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How are your lucky trades going?

How are your lucky trades going? I was trading with my wife, all pokemon from 2016 and went 3 of 4. The 3 luckies were the same type of pokemon, the miss was a 2016 Pidgeot and 2016 Magikarp.

We successfully got lucky Victreebels, Chansey, and Gengar. The Gengar was a slam dunk. We both had bad shadow claw Gengars, mine had 6 attack. We both got an 82% Gengar with 15A (11/15/11; 12/15/10) so that was a massive improvement. All I need to do is CTM my Gengar to Shadow Ball.

Asked by KESAthans6 years 8 months ago
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I have two old Shadow Claw Gengars with horrid IVs. Just waiting to get a Best Friend to trade them with, to give me the best odds of getting good IVs.

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All I can do is express my envy.

My only lucky pokemon so far are a really strong Castform, a 91% Whismur, a 80+% Gulpin and a low levelled really strong Zigzagoon (which I've transferred). My colleagues managed to get a 80+% Bulbasaur, a 80+% Stantler, and two others not worth mentioning.

I've only been trading mons that I caught in the past one month, so my lucky rate is around 20-30% (4 out of 17 or 18).

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I'm not having much luck with newer pokemon either. I got a lucky Wailmer and the other account got a lucky Golem, and Eevee and Alolan Eggy.

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by aSp 6 years 8 months ago

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I got a lucky Togepi that improved to ''amazing'' during the trade.
He will become my first Togekiss.

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by Raven8 6 years 8 months ago

Traded ovet from my first account (PTC, abandoned when the first round of login trouble started). Was about 50%.

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I don't trade a whole lot to begin with so I only have one lucky. I traded one of my less than ideal Mewtwo to my fiancee's account for a Jolteon she'd caught in 2016. Unfortunately the Mewtwo managed to roll an even worse attack IV (from 11 to 10...) but hey, half dust cost more than outweighs it IMO.

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Did you both trade gengars at the same time? Trading with my wife we noticed we didn't get lucky when we traded the same exact pokemon but when we mixed it up it was lucky every time.

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My experience was different. All 3 times we traded the same pokemon (Gengar, Chansey, Victreebel) we got luckies

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by NosajX 6 years 8 months ago

Grats that Gengar really rocks !
May I ask a question, does the "lucky" trades will give both party a lucky pokemon, or there is a chance that only one of them become lucky?

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From everything I've witnessed and read so far, it's an all-or-nothing deal. Either you both get lucky Mons or neither of you do.

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by TyFox 6 years 8 months ago

My friend got lucky 96% Legacy Dragonite and lucky 98% BS Snorlax from me. Overall 3/4 with Pokemon at least 16 months old.

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Got one lucky yesterday when I was finishing my gentleman medal, don't anticipate getting many more as I have very few old pokemon due to rigorous cleanups of my storage and I have no incentive to do lots of trades anymore since I got both medals gold.

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It is a tough call to TM the legacy Dark Pulse on that Gengar. I’m facing the same dilemma.

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I didn't even realize DP was legacy. It is still inferior to SB...but I guess no need to rush the TM.

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So far I have gotten a lucky Blissey (13a/14d/14s) and Mewtwo (14/11/13, which is kind of one of my best Mewtwo after 20 catches).

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Tested the lucky pokemon trading with my mom, and we just traded bad IV hat Pikachu, and out of 5 or 6 trades we were able to get 3 luckies. So now I have two Christmas and one Halloween lucky Pikachu.

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by Tobin 6 years 8 months ago

I'd say it's going pretty well. My first trade today took a bad IV shiny Zapdos and made it perfect, lucky and still shiny. The only downside is I'm now out of rare candy and I only got him to level 34 so far.

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What are the most recent pokemons that got lucky? What if you started just 1 year ago?

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The exact mechanics aren't known yet but it seems that you only need one old pokemon in the trade for a good chance of lucky. And of course both will always become lucky if it triggers.

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I've done 125 trades since lucky has been available...22 luckies. However, just 2 happened with today's trading. Going forward I think there will be less predicting and more luck, whether you have a pokemon from 1/1/2017 or not.

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That's a surprisingly good ratio.Did you take note how old the mons were on average? I only got 1/42 yesterday but most were new pokemon.

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These timestamps don't match with the other list but just an idea of the age of the pokemon traded. I could go and closely match which was traded for what (probably do that tomorrow if I buzz thru 25 to 30 and only get 1 or 2 more luckies).

The ones I received lucky were born:
12/31/16
10/29/17
12/12/17
1/23/17
6/29/17
8/10/17
12/2/17
10/30/17
12/29/17
6/9/17
7/20/18
7/25/18
6/25/18
7/18/18
5/19/18
8/26/17
7/26/18

The ones I gave away lucky:
1/23/18
7/15/18
6/15/17
6/20/18
7/26/18
7/19/17
7/24/18
7/24/18
6/1/17
1/5/17
8/6/16
8/26/16
12/16/17
7/14/18
7/8/17
6/28/17
5/19/17
7/23/18
7/26/18
7/1/17
3/25/17
11/14/17

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Interesting. Really hope someone crunches the data soon to find out if there are any relevant thresholds to the age of the traded pokemon. Got so few old ones myself that I need to use them carefully.

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I’ve had quite a bit of failures from Jan and Feb 2017. My 2016 inventory is pretty low, too. On my extra lvl 35 account...just 1 more from Dec. 2016 left. Gonna decide what I’ll give it, maybe a level 20 Rayquaza bc it has 125 Ray candy plus 3 98% Rays at lvl 30. No stardust on it.

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by 9comon 6 years 8 months ago

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Are y'all trading legendary for legendary or old regular for legendary? My special today: I traded an 1895 Raikou for a level 31 Rayquaza...both lost 100cp (ultra friends). I'm 0/3 on legendary trades.

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I'll try something like that tomorrow, thanks. Closest I tried to that was: Sept 17 Mewtwo for Sept 17 Raikou and an unlucky splat!

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Yes, ill save all my 2016 for legendaries, hopefully ill get some more 15 attack mewtwos/kyogres

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Level 35 lucky Eevee, level 35 lucky Makuhita (now Hariyama)... Decent A-Eggtree, Chansey, Dratini...

And a couple of crap trades that ended up luckying out for a Zigzagzoon and a Pigeotto.

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My most common are 5 Machamps and 3 Alakazams...and to round out any battle party, a lucky 1691 Swalot.
1 Eevee
1 Tyranitar
1 Rhydon
1 Jynx
1 Wiggly
1 Gengar
1 Donphan
1 Bagon
1 Shuppet
1 Snorlax
1 Scizor
1 Jolteon
1 Vaporeon

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