"For the life of me, I’ll never understand how people spend hundreds of raid passes for getting shinys."

#PokemonGO: Full disclosure – I am a whale and spend 60-75$ a month on this mostly on Raid passes. My playing style is running my gotcha as much as I can to catch stuff for dust, go for a 3 hr walk a day and spin stops and do 2-3 T5 raids a day or more if the raid boss is interesting.I’m part of multiple local Whatsapp chats for raid coordination and I’m astounded as to how much people spend to get shinys. I have 4 people in my chat who have done ~400 Heracross raids and 300 Kangaskhan raids since it came out all for shinys. I can understand if people go ham for meta relevant legendries but this is ridiculous. I personally did 97 Dialgas when it came back as I wanted a hundo and enough XL to max it for GBL. Once I got my 296 XL candies I stopped. I’ve done 54 Palkias since it came back mainly as I got a 98% shiny and wanted enough regular candy max one to 40.I’ve only done 6 Heracross and 4 Kangaskhans since these two arrived in raids; the only reason for doing them was to burn my free raid pass while I’m on my daily walk. AFAIK Shinys just have a different color scheme and no special moves only reserved for shinys. Even a whale such as myself cannot comprehend spending tens if not hundreds of dollars on shiny hunting.What am I missing? via /r/pokemongo https://ift.tt/3mb9NVL