Stop Complaining About Stufful Community Day

thegamer.com:

Stufful Community Day is coming to Pokemon Go! The adorable pink bear thing that evolves into the scary pink bear thing is a part of the Season of Alola, and the latest in a steady line of Gen 7 Pokemon being added to the game. We’ve had Oricorio, Rockruff, Fomantis, and the starters, and now Stufful is joining the party.

However, this Community Day has come with a couple of nerfs, the most prominent of which is the shortening of the event from six hours to three. This seems like a drastic change - and, to be fair, it is - but it’s not the end of the world. This is the first Community Day in a long while that actually looks any good. Let me explain.

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Very few people actually play Community Day for the whole six hours. Only the most hardcore of grinders would be out on their feet for the whole day, and even they need to take breaks to rest and recharge both their phones and themselves. Niantic’s own research, based on the actual data of how much we play, shows that players only tend to play for three hours. Of course, six hours Community Days allow people to have more flexibility in when they play, but in all likelihood if you can’t play during the three hours of Stufful Community Day due to work or other commitments, you won’t have been able to play much of a six hour event either.

Personally, I have only played the last few Community Days for an hour or so. Sandshrew I only played on the way to and from the laundrette as I had a hundred and one jobs to do, and I still caught seven shinies. Hoppip I logged in once on a car journey and caught one shiny. Part of the reason for this is that shiny rates are boosted so high on these