Following on the yesterday’s new experimental daily news format, we’re continuing the tradition. Let’s see what’s new in Pokemon GO today:
- Another Rayquaza Raid Hour 🐉 is coming today, from 6 PM to 7 PM in your local time zone. Prepared to get a new shiny? I sure am! Now if only the odds were in my favor… You can check the odds to get a shiny Rayquaza here: Shiny Rayquaza Available in Pokémon GO Raids Starting July 31
- Blanche’s Rewards are live and there is triple Stardust for hatching and catching, plus 3000 Stardust per raid. Let it rain! 🌟🌠 The bonuses last for a week. Read more about the rewards here: Blanche’s Stardust Research Challenge Rewards
- 0.151.0 update is now forced as the lowest supported playable version, bringing improved Egg hatching visuals, closer Pokemon and various bug fixes to everyone. Read more about 0.151.0 here: New shadow and fall Pokemon added in Pokemon GO 0.151.0 patch
Reminder: the Gifts event 🎁🎁🎁 is still active and lasts until August 19, 2019 1 PM PDT. The number of gifts you can open daily is temporarily increased to 30 and you can have 20 gifts in your inventory!
Useful charts and images for today
Couple of Gaming’s excellent stardust gain chart for the event, titled “How to become a Stardust Millionaire” is a must have for Blanche’s Stardust week. Download it, use it, share it. Give them some love on Instagram and Twitter.
Odds to get a shiny Rayquaza are the same as for every other legendary, but folks think for some reason it’s different. Well, it’s not, and here’s a full chart that showcases the chance to get it with respect to various number of raids:
| Number of raids | 1 | 10 | 25 | 50 | 100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At least 1 shiny | 5% | 40.13% | 72.76% | 92.31% | 99.41% |
| 0 shiny | 95% | 59.87% | 27.74% | 7.69% | 0.59% |
| 1 shiny | 5% | 31.51% | 36.5% | 20.25% | 3.12% |
| 2 shiny | 0% | 7.46% | 23.05% | 26.11% | 8.12% |
| 3 shiny | 0% | 1.05% | 9.3% | 21.99% | 13.96% |
| 4 shiny | 0% | 0.10% | 2.69% | 13.60% | 17.81% |
| 5 shiny | 0% | 0.01% | 0.6% | 6.58% | 18.00% |