In Pokémon GO players have the opportunity to trade their monsters with each other. Two trainers have managed to achieve a particularly rare lucky trade. We at MeinMMO show you what happened and explain why the trade is so special.
What function is it about? In Pokémon GO, trainers can not only catch their monsters but also trade them with their friends. With a bit of luck, they can receive a special lucky Pokémon. This can be leveled up with less stardust cost and also has a high IV.
Now, two trainers report that they have achieved one of the rarest lucky trades of all time. Which one it is and why it is so special, we have summarized for you below.
The perfect lucky trade with two Shinys
As trainer pokemaster_marcello shows on his Instagram channel, he and his friend Gareth Morton experienced a very special and rare trade that probably won’t happen again anytime soon.
Both traded a shiny Iscalar for a shiny Lavados in a completely normal trade, that is, without having a lucky friend status in advance. So far, so nothing unusual.
But then the big surprise: They actually achieve a lucky trade with this trade. And that’s not all, both monsters randomly also receive a perfect IV, meaning a 4-star rating in the game.
We have embedded below his Instagram post, in which you can see a picture of the two lucky Pokémon:
The double Shlundo luck is something pokemaster_marcello can hardly believe, and he writes in his post, overjoyed:
OMG!! IS THIS THE LUCKIEST TRADE OF ALL TIME?! I just can’t believe it! We’re still shaking. @garethmorton and I traded two Shinys in a normal trade and we both got shiny lucky hundos!!! The chance of that happening is 1 in 4.6 million!!! UNBELIEVABLE! Suddenly, I don’t care about not getting a shiny Iscalar during the research day anymore…
pokemaster_marcello (via instagram.com)
That it is not easy to get so-called Shundos in Pokémon GO, meaning shiny Pokémon with perfect IV, was something a trainer also had to find out who collected 100 hundos. How he found them, we show you in this post:
Why the trade is so special
Chances of a lucky trade: To get such a lucky trade in Pokémon GO, you literally need a lot of luck. Because the chance of getting a lucky Pokémon is usually not very high.
It’s different when you have a so-called lucky friend status. With this, you are guaranteed a lucky trade.
How to become lucky friends, we have summarized for you here.
Perfect IV: Since the IV is reassigned after a trade, it can happen that you also end up with a perfect Pokémon this way. In a lucky trade, the chances are generally even a bit higher since lucky Pokémon always have at least an IV of 80%. In this case, however, usually only one of the two trainers can consider themselves lucky.
That this happens for both players and they happen to trade two Shinys is about as likely in Pokémon GO as hitting the jackpot. Thus, pokemaster_marcello estimates the chances to be about 1 in 4.6 million (via instagram.com).
What do you think about the special lucky trade of Pokémaster Marcello and Gareth Morton? Have you perhaps had such luck yourself before? And with which monster would you be happy with a lucky Pokémon? Let us know here at MeinMMO in the comments and exchange ideas with other trainers.
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