February's Community Day, and new legendaries, and pokemon!

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February's Community Day will be Feb 24th, and the Pokemon of the day will be Dratini. Oh boy am I hoping the rumours that being the featured Pokemon means a shiny variant as well as the event-specific moveset!

But first! Rayquaza is rotating in as a legendary raid boss (Feb 9th to March 16th - Kyogre's sticking around until Feb 16th) and they are releasing a further batch of new Pokemon. From the 9th to the 13th Hoenn region Pokemon will "take over" in the wild (I'm not clear on if that means 100% of spawns will be Hoenn region 'mon, or just more than usual) and Lures will run for 6 hours until the 23rd (which IMO rather undercuts them running for 3 hours on Community Day on the 24th...)

How did January's community day go in your neck of the woods? How are you going with Kyroge and other new critters? Any joy with Ex-raids?

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January's community day was a good morning for me - my local Discord group joined up with folks from a few stops down the line to target a large park (in the hope of triggering and Ex-Raid, which they did) and there must have been 80+ people there at any given time - some familiar faces, and some good rolling conversation with new people - we even got a few unexpected passers by who used to play to sign up to Discord in the hope of participating next time. I was hoping to get my gold Pikachu badge and didn't, but did catch a bunch of stuff, and the group succeeded in triggering an Ex-Raid. Did not catch any Kyroges - I have had the worst luck with catching raid bosses since the update rolled out on the 17th Jan, and I'm not alone in that ... Fortunately I have *one*, caught before that update. Kyrogre / Milotic is the most ridiculously pretty battle I've yet seen.

I have also been having crappy luck with filling out my pokedex, having not even *seen* any of the new 'mon they released 10 days ago, so I'm really hoping the Hoenn "take over" will change that!

Current 'Dex stats are 310 / 338, with a 145/95/69 split.

Amongst those seen and not caught - Mewtwo! I made it to my Ex-raid, defeated her, and then utterly failed to have her stay in a ball (happened to 2 out of 16 of us ...) Since then I've had two invites that I couldn't attend (one triggered by community day activities, just in the middle of the work day, over an hour from where I work, and one triggered by the bug, for a gym on the far side of France that I visited once last summer...)