Today was Moltres Day worldwide
We earned it from unlocking the Global Challenge by solving Research Tasks.
Moltres Day took place during the same time window as the monthly Community Days take place. During those 3 hours Moltres became available as a Raid Boss, with up to five free raid passes given out so everyone could have a chance of doing at least a few raids.
Last month during Zapdos Day I did some of those Zapdos Raids with my brother and two friends, where most of them had some other phones with them so that we were with just over 10 accounts. Which is more than enough as these were set to a level 4 Raid difficulty instead of the standard level 5 Legendary Raid difficulty. So yesterday we planned to see if we could do several Raids with the same group again to avoid having to wait for many others with going from one Gym to another.
My brother was unable to attend though due to work. So he asked if I could play for him and gave me his two phones yesterday that I brought. The other two friends were able to come so we planned at which Gym we would meet today and we did. During our Raids we came across one of my cosplay friends who happened to be in the city, which I didn't know he would be. So we let him join us for the rest of our Raids too, of course!
Today we did a total of 7 Moltres Raids. Not that much, but still a decent amount. And my main phone was running out of battery after the 7th one, with my powerbank being in use by another phone that has battery problems. So it was definitely not too bad that we did 7 raids.
I managed to catch 5 Moltres for myself out of those 7 Raids. One of them being a 96% IV so that's really great! I did not end up getting a Shiny Moltres for myself though. Moltres will most likely return to Raids or Research Breakthrough rewards in the future, so I can still try to get one then. For a friend I did catch a Shiny Moltres and later on I managed to catch one on both of my brothers phones as well. One of my friends didn't get one on his own account either, only for his wife and son.
The picture above has all Moltres I caught so far. The bottom 4 are from my Research Breakthrough rewards when we got Moltres from it. The newest 5 are the ones I caught today.
All in all I definitely had a good raiding time. I've heard that Moltres with Sky Attack, the move that it had available as charged attack this raid, would make Moltres amongst the top Flying type attackers currently. So that would make the 96% IV one definitely great! I might invest in it. Could be useful against for example Fighting and Bug types then. I could for example use it in my team to solo Machamp raids then, or use it in Gym battles if there are defending Fighting types.
In 2 days Niantic will announce what Ultra Bonus we got from completing all the Global Challenges. I'm looking forward to that announcement.
How did your Moltres Day go? Caught some good Moltres and perhaps one or more Shiny?
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