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In Area Zero there's eating for Jumpluff spam for +3 speed and then there's +2 special attack for giraffes as well. The Asian setting in the north east is great since a lot there gives attack.
Saving on resources. I find it helpful occasionally. Use all the resources and options available.
Cinderace raid hits hard and I don't have anything to solo it with. But did it with one other using support Oranguru.
I already mentioned above what you would need to do for H-Growlithe specifically and it should work the same for Basculin. Basically with a Ditto you would need the everstone on a male or female regional form or if you're not using a Ditto you need the female to be the regional form with a...
Cinderace is the next major raid. Like Charizard not to bothered about getting it since I have one to transfer later but I will probably capture it anyway.
Well this is interesting and explains a lot.
TLDR: The system works like raid adventure. If you find something good and fail to connect DO NOT REFRESH, just try again until you get in.
I need to dupe the one ability patch I managed to get and as many caps as possible to get mons up to snuff. As well as more balls of course. I haven't done the new quicker method though. I turned off automatic updates so I should be good there.
Not exactly prepared for the Charizard raid. I...
So interesting thing I had happen last night. I ate to encounter a shiny Iron Hands and in less than 5 mins found one however after comparing it's look to a regular one and seeing that mine was smaller than average I decided to reset. I then ate for a shiny Iron Thorns and bam in less than 5...
I also saw from some videos max hp, max attack adamant with curse but I don't know how good that will really be. There's a few videos showing people quitting against such a thing but those are in niche circumstances and also 6v6 and technically you could do the same with a special defensive set...