Forum Thread

I had my pokeradar turned on to get ready for a Sandygast hunt but it started a chain of Orthworm instead even though they aren’t supposed to chain. Please fix it so that I won’t have to spend another 50k and won’t have the two Sandygast eggs in my party wasted

I carefully timed it so that I wouldn’t have any Orthworm eggs after the event ended but then this happened anyway, ruining my very first attempt at the pokeradar

And is this sabotaging the shiny boosts the event Orthworm were supposed to have as well??? Because I got all of the boosts but it says the shiny chance is less than 0.1%

As Catlady has replied in the other bug thread

Quote from Catlady

We NEVER said it wouldn't start a chain, we only ever said it wouldn't break one.

Also, no other shiny boosts would ever show up in the pokeradar chances, whether it's from an event chance, fountain chance, etc, except for the premium shiny chance and shiny charm.

That reply was wrong. CatLady said that it would only count for a chain “if you started an Orthworm chain through DayCare/Gem Collector first”

Quote from Scavenger hunt

Eggs of those Pokémon species will not count towards your PokéRadar during this event if they are adopted from the Tall Grass.
Exeption: If you are hunting one of those before the event started or if your PokéRadar is running without a recorded species yet it will count.

When you turned on your pokeradar, the orthworm counted because there were no other recorded pokemon before it.