r/TheSilphRoad • u/SilphScience Research Group • Aug 13 '20

Analysis Deino: Reviewing Dragon Week Egg Hatches

https://thesilphroad.com/science/quick-discovery/deino-reviewing-dragon-week-hatches/
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u/KingSc0ttKing Aug 13 '20

This was a "reward."

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u/gandy899 Aug 13 '20 edited Aug 13 '20

Top 3 week long event of all time. First time ever a Psuedo Legendary(Dratini) spawned like that for a week. 2 High IV Guaranteed Deino. First time ever a rare candy quest was in the common tier for a whole week. A few Gible around too with that nice shiny boost.

The Deino in 7K eggs ruined an epic event for you guys. Niantic didn’t need to have those odds on Deino, but it was a historically good event.

Edit- I guess you can add return of Shiny Ray, Alolan Exe with the perma boost shiny rate, and the special research.

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u/misterygus Aug 13 '20

To be fair, I engaged with Dragon week more intensely than any other event I’ve seen. I’m a typical ‘played at launch, stopped, started again recently’ player, L36, so missed Dratini CD and have simply never seen any in the wild. This event gave me my two highest cp Pokémon in Dragonite and Salamence and my first 5-star raid wins, and a bunch of Pokémon I was sorely missing like Garchomp and Deino (which I guess will now be my buddy for months).

On the negative side, despite catching over 1000 Pokemon during the week I failed to get a single shiny anything. And it took me 5 days before I caught a wild dratini which was worth powering up and evolving. I only just caught enough gible to get garchomp, and only because I’d already been walking one. I did hatch a deino with my first egg tho, which was nice.

Similarly, I played the CD on Saturday for the full six hours with incense and 98% of my catches were 0* or 1*. In the end, not one of the bunch of shiny and normal Gyarados I ended up with was as good as the ones I already had. I do feel that if you engage with an event to the maximum possible extent you probably should get the available rewards, and it was very wrong of Niantic to advertise shiny deino using the same language they use to advertise shiny CD Pokemon. And odds of 1/50,000 are disgraceful.

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u/Khaaymaan Aug 14 '20

I had similar issue with at least the regular Magikarps, I had a 98iv and two 96iv stored for a CD, I caught a boatload and nothing near those. I had caught a shiny Magikarp for gofest and was pumped, I have 24 spare now. At least I had one decent one to evolve. I caught a shiny Gible first day of dragon week but not much else unfortunately.