Trainers,
here’s your quick rundown of tips and tricks observed during the early hours of the Community Day event:
- Shiny Pikachu rate is increased during the event and it’s very easy to find a good IV shiny Surfachu, early reports indicate 10% of event Pikachu are shiny, but that sounds a bit too high
- Community Day Pikachu is very common – it’s literary everywhere
- Community Day spawns vanish immediately at the end of the event
- Incense and lure will predominantly attract Pikachu
- Lured spawns seem smaller than wild spawns – don’t miss them
- All (or at least overwhelming majority) Pikachu spawned during the event have Surf Water 2 bar
- Raichu evolved from “Surfachu” can not get Surf
- Pikachu evolved from Pichu can get Surf
- You can mass select / transfer Surfachu, it is not considered an event Pokémon
- Charge TMs can produce Surf on an older Pikachu
And that’s more or less it, it’s a small scale event that features Pikachu. If this event is anything to judge by, future Community Days will be a mass evolution / capture festivity — especially if it features a Pokémon relevant to the current metagame.
Our suggestion is to set a camp with the highest density of Gyms and Stops in our local area and do the following:
In game
- Have lures on during the entire event (lures also last for three hours)
- Complete any level raids during the event
- Have Lucky Eggs and Star Pieces on during the event
Off screen
- Chat with friends we haven’t seen in a while
- Promote new Pokémon GO features to players who haven’t been playing in a while
Shiny Pikachu with Surf
Posted by /u/Basherballgod
