Pokémon Go is having a Rookidee Community Day event on Saturday, Aug. 30 from 2-5 p.m. in your local time.
As expected with a Community Day event, Rookidee will spawn in huge numbers with a high chance for it to appear shiny. There are also several other bonuses and perks, which we’ve list out below.
How do I catch a shiny Rookidee?
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 Rookidee to check for shiny ones, running from any that aren’t shiny. Notably, any Rookidee 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 Corvisquire into Corviknight from Aug. 30 at 2 p.m. until Sept. 6 at 10 p.m. in your local time, it will learn the charged move Air Cutter.
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 Air Cutter. If you don’t want to wait, you can use an Elite TM to get the move.
Corviknight is a favorite in Great and Ultra League PvP. Setting it up with Sand Attack, Payback, and Air Cutter should put you in a pretty good spot, but some of its other movesets may be viable as well.
For PvE content (gyms and raids), Corviknight doesn’t have much use. There are tons of better flying-type options, with picks like Staraptor and Braviary even out-damaging it.
Notably, Corviknight does have a Gigantamax form, so you may want to save some of your Rookidee Candy to power up one of those, if you’re into collecting Gigantamax Pokémon.
The following bonuses will be active during Rookidee Community Day:
- 1⁄4 hatch distance for eggs placed into Incubators during the event
- Doubled candy for catching Pokémon
- Doubled chance for level 31+ trainers to get XL candy from catching Pokémon
- Incense lasts three hours
- Lure Modules last three hours
- Rookidee special photobombs when taking snapshots
- One additional special trade
- Stardust cost halved for trading
That said, you should definitely put your eggs into Incubators, pop an Incense, and try to nab some powerful Rookidee.
If you can Mega Evolve Charizard Y, Pidgeot, Pinsir, Aerodactyl, Salamence, or Rayquaza, you’ll score additional Rookidee Candy per catch.
There will also be a “Community Day Continued” Timed Research until Sept. 6 that will reward more Rookidee, including ones with special themed backgrounds. This research will keep the increased shiny rate for Rookidee, even after the three-hour event is over, so make sure you complete them for extra chances to get a shiny.