Great One?

[Bowfin]

Is it true that I would need thousands of kills of one type of animal to get a great one to spawn?

[CONDOR V]

Depends on the RNG gods, EW partner content creator LadyLegend got hers after 873 Kills while Mel also a partner content creator got hers after 4.8k kills. Good luck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8YbV2xRRt0

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[CONDOR V]

BTW this is specific to Black Bear the newest GO which by all accounts is the hardest grind. I got my White Tail and Red Deer GO's with well under 1K kills.

[SouthernMan1972]

Isn't it possible to get one to spawn after killing only one?

[CONDOR V]

There are initial spawns, in other words after introduction of GO and subsequent game update (there is a game update after every new GO) they are already on your map but this is very rare. But to answer your question I would suppose given the RNG nature of COTW that it would be possible after 1 kill but this would also be extremely rare.

[SouthernMan1972]

I wonder if the chances get better with each one you kill. Or is it like a die roll where the odds are 1 in 6 no matter how many times you roll it. Maybe more like 1 in 1000 for the great one. Just knowing that it's always possible is good enough for me.

[Reeree]

Its rng think of playing pokemon and getting a shiny its similar in a way. only comparison I can think of most people would understand

[CONDOR V]

For sure your chances get better hence the grinds. Gamers that have been playing this since 2017 would not keep shooting a specific species into their thousands if this were not the case but RNG does play a role. Basically there is finite number of animals on a reserve and by killing one you make room for another to spawn. If RNG goes your way that next spawn could be a GO.

[Findus]

Your chances get better by virtue of trying more often, but the chance itself remains the same for each kill and respawn so just like a dice. At least in my understanding.

[SouthernMan1972]

Originally posted by Findus:

Your chances get better by virtue of trying more often, but the chance itself remains the same for each kill and respawn so just like a dice. At least in my understanding.

That's what I was thinking as well. There's not really a "required grind" you have to go through. There's just a good chance it will take several tries to make him appear. But each kill has the same chance of respawning a GO as the one before.

[Bowfin]

Thanks for your replies ,I'll keep looking for one.