Pokémon Go Charmander Community Day Classic guide

Pokémon Go is having a Charmander Community Day Classic occasion on Sept. 2 from 2-5 p.m. in your native time.

As anticipated with a Community Day occasion, Charmander will spawn in big numbers with a excessive probability for it to look shiny. There are additionally a number of different bonuses and perks, which we’ve checklist out under.

How do I catch a shiny Charmander?

As per previous analysis by the now-defunct web site The Silph Road (through Wayback Machine), Shiny charges on Community Days are about 1 in 24, which implies that in the event you preserve taking part in all through the three-hour window, it’s best to discover fairly a couple of shiny Pokémon.

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If you’re brief on time or Poké Balls, you may pop an Incense, then rapidly faucet every Charmander to verify for shiny ones, working from any that aren’t shiny. Notably, any Charmander you’ve already tapped will face the place your participant is standing, so that ought to assist establish which of them you might have already checked.

What Community Day transfer does Charmander’s evolution study?

If you evolve Charmeleon into Charizard from 2 p.m. till 7 p.m. in your native time, it’ll study the quick assault Dragon Breath and charged transfer Blast Burn.

If you miss out on evolving it throughout this era, you’ll seemingly be capable of evolve it throughout a Community Day weekend occasion in December to get Dragon Breath and Blast Burn. If you don’t need to wait, you should use an Elite TM to get the transfer.

How does Charizard do within the meta?

Hoo, boy. While Charizard and its Mega variants isn’t on the tippy prime of any attacker tier lists anymore, Mega Charizard Y (the orange one) continues to be fairly excessive up there. Mega Charizard X and non-Mega Charizard (whether or not Shadow or not) are nonetheless talked about on these damage-dealing lists, so it’s best to undoubtedly attempt to seize some highly effective Charmander.

Set up your Charizard with Fire Spin and Blast Burn and choose to Mega Evolve it to Mega Charizard Y for top-of-the-line fire-type attackers within the recreation, for PvE content material.

Charizard can see use in PvP, however slightly than giving it each of its Community Day strikes, you’re higher off giving it Wing Attack with Blast Burn and Dragon Claw for higher kind protection and good vitality regeneration. Wing Attack is a legacy transfer, so that you’ll want to make use of an Elite TM to get it, although.

How do I benefit from Charmander Community Day Classic?

The following bonuses might be energetic throughout Charmander Community Day:

• Tripled Stardust for catching Pokémon
• Incense lasts three hours
• Lure Modules lasts three hours
• Charmander particular photobombs when taking snapshots

That stated, it’s best to undoubtedly pop a Star Piece and an Incense and attempt to nab some highly effective Charmander.

If you may Mega Evolve Charizard, Houndoom, or Blaziken, you’ll rating extra Charmander Candy per catch.