The Best Days to Play in Pokémon GO History

What was your favorite day to play Pokémon GO ever?

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[justvincenturb]

Niantic honestly should've won the Nobel Piece Prize in 2016. When Pokemon Go launched, the world was just so... peaceful.

[Warspick]

Man I wish I continued playing from when I started. Day 5 player here and stopped playing because of not having enough content off the rip. Played on and off every year since except for 2022 where I have 1 Pokemon from that year. Started playing again in September of last year and have been playing HARD. Do every event and am going to my first in person Go Fest Madrid. Super Hyped for that! For me so far, was the Sinnoh tour event. It was the first time I went out with the community and played with people from a young age to middle aged and older. The community is by far the best of any game and that event showed me. It made me want to attend a Go Fest and it’s happening. I will say my best catch day to date was Groudon raid day, where I caught a whopping 2 Reg Hundos 1 Shundo 1 98% Shiny 1 96% shiny and 1 Reg 98%. My luck on that day was INSANE and I can only hope that I’m that lucky at Go Fest.

[donutkidpastry]

Recently I’ve gotten a lot of my friends back into go and even got some of them to come to New York with me this year, feels a lot like when the game first came out for me recently and the events have been a lot of fun happening every week

[LuisChivas]

I played pokemon go in 2016 and just came back this year. Seeing all this makes me wish I gave time to this game. So much that I missed. I hope they bring back alot of these Pokémon. Need my cyndaquil!

[RocketDescends]

I really miss 2016-2020. Those were some great years. My excitement started waning in the last couple of years except for my first in person go fest in NYC last year. That was incredible. I can't wait to do it again!

[brucenh]

I have a love/hate relationships with remote raids. It's great that I don't miss out on legendaries/megas like I used to, but I remember back in the day - I work on a college campus and when legendary eggs would hatch there would be a crowd of us waiting to battle it. Everybody would be talking about what were the best pokemon to use, what moves, etc, cheering when anyone got a shiny. Now even when I'm in person there are no other players in sight, all remote raiders. The only similar experience recently was the in-person-only enamorous raid day on Valentines Day this year. I couldn't go grind because it was a work day and I had dinner plans that evening, but on my way home I realized it was just about time for eggs to hatch and I stopped by a park I go past that has several gyms and there was a crowd of about 20 players waiting. We walked from gym to gym as a group and I was able get 4 of them, one of which was 91% IV's (the others were trade fodder).

[solga]

I always like those throwback videos even if nostalgia hurts 😂

[Axecon]

Damn, the closest I've gotten to emulating the first few years of the game recently is when I catch a Galarian Bird, and even that thrill has lost me. Nothing in this game gives me joy anymore.

[CGTZ]

So many memories… I wish I recorded all my gameplays like you!
2016: The birth of a legendary game,
2017: Raids,
2018: Events,
2019: Mewtwo,
2020: PvP,
2021: PvP 2 🤣,
2022: Zacian,
2023: Megas,
2024: Dynamax and Gigamax raids!

[plushfrogtcg]

Meloetta Go Fest during Pogo's 5 year anniversary. Cheap tickets, stacked shinies, cute musical costumes you could shiny hunt, EVERY LEGENDARY SPAWNED AT ONCE ON SUNDAY.

[scream]

The 2016 Halloween event was awesome and had such a spooky vibe. Great time in life

[Th_Beat]

i started the game on 24/01/2024, sinnoah tour was the most fun thing i experienced i walked 20 km in 2 days just doing raids and for the lake trio

[TheBobDare]

I was a day one player, left for over a year, and came back a month or so ago. My favorite days were legendary raid days. One year, for Moltres, we had nearly 50 people playing, split in 3 groups going around the city doing raids. I will never forget that day.

Also, when Trackers were still available, I remember racing across the city for a wild Lapras (my last gen 1) at 2 am, only to see that it was behind a locked gate.

[kmhmeredith]

Sinoh Tour! Dialga & Palkia! So much fun being around thousands of players. Oh yeah, we met JT Valor too! 😊

[bigwooh]

First month of release, found a snorlax on a scanner while at work. Ran hard to get to it and noticed others running towards it too

[kipp]

I think go fest is about to make 2024 as one of the years to play. We have had enough changes already, between sinnoh tour and the rest of the ultra beasts coming out this season, shadow Groudon release and shadow legends being rerun non-stop it's already a good year and go fest is going to be the cherry on top. The fact that you can remote in to in person go fest raids without the ticket is perfect to start the hunt early if you're lucky.

[voidastralbirth]

GO Fest 2020 was the event that convinced me to continue playing GO. Catching Victini was a moment of all time for me.

[UrFavoriteZombie]

I've been playing since day 1 but I have yet to go to cool events and Go Tours

Makes me wish I had a crew to fight raids, cause fighting 1-3 star raids can be boring

Let's hope this year will be different for me

[fillekrans]

That 2016 halloween update was the best event ever. Remember running around at night hunting gengar. I was also 8 at the time. Wish they would release a whole region in one day like back when gen 2 came out aswell

[finalboss]

The go fest 2018 and 2019 were amazing. Global 2020 and all globals since then were a let down big time. The amount of wild spawns at the in person ones were boosted, lures were non-stop and shiny rates were great. The exact opposite for the globals, so my hype coming from experiencing the in person then the reality of the global was night and day. The OG Dratini community day was probably one of the best ever. Boosted spawn rates, and our community had windy boost so everything was off the charts nuts. The shadow Mewtwo raid.days were probably also bonkers, but we planned for it, we set up a large jeep loaded with accounts and determined people to get the shundo. We had 9 people loaded up and ready to rock, doing around 50 raids a piece at the minimum.