Pokémon Go has Popplio Community Day event on Saturday, August 31, 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM local time.
As expected for a Community Day event, Popplio will appear in huge numbers and the probability of it shining is high. There are also a few other bonuses and perks, which we have listed below.
How to catch a shiny Popplio?
According to senior research conducted by the now defunct website The Silph Road (via Wayback Machine), the shiny Pokémon rate during Community Days is around 1 in 24, meaning that if you play throughout the entire three-hour period, you should find quite a few shiny Pokémon.
If you’re low on time or Poké Balls, you can shoot out the incense, then quickly tap each Popplio to see if they’re shiny, avoiding the ones that aren’t shiny. It’s worth noting that any Popplio you’ve already tapped will be facing the direction your player is facing, so that should facilitate you identify which ones you may have already checked.
What’s the Community Day movement? Popplioevolution learns?
If you are developing Brionne down Primarina from 2:00 PM to 10:00 PM local time, you will be able to learn paid traffic Water cannon.
If you miss the opportunity to evolve it during this period, you will likely be able to do so during the Community Day weekend event in December to obtain the Hydro Cannon. If you don’t want to wait, you can exploit Elite TM to obtain the move.
How is Primarina doing in the meta?
Primarina is a great choice for PvP combat, according to Silph Road researcher and PvP expert JRE47. It’s great for the Community Day move (Hydro Cannon), so you’ll definitely want to get one of these seals for PvP if that’s your thing.
Primarina is also a fairly powerful Water-type attacker when configured with Waterfall and Hydro Cannon. Of course, regular Primarina is outshone by Megas, Legendaries, and Shadow Pokémon, but it’s still Very powerful and worthy of attention.
How to make the most of Popplio Community Day?
During Popplio Community Day, the following bonuses will be energetic:
- Triple XP for catching Pokémon
- Double Candy for Catching Pokémon
- Doubled chance for level 31+ Trainers to earn XL Candy by catching Pokémon
- The incense lasts for three hours
- Bait modules last for three hours
- Popplio gets into trouble while taking pictures
- One additional special trade
- Stardust trading cost halved
Oh, and by the way, you should definitely open the Lucky Egg and Incense and try to get some powerful Popplio.
If you can Mega Evolve Blastoise, Slowbro, Gyarados, Swampert, or Kyogre, you’ll earn extra Popplio Candy with each catch.
In addition to all of this, Niantic is still running special four-star raids from 5pm to 10pm, where if you complete the Brionne raid, Popplio will spawn within a 300-meter radius around the gym for 30 minutes. These raids cannot be completed remotely. If the usual escalate in spawns from 2pm to 5pm doesn’t get you the Popplio you want, you can try the raid for another chance.
