During the Passimian Hunt, I actually managed to luck out and cut through a large swath to the backlog thanks to some lucky out of nowhere additions to the GTS
-Actually found a Basculin later that day on the 9th; i dont even remember what they wanted but it was something i had spares of. Not too big a nask.
-Yamask-G the same day too
-Relicanth for a Gorebyss on the 11th. This was funny since I had to pull out Ultra Sun to "refuel" and hunt a Clamperl, but you bet your ass I hit that trade button asap lol
-Delibird actually had a few go up randomly, but they were for some obscene trades that, for a Pokemon that would be come pretty common in a few months wasn't worth it...but then one went up for a Pawmot on the 12th! We take those!
-Torkoal for a Giratina on the 13th. I had a spare Mewtwo so I was able to chain into it. "wow what a steal" <- unironic things that this whole experience has made me state
-Some Spiritombs went up but for various legendary Pokemon. Unlike Torkoal, I passed since they'd come around on Halloween, but they went very fast. Around this point I realized there's probably quite a few people on GTS that are desperate for their Go Pokedex as well. This would become a theme. But on the 14th, one went up for a Blitzle. Just any Blitzle too...I sent them a Go Mark one I had lying around.
-They had a Pokestop around me so whiel I dont like playing Go, I
do like messing with my friend so I thought it'd be funny to keep getting and hatching eggs until I got bored or got a Larvesta. And on egg #8 I got the thing and yes my friend was in shambles and everyone in the group bullied them it was great. I'm glad I'm not a Go player though, because 400 candies is...goodness...that's a lot for a Pokemon you can only get out of eggs....I know you can get candies out of the buddy feature but those aren't very quick either....in contrast sending it over to evolve was painless. Is Volcarona at least, like...meta? To be worth its steep cost.
-Sigilyph for a Lugia on the 16th. I had actually seen a few Go Sigilyphs pop up around the same time, it was interesting to me since Go Fest hadn't started yet. One of them wanted a level 90-100 Mewtwo. The Lugia was the only one I could do. Thankfully easy to replace as well
-Got a Mienfoo out of some GTS loops (putting up some pokemon X for something I need, then putting that back up X again, repeat).
-My crown Jewel, a few Comfey had gone up that same day and one of them wanted a reasonable legend: Dialga. It was a tense 13 minutes as I dug around before rmeember I hada spare.
-I got a Passimian on the last day it was available, it was honestly really rough going. I only saw 3 show up in the search and it was for like a Kubfu (of course). I did manage to get one after a lot (A LOT) of sending my own dudes up on GTS though. I imagine the 3 Star Raid exclusivity made it something people didn't really send over...I'm also guessing it's not very good so there's little reason to get more.
Also thank you again
QuentinQuonce for the girl salandit!
Then for Go Fest I was hoping to get Carbink and Rotom. I saw one in the GTS (for a Frost Rotom) but I didn't get to it in time. I went through SO many loops before getting the Carbink. Do you know how many Moon and Heavy Ball Carbink are on GTS? TOO MANY.
I suspect that Carbink only being available as part of research (from a pool of 4 or 5 pokemon) made it more rare than I had expected so less people would send it to Home.
And Rotom....I didn't get at all. I didn't even SEE one for an absurd ask. I checked both any Rotom and Frost Rotom (since that was the one available) but neither of them ever came in through the entire event.
I think Rotom is at a really bad spot, GTS wise. It's really rare to begin with in Go (photobombs only in Go Fests) but
everyone has Rotoms in Home. Even ignoring it being in SWSH, BDSP and LA you get a free one for just using the GTS. It was to the point that I started just releasing any Home-origin Rotom, to stop the cycle.
Do you know how many I threw away because the answer is probably closer to 100 then you'd think.
So you got a rare pokemon that has little incentive to trash much less send to Home, and then Home itself gives everyone a Rotom to fuel all the rotom trades you put up. Bad combination.
While I'm here, Pachirisu continues to be obnoxious in new ways. 3 of them finally landed on GTS. All from the same guy. All asking for DLC legendary Pokemon. He kept taking them down and putting them up for different ones (definitely the same ones too). I think he still has the Urshifu one up there and its like dude it aint happening. The other 2 he either took down for good or some even more desperate Go Dex people took him on the trade but since I saw him actively doing the reuploads before...