Pokemon Go has Popplio Community Day event on Saturday, August 31, 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM local time.
As expected with the Community Day event, Popplio will be appearing in huge numbers with a high chance of Shiny ones. There are also a few other bonuses and benefits that we have listed below.
How to catch shiny Popplio?
According to an old study by the now defunct website The Silph Road (via Wayback Machine), the chance of Shiny Pokémon appearing during Community Days is about 1 in 24, meaning that if you keep playing during the three-hour window, you're sure to find quite a few Shiny Pokémon.
Graphics: Julia Lee/Polygon | Image source: Niantic
If you're short on time or Pokeballs, you can pop the Incense, then quickly tap each Popplio to check for shiny ones, running away from the ones that aren't shiny. Notably, any Popplio you've already tapped will be looking toward where your player is standing, so that should help determine which ones you've already checked.
What does Community Day do? Popplioevolution is studied?
If you are developing Brionna V Primarina From 14:00 to 22:00 local time he will learn a charged move Hydrocannon.
If you don't have time to evolve it during this period, you will most likely be able to evolve it during the Community Day weekend in December to get the Hydro Cannon. If you don't want to wait, you can use Elite TM to get a move on.
How is Primarina doing in the meta?
Primarina is a great choice for PvP. according to Silph Road researcher and PvP expert JRE47He does a great job with his 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 pretty powerful Water-type attacker if you use Waterfall and Hydro Cannon. Sure, regular Primarina is outshone by Mega, Legendary, and Shadow Pokémon, but it's still Very powerful and worthy of attention.
How to make the most of Popplio Community Day?
The following bonuses will be active during Popplio Community Day:
- Triple XP for catching Pokemon
- Double Candy for Catching Pokemon
- Double the chance for level 31+ trainers to get XL Candy for catching Pokémon
- The incense lasts for three hours.
- The decoy modules last for three hours.
- Popplio's special photobombs for instant photos
- Another special deal
- Stardust price halved for trading
However, you should definitely blast the Lucky Egg and Incense and try to get the powerful Popplio.
If you can Mega Evolution Blastoise, Slowbro, Gyarados, Swampert, or Kyogre – For each parrot you catch, you'll get extra Popplio Candies.
In addition to all of this, Niantic is still running special four-star raids from 5pm to 10pm where if you clear the Brionne raid, Popplio will spawn within a 300m radius of the gym for 30 minutes. These raids cannot be completed remotely. If the normal spawn increase from 2pm to 5pm doesn't give you the Popplio you want, you can try completing the raid for another chance.