yeah but still, I liked Ice Shard a lot
Also, you were right about that bubblestrat thing. I just tried it out with six Pokémon of 13 CP or lower in my team, and it worked :)
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Also, you were right about that bubblestrat thing. I just tried it out with six Pokémon of 13 CP or lower in my team, and it worked :)
breh
強いだね
yup, they recolored it; it looks more like megados now as compared to the original model, almost
I really have no idea why they did this.
Now I'm in serious problem with Pokemon Box. I have hit maximum point few times and had to clear out many things and will have to do some IV scanning again (ugh....).
I should retire few things, but it feels harder when they're legacy.
I see I rarely use these mushroom army now since Lanturn proved to be better. Bug Bite is a legacy move, but these walking trees are now rare sight and I can use Lanturn against Vaporeon anyway....
I can't even bother keeping some of Gen2 mon for a living dex and still wonders if I should just release this outstanding Marill.
I should retire few things, but it feels harder when they're legacy.
I see I rarely use these mushroom army now since Lanturn proved to be better. Bug Bite is a legacy move, but these walking trees are now rare sight and I can use Lanturn against Vaporeon anyway....
I can't even bother keeping some of Gen2 mon for a living dex and still wonders if I should just release this outstanding Marill.
I completely feel you. I've had the exact same problem. Like you I also wanted to keep an entire living dex. My storage used to look like this:
Bulbasaur Bulbasaur Bulbasaur
Ivysaur Ivysaur Ivysaur
Venusaur Venusaur Venusaur
Charmander Charmander Charmander
Etc.
I had three of everything because otherwise the visual 'lines' of species of my living dex would get messed up @ Rattata and further on. That why I don't just have one of every Pokemon. I also had it in case trading would come out, so I would have some spare Pokémon. But this proved to be too much. I didn't even have enough storage while I had 800 spots, and I didn't even have Johto complete. My dex now looks like this:
Venusaur Venusaur Venusaur
Charizard Charizard Charizard
Blastoise Blastoise Blastoise
Butterfree Butterfree Butterfree
Etc.
This way I can still keep the 'lines' I talked about earlier, without getting my whole storage filled up with trash. I realized that, even though it's nice to have a lot of diversity, you can't keep all your stuff. I mean, why the heck would you keep some Squirtle or Wartortle. I know for a fact that they're never going to have a use in this game anyway, other that being collectible. I threw away everything with either a bad moveset or bad IVs. If I had (for instance) three Starmie, and I had a Staryu left with good IVs, I released one Starmie and just fully evolved that Staryu. When I have certain Pokemon that I have more than three of (good gym attackers/defenders for example), I just keep six or nine. That way the 'lines' still stay visually nice. I know it hurts, but you have to draw the line somewhere. I also did it because my storage even got trouble loading all those 800 Pokemon. Now I'm even safe to hoard some Pidgey for some mass evolve sessions :)
mine has been full for ages, my problem are eggs filling up spaces, yet when I get back I have 3-4 spaces, then suddenly. full again as more eggs get gathered.
the bigger issue for me is checking ALL these Pidgeots, ALL these Raticates.. what to do with multiple hatted pikachus... already purged 80-82% IV's of common stuff.
the Valentines event didn't make Chansey stupidly common here, lucky to get 1 decent Blissey out of it, Not seen Lapras for months here either, but they contribute nothing to gyms except attacking anyway, or interfering with prestiging.
the bigger issue for me is checking ALL these Pidgeots, ALL these Raticates.. what to do with multiple hatted pikachus... already purged 80-82% IV's of common stuff.
the Valentines event didn't make Chansey stupidly common here, lucky to get 1 decent Blissey out of it, Not seen Lapras for months here either, but they contribute nothing to gyms except attacking anyway, or interfering with prestiging.
This is curse of the six-tailed bitch. Really, this is curse....
My first and third (last, just now) Laplace is all Water moves. The second has Frost Breath?/Blizzard, but sits on low IV and 1566 CP, can't upgrade. In the end, I only got one extra dragonslayer. Sighs....
And then two Dugong got Iron Tail. None of my new Lanturn got double Electric moves.
I'm too afraid to pull the trigger for a Gyarados now. I'm cursed, Random Number Arceus has forsaken me....
I suppose being able to open that entry spot for this legendary 'mon is good enough already, let alone three of them, huh? Oh well....
At least my only best Dugong got a teammate to break dragons and Ice dragonslayers isn't as important as before with inclusion of Gen2....
My first and third (last, just now) Laplace is all Water moves. The second has Frost Breath?/Blizzard, but sits on low IV and 1566 CP, can't upgrade. In the end, I only got one extra dragonslayer. Sighs....
And then two Dugong got Iron Tail. None of my new Lanturn got double Electric moves.
I'm too afraid to pull the trigger for a Gyarados now. I'm cursed, Random Number Arceus has forsaken me....
I suppose being able to open that entry spot for this legendary 'mon is good enough already, let alone three of them, huh? Oh well....
At least my only best Dugong got a teammate to break dragons and Ice dragonslayers isn't as important as before with inclusion of Gen2....
OM! oops, forgot it. This is what my storage looks like:
And if I have Pokemon that are good in gyms, I have six or nine of 'em. This way I can keep my storage aesthetically pleasing :)
...I can't take it anymore. Have to ask.
You spell every other Pokémon name with the proper English spelling, more or less, but for some reason you insist on the Japanese spelling of Lapras. Why not stick completely to one or the other?
Eh, OK then... it is just that I... am not used to learning too much names anymore with all the campus stresses. I'll be better then, now that I'm told off. Should insist against autocorrect too, I suppose.
But yeah, how's everyone's hunt? I got enough candies to get two Gyarados, but is yet to find suitable thing to evolve. And my Fisherman score went up by 21 apparently, almost half of how it was. I suppose I had been a lazy bum in walking these days with how rare I am to pass through water canals.
But yeah, how's everyone's hunt? I got enough candies to get two Gyarados, but is yet to find suitable thing to evolve. And my Fisherman score went up by 21 apparently, almost half of how it was. I suppose I had been a lazy bum in walking these days with how rare I am to pass through water canals.
breh
強いだね
tbh I've never really bothered to hold more than, like, 3 gyms at a time max (usually just one or two, really) since more just isn't really feasible and my phone battery / patience to do what is essentially button mashing are both limited. I just casually buy egg incubators for 10ks and let the rest sit in the infinite. If it's late enough I just put dex mons (aero, grimer, hitmons, other hard to see stuff) in the gym and hope somebody gets value out of that.
I'm kind of sad I didn't abuse the opportunity to get more totodile during this event (and also sad that I ran out of pinap berries...) but I got octillery + kingdra + <one off water mons> during the event so I'm not that salty.
I'm kind of sad I didn't abuse the opportunity to get more totodile during this event (and also sad that I ran out of pinap berries...) but I got octillery + kingdra + <one off water mons> during the event so I'm not that salty.
It depends. A lot of Pokemon aren't useful (in the current meta) anyway, like Ninetales, Persian, you name them. So with those, I don't care about IVs, and I don't even power them up either. I only spend dust on the actual good and useful Pokemon, like Gyarados, Dragonite, T-Tar (haven't got one yet) Snorlax, Blissey, etc.
I had a 100% Karp earlier, but its level was so **** low. So I evolved it to a Gyarados, and it had a really good moveset. I decided to inveset in the Gyarados, but it took up like 150+ K stardust... So I'm trying to use dust carefully now. You just burn through it too fast.
I usually also didn't have more than ~5 Pokemon in gyms. Until I found a group of people in and around my town, who would take down gyms in the night and use bubblestrat on them. They always build it up to level 10, but they only put 9 Pokemon in. A few times I got lucky enough to fill those empty spots. Now, for a week or two, I've been in 9+ gyms without having to do much work.
But I understand your hassle too. After some time training up gyms becomes very tedious. Especially when you train it up to a higher level and someone else claims the spot before you can...
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Actually, I wonder about one thing. Is egg outcome also affected by the event? I think I have hatched the water commons more during events.
I hope so, since I have three 10km eggs, one incubated now. Hoping at least one will give me a dual-Ice Lappie....
I hope so, since I have three 10km eggs, one incubated now. Hoping at least one will give me a dual-Ice Lappie....
I hope so too. I would also love some Dragonite killers from my 10km eggs.
On another note... Not sure if it's me, but I'm still getting softbanned sometimes when I travel by train. Earlier this week, when I turned on the game in another city I notice I got softbanned, and I had to tediously spin a PokeStop for 40 times to get unbanned. In total I've been softbanned about 3-4 times. Today I even got softbanned doing nothing but sitting at my desk. WTF Niantic?
Anyone else (still) having this? And what are the consequences of being softbanned so often? Are there even any? Don't want to bring my account in danger here....