A few days ago from one of the Rocket Grunts I encountered I caught a really awesome Shadow Carvanha. With 13/14/14 as its stats for the Shadow Carvanha this meant that it would become a 100% IV Carvanha once I purified it. I didn't do that immediately though. Because I recently defeated Giovanni and was able to start this month's Rocket Quest after that. One of the steps in this quest required to purify 5 Shadow Pokémon. So I figured I would just keep it until then since there is absolutely no rush in getting that 100% Carvanha as long as I keep it. Yesterday I was able to reach the step where I have to do these purifies, but I was kinda busy playing and forgot about it. So today while I was playing for a while I decided to purify the Carvanha. Now I finally have my first 100% for the Carvanha family, which means I don't really need my 93% Sharpedo anymore as I never really use it. Though I may check out if it could have PvP potential before decided whether or not I keep the Sharpedo.
Here you can see my purified 100% Carvanha!
Today was supposedly the last day for Giratina Raid weekend, although I'm not sure if it has been extended or not. I thought I read something about some Raid weekend Legendaries being extended but I can't remember exactly. While I was playing today no level 5 Raids were showing up for so long. Until at one point one was showing up in the shopping street. I messaged someone privately if they wanted to do the Raid, cause I knew him and a friend had been looking to do one earlier in the afternoon, but I had no time then. He messaged me they were actually going to do one at the train station with others. I decided to go there as it was not too far from where I was, but just out of reach for me to see the Gym from where I was which is why I didn't know there was one there.
Once I arrived at the train station I saw him and his friends there. I was like two minutes late, which was no problem. The others were in a car. That Raid went really well. Him and his friends wanted to do the one in the shopping street too as I had messaged him about it, so after that one we went there. The other people didn't go with us.
As we arrived in the shopping street we went straight into the Raid lobby when we got there. But then one of his friends apparently had no more Raid Pass. He already used his daily Raid Pass and had no more Premium Raid Passes and less than 100 PokéCoins. So he was unable to buy one too. Which left us with just 3 in the lobby for the Giratina Raid. Being me, level 40 and then level 39 and 33. As we already used our Raid Pass, we figured we would give it a shot. It was a hard fight, I had to rejoin but I definitely saw that coming. I didn't heal up many Pokémon before rejoining cause of the time that would take and I had a few lower level Pokémon with good attacks to use against it too. It became a really close battle though! At the end it was a serious race against the clock where we were left wondering if we would be able to take it down or not. We managed to do it! As you can see in the following picture we only had just over 10 seconds left when we defeated it!
That was really an intense fight! Which gave an even greater feeling about defeating this Giratina! Stat wise we didn't get lucky though as our Giratina were pretty low. Especially mine which had only 13/10/10 for its stats.
Have you had such a close Raid before?