New Strides with the Daily Adventure Incense

Pokémon Go has always been a game that demands taking some strides for a real Pokémon adventure, even in current times when that becomes not so hot. Thanks to a new feature introduced just yesterday, that has become hotter, even if just a little bit. That new feature (and associated item) is called the Daily Adventure Incense, and by its name, it really does carry a certain sense of adventure, one that certain Trainers can take advantage of, particularly with good use of it. I've used it for two days now, and it's good to elucidate on that.

The item is given for the first time by way of a Special Research featuring Rhi (since Professor Willow is still absent for now). Afterwards, the item will return each day after use. As expected, this is an attracting item - as is the regular Incense and the specialized Mystery Box - so it precludes the use of those other items and vice versa. It is also different in other ways: its length is 15 minutes compared to the current one and a half hours for Incense and one hour for the Mystery Box, and it demands a Trainer to move for it to attract Pokémon. It is expected that Trainers will get moving for themselves and for the Pokémon during those 15 minutes.

In that time, the Pokémon that are attracted will have a blue fog, as will the Trainer. The individual Pokémon will also have the mark of the item when capturing, making it identifiable. After the 15 minutes are up and a Trainer has caught the attracted Pokémon, a "summary screen" will be presented with all those Pokémon that were caught. The neat part about this screen is that it is also shareable (saved as an image to the photos folder, and then shared from there), allowing Trainers to compare what and how many Pokémon they caught. As such, this has a social purpose as well, hopefully to get other Trainers moving.

A few other things need to be noted about this item. For Trainers who are consistently low on Poké Balls and other capture balls (like me), activating the item also rewards 30 Poké Balls instantly if the number of all capture balls is less than that, ensuring that Trainers will always have enough balls to capture all the attracted Pokémon. It also seems that a Trainer will have to move quickly - but not too quickly, of course - to get the most out of this Incense. Finally, the Pokémon that are attracted to this Incense may be common, rare, or even extraordinarily rare, though certain ones are still likely to appear. How rare?

Since the item has been rolled out, quite a few Trainers have been able to encounter the Galarian forms of the three Kanto Legendary birds, and fewer still have been able to catch them due to their incredible rarity and very low catch rate; this item also makes it the debut of those forms in Pokémon Go. This is what has made the item rather "hot" even as of today, in regard to those very fortunate Trainers. Whatever the case, Trainers will certainly be "attracted" to try to use the Incense each day to see what Pokémon can be captured and hopefully to run into those exceptionally rare Legendary birds and then capture them.

Every day in Pokémon Go is an adventure, and that is true with or without this new Daily Adventure Incense. Regardless, this new item is an affirmation of that very fact, and if that holds a blessing, that will present itself in the form of a very rare Pokémon that might just be the talk of the day in social circles for the game. Taken all together, it may be considered to present a "new stride" for adventures that hopefully will continue to occur daily, in whatever conditions that allow them to occur in the best of ways.

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