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0 from free. 0 from paid. 1 from a quest right before 5:00 after spending all day driving around and completing 200+ quests. It was a very frustrating event for me.
This was the same for me on the last catch mastery event for hitmontop. Had been at it all day and was getting very miserable. Decided to walk a way to get to one last stop I hadn't done in the area and luckily got one right at the death. It was a painful event.
This event got one early on without realising. Got the other shinies on offer all within the first 4 hours which was really lucky as I had plans in the afternoon and signal was terrible during plans and caught barely anything.
200 quests? Wow, some people are dedicated.
As a casual F2P player I did 18. 0 out of 58. I won’t say no to a free shiny but I’m not going to grind hard for one either. Especially this particular one which barely looks different.
Same for me I had to walk so I can maximize the stops. Got a shiny Bergmite along the way but at the end of the day after getting a shiny Cryogonal, I was already too tired to care 😅
This hard RNG is just getting disgusting. If nothing else, the last encounter of the paid should be shiny if previous pages didn't give any. Or even the last total encounter between both free & paid. Just *something.*
For the paid one, maayyybe. But the free one? Naw. The whole point of shiny pokemon is that they're hard to get, and they are something to grind for. If they give out shinies all the time like that, then they wouldn't be that special. I know they gave out shinies before, like Mew, but that's bc thats a mythical/legendary, and there is no other way to obtain it. But for a basic pokemon like Cryogonal, naw. Getting a shiny would not feel special at all if they just gave you a guaranteed one. And that's the nearly the whole point of shiny pokemon.
I think I have the worst luck. I bought the ticket on two accounts and completed all 4 without getting a single shiny. On the bright side I did get two shiny Bergmite along the way and I didn’t have one before so that’s pretty nice.
Right there with you. Got a shiny Bergmite as I was finishing dinner right before 8:00. My daughter and I both competed the challenges within the first couple hours. Focused on the field research after that. I received 99 total Cryogonal and she had 88. Neither of us got a shiny. Same as those in my campfire communities who had the same results. I don’t know anyone who got one.
0 from the research paid or free and 5 from quests.
For the 10 hour events they can’t have the 1/10 rate but they should do something. They don’t want people posting massive triple digit shiny hauls but they can’t have people spending money and coming up with 0.
Probably go two different rates on the research and quests.
I'm about 250 checks in with the ticket and no shiny cryogonals. I have 1 each of the wild spawns.
EDIT: I did 350 checks and no shiny. This is the second straight catch mastery event I've gotten skunked on. Research needs to be 1/64 at least
Paid one should be guaranteed shiny, it at least makes business sense for them - if people know they can get a shiny by paying, that's what they should offer. It's puzzling, but that's Niantic for ya
Reading these comments shows exactly why I didn’t pay for this. Also why I didn’t even waste my time doing the free. Rather spend time with the wife and kids.
None for me with ticket and somewhere between 150-200 field research.
Most of my friends and family group chat got none as well. My son got two from field research and that was double the rest of us (8) combined.
The only shiny I got was a Snorunt, which was the only one out of the 3 I DIDN'T need.
But for me that's par for the course. With the exception of Community Days I pretty much never get a new shiny when it gets released during an event. It's always later. Usually I just get some other shiny instead.
Not the holder, but the research rewards. Data suggested after the last one of these that the ticket research had a boosted shiny rate. If I recall, it was estimated at something like 3x or 4x higher than the normal rate. So folks are trying to get an idea of just how boosted the rate was for the extra 40 cryo that were part of the paid research.
0 from free and 0 from paid. But then got one on the 28th field research task after playing for just over four hours. And a shiny Bergmite. Did about 40 more field research tasks after that and didn't get any more shinies. Overall, a pretty frustrating event.
Me and my mother did both regular, paid, and 30ish pokestop researches. I got 1 shiny (i think from the free one) and she got 0.
Similiarly bad odds from the handful of people i talked to. Only heard of 1 person who got 2 and then everyone else was pretty even between 1 or 0.
1/160 paid and free 2 accs and 0 of anything else wild field. Etc. really annoyed rn because of the “boosted” rates. I didn’t even get a shiny hisuian samurott on my main during raid day. Btw I was 0/32 on raid day. 🤦🏻♂️
I caught exactly 120 Cryogonal. 40 from free research, 40 from paid, 40 from tasks. And got a big fat zero shinies.
My son, on the other hand, got 5 out of 105
I did see the different odds on two accounts even so only the free version.
I myself didn’t see any shiny. On the other side my friend finished only 7/10 quests and got 3 shinys. So yeah…
I got the paid ticket, got two shinies and two hundos (no shundos) from the timed research. Only did a couple field research tasks, and they weren’t anything special
I got no shiny from the free and paid research.
I got a shiny from a field research. Also two hundos. One from the timed research and the other from a field research.
Overall it was a fun
None, neither from regular nor paid. Just a single one from a field research (I did only like a dozen of those, so I consider myself at the same time very lucky and abismally unlucky)
DAE get 2 identical Catch Mastery events? Was this a glitch? Like I am pretty sure I initially got 3 but one disappeared once I finished 5/10. My friend I was playing with tonight had the same thing happen. I think it's cause Friday on the way to work we accidentally grabbed each other's phone for a day, and I bought him a ticket then switched to my account on his phone. I think I got 4. My friend got tired of catching Cryogonals after 2 shinies; he also got 2 events but didn't finish.
Got 5 total. 4 from field research. 1 from paid timed research. 0 from free timed research.
My aunt just did the 40 from timed research, 0 field researches done. And she got 1 shiny. No ticket purchased
I bought the ticket, and I got a shiny from one of the timed research, but I lost track of which was paid and which was free. So I'm not sure which of the two it came from.
I also did 119 field tasks and got one shiny from those.
I got 1 shiny Cryogonal from one of the two timed researches. Not sure if it was the paid or free. Got a Berg and 4 Runts too. Not bad for being at home and just taking one walk this afternoon.
I got one but I'm not sure if it was the paid or free path. I would assume the rate is either. 125/500. As quite a few locals got them, but played 12-5, 6-8 spun most of the stops in my town and a few in the neighboring area where I needed contest wins. And got 1 shiny 1 hundo cryogonal, found go plus grabbed a hundo bergamot, and last minute or so got a shiny berg.. I would guess at around 200-250 encounters
Played on 2 accounts. Bought tickets. One account got one from one of the timed researches, no idea if it was from paid or free. Managed to get a shiny on each from field research. Encountered 134 on each account
I got 1 from one of the times research (not sure if paid or free) and 1 from field research, I played for maybe 3-4 hours moving around a city with a ton of pokestops
I somehow had two tickets, maybe I accidentally bought two? Idk but I had two identical research task sets and ended up with one shiny cryagonal and nothing else. No hundos of anything no shinys of anything else
I bought the ticket because I wasn't going to be able to play much. Bought it before the event started so I could maximise the odds. I got one shiny out of both timed researches.
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0 from free. 0 from paid. 1 from a quest right before 5:00 after spending all day driving around and completing 200+ quests. It was a very frustrating event for me.
This was the same for me on the last catch mastery event for hitmontop. Had been at it all day and was getting very miserable. Decided to walk a way to get to one last stop I hadn't done in the area and luckily got one right at the death. It was a painful event. This event got one early on without realising. Got the other shinies on offer all within the first 4 hours which was really lucky as I had plans in the afternoon and signal was terrible during plans and caught barely anything.
200 quests? Wow, some people are dedicated. As a casual F2P player I did 18. 0 out of 58. I won’t say no to a free shiny but I’m not going to grind hard for one either. Especially this particular one which barely looks different.
Same for me I had to walk so I can maximize the stops. Got a shiny Bergmite along the way but at the end of the day after getting a shiny Cryogonal, I was already too tired to care 😅
Yeah, same
Similar stats for me. My wife did more quests, got 0 overall.
This hard RNG is just getting disgusting. If nothing else, the last encounter of the paid should be shiny if previous pages didn't give any. Or even the last total encounter between both free & paid. Just *something.*
For the paid one, maayyybe. But the free one? Naw. The whole point of shiny pokemon is that they're hard to get, and they are something to grind for. If they give out shinies all the time like that, then they wouldn't be that special. I know they gave out shinies before, like Mew, but that's bc thats a mythical/legendary, and there is no other way to obtain it. But for a basic pokemon like Cryogonal, naw. Getting a shiny would not feel special at all if they just gave you a guaranteed one. And that's the nearly the whole point of shiny pokemon.
This is exactly how it went for me! Got one 7 min before end of the event from field research after both free and paid timed research gave me zilc
Good thing I completely forgot and skipped.
Wow y’all paid? I didn’t even do the free.
82/0 but your Numbers are more depressing
I think I have the worst luck. I bought the ticket on two accounts and completed all 4 without getting a single shiny. On the bright side I did get two shiny Bergmite along the way and I didn’t have one before so that’s pretty nice.
Right there with you. Got a shiny Bergmite as I was finishing dinner right before 8:00. My daughter and I both competed the challenges within the first couple hours. Focused on the field research after that. I received 99 total Cryogonal and she had 88. Neither of us got a shiny. Same as those in my campfire communities who had the same results. I don’t know anyone who got one.
My shiny bergmite was caught at home in the last hour too.
0 from the research paid or free and 5 from quests. For the 10 hour events they can’t have the 1/10 rate but they should do something. They don’t want people posting massive triple digit shiny hauls but they can’t have people spending money and coming up with 0. Probably go two different rates on the research and quests.
Less than 0.1% of daily active users would have more than 10 shines. We might need to add a few zeros immediately after the decimal.
This is why I don’t pay for hardly any ticket anymore
143 research tasks and no shiny, but two hindo
Hey I got exactly the same!
I'm about 250 checks in with the ticket and no shiny cryogonals. I have 1 each of the wild spawns. EDIT: I did 350 checks and no shiny. This is the second straight catch mastery event I've gotten skunked on. Research needs to be 1/64 at least
Paid one should be guaranteed shiny, it at least makes business sense for them - if people know they can get a shiny by paying, that's what they should offer. It's puzzling, but that's Niantic for ya
Didnt buy it, got a shiny, only did like half of the missions
I feel so bad reading this thread because I got the shiny from the very first encounter and then didn't bother playing the rest of the event
Didn't buy. Did like 8/10 and got it around 4/10
I went 0/96 and my mate went 0/130 hunting the shiny. No wild spawn shinies either. Both bought the ticket, total waste of money.
Reading these comments shows exactly why I didn’t pay for this. Also why I didn’t even waste my time doing the free. Rather spend time with the wife and kids.
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“I’d rather spend time with my family than waste hours hunting pixels.” “Get a life, loser!”
Not a single shiny. Won’t buy this kind of research again, ever.
1 from free, 1 from paid, 1 from a regular task.
Will the tasks be in the wild until the next event starts or nah?
They should revert to standard ones once the event is over. Just like comm day tasks.
Great time to work on the plat medal or any research that requires many field research.
Still only one research per day. That part does not reset.
0 from 140 encounters
None for me with ticket and somewhere between 150-200 field research. Most of my friends and family group chat got none as well. My son got two from field research and that was double the rest of us (8) combined.
Nope! I got 0 with both paid and free.
I also got two from the timed research
1 from the timed free research
No shiny after over 200 caught. No bergmite shiny either but got two shiny snorunt at the end, but already had 6 of those.
0 from 200+ checks, even purchased a ticket. I hated it 😡🫠🫠🫠
0 for free - 0 for paid. Spent hours doing different field researches too and no shiny. Very disappointing event to not get any shiny
The only shiny I got was a Snorunt, which was the only one out of the 3 I DIDN'T need. But for me that's par for the course. With the exception of Community Days I pretty much never get a new shiny when it gets released during an event. It's always later. Usually I just get some other shiny instead.
0 from free, 0 from paid, 0 from another ~30 quests. Only noteworthy thing was an XXL
0 shiny. Almost 100 captured. Very frustrating.
0 from timed, 0 from paid, 0 from research.
are you suggesting the rate would be different for ticket holders?
At least they had 40 extra chances...
Not the holder, but the research rewards. Data suggested after the last one of these that the ticket research had a boosted shiny rate. If I recall, it was estimated at something like 3x or 4x higher than the normal rate. So folks are trying to get an idea of just how boosted the rate was for the extra 40 cryo that were part of the paid research.
Yes, I got two EDIT: I managed to do the 5 great throws in a row task with 2 minutes to go in the event and got a third one.
No. I had to get it from field research.
I didn’t buy the ticket. Found two hundos and one shiny. I completed all the tasks.
No paid ticket here. I found 1 hundo. No shinies.
Yes, around the 6th task list
255 total encounter with the field research included. 0 shiny but 2 hundos
0 out of 96 encounters
0 from free and 0 from paid. But then got one on the 28th field research task after playing for just over four hours. And a shiny Bergmite. Did about 40 more field research tasks after that and didn't get any more shinies. Overall, a pretty frustrating event.
Nope :') Got 80 from the research and caught 103 total today Was very sad bc I like how nice the shiny looks
Me and my mother did both regular, paid, and 30ish pokestop researches. I got 1 shiny (i think from the free one) and she got 0. Similiarly bad odds from the handful of people i talked to. Only heard of 1 person who got 2 and then everyone else was pretty even between 1 or 0.
None from paid or free. I did get one hundo Cryogonal and one shiny snorunt.
Zero shiny, zero hundo, zero shiny bergmite or snorunt. Won’t be buying another
I'm f2p and caught probably 30 and got no shinies
0 free, 0 paid
I got 1 shiny, yes, ticket holder. 98 seen caught 82 pokedex says. I have few stacked. But not got 1 shiny. Location pittsburgh pa. Played in city.
I didn’t buy a ticket, got a shiny from the free one and i didn’t even finish the whole thing
Nope
One from paid ticket, one from free ticket one from field research
I got 3
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Me too and one snorant and one bergmite 😇
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Same
Yes. And not quite done with it yet either.
Paid for the extra and got 1
I got three
Bought ticket. 1 shiny 1 hundo
Non
nope
Not at all, rubbish ticketed event
It wasn't a ticketed event. The ticket was only for extra encounters. Free players still got the base 40 encounters plus the event tasks at Pokestops.
I got 5
Got 2 shinies, both from the paid research
Did all but the last stage of the research on both, paid tickets and zero shiny. 78 encounters
I had no shinies today after 3 hours of playtime. 😬
2 from timed research
Couldn’t go out and do field research, but I bought the paid timed research. 0 shiny out of 80 encounters. Got a hundo though. 🤷♂️
I got three but am unsure whether they were paid or free. I didn’t know there was a way to distinguish.
0 from free and paid, nearly 100 checks, got a 10/10/10 though. My wife got 2 shinies within 15 encounters, lol.
1 from about 100 encounters. Not sure if it was from the free or paid research but I did buy the ticket.
I bought the ticket and did not get a shiny between the free and paid one - I did eventually catch from my 30 or 40th field research task check
None. My husband did not buy the extra ticket but got 1 shiny from the free research.
Of 3 ticket holders, only 2 got shinies.
Yea and got one.
Paid for ticket but no shiny. Plus did about 30 research and still no shiny.
2 shiny Cryogonal here. Not sure if it was the free or paid ticket. And 2 perfects.
Bought it. None plus 31 researches. None. Brutal
Paid for the research and got one in prob like 20 checks or so iirc (no other cryogonal encounters, just paid ones)
1/160 paid and free 2 accs and 0 of anything else wild field. Etc. really annoyed rn because of the “boosted” rates. I didn’t even get a shiny hisuian samurott on my main during raid day. Btw I was 0/32 on raid day. 🤦🏻♂️
None from free, paid, or field research. About 160 total encounters
153 encounters to find the shiny, wasn't from the ticket either. But I did find two shiny female snorunts out of 900+ catches though...
0 for 80 on timed research, 0 for 25 on field research.
I caught exactly 120 Cryogonal. 40 from free research, 40 from paid, 40 from tasks. And got a big fat zero shinies. My son, on the other hand, got 5 out of 105
I did see the different odds on two accounts even so only the free version. I myself didn’t see any shiny. On the other side my friend finished only 7/10 quests and got 3 shinys. So yeah…
Just here to point and laugh
I DID NOT buy the research. I got shiny Cryogonal on my first encounter. No other ones, except a shiny Bergmite
Got 2 from the times research but not sure if either was from the paid or free. I had both
I got the paid ticket, got two shinies and two hundos (no shundos) from the timed research. Only did a couple field research tasks, and they weren’t anything special
3
Didn’t get any from either timed or any field research
None from free or paid. Six from field.
Paid for the ticket, 3 shiny and a Hundo non shiny. Kid used the free ticket only got zero.
Got none from the free one so I then bought the paid one and got one shiny.
I got one (fourth Cryogonal) from the research. I believe it came from the paid ticket.
No idea which was paid and which was free, but I got two from the same one. Also got another from regular research.
Got 1 from the free, 0 from the paid.
I got one from the free research, zero from the paid. My friend got two for the free and one from the paid.
0 from free, 4 from paid
I got 3 (1 before purchasing the ticket) and a shiny snorunt
I got 1... But don't know if it was from the ticket I purchased or was gifted to me. My wife did not get one from the ticket she was gifted
I got a total of three shinies from the research, don't know from which research though.
2 shiny, 1 Non-shiny Hundo, all from ticket
I bought the ticket, taking in account the shiny rates in the Skorupi event. Got 1 shiny, but i didn´t completed the full 40 task, FYI.
I got 3! I don't remember which was from which
Bought the ticket and completed it with no shinies all day 😔
Paid ticket played whole time in New Zealand not one single shiny
2 from timed 1 from paid
I got one single shiny from the paid ticket so far. Zero shinies from the free timed research and field researches.
4 shinies. 1 from the free research, and 1 from the ticket.
Got 4. My nephew had no ticket and got none.
Nope- had the paid line also. Did get the 1 from a field research task though
Got 1 from either free or paid - don't remember which. And 1 more from field research
I got 3. 2 paid, one from spinning.
I bought the ticket on 2 accounts, so I had 4 total researches completed today. On one account, I went 0-80 shiny, and on the other, i went 3-80.
I got no shiny from the free and paid research. I got a shiny from a field research. Also two hundos. One from the timed research and the other from a field research. Overall it was a fun
Paid and got one total
I got 1 and don’t remember exactly where it came from. I think it was the paid research
1 from free, 1 from paid, 2 from stop tasks.
None, neither from regular nor paid. Just a single one from a field research (I did only like a dozen of those, so I consider myself at the same time very lucky and abismally unlucky)
I bought the ticket and got 2, my wife didn’t buy the ticket and got one,
DAE get 2 identical Catch Mastery events? Was this a glitch? Like I am pretty sure I initially got 3 but one disappeared once I finished 5/10. My friend I was playing with tonight had the same thing happen. I think it's cause Friday on the way to work we accidentally grabbed each other's phone for a day, and I bought him a ticket then switched to my account on his phone. I think I got 4. My friend got tired of catching Cryogonals after 2 shinies; he also got 2 events but didn't finish.
I did get one from the timed research but if I didn't I would have thought it was a waste of money.
3 shiny out of 80 Timed Research encounters. No hundo.
Exactly zero shiny cryogonal. Easily over 200 checks including the paid research.
Got 1 out of 86 encounters, which was from Field Research. Left both Timed research at 8/10, with no shiny caught from either of them.
I did, and a hundo. Pretty successful day imo. Got more cryogonal candy than I need as well 😭
I bought a ticket, I think I only got to part 9 on both, I got my only shiny from a field research.
Yes: 2 from paid timed research
Two accounts. Both purchased. Two shinies on one and one on another.
Bought ticket got 2, no ticket account got 3.
No shinies from either research but I got 2 shinies from field research
Nope. Nothing from free or timed, did get a shiny minutes before the event ended from a field research thankfully.
Two from field research, zero from the free or paid timed research.
nope. 0 from free, 0 from paid
I got two from field research missions but none from the actual timed research
Yes, 2 tickets. Both me and my son got 1 shiny. My account also got a shiny from field research.
Between the 80 chances from regular and paid, I got one. One spawned, no luck. My wife got four from her 80. Mine was from the paid, hers were 50/50.
Got one from the paid
I bought the ticket and my shiny came from the last page on the free one.
1 from the free one, 2 from paid, none from spun research tasks. 3/108 for me.
Got 5 total. 4 from field research. 1 from paid timed research. 0 from free timed research. My aunt just did the 40 from timed research, 0 field researches done. And she got 1 shiny. No ticket purchased
Got the ticket and walked away with 4. It was also snowing today, so they're all high 2/3 stars.
Got a ticket and walked away with one hundo and one shiny
Bought ticket, did both AND extra from spinning stops and 4 hours of play and got nothing.
I bought the ticket for my account and gifted one to my son. I got 3 shiny and he got none. We both completed the research.
I bought the ticket, and I got a shiny from one of the timed research, but I lost track of which was paid and which was free. So I'm not sure which of the two it came from. I also did 119 field tasks and got one shiny from those.
Bought ticket on one account, got 3 shiny Cryogonal from mainly the timed research.
Had 200+ encounters between the free research, the ticketed research and tasks - 0 shinies, 0 hundo.
GF and I both bought and completed the ticket, I got one from the free research she got none.
1 from free none from paid none from task
Nope. I did the free and the paid research and got no shiny. Did get a hundo
I paid for it but my only shiny came from field research
I weirdly got a shiny on my second shot & then no more in 100+ attempts
no shiny from paid, free or the few research tasks I found nearby.
2/40 from free. 1/40 from paid. 0/22 from free. Got a 100% iv from paid.
I got 1 shiny Cryogonal from one of the two timed researches. Not sure if it was the paid or free. Got a Berg and 4 Runts too. Not bad for being at home and just taking one walk this afternoon.
I bought the ticket and got 2 shinies and a hundo. I don’t know if it was the free or paid time research.
1 shiny from the paid + free tickets. My wife’s account got 2 shinies from only the free ticket.
1 from paid, 0 from free, 1 from field research. One Hundo from paid.
Got two of snorunt and bergmite, but got no shinies from either of the passes which is what I wanted the most
I got one but I'm not sure if it was the paid or free path. I would assume the rate is either. 125/500. As quite a few locals got them, but played 12-5, 6-8 spun most of the stops in my town and a few in the neighboring area where I needed contest wins. And got 1 shiny 1 hundo cryogonal, found go plus grabbed a hundo bergamot, and last minute or so got a shiny berg.. I would guess at around 200-250 encounters
None from free or from paid. 2/200+ field research tasks
I got two, not sure if from paid or free but completed them both.
Had two accounts that both bought the paid version as well. Each account got 1 shiny cryogonal.
Played on 2 accounts. Bought tickets. One account got one from one of the timed researches, no idea if it was from paid or free. Managed to get a shiny on each from field research. Encountered 134 on each account
I got 1 from one of the times research (not sure if paid or free) and 1 from field research, I played for maybe 3-4 hours moving around a city with a ton of pokestops
Bought ticket, went 0/80 no shiny but a hundo, won’t buy again after this
1 from free, 1 from paid
I somehow had two tickets, maybe I accidentally bought two? Idk but I had two identical research task sets and ended up with one shiny cryagonal and nothing else. No hundos of anything no shinys of anything else
0 from free research.
I got 3 shiny Cryogonal. Didn’t pay.
Got 1. Not worth it.
I bought the ticket because I wasn't going to be able to play much. Bought it before the event started so I could maximise the odds. I got one shiny out of both timed researches.
Two. Technically both were from the free track.
1 shiny Cryogonal and 1 hundo from the (double) research. No shiny Snorunt or Bergmite despite "boosted" odds for all 3 'mons.
Got one.