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>Do a few remote raids before the raid day
>Get a good amount of mega energy for each Pokémon
>Get a shiny Swampert (Nice!), but don't need it
>Get a good amount of rare candy and rare candy XL
>Raid day begins
>Do a bunch of raids for every starter because I have way too many raid passes
>Get barely any rare candy or rare candy XL, which is odd
>Got a metric ton of XP from raids (plus two friendship bonuses)
>Get a 98% Sceptile (Coo!), but already have a 98% shiny
>Didn't get a good Swampert or Blaziken, but I already have a perfect purified lvl. 50 Swampert I dumped my resources into a week before the event was even announced in anticipation for the megas getting released during Hoenn Tour
>All and all, pretty good day
>Group I was playing with decides to call it at 4:30 since they're out of passes
>See two Mega Swampert raids on the way back to my dorm
>"Well, I already have the solo team prepped, might as well try my first ever Mega Swampert solos."
>First one is against one with Sludge Wave (only have 30 seconds left)
>Get 6 rare candy and 1 rare candy XL (Awesome!)
>"Oh cool it's shiny!"
>Check IVs
>It's a fucking perfect shiny
>Mfw all that Mudkip candy XL was used in vain
I feel like I'm going to cry. 2 years of work building up the purified and a shadow, all that walking and Mudkip-hunting, just for 40% of it (plus the 300-400k stardust) to go to waste. At least now I know I'll be getting as much Mega Swampert energy as I'll ever need now that I'll be walking this creature for the next 6 months. Hopefully Hoenn Tour will provide a decent amount of help in recuperating my losses...
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