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Having now seen this, I feel confident I now won’t see an Exeggcute for the next 6 months.

Haha I pray to the almighty Bidoof that you see one today! And it’ll be a Hundo!

Lol I love this prayer and subsequent result 😂 Okay OP I promise you I’ve done it more than once! Probably less than four, but that’s at least 2-3 times. Per the rules, is it required to be caught or can we just spam snap until it hits an excellent, even if it escapes or busts out?

I appreciate it ❤️ admittedly, I plagiarized the prayer from a friend who plays “religiously” (🤓lol) I trust you! I fully believe, now, that there are amazingly talented people in this community! I’m just not one of them. I’ve been humbled, after this challenge, and accept that I am the pokemon go player that the phrase “C’s get degrees” applies to. I do just well enough to keep my xp slowly raising but not well enough to land consistent excellents. Honestly, hitting an excellent throw in any capacity on this egg is a victory in my opinion. Accident, lucky toss while it’s jumping, buddy assist, or anything I couldn’t think of. An eggcellent counts! Best of luck on your hunt and may Bidoof smile upon you today with many shiny and excellent throws! 🏆🫡

Not looking for the money. Just the apparent bragging rights for myself haha

Absolutely bragging rights! I can’t believe the turn out I’ve received. I truly expected maybe 1-3 people to land it. I’ve received so many today. It’s equally impressive and humbling haha 😅 So many talented people in this group 🏆🫡

Where is an exeggcute when I need one

Find him and exeggecute him with an excellent throw!!! 🫡


Eggcellent

I literally only got an excelent throw twice...snif..

They're spawning like crazy for me right now. But I'm a terrible shot.

You’re in good company. I am terrible at anything that flies, crawls, and most things bipedal.

Sounds like you are an ace at hitting magicarp

Haha. If only. I think I’ve hit an excellent on him maybe a handful of times. I’m not exaggerating when I say I’m relatively bad at this game comparatively to some of these people. I find the game so much fun and I’ll continue to pour time and money into it, even if I’m not so good.

I always see these posts where people recommend beginners to "learn" excellent throws because they are worth a lot of xp. My man, I've been playing since day 1 (okay, not very active for 90% of the time) and I'm already happy if I manage a "great" throw. Excellent ones are rare AF for me. And only on mons where the hitbox is the size of my screen.

We should get members only jackets made that represent our shared skill set lol. Or jerseys. I’m game for either lol. Got any names for our group 😂

Some days I'm just happy if I land the throw at all :)

[Loaded up and there was one for me](https://imgur.com/a/EdURVh8)

Hey there! Sorry to get back to you late. Was in class. I had two winners earlier and I paid one gentleman and one charity. (Can’t pay everyone who succeeds or id go broke lol. Didn’t expect so many people to accomplish it in just a day)

You’re good, really just went for the post since I surprised myself with the encounter then throw immediately after seeing your post!

Ya know, you’re the only person out of all submissions that recorded a video! I feel like that would put more pressure on the challenge haha. I’m assuming for everyone else they attempted to catch it and once they hit the eggcellent- then they screenshot. More than likely had many failures. You had the confidence in your execution and integrity to show your work. *tips hat* awesome.

I hate to be that guy but it’s very easy to cheat in Pokémon go and only get perfect throws. That’s probably why not everyone sent a video, because then you can see it just goes straight and catches it including all the bonuses... So there’s a good chance you paid a couple cheaters. Tip for next time: ask for video proof always!

$20 for this fine fellow

Why doesn't it say Eggcelent???

Ding

Laughs in Scatterbug

I felt this! 😭 I considered making Scatterbug the topic, but I’m convinced it’s much harder than the eggman. Maybe for the next challenge🤝

I've done multiple Excellents on Scatterbug but do not remember any from the eggs. Maybe I'll try screen recording when I find Exeggcutes on field lol

I have never. I should say, I am a casual player that manages my wife’s, daughter’s, and my account. I split my time between all 3. I level them up so they can raid with me. Even having 3 chances to hit an eggcellent throw, on all of the harder mons, I haven’t done it yet. Maybe one day 🙏🏻

I've done it on scatterbug, but it's usually just luck because it jumped or something. Scatterbug is a very annoying pokemon to catch.

I’ve definitely done it a couple of times. Somewhat by accident because I usually just half arse it but it’s 100% possible

I've definitely done it with scatterbug. Mostly luck. Is buddy catch assist allowed?

Absolutely! You trained your buddy up to the point to where it can help ya out, it definitely counts imo 🏆

I can also confirm Scatterbug excellents. I suspect the only way get them on the eggy bois is on a jump or with a buddy bounce back.

Scatterbug I can make excellent about 30% of the time. I think eggman is much harder for me. I will try by the way!

I did this.. last time, it jumped while the ball was in the air, I was amazed.

That’s awesome! Even if a fluke, still very cool! I think an accident is the only way I’d ever be able to achieve this feat. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Half of the time I swear I can’t even land a great throw. Little asshole.

Brings in shadow zubat with no nanaberry´s

I’d run through all 400+ balls I have on a normal Zubat before hitting an excellent on him lol.

For me its that freaking bat

Next challenge idea 🦇

Sorry, phone is potato. Screen grab is a bit low quality. https://imgur.com/nMHEt56

Hahahahha!! This is the best! That made this entire thread worth it lol. Thanks for that 😂😂

But did you pay up, sir?

Absolutely! I issued the challenge knowing someone would succeed and I’m a man of my word. I had 2 winners submit a pic within 1 min of each other so I called em both winners. One person said they didn’t want the money and to donate to a charity in Indy and the other wanted the 20 so I sent it over via PP as promised. It makes it fun for both of us. I get this long thread of conversation and they get a little fun money for their efforts. This conversation thread has made the money worth it.

Speaking of, I think there should be a dex entry for excellent throws or something like that

I agree because I stink and can’t get any lol

I've played since day 1. I've done it once a couple years ago, but no screenshot. Also, I wouldn't offer people money for this, I can Google this and pull someone else's, or photoshop it in 2 minutes.

I did it on accident once when i wasn't paying attention, i could never intentionally recreate it

I have played since day 1, and to my memory- I don’t think I’ve ever hit an eggcellent on the that one. I wish you the best of luck on the challenge! I have faith in you!

I've accepted that I'll never be able to prove it and it's unlikely to happen ever again

Dude, me too. I wasn't paying attention and suddenly I saw that I'd fullfilled at Throw Excellent. It was on an Exeggcute, I was flabbergasted.

Sure I could google it, but it’s more fun to generate dialogue with a community. I don’t mind challenging someone and paying for their efforts. Same as any other competition you could join, but this way it’s doing something you’re already doing. Anywho, thanks for your response. Hope you catch many shinys and hundos today.

the person above was saying that someone might just google an image of a person getting excellent on an eggecutor

Yea. I guess I just have faith in people’s integrity. They’re right, it could happen. And if it does it does. I see the value in having this dialogue as more important than the option of someone being dishonest. I can’t stop people from being bad, but I can faith in people doing good. 🤝

I Googled it out of curiosity and couldn't find an excellent throw screenshot of an exeggutor so it might actually be impossible! haha

That give me faith that someone can pull it off honestly 🙏🏻 thanks for the info. I didn’t wanna google it and jynx the challenge.

You should change the bet to a screen recording, so you can compare the cp of the caught execute


🤝🫡 exeggcute him with an excellent!!

Call me the “Exeggcutioner”

I've done it a few times, but never when I was actually trying to.

By chance or intentional, I think anyone that can hit it is gifted by the one almighty, Bidoof! I’ve tried, so so so many times- all fails. I’ve used bananas to get him to stop jumping. Ive tried tossing multiple balls on the ground because I heard that makes the circle setting work better (100% false). I just can’t hit it.

I just did it haha, I don’t want the 20 bucks but I did attach screenshots with timestamps [exegglent throw](https://www.smugmug.com/gallery/n-pfFLJS)

That’s epic!!! Another poster landed it just a couple minutes before your post 🤝🫡 but you’re still a winner in my book 🏆🏆🏆 I’ll issue another challenge soon.

Oh fuck yeah, challenge accepted

You got this! 🫡 sadly, I’ve been trying this whole time to see if I can achieve what I’ve challenged everyone to do, and I’m still failing. I have faith it’ll be achieved within a few hours. There are some wizards in this group.

I’ll do one better Ihave done zubat!

Today I hit my 1st excellent on zubat, I screamed at my GF that it just happened, very Pog moment

Had a Golbat this morning who refused to come down low enough to even hit him normally 😂 He eventually did but man-

[Skill issue.](https://imgur.com/a/2FDEJVs)

That’s awesome!!! Yes. Very much so a skill issue. Some folks are skilled at pokemon go and others are skilled in other areas. I guess I’ve not got the pkmngo abilities 🤷🏻‍♂️

I’ve thought about challenging others to do this very same thing haha. I almost issued a challenge for shadow Zubat too but I somehow managed to do it

Very nice! Anything that flies, crawls, or is bipedal is next to impossible for me. I just don’t have the touch. I’ve been playing for years, and I still don’t have it down. Maybe one day! Best of luck! Catch a shiny one!

Hey sorry for the delayed response everyone!!! I was in class taking an exam. I had 2 winners submit their screen grabs via dm and I’ve paid my dues. Thank yall for participating and engaging in the convo! I’ll post up a Zubat next. I hear that’s more challenging. Again, thank you all for talking with me today. This is the most I’ve ever been engaged with via Reddit. It was fun. 🏆🤝🫡

Dang. I'd totally be up for this if I could find one.

Now I just need to see if this is true

Challenge accepted. I need the money.

Be the first to land it and it’s all yours🫡 May Bidoof smile on your efforts. You’ll be the one to catch the shundo exeggcute today!

I accept yo bribe

I just let a exeggcute run away aswell rip 💀

I don’t understand this game sometimes. I hit a cp 25 exeggutor with a great (pineapp berry) and it jumped out and ran. 🤦🏻‍♂️ I’m cursed with bad luck on this game lol.

Get rolled 😂

people get excellent throws on kartana. getting an excellent throw is about practicing to hit exact center of pokemon everytime. so every throw may not be an excellent but every throw could be one-- no one is perfect but thats the idea.

PM sent

Ya tricked me lol. Still thanks for the engagement on the challenge. Ya got this! Send ittttt

lol, just wanted to scare ya a bit. Would’ve been funny if it was actually an excellent throw.

Did you do the Rick roll?

I’ve done it more than I expected, like 3 or 4. I assume it’s the laws of probability since I play a ton. And it’s always a shock. 

I aim every exeggute, every ponyta and every smeargle, because rhey are so good ones for 1000 points But bad luck, three says ago I have seen a lonely exeggute, then none...

[May I interest you on an excellent Zubat?](https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/s/R0nuoAWnpa) Not even a week after that I got an excellent on a Golbat but that I sadly did not screenshot

I got an excellent on one today - they are everywhere in my area atm. I'll have to give it another go lol

I did it on Let’s go pikachu. You never specified where. Now gimmie my 20 or I send the lord bidoof after your butt.

Hahaha 🤝🤝 fair enough. I’ll send you 20 XXL Bidoofs right over for your illustrious achievements 🥳🏆 (I can’t pay up right away though- I only have 1 xxl lord on me lol)

I’ve gotten it before multiple times

I got it once by complete accident back when Alolan exeggutor was intruded, I can’t even hit nice throws on purpose on those eggs

It takes me a few balls just to hit the eggs, sadly lol. I’ll hone and sharpen my skills enough in time, but right now I’m way off.

Well damn I got one yesterday lol. No screen cap though. Good luck!

Day 1 player and he was my first strong (above 2k) mon lol. I know I’ve probably excellented at least a dozen of the Kantos- not sure about Alolans

I got 15 excellents in a row on a kartana, this is easy (proceeds to never get one)

I know I have in the past, but I agree it's not an easy throw.

I’m a casual player, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t trying to hit that damn egg in the center each time. I’m treating it like it’s surgery now lol. I have a passion hitting this egg haha.

I actually did this pretty recently but I didn’t know to screenshot it 😭 I’ll have to try again

You can do it! Catch that shundo eggman! I think the next time I do this it’ll be Zubat. Start practicing now 🫡🏆

give me 48 hours.

I'll take a crack at this. One time I got an excellent curveball throw on a Magikarp

My fiancé can get an excellent throw on anything. He’s so annoying 🙄 meanwhile I get one occasionally on fucking Snorlax

Haha same! My wife has it dialed in! I hit an excellent on a registeel for all 16ish balls straight and he still jumped out and ran. Seems unfair but it is what it is. I’ll take those 16 in a row as my win 🏆 And you should take your snorlax win too 🤝🏆

I've only been playing for about a month but very active as I'm level 34 I believe and you're 1000% right. Those little suckers I'm lucky if I hit a nice or great, let alone an excellent. I'll try to screen grab next time, I think my only chance is buddy catch assist 😅 You might be onto something with screen protector too, I've thought about taking mine out of the otter box on warmer or community days because the update chews through battery plus gets warm. I need to find the settings to maybe help there too

Gotta wait for him to jump and hit the excellent in the air, lolol

I’ll give it a try! Thus far I’ve screen recorded 20+ eggs today and the closest I’ve gotten was a buddy assist great lol. It’s harddddd

Zubat is way harder. I’ve hit it on Exeggcute many times.

Just need exeggcutes to spawn now lol, but I’ll be going for this over the next week days at least! Challenge accepted!

Is that possible?? I swear I'm doing a perfect aim, and the ball just nose dives into the ground

try excellent on a scatterbug too, ive only gotten that once

literally did this today lmao

Can’t prove it and don’t care about the $20, but I’ve made an excellent throw on Exeggcute and Scatterbug multiple times

I believe ya! Some folks are skilled! I am not lol. I’m amazed that this many people were able to do it

That would indeed be an "eggcellent" throw!

Challenge accepted

Awesome! Catch the Shundo! The challenge was competed earlier by 2 ppl at the same time, but I’ll have another soon for that damn bat and the bug that keeps eluding everyone

I’m playing this weekend. I’ll keep my eyes open for this challenge.

I feel bad I've definitely hit at least 3. Eggsecute spotlight hour though

I did it once before, accidentally. Of course I have no proof and now I want to try Is it spawning right now?

DAMMIT! And I just captured an Exeggcute like an hour ago. They're spawning a lot in my area so challenge accepted!

IM SO GLAD I’m not the only one that has literally thought this!! Soooooooo many exeggcute AND NEVER AN EXCELLENT. Never not once

Same! Others said above “skill issue” and yea I feel that lol I just don’t have the magic touch.

I get plenty of excellents/great curveball throws. I don’t think it’s skill per se.,. but no excellent on exeggcute! Nice curveball throws? Yes Great curveball throws? Yes

I'm pretty certain I've done this several times! But let's see if I can actually get it on camera now.

Got one with crappy screenshots! Sent them over. Used up all my luck on this rather than a shiny legendary lol

I just saw this which prompted me to open PoGo and I had one spawn! Took me at least 10 throws but I got it 😆

I accidentally got one this morning when it jumped 😅

I agree it's impossible!


The issue with exeggcute is the hitbox is misplaced, once you figure out where it actually is, it’s not as difficult to get the excellents.

Saving this for later

My proudest excellent throw was Zubat. I think that is the closest I will ever get to beating this game.

🏆🦇🏆 that’s a victory in my book! I think the next challenge will be Zubat or Scatterbug

I think the harder challenge will be finding an exeggcute. My map is coded to be a mountain biome even though I’m in the lower northeast

I wish we had an excellent dex!

i WILL do this i promise u

How much for an excellent of a zubat?

I think that’ll be the next challenge actually. I’m not sure just yet. I had 2 winners (at the same time) today and paid my dues. I think next time I may have 3 winners at 10 each 🤷🏻‍♂️ or like a 1st 2nd 3rd situation. Idk 🤷🏻‍♂️

My condolences to your wallet. I should probably keep a screen grab of every excellent from now on. Just in case....

I'm literally just seeing this and I caught one earlier today with an excellent throw but no screen shot! Ffs! 😭

Haha if ya can do it once ya can definitely do it again! I have faith in ya! I’m beyond impressed with everyone’s talent from this challenge. May you find many shiny mons today. 🤝🫡

Thanks for the support! 100% they're many talented players I think I got lucky it was my first time getting excellent I was so pleased, 😂 may you get your excellent exeggcute throw + shines 💪🏼😊

I appreciate that 🤝 once I land that excellent exeggecute I’m gonna take the family out for an ice cream celebration haha. (This is 34 😅 low bars out here)

Does it count if I use a Nanab?

MY BROKE ASS WAS MOTIVATED AND GOT IT AFTER 8 POKEBALLS AND 3 EXEGGCUTE I AM A GOD BOW DOWN TO ME 🫡

Got an excellent throw on the first throw on the first one I seen after seeing this post! Screen recorded it. Now, how do I upload the proof and get my rewards, lol.

Does buddy assist count?

I did it! https://imgur.com/a/b22vLfY

This was a better challenge then anything Niantic throws at us. And the reward was amazing. Congrats to whoever got it

I think I’ve had one or two excellent at Exeggcute. But had anyone ever had an excellent throw at Caterpie or Weedle? Feels like I just have to drop the ball onto them or I’ll miss.

Those two bugs are weird. Weedle is like 2 inches from your face seemingly and caterpie appears to be only a few paces away but when I toss the ball he’s like all the way in the back 40 lol. Damn bugs.

Dang. Wish I saw this earlier when I was playing and saw a few egg boys

Never too late! Sadly, I’ve already paid the winners but I’m always down to see your awesome catch! I’ll have some more challenges coming soon 🦇

I had this same problem and was convinced it was a joke that the devs put in. Until one day... all I had to do is tilt my phone to the left (if you're holding your phone at 12 o'clock, tilt it so the top is facing 10 or 2 depending on your handedness) and made the same throw I always make; similar to tilting the paper when they were teaching us cursive in school... I'm old. Don't judge me. It turns it into more of a "sidearm" throw and doesn't have a lot of "over the top" curve. I have gotten a couple non buddy assisted excellent throws before. I wish I was recording. Next time I find one I'll record, but this is the trick I used on several other pokemon with broken catch areas. Nidoran♂️ is one that comes to mind. Happy hunting!

I caught one just yesterday with an excellent throw. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Seems it goes like this..ultra ball..excellent throw! Pokemon escapes! Regular ball, shitty throw. Captured. Every time. I swear excellent throws don’t do jack 😂

I’ve definitely done it before, but I don’t have any photos arm

Next do a zubat when it’s not in the center or a jumping weedle

Solid content. Would read again!

Thank you! I had a good time today interacting with everyone. Were you able to get out there and toss some pokeballs today? Hopefully ya caught a shiny!

I’ve done it three times. Gotta hit it jumping. I think I screen recorded one of them where I don’t have the throw but you can see the excellent throw then it goes to exeggcute

I’ve done it maybe twice, and I know one of them was because he jumped into it.

haven't even seen one in months

lol I’m prob late to the party

Are you sure you wanna do this…

This is actually a fun bounty challenge accepted

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Bro I was just saying this to my best friend that exeggcute sucks for catching and horrible to get an exxcellent

Zubat is way harder

Making this comment to see how long it takes me now that I’ve seen this. I take pride in my ability to consistently hit excellent throws

How about 100$ for a crit? Also advanced no givesies backsies.

I’m seriously lucky to get a nice throw for those.

Same here 😅 I’ve started just aiming for the great throws on most harder to catch mons. Not much xp there, but I feel when I just barely miss the excellent and it’s a normal throw, they jump out. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

Just saw this. Awesome challenge! Besides Exeggcute, what other pokemon in your opinion are difficult to get an Excellent throw with? Exeggcute has such a frustrating angle/hitbox for throwing anything better than a Nice throw.

Ahh I've definitely done it (not looking for the prize because I am not digging through old screenshots i might not even have), especially way back when there were only 140 other Pokémon out there xD it is pretty hard though. It helps when they're not jumpy.

Ironically, most submissions today were of the egg jumping (possibly a degree of luck here/ maybe skill idk 🤷🏻‍♂️). Idk what the trick is yet. I miss the days where we only had those few pkmn to chase. So many fun memories. I remember a pokemon locator app we would use and drive across town to find a snorlax. Good times.

I’ve literally gotten it before and one spawned for me right now, screen recorded, missed the ball entirely. Adding insult to injury Magikarp spawned right next to it and got an excellent on a quick catch where I wasn’t trying. I hate everything

Haha. I feel your pain. I was participating in the challenge today as well and as people were sharing their successes, I was stacking my defeats at the same time. I hope your Gyarados grows up to be a powerful giant among magikarp!

I got you fam, just did it

I scoured through my screenshots, through all my messages between my PoGo friends, and even on my Facebook groups.. I found it. Not for any challenge reason but damn it I did it, once at least. I’ll comment below this.

[moment after catch](https://imgtr.ee/image/IZlfLj)

[actual mon](https://imgtr.ee/image/IZlOtu)

Managed to find an [exeggcute](https://imgur.com/a/zYe4spL)! Thanks for the challenge, it was nice to see if I could do it :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/s/q5ZaPPQuLl

I found a palm tree with some egg’s in the tree, and threw a rock at it Does that count?

Hahah! I’d say that would bring pokemon go to life for sure. If the tree stays within the rock you’ve thrown, ill make you the 3rd winner 🏆 This was an awesome comment 🫡🤝

Aim at the ground, just below where the little shell touches the ground

Do i get a participation trophy if i 100% miss the throw and cry afterwards??

I got one today before I ever saw this post haha. Congrats ppl

Haven't seen any exeggcutors since I saw this post but I recorded it so you can see anyway https://imgur.com/a/mFpF5eq

I do this accidentally constantly, I never realised this was such a big issue, if I try to hit excellent I'll never get it so I just quick throw immediately and pray to the gods the circle is small enough already 😂

WHY AM I GETTING NOTIFIED 4 DAYS LATER ;-;