As promised, today I present you the famous Magikarp evolution – Gyarados! Pretty, mighty, and very red 😀
You can see it’s called a Lucky Pokemon. It’s because it was traded in a Lucky Trade with another trainer. So how this works is that you can trade your Pokemon with other trainers and usually they will have random IVs assigned to them as a result. They can get pretty bad! But in a Lucky Trade you get a Pokemon with IVs no lower than 12/12/12 and as high as 15/15/15, which is the maximum a Pokemon can get. Lucky Trades happen randomly and rarely, and you can’t know about them in advance, only after it happens, but you can also get a Lucky Friend with a fellow trainer with whom you’re on a Best Friend level, and when this happens you get a guaranteed Lucky Trade. So that’s how my friend and I got a Lucky Shiny Gyarados each ;). Lucky Pokemon are also powered up more easily because they require less Stardust. And as shinies are very rare generally, it’s also even rarer to get a shiny with good IVs that’s useful for anything else than flexing in gyms – and that’s where Lucky Trades get really good indeed ;).
Re-enchantment Of The World 
What does IV stand for?
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Individual Values: Attack, Defense, and Stamina
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Thanks. I was looking on the card and couldn’t see anything that could be abbreviated IV, so obviously it stood for something I wasn’t aware of.
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Yup, there are some hidden stats on each card available when you click on a button. I will try to show them next time! ☺️
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What a beauty! It sure does sound like a well-connected player is bound to get some goodies in the long run in Pokemon Go! 😀
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There’s a huge role of chance in the F2P version – unless you want to shell out a not insignificant amount of money, you better have some luck 😉
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How many shinies do you have now?
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Right now I have 147 shinies altogether. I very rarely get rid of shinies, even if their ivs are trash – I prefer to keep them for trade ;). Some of them are doubles, from community days mostly – e.g. I have 8 shiny deinos & its evolutions, and 8 shiny alolan geodudes & evolutions.
How about you?
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Much like you, I never get rid of shinies … except a shiny Pidove that I couldn’t tell was shiny because the sun was making it hard to see on the screen 😦
Right now, O have 425 shinies. Caught a couple two days back for the first time outside of a community day in ages.
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Oh, wow, that’s a lot! How many spaces do you have?? 😀 And how long have you been playing? This number sounds like something long in the making – or I’m just unlucky 😉
Also, which community day was your favorite? 😀
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My pokemon storage is 1t 1,935 out of 1,950. I started playing on June 14th 2016 … bit of a long haul.
Not sure on favourite community day. Although I need dragon pokemon to get the platinum medal. So any with them is my favourite at the minute haha
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Wow, that’s a lot! And a long time, too! I’m even afraid to ask about your platinum medals, seems like you’re missing only the dragon one 😉
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I have 31 platinum medals. The only pokemon catch type medal I need is dragon🙈
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Wow. That’s a LOT!!! I’ve got only 3 platinum medals and it doesn’t seem like I’m going to have more soon! 🤣
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One upside to playing from the start: when platinums got introduced, I already had done enough to earn most of them😅
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LOL, looks like I have a long way to go, then! I just started playing in November last year… 😂
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Good numbers for so short an amount of time!
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Thanks! 😀
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