Pokémon Go Tinkatink Community Day event guide

Pokémon Go is having a Tinkatink Community Day event on Saturday, April 11 from 2-5 p.m. in your local time. As expected with a Community Day event, Tinkatink will spawn in huge numbers with a high chance for it to appear shiny. There are also several other bonuses and perks, which we have listed out below. As per old research by the now-defunct website The Silph Road (via Wayback Machine), Shiny rates on Community Days are about 1 in 24, which means that if you keep playing throughout the three-hour window, you should find quite a few shiny Pokémon. If you’re short on time or Poké Balls, you can pop an Incense, then quickly tap each Tinkatink to check for shiny ones, running from any that aren’t shiny. Notably, any Tinkatink you’ve already tapped will face where your player is standing, so that should help identify which ones you may have already checked. If you evolve Tinkatuff into Tinkaton from 2-9 p.m. in your local time, it will learn the charged move Gigaton Hammer. If you miss out on evolving it during this period, you will likely be able to evolve it during a Community Day weekend event in December to get Gigaton Hammer. If you don’t want to wait, you can use an Elite TM t

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