Well I hatched a gold shiny this event from the 7k eggs...just turned out to be a Shinx which I didn't need lol
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A pretty good evening. People were reporting a lot of Gibles, so I was able to catch 3 of them. I also caught a wild Gabite. And now my inventory is full of 7km eggs to run through. I will probably try to go jogging and mass hatch them all.
There were quite a few people out driving and playing Pokémon despite us being in the middle of our first snow storm of the season, finally.
There were quite a few people out driving and playing Pokémon despite us being in the middle of our first snow storm of the season, finally.
I'm finally getting Riolus and I got a Gible on the second account. Then tonight I had a Gabite spawn nearby so I went out and caught it on both accounts. The IV were crap and still crap after trading it, but it was a good boost of candy.
I've been clearing out eggs as I get them but even after the event stops I'll have a good 12 or so left to hatch, so I'm not counting my chickens quite yet. Hoping for one that's actually good to power up, but I'll take a Lucario or two and a Garchomp either way.
I've been clearing out eggs as I get them but even after the event stops I'll have a good 12 or so left to hatch, so I'm not counting my chickens quite yet. Hoping for one that's actually good to power up, but I'll take a Lucario or two and a Garchomp either way.
Gabite is one of those things where you wait for a lucky trade.
A moment in this game just impressed the hell out of me! Been playing regularly for maybe 2-3 months but never seen anything like this.
I threw a Pokeball at a wild Piplup just now and it did its deflect animation - for Piplup it swats forward. Its hand smacked the ball back at my screen, the Pokeball bounced off my screen and square back at the Piplup, capturing it :O... Really wish I could have video captured it like you can do with PC games.
Had no idea the game was capable of that kind of thing. I guess I figured once the Pokeball is hit away by the wild it disables it permanently.
I threw a Pokeball at a wild Piplup just now and it did its deflect animation - for Piplup it swats forward. Its hand smacked the ball back at my screen, the Pokeball bounced off my screen and square back at the Piplup, capturing it :O... Really wish I could have video captured it like you can do with PC games.
Had no idea the game was capable of that kind of thing. I guess I figured once the Pokeball is hit away by the wild it disables it permanently.
As you increase your friendship with a pokémon buddy, one of the bonuses is that occasionally it will assist in helping you catch by volleying a ball back at the pokémon you're trying to catch.
Interesting... So the screen itself isn't a reflective window like I was just assuming? It hit me dead on so it looked extremely convincing that it had happened. There's no indication its your buddy hitting it back?
The volleyball move is so good! I hate walking around with an unlevelled buddy because I lose that move.
You should see a little hand or tentacle or whatever, smack the ball back.
I didn't notice anything of the sort but maybe it happened. Was just a ball bouncing around as far as I could tell.
Who's your buddy? Maybe it was some magic psychic pulse wave or something. My Timburr just punches it.
Toxicroak. She did just hit the buddy level where she can deflect, but I'm still not completely convinced she did it there.
Maybe there was a glitch, but I can't imagine Pokemon Go having such a thing!
My eggs...
5x Bonsly
11x Bronzor
3x Budew (1 shiny)
3x Buizel
1x Combee
1x Happiny
4x Hippopotas
4x Mantyke
2x Riolu
2x Shinx
I'll have 6 or 7 more to slowly hatch over the next week, but yikes, as of now that was rather disappointing. Caught 1 wild Gible, 2 wild Cranidos, and 0 Shieldon. The spawn pool was basically a CD redux for the starters and a handful of Sinnoh Pokemon that have been boosted in previous events.
5x Bonsly
11x Bronzor
3x Budew (1 shiny)
3x Buizel
1x Combee
1x Happiny
4x Hippopotas
4x Mantyke
2x Riolu
2x Shinx
I'll have 6 or 7 more to slowly hatch over the next week, but yikes, as of now that was rather disappointing. Caught 1 wild Gible, 2 wild Cranidos, and 0 Shieldon. The spawn pool was basically a CD redux for the starters and a handful of Sinnoh Pokemon that have been boosted in previous events.
The field research tasks? Yes.
You had better luck than me at least (though you obviously used more incubators too). I used up the last of my Christmas incubators to hatch about 20 eggs (with 6 left over). The only good thing I hatched was a Riolu with bad IVs, everything else was trash. I also caught one wild Gible.
It's whatever though, I went into it with extremely low expectations and they were met by an event that ranged from garbage to great depending entirely on your luck.
I've seen at least 4 people from here buddying a shiny Riolu so nice to see people getting lucky.
Today is the first Pokémon GO Spotlight Hour. From 6pm to 7pm local time, a Pokémon will feature in increased spawns in your local area. Today, it's confirmed that today's Spotlight Hour focuses on the Pokémon Spoink.
Yup, they even seemed to activate a lot of spawn points that weren't there previously (which once again confirms all the "we're looking into it" comments after the spawn nerf last year were bs). Though I only played for a few minutes because they didn't announce this week's one beforehand (the first I heard about it was when the notification popped up at 6pm) and I had other things to do.
Quick question about trade evolution: If you trade the pokemon in its first stage and then evolve it, will you still get the trade discount for evolving to the third stage? Or do you have to trade in second stage?
You get the discount on any Pokemon that has ever been traded at any point in its life.
Whew, I was not ready for the switch to Ultra League. It seems a bit cruel for them to carry our rank into the next league.
I appreciate the main game meta actually being transferred over to Go, with the exceptions of the Regis.
It's really stupid not to have the rank depend on which league is played. I had a decent GL team, I have absolutely nothing and get wrecked in UL, though.
I won a couple of matches when Togekiss soloed everyone with Charm. That's my only UL-ready Pokemon and Giratina gets wrecked by it. I do have a Giratina so I guess I'd better power it up. I have no idea what else to use.
I wish I'd given Togekiss a second move while it was a baby.
I went running and hatched all my eggs yesterday. One Gible... which I guess was my goal. I had a good day driving around, and working on the Rocket research, though. I had 3 of the Flying rare candy quests, so chasing down birds was fun, too.
I met a dude at a T5 raid whose daughter is trying to enter my school next year, so that was a fun conversation. Though, I don't understand how some parents can talk poorly about their kids. "At my school, I usually teach writing to the higher level classes." "Oh, you probably won't teach my daughter then because she's dumb." <_< Sometimes Japanese modesty comes off as either insults about yourself (or family) or a complete lack of self-confidence.
I met a dude at a T5 raid whose daughter is trying to enter my school next year, so that was a fun conversation. Though, I don't understand how some parents can talk poorly about their kids. "At my school, I usually teach writing to the higher level classes." "Oh, you probably won't teach my daughter then because she's dumb." <_< Sometimes Japanese modesty comes off as either insults about yourself (or family) or a complete lack of self-confidence.
Togekiss is awesome in Ultra League. One guy had his Magmortar lose to my Blaziken, then sent out a Swampert to kill my Blaziken. After my rooster died I sent out Torterra, and he switched to Lucario. I switched to Togekiss and he immediately surrendered lmao.
Lol to be honest Chinese families do that stuff too. They tend to know whether their kids are good or bad at certain subjects.
Found a shiny Ponyta. It's gorgeous :)
It's expensive to prep, but it doesn't seem as difficult as I expected, at least yet. I put in about 215k to add moves and power up three non-legendary Pokemon, plus swapped moves on a weather-boosted Giratina-Altered. I've gone 12/15 so far (got another damned Meditite encounter, but also a 15/15/13 Oshawott, so at least one good thing). We'll see if it ends up littered with double-move legendaries. I mostly saw people using a single legendary at most.
Yesterday.
It's expensive to prep, but it doesn't seem as difficult as I expected, at least yet. I put in about 215k to add moves and power up three non-legendary Pokemon, plus swapped moves on a weather-boosted Giratina-Altered. I've gone 12/15 so far (got another damned Meditite encounter, but also a 15/15/13 Oshawott, so at least one good thing). We'll see if it ends up littered with double-move legendaries. I mostly saw people using a single legendary at most.
Best advice to give for Ultra League: You don't necessarily need the legendaries that are most common, but you should probably think about running stuff that can counter them.
Lick + Body Slam/Outrage Snorlax I'd say is going to be a great choice especially against Giratina.
Charm + Flamethrower/Ancient Power Togekiss is also going to be really useful.
Lick + Body Slam/Outrage Snorlax I'd say is going to be a great choice especially against Giratina.
Charm + Flamethrower/Ancient Power Togekiss is also going to be really useful.
I don't have a Giratina and my Snorlaxes and Togekiss are not ready for ultra league. Currently I'm using a Blissey, Guardevoir and Aggron with quite good results. Blissey is such a tank with 380HP, you don't need to waste any shields on it.
On the other hand, I'm only at rank 6 now so things might turn around soon...
On the other hand, I'm only at rank 6 now so things might turn around soon...
You are going to get I trouble because Blissy has limited offensive option while Snorlax has some good moves
Not until March 9th. It'll first switch to Master League on February 24.
I'm just tearing through Ultra League. People keep using Giratina and my Togekiss keeps eating them for dinner. One poor guy was using both Giratina and Rayquaza. Poor mons...
Also, someone I faced had zero plans to stand up to Counter/Blaze Blast Blaziken. They sent out a Lapras that only had Ice moves, switched that to a Magnezone that went down in moments, then to a Dialga that had to take a Blaze Blast right to its face since I'd already eaten through their shields, then back to that Lapras. I shielded their charge move just for fun, to make it 3-0. Hopefully they plan around types in the future. A very painful lesson.
Plenty of people use Swampert to try and curb that, only to run right into my Torterra. *evil laugh*
Also, someone I faced had zero plans to stand up to Counter/Blaze Blast Blaziken. They sent out a Lapras that only had Ice moves, switched that to a Magnezone that went down in moments, then to a Dialga that had to take a Blaze Blast right to its face since I'd already eaten through their shields, then back to that Lapras. I shielded their charge move just for fun, to make it 3-0. Hopefully they plan around types in the future. A very painful lesson.
Plenty of people use Swampert to try and curb that, only to run right into my Torterra. *evil laugh*
Had my first 5/5 today with a Snorlax, Gengar and Gyarados. Did not expect that in Ultra league since I was off to a rocky start. Leveling the Snorlax and giving it Lick+Body slam did wonders. It's amazing to not shield the first attacks and the big guy takes it like a boss. Even going 2 vs 3 is still easy doable if you have the shield advantage. Guess players are more tactical with shields once you hit rank 8+.
However I do feel that Gengar is not really pulling his weight.Any suggestions here? The 5/5 was good but I tend to go 3/5 more often than 4/5 or better. Please note that I came back a few months ago and I barely have any legendaries. No Giratina here :( When I came back we had 2 months of Evee's with hats as break throughs. Then I read that in 2018 and early 2019 it always contained legendaries. And now I had eevee..Lapras and Woobat haha
However I do feel that Gengar is not really pulling his weight.Any suggestions here? The 5/5 was good but I tend to go 3/5 more often than 4/5 or better. Please note that I came back a few months ago and I barely have any legendaries. No Giratina here :( When I came back we had 2 months of Evee's with hats as break throughs. Then I read that in 2018 and early 2019 it always contained legendaries. And now I had eevee..Lapras and Woobat haha
I intentionally went 0/5 to see if it made me drop below rank 7, but it didn't. Can you only rank up? At least I made 5 people happy by instantly quitting.
If you've got some community day mons, Counter/Blast Burn Blaziken is good, as is Frenzy Plant Torterra. Earth Power Flygon is a good cheap Ground Pokemon, but you'd have to be extra careful with rock moves cause of your Gyarados. We're about to have Rhyhorn day, which should give you plenty of great Rhyperior, and with some planning, you should have one to qualify for this league.
I guessing that your rank probably only goes up, but your rating will go up and down depending on your opponent's rating.