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Rock Blast is very close to Stone Edge so it's not a bad choice.
This is a price that comes with rerolls. It's even worse when you are stuck rerolling two bad moves back and forth!
breh
強いだね
I got impatient and evolved my 82% dnite (well, the lowest IV is defense so it's not that bad) and got steel wing (rerolled lol) / hyper beam. completed my kanto regional dex but mildly livid
I've really been enjoying the new gym system as of recent. Now that people have calmed down about kicking everything out the second it gets in, I can actually get things to stay overnight and get coins for it.
Niantic not fixing the "kicking out a pokemon errors you out of the gym for 10 minutes" bug + various app instabilities make me like it a lot less than i could
I've really been enjoying the new gym system as of recent. Now that people have calmed down about kicking everything out the second it gets in, I can actually get things to stay overnight and get coins for it.
Niantic not fixing the "kicking out a pokemon errors you out of the gym for 10 minutes" bug + various app instabilities make me like it a lot less than i could
While Niantic fixes the 10 minute bug, there is a way to bypass the wait time if you're alone: simply set your phone's clock forward 10 minutes.
You do that and you'll be able to slot immediately after you change the time, so that's no longer an issue.
To do raids and stuff like that, your phone's time must be synced directly to the network, so remember to set it back to "automatic time" (which is "essentially" going back 10 minutes) once you're done slotting.
You do that and you'll be able to slot immediately after you change the time, so that's no longer an issue.
To do raids and stuff like that, your phone's time must be synced directly to the network, so remember to set it back to "automatic time" (which is "essentially" going back 10 minutes) once you're done slotting.
I just hit enough candy to get my dragonite and i have a 91% dratini waiting, but I think i'm gonna wait to get like 60-70 more candy just so i'm also in the position to power it up fully after evolving and have some more time to see if some other avenue to get dragonites shows up (raids) that makes me want to save my hard earned candy.
Also waiting to get some charge tm's so i can reroll my rock smash / megahorn rhydon, rock throw / eq golem, and my legacy shadow claw / dark pulse gengar. Really hoping i can get shadow ball on my first try. Is it worth powering sclaw / sball gengar up to level 30 ish?
Also waiting to get some charge tm's so i can reroll my rock smash / megahorn rhydon, rock throw / eq golem, and my legacy shadow claw / dark pulse gengar. Really hoping i can get shadow ball on my first try. Is it worth powering sclaw / sball gengar up to level 30 ish?
Are we absolutely certain that the old "IVs tied to index number" bug is completely squashed?
I had a bit of an evolution binge the other day, and evolved tons of Pokémon. Afterwards I remembered that I had more than a hundred Natu candy, but Natu was not on the list of Pokémon I had picked for evolution. Had I overlooked it completely? No, it turned out that I had transferred all the Natu I had ever caught. I usually throw away every Pokémon I catch unless it amazes the team leader (signifying an IV total of 37 or more), but if it's the only one I've caught of its species (and it's not super rare), I keep those with more than 30 IVs as well. But still I had no Natu. I caught a Natu, and checked: 159 Candy. Yet none of the 53 Natu caught so far had been worth keeping. I appraised the one I had caught. Turned out to be in the lowest IV bracket as well.
Since then I have raised my Natu candy count almost to 200. Still not a single tennis ball bird in the two highest IV brackets. The vast majority are in the lowest, occasionally I find one in the second lowest. Has anybody else had this problem? Or is my luck just terrible?
I had a bit of an evolution binge the other day, and evolved tons of Pokémon. Afterwards I remembered that I had more than a hundred Natu candy, but Natu was not on the list of Pokémon I had picked for evolution. Had I overlooked it completely? No, it turned out that I had transferred all the Natu I had ever caught. I usually throw away every Pokémon I catch unless it amazes the team leader (signifying an IV total of 37 or more), but if it's the only one I've caught of its species (and it's not super rare), I keep those with more than 30 IVs as well. But still I had no Natu. I caught a Natu, and checked: 159 Candy. Yet none of the 53 Natu caught so far had been worth keeping. I appraised the one I had caught. Turned out to be in the lowest IV bracket as well.
Since then I have raised my Natu candy count almost to 200. Still not a single tennis ball bird in the two highest IV brackets. The vast majority are in the lowest, occasionally I find one in the second lowest. Has anybody else had this problem? Or is my luck just terrible?
P much :/
Personally I think glass cannons have no place in this metagame (Alakazam, Espeon, Gengar), given they die super quickly. For Gengar itself, Ghost-type coverage is not particularly needed in this game: Every Psychic and Ghost-type is murdered by Tyranitar, which is now widely available as a raid boss and has the elite stats it is known for, making it excel.
So, unless you want to use a fun attacker, I wouldn't recommend it. I guess level 30 isn't a bad threshold for powerups, but I think resources would be better invested on a generalist (Dragonite) or a specialist that doesn't suck (Machamp).
This is just RNG. Many tests have been run post-"dex IV bug fix" and there has been no correlation with IVs and dex number mattering anymore.
To give an example, I got a 100% Natu from a lure like 2 weeks into Gen 2, and then found another 93% a month later.
breh
強いだね
gengar is in this awkward position where I don't know how you're supposed to use it in a way that's efficient. it's frail and weak to ghost and psychic (i.e. both of the types that it hits SE) so its best shot is doing very strong neutral damage to double fighting machamp or I guess hoping for pokemon like raid boss metagross to have only steel moves. if gardevoir ends up as a raid boss with some horrible nonSTAB quick move (or they add a fairy quick move) + dgleam it'll do well vs. that as well, I guess.
Can you catch raids at lower levels?
The bosses are always Level 20, so could it be impossible for a level 7 to catch them, or would it have no effect on that?
The bosses are always Level 20, so could it be impossible for a level 7 to catch them, or would it have no effect on that?
breh
強いだね
yep, they're at level 20 too. this makes them potentially pretty cool targets for low-level players, who can fairly easily get things like vaporeon (and, if they're lucky, tyranitar) with just a little bit of help from somebody else.
My brother just started and couldnt catch even 2*s like Muk or Exeggutor, so I thought that you could need a certain level to be able to catch them
Congrats! Unown are so rare and cool. I only found one. Hoping to find some more, but not counting on it since they're SO rare...Got this sucker today without scanner help. Pretty happy about that.
breh
強いだね
Finally caught raid ttar, and with decent ivs to boot (11 / 13 / 15)! I'm considering just straight up powering it up to level 30ish because I have the candy and stardust for it.
Number of pokemon left for regional dex ticks down to 3 + unown.
A question for people itt - if you see a gym and check the pokemon, only to note that they've been there for, say, about an hour, do you still take the gym down? If you see a gym with only one freshly placed pokemon (and no other pokemon in the gym), do you take it down? Or do you leave it there so that those people can get more coins?
Number of pokemon left for regional dex ticks down to 3 + unown.
your brother might find it difficult because he doesn't have the type badges for any of the raid pokemon he's aiming for (short of maybe snorlax / weezing / muk I guess) and possibly might not have curving down pat like more seasoned players do. or just bad luck lol
A question for people itt - if you see a gym and check the pokemon, only to note that they've been there for, say, about an hour, do you still take the gym down? If you see a gym with only one freshly placed pokemon (and no other pokemon in the gym), do you take it down? Or do you leave it there so that those people can get more coins?
Depends, if I really need at least one gym then yes (unless its a friend)
If I dont, I usually let them stay, but I dont check time that often, so I probably take down some recent ones as well, you?
If I dont, I usually let them stay, but I dont check time that often, so I probably take down some recent ones as well, you?
As someone who's use to playing alone and as someone who finally solo'd a two star raid Saturday, this felt incredible.
Unpopular opinion but I don't think it should come back unless training as a whole does. It's like a mark that tells us "yeah you did good and thus here's a memoir for your achievement", and I like that I earned my Gold Ace Trainer a long time ago and I can showcase it.
I think you meant "shouldn't"?