See it's stuff like this why I was telling myself it wasn't worth going for the Home's Go Dex 8 months ago
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Relevant to the discussion the other day about putting candy into Pokemon... reading a discussion on r/SilphRoad earlier about what to use Rare Candy XLs on and people were like "you've got to put them into mythicals, I would never use one on something raidable".
...which makes me want to know, how much XL candy are these people getting from their raids exactly???? I did the Kyogre raid evemt today; only caught 5/8 of the damn things because the game's become laggy as hell since the new catch background was brought in, which increased my Kyogre XL candy by a grand total of... 18. Not what you'd call terribly impressive. What about Rare Candy XL, though? My eight raids gave me... 2 of them.
...which makes me want to know, how much XL candy are these people getting from their raids exactly???? I did the Kyogre raid evemt today; only caught 5/8 of the damn things because the game's become laggy as hell since the new catch background was brought in, which increased my Kyogre XL candy by a grand total of... 18. Not what you'd call terribly impressive. What about Rare Candy XL, though? My eight raids gave me... 2 of them.
When they increased the level cap and it came out that it takes almost 300 XL candy to max out a Pokemon I just resigned myself to never maxing out any legendaries. It looks like the most legendary xl candy I have is mewtwo with 51, probably from shadow raids.
I didn't bother with Kyogre raid day because I already had good ones from hoenn tour.
I did get out for litten community day, though, which went pretty well. Got just enough shinies for my living dex and a couple of trades, and I even got a regular hundo. More importantly, though, I made a good burst of progress in my final push toward shiny Jirachi. Less than 300 catches to go...! (Now I just need to replenish my Pokeball stock... sitting at like 5 pokeballs and 8 ultraballs right now...)
As for the charcadet event, hatched my last egg from it this morning, and no dice. I only hatched a handful of eggs, so didn't expect to be swimming in charcadet, but it would've been nice to get one. :p I've still only hatched 1 larvesta since it was released and it's in all eggs, so not liking my chances of getting a charcadet from post-event 10k eggs any time soon. Definitely not my preferred way of adding new mons to the game; doesn't really feels as impactful seeing a silhouette on the egg page as it does on the radar.
I didn't bother with Kyogre raid day because I already had good ones from hoenn tour.
I did get out for litten community day, though, which went pretty well. Got just enough shinies for my living dex and a couple of trades, and I even got a regular hundo. More importantly, though, I made a good burst of progress in my final push toward shiny Jirachi. Less than 300 catches to go...! (Now I just need to replenish my Pokeball stock... sitting at like 5 pokeballs and 8 ultraballs right now...)
As for the charcadet event, hatched my last egg from it this morning, and no dice. I only hatched a handful of eggs, so didn't expect to be swimming in charcadet, but it would've been nice to get one. :p I've still only hatched 1 larvesta since it was released and it's in all eggs, so not liking my chances of getting a charcadet from post-event 10k eggs any time soon. Definitely not my preferred way of adding new mons to the game; doesn't really feels as impactful seeing a silhouette on the egg page as it does on the radar.
Should note if you did those in person that's 3 for the win plus any for the captures. It was one of Niantic's attempts to incentivize in-person raiding when they increased remote prices.
The logic I think is that Rare XL's take so many damn raids to accumulate a useable quantity that you would get most of the XL you need for a Raidable legendary by winning said raids before the Rares made a significant difference to them. It's kind of Megaelixir syndrome to then save them for the Mythicals simply because it's a justification to never really use them in case a better use case comes along after that.
Possible but at a 100-1 rate I wonder if that'd be faster or not even with stuff like Tanking to farm them off PvP
It took over a year, but I finally finished the jirachi masterworks research. The last stretch was tough because I was constantly running low on pokeballs and only able to restock every few days. At one point in an attempt to make bag space I accidentally threw out 200 charge tms. :(
Jirachi got to spend the day as a buddy before getting transferred to HOME so I can take it for a spin in SV later.
Now hopefully the Sinnoh masterworks research is not as terrible...
Jirachi got to spend the day as a buddy before getting transferred to HOME so I can take it for a spin in SV later.
Now hopefully the Sinnoh masterworks research is not as terrible...
From how it sounds, the shiny shaymin research is mostly just tedious and mostly based around time gates
Step 1 is probably the worst, 492 catches for each generation 1-4.
Step 2 in comparison is just some time gates. Catch 20 grass types, catch a Pokemon 7 days in a row, catch a Pokemon on 21 different days
Step 3+ isn't global yet but you can guess how it'll go
Step 3: 10 flying types, 5 days in a row, 15 different days. Those are the same LA numbers for Step 2 so they'll probably go to the same equivalent numbers for global. yes it's literally the same tasks but this time its flying. Just spend 2 months doing the same thing
Step 4: 20 Nice, 20 Great and 20 Excellent throws (all curve balls). Guessing global just doubles these
Step 5: Send 4 gifts w/ stickers, Use 4 berries, earn 4 hearts with your buddy. Yes really. That's it
Step 6: Sinnoh Gold Medal, Reach Level 40, Defeat Team Go Rocket Leaders 3 times. I assume only the Go Rocket Leader task gets increased
Step 7: You're done!
From my perspective it feels like each step was just them going "uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh". Like why even bother with step 5. Step 2 & 3 just being basic big time gates for the sake of making the research last longer?
I can see adjusting the feedback from the nightmares of the previous masterworks but...
Anyway I managed to find a discord with brain worms similar to my own and got the other Charcadet. I am at peace once more, with 833 in the Home Go dex. Hoping whatever the April mon will be, will be less of a pain.
I am on Step 3 and can confirm Step 3 is the same as Step 2, but with Flying instead of Grass for Task 1 (same Time Gates). No idea on the subsequent steps.
I think the focus on Time Gates was because the old tasks didn't really work for what they were trying to encourage: Long Term play to also get players out for exposure. With the Jirachi Research the Kecleon task was probably to get people to go out and look all over for Pokestops with Kecleon to fill it, but the odds being so low even during featured events people just said "forget it" and waited to do it passively. Stuff like "Catch 1000 Pokemon" also is just a giant number that takes forever to make a dent in so no one's gonna feel compelled to go out regularly and do like 200 catches a day for a week.
Shaymin time gates by comparison encourages people to go out and play at least a bit each day to keep the streaks going, and Step 1's 4 regions to fill out also makes people likely to hunt for events in the schedule that cover something they're after like Nidoran Spotlight for Kanto catches. Also compounded if they know Time Gates are later because they'd ideally blitz through the Step 1 Catches so they can get the time gates counting down sooner, which means events where they can catch 200+ Mons for one of the steps are more valuable times to go out and play hard (and thus be regular fixtures at the park or walking around town or such).
I plan to be in Orlando, FL USA from April 10-15 as there's a regional event going on there and my son will be participating in TCG. I was thinking about doing the Pokemon GO event but don't feel confident I have a team to successfully compete and I may have other obligations to attend to. Last time I participated in a video game event was 8-9 years ago and I lost interest once Pokemon GO came out and had a preference towards it instead.
Finally completed Vivillon challenge on my alt as it needed a gift from the "Sun" region and thankfully Mateo came to the rescue at the end of a route.
Does that include fake Beach Biomes? People noted that almost anything with Sand counts as a Beach to the point of getting the background on Golf Courses.
Still trying to find a Wiglett myself.
Also free Diancie Research incoming if you need to get that Mythical (assuming Go Fest paid ticket was skipped)
I am near no beaches, not without quite a drive. Pretty frustrating
Which is nice, if only because Diancie's one of those rarely released ones.
However the Home GO dex doesn't require them so I don't worry about them too much. Though I do try to obtain them where possible just in case for future fodders. I've actually gotten Shaymin, Meloetta, Mew and now Celebi (I actually wound up near a community day meet up so I did a trade). And the Darkrai they gave out.
In contrast I don't worry about raids or pay-tickets (ie: I didn't buy the Zarude research) nor do I arrange trades for them.
Speaking of more than I thought, there was a huge update in my neighborhood. I now have 4 pokestops and a gym. This massively changes the things I have reasonable access to; raids are way easier to interact with for when you don't have to walk minimum 3 miles to another neighborhood or idle in a parking lot. I have an easier shot at coins so I can possibly save up for and buy remote raid passes. With all the pokestops I can actually reasonably look for event tasks in case a Pokemon lands in there, or gather more eggs.
You love to see it. Gym will mostly help for the odd low-level Raid unless you look into apps for Remote Inviting, but just having something in stone-throwing distance is a massive convenience (source: Guy who lived on top of 2 Gyms and 5 stops at College vs nothing within 10 minutes of my current house)
May's update has dropped - Tapu Fini and Regirock in raids, then Stakataka and Blacephalon concurrently, divided, as I'd expected, into eastern and western hemispheres respectively.
Nice little upside to being a UK player - we can get both! The hemisphere line crosses through Greenwich, so I expect I'll do a few Blacephalon during the rest of the week then trek on over to join an east London raid group. I imagine Stakataka will be hell to take down without a group of at least four or five.
Nice little upside to being a UK player - we can get both! The hemisphere line crosses through Greenwich, so I expect I'll do a few Blacephalon during the rest of the week then trek on over to join an east London raid group. I imagine Stakataka will be hell to take down without a group of at least four or five.
Stakataka might come down to moveset. Its high defenses will suck to fight but it does have a double weakness to Primal Groudon plus others that might undermine that bulk to a reasonable level. Curious to see myself
Legendaries usually aren't too hard to come by because even if people aren't catching the mons themselves, they want to do them for the rewards like XL Rare Candy rolls. East/West Hemisphere is more even than the North/South that the Ultra Beasts did, so shouldn't be hard to find. And if not now they'll be back for Go Fest, especially if they get their Shinies there.
At the very least Blacephalon's datamined moveset and high offenses make it a strong glass Canon for Fire and Ghost, so that one should be easy to find spares of.
Finally, something to look forward to raiding. It feels like it's been a year since there was anything I really wanted to raid. Too bad ultra beast raids don't give you beast balls. :(
Some assets for the GO fest stickers have also been datamined. I look forward to not attaching those to gifts because there's a postcard book but no sticker book.
Some assets for the GO fest stickers have also been datamined. I look forward to not attaching those to gifts because there's a postcard book but no sticker book.
So just saw this on Kotaku. Good jerb there, Niantic.
https://kotaku.com/pokemon-go-wiglett-spawn-locations-fake-beach-coastal-1851455378
Someone could probably write a case study thesis on Developer's Plans VS Player's Workarounds using just Pokemon GO alone.
https://kotaku.com/pokemon-go-wiglett-spawn-locations-fake-beach-coastal-1851455378
Someone could probably write a case study thesis on Developer's Plans VS Player's Workarounds using just Pokemon GO alone.
I knew Biome exclusive spawns were going to lead to shenanigans. It's the same discontent as regional spawns, but now with data that can be manipulated, as we can see here.
Niantic is very bad about understanding how their players work or what they'll do in response to things, most famous probably being how dead Raids got with the Remote nerf and limited engagement GBL gets with its sidelining in focus (things like requested formats barely recurring and accessible options constantly being nerfed or made less-so such as Gholdengo's moveset, important stuff like Zacian barely recurring, and things like Scald spam in GL going unaddressed)
Without Silph Road or relying on maps from cheating devices, finding nests for certain pokemon is a word of mouth challenge as I'll need 276 XL candies for Lickitung to have ready for the great league. A shiny 7/15/14 is rank 4 and as a best buddy could max it at cp 1497. Such hard work for a top 10 ranked pokemon that is often a pain to face in the great league.
Pokemon requiring XL to max for a League are what make things like UL and late GL hard to get into for me. Licktung I hatched a ton of them as 5km Egg junk, but it's so much dust too to build one that I don't trust to stay meta relevant by the time I build one.
I wasn't expecting Marshadow to get spectral thief, but I was expecting it to actually get ghost moves.
Supposedly it still looks good in PvP, but still... no ghost moves at all??
With Sendai
Light trio sig moves do exist, though, and are apparently busted:
And more details on blacephalon, stak, & naganadel event are out: https://pokemongolive.com/post/dusk-mane-dawn-wings-necrozma-fusion?hl=en