The past few days with the Halloween event I've encountered several quests to catch 5 Poochyena or Houndoor which has a Sneasel spawn as a reward. One day just within the city center I came across the quest 4 times. Most of the Sneasel spawns from these quests aren't that great. Only a few were really good like a 789 CP one that I got during the weekend, which is a really high IV so that was definitely great! I've been trading the worst Sneasel from my Quests for other Sneasel and during the weekend I managed to get a Lucky Sneasel from one of those trades!
While walking around in the Eeveening today I encountered the quest for a total of 3 times. Two were close to each other and then one of the Pokéstops from the local park also gave me that quest. Finding the Poochyena and Houndoor wasn't hard as I had one area around a Gym and Pokéstop where I encountered 2 Poochyena and a Houndoor.
The Sneasel from the Quests weren't that high, the highest from these was 777 CP. I encountered a friend while walking around though who also had some Sneasel for trade. So we did some trading. These Sneasel from the Quests can go up to 800 CP, same when trading, which is when they're 100% IV. When one of the trades was completed I felt like I was Paralyzed by a Stun Spore move for a moment, as I received this Sneasel from that trade! :O
That's my 2nd 100% IV Pokémon from a trade ever! And the first non-Lucky, which has a much lower chance to be 100% than Lucky Pokémon. That's because Lucky Pokémon roll a much higher minimum stat. This is really great! Now I'm going to have to decide if I'll evolve this Sneasel into Weavile once it's released or if I should evolve my Lucky Sneasel. Perhaps I'll get enough candy by then to evolve both, I'll have to wait and see about that!
We continued walking around together for a bit. Then suddenly a pop-up showed up on our screen. A new EX Raid invite. This time for the Wooden Playground Gym, on November 7. I went to that Gym earlier this week for a Giratina Raid and hadn't been there for a while.
EX Raid invites for the Wooden Tree Sculpture Gym had been sent out for November 7 too. So a bit later I received a text from a friend asking if I happened to have received one for Wooden Playground, since we did that Giratina Raid earlier this week together there. Since I received one he asked if I'm already Ultra Friends with another person we know, as that person was looking for a Wooden Playground EX Raid Pass. So I invited him as you can see in these screenshots.
It's the first time I invited someone to an EX Raid with a Pass that I received. He tried to invite me to the Wooden Tree Sculpture EX Raid then with his Pass, but got an error message that I'm already attending an EX Raid. I was confused at first. Then I remembered there is an EX Raid at the Houten Schip Gym this October 31 and I got invited to that one by a friend. Perhaps due to that invite I can't currently receive another invite. So he'll try to invite me again after that EX Raid on October 31st is over. We'll see about it then!
Have you received an EX Raid invite with this new wave of invites?