Are the Special Items like King Stone in Pokémon GO dependent on the time of day or can you get them randomly from PokéStops?
With the Pokémon of the second generation, the developers introduced the Special Items a few weeks ago. These special items are needed by trainers who want to evolve monsters like Porygon into Porygon2 or Seemon into Seedraking. However, these items are particularly rare and only occasionally drop from PokéStops.
Since the update 0.59.1, there is an evolution item with every 7-Day Streak of a PokéStop visit. But also in between, the popular items can drop as a reward from a stop. Is it random or even dependent on the time of day?
Special Items at certain times?
Many trainers did not want to believe that these special items are simply distributed randomly and expressed various theories on the subject in recent weeks. The theory emerged that these items drop at certain times and that you might be able to collect them deliberately – there were even screenshots as arguments showing that multiple evolution items dropped at the same time.
The team from PokémonGOHub took up this theory and investigated what it is all about. They looked for a correlation between the Evo item drops and the current time.
The result of about 1300 recorded Special Item finds shows that there is NO correlation between time and reward. On the contrary: the rewards are almost evenly distributed throughout the day.
Unfortunately, the theory could not be confirmed that you have a high chance of obtaining the coveted items at certain times. Previous analyses show that the distribution appears to be random and does not follow a specific pattern.
Special Items that were found multiple times at the same time of day are not supposed to be evidence of a hidden mechanic. Some trainers are disappointed that this theory has been disproven and that they cannot deliberately look for the items. On the other hand, many players are glad that this mechanic could have been heavily exploited by spoofers.
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