Ahoy! It's been a while since I've posted. I did get some content to post as I've been playing most days, but I just haven't been always feeling up to editing the screenshots and writing a post. Might have been due to feeling a bit down I guess, I'm frequently still doing okay though. I've been a bit busy as well. Hope everyone has been aight!
Since last weekend Cresselia has been back in Raids. It's had its Shiny form released quite some ago, at that time I didn't get lucky to encounter one. This week I did some Raids, especially during Raid Hour on Wednesday, and finally managed to catch a Shiny Cresselia!
As you can see the IVs for it are really horrible xD So I had absolutely no luck with that, but I'm glad I at least have it Shiny now! :D None of my Cresselia encounters were 96% or higher, which is my current highest that I already had from the first time Cresselia was in Raids.
Throughout the week there was a focus on Mega Beedrill too. A few Mega Pokémon have been added to the game so far. One of the steps in the quest was to Mega evolve a Pokémon. I chose to Mega evolve Beedrill for this, as we got a bunch of Mega Beedrill Energy from the quest anyway. I decided to do it during the Cresselia Raid Hour, so the trainers bringing Genesect or other Bug-type attackers could benefit from it. However the Mega Beedrill often took quite some damage so it didn't stay in battle for long.
I did not power up my 100% Beedrill to max level yet, so I wanted to see what would happen. Turns out when you Mega evolve a Pokémon it will automatically be max level for the 4 hour duration. So there is no real need for me to fully power up my Beedrill right now, as it'll temporarily hit max level any time I choose to Mega evolve it for 4 hours anyway.
Personally I may not be using Mega evolved Pokémon that often, because their main purpose is in battles being Raid battles or against Team GO Rocket, and it only lasts for 4 hours. So I will likely only use them if I'm going to be doing a lot of Raids.
This week I got a few new 100% IV Pokémon! During the Cresselia Raid Hour, we found a 100% IV Poliwag right next to one of the Gyms that we were going to do a Raid one. It was a really nice surprise!
With this week's event featuring a lot of Bug-type Pokémon there was a Field Research Task to capture 5 different Bug-type Pokémon which gave a Ledyba encounter. The majority of the time the Ledyba had pretty bad IV, but at one moment I was pleasantly surprised to encounter a 100% IV from that task! Shiny Ledyba also had its introduction with the event, I didn't encounter one though, so that one will have to be for another random time!
This week's Spotlight Hour featured Tentacool. I didn't encounter a Shiny, and hardly any with really high IVs. However I decided to keep some above 500 CP to trade, and out of the trades I did I received a 100% Tentacool!
These 3 are all new 100% IVs as I didn't have any yet in their evolution lines!
How has Pokémon GO been for you lately? Did you get any new Shinies? Are you excited for Articuno to return to Raids for the next week?