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[ephemera]

Time keeps passing, but as I'm in Europe, and we've just finished having our Slakoth day re-do, let's pretend this is a timely virtual community-day chat post ...

Hi! How's it been going? We've had Adventure Week, two Go-fest weekends, a Community Day, a summer-session of raid dinner hours, Raiku raid day, and new Special Research released since the last one - how's that all been treating you?

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[kirin]

My RNG for shinies in the wild hasn't been great lately - none from the Dortmund GoFest boost, one Alolan Ratata but none of the others from the Alolan boost, and one wild Lileep from Adventure week - though I did get a shiny Onix from a research task. From other things I've been doing well, though. Got like eight shiny Slakoth on CD, and managed two shiny Raikou on its raid day.

And on top of that, well, I actually went to the Chicago GoFest. :D As you can imagine, that was more shinies in a weekend than I usually get in several months. Total haul: 1 Horsea, 2 Snorunt, 2 Wailmer, 1 Sandshrew, 1 Absol, 2 Duskull, 1 Clamperl, 2 Larvitar, 1 Cubone, 1 Lotad, 1 Buneary, 1 Mawile, 2 Drifloon, 1 Luvdisc, and 2 Misdreavus. Whew! About half of those were ones I actually needed, and several of the others are good for trading. And of course I also came back with plenty of Pachirisu and WAKEUP! Unown. I was lucky enough to have my ticket on Friday, when the weather was good - it was a great trip all 'round.


Also of note today - the released the fairy fast move Charm! It's rolling out today and will be available for Gardevoir, Togekiss, and several other pokemon. A bunch of other pokemon are also getting new attacks, one of the most notable besides Charm being a flying fast attack on Moltres, making ones with legacy Sky Attack into one of the best flying types in the game.

[ephemera]

Ohh! You got to go to GoFest! That looked *so* cool, and what a shiny haul! That sounds great! (I'm about to sink all my TMs into getting Charm on my shiny Togekiss...)