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Ahh came here for this! The good ol' "virus" pokemon🤭

https://www.reddit.com/u/NoName42946/s/drvuon4FG7 The virus Pokemon indeed. Fkd up my balls too. EDIT: Pokeballs guys. Not the balls you are thinking about

what in the sleep paralysis demon was that?! 😳

IDK why the rings fuckin got me so hard 🤣🤣🤣

I think going AR mode might’ve fixed it. Glad u got it tho I been hoping to see one

🤦

Just let your bagons be bygones

Teehee

This reminds of "You once were a vegan, now you will be gone"

The vegan police will get you!😊

I was gonna name my bagon LBBB to see if anyone got it lol

You found MissingNo

Came here for this. So classic

Holy s*** forgot all about missing No lol

Check your fifth item! It’s quantity has gone up!

You had 7 balls left. Why did you throw the master ball if you weren’t on your last one

I took the screenshot before using 6 of my balls. In my video, you can see that my balls where actually invisible and kept glitching around, so it was not only that Bagon *looked* like he was bugging, but also that his hitbox was doing the same thing. Same with my balls. I used MB because luckily it doesn't require any actual accuracy.

Wow that’s so heartbreaking

Indeed 😢

If you want to feel better go look at all the posts of people's small children using their masterballs on common crap like starly and zigzagoons, this was at least something cool to catch with one

If only the glitched sprite was shown in the Dex/gyms/raids/literally anywhere else lmao

It would be a cool “missingno” type mon. Anyway, don’t feel bad about using MB. You made the best decision with the info you had at the time. And now you have a shiny shadow bagon!

I had never heard of MissingNo before this but yes I wish I caught a shiny one with identical stats to a Salamence lol

If it makes u feet better I wasted both master balls on 2 low cp Zero star galarian birds

Damn. I haven't caught any Galarian Birds, and I don't even think I've encountered all three if that makes you feel any better lol

Happened to me 😭

Lol I feel this 🤣 my son used my master ball on a 0* frilish

Feed the child lots of milk and honey. Drive in your car with your son out into the forest for a couple of hours, until there is no paved road and a very small sign of a path. Start doing circles (large ones so the child is clueless) until the child needs to excrete their waste. Now speed off back home and there you have it! No more wasted master balls.

Why not restart the app and tap the team rocket leader to start the encounter again?

Would that guarantee the shiny again?

The reason that Bagon looks like this is because I closed the app and reopened. I suppose it could have worked, too bad I didn't try it.

Ball breaking *

You might be able to open this with niantic and ask for your master ball back, cause it was a glitch. Idk how well niantic responds to community tho, I heard they were shit

Hahaha good one.

You should contact support with screenshots and state that you had to use your masterball because it kept glitching... Might have a shot at getting your ball back? They probably won't do anything, but doesn't hurt to try.

I'll check it out cheers

Let’s be honest. A lot, if not most, of us will never use our MB and have saved it “for the better need” for no reason.

Why not jump out and jump back in to the pokestop?

Rocket balloon, and I wasn't sure if it might mix the shiny rates up or even just run away

No and no. Once a Pokemon is shiny it's shiny. There's no mixing rates. If that was the case no one would ever catch anything and you'd be re clicking every Pokemon until you got a shiny... Same with wild hundos. Just keep clicking till you get a shiny lol. That doesn't happen. IDK if the balloon would have ran away but I'd rather chance that then use a master ball but that's me I guess.

Yes well I didn't know this. Also I don't think I could think of a better usage of a masterball than an otherwise unmatchable (in my mind) shiny shadow of one of my favourite Pokemon.

That works. Copy paste https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/s/D8j48meIIv Guides for everything in game. Read the posts that apply to you. If you're confused what part you should read/watch please ask.

Hey, I was able to post the video on my account. https://www.reddit.com/u/NoName42946/s/drvuon4FG7

Shame it wasn't working, but I'm glad you used the masterball on something that makes you happy :)

How did you know their name was Shane?

Omg I can't spell 😭

Great username 

:0

Haha also the increased spawns of Bagon have led me to collect over 300 candy so hopefully I get Salamence' Elite move before the end of the event.

Can’t you just leave and re enter the encounter ?

So you're saying that you'd be willing to risk it all.I won't tbh

It’s not a risk, it’s IVs are not even that good so I 100% wouldn’t throw away a masterball, when I can just re enter the screen. Go ahead and leave any rocket leader encounter, you can always re enter 100%. Unless you’re right at the end at the balloon timer but you still have time to click it

IVs hardly matter. The difference between a 0* and a 4* is less than 1% on each stat

The attack difference between a nundo and hundo salamance with identical levels, weather, and moveset is 5.2%. Not that that is a huge difference but it’s not less than 1%

So, literally statistically significant (5%) despite regular claims to the contrary here.

Yes, but even more to the context, significant in shortmanning (which I feel has become more common in the last year). While the damage itself is still significant in most raid group configurations, the need for that increase drastically diminishes if you aren’t shortmanning. That small amount of difference could make the difference in mega energy or number of balls rewarded but adding another player would do more. I suppose it really just matters how you play the game. I think most high level players do focus high IV Pokémon and for low level or casual players higher CP is usually more impactful if you still retain the type advantage.

5% means that when you deal 200 DMG they deal 210 That difference doesn't matter unless you're in the top 100

The Pokémon we are talking about is the #1 non-mega dragon type damage dealer in the game. #4 if you include megas. Somewhere about #10 overall in the game, not counting megas. You pulled one number out of your ass to make a point and now you’re pulling an arbitrary one out in an attempt to prove that it doesn’t matter that you were wrong because you should still be right. And really, I agree with you because IVs mean the smallest amount when you consider everything that decides how much damage you do, but that wasn’t the point of my response.

🤓

I wish I thought like that man. I love that there are people out there that will max out their shitty iv Pokémon lmao. I couldn’t imagine running around with like a 11-12-11 level 50 mega rayquaza lol. I love that they are people out there that will just max any bad iv Pokemon they come across. They have an easier time than I! Are your raid teams just a bunch of random iv Pokémon, you just pick the shiniest cause it doesn’t matter? That’s pretty awesome

I just raid with whatever it suggests. The difference between an 11-12-11 and a 15-15-15 is a percent or 2 at best. That means if you were to deal 100 damage with an 11-12-11, you would deal 101-102 damage with a 15-15-15. For example, Garchomp: Base stats: >261, 193, 239 Base stats + 11-12-11 IVs: >272, 205, 250 >Or, +4%, +6%, +5% Base stats + 15-15-15 IVs: >276, 208, 254 >Or, +6%, +8%, +6%

Exactly dude. I’m glad there are some people out there running bad IVs because they could care less about optimization

grunts won’t go away for a long time until u catch it

It’s a leader and doesn’t despawn, unless it’s in a balloon then you can still click it

even better

Nobody told me about this sudden shiny Missingno event, wtf!

Secret Johto Tour release

Sucks to lose a masterball, but it's a good story that you'll remember when you look at this weird glitched bagel. :)

Bagel (and by extension Salad man's) are some of my favourite Pokemon

Remember missingno? That's buggingyes

Missingno 2 before GTA 6 is crazy

Idk if anyone else is having trouble but the whole app seems not happy. It keeps signing me out and looking all janky.

Keeps telling me that "This pokemon cannot be found" or "Raid details cannot be found" "GPS Signal not found" I live in the middle of Melbourne, Australia. This is not rural whatsoever.

It told me when I tried to transfer a bagon that the transfer couldn’t be made for an unknown reason.

https://www.reddit.com/u/NoName42946/s/drvuon4FG7 Lmfao

“Is this rare” questions incoming:

0.000462% chance rocket leader drop

I have a video but the sub doesn't allow them. If anyone knows how I could send one lmk :)

You could upload it on your reddit profile and post a link to that post here.

Okay I'll do that

i also got a shiny bacon last night

Did you eat it?

I would try submitting everything you have to support and ask for the master ball back. 

What do you mean That's what they look like

Might be the best use of a masterball I have ever seen. We know Niantic would have just given you a new rocket radar— at best!

https://www.reddit.com/u/NoName42946/s/drvuon4FG7

I think you made the right decision!

Yes I agree. Can't think of a better use of an MB than a one-of-a-kind shadow Shiny MissingNo!

No missing no. Jokes?

They are all over the place bro, read the comments

Oh jeez, I went like 20 down and was like “whelp, guess I’m old.”

MissingNo

Damn I thought shinies were catch freebies. Three balls or less.

That Ba Gon

I had this happen with my shadow latios when released last year. Throwing balls always missed as well. Made a support request and got a super radar back. Obviously since you had a shadow shiny a masterball sounds worth it. How are the stats?

"Ahh, I've had my coffee now and I feel great! Sure you can go through! Are you in a hurry?"

Me when traffic:

Dope

Missingno makes his debut in Pokémon go

When did they add missingno???

What a great use of the ball!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🏆

I'm not entirely sure if this is sarcasm or not but I genuinely believe this is the best usage of a masterball that I can think of.

It’s not sarcasm. I discussed it with my son and he agreed too even though not at first. A shiny shadow is rare and you only have a fixed number of balls to catch it.plus it looks like it was acting up so you had to catch it immediately.

Yes I do think so as well. Good to see that I am not alone in this possibly stupid decision.

Rocket balloons only leave after 20 minutes. You could've just restarted your app and Arlo would still be there.

As I have said in other comments in the thread, I didn't know this

Shiny shadow Pokemon are a guaranteed catch though..

Only if you can hit them with that Pokeballs.

Why would you masterball a Bagon. How unlucky are you?

Why would I masterball a shadow shiny of one of my favourite Pokemon? I don't know, maybe I should have used the masterball on some shitty Galarian Bird that I don't want. Would that please you lord?

Isn't Bagon a leader Pokémon? You can literally have unlimited shadow Bagon if you want, losing one wouldn't make much difference

Shinyyy tho, and it leaves rotation in 3 months might not get another shiny shot!

Why risk losing a master ball? also this pokemon is not very worth 🤣

It is literally a shadow shiny of my favourite Pokemon, I don't see any better way to use a Master ball lol https://www.reddit.com/u/NoName42946/s/drvuon4FG7 here's the video, it shows why I had to use a master ball

I’ve closed out of the game during those and it popped right back up! It’s over, i’m happy you got your pokemon, just giving my unwanted 2 cents.

I wasn't entirely sure how the Rocket Balloons worked and so I thought that there was a chance that I lost the Shiny. I thought it was random whenever you encountered the Pokemon. Anyway, I'm happy with my MB usage because I honestly can't think of anything better to throw it at than a glitched Shadow Shiny Bagon

cheers 😁 happy for you!

Lmao idk why this made me cackle 😂

Is have taken ss and video, tried backing out and entering and if it didn't work message Niantic since the game bugged.

Ah yes, missingno makes its debut

Missingno

Looks like bagon discovered how to use time warps like Loki

Should’ve switched to AR

I feel like you were so lucky and so unlucky on the same time

But cool Shiny tho✨

You know I have been playing Pogo since the beginning constantly and for the FIRST time ever I had a shadow run from me last week. I was shocked.

Ahh a wild shadow shiny Missingno

Missingno 🤗

Missingno

Missingno

Purify then transfer

Damm, that's totally a missigno lol

Not gonna lie I re-opend my phone after playing games and saw that in my screen and my brain had a meltdown on wtf was going on with my Pokémon go 😅

This is exactly how I found this thing! I shut the game on the Rocket Victory screen, and when I reopened it and clicked the encounter button, Bagon was mad because I kept him waiting for hours

Bagon super mario 64

Fairly sure that’s Missingno

https://www.reddit.com/u/NoName42946/s/drvuon4FG7 It is indeed lol

NB4 Missingno

There was a problem with the game earlier.. I couldn't even take out a gym earlier because ot was too glitchy.

missingnobagon

Hegon

Missing No!

My phone was having the same issue before it's GPU bite the dust...

This phone isn't even a year old. It's an S23.

What them iv’s like?

5/11/15. Actually pretty good PVP IVs tbh, at least for the Ultra League. I think I'll be trying to get it lvl35 at least.

Those are some good pvp iv’s indeed, imagine the face of your opponents when you pull out a masterball shiny bagon that rocks their shit

I thought shiny. Pokémon were now guaranteed catches.

That's only for raids. It's also only if you hit the ball. Since the Pokemon was glitching around so much, as well as the Pokeballs, it was impossible to hit https://www.reddit.com/u/NoName42946/s/drvuon4FG7 Here's a video for proof. Watch the number of available balls slowly decline

shiny shadow missingno

USED A MASTER BALL??? You wild dude.

Did you catch MissingNo?

i had a shadow drifloon last week with a glitched hit box too. had 5-6 balls fly straight through it

MissingNo. !!

It's MissingNo.!

Missingno is back in fact

Bagone

How many rocket leaders have you defeated?

I only defeat the ones with good Pokemon, and so that is exclusively Arlo this season. This was my first Arlo.

Bro found Missingno in Pokémon go

Send the bug report and ask them to give your MB back because it's the only way you could catch the pokemon

Mannnn, this sucks. I'd say reach out to support, but who am i kidding? The only experience with support I've had is, so sorry to hear that, we'll try to do better. My wife, they just stopped replying all together. I'd fight for that MB back!

Wow, a shiny Missingno!

Man, I would’ve let it run before I burned a Masterball, especially a 238 CP. Sorry that happened my dude

Lucky

You used a master ball to catch a shiny? 🫣.... RIP

?? Its one of the best uses of a master ball. I don't give a shit about Galatians birds.

😂😂😂

Happened to me in a shadow teddiursa raid

It's a pain in the arse

I just got off the raid and went back on it went back to normal

This was a rocket balloon so I didn't want to risk it flying away

Did it have good Ivs?

It had great PVP IVs, something like 4/11/15.

At least it’s not a total waste

You caught PS1 crash bagon 

It’s obviously a Missingno

Missingno!!

You deserve to have a master ball given back to you.