Pokémon GO

[Blitz]

Standard red warning is back for most iOS users that spoof; it comes with a shadowban this time as well. Just proves Niantic has the resources to ban spoofers but they don't (for the money aspect, presumably). Android seems to be fine so it's something in the iOS apps; means it can probably be patched and this might not mean anything. Or it might, who knows.

 

[Kanburi]

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Trainers,

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—The Pokémon GO team

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[Panic Station]

Only half of my pokemon got sprited.

 

[Hare_vs_Tortoise]

I like the new pixel sprites, makes it easier to work out what I can see in nearby.

 

[pika pal]

these little challenges are getting a little addictive as it was a challenge for me to get a streak of up to 3 or 5 greats in a row, ended up tossing them at a nidorino. I noticed I could never get a nice/great/excellent on a castform so I had to avoid those certain pokemon. While I haven't had a bonus pokemon run on me, I had a few that broke out of pokeballs at least once so I'm wondering if there's any risk when eventually facing a legendary or even a Mew that it could run hopefully not.

I believe mining confirms Mew has a 100% Catch Rate and 0% Flee rate, not sure how the other legends work.

Mew is probably because they expect people to want more of them than most Legends since it has the giant movepool customization "appeal"

 

[phalanx]

catch 3 swablu mission, they all got freaking replaced by murkrow lol

 

[Chanderule]

Mew is one-time only, thats why he has 100% catchrate
However, if you have a ShadowBan, he will flee straight away...

 

[DreamPrince]

Mew is one-time only, thats why he has 100% catchrate
However, if you have a ShadowBan, he will flee straight away...

What’s Shadowban?

 

[Chanderule]

You can only catch certain Pokémon (mainly common garbage like Hoppip and Pidgey)
Others will flee (including Mew holy crap)
And I think it also overrides the spawns of other Pokémon with the common ones, but Go+ should bypass that (1 Pokéball isnt that great however)

Ive heard it takes two weeks to lift off

 

[Champion Leon]

these little challenges are getting a little addictive as it was a challenge for me to get a streak of up to 3 or 5 greats in a row, ended up tossing them at a nidorino. I noticed I could never get a nice/great/excellent on a castform so I had to avoid those certain pokemon. While I haven't had a bonus pokemon run on me, I had a few that broke out of pokeballs at least once so I'm wondering if there's any risk when eventually facing a legendary or even a Mew that it could run hopefully not.

100% catch rate, may be shiny and you can only ever get 1 mew. People (legit included) have already gotten Mew. Your 7 stamps for your quests are separate and will lead to a legendary (I.e. Moltres).

Overall, once you complete the Mew quests they disappear and the next one will likely be Celebi.

Focus on using Pinap Berries, as just like Go Fest as you have a 100% chance, and just like Kyogre they updated Mew’s learnset just upon release and there are sooo many options for both the Quick and Charge Moves.

You can only catch certain Pokémon (mainly common garbage like Hoppip and Pidgey)
Others will flee (including Mew holy crap)
And I think it also overrides the spawns of other Pokémon with the common ones, but Go+ should bypass that (1 Pokéball isnt that great however)

Ive heard it takes two weeks to lift off

Does it reset ?
(I am not currently spoofing, but wanted to know if catching legit in the 2 weeks resets, like a softban would reset the cooldown and you would have to wait once again).

 

[Blitz]

This will look quite nice alongside my 2 10/10/10 Mewtwo. Thankfully this thing is not metagame relevant and resource draining. My IV luck knows no bounds.

Mew is one-time only, thats why he has 100% catchrate
However, if you have a ShadowBan, he will flee straight away...

This is false. Shadowbanned players can still catch Mew.

100% catch rate, may be shiny and you can only ever get 1 mew. People (legit included) have already gotten Mew. Your 7 stamps for your quests are separate and will lead to a legendary (I.e. Moltres).

Overall, once you complete the Mew quests they disappear and the next one will likely be Celebi.

Focus on using Pinap Berries, as just like Go Fest as you have a 100% chance, and just like Kyogre they updated Mew’s learnset just upon release and there are sooo many options for both the Quick and Charge Moves.

Does it reset ?
(I am not currently spoofing, but wanted to know if catching legit in the 2 weeks resets, like a softban would reset the cooldown and you would have to wait once again).

There are no berries in the Mew encounter; it's just the Poke Ball and an unlimited amount of tries. Yes, it breaks out.

Shadow is 2 weeks. If you get flagged again (while you're still shadowbanned) it continues. The only way to fully remove it is to play legitimately; if you start to cheat again it will commence once more.

 

[Champion Leon]

This will look quite nice alongside my 2 10/10/10 Mewtwo. Thankfully this thing is not metagame relevant and resource draining. My IV luck knows no bounds.

This is false. Shadowbanned players can still catch Mew.

There are no berries in the Mew encounter; it's just the Poke Ball and an unlimited amount of tries. Yes, it breaks out.

Shadow is 2 weeks. If you get flagged again (while you're still shadowbanned) it continues. The only way to fully remove it is to play legitimately; if you start to cheat again it will commence once more.

Is there a way to know when the Shadow Bann has worn off?

If there is a best set for it, I plan to use Shadow Claw and Dazzling Gleam.

There is also Dragon Tail, and Ice Beam for coverage.

I find that Shadow Claw will handle enemy Psychic types and it’s Ghost Type Counters, while Dazzling Gleam will handle Fighting types, and hurt it’s Dark Type Counters while still threatening Dragons. Plus Shadow Claw is one of the best fast moves, period.

If only it got Future Sight, Dynamic Punch, or Transform, then it would have the ultimate niche of possibly transforming into a better version of the foe it is facing. Yes, Mew learns Transform since Gen I.

 

[Blitz]

Is there a way to know when the Shadow Bann has worn off?

If there is a best set for it, I plan to use Shadow Claw and Dazzling Gleam.

There is also Dragon Tail, and Ice Beam for coverage.

I find that Shadow Claw will handle enemy Psychic types and it’s Ghost Type Counters, while Dazzling Gleam will handle Fighting types, and hurt it’s Dark Type Counters while still threatening Dragons. Plus Shadow Claw is one of the best fast moves, period.

If only it got Future Sight, Dynamic Punch, or Transform, then it would have the ultimate niche of possibly transforming into a better version of the foe it is facing. Yes, Mew learns Transform since Gen I.

Yea; the warning goes with and you'll be able to see evolutions and rare Pokemon again.

Imo Mew is too weak to have a dedicated moveset; its stats do not translate properly to Go and even having a wide variety things to choose from detract from a lack of STAB. Imo it's best use is probably a Shadow Claw / Dark Pulse moveset as a Mewtwo counter, since it's basically the only thing aside from Mewtwo itself that can reliably take on it. DPS wise I think Dragon Tail / Solar Beam reigns over all its other moves, but again, that shitty Atk and lack of STAB makes it so inferior to a lot of things. Changing moves is also close to impossible given its giant moveset, further compounding its issues.

 

[Blitz]

Latios and Latias

Eggs should have hatched as of 30 minutes ago; Lugia is gone and the Eggstravaganza is also over.

Latios: North America, South America, and oddly, Africa
Latias: Europe and Asia

They switch on May 8 and leave June 5. Plenty of time to dedicate to them. There is also a Raid Boss shakeup in order to counter the Eon Duo, so expect the usual culprits like Gengar and Tyranitar to still be Raid Bosses, and some added new ones to the mix.

The best counters to both of these are Dragon-types, such as Rayquaza, Dragonite, Salamence, and Latios itself. They have relatively weak movesets for Raid Bosses (except Solar Beam on Latios) so Ray and co. can handle the DB / DC movesets as well. The other efficient counter is Tyranitar but it must be wary of Solar Beam from Latios. More budget counters include the Ice-types (like Jynx), Scizor, and Houndoom.

Metagame relevance: Little. Latios is a fantastic gym sweeper with Dragon Breath / Dragon Claw, but this isn't as lucrative in today's metagame and DPS-wise it's behind Rayquaza and Dragonite. Latias is an inferior Latios, of course.

 

[phalanx]

yea egg event ended and I got a 10km egg, so not all bad, excpet I hatched another rubbish Bagon for naff all candy :(

 

[DreamPrince]

yea egg event ended and I got a 10km egg, so not all bad, excpet I hatched another rubbish Bagon for naff all candy :(

Rubbish? I hatched 3 barboach and a luvdisc during this event.

 

[Blitz]

Best thing I got from the Eggstravaganza (aside from a million candy) was a 93% shiny Pichu; I guess I'll count my blessings given it was a full odds shiny.

The change when unnoticed until it hatched, but Latias has Outrage instead of Dragon Claw now, giving her some oomph during raids. The counters should still remain roughly the same in terms of DPS, though.

 

[PsychicAcademic]

First day, and I already got a 15/15/13 Latias. Arceus gave me such blessings for the hardships in the awful RL weathers and difficulty in even landing proper hit on her. Forget the birbs, they are really difficult to score a constant Excellent.

 

[phalanx]

yea rubbish, every bagon I have (3) is below 82%.. therefore rubbish

and Latias is stupid, why do the up and down thing that completely screws with throws

 

[Chanderule]

Latias is stupidly easy to catch, out of first 5 hits 4 were excellent, and doesnt break out as much as Rayquaza from my experience
Overall, a decent raid boss even tho Im definetly hyped for Latios more

 

[PsychicAcademic]

and Latias is stupid, why do the up and down thing that completely screws with throws

Be glad, at least it's not Kyogre.

Rubbish? I hatched 3 barboach and a luvdisc during this event.

I've lost count how many Aron and Wailko I've hatched.
The only good thing was few basses that's not better than one I already have....

 

[Jonyeo97]

Managed to raid today on one of the rare days I'm actually able to make it for a raid after work. Encountered a 98% Latias but it still ran away despite having 11 balls. What a disappointing end to the day...

 

[DreamPrince]

Managed to raid today on one of the rare days I'm actually able to make it for a raid after work. Encountered a 98% Latias but it still ran away despite having 11 balls. What a disappointing end to the day...

I thought raid bosses only run away when you run out of Pokeballs.

 

[Jonyeo97]

I thought raid bosses only run away when you run out of Pokeballs.

As in, I had 11 balls to try and catch it. Yet it still ran away after having 11 shots at it. Hence my disappointment.

 

[Blitz]

Those are always terrible and sadly with low odds to catch in the first place (even when considering Gold medals, Curve, and a small Excellent circle), this is bound to happen. Hopefully you find another high one to compensate!