They don't even drop any coins. The rewards are EXP Candy L, Rare Candy, Swift Feather, Kelpsy Berry, Nugget, Comet Shard, Modest Mint, PP Up, Bottle Cap, Tera Shards, and Ability Capsule.
Fortunately, Shiny Gholdengo isn’t even worth it anyway; the difference between it and the normal one is almost imperceptible.
"If you challenge one in a 5-star Tera Raid Battle, you’ll have a small chance to encounter a Shiny Chest Form Gimmighoul, which doesn’t appear during regular gameplay!"
At least hackers have something to look forward too I guess.
This bug is actually even worse because only the Scarlet drops specifically have this issue. This also means that Scarlet and Violet players can't join each others' raids and one will get kicked out when trying to play together, so I feel like this raid is going to get shut down inevitably.
at this point i expect it to turn out that catching the shiny gimmighoul breaks the game because it never loads the shiny model in the raid properly
Well it's a Pokemon that evolves by coins and is advertised as getting a shiny, and the pokemon itself is trivial to defeat so...
If you want multiple 5*s you gotta join up online, presumably.
I mean, Shiny Rate complaints aside (since sure, that's supposed to be a rare prize), every other Raid drops a Material for the Pokemon if it has one, and given they want you mass raiding these Gimmighouls for the shiny hunt, removing Coins from their prize table would be an active inconvenience since you'll need those coins to evolve one if you land it. At the same time the means to get the coins isn't monetized nor a source of data for Gamefreak as it is for Niantic with Gimmighoul's Coin Bag/Gold Lures involving connectivity or driving location data.
I like it, personally. I prefer the event raids having unique drops rather than same old same old, and it would take away from the whole mechanic of having to snatch coins from ingame Gimmighoul by allowing people to cheese it through multiple online raids. WRT the shiny thing, its not like its a guaranteed shiny raid or anything its just simply the first time Gimmighoul has been available as a shiny, and I don’t think it was overstated or oversold as such, more of a now this Pokemon is possible to get Shiny.
I do definitely agree that it should be 5 star only raids.
It does not, which is probably the biggest problem with making an event out of this shiny in particular. I think it's a poor precedent to set after SWSH handled their shiny events very reasonably, but this is also the first time they've decided to make a temporary raid event for a shiny locked mon and telling you to go find it with full odds as the entire incentive of the event, and at least the SWSH events were mons you could easily tell were shiny because they were so big and the shiny animation actually played unlike SV's tera raids.
