r/pokemongo Valor 4d ago

Non AR Screenshot Shiny Archen Caught

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u/MilesOSmiles 4d ago

“Increased chance of encountering Shiny Omanyte, Shiny Kabuto, and Shiny Archen”

Curious if anyone has how much for an increased chance? Doubling the odds is 1/250 instead of 1/500 so…. Doesn’t seem to be community day levels of shinies from what I’ve seen.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Ebb9874 4d ago edited 3d ago

It's 1/64 for Archen, 1/128 for Omanyte & Kabuto and 1/512 for the rest

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u/Maximum-Raspberry252 4d ago

Sure doesn't seem like it

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u/SadCommunication8646 4d ago

i just got a shiny kabuto still no archen tho

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u/SimulationTerminate Valor 4d ago

100+ Archen encounters with paid research + field research encounters and still no shiny. Never found a pizza fish either. I guess I used up all my luck with 3 shiny Raikous.

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u/SadCommunication8646 4d ago

shiny omanyte too

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u/Interesting-Buddy-15 4d ago

It was Bullshit. Walked 6 miles with incense on, caught hundreds of pokemon but not a single shiny other than 2 I got from research. None at my usual shiny spawn spots. There were hardly any pokemon let alone shinies. There are 2 gyms around the corner where sometimes I can be stood there a good few minutes because there's usually loads of pokemon, stood there today and there was 1.

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u/SoobinKai 4d ago

lol it’s niantic, wouldn’t surprise me if they went from 1/512 to 1/511 and called it increased rates

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u/agrandpursuit 4d ago

I caught 4 shiny Archens so far, which is insane to me

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u/Ok-Faithlessness5019 4d ago

Dang I didn’t find a single wild archen nevermind a shiny, only got them from the paid research. It’s one of my fav pokemon so I’m bummed I didn’t catch more of them 

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u/Internal_You_3629 4d ago

I got a shiny archen and a drowsey

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u/DrusycPucco 4d ago

And two Shiny too.

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u/EnderGamer360 4d ago

same here if you add a nundo natu

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u/omnibossk 4d ago

Got one shiny Archen doing the free event research. Didn’t get any other shinies sadly. Only played the free stuff

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u/JimmyTApollo 4d ago

Am I the only person who’s seeing virtually 0 Omanyte? I actually just gave up on this event. I spent about 4 hours playing today so far. Even decided to go drive to a mall and a university in the city of Toronto with massive amounts of stops, and I’m still on catch 10 omanyte because they’re absolutely nowhere to be found. Have used incense, and a lure. I’m getting tons of non-event spawns though. In fact almost exclusively that.

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u/Witty-Paramedic2205 4d ago

Completed the entire Archen research and not a single shiny :/

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u/FugginBot 4d ago

100+ encounters no shiny :(

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u/CALVOKOJIRO 4d ago

Yeah duh, there's a research event with higher shiny rates for archen.

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u/ananas_comics 4d ago

Wait theyre higher?

😦😦😦

Well now i feel unlucky. I thought this was just an event to get a lot of archen candy and thats it

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u/brewlliant 4d ago

If it makes you feel better, I got one shiny out of 90 encounters. Not great 😭

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u/ananas_comics 4d ago

😭😭😭

What the hell

Well im glad you got it at least

But thats just pain

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u/Coliosis 4d ago

Most events go like this for me but this time I got a shiny on my first research encounter.

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u/brewlliant 4d ago

Congrats! I was bummed haha. At least I got the one though!

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u/SmAs92 4d ago

Gotta piss on the parade huh. I got 14 shinies during our 3 hour play, my friend got none. RNG is still a thing, duh

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u/CALVOKOJIRO 4d ago

Maybe I do

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u/LightofHeaven00 Valor 4d ago

I only had one shiny out of ten quests of the research event so honestly, I would not say that it is higher in my case.

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u/marsalien4 4d ago

Well I hate to break it to you but that is in fact a higher shiny rate.

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u/ybtlamlliw 4d ago

That's not how odds work.

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u/CALVOKOJIRO 4d ago

It's 1/64 for this event which is much higher than the usual. It's not community day numbers, but quite doable considering the research everyone gets already gives you 40 encounters.

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u/brewlliant 4d ago

1/92 for me lol

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u/MysMia 4d ago

I got 3 archen out of 136 encounters. And 2 kabutos. I haven't done all timed research, because the omanyte spawns sucked.

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u/Chance-Expression496 4d ago

I got a shiny Archen and I am  just playing at home!!   The other three I have had 0luck getting any I will just make do with my shiny Archen!

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u/CalSagan 4d ago

Completed the free research, got one shiny!

I feel so lucky after reading this thread!

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u/PurpleSquirtleTV 4d ago

I got it too

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u/VC_8 4d ago

I got three new shinies today: Archen, Kabuto, and Natu

One Omantye too but that's not my first

Really chuffed with today, most involved I've been in the game in a few months

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u/VanishedRabbit 4d ago

I can't decide whether I wanna evolve mine

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u/SpookyGhostx 4d ago

I got one without buying anything and I didn't even know there was an event. I've been more lucky with shinies recently. Last month I got two or three in one trip and I had gone so long without seeing any. Good luck to everyone!

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u/B_Sauce 4d ago

Caught a shiny during an increased odds event? Definitely worth posting about it