The Lunar New Year event in Pokémon GO brings you numerous Shinies and bonuses, but a medal can also be significantly easier to complete during the event.
In Pokémon GO there are numerous medals. Many of these medals don’t really provide much benefit to the player, but are still waiting to be golded. Especially two medals, namely for 300 big Magikarp and 300 tiny Rattata, are particularly difficult. Therefore, players are motivated to bring these to gold status.
In the current event, which runs until February 13th, you can progress one of the medals significantly easier.
You can now catch tiny Rattata more easily
Why is it easier now? In the Lunar New Year event, there are also more Rattata to catch. This means you can increase your medal more easily.
There haven’t been this many of the little rodents to catch in a long time, as more Pokémon and numerous events are overshadowing the spawns of this Generation 1 Pokémon.
So far, there has never been an event focused on this Pokémon, so now is the time to take advantage of it.
What counts as a tiny Rattata? To have really caught a tiny Rattata, it is not enough for its size to say “XS”. Your team leader must confirm during the evaluation that it is tiny.
Why do trainers want the Rattata medal? There isn’t really a purpose behind this medal. It doesn’t strengthen anything for you. However, for many players, it’s a goal to gold all medals. Many players who have already reached the maximum level are still focused on this medal. They want to complete the game and take on this difficult medal challenge for that.
This is why Rattata is the star of the players: On Reddit, Rattata is becoming the hidden star of the event. Many players are happy about the increased numbers of the Pokémon. A player “DoubleM101” writes in a thread: “Enjoy all the Rattata in the event to gold your medal!” and gets almost 600 upvotes.
Many players agree: “I am definitely happy with all the Rattata. There are also other advantages: They are not Pikachu, which are difficult to catch, and they don’t wear a silly hat.”
What do you think about all the Rattata? Have you already golded the medal?
Currently, there’s also an event around Meltan. We have the information for you:
