Pokémon Go Fennekin Community Day guide
pokemon go has a Fennekin Community Day event May 21 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. local time.
As expected at a Community Day event, Fennekin will spawn in large numbers with a high chance of appearing shiny. There are also several other bonuses and benefits, which we list below.
How do I catch a shiny Fennekin?
This is according to research from the Pokémon community site The Silph RoadShiny rates on Community Days are about 1 in 24, meaning if you keep playing through the three-hour window you should find quite a few Shiny Pokémon.
Image: Julia Lee/Polygoon | Image source: Niantic
If you’re short on time or Poké Balls, you can get one Incensethen quickly tap each Fennekin to check for shiny ones, walking away from any that aren’t shiny. Specifically, any Fennekin you’ve already tapped will face where your player is standing, so that should help identify which ones you may have already checked.
What Community Day movement teaches the evolution of Fennekin?
If you evolve Braixen into Delphox from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m in your local time, it will learn the charged move Burn blast.
If you can’t develop it during this time, you can probably develop it during a Community Day weekend event in December to get Blast Burn. If you don’t want to wait, you can use an Elite TM to get started.
How is Delphox doing in the meta?
Delphox falls behind the biggest fire type PvE attacker, Reshiram, but is still worth grabbing as a budget fire type. Compose it with Turn fire And Burn blast to get some pretty good fire-type pokemon for your gyms and raids.
Players are muttering that Delphox might be used in a PvP Psychic Cup event, but it’s being outclassed by many other Pokémon in regular PvP formats.
How do I get the most out of Fennekin Community Day?
The following bonuses are active during Fennekin Community Day:
- Tripled Stardust for catching Pokémon
- Doubled candy for catching Pokémon
- Doubled chance for Level 31+ Trainers to get XL Candies by catching Pokémon
- Incense lasts three hours
- Lure Modules last three hours
- Fennekin special photobombs when taking snapshots
- An extra special transaction
- Stardust cost halved for trade
That said, you should definitely pop a Star Piece and an Incense and try to get your hands on a powerful Fennekin.
If you can Mega evolve Charizard, Alakazam, Slowbro, Houndoom, Blaziken, Gardevoir, Medicham, Latias or Latiosscore your extra Fennekin candy per catch.
In addition to all this, Niantic is still running special four-star raids 5 p.m.-10 p.m, where if you complete the Braixen attack, Fennekin will spawn in a 300m radius around the gym for 30 minutes. These raids cannot be done remotely. If the usual increase in spawn between 2pm and 5pm doesn’t give you the Braixen you wanted, you can try raiding for another chance.