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Idea for Golden Pinaps

Golden Razz were a huge upgrade for the game, making extremely good Pokemon more reliable to catch.

Now with gifts making pinap so readily available, it feels like we're no longer actively choosing to pinap only the catches we most want candy for, but just anything we feel like...

So, let's say we get Golden pinaps. Could work one of two ways:
Works like a regular Razz plus a pinap, so double candy with a decent catch chance.
Or
Gives 2.67x candy per catch instead of 2x (so 8 instead of 6).

They could be obtained either through raids, splitting the Golden Razz probability, or could replace Golden Razz as the guaranteed bundle if you meet a tough requirement (e.g. 13+ balls in a tier 3+ raid).

Thoughts?

Asked by TTT5 years 8 months ago
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Unless they made Golden Pinaps rare as shit I think they would be too game-breaking outside of legendary encounters, where they may not even get used.

Golden Razz were introduced basically for legendaries with low catch rates. For 10 balls, attempting to catch a Rayquaza with a regular Razz and every other bonus applied only gives each ball a 9% success rate, topping out at 62% for the encounter if every throw is a curved excellent. GRB ups this to 15% per ball and 81% overall. With rare candy being fairly easy to get from higher-tiered raids it's a safer bet to take the 3 freebies for catching it than to risk getting no candies from a Pinap or Golden Pinap attempt.

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With current pinaps, there's already a thread that shows that you're better off using pinaps until you're down to about 5 balls if you can consistently throw great curves - has a higher expected value of candy.

I'm individual encounters of course it will vary (you may get 0 instead of 3) but overall it's higher expectation because you use all of your resources (rather than catch on your first or second throw with a golden Razz).

Of course you'd still Golden Razz for the really high iv ones, and rare spawns like third evolutions or shiny encounters.

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Eh, personally I'd rather not risk it. Especially for less-than-stellar legendaries where I don't really care about getting their candy (looking your way Regice).

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Golden razzberry was a disaster. It is the best gym defender and is only needed during raids because of the stupidly low catch rate.

I'm torn over the catch rate of legendaries. On one hand, I don't want to see the people that do 20 raids a day pinap legendaries, but at the same time I don't like not getting it due to limited opportunities.

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by aSp 5 years 8 months ago

I am still wondering why I don't get 2 candy instead of 1 when I am using a pinap to feed a gym defender.

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Or even just a slightly higher chance of getting one candy.

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