Shiny Icognito will be a major topic in the next few days in Pokémon GO. The developers announced that it is only visiting for a short time. So hurry if you want to catch it.
What is it about? The team of Pokémon GO mentioned on Twitter on August 5 that shiny Icognito can be caught by trainers. But only for a limited time. After the Enigma Week, they are expected to hide again.
Some players are skeptical about the chances, which already caused problems during the Dragon Week.
U L T R A Icognito – Even as Shiny
What was announced? The team writes: “For a limited time, trainers may encounter shiny Icognito with luck! It seems that these shiny Pokémon will hide again after the Enigma Week.”
Then they reference the blog post from July in the tweet. The Enigma Week starts on Friday evening with the new Icognito raids. From then on you can catch them. In the Pokémon GO blog, the details about Icognito are as follows:
- The following Pokémon will appear in raid battles: Bronzong, Lepumentas, Pygraulon, and Icognito U, L, T, R, and A.
- For a limited time, you may encounter shiny Icognito with luck! However, it seems that these will hide again after the Enigma Week.
What do the Shinys look like? In the overview, we show you the normal and shiny variants of the Icognito forms U, L, T, R, and A.
The Enigma Week is the second part of the Hyper Bonus and starts on Friday evening, August 7. During this event week, Deoxys will also be available in the 5-star raids.
Why are players skeptical?
Here are the arguments: The first part of the Hyper Bonus 2020 was the Dragon Week. It was supposed to offer trainers the chance to get shiny Kapuno and Kaumalat with luck. However, trainers analyzed the chances of Kaumalat and Kapuno from 7km eggs and were disappointed. Now there are fears that the chances of shiny Icognito are also particularly low or that one can hardly find raids with them.
On reddit , players write:
- (sarcastically) “I am really looking forward to Icognito raids that are rarely available”
- “I wonder if Icognito raids will become as frequent as Kaumalat raids? (I haven’t seen a Kaumalat raid in 6 days of the Dragon Week)”
- “These will likely be ridiculously rare shinys when looking at recent examples. I hope I’m wrong. But I’m preparing to be disappointed.
Also on Twitter, there are concerns about shiny chances and requests that they are not bad.
Another trainer writes that these shinys are probably as rare as Kapuno:
Now trainers hope that the shiny chances are not extremely low and that the Icognito raids appear more frequently than in the Dragon Week. After all, they earned this bonus during the GO Fest and now want to enjoy it.
You can see all the other events awaiting you in August in Pokémon GO here.
