Pokémon GO: How to make the most of the Community Day with Piplup

The Community Day in January is coming up in Pokémon GO. This time it’s all about the Water starter Piplup. We’ll give an overview of the start time, Shinies, and bonuses.

What is the Community Day? This event takes place every month. It always revolves around an event Pokémon that appears more frequently as a Shiny. There are also many bonuses that complement the event.

In January, everything revolves around Piplup. The starter from Gen 4 appears frequently for a full 3 hours.

Start Times and Bonuses – All Info about the Community Day

Note the times: The Community Day takes place in Germany at 11 AM. All countries in the Northern Hemisphere have these start times. The countries in the Southern Hemisphere start their event in the afternoon.

How to Make the Most of Community Day

This bonus is crucial: Once again, it’s all about hatching eggs, as the hatch distance is reduced. So make the most of this bonus, and with a bit of luck, you can hatch new Pokémon from Generation 5.

It is important that you only place eggs in the incubator after the event starts. Before that, the reduced distance does not count. Ideally, place the eggs so that they hatch at the same time. Then you can use a Star Piece concurrently and earn more Stardust.

Stock up on your Stardust: Not only do the eggs bring in a lot of Stardust during the event. The spawns are increased during Community Day, and you can catch a ton of Pokémon.

So make sure to use the catching trick to catch a lot of Pokémon and collect Stardust. The more Pokémon you catch, the more Shinies you’ll catch.

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Choose the right place to play: A small village is probably not ideal for a Community Day. So consider traveling to the next larger city for the Community Day. Ideally, choose a location with many PokéStops, where, in the best case, many Lure Modules are activated.

Shiny Piplup, Prinplup, and Empoleon

Is there a Shiny Piplup? As always, the Shiny of the event Pokémon is a highlight of Community Day. This time Shiny Piplup will be available for the first time.

The Shiny is a bit lighter than the normal form. So, the difference is not that obvious.

What are the chances of Shiny Piplup? You will have good chances for a Shiny. During Community Day, the rate for Shiny Piplup is increased. It is approximately 1 in 25. Normally, the Shiny chance for such Pokémon is 1 in 450.

Empoleon with Hydro Cannon – What can the move do?

This is the move: Like every Water starter before, Empoleon can learn Hydro Cannon. This is a powerful Charged Move of Water type.

How good is Hydro Cannon? Empoleon will significantly improve with this attack. It rises to the best Water attackers and ranks 4th among the top attackers.

You can find a detailed analysis of the move for Empoleon here.

So it is a strong alternative to the best attackers but does not necessarily have to belong to your team.

How to learn the move? To do this, you need to evolve your Empoleon on Sunday between 11 AM and 4 PM. During this period, it learns the move through evolution. After that, or only through TMs, the move cannot be learned.

Use These Items on Community Day

• Egg Incubators – 9 or more
  • For the Community Day bonus, you should have enough incubators. With 9 incubators, you can hatch a total of 27 eggs, which is not bad for 3 hours.
• Star Pieces – 6 or more
  • With 6 Star Pieces, you can permanently earn 1.5 times the Stardust for the entire 3 hours. This is definitely worth it with the many spawns.

• Lure Modules – 3 or more
  • You should make use of 3-hour Lure Modules and also throw in a few modules. Ideally, choose a location with many PokéStops clustered together.
• Balls – 200 or more
  • Without balls, you can’t catch any Pokémon. Therefore, collect at least 200 balls, so you don’t run out during the event. Great Balls and Ultra Balls would be ideal since Piplup is certainly not easy to catch.

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