Recent content by RocketSurgery

Oof, that's rough. Hope you got a bunch of other limited pairs. I used Google credit from google surveys to buy some gems to pull on the mix scout, but quickly decided it wasn't worth it, especially after they rolled out some select scouts for only 5000 paid gems. I figured I might as well...

Finally, something to look forward to raiding. It feels like it's been a year since there was anything I really wanted to raid. Too bad ultra beast raids don't give you beast balls. :( Some assets for the GO fest stickers have also been datamined. I look forward to not attaching those to gifts...

Not too surprisingly, right on the money.

It took over a year, but I finally finished the jirachi masterworks research. The last stretch was tough because I was constantly running low on pokeballs and only able to restock every few days. At one point in an attempt to make bag space I accidentally threw out 200 charge tms. :( Jirachi...

I am trying to build my living dex for home primarily using ghost tera mons from raids, so this event was useful for adding ghost tera bonnet and hands. Getting bonnet was annoying because it took a lot of refreshes on the portal to get and the first one was doomed because two (2) separate...

When they increased the level cap and it came out that it takes almost 300 XL candy to max out a Pokemon I just resigned myself to never maxing out any legendaries. It looks like the most legendary xl candy I have is mewtwo with 51, probably from shadow raids. I didn't bother with Kyogre raid...

I'm not saying it's gonna be Jan 2025 for sure, just that they could still be aiming for it while not saying it in case they choose to delay. Lack of footage could be an indication that it's not as far along in development as PLA was, but they could just as well have chosen not to show footage...

I think a 4 year dev cycle is optimistic. Legends Arceus came out Jan 2022, the game cpuld easily be on the usual dev cycle and come out Jan 2025. Just because they didn't specifically say "Early 2025" yet doesn't mean that isn't what they're aiming for. I don't know where people are getting the...

I'd say there's a fair chance bisharp and dunsparce just won't be in LZA. I expect all Kalos native mons will make it, but the rest of the dex is so big I don't think we'll get anywhere close to the full thing. Maybe numbers close to the central kalos dex because we're just in Lumiose?

Go fest locations announced: https://gofest.pokemongolive.com/ Sendai, Japan May 30- June 2 Madrid, Spain June 14 - 16 NYC July 5 - 7 NYC works for me. It was a bit hot last year and there wasn't a lot of cloud cover, so hopefully being earlier in summer will help. Edit: also, as datamined...

Belated: For Venusaur I used the H-Goodra set mentioned, though I grabbed a random Goodra that was probably max speed, so I found I needed the all-out cheer to do enough damage to beat the raid in time. For Blastoise I did it with Volcanion, which worked but came close to timing out because...

Gloria gets you access to Lodge Gloria (once you slog through the veiled dating simulator bs raising the friendship to 100), netting you two units instead of one. However, I had read that Gloria is really only useful at 5/5, so I picked Lucas and Dialga to get a unit with dragon zone, since I...

To be honest, I wouldn't mind BW & BW2 faithful remakes because they are the only games I never actually owned and as everyone knows used copies are stupidly expensive. The catch of course is that they'll probably only do the originals and not the sequels. I'd even just take straight up Switch...

I don't know that this is something I like, per se, it's more that I am surprised it took me 10 years to notice that mega mewtwo x has two neck cables instead of 1. I was looking at its art after the LZA reveal and thought that it looked stupid because it looks like the cable goes into the side...

Hahaha, thank you for sparing me from your schadenfreude. While I certainly hope for good IVs, I will be stoked to finally have it in GO and this mon will be my default best buddy whenever research doesn't force a rotation. :)