GO Fest 2022 global - Megathread

[u/SilphMods]

Happy GO Fest, Travellers!

Welcome to the first of five parts of this year's GO Fest!

Luckily, this time around Niantic seems have given us most information about spawns and raids beforehand. But we will update any missing information as soon as possible.

First things first: YES, incense is boosted to 1 spawn/min

Habitats

Habitats change globally and hourly.

Here is a full habitat schedule for all timeszones made by u/Tobelebo9

bold: shiny possible

Habitat	Featured Pokemon	Global Challenge	Challenge Bonus (when completed)
City	Magnemite, Alolan Grimer, Hitmonchan, Baltoy, Burmy (Trash), Bronzor, Pidove, Trubbish, Gothita, Golett, Litten, Costume Pikachu (rare), Galarian Weezing (rare)	Catch Pokémon	2x Catch Stardust, 2x Catch Candy, 2x Catch XP
Plains	Girafarig, Dunsparce, Larvitar, Numel, Trapinch, Buizel, Patrat, Drilbur, Shelmet, Rufflet, Litleo, Costume Pikachu (rare), Axew (rare)	Catch Pokémon	2x Catch Stardust, 2x Catch Candy, 2x Catch XP
Rainforest	Mudkip, Seedot, Shroomish, Slakoth, Turtwig, Chimchar, Venipede, Karrablast, Binacle, Skrelp, Rowlet, Costume Pikachu (rare), Pancham (rare)	Catch Pokémon	2x Catch Stardust, 2x Catch Candy, 2x Catch XP
Tundra	Omanyte, Swinub, Wingull, Meditite, Wailmer, Spheal, Piplup, Vanillite, Cubchoo, Bergmite, Popplio, Costume Pikachu (rare), Galarian Darumaka (rare)	Catch Pokémon	2x Catch Stardust, 2x Catch Candy, 2x Catch XP

Collection Challenge (Ticket only!)

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Collection	Pokémon	Reward
City	Magnemite, Alolan Grimer, Hitmonchan, Baltoy, Burmy (Trash), Bronzor, Pidove, Trubbish, Gothita, Litten	2022 Stardust, 1 Incense, Encounter (Galarian Weezing)
Plains	Girafarig, Dunsparce, Larvitar, Numel, Trapinch, Buizel, Patrat, Drilbur, Shelmet, Litleo	2022 Stardust, 1 Incense, Encounter (Axew)
Rainforest	Mudkip, Seedot, Shroomish, Slakoth, Turtwig, Chimchar, Venipede, Karrablast, Binacle, Rowlet	2022 Stardust, 1 Incense, Encoutner (Pancham)
Tundra	Omanyte, Swinub, Wingull, Meditite, Wailmer, Spheal, Piplup, Vanillite, Cubchoo, Popplio	2022 Stardust, 1 Incense, Encounter (Galarian Darumaka)

Raids

Day	1-Star	3-Star	5-Star
Saturday	Costume Pikachu, Axew	Dartrix, Torracat, Brionne	Kyogre, Groudon
Sunday	Costume Pikachu, Rockruff, Axew	Dartrix, Torracat, Brionne, Druddigon	Snorlax (?), Salamance (?)

Incense (Ticket only!)

Galarian Weezing, Galarian Mr. Mime, Unown B, Unown G, Unown O, Unown U, Torkoal, Tropius, Galarian Darumaka, Klink, Axew, Pancham

Special Research Saturday (Ticket only!)

There are too many branches for it to be covered here. Please visit the serebii page or the leekduck page for the full rundown:

https://www.serebii.net/pokemongo/ticketevents/pokemongofest2022.shtml#special

https://www.leekduck.com/events/pokemon-go-fest-2022/

Special Research Sunday

tbd

Special Research Sunday (Ticket only!)

tbd

[u/Slicyr]

Reward comparison for research paths

EDIT: I checked again (Leek Duck and Serebii) and the number of Incense in the Catch path is down from 8 to 6, and Stardust is up from 4044 to 6066.

Hopefully this is accurate and useful. Some sources are showing different numbers for some rewards, but hopefully Leek Duck got it right, because that's my source for this.

	Catch	Explore	Battle
XP	10110	14154	6066
Stardust	6066	10110	6066
Incubator		4
Super Incubator		2
Lucky Egg	2	2
Star Piece	2	2	2
Poffin	2	2	2
Rare Candy	4	4	4
Incense	6	2	2
Lure Module	2	2	2
Fast TM			2
Charged TM			2
Premium Battle Pass			4
Poké Ball	110	66	44
Great Ball	22	22	22
Ultra Ball	44	22	22
Potion			2
Super Potion			2
Hyper Potion			4
Max Potion	2	2	4
Revive			22
Max Revive			24
Razz Berry	4	2	2
Nanab Berry		2
Pinap Berry	6	2	2
Golden Razz Berry	2	2	2
Silver Pinap Berry	2	2	2
Klink	1	1	1
Tropius	1	1	1
Torkoal	1	1	1
Galarian Mr. Mime	1	1	1
Shaymin (Land Forme)	1	1	1
Shaymin Candy	22	22	22
Land Forme Shaymin T-Shirt	1	1	1
Gracidea Bouquet Pose	1	1	1
Sticker*	22	22	22

^{*You get bronze, silver or gold stickers depending on what difficulty you choose. Difficulty has no other impact on rewards.}

[u/Hiker-Redbeard → u/Slicyr]

Thank you for putting this together. I was going to do this once I got to a computer. Looks like Serebii and LeekDuck disagree on howany passes Battle rewards. Serebii is saying 6 total but LeekDuck says it's 2 rare candy in step 6 instead of 2 passes.

Seems like it comes down to valuing 6 incubators vs 4 (or 6) raid passes vs 6 incense.

[u/BizzaroPie]

Is the shiny rate down for anyone else? Have seen 1 in 3 hours solid playing.

[u/Goin_crazy → u/BizzaroPie]

14 mins to end of 4th biome here and zero shinies.

Edit: literally one minute after posting i got my first shiny. Terrible statted swinub.

[u/Neonsttcc]

Incense is one per minute, even standing still

[u/GiggityDPT → u/Neonsttcc]

God Niantic sucks at selling. I guarantee they would have sold more tickets with just a quick tweet announcing this to people who specifically didn't buy because incense has been made useless outside of this event.

[u/scrapnmama → u/GiggityDPT]

But then they would have to admit that their incense nerf was a bad idea.

[u/Hiker-Redbeard → u/GiggityDPT]

Seriously. I get being coy and silent about it if there was going to be no boost, but there is no business reason why doing what they did could be the better move. Worse for the players and worse for their profit margin.

[u/Nuclear_Polaris → u/GiggityDPT]

For real, I would've bought mine from the start if Niantic just confirmed the incense effectiveness

Was still on the fence about Go Fest until this moment

[u/MyntFruit → u/Nuclear_Polaris]

Same, just bought mine. Good vs bad incense are two completely different events for me.

[u/fliteriskk → u/Neonsttcc]

The real MVP

[u/cestkevvie → u/Neonsttcc]

Thank you!

[u/wakeruncollapse → u/Neonsttcc]

Amazing news!

[u/Nebast → u/Neonsttcc]

MVP right here everyone

[u/Morpheus_MD]

Worst Go Fest ever.

Definitely not worth the 15 bucks.

Incense spawns kept disappearing when clicked if i didnt immediately tap them.

Shiny rates have been abysmal.

[u/Sicken123 → u/Morpheus_MD]

Crazy how they just disappeared! Tap and then Poof! gone.

[u/Wildmansy]

First Part

2 Incense 22 Pokeballs 2 Pinap 2 Razz Berry 2 Poffin 2022 XP

All Paths

Galaraian Mr. Mime Klink Land Forme Shaymin Torkoal Tropius Gracidea Pose Land Forme Shaymin Shirt Sticker 2 Golden Razz 22 Shaymin Candy 2 Lure Module 4 Rare Candy 2 Silver Pinap 2 Star Piece

Catch Path

6,066 Stardust 8,088 XP 22 Great Ball 4 Incense 2 Lucky Egg 2 Max Potion 4 Pinap Berry 88 Pokeball 2 Razz Berry 44 Ultra Ball

Explore Path

10,110 Stardust 12,132 XP 22 Great Ball 4 Incubator 2 Lucky Egg 2 Nanab Berry 44 Pokeball 2 Super Incubator 22 Ultra Ball

Battle Path

6,066 Stardust 4,044 XP 2 Charge TM 2 Fast TM 4 Hyper Potion 4 Max Potion 24 Max Revive 22 Pokeball 2 Potion 4 Premium Pass 22 Revive 2 Super Potion 44 Ultra Ball

[u/psykick32 → u/Wildmansy]

Is there a link to what the tasks actually are? I want to go explorer but I want to be able to actually do it lol

[u/Timelymanner → u/Wildmansy]

Thank you for this, now I know which path I’m going.

[u/deadwings112 → u/Wildmansy]

Six incubators for the Explore path??? Man, they really want people to walk.

[u/Bazsul]

This GoFest was such a step down from the previous. I am not just talking about the shiny rates, 4 Spheal in 25 kilometres of walking is pretty dissapointing, but also the vibe, the things to do and especially the research. Last year had such a cool theme to it: special costumed pokemon, music etc. Now the theme is... eh? Couldn't tell you really.

It feels like such a generic event, especially in the shadows of Go Tour and the previous fests. Big bummer.

[u/ftv00es]

Half day almost done (with ticket and incense all the time) and I have found 0 shiny. I'm disappointed. I cannot be the only one, right? :(

(I'm in Thailand atm, ignore flare)

Edit: I think I should share that after the event ended, I had still 0 shiny. I checked every one of them. I feel cheated. I learned my lesson, though.

[u/PandaGrill → u/ftv00es]

Didn't get any until the last hour and I was out walking. Definetely not as good as previous go fests. Could be weird bugs since I'm in NZ tho.

[u/Milla4Prez66]

Here are some thoughts now I have officially finished with day one…

1.Habitats gotta go. They are cool for in person events when you can walk from the different habitats and catch the Pokemon you want from them. But these global events make them horrible. They have never been fun since 2020 but this year was the worst due to their horrible Pokemon selection for this year’s event. The rainforest habitat was a joke. The Community Day Throwback Party featuring Tropius!

2.What was Niantic thinking picking the Pokemon for the event? Why so many former CD mons that many players have tons of shinies of? Why are the Alolan starters here when they have been common spawns for months?

3.Nothing to do outside of the boring Shaymin research and catching boring spawns. There should have been event exclusive field research at least.

4.The Pikachu was ridiculous lol. How many different versions of flowers they gonna put on the little thing? It’s not that big of a deal but when the whole entire event feels so uninspired, this uninspired “costume” just stinks even worse.

5.This is probably a hot take, but I’m tired of Unown at these events. It was a cool novelty years ago, but I fail to see why I should be excited for Unown again when I’ve caught so many over the years. Especially since they love giving us the same letters over and over. It feels like the letter O gets used for every event. Why cant they replace it with Rotom? Speaking of which, did Niantic forget Rotom exists?

[u/Juus]

I'm a ticket holder around 2½ hours into the event, with about 350 catches for the day and maybe around 400 checks in total. I've been prioritising checking my incense spawns, yet i'm still only at 2 shinies, and they weren't even from incense. Anyone else, feel the rate is a bit low this year?

[u/SlytherKitty13 → u/Juus]

I've just finished and my rate was about 1 in 77, tho I think my first was about 1.5 hours in.

[u/Papillomvirus]

Ticketholder here: Played 8h straight, finished all collector tasks and got shaymin, catched around 500 Pokémon, got exactly 0 shinies......

So where is the boosted shiny rate?

Ultra let down.... I hope, tomorrow will be better.....

[u/Ben2749]

People are complaining about the shiny rate, and while it is lower than it should be, the biggest issue by far is how weak the Pokemon selection is, and how uncommon the incense-exclusive spawns are. Considering those Pokemon are the biggest difference between the paid and unpaid ticket, the paid version is awful.

[u/MattGeddon → u/Ben2749]

Yep 100%. I can accept not getting many shinies as long as the spawns are decent and it feels like there’s at least the chance of getting what you want. Some of the advertised mons were so rare it felt pointless even trying.

[u/SmarcusStroman]

Played the full 8 hours and got 0 shinies. ZERO. Got 20+ the past fests. I'm excited for tomorrow because it literally can't get any worse lol.

[u/Tai_Jason]

2,5 hours and one (1) Shiny. I‘m living in the capital of Germany walking through a big park. This is laughable. Last Go Fest for me.

[u/ArqHi]

3 hours into the event and gf and I have 1 shiny combined...

[u/Juus → u/ArqHi]

2½ hours in here, around 400 pokemon checks, and i have 2 shinies. Seems a bit low shiny rate this year.

[u/FujiwaraN0Sai]

Anyone know if 7k or other egg pools have changed?

[u/canttaketheskyfrmme]

Incense WILL BE BOOSTED? Be still my heart….

[u/Narananas]

Many pokemon are just disappearing if they're in my incense and I click on them...

[u/SlytherKitty13 → u/[deleted]]

Yup, every timezone seems to have reported this. Didnt happen too much for me, but was def frustrating

[u/Rorywan]

The so called “visual glitch” read, game breaking bug really destroyed the event for a lot of people. It is not fun to tap on Pokémon which are constantly disappearing.

[u/Grant79OG]

So I still only have one shiny. Are you kidding me?

[u/Dr-Balthazaar]

Here in Australia my go fest has been super buggy. Incense spawns are i every 3 minutes rather than 1 minute, and then frequently flee when i tap them. Not seen any Axews, No shinies at all. Do I report this anywhere?

[u/[deleted] → u/Dr-Balthazaar]

Me and my partner getting the exact same bug and its infuriating especially with unown. I wanna submit a ticket too

[u/Milla4Prez66]

Another thing, I hated the challenge bonus thing. It would always activate halfway through each hour, basically meaning we only get bonuses half of the time in an event we paid money for. I just don’t get why Niantic has to be so stingy over products that don’t actually exist in reality. It’s not like there is a limited amount of stardust in a warehouse somewhere lol.

[u/Charlie0108]

I hate to be negative, but this event has utterly sucked for me. The spawns are all incredibly bland, mainly stuff that has already had a community day, or have been common for years. On top of that, the shiny rate is terrible. I've played for 2 and half hours and got one shiny to show for it, which was a Spheal aka something that just had a community day. It just started raining here and I have no motivation to go back out for the remaining 5 hours. Such a shame, as I really enjoyed the last two GoFests, but this one has really not been worth it so far.

[u/Madjawa → u/Charlie0108]

Gonna be quite a few angry posts when the people stateside realize it isn't just a small handful of us having 'bad rng' or 'playing wrong/unoptimally.' I genuinely think they goofed on the boosted rate for ticket holders.

[u/MattGeddon → u/Charlie0108]

I got a shiny Numel just as I was leaving home, but the last two habitats have sucked. Just a ton of starters and things that have already had CDs, and the only things worth shiny hunting aren’t spawning frequently enough to be worth it. Expecting the second plains hour to be a bit better since there’s a few more new things to look out for there, but otherwise this is really lacklustre.

[u/mondelsson]

3 hours in with no shinies yet. Odds definitely seem low. Time will tell if it was an accident or not.

Update: event just ended. Played for the full 8 hours with 2 shines total. Definitely not worth the money and seems like this is the norm for other ticket holders.

[u/Grant79OG]

The shiny rate is terrible.

[u/Dedodododedad]

Nothing about this event was worth it. It felt like a money grift and not much else. Getting to the point where I may need to give up on this company and their promotions. And the game.

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What shiny odds by the way? Somewhere over 1000 caught between two accounts. Not one shiny. I don't even know how many 5 star raids I've done today, not one shiny from there either.

[u/[deleted]]

I believe Niantic accidentally turned on day 2 shiny rates on the first day.

[u/B217 → u/[deleted]]

And they’ll keep Day 2 with the same (or worse) rates!

[u/Shayfleafcht]

Am I reading it right that selecting Relaxed, Standard or Master has no impact on rewards? - it appears you get the same reward regardless of which path you choose.

[u/JMM85JMM → u/Shayfleafcht]

The only difference is the sticker in line with their initial announcement. Depends how much you care about the bronze, silver or gold sticker.

[u/raggedy10 → u/Shayfleafcht]

Correct, they did announce it to be like that, basically bragging rights or wanting to give yourself a challenge is the only reason.

[u/Milla4Prez66 → u/[deleted]]

I agree. Absolute waste of $15 and I’m quickly reminded why I said I didn’t want to spend a dime on this game anymore.

I don’t even care about the shinies either. I’m just annoyed I spent $15 for a glorified community day throwback event with the occasional cool spawn through incense. Spawns are boring, research is boring, event is boring.

Also, the Pikachu with flowers is embarrassing. They aren’t even trying anymore.

[u/Jazzlike_Zombie_6806]

Rural player, ticket bought, incense dropped repeatedly and garbage spawns. After last year where spawns changed quickly and incense was more effective, this year is no where near the same. Last year I could hardly leave my phone for a minute as it was so packed with decent Pokemon. This year I'd go as far as to say it's boring.

[u/trainsaw]

Two hrs in and a boring event. Cannot believe this is the product they put out for $15

[u/darijo2429]

Played 7 out of 8 hours in decent spawning areas.

Caught 1258 pokemon and
probably checked a couple hundred more. Got 4 Shinies (Slakoth,
Chimchar, Trappinch and Alolan Grimer). 0/10 would not recommend, if you are just playing the event for shinies.

Had a nice day at a beautiful location, but with the odds from today, I might
be skipping tomorrow and pretty sure future events like this. I used to be
able to get 20+ Shinies on similar events at the same locations. But
today all the game brought me was frustration. At least the weather was good

[u/Messire_Lie]

I have a bad feeling that this is the last Go Fest Global we'll ever got. They watered everything down for this one, half-assing every assets they could, not counting all the glitches. I'm sure we won't get any make-up event for the buggy incense spawn. I feel like a clown having paid 16€ to have a scammy company flipping me off

[u/twotabletsoncedaily]

day's not over for me yet but it's a bummer when half my shinies are CD repeats. I get that they want to have themes and stuff but rainforest hour in particular was brutal. slakoth, seedot, turtwig, chimchar, mudkip... :/

[u/Courseheir]

There was so much "trash" spawns clogging up the event. We don't need the starters and other old non-shiny spawns everyone already has. Also, why were there no shiny regionals this time? They couldn't have made Tropius shiny?

[u/Ronnieriddik]

Asked for a refund just after the event was finished, and in less than 10 hours Google Play Stores gave me back my money. I'm not used to do this kind of stuff, I think it is the first time ever in my life that I ask for a refund, but when it is enough, is enough.
I don't even care anymore if they ban me or something, my willingness to play faded drastically after this event to the point I think I will take a stop for a while after 6 years of non-stop grinding, I felt scammed for the entire event long, even the most hardcore players at a certain point reach their limit and really stop to care.

[u/thisflickerflash]

Haven’t seen anyone mention this yet but one of my biggest gripes as a ticketholder is that not enough incense was provided to cover all 16 hours of the event. Having to spend an additional $3 on incense just to get the spawns I’d paid for with the ticket… no, just no.

[u/darksilverhawk → u/thisflickerflash]

Yeah, I really wish more people were talking about this. They’re gating paid content behind more paid content.

[u/luckyyfelix → u/thisflickerflash]

Yes! This is honestly my biggest issue with this event. If we’re paying for premium content it shouldn’t be essentially locked behind an additional paywall.

[u/Berryception]

Played a few hours each day. Got 1 shiny. Not ecstatic about it but at least Galarian Weezing design remains epic.

The pokemon-poofing-out-the-second-you-click issue was as ridiculous as everyone else says

[u/decoii]

I'm getting clown ptsd when Mr Mime shows up only to poof into a cloud of smoke.

Worst incense ever

[u/LiQvist87]

I felt bad about not buying a ticket, but from reading the comments here it seems like I dodged a bullet.

Wth happened to this game? I remember Go Fest 2018. We got at least 5 new Unown, multiple rare spawns (for that time) which included Beldum, Ralts, Chansey and Larvitar, and people were swimming in shinies.

Why can't it be like that anymore?

[u/FrozoneSavage]

This event was by far the worse one. I'd take egg hatching events over this one. Any incense spawns either were on top of another mon/team and fleeing before getting a chance to catch it.

[u/Sir_Lars_Med]

Overall, the event (at least the first day) was definitely a bit scaled down from the previous year, but my wife and I still had lots of fun. My one big complaint that I really wish could be remedied is the amount of pokemon on top of eachother. I missed a good chunk of the very few Unowns that were spawning due to not being able to tap on them. If only we could just tap the incense icon in the upper-right hand corner to take us to our incense spawn. That alone was my chief complaint for the day.

I also truly feel for those players out in suburbia or the rural countryside. For some reason, Niantic loves to spawn “filler” at GoFest and there was a VERY high number of non-shiny, regular ole’ pokemon that have been in multiple events already this last year.

[u/s-mores]

Will there be a "feedback" thread?

Event was lackluster and zero effort from Niantic made it worse. Kind of disappointing how the "in-person community" focus just fades away when it's at a point where they should put actual effort in.

[u/MurasakiMochi89]

there are a lot of axew spawning this hour..first hour I've seen them in the wild (Plains habitat)

[u/impoppinoff]

Is anyone else not getting shinies although they've got the ticket?

[u/Optimal_Cry_1782]

What's with the boxes for Gofest? They're all priced above what it'll cost to buy the items of interest separately. Three remote raids and balls for 425...

Btw, I caught a Hundo nihilego. Are they any good?

[u/ghost20]

Is there any route to give feedback or make a complaint to Niantic? I tried going through the in-game support and the Niantic Support Twitter but couldn't get a pathway to actually talk to anyone.

[u/upturnity]

Hello! Does anyone know if you need to complete the Saturday Special Research in order to activate the Sunday Special Research for ticket holders? This will also help me decide if I should play Master vs. Standard/Relaxed, in case I can't complete it in time. Thanks!!

[u/krazyhope]

The fest has been horrible compared to last year

[u/Stilgar69]

Slightly on a tangent topic but I did about 35 in person raids this weekend and I would say about half were 5 star and I got 1 rare XL candy in total. When they announced this I thought it was such a great way to encourage people to raid in person. I have really been trying to take the time to go to the raid but this hardly makes me want to make that extra effort.

[u/[deleted]]

Go Fest 2020 rules. 2021 was ok. It was $5 whatever. Holy crap this year is absolutely awful. $15 for this crap. I know RNG has a lot to do with it but I’m sitting at 5 shines in 5 & a half hours. What in the world did they boot them 0.005%

[u/PornoGoomba]

EU-player.

Day 1: Underwhelming. Went pretty hard (walking 7 hours, incense) and got 5 shiny: Rufflet, Patrat, Karrablast, Piplup and Trubbish. Only clicked one Piplup during the day for the collection medal since I had the shiny already.

Day 2: Better, went walking around some parks with the wife and kid. With 2 hours left I have found the following shiny: Wailmer, Trubbish, 2Pikachu, Burmy, 2Galarian Wheezing, Karrablast

[u/SoRaffy]

I will admit, seeing wild Golurk spawns is pretty cool.

[u/agarret83]

I was planning on walking most of the day but I’m glad they buffed incense in case I need a break

[u/Makeleth → u/agarret83]

Same. This is such a relief to see. I was also planning to walk for 8 straight hours and then pass out on my bed at 6pm. Now I can take a break in the shade on some lures without missing incense spawns

[u/agarret83 → u/Makeleth]

Also can stop to eat a snack or sandwich without completely missing out

[u/rangertherick]

This year gofest was an absolute downgrade. The shiny rate was so low. I played for 6 hours and I only got 6 shinies. I lived in urban areas and I can find pokemon and pokestops everywhere and the results disappoint me a lot. Last year I got nearly 20 shinies by just playing for 4 hours

Fortunately I did not need to pay since I used my Google credit balance. Feel sad for those who really pay (If I don't have that much credit balance, I will not pay and save it for next year's Hoenn tour)

[u/sophrosynos]

Only two shinies so far. Lots of incense spawns disappearing on click.

[u/Phillard_317]

A bit disappointed about the shiny rates, especially compared to Johto Tour or really any CD, but it’s fine. Got two and played for about 5 hours. What really is grinding my gears are the incense spawns that keep despawning!!! I can sort of understand if you’re on the move, but this SHOULD NOT be happening if I’m remaining stationary.

[u/[deleted] → u/Phillard_317]

I made a comment on one of the "Johto Tour Reflection" threads a few months back that I still stand by.

I had a really bad Johto Tour for shinies and on day one alone of Go Fest 2022 I'm about triple the shinies I got on Johto Tour. Leaving me feeling really bad about the Tour, and really good about the Fest.

Where my comment on the Tour comes in: these 'boosted shiny events' need to be a bit more consistent. A pity timer, something. You got people like me walking out with 20 and then people like you (or me at the Tour) with sub 5 (a lot of which can be CD shinies). The variance makes the players with bad luck feel bad, and doesn't motivate people on the lower end to play the next event.

[u/brotein_shake94]

Currently at 7 shines, just over 5 hours in. My main issue is the dilution in the spawn pool. Kind of ruins one's motivation to play when everything on the screen are either past CD mons or mons that can't even be shiny. How am I supposed to try to get a shiny Shroomish if my screen is littered with nothing but Rowlet, Turtwig, Chimchar, and Seedot?

[u/PopCultureLawyer]

I'd say it's the worst global event to date by far. Only a few new shinies and the spawns were awful. 1000 catches, 10 shiny, all comm day mons 🤐

[u/TrinTron750]

This event was horrible I bought a ticket and caught 3 shinys on Saturday and zero on Sunday. 2 of those shinys I had already from community days. And incense spawns we on a ridiculous timer. If you didn't try to catch it a second after it spawned it was despawning just a horrible event all around. I ended the day feeling cheated don't know about playing the game anymore going forward. This year has been let down after let down.

[u/Czibor13]

I believe this is a summary of the differences between the three paths:

 

Explore:

• 4x Incubator

• 2x Super Incubator

• 2x Lucky Egg

• 22x Poke Ball

• 2x Nanab Berry

• 8088 XP

• 4044 Stardust

 

Catch:

• 2x Lucky Egg

• 4x Incense

• 66x Poke Ball

• 22x Ultra Ball

• 2x Razz Berry

• 4x Pinap Berry

• 4044 XP

 

Battle:

• 4x Premium Battle Pass

• 24x Max Revive

• 22x Revive

• 2x Max Potion

• 4x Hyper Potion

• 2x Super Potion

• 2x Potion

• 2x Fast TM

• 2x Charged TM

[u/Emolgamimikyu]

Not seeing a lot of axew raids, I’ve got premium passes burning a hole in my pocket but every 1 star raid is pikachu 😩

[u/Dialgan → u/Emolgamimikyu]

Not sure why they insisted upon having so much needless bloat like Dartrix, Torracat and Brionne.

[u/MonteBurns → u/Dialgan]

Their raid boss choices always baffle the mind, but I think it plays into their creation of false scarcity. If everyone had easy access to the “in demand” raids, people would get their shinies and be done. If they keep the number of raids low, it forces people to play each time they release them in raids. That’s the only explanation I have managed to come up with because the scarcity of wanted raids is always an issue (see Rockruff)

[u/UCanDoNEthing4_30sec]

So if you are looking at premium items that are not in other focuses it’s:

Catch - 2 lucky eggs and 4 incenses

Battle - 4 premium raid passes

Explore - 2 lucky eggs, 4 regular incubators and 2 super incubators

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All include 2 incenses and 2 poffins on 1st step

All include 2 star pieces and 2 lure modules on 5th step

[u/VolksDK]

Probably my least favourite event so far. Played the whole time and got 3 shinies, which I already had. One new Pokèmon total (Torkoal)

The spawns were just bland and the quests were pretty boring. Last year was much better

[u/fried_papaya35]

Yeah this is my last gofest lmao. Shiny rates are bad, but they were bad last year. But the Pokemon to catch were god awful. The variety was so poor. The raids were awful. Level 1 raids were very much favored towards having a pikachu and not an axew. Why starter evos for level 3? And did we really need Groundon and Kyogre for level 5?

There came a point where I didn't even want to tap on the Pokemon or catch them.

I haven't played the game for several months and this really told me that I made a mistake coming back lol.

[u/SparklyVaporeon8]

I played the entire 8 hours and ended with one shiny, Axew. Last year I got over 20. I've played every ticketed event for the last few years and I don't even know where to begin with how bad this one was.

Edit to add my shiny Klink that ran away because of whatever was happening with the damn incense. That was fun

[u/[deleted]]

1850 catches, 50+ raids, 800k dust, 1.9M XP…. 16 shinies no hundos. Walked the entire 8 hours.

[u/Alkazard]

Not that we expected them to fix anything, but can confirm it's Day 2 here (Aus) and incense spawns still disappearing when you click them

[u/voodoo2d]

Was out the full 8 hrs and walked ~12 miles in that time. Wife got 5 shinies and I got 8. Easily the worst rates we’ve experienced. Plus, the disappearing act the mons pulled was so annoying. We would walk about 1/4-1/2 miles stretches with no spawns (in the city w/ incense). Really hoping the in-person fest in Seattle isn’t this bad 😑

[u/Darkest_Oracle]

Paid a for a ticket, played for the entire day, and I only managed to get two shinies. If Niantic really did boost the shiny rate, it was an awful boost.

I still had a fun day, but definitely disappointed in how for a $15 dollar ticket, one of the biggest draws just didn't happen while playing.

[u/evergreennightmare]

definitely preferred the recent "overwhelming" events over this weekend's thoroughly underwhelming one. got a perfect torkoal and a shiny buizel+karrablast which is nice, but apart from that not super happy with the results

[u/RyanTheQ]

Anyone else finding that incensed Pokemon are running when you tap them? Seems like they don't stay on the map long at all.

[u/TryDoingaScience]

Terrible shiny rate, incense spawns fleeing, same as everyone above is saying.

HOWEVER, were ground types guaranteed to evolve with ground type movesets day 2? My group that I played with evolved 6 Baltoys (all six Claydols got Mud Slap / Earth Power as their moveset) and 6 Drilburs (all six got Mud Slap / Earthquake); I've seen other places that Camerupt and Flygon we're also evolving with ground movesets. Did anyone else notice this, or just a weird coincidence?

[u/hiero_]

This is by far the worst Go Fest yet. These shiny rates are absolute garbage. The Pokemon choices are mediocre.

What an absolute disappointment. My friends and I are playing together and none of us are having a great time.

[u/Minneapple612]

Shiny rate is terrible. Cath rate is definitely lower than normal. Spawns keep disappearing. What is this game anymore it used to be so fun

[u/cravingnoodles]

I played for the entire day while walking around and only caught 3 shinies. A lot of spawns kept disappearing on me as soon as I tap on them. I wonder if Niantic will address this issue.

[u/Countingthree → u/cravingnoodles]

Exact same sentiments. So strange that the game usually works fine, until we're paying for it...

[u/MINImanGOTgunz]

Incense pokemon despawning in seconds after they appear? Wtf?

[u/TheTraveller]

Well here's a summary from me, fwiw

Played almost the entire time, 6 1/2 hours walking, about 45 minutes rest/coffee etc.

Caught 1320 Pokémon in total, 0 perfects, 10 shinies (only one, Numel, that I did not have before, rest mostly Seedot/Patrat/Litleo/Baltoy "trash"). Shiny rate looks closer to 1/100 than 1/50 as several people I talked to had far fewer shinies than me, with a similar play style.

Incense spawns were fine when walking, although (maybe I am making that up, but it felt that way) they seemed to de-spawn very, very quickly. I probably missed at least half of those.

Using the Gotcha is fine generally, just turn it off for the Plains habitat if you're looking to catch some Torkoal and Axew, or hunting for shiny Girafarig.

So verdict... if your expectations are low, and you take pleasure of other things not directly related to the event as such, like spending time outside when the weather is nice, or meeting people here and there, or if you just don't care so much for shinies and catching Tropius, Torkoal or some good PvP mons and making stardust is more important to you, then this was a fine event. If your expectations are for a better experience than with last year's Go Fest, then you will likely be disappointed.

[u/AmericanWasted]

what a bust - never buying another event

[u/Dedodododedad]

Why are spawn rates so slow, even with walking, incense, lures and dozens of stops/gyms in my area? And why do they stay on screen for about 20 seconds? And why is the catch rate so damn low?

[u/D722]

Played the majority of both days and paid the ticket. Earned 7 shinies.

I could’ve saved the money and done something better during the weekend. It felt like a choir the majority of the time.

I don’t feel I got my value purchasing a ticket.

[u/ultron_vision]

Meh event. We didn’t even get fireworks this year. Maybe for the finale?

[u/j450n_1994]

Only 1 shiny in two days. I wonder if they’re punishing us for complaining about the remote raid pass thing.

I honestly don’t believe they really decreased the odds that much. It still felt like regular odds. Would’ve probably been better off just hunting Meditites and Spheals to get good IV Walrein and Medicham. Will probably not spend money on another go fest day unless better shiny rates.

Here’s the comparison, the Johto event I got four shinies in one hour of play. In two days, I got one

[u/gjbsa]

Next year will only be 3 hours. Niantic will say they listened that there was not enough to do and it was boring. You will get an extra hour of spawns when you buy the ticket. About a month before the event the free daily orange raid pass will be no more. Guess what ticket holders will get on the day? Mega Rayquaza will launch on day one of go fest 2023

[u/Mylife212 → u/[deleted]]

If it helps, Safari zone events this year also got boosted incense and that wasnt announced nor changed. As for why it wasnt announced - I think its just niantic being terrible about marketing per usual. haha

[u/dramaturgicaldyad → u/[deleted]]

If NZ gets a surprise benefit for once over the rest of us, I won't be too mad

[u/bmilker]

Terrible experience, but Niantic will never read this because they know it was terrible. It was terribly planned. Total garbage for the spawn pools, horrendous shiny rate (which was even worse day 2, which should NEVER happen), uninteresting quest line, half-cocked rocket grunt involvement, and the global challenges that reset every hour was an absolute joke. The hourly challenge was even worse on day 2, when the only rewarding activity seemed to be raiding, but to play efficiently I had to raid only the second half of every hour and then stop and wait for the global challenge to complete again...? Just have one challenge and the bonus be active for the rest of the event.

Overall a massive downgrade from previous go fests for triple the cost of last year's. (I understand google paid last year, but that doesn't change the player's experience). I managed 8 shiny from all of day one (only 1 day 2), another player I played the whole event with got literally one shiny from the whole event. I don't like to act 'entitled' to shinies, but man I do feel let down, discouraged, and heavily dissuaded from purchasing tickets to future events. No part of this event left me feeling happy I spent money and my entire weekend.

[u/Ynneb82]

Very disappointing so far. Spawn are bland, shiny rate low, raid terrible. I still remember how fun it was the first one:(

[u/Callum1710]

I know two people, spent the whole day playing...

Ones come out with 52 shinies.

The other has come out with 1...

They really need to work on making this fair and enjoyable for everyone

[u/WHATyouNEVERplayedTU]

I played for the first 4 hours and got 2 shinies of pokemon I already had. Then I got bored and decided to take a one hour nap to skip the rainforest event and ended up sleeping for four hours. Jet lag didn't help. Now after reading comments here I feel like I made the right decision.

[u/Rhylem]

Walked for the full 8 hours. Only got 5 shines. Worst event ever, especially with the dispawning issue, it was so frustrating to deal with. :/

[u/BlindEchoes]

Caught 17 shinies over both days last year go fest, currently have 3 from today. I know rng plays a role, but considering I payed triple from last year's ticket price I'm feeling pretty disappointed.

[u/swanny246]

To top off day 2 being very “meh”, they didn’t bother enabling fireworks in the sky this time around :(

[u/Whosdaman]

So the habits don’t rotate today and the global challenge resets hourly?

[u/spngrr]

Spawn pokemons are poofing away when I touch on them. Non-ticket holder

[u/tamere2k]

23 Axew raids over 2 days. No shinies. Oh well. Got a shiny Pikachu at least.

[u/menderbugs]

this go fest was a real letdown. out of the 10 shinies I got, 3 were from community days that I already had, 3 were the same pokemon (trubbish), and 2 were non-community day shinies that I already had. got a grand total of 2 new shinies, despite playing all day both days w/incense. still, that's better than the people I was playing with, who either got no new shinies, or less shinies overall.

I actually had a lot of fun last year, I did well with shinies and there were interesting pokemon to catch. this year sucked.

[u/OnymousCormorant]

I'm not a big complainer about this game, but my god this has been absolutely brutal. I got more value out of the 4000-coin box with 4 Elite TMs than this $15 ticket by a long shot. Zero shinies today, Nihilego getting an absolutely abysmal fast move set, zero Snorlax or Druddigon raids local to me today (the only new shines available in raids today). What a joke. The August event better be good

[u/philthebrewer → u/OnymousCormorant]

I think this is the worst event I have paid for, but might be recency bias.

Still, one shiny over two days and a bunch of spawns for crap I already had is not interesting. Heck, it cheapens the past effort into getting axews and such

[u/UltraRomero7]

Played the full 8 hours, walked around for 7 of them. Pretty much exclusively shiny checking for the last 4 hours and only came away with 2, both Wingull

[u/inthebenefitofmrkite]

Got three shinies after 8 hrs in Paris, France, had incense the whole time. Plenty of bugs (a given moment everything just fled, or disappeared) and overall very crappy

[u/SparklyVaporeon8]

5 and a half hours in and still no shiny. Will I end this event without one? This has never happened to me before

[u/jdragonz]

The issue with the "disappearing" pokemon, is still happening for me on the second day - how long does it take to get sorted??

[u/dogecoin_pleasures]

I did well with day 2 shines, but boy did I have to push myself for them after day 1's let down. Everything hurts.

For those yet to start: pros of the day where that you really could get some of the shines you missed. Need to be in a spawn rich area.

Cons: it was another one of those days where I wished we could turn off rockets.

[u/llasse22kd]

Pretty disappointed compared to last year, I made the mistake of choosing the fighting option, there's not a lot of stops near where I live and the balloons are inconsistent :(

[u/yellowdart57]

Is the catch rate for nihilego stupid hard or have I just been having bad rng?

[u/SketchyConcierge]

Ctrl + F "trade"

...oh thank god no trade tasks

[u/Lilgoodee]

The overall lack of shinies in day 1 complied with day 2 being all biomes thrown together with majority of my spawns being alolan starters that can't even be shiny so far on top of the removal of two iconic legends for nihilego? Then to cap it all off they change 2x catch bonuses to 2x raid bonuses but candy is only for nihilego? I trudged through day 1 for the shinies and dust but day 2 feels like a straight ripoff in comparison.

[u/KnowNothingNerd]

yay! for incense. I unexpectedly got put on bedrest while I wait for surgery. I can do something at least.

Edit: Shiny Axew and Numel. Alright. Not bad. One PokeStop within reach and some saved research and was able to do casual catch path and get Shaymin. Time to rest.

[u/wickedspork]

I played for the entire event. I thought I was just having bad luck, but it seems almost every single person has had the same experience. I caught 5 shinies today, 2 were the same and the rest were just repeats of community day shinies that I already had plenty of. I know not everyone has done every community day, but it's pretty boring to catch your 20th chimchar that you'll keep only to take up space in your storage because you don't want to transfer a shiny for candies and can't seem to trade any of them away because the trading system is so poorly thought out that its near impossible to coordinate with someone on your friends list. Just me?

[u/ghost20]

I was really excited after having a pretty good time with my first Go fest last year, but this year has been a massive let down so far. There's still a fair bit of time, but I'm disabled so with the amount of walking around I've already done, I'm probably not gonna get much more out of today. I'm playing in London, so probably the busiest area I could be in, have checked almost every Pokémon (that didn't disappear after loading for ages or crash the game) and have found 1 shiny after nearly 4 hours and the spawns have been pretty bad- some pokemon I have only seen 1 of during their hour no matter how many spawns I find and a lot of my incense spawns disappeared the second I interacted even if they'd only just spawned :<

Last year I was finding new/ rare or shiny pokemon fairly consistently which was a very different experience from this time :(

[u/trustmeimalobbyist]

Niantic has zero incentive to make these events better if people keep giving them money

[u/Kimstur]

Played both days, shiny turtwig and trubbish on day 1, nothing on day 2. Worst $15 i spent for pogo ever. Disappointed ☹️

[u/Puzzleheaded-Bid-468]

UK player here, I think it's been very nice of Niantic to put on so many concerts and parades in each of our towns and cities for Go Fest. Bravo.

[u/SocalEaglesFan]

Waste of money, sad to say There wasnt enough Galarian Darukama or Weezing, and it was just boring and most of the shinies were just repeats. The event would have been cool if you just started playing, but it feels more like a CD weekend. Not worth $15, maybe $5.

[u/Krimit1007]

4 hours and just one shiny.. not too impressed

[u/Exaskryz]

https://www.serebii.net/pokemongo/ticketevents/pokemongofest2022day2.shtml

Day 2 info

[u/Hummer77x]

I’ve caught 3 shiny bronzor this weekend, in addition to the like 10 I’ve caught before this weekend. Rng just really wants me to stockpile these dumb things

[u/dramaturgicaldyad]

Let's goooooooooooo

Thank you in advance Kiwi beta testers!!!!

[u/Danton87]

I feel robbed. I hate to complain about something as silly as shiny Pokémon but I didn’t around 40 bucks for the right to catch a ton of them. Disappointed big time

[u/Aro-wanKenobi]

Just a couple of hours into Day Two here for me, and well... The "visual glitches" are ten times more annoying when you're trying to tap on Pokemon only to be blocked by the giant hit boxes of Rocket grunts. Finally get the tap just right and the damn Pokemon would disappear.

I'll probably just stay home the rest of this event and finish the special research some other day.

[u/no-mustard]

Hoping there’s some surprise shinies!

[u/Spunio]

Yknow, for $15 we should be complaining about how we wish we got different shinies and not the fact that we’re getting none at all. $1 for a CD jam packed with shinies vs this is absolutely horrendous. Last dime Niantic is getting from me.

[u/Entire-Log3411]

This day was so bad. So disappointed. Same couple of raids. 1 shiney. Alot of money and nothing to show for it!

[u/M1ntyMango]

RemindMe! 11 months "don't buy go fest ticket!"

[u/raggedy10]

https://www.serebii.net/pokemongo/ticketevents/pokemongofest2022.shtml

[u/MrJones1406]

Not sure if anyone is taking rough stats, but I played all day and got 3 shinies, luck wasn’t with me but it is what it is

[u/brokencorrado]

70 axew encounters 1/2 from raids. 0 shiny

[u/__fujoshi]

Was unable to complete my City habitat collection challenge because of all the fleeing and 'pokemon could not be found' messages :c

[u/IAMACat_askmenothing]

I played all day at a park with decent amount of spawns and stops, used incense (lol), and lured every stop. I caught 2 shinies. Idk how many I’ve caught and checked but checked has to be upwards of 1000 since I checked every eligible spawn. The incense didn’t work half the time. And every Pokémon was breaking out of my balls, even after giving them berries. I’m so bummed out, the last 2 years gofest was so fun, today was a drag. I don’t think I’ll be very motavted to play this game much longer since this combined with the price increase on remote raid passes is really discouraging.

[u/essentiallypeguin]

I hear ya. Today was more frustrating than any go fest we have attended (done all since 2019). Hopefully the finale event makes up for it but not holding my breath since it's Niantic

[u/FidoMcCokefiendPDX]

Played 6 solid hours walking a pretty nice trail. Really uninspiring spawns and 2 shinies - Patrat and Karrablast. Compared to the other events this was clearly the most disappointing.

[u/rangertherick]

So here are my thoughts on the second day. The shiny rate is similar to the first day. The raids are fine but there are too much species in tier 3. I aim for Snorlax and it is very difficult to find one. I don't know why niantic change to 20 mins lobby time and 30 mins raid time, which greatly reduces the no. of raids held per hour.

Anyway, this year Go fest was a total disappointment. Niantic should probably compensate ticket holders by arranging an extra event and significantly boost the shiny rate at the finale event held on Aug 27.

Here is the total summary of shinies I got these two days (6 shines/day) (played for around 12-13 hours)

rufflet x2, wailmer x1, axew x1(raid), trapinch x1, cubchoo x1, slakoth x1, magnemite x1,

girafarig x1, buizel x1, trubbish x1, piplup x1

I lived in Hong Kong and I can wander around shopping malls and look for pokemons from lures and pokestops. Can't imagine how bad the experience will be for rural players.

With no expectation, you will feel ok...

[u/JollyWord307]

Shiny boosted by 1% or something?

[u/Stilgar69]

I think that using incense as a way of getting boosted shiny and rare pokemon to ticket holders is one of the stupidest ideas ever. The spawns don't last long enough and if you are doing anything other than watching for your incense spawn then you totally miss it. I did quite a few raids, I used up my 9 passes and used a good amount of remote and a few premium passes. Each raid probably cost me 5 incense spawns while standing in lobbies then fighting and catching. The number of times that I was catching a regular spawn then went back to the map and saw something good from incense and I clicked but it despawned is ridiculous. Why not just use the extra spawn points that are used on comm days for the ticket holder pokemon? And the amount of garbage pokemon and pokemon that can't even be shiny that were spawning really made the day annoying and frustrating.

[u/cornette]

As a non ticket holder I walked around for two hours. Got a shiny Trubbish, Event-pika and Trapinch. Managed to do two Axew raids as those were the only two that spawned across over 20 gyms that I can see on my radar. I went home out of boredom when raids were just Pikachu/Alolantrash. I just wanted to use some of my premium passes but oh well.

[u/Bongwaffles]

Worst go fest ever. Done giving them money. What a waste of time and money

[u/RabidRathian]

Australian here, about half way through day 2 of GOFest. Shiny rate was slightly better for me today (I got 10 from playing at the library for 4 hours compared to 11 yesterday playing all day).

Niantic have still not fixed the lure/incense spawn bug though, so I reckon a third of the Pokemon I clicked on just vanished and wouldn't let me catch it. Wonder how many shinies I missed out on because of that :(

Between the huge number of spawns I couldn't even try to catch because of glitches and the fact they clearly forgot to turn shiny boost on for Saturday, I'm pretty reluctant to shell out for another ticket next year. Last year's GOFest was tonnes better than this one.

[u/Clobber420]

Worst Fest ever. Tried to catch everything I saw. No shinies either day. Did about 30 axew raids. Wasted a lot of time in raid lobbies.

[u/AlcoholicSocks]

1 spawn a minute means I'm buying!

Im stuck house sitting all weekend so couldn't get our for it. That fixes my issues.

[u/docwoj]

Man, normal eggs, normal field research, no surprises this event is insanely phoned in. Shocked a year after a $5 one blows a $15 one out of the water

[u/Waniou → u/docwoj]

Yeah that's more or less my takeaway from this. It was a decent event but, so far, absolutely not worth the money.

[u/Alkazard]

Are people even seeing Axew raids?

I have 9 gyms in sight and so far have seen 20 (literally) Tier 5 (kyogre/groudon), one pikachu, and one of the starters so far.

[u/mcmillan789]

I dislike how the hours are distributed. if you've been playing and keeping up, the new shinies are really just in two hours, plains (3) and rainforest (2). Past years, the new shinies were distributed across all of the hours. If you didn't get it at GO Tour Johto Girafarig is also new and from the plains hour.

Plus it looks like the shiny rate for Axew is globally boosted. Not sure if it's for the duration of the event, to offset issues with remote passes, or what, but it seems a little unfair that what's probably considered the most desirable spawn of the event has an increased shiny rate for everyone.

[u/DutchProjects]

Caught 649 pokemon in 7 hours walking non-stop. Took 1 hour break so not a full 8 hours.

Total of 19 shines. Total of 1 100% IV.

Checked approx. 2500 pokemon.

[u/miststueck_barbie]

Caught roughtly 1000 (no extra checklist) got 5 shinies, non of the new ones. Defently not the Event i was Joling for

[u/Phlipthemagic]

Checked 1000+ and played for the whole 8 hours, walking most of the time with short breaks. Paid ticket and used incense for the whole event. Got 7 shines in total, the first of which was after 3.5 hours. Friends checked several hundred and got around 3 shines each. The odds are definitely much lower than previous years.

[u/choflmobile]

3 free remote raid passes available in store to ticket holders on Sunday

[u/[deleted]]

Glad they brought incense back to 1/min. This was the right move.

Great seeing Tropius. Maybe next one we can get Sigilyph?

Shiny rates today (sat) seemed terrible. I was expecting community day rates but only 3 all day. I was told the rates are not CD rates for the fest.

[u/Chofl69]

Day 2 Challenge bonus was only active for 8minutes in the first habitat hour (New Zealand) due to the challenge requiring people to complete raids globally not being finished until after 10:50 am

[u/crunchrunner]

As far as paid events go this has been a huge disappointment in my opinion and I think many of my friends agree. I played the entire day, checking everything I saw and only encountered one shiny. I’m not expecting to encounter 100 because that would defeat the point, but only seeing one out of over 1,000 Pokémon does not spell “increased shiny odds” to me. On top of that none of the raids except for Axew were worth doing, and the spawns were fairly weak most of the time. The only part I liked was the increased incense effectiveness, but that’s something they never should’ve taken away in the first place.

[u/BashedKeyboard]

Day 1: 9 shinies Day 2 3 1/2 hours in: nothing

[u/9intend0]

Did anyone else notice that Pokemon were much harder to catch?