How to get the most out of December Community Day!

This month’s Community Day brings you not one, but two flavours of pony!

Thats right, but Kantonian and Galarian Ponyta are reigning supreme today!

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This page focuses on the original Galarian Ponyta.

But first, what is aCommunity Day?

‘Perfect’ means two things in Pokemon Go, depending on how you plan to use a given Pokemon.

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These values will, however, be different if youre currently below Level 30.

At a glance, Galarian Ponyta, the Unique Horn Pokemon, is pretty on the nose.

In reality, the design is a little deeper than that.

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With a few rubs from this Pokemons horn, any slight wound you have will be healed.

This Pokemon will look into your eyes and read the contents of your heart.

If it finds evil there, it promptly hides away.

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Little can stand up to its psycho cut.

Unleashed from this Pokemons horn, the move will punch a hole right through a thick metal sheet.

When we said ‘slays’, we meant literally.

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InGreat Leaguethis means wins against Malamar, Azumarill, Mandibuzz, Shadow Feraligatr and Dunsparce.

Losses come from Serperior, Clodsire, Gastrodon, Jumpluff and Wigglytuff.

Losses will come from Giratina Altered, Lickilicky, Cresselia, Virizion and Talonflame.

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With a CP cap of 2782, you do not want to run Galarian Rapidash inMaster League.

you could now catchDynamax PokemonthroughMax Battles.

What do shiny Ponyta and Rapidash look like?

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The opportunity to catch ashinyform of the highlighted Pokemon is one of the biggest draws of anyCommunity Dayevent.

If the regular version is bubblegum flavour, the shiny is vanilla and mint, or banana and grape.

Both pretty weird combos, but they don’t look half bad.

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Shiny Galarian Rapidash conserves this colouration through evolution, though the green is possibly a little darker!

Thanks to Reddit userwreak_hav0cfor the handy preview.

Some of these bonuses are always the same - like increased spawns and increased shiny rates.