Big shoutout and thanks to Niantic for the remote shadow raids

I’d like to start out and say I did 25 shadow ho-oh raids and got zero shiny, zero perfect, and zero purifiable perfects. With that being said had remote not been an option I never would have even had a chance to try.

I live in an area with a smallllll player population and not many gyms to visit period. On top of that I am a busy person with a wife and kid and my weekend was chalked full of things we had to do. In no world could I have stopped what I was doing and spent hours raiding in person. I know niantics whole gig has been “get out and play!” And I do, but to spend the time raiding that I wanted to do it just would never have been plausible to do in person. On top of that the one mon I really wanted to chase was totodile. I scoured campfire every day CONSTANTLY looking for it. I think I saw 9 total in my driving distance the entire time. Most were during my 8-5 work hours so I couldn’t go try anyways.

I enjoy this game so I don’t mind spending money on it here and there. I did just that for this event. I’m new to PvP and really wanted a shadow gatr so each day I maxed my 5 raids out on totodile. On Saturday I waited for the 20 raid limit and on my 15th raid I landed a rank 11 shadow totodile. I also landed a rank 61 ultra league one and a 13/13/13 that I purified for the perfect.

None of this would have been possible without shadow remote raids and the increase to 20 raids a day. So for that, thank you niantic. I really hope this is a repeat event as time goes on.