everything

[@MajPayn]

@@Ilostmyairpod why not read the title. He is asking if it was good. So he said it was the worse

[@ringod123]

7 shinies for me over the 2 days, 6 on day 1 and 1 on day 2, all caught in the wild. Played about 12 hours, incense on the whole time. Didnt appreciate the ninja difficulty increase (pokemon moving and attacking WAY more than usual as well as escaping the ball WAY more too) in catching pokemon for the event or the incensed pokemon who would run away as soon as you touch them, my first paid event and possibly my last after this experience.

[@ringod123]

Oh yeah and almost every single pokemon has had terrible IV's, like 95% of every pokemon caught were 0-1 star.

[@beckypalmer5154]

I agree felt like every axew I clicked ran didn't even go to catch screen

[@Marchelo1988]

No. Shiny rate was ridicoulous

[@HOOOVERZ]

Ridiculously low...

[@connorwilkinson7560]

Also the incense bug was horrible, respawn after not even the full duration or it being there for 5 mins or no pokemon showing up for a few mins between incensed pokemon

[@aaroniemcwonley]

Guess we were all incensed about it

[@JChris143]

I know, every time they would only show up after they were already gone it was so rude lol

[@jamespickett5050]

I feel like 2 years ago it was good then last year was ok then this year was absolutely terrible especially for shiny rates. The pokemon that were spawning were pretty much all kinda boring. Yes there were new shinies but good luck getting them with how the rates were. Overall I'd say 2.5-3/10

[@Speedzter91]

I got 75 shinies nad a lot of new ones. Sorry but u just have a suck ass shiny luck. I'm happy with the event and even got kyogre groudon and axew shiny.

[@deviousj5868]

Yeah 2020 GoFest was lit. 2021 was pretty good. I don't get shinies anyways they made me waste my shiny luck before GO Fest.

[@maganhassan2627]

Shiny rate wasn't great in the last 2 go fest

[@jormdeworm]

@@maganhassan2627 Shiny rate last year was okay I guess, this year it was absolutely ridiculous.

[@yubee3882]

Last year was good, but it wasnt as cheap as 2020, but this year was a joke

[@viruz13_z71]

It was nice to finally meet you... me my family had a blast first time long time we went out... always love content

[@commishguy]

You need to talk to your contacts about all the glitches at Go Fest. I contacted them about the incensed mons disappearing. They said that they would give me two incenses to make up for it. Incenses don’t even begin to make up for all of the lost Torchic, Tropius, shinies, etc.

[@goldenhair]

Torchic?

[@JeromeKerr1]

It didn't really feel like a GoFest to me.. Mediocre spawns, shiny rate and catch rate were frustrating, uninspired research, incense spawns despawning too soon... 17 bucks for that? for real?

[@umbreonix]

I vowed last year that I wouldn’t pay for the next go fest. I saved $15 and STILL got a shiny Galarian wheezing lol

[@carolfigueirars]

I didn't buy it either because it seemed not so good and last year the price was okay, this year was too much. I at least managed to get an axew in my fifth raid, so that was nice.

[@xINVISIGOTHx]

For 2020 gofest I bought 2 tickets for my 2 best accounts, and just for fun I made a brand new level 1 character that day with no ticket. In just a couple of hours, it got 3 shinies (chinchou, houndour, jigglypuff)

[@jrob7176]

Glad to see Pierre again! Honestly i hadnt thought about him in a while and when he snuck up behind you, I was like "YEEEAAAAH THAT GUY!" Hilarious dude and all of yalls interactions are so fun.

[@xINVISIGOTHx]

I was wondering why there were like 500 comments on pogo instagram saying "I only got 1 shiny all day" "I got 0" "I got 2 all day", then on Sunday I stayed inside from 10am-4pm and just used incense and got only 1 shiny (which was a wild spawn, not incense. Then I went out and got a few more before it ended. Actually horrible incense and I hope everyone complains enough that we get a makeup event

[@Poseidonsns]

it wasn't even incense for this event. I even had trouble. I got 6 pokemon int total for the whole event. 3 for each day.

[@xINVISIGOTHx]

@@Poseidonsns 6 shinies? Or 6 regular pokemon?

[@Poseidonsns]

@@xINVISIGOTHx sorry, 6 shiny pokemon in total.

[@xINVISIGOTHx]

@@Poseidonsns I used 2 phones both days, on my main, Saturday=10, Sunday=2. On my alt, Saturday=13, Sunday=5. Both had incense on at the same times and I was checking the same amount of pokemon on each. Saturday was about 3 hours inside (mostly incense) 5 hours outside, Sunday was about 6 hours inside (incense) 2 hours outside. I did about 7 axew/rockruff raids both days, no raid shinies

[@Poseidonsns]

@@xINVISIGOTHx damn you had what normally people who would get like me with each in total for the 2 accoutns. I did like 10 maybe even 15 axew raids. 0 shinies. DId I get any wild shiny axews? Nope 0. you still had better shinies in total than me but still wasn't lucky enough to a single shiny axew. the last 2 go fest. 2020 I got shiny gible. 2021 I got hundo gible. for a new dragon type pokemon that is very prevalent I'm surprised people either didn't get the shiny from it or a hundo. I mean some were very unlucky to not get shiny gible or deino as well.

[@trevormoffat4054]

Played for about 5 hours each day with incense on the whole time, roaming through a good park, a shopping centre, and downtown area, each with ample spawns. I got 1 shiny Pikachu. I don’t think you need to have Community Day shiny rates, but come on. Still glad to have Tropius in the ‘dex because I’m never going to Africa, but the event as a whole was a bit dull.

[@sigisoltau6073]

Why don't you want to visit Africa?

[@trevormoffat4054]

@@sigisoltau6073 because it’s a very very long way away.

[@Tangarisu]

@@sigisoltau6073 because we are in a global depression and people need money to live. The days of vacations for the peasants is over

[@sigisoltau6073]

@@Tangarisu Then why are you wasting money on a game. Even if you're not investing money into the game by buying coins, you need an internet connection to play it. Right? To have that connection you need money to pay for it. Right? Why you wasting money on a game then? Besides, I've seen many "peasants" visiting my home town of Luderitz, which is in Namibia, a country in Africa.

[@Anne-qk3ch]

Great crew on the video! So glad to see Pierre back!

[@return4refund]

Came to say this!

[@thomaslenno4718]

The shiny rates for me were horrible and for the other members of my family that were playing they had slightly better for them. Compared to past events its shocking; 6 in 2 days compared to 40 last year.

[@hardcoreteunes]

6more than me

[@brianwenzel912]

0 in 2 days of grinding. My wife played casually and even got one shiny. 😃😃😃

[@thomaslenno4718]

@@hardcoreteunes ​ Yeah the rates were horrible. But remember there is third date later (August 27th). Hopefully they improve everything for then.

[@trexpaddock]

16 hours of grinding, with all the buffs running, and I got one shiny. The spawn rates during the event were far below half what they normally are, for the areas where I was playing. There was also a glitch with the incense that was making them despawn as soon as you tried to catch them. It was a truly horrid experience. And then the game glitched and I lost my Shaymin somehow. Well done Niantic.

[@boricuatj]

I got 10 shinies, super lucky Axew from the first raid and had a really fun time overall. Loved the video Nick! Keep these competition videos up, they are so entertaining and fun to look at. Can't wait to see your day two of go fest!

[@tonyzcool]

I haven't missed a single GO Fest, and man. This one hurt. Do not feel I got my money's worth in comparison to any other GO Fest. Will highly reconsider next one.

[@andyyu8333]

Having lived in the LA area in the past and playing since the game first started, I know it will never match the crowds in the original heyday, but it's slightly depressing to see how few people are in the background playing for their biggest event of the year. Shoreline Aquatic Park at Long Beach and Santa Monica Pier were the go to places that people from all over LA would descend upon. Those days were so nostalgic...

[@sirscratiiidv7388]

Add us to the dissatisfied list.... we were going to leave a festival to go to Seattle and play.... now we are staying at the festival. Just not worth driving 400 miles and paying for hotels for rates so low.

[@ricardocardoso6375]

I really enjoyed this video nick! I have been smiling the whole video I dont know why! way to go :)

[@roarke222]

It’s crazy to see how many players had poor shiny odds, I played both days consistently but pretty casually, got 16 shinies including a wild shiny Axew w/ almost perfect pvp IVs, used the three free remote raid passes got a shiny Kyogre w/ amazing ultra league pvp IVs on the first raid (used the other two on the new Ultra). Seeing the other comments I definitely feel lucky

[@JD98200]

This vid was a lot of fun! Getting out there and going with friends is always the best way to do events, maybe I'll do this with a group some event soon Looking forward to day 2!

[@cowscrazy]

I’ve really enjoyed this the last two years. But they really made me feel ripped off this year. It’s almost like they trying to kill global gofest. I will really think hard before doing this again. For the money we basically got 1day of shiny boost and early shaymin. The raids we got paid for the ticket.

[@chsu915]

Adam is the luckiest, happiest, and nicest guy. Always happy go lucky.

[@Hufflepuff528]

My friend and I went out and walked both days and he got the ONLY SHINY between both of us. Glad we at least weren’t the only unlucky ones.

[@debraphillips9588]

You weren't guys not the only I'm looking once I got two shinies in 2 days and one was the blue-eyed rat and a community day one so disappointed Plus there was a lot of glitches

[@AwesomeAdam]

Had a lot of fun bro! Happy you agreed to do my challenge 😈

[@myescape101]

Similar to most everyone, I ended day 1 with 2 shiny and neither were new… This may be the last time I buy a ticket for something like this. I expect boosted rates to actually be boosted if they say it will be. Such a disappointment!!

[@Tyler-ko8dp]

ayyy great group of players there! Pure vibes man, awesome video

[@dylannuggetsfan]

No the spawn rates were awful and I was around a surplus of spawns, played the whole time and only got 4 shiny’s. Things ran way to much. Even though I’d click on my incense as much as possible

[@Tangarisu]

KZbinrs all got theirs the rest of us got throttled Their will be radio silence from the youtubers who will just gaslight us

[@dylannuggetsfan]

@@Tangarisu hahah probably. Trainer tips voiced his displeasure with it too.

[@Chick3nDipp3rz]

NGL, when he started laughing after remembering what pokemon you hated Nick, I was cracking up. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Nastynxss]

the short answer is "No" lmao

[@JackBlaine9999]

Ratio then

[@Nastynxss]

@@JackBlaine9999 idk what that means but I didn't have much fun compared to the money and effort I put in.

[@klone57]

These challenge videos are the best. Go Fest was super fun this year!

[@DAVYDECOCK90]

I played 2 days, did 60 axew raids (no shiny): Total 16 shinys My second account had no pass, was in my pocket (gotcha): Total 7 shinys

[@megaboy28]

I liked this video allot. Great work. And good choice purchasing the microphone, because it allows you to make greater shots from a distance and yet have awesome audio. You made good use of it that. Also, great to see Pierre, it's been a minute. I find this Go fest's Day 1 to be mid/mediocre. Last year was way better, numberwise. I did do quite well yesterday qualitywise in shinie.

[@aaronashcaster5875]

Caught around 600 today in the first 3 hours got 0 shinies so decided to just quit for the day. the set habitats should be the same way for both days. all i wanted to do was farm for swinub, axew, and larvatar. didnt care for anything else.

[@f1andrew52]

Positives - hundo Axew from a raid. Unown B Negative - Zero shinies after playing both days the whole time. Over 500 Pokémon caught, many more seen. Feels like the shiny rate was much better the previous years I’ve played go fest and at Safari zone, or any community day. Thanks for the video - good to see you uploading regularly

[@missi2721]

watching this video is making me want to cry. my go fest experience looked nothing like this

[@Biblioot]

Yes, that is unfortunately something that most content creators have in common: it looks to good to be true...

[@imachamp68]

@9.54 nice bit of kit there!

[@ChiTownShogun]

It's nice to see someone got shines. I played all six hours yesterday and got only one shiny. Worst Go Fest ever

[@JenPapp]

Not sure how it ends yet but absolutely love this challenge good luck Nick!!!! Damn hahah great challenge regardless please do more!!

[@justaction]

Shiny rates were very bad for me as well but what really upset me was spawns disappearing as soon as I tapped on them…happened both days constantly🤦🏿‍♂️💸

[@saifal-badri]

Excellent video Nick, so much fun! Day 1 was a joke, got 2 shinies only, day 2 I got an Axew at the last raid I did, just for that I'm so happy!

[@jamesandrews8746]

For this one I had my 18month old and 4 YO with me so only could play using the Go plus, managed to catch shiny klink (new) binacle (new) shroomish (new) and x2 mudkip. I've caught more shinies during the first hour of community day =( Sadly the rest of the players in my town didn't do much better. Shiny rate seemed so low.

[@Pr0phetless]

I played both days of Go Fest while taking care of my mom. She lives in the middle of nowhere, so I had to rely on incense. I got about 7 shinies, but they're all the ones I wanted, including Axew and Snorlax. So I'm pretty happy

[@pokemigas6049]

Pokémon Go has slowly been dying and it's baffling Niantic doesn't seem to care because they're making more money than ever because of their absurd monetization that gets all the whales on board. It's disgusting and the fact they haven't fixed incense yet made me not want to even play the game during events like community day that I used to love

[@MikeGOplay]

Great content regardless of how I feel about the event

[@worldsboss]

I actually didn’t have too many complaints from day 1, but day 2 they made the most boring spawns really common. I was trying to grind Torkoal and Tropius, but on day 2 I only found around three of each despite using incense for around four hours. I know the whole point was raiding, but eh…

[@scottcameron174]

Pierre coming through! Great to see him in a video

[@deviousj5868]

I heard through chatter that the Shiny rates were super low on Saturday. I myself played since the start from finish and only got a Shiny Groudon. Personally I went into this expecting nothing.

[@bigfudge2031]

I got more shinies sat at home in the last 3 hours of the event than I did in the previous 13 hours.

[@galax73]

Finding shiny Pokemon was pretty difficult. Out of the four I had during both days, two of them happen to by larvitars. I think something is wrong with the incense. They were spawning out way too fast. I'd click on them and they would just disappear. Lost so much regional excursive from that.

[@CrazyBunches89]

Loving the challenges dude

[@bomis181094]

I'm surprised I was fairly lucky. Got 18 shinies on day 1 and 6 shinies on day 2, including most of which I wanted the most. Didn't have near this much luck last year, but what made me laugh the most is 9:42 because I too fell for the same thing. Managed to finish the research on day 2, though

[@cathy2350]

Awesome Adam is truly awesome. What a nice guy to not only NOT take your best shinies but to actually take the curse of shiny plusle off your hands. (Maybe)

[@ThePersia450]

Not gonna lie, I was sad about missing this event because of work. But seems like I wasn't really missing much honestly. I did a few early Groudon raids, but thats about it 🤷🤷

[@guisteh11]

Same! Dodged a bullet there.

[@Tyler-ko8dp]

12:37 this set up is super cool man haha

[@Healing_whizz]

Short answer: no.

[@MYSTlC7]

PIERRE NO WAY

[@duellady]

I was very disappointed 4 shinys and cause over 500 pokemon day 1. I think this will be my last go fest, I cant see paying money for slightly raised shiny chances.

[@ichias16]

Hey you were featured on the app's news page today :D

[@stuartdownes5817]

I would rather wait for the boosted shiny odds on the free com days than pay Niantics ridiculously overpriced Go fest tickets

[@OaklandG]

Loved Adam's trade with you...🤣🔥

[@stevehuber1586]

As everyone stated how bad everything was. I had so many incense spawns despawn for me. I caught over 1500 over 2 days and played 16hrs total. Only got 15 total shines. F to Niantic for this. We need a make up a day before Aug for this awful event

[@debraphillips9588]

There was a glitch though because soon as an incident was spawning you would click on it it wouldn't let you get it and it would despawn

[@kemalhariz]

played 8 hours for 2 days of the weekend, just 2 shinies from raids and 1 from the wild. honestly, worst event ever just because of the shiny rates. somehow boosted for content creators

[@trumpets101]

I only managed 3 shiny from each day. None of them were new shiny releases for GO Fest, but 3 were new to me and my collection. And I played nearly the entire time both days.

[@rafael780]

this was my first pokemongofest paid ticket and what a let down, i played the whole game without stopping and only got like 4 shinnys

[@deviousj5868]

They announced for ticket holders the shiny rates would be boosted but by how much remains to be seen. I assume it was a .001% increase not much

[@Experiment.626]

I loved the shayman scene that was literally the coolest thing and totally unexpected

[@Sillyalways]

Horrible shiny rates this weekend but I will reserve my judgement until the event in August, which ticket holders get along with this weekend event. It's a shame they reduced the rates for Sunday, when finding shinies on Saturday was already hard. I hope they make up for this mess in August (🤡 I know, but we can all hope I guess)

[@bigfudge2031]

I got more shinies sat at home in the last 3 hours of the event than I did in the previous 13 hours.

[@Kadc]

Shiny rates were 1/50-75 in time zones like New Zealand, Australia, etc. But around Europe the rate changed. Niantic had said nothing about it so far.

[@Tangarisu]

Why would they, they are too busy dilating

[@pokemom2713]

Getting close to the end of day 2. Still have not caught one single shiny during this event. Pokémon are still fleeing when I try to tap on them, Niantic responded to an in game message and told me that “shiny rates are random for trainers, we gave you 3 incense in your item bag”. Yeah, no, not during a paid ticket event that stated on the blog that there is an increased shiny rate. And I don’t want or need 3 incense from them, I bought 16 for the event, I want my ticket refunded, because this was a clear case of bait and switch. This event wasn’t good. The best thing was the global challenge Nihalego raid rewards that helped me rack up xp. But for me the game is all about the shinies, I love them, they are my treasures, I play every event and community day for the shinies. This was just so disappointing.

[@WorldEaterZero]

Top tier trolling by Adam. Wp sir lmao

[@archangelzed601]

Played about 13 hours, caught about 500 and checked easily another 500 and I only got one shiny… a rockruff from a raid. My friend playing with me got none. Either I have the worst luck on the planet or they didn’t increase the odds for most people. Willing to bet they won’t acknowledge the complaints either…

[@StillNiick]

Laughed so hard when Adam gave you that Plusle XD

[@clydiancecht5410]

16 hours in total, 5 shinnies in day one, 7 on day two. I was not alone, I spoke to a good few people no one had over 10 per day, the average seem to be around 5 to 6 per day. At least got around 3.5 million in experience. Nice last day :D

[@jonah64]

I had terrible luck. Got 2 shinies on Saturday and none on Sunday due to having to work most of the day. One bright spot is that my shamin was 100% IV.

[@nicwalker4452]

This is event sucked big time. The spawns were terrible and the shiny rates were even worse. The tours were much better.

[@cathy2350]

I had 20 shinies between the two days playing so I'm happy. Spent a gorgeous Saturday at the park with friends and Sunday with friends at Mall of America. Fun event.

[@Tangarisu]

Hmmm all the youtubers were successful with limited bugs... I smell something. Others play all day and got 0 with bugs and crashes

[@leonli844]

Yeah other youtubers have been titling this the best go fest, or good event or something. I know Trainer tips doesn't want to make any negative content towards the game but I hope some other youtubers address the communities distaste for the event. Just such a downgrade from last year with a ticket that was more expensive

[@Tangarisu]

@@leonli844 I got 3 from both days. I have had better luck just catching randoms everyday then paying $15 bucks to get spit on. It said boosted stuff nothing was boosted for me, hell I dont think even the spawn rate even increased.

[@randysanders3511]

I ran into so many people here in Wisconsin who told me they only caught one or two shinys. The disappointment was pretty much unanimous

[@dem7556]

Looking at this video made me feel worse about the fest, your shinies were amazing

[@calvinong1968]

Pierreeeeeeeeeeeeee ❤ so happy to see Nick playing pokemon go with Pierreeeeee again its been yeaaaaaars

[@ra-kers7149]

If it's not all about the shinys then they shouldn't charge for a ticket. I was a ticket holder and caught two on day one a big zero on day 2 glad to see some people got lucky but this event was ridiculous.

[@bizz1331]

They also shouldn’t promote shinys as a selling point as well. It’s literally promoted as a reason to buy the ticket and spend the money.

[@Chrisdabeastman34]

Lol Adam starting off with 5 points is totally fair 🤣

[@mlwgurl]

We have a ton of people in our discord requesting refunds from apple and google due to all the glitching and nonsense from this event. I have seen Niantic do way better for far less $ in the past. Not sure why they failed so hard this round.

[@douglasrau5094]

Yeah, it seemed like the shiny rates were way, way down. It’s nice that I got plenty of Tropius to give to my co-workers who play and I loaded up on rare candies and rare XL candies but overall, it was very disappointing. The whole “Catch 10 ground types” part of the research had me stuck for awhile because (outside of Larvitar) there weren’t a heck of a lot of ground types spawning.

[@maganhassan2627]

Yeah the shiny odds sucked for me I caught 5 throughout the weekend feels like it's not boosted as expected the incense had this weird bug where pokemon still appear if despawned I'm happy with the 3 98% Iv axew & hundo unown so there's something lol

[@followingangel]

OMG just started watching this and that point/game idea sounds fun and something i will definitely try

[@connorwilkinson7560]

I got 6 shinies. And none apart from 2 binacle were good. So basically I paid £14 for a shaymin and 2 binacles

[@anchorage9562]

The shinies I got was an Axew from a raid and Shroomish from incense. Really I bought the ticket just for Shaymin I guess

[@rafael780]

@@anchorage9562 i got pretty much the same, 6 shinnies and a shaymin, yay lol what a let down

[@fuzzydeborah]

@@anchorage9562 yooo anchorage gang. see ya out there today? 🤣

[@connorwilkinson7560]

The others were turtwig piplup patrat and omanyte

[@connorwilkinson7560]

@@anchorage9562 atleast the shinies u got were new and that axew tho

[@Hydraas]

Based on your scoring system, I got 29 day 1 and 15 day 2. I did really well on both days so I can't complain but most of the people around me struggled due to the low spawn/shiny rates. Hoping next year is better

[@wesleyschilder]

I have played for about 14 hours about 10 of those outside (always on incense tho), did around 30 Axew raids. I ended up with 2 shiny Seedot, which I already had 9 of. So yeah it was amazing 😑