Today I got a message from my brother saying he had caught a 100% Duskull at a Pokéstop not too far from my place. He passed by there on his way somewhere and caught it. Then sent me a message to let me know about it. I saw the message soon after he sent it, so I opened my game and saw two Duskull show up on my nearby radar, one of them being at the Pokéstop he told me about. So I prepared myself to go out there to see if it's was still there!
Since the Halloween event is going on there is always a chance that even if I found a Duskull there it could be a newly spawned one. When I arrived at the Pokéstop and caught a Duskull there I checked the appraise and it gave me the results for being a 100% indeed! So I wrote a message to my brother to tell him I was able to catch it too and thank him for letting me know about it!
When I returned home I saw a post show up in our raid group about a Giratina Raid at the train station. They would start it in about 20 minutes from when I read it. I quickly ate something as I had not eaten anything for a while and I would be gone for sometime if I went to that Raid. Once I was ready to go out I added myself to the list of people for the Raid and went there.
Here it is, the first Giratina Raid I was able to go to! We were with quite a number of people for the Raid so it didn't take us long to defeat it. I only had 2 Pokémon that fainted during the Raid, showing it went really smooth. Starting off the first Giratina with 1914 CP when a 100% IV is 1931 is definitely good. I was able to catch it too, so I don't have to worry about trying to catch it anymore! Of course I'll still try to do more Giratina Raids!
When I was on my way back home I saw that there were two level 5 Raid Eggs on nearby Gyms. I took a picture a posted it in the Raid group, then caught some more Pokémon on my way back home. Once I was home I took the time to properly eat a bit more. Then we made plans to do both of the Giratina Raids, so that we would be done with the first one and make it to the 2nd Gym by the time the 2nd Raid Egg would hatch.
After the first of those two Raids I got my golden medal for catching 200 Dragon-type Pokémon. I completely forgot that I still didn't have this golden badge yet. Then again there aren't that many Dragon-type Pokémon currently, and they don't spawn that often either. This golden badge was the last one I had to get for catching 200 of each type of Pokémon.
With the 2nd of those two Raids I managed to catch Giratina too. Making me have a 3 out of 3 catch rate for Giratina today and also in total as it was the first day with Giratina Raids for me. With every Raid victory encounter the Giratina's CP went up for me. As you can see in the picture below. It could be sorted by max CP, but it is in fact sorted by most recently captured. It's really great to see so many high CP ones from the Raids today! The 1923 CP one is even a 96% already! That's really great for the first day! :D
Have you been able to participate in a Giratina Raid already too?