Finally.... Altaria!!!! Sad that I can’t go because my mom won’t let me go due to a robbery at her friend’s house at another neighbor hood.
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Because Altaria is OP. But seriously: Reddit suggests that its for preventing people from filling the dex so easily. Like what they did for Mareep. I hope Swablu aren't as rare as Mareep though.
Swablu is everywhere in partly cloudy weather, no problem at all getting 300 candy in one day
Someone at my school speculates that they inflated Altaria's EVO cost to minimize easy access to Dragons, for Medals or generalists.
Man! I'm so jealous of you. I've been hunter for a perfect legendary ever since the bird trio and still haven't got myself one. Congrats :)
Yea this is what I assumed for the most part, but the Hoenn only event has made Bagon super common in Windy weather - so that can't and shouldn't be a reason to make Altaria a 400 candy evo. Its stats are far too terrible to justify it.
Just added the population density meta for gyms and raids in my viability rankings post. The Low Density is linked below (Medium & High Densitily are both linked at the top of the Analysis as parts 2 & 3, respectively, so you can view them there).
https://pokemongo.gamepress.gg/density-and-gym-meta-low-density-areas
I typed in key takeaways by iPhone, so the effort is real, as the latest Gen 3 waves have been accounted for.
*It should be done for the time being, until Lati@s/Jirachi/Deoxys/Regis are released.
https://pokemongo.gamepress.gg/density-and-gym-meta-low-density-areas
I typed in key takeaways by iPhone, so the effort is real, as the latest Gen 3 waves have been accounted for.
*It should be done for the time being, until Lati@s/Jirachi/Deoxys/Regis are released.
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Thats pretty awesome, I have a 15/11/10 and 14/11/14, both are pretty much the same but Ill wait for the third
So if you haven't opened your game at this point, we got a small Valentine's event.
Til the 15th, both Luvdisc and Chansey will have increased spawns and will generate 3x dust on catch.
In addition, 6 hour lures ARE still in effect, and the Hoenn-only fest has died down; Kyogre should also leave us and swim away tomorrow so take advantage of that as well.
Til the 15th, both Luvdisc and Chansey will have increased spawns and will generate 3x dust on catch.
In addition, 6 hour lures ARE still in effect, and the Hoenn-only fest has died down; Kyogre should also leave us and swim away tomorrow so take advantage of that as well.
Also shiny Luvdisc swimming about
Definitely enjoying the new raid content so far. Ice type glass cannons or otherwise not-bulky mons like Jynx and Piloswine make for easy solo material thanks to all their weaknesses, and give me plenty of access to anti-Rayquaza tools, who is also pleasantly easier than Kyogre for the same reasons listed for the Ice types. It's all very pleasant since my Revive stash was running low after some bad forays into 3* solos and Kyogre generally running a train over my battle teams.
Happy St. Valentine's Day folks. luvdisk everywhere? I did spot a few chanseys one of which ran on me. Chanseys are usually instantly useful to put in gyms if their level is high enough and few of my pals on facebook did report getting a shiny luvdisk but am not going out of my way for shinies that clutter up my box am at least satisfied with the magikarp/gyarados shinies I have.
So far as 400 candies for altaria I could only speculate it to make it harder to get that dragon badge as finding dratini was tough enough. I never recall altaria being so useful in the game maybe for breeding purposes I forgot which egg move it had.
As far as rayquaza raids I'm determined to get a 100% one as I had a 98% run on me the other day. While Kyogre may be the best water type of all time, I don't see much immediate use for it maybe for a regirock raid but that's it as I forsee rayquaza with its dragon moves would be good against the likes of lati@s and future dragons at least as well as itself.
Fluke don't give up on ex raids as it took me 4 months until I was finally able to catch one. I'm not even trying for them anymore even though a recent invite for 2/10 which was a fluke (no pun intended) as I only spun a pokestop there once and that was it.
So far as 400 candies for altaria I could only speculate it to make it harder to get that dragon badge as finding dratini was tough enough. I never recall altaria being so useful in the game maybe for breeding purposes I forgot which egg move it had.
As far as rayquaza raids I'm determined to get a 100% one as I had a 98% run on me the other day. While Kyogre may be the best water type of all time, I don't see much immediate use for it maybe for a regirock raid but that's it as I forsee rayquaza with its dragon moves would be good against the likes of lati@s and future dragons at least as well as itself.
Fluke don't give up on ex raids as it took me 4 months until I was finally able to catch one. I'm not even trying for them anymore even though a recent invite for 2/10 which was a fluke (no pun intended) as I only spun a pokestop there once and that was it.
Trapinch to Vibrava is only 25 candy, and Trapinch isn't hard to find.
Though your comment could be right and Ninatic may have forgotten to increase Trapinch's evo cost.
I wonder if Niantic increased the encounter rates by 50 times. Luvdisc was literally everywhere. But I haven't seen a single Chansey since Valentines last year and still none. 50 x 0 = 0.
Trapinch is not the most common around my area. Swablu probably comes ot mind because it's a Com Mon, so they knew people would easily get a bunch of them. Trapinch is available, but the Dragon medal would be "too easy" if you could get them from a Pidgey tier evolution.
I’m wondering if the Regis will be worth it? And is Metagross better than Jirachi?
Jirachi will have Doom Desire over Metagross’ Flash Cannon but it’s stats in Attack will be lower, a consideration for the Quick Move Damage build up.
Jirachi will have Doom Desire over Metagross’ Flash Cannon but it’s stats in Attack will be lower, a consideration for the Quick Move Damage build up.
Trapinch is probably more common only if you live in a desert biome. Trapinch, as with most other rock and ground types, are not very easy to come by where I live and I personally have only caught 2 Trapinch so far.