In case you were wondering, I didn’t get any other shiny Cleffa from the hatch day. In fact, I didn’t find too many interesting things this week, so I figured I would do something else to fill in for this week. So I thought of a couple of funny stories to talk about while I pray to the RNG gods that my luck gets better over the next couple of weeks. So let me start with some weird luck that happened in Pokémon Go. A few months back I found out coincidentally that Pokémon Go keeps track of any Pokémon you own with perfect stats. Once I realized this, I found out I had made a couple of mistakes. You see, sometimes when catching shadow Pokémon, you’ll find they have nearly perfect stats. If you are lucky, purifying the Pokémon can give it perfect stats. I did this with a couple of Pokémon, but I evolved them and then I purified them to perfect stats. This unfortunately meant I didn’t have the first evolution entries logged. One such example was Steelix. I evolved a shadow Onix with very good stats into a shadow Steelix and purified it into a Hundo Pokémon. That meant I couldn’t get a Hundo Onix. Until the other day when I got a very good Onix from a Rocket Grunt. It had 403 Combat Power (CP) which was six off the highest value I could get from a grunt. After purifying it to a 787 CP, I could finally complete the set. You might be wondering what is the punchline here? Don’t worry, you’ll see soon if you haven’t already.
Now, on my way back home on the very same day, in nearly the exact same spot I came face to face with another shadow Onix encounter. Now I wasn’t exactly enthusiastic about this encounter since Onix isn’t a great rock type and I had already gotten a perfect earlier in the day by purifying that 403 CP Onix. I still went and caught it though at 248 CP. I thought to myself that this one was absolute garbage and even though I thought there was no way I was going to keep it, I decided to check it away. It is just a habit of mine to see how good or bad the stats of a Pokémon are in this game. However, as it turns out I had a mistaken assumption. You see, that morning was one of the rare instances where the sun was actually out in the morning. In Pokémon Go, the weather will boost the CP of Pokémon with certain types. Sunny weather boosts grass, fire, and ground types. And while Onix is a rock type, it is also a ground type. Somehow I forgot this when fighting it because it was always with the rock-type Rocket Grunt. That means that the shadow Onix I got in the morning was boosted and needed to have a higher perfect CP standard. Since it was windy weather when I came home, a weather effect that doesn’t boost rock or ground, the second shadow Onix I caught didn’t have that CP boost. It in fact had a different Hundo CP altogether.
The way my brain froze when I saw this was absolutely wild. All that analysis I did previously was only after I saw this and wondered how I was so incredibly wrong about its stats. Plus not even a full day had passed and I had gotten another Hundo Onix. This one doesn’t even need to be purified which is insane. That is a 1 in 4096 chance of that happening and it happened on the Pokémon I had just taken care of that day. Seriously, why do I get this kind of luck on things that don’t really matter? I’m glad I got it and all, but I would have much rather have gotten literally anything else as a perfect shadow Pokémon. It is cool though at least. Well, that’s it for this story. Hopefully, next time it will end with something cooler than a third Hundo Onix.
That Casual Gamer Guy 