Pokémon Go will have a Mankey Community Day event on Sunday, November 10, from 2 to 5 pm in your local time.
As expected with a Community Day event, Mankey will appear in large numbers with a high chance of appearing shiny. There are also other bonuses and benefits, which we list below.
How do I catch a shiny Mankey in Pokémon Go?
According to old research by the now-defunct website The Silph Road (via Wayback Machine), Shiny's rates on Community Days are about 1 in 24, meaning that if you keep playing during the three-year period hours, you should find plenty. Shiny Pokémon.
Graphic: Julia Lee/Polygon | Images source: Niantic
If you're short on time or Poké Balls, you can pop an incense and then quickly tap each Mankey to look for the shiny ones and run away from the non-shiny ones. In particular, any Mankeys you've already touched will be oriented towards where your player is standing, so it should help identify which ones you've already marked.
What Community Day move does Mankey's evolution learn?
If you evolve Mankey or Primape into Primeape or Annihilape from 2 pm to 10 pm your local time, it will learn the charged move. fist of rage.
Primeape has an unusual evolution requirement to normally evolve into Annihilape. However, for this Community Day, the usual method has been temporarily replaced by a simpler method: set Primeape as your friend and catch 20 fighting type Pokémon. This will be active from 2 to 10 pm your local time, so use it to take advantage and evolve Mankey and Primeape.
If you can't evolve it during this period, you'll probably be able to evolve it during a Community Day weekend event in December to get Rage Fist. If you don't want to wait, you can use Elite TM to perform the move.
How is Annihilape doing in the Pokémon Go meta?
Unfortunately, as of this writing, we do not know the exact statistics for Rage Fist. (Full disclosure: we prepared these posts a few days in advance since we don't normally work on weekends!) PvP-focused websites like PvPoke predict that Rage Fist will help Annihilape and Primeape re-enter the meta after the nerfs that came with the PvP restructure at the beginning of the season.
In terms of PvE content (raids and gyms), Annihilape is a top 20 ghost-type attacker when you get rid of Shadow Pokémon and Megas, but that doesn't mean much. It is surpassed by many Most common Pokémon: Gengar and Chandelure, as well as a host of legendary Pokémon, such as Lunala, Origin Forme Giratina, Darkrai, Mewtwo, you get the idea. You can totally build and invest in an Annihilape if you want, but since it doesn't have any ghost-type fast moves available, Rage Fist probably won't take it up the line compared to these long-standing meta picks.
How do I get the most out of Mankey Community Day?
The following bonuses will be active during Mankey Community Day:
- Tripled XP for capturing Pokémon
- Duplicate candies for catching Pokémon
- Doubled the chance for level 31+ trainers to get XL Candy when capturing Pokémon.
- The incense lasts three hours.
- Decoy modules last three hours.
- Special Mankey photobombs when taking snapshots
- An additional special exchange
- Stardust's cost to market is halved
That being said, you should definitely pop a Lucky Egg and an Incense and try to catch a Powerful Mankey.
If you can Mega Evolve into Heracross, Blaziken, Medicham, Lopunny, or Lucario, you will get additional Mankey Candy per catch.
On top of all this, Niantic still runs special four-star raids from 5 to 10 pm, where if you complete the Primeape raid, Mankey will appear in a 300 meter radius around the gym for 30 minutes. These raids cannot be carried out remotely. If the usual spawn boost from 2 to 5 pm doesn't give you the Mankey you wanted, you can try attacking for another chance.