A Pokemon Go player has shared their surprise at finding themselves cornered by a bunch of Foongus creatures.
Foongus constitutes a grass/poison-type creature that recently took center stage in POGO. On January 30, developer Niantic hosted a Foongus Spotlight Hour in-game that saw the pocket monster spawn in large numbers for a limited time.
Trainers who played during this period were rewarded 2x Stardust when catching Pokemon, a boon that few wanted to miss.
Still, one player was shocked when a group of Foonguses (Foongi?) suddenly surrounded them in the mobile adventure.
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Foongus in Pokemon Go close in on shocked Trainer
Reddit user -LORD-EGG- uploaded a screenshot of their Trainer being cornered by a small pack of pocket monsters in Pokemon Go.
Fortunately, the creatures – three Foongus ‘mon – didn’t pose too much of a threat. But the Redditor couldn’t help but wonder if this represented some “sort of ritual.”
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The responses in the thread were quickly filled with fungus-related jokes. Reads one well-liked reply, “You should be fine. They look like fun guys.”
Another popular comment says, “Not mushroom there for anything else!”
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Jokes aside, several Pokemon Go players chimed in to explain why Foongus were roaming the land in abundance all of a sudden. The fault lies with the aforementioned Spotlight Hour, which runs every Tuesday from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM local time.
Subsequent replies from the original poster show they were unaware that Foongus counted as this week’s featured Pokemon. “There is an event? I thought I was going crazy,” the user wrote in response to one explanation.
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Hopefully, not everyone was shaken when tiny mushrooms randomly started cropping up in-game.
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