Grass event yawn?
So, a swarm of low IV grass type that seam to be harder to catch than they were a couple of days ago. Is it just me, because I feel like skipping this event and just collecting my daily bonuses?
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High IV are very rare in general, not just now or during an event (given an assumption I mention below), if hatches are excluded (and I don't think the grass spawns affect eggs although I could be wrong).
For example, pokemon that get the highest appraisal category from the team leaders have about 82% IVs, but that does not mean that 18% of wild pokemon fall in that category. If you assume that every wild pokemon encountered has equal odds of obtaining any value of 0 to 15 in each IV, then the actual percentage of wild pokemon with 82+% IV is only about 3%.
And that's just for the 82% and higher category. I know some trainers prefer 91% IV+, and in that case the odds of encountering a wild pokemon with those IVs are about 0.5%.
The odds are much higher for hatches (50% chance of 82% IV+ and just over 9% chance of 91% IV+ assuming a minimum of 10 for each IV), but the Grass event spawns are not going to meet most people's criteria for high IV.
The whole gym thing is what it is...It has nothing to do with Grass types and at the end of the day, gyms are EASY to tear down.
"1" determined trainer can make a gym never last...Even with 10 Blisseys, if someone wants to keep tearing it down and spend all their time doing that, no gym will last...
Bots/spoofers will make it a lot of work, but if that's the case, you have some people reverse bot and go bot-vs-bot too.
Since no human can actually defend a gym or use any skill to do it, you just hope your gym is off the beaten path and is stagnant...
Not sure how I feel about the whole gym rework since I get decent benefits currently, but it'd be nice if you can do quests or some other things for rewards so you don't need 10+ gyms. Maybe 5 gyms max for everyone, more daily quests or week/month quests, etc...
Really lacking actual content currently.
It's not super exciting, but seeing increased spawns of some normally rare grass types (for the local area) makes it a generally enjoyable experience.
Can't say I've noticed any real difference in capture difficulty, and admittedly I'm more interested in the candy rather than finding a good 'mon so I haven't been paying much attention to IVs.
I think this event is actually pretty decent compared to other events. Yeah it would of been nice if they threw in double candy or stardust but it is what it is. The event overall is good for people that don't have these types of mons in there area unless it's at a nest and the fact we're getting the evolved forms of these mons too spawning at very high rates makes it that much better and we get 6 hour lures so overall good job niantic. Also who can complain about catching low iv tangela's because I can't think of a good reason not to stock up on tangela candys.
I've caught acouple so far from this event but most of them were in random areas and had pretty bad iv's and cp.
Only one I've caught that was good was one I caught last night near my most common playing area that usually spawns good stuff 1669cp 89%iv and has VW/GK so im happy with this event so far.
I like the idea of this event just fine. My only hope is when it is a type that isn't my biome (I'm water/grass) those mons won't be crazy rare. For me this event basically doesn't exist though. I'm not kidding, other than what appears to be a minor increase in eggs it's like there's nothing going on lol
I like it, it just falls on the days I work. I need a Meganium yet, so I am hoping I can get one of those. I'm also still trying for a SoB Venusaur. The Eggy candies are nice because I will be hitting level 37 soon, and I have 2 maxed Eggys that I will need to power up, plus I would like to max my attacking Eggy or get another high level attacker. I also caught a 100% Sunkern. I really don't have any complaints at all...maybe an additional day so I have one day I don't work on? Oh, some Tangela would be nice...
Considering we just had a major double XP event a couple of weeks ago, I think these short weekend events are a nice change of pace. I caught more Chikorita in the last 24 hours than I have since Gen2 game out and I'll be filling another spot in my Dex with a Bellossom before the end of the weekend, so all in all, I'd call that a success.
