In Pokémon GO the replacement event for the GO Fest took place last Sunday, which faced server issues in July. The replacement event caused frustration for many trainers, as often there were no Shinys.
This is how the replacement event went: For 3 hours you could benefit once again from 3 different habitats. Pokémon from the areas of fire, water, and friendship spawned.
The spawns were comparable to those at the GO Fest. You could again attract regional Pokémon such as Furnifraß and rare monsters like Icognito.
After the event, however, many trainers were disappointed. There were numerous threads on reddit discussing whether the Shiny rate at the replacement event was poor. While there are always such posts, there were significantly more than usual after this event.
Poor Shiny rate at the GO Fest?
This is what the trainers say: In various threads on reddit, you keep hearing statements like “I only caught one Shiny within the 3 hours” or even from players who didn’t get any Shiny at all.
Other trainers seem to have better luck. There are also reports of 6-10 Shinys in the 3 hours.
There is often a comparison to the GO Fest in July. They played similarly but ended up getting significantly more Shinys.
What is behind the statements? It is always hard to tell whether a Shiny rate has been reduced or increased. Niantic is not transparent about this, which has been criticized in the past.
The numerous threads on reddit, however, are a good indication that something was not right and the rates were actually worse than at the normal GO Fest.
On the other hand, one must also see that the GO Fest is not a Community Day. While at a three-hour Community Day, it is common to catch over 20 Shinys, that was probably only the case for a few players in these 3 hours. The Shiny rates of the two events are therefore definitely not comparable.
If you want to learn more about the probabilities of Shinys, then check out our listing of the different Shinys and their probabilities.
