Yesterday was another Raid Day which takes place during a 3 hour window where all Gyms host a Raid for those 3 hours and you can get up to five free Raid Passes during the event. This one was part of the Pokémon Day Celebration event and featured Nidorino and Gengar wearing Party Hats. With Gengar having the legacy Lick & Psychic moveset. The reason Nidorino and Gengar were featured in this Raid Day is because they could be seen fighting in the opening scene on the first games as well as at the start of the first episode of the anime.
There were not a lot of people interested in going it seems. No plans were made in our Raids Group. Some people made some plans with others I guess because they were busy and couldn't do a lot of Raids. One friend did message me a while before the event asking if I was gonna do Raids so I did the Raids with him. We were only going to use our free Raid Passes though and not buy any.
With one of the Gengar Raids I was able to encounter the following Shiny Gengar ! Now I have a Shiny Party Hat Gengar and also a Shiny Gengar from the Gengar Raid Day in the past that also has Lick.
Together with that friend I did 4 Gengar Raids and also 1 Nidorino Raid because I wanted to have 1 of the Nidorino as well to have a Party Hat one. Here you can see my Party Hat Nidorino and my best Party Hat Gengar from those Raids. It's a 93% IV Gengar, unfortunately it has 12 Attack.
I decided to also evolve one of my 100% Gastly that I still had as evolving Haunter into Gengar would also give it the Lick and Psychic moveset. Lick does compare similar to Hex for overall DPS, but may be slightly superior and on top of that it's legacy. Unfortunately Psychic isn't so beneficial on Gengar due to it not having the Psychic-type itself. I'll likely end up teaching it a 2nd Charged Attack though so I can give him Shadow Ball as well. Then I can keep Psychic just in case I can find use for it sometime. Here is my 100% Gastly and what it looked like after evolving to Haunter and then to Gengar. Eventually I'll have to level it up to have it as one of my good attackers against Ghost and Psychic-type Raid Bosses. Then hopefully later on I can fill my team up a bit with Altered Giratina when it returns sometime.
After we did our Raids I still walked around with that friend just catching Pokémon etc. We had to be at the Houten Schip Gym an hour later than usual because the Raid would be there until 5 pm. When it was around 5 pm and we were walking there we suddenly saw a wild Dragonite! Which also has an increased spawn rate as it's one of the Pokémon featured in the Mewtwo movie. Then once I clicked on the Dragonite to encounter it I had to laugh so much when I saw it's a 48 CP! XD
I caught this one and I'm keeping it for sure! I really love catching evolved Pokémon in the wild that are like level 1 or 1.5. I also have a Crobat that I once caught in the wild which has like 34 CP that I have also kept.
Do you like to encounter fully evolved Pokémon of this low level in the wild ?
Did you do any Party Hat Gengar and/or Nidorino Raids ?