Pokémon Go is hosting a Grubbin Community Day event on September 23 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. local time.
As planned during a community day event, Grubbin will appear in large numbers with a high chance that it will appear shiny. There are also several other bonuses and perks, which we list below.
How do I catch a Shiny Grubbin?
According to old research from the now-defunct website The Silph Road (via Return machine), Shiny rates during Community Days are around 1 in 24, meaning that if you continue playing during the three-hour window, you should find quite a few shiny Pokémon.
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If you’re short on time or Poké Balls, you can pop a Incensethen quickly tap each Grubbin to check the shiny ones, avoiding the ones that aren’t. Notably, any Grubbins you’ve already tapped will face where your player is, which should help identify which ones you may have already checked.
What Community Day move does Grubbin’s evolution learn?
If you evolve Grubbin into Charjabug and Charjabug into Vikavolt from 2:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. local time, both Charjabug and Vikavolt will learn the fast move. Volt switch.
If you are unable to evolve it during this time, you will probably be able to evolve it during a Community Day weekend event in December to get Volt Switch. If you don’t want to wait, you can use an Elite TM to get started.
How does Vikavolt perform in the meta?
Vikavolt is a very good PvE attacker (raid and gym) without his Community Day move. It’s a great bug-type attacker and a pretty decent electric-type attacker as well. You can set it up with bug type moves Insect bite And X scissors where the electric type moves Spark And Dump.
Vikavolt isn’t great at PvP, but Charjabug is. You can give it Volt Switch with Discharge and X-Scissor for a very good moveset.
How can I make the most of Grubbin Community Day?
The following bonuses will be active during Grubbin Community Day:
- Tripled XP for catching Pokémon
- Double candies to catch Pokémon
- Doubled chance for Level 31+ trainers to get XL Candy from catching Pokémon
- Incense lasts three hours
- Lure modules last three hours
- Special Grubbin photobombs when taking photos
- An additional special exchange
- Stardust cost halved for trading
That said, you should definitely pop a Lucky Egg and Incense and try to catch a mighty Grubbin.
If you can Mega evolution Drill, PinsirOr Chiseleryou will get additional Grubbin Candy per capture.
On top of all this, Niantic is still running special four-star raids from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., where if you complete the Charjabug raid, Grubbin will appear within a 300 meter radius of the gym for 30 minutes. These raids cannot be carried out remotely. If the usual spawn boost from 2pm to 5pm doesn’t give you the Grubbin you wanted, you can try raiding for another chance.