u/TheMercurialFox

So I managed to get lucky this time, shiny bgs have eluded me during my community days but got two this time. I'm the atk sucks on the Inteleon but still keeping it, I was wondering if I should evolve the 0* to trade with its special charged move or if I should keep it as a sobble to keep for collection or potentially trade some day. Any thoughts?

I've got two pretty solid shinies and an almost hundo, I'm tempted to take the higher attack shiny just for shiny purposes but I was wondering what others might think? I just PvE really.

So I was trying to finish the event and pray for a shiny/bg for my spouse and I bc we have a lucky trade waiting. They had to dip out of the event early due to getting super sick out of nowhere two hours into the main event (and we started an hour late to get our teen to their summer job) so I had to play both accs on my phone with a cloned app in a floating screen.

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I got their best 3\* evolved, suddenly had some fresh faced (had to be 18-23ish) missionaries come walk up to my open car window and poke their heads in asking what I was up to, if I'd go to church with them tomorrow, if I'd like more info about Jesus etc.

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Anyways I tried to evolve my best shiny (2\*, unlucky on IVs for my first real catch community day) and got it evolved to Arcti to Baxcalibur just after the last minute of the event rolled over. I only have an okay regular w/ glaive rush thanks to the ticket.

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So, idk if I should try and find someone local to farm lucky trades with and mirror trade (haven't had any luck with connecting with still active community blogs/chats/etc so might be a bit tricky), or maybe hoard it for trades or smth I'm very new to this, couple months playing since my time during the first few months of release.

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I could make a trade with one of my pre-2020's for a shiny w/ my spouse and use one of my two elite charged TM's (already got lucky precipice blades shiny Groudon) for a 3* lucky shiny glaive rush Baxcalibur?

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Really, I'm just not sure what to do or where to go from here, I was hoping for a solid 3* shiny from this event cause it seemed really solid for dragon damage and I've got a lot of nothing besides Groudon and non-mega Lucario for raids. Any help would be appreciated.

Okay so, allow me to preface this by saying I'm a fairly new player, I played a couple months in the early days and dropped it until recently, so this is one of the coolest Pokemon I have. I know IV for atk isn't maxed, but the stats are still pretty solid. On top of that given how difficult it is to raid for me, this is probably the best/coolest Groudon I'll see, a shiny, lucky, XXL Groudon.

I don't have primal energy or precipice blades yet but I figured I'd be able to get them down the line, and right now the ONLY good attacker I have is a Shundo Lucario from community hatching, and I don't wanna wait forever for a decent attacker, y'know? My spouse and I just so happened to both get a shiny Groudon doing a few remote raids. (Two raids for them like thirteen for me lol)

We're set up for trading Mewtwo during the upcoming event, but again that's waiting for an attacker when I'd like to enjoy the game now.

TL;DR Is it okay to up this Shiny Lucky Groudon and wait for an Elite Charged TM for Precipice Blades?

So, my spouse and I are fairly new returning players (haven't played since release basically), I saw the lucky trinket and had the idea in my head of getting Shiny Shadow Latios' together and Lucky trading them. Well, I didn't read the fine print and didn't know shadow Pokemon can't be traded. We're five points from ultra friends, and don't have anything fancy to trade each other.

So, I was thinking, should we purify and lucky trade, then when Mega Latios comes around in a raid collect mega energy to mega evolve them? Or should we just keep our 1* shiny shadow Latios respectively?