Pokémon go There’s an Axew Community Day event on June 10 from 2-5 pm your local time.
We want to remind everyone Check for hazardous conditions before you head to the local parks and outdoor center areas to play. Your health is much more important than Pokémon, and Axew will be widely available during the December Community Weekend event later in the year, when it’s (hopefully) safer outside.
That being said, you can also find alternative areas to play in if you really have to hunt for shiny Axew, such as indoor shopping malls and the like. We had a lot of luck just running Huong at home for the duration of the event, so you can always do it to maximize your own safety!
As expected with a Community Day event, axe will appear in large numbers with a high chance of it appearing shiny. There are also some other bonuses and perks that we list below.
How to catch a shiny Axew?
According to initial research done by now-defunct Pokémon community website The Silph Road, the odds of being shiny on Community Day are around 1 in 24, which means that if you keep playing throughout three hours time, you’ll find quite a few shiny Pokémon.
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Graphics: Julia Lee/Polygon | Image source: Niantic
If you’re short on time or Poké Balls, you can pop a Smellthen quickly touch each Axis to check the shiny ones, run from any non-shiny ones. Notably, any Axew you’ve mined will face where your player is, so that will help determine which Axews you might have checked.
What moves did Axew’s evolution learn on Community Day?
If you evolve Fraxture into Haxorus between 2pm and 10pm your local time, it will learn how to move charged Break Swipe.
If you missed evolving it this time around, you might be able to evolve it during the December Community Day weekend event to get the Breaking Swipe. If you don’t want to wait, you can use a elite TM to get moving.
How does Haxorus work in meta?
Haxorus is a good dragon-type PvE attacker, if you don’t already have a large collection of Salamence, Rayquaza, and other powerful Pokémon in the same category. Of course, it’s far behind the shadow Pokémon, but if you need the dragon type, you should get some powerful Axews and evolve them. Set it up with Dragon tail And Break Swipe for success.
The Community Day move, Breaking Swipe, helps Haxorus excel in PvP, especially in Master Leagues and certain trophies. Make sure to get your Fraxure evolution and get Haxorus with Breaking Swipe if you like PvP.
How to make the most of Axew Community Day?
The following rewards will be available during Axew Community Day:
- Triple XP to catch Pokémon
- Double candy to catch Pokémon
- Doubles chance for trainers level 31 and above to get XL candy when catching Pokémon
- Perfume lasts three hours
- Three-hour attraction module
- Axew photobombs special when taking snapshots
- Add a special deal
- Stardust costs halved for transactions
That said, you should definitely smash a Lucky Egg and an Incense and try to get some powerful Axes.
If you can super evolution Charizard X, Ampharos, Sceptile, Altaria, Salamence, Latias or Latiosyou will score extra Axew Candy for each catch.
In addition to all of this, Niantic is still doing special four-star raids from 5-10pm where if you complete the Fraxure raid, Axew will spawn within a 300 meter radius around the room. exercise for 30 minutes. These attacks cannot be performed remotely. If the usual 2-5pm spawn boost doesn’t give you the Ax you want, you can try raiding for another chance.
