Field Update
Published:Mar 10, 2023
Lunar New Year 2023 - Year of the Rabbit
The 2023 Lunar New Year festival once again featured boosted lucky friend rates as well as lucky trades rates. Are the rates similar to what we observed in the past years? What about the lucky rate trade cap we found out in 2022? Does the event have any influence on this? This is what we found out!
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Demystifying Ditto - Rarity and Shiny Rate
Ditto has been one of the most elusive and least understood encounters in Pokémon GO since its release in late 2016. In this article, we reveal the results of a five-month-long Silph Research Group study during which Silph Researchers tracked down over 13,000 Ditto disguises in order to understand just how rare Ditto is, as well as the Pokémon's shiny rate!
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Published:Jul 28, 2022
Introducing Community Pages & The Community Ambassador Program
Community Pages are the newest Silph Road tool designed to help support community leaders and their efforts. With support from Niantic, we’re happy to introduce Community Pages and the Community Ambassador Program!
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The Lucky Trade Rate Caps at 20%
Silph Road Researchers have been hard at work studying the mechanics of Lucky Trades. The question this study sought to answer: can the Lucky Trade Rate increase all the way to 100% for very old Pokémon?
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Published:Mar 10, 2022
Go Battle League Legendary Rate - Interlude Season
One of the main incentives for players to Battle in Go Battle League is the chance at encountering a legendary without having to raid for it... But what happens when those legendaries seem to almost disappear? Today we look into the missing Melemele Guardian Tapu Koko's whereabouts in GBL.
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Souvenir Survey: Lone Earrings
Have you ever lost an earring? According to the world of our Pokémon buddies, it happens to a lot of us! The Lone Earring souvenir appears to be linked to real world urban areas, but could there be more than meets the eye? Join us as dive into OSM geodata, S2 spatial cells, and satellite imagery to unravel the mysteries of this unusual souvenir.
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Lucky Friend Rates
Since the Lucky Friends feature was released, Silph researchers have been busy interacting with their friends to narrow down the lucky rate attached to earning those guaranteed lucky trades. Today we're looking at their results, identifying the overall lucky rate, and finding the factors that do or do not influence that rate.
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Published:Feb 2, 2022
2022 Lunar New Year Lucky Trades
The 2022 Lunar New Year event has begun in Pokémon GO and once again boosted lucky trade rates are part of the festivities. Just how boosted? Well, that's what the Silph Researchers are seeking to discover!
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Published:Jan 12, 2022
Snapshot Encounter Update
It’s been over two years since we last discussed photobombs. Since then, snapshot encounters have become a staple of many events and Community Days. Even during regular gameplay, we’ve had reports that Smeargle photobombs are easier than ever. It’s high time for an update!
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The Effect of Day and Night Cycles on Wild Pokémon
Silph Researchers have amassed a data set of over 290,000 spawns since mid-2018 that we used to examine how day and night cycles affect the rarities of wild Pokémon. We found that a surprisingly large number of Pokémon are affected by these cycles!
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