Pokémon Go’s Fennekin Community Day event is taking place on May 21 from 2-5 p.m. in your local time zone. During the event, Fennekin will spawn in large numbers with a high chance for it to appear shiny. Additionally, there are several other perks, such as tripled Stardust for catching Pokémon, doubled Candy for catching Pokémon, and Incense lasting for three hours.
To catch a shiny Fennekin, according to research conducted by Pokémon community site The Silph Road, shiny rates on Community Days are about 1 in 24. Therefore, 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 Fennekin to check for shiny ones, running from any that aren’t shiny. It is worth noting that any Fennekin you’ve already tapped will face where your player is standing, which should help identify which ones you may have already checked.
If you evolve Braixen into Delphox from 2 p.m. until 10 p.m. in your local time, it will learn the charged move Blast Burn. 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 Blast Burn. If you don’t want to wait, you can use an Elite TM to get the move.
Delphox falls behind the greatest fire-type PvE attacker, Reshiram, but is still worth grabbing as a budget fire-type. Set it up with Fire Spin and Blast Burn to get a pretty decent fire-type Pokémon for your gyms and raids. Some players suggest that Delphox may see use in a PvP Psychic Cup event, but it’s outclassed by many other Pokémon in regular PvP formats.
To make the most of the Fennekin Community Day event, it is recommended to pop a Star Piece and an Incense and try to nab some powerful Fennekin. If you can Mega Evolve Charizard, Alakazam, Slowbro, Houndoom, Blaziken, Gardevoir, Medicham, Latias, or Latios, you’ll score additional Fennekin Candy per catch.
Furthermore, Niantic is still running special four-star raids from 5-10 p.m. During these raids, if you clear the Braixen raid, Fennekin will spawn in a 300-meter radius around the gym for 30 minutes. However, these raids cannot be done remotely. If the usual 2-5 p.m. spawn increase doesn’t get you the Braixen you wanted, you can try raiding for another chance.
