Lucky Bagon
A friend on my group chat got a lucky salamence a few days back, they're an older player and traded something old, like 2016
I'm a newer player, my oldest pokemon was gotten febuary, 2018, would that be old enough to give at least a slight chance to get a lucky bagon? (this doesnt just apply to bagon, but its just the most recently released example)
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Just in general over all trades an 8% to a 10% chance. I did get a lucky Bagon the first day (was caught end of June). Level 22 w/ 11a. I do see a higher percentage of 2016s going lucky, but it isn't 100%, not even 50%...now probably inching between 30 and 35%.
***a comparison: when I go to the park on a clear day and I see a charmander I hope it’ll be 700cp or higher...is it ever, maybe twice in history.
However, on a partly cloudy day might I see several 775cp+ eevees, yep. Instead I hope to get an 800...830...even 850 on a great visit. Trading one thing isn’t going to matter. Collect a lot of starters and trade them for other starters. Trade eevees. Trade Exeggutors. Trade swinubs. Rhyhorn. 900cp geodude.
Ah, I do have a lot of pokemon saved up, though unfortunately I am torn between waiting for distance trades on some, heading back to college in ~4 weeks, and am stuck between trade for lucky now or distance candy., as most all I had from college were the good ones, released the bad stuff
I've got a few bagon, dratini and other thigns I got down at college I can trade for distance here, but sadly, I released all 30 of my feebas I got there before it was announced (not too broken up about it, have 600+ candy from those hatches)
Trade with the players that you know better and have things in common with. However, If you have some ultra friends in your current locale, that can be an advantage, too—lucky is mostly for drunken sailors and Scrooge McStardusts. You can still get a good/great IV from an ultra regular trade. Distance candy helps, too though. If you see ultrafriends around suggest a trade, if not wait.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/8wcti4/trading_iv_probability_infographic_iv/
Floor
1/1/1 good
2/2/2 great
3/3/3 ultra
5/5/5 best
10/10/10 lucky
I did an ultra special trade and got a 4/4/3 Groudon, the exchange was for a 2016 pokemon. Luck and continuing even when you have some bad luck.
I’ll make this reply look better on mobile display, lucky trades only affect the IV floor and the stardust cost. There is no candy reduction with luckies.
I don’t have a lot of stardust, but plenty of regular candy. I’ve done a legendary special trade everyday, the one time it worked I traded a 2821 boosted Groudon for a level 22 ‘16 ZH Exeggutor. The Groudon went to 2817, same candy cost, but reduced stardust cost
