Pokemon GO Piplup Community Day: How To Get Yourself A Shiny Empoleon

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Another Pokemon GO Community Day is upon us, and this time we are after the gen 4 starter and one of the more iconic later-gen Pokemon out there, Piplup. The event starts at 11 AM and runs until 2 PM in your local time, though 3 PM to 6 PM if you're in the southern hemisphere instead.

You are looking to amass as many Piplup as you can during this Community Day because the ultimate prize, of course, is to get a powerful, one of a kind, shiny Empoleon by the time the day is over.

The Empoleon evolution move today is Hydro Cannon, meaning that it's going to be extra powerful if you can manage to evolve one by the end of the day. Which should not be terribly hard given all the Piplup you're about to catch.

As for the shinies, the official shiny rate on Community Day for the featured Pokemon is 4.1%, or 1 in every 24 encounters should be with a shiny Piplup. As such, you're going to have to play the odds by catching as many of them as you physically can within the three hour time period, as you're going to want to evolve your highest IV shiny by the end of the event to make sure you snag that shiny, Hydro Cannon Empoleon.

Shiny style fans are going to be a little let down with what the final versions of shiny Piplup, Prinplup and Empoleon look like, as they're just slightly altered shades of blue rather than anything too wild. Still, it's something any collector is absolutely going to want to have.

Your best bet is to make sure you have both lures and incense running as much as possible during this event, as both of those will spawn additional Piplups as they are beholden to the Community Day increased appearance rate. Remember, by the end of the day you can sort your best Piplups by putting in 4* in the search string to see if you have any 100% IV ones. 3* gets you 80% or above which is still pretty good.

This is definitely one of the better Community Day choices in a while, so make sure you take full advantage during the three dedicated hours. This is not a double-day event like some of them have been, so make the most of today while you can.

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