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Wow, that's really amazing. Too bad Articuono and Moltres are unobtainable anymore... I want those legendaries so badly...
Golem and Tyranitar over Sudowoodo any day man, although you've made Mystic7 proud
Got my zapdos finally, CP 1879 which translates to 89% in IVs with a perfect stat in attack, so unless I get anything better I intend to power up this one after the zapdos week is over.
I'm speculating there will be another cycle of legendaries to raid where lugia will be replaced by ho-oh and then do a different legendary dog each week as I'm guessing it will be in the order of suicune, entei & raikou. I will definitely need zapdos for suicune and ho-oh, and will save my ground moving pokemon for the last 2.
Of course we won't know for sure until Niantic makes their announcements.
I'm speculating there will be another cycle of legendaries to raid where lugia will be replaced by ho-oh and then do a different legendary dog each week as I'm guessing it will be in the order of suicune, entei & raikou. I will definitely need zapdos for suicune and ho-oh, and will save my ground moving pokemon for the last 2.
Of course we won't know for sure until Niantic makes their announcements.
The nanab thing is super useless, especially on Zapdos. I'm currently 27/31 for catches on Zapdos and all I use are golden razz, and I'm not even super tryharding to catch it either unless its a good IV.
I got as far as 15/15 for Zapdos before I lost my first one.
My legendary catch rates:
16/28 Lugia - 57.14%
28/45 Articuno - 62.22%
26/40 Moltres - 65%
27/31 Zapdos - 87.1%
Overall 97/144 - 67.36%
I got as far as 15/15 for Zapdos before I lost my first one.
My legendary catch rates:
16/28 Lugia - 57.14%
28/45 Articuno - 62.22%
26/40 Moltres - 65%
27/31 Zapdos - 87.1%
Overall 97/144 - 67.36%
Finally managed to earn enough coins for my first bag upgrade :) Doesn't sound like much but I'm F2P and have only just reached lev 26. I know there's a lot of complaints about the current gym system but without it I wouldn't have been able to do this.
Now to earn coins for raid passes; legendary raids are great but I want to participate in more which means getting better mons so Ttar raids here I come.
Now to earn coins for raid passes; legendary raids are great but I want to participate in more which means getting better mons so Ttar raids here I come.
I'm so frustrated. Went out of my way and stayed for one hour to battle Lugia. After defeating it, I had 10 Premier Balls, 9 useful ones, so I was feeling good about my chances. I threw an Excellent, three shakes, and the game errored me out. After I got back, it was showing the Lugia again on the Gym, as if I had never won. It considered I had used my pass, but I could get back to battle, but everyone had already done it, so I wouldn't be able to. So frustrating. I still had six more useful balls. I'm so sad rn.
It is. It took me a long time to find a group, but after deciding to monitor the lures in town and go there until I found people playing under them.
Number doesn't matter when the most important thing is optimal counters and player level (correlates with Pokemon level). The timer is incredibly generous in legendary raids, honestly, which is really good since they don't require a million players just to beat.
For Zapdos, 6-8 good players with the likes of Golem / Piloswine / Tyranitar / Dragonite should be able to kill it in the alloted time, 8-10 decent players is overkill. You're gonna need way more if you have players bringing the likes of Blissey. I've personally done Zapdos with 5 players by just spamming 1 Golem each.
For Lugia, 8-10 good players with the likes of Tyranitar / Golem / Articuno / Zapdos should be able to beat it. 12-14 decent players is overkill. Just be wary of Hydro Pump if you're facing Lugia; I recommend having Dragonite and Cloyster / Lapras in the back if that is the case. Also of note, Lugia raids will be harder to finish due to 1) diminished player interest (it's been out for 2 1/2 weeks, and Zapdos exits on Tuesday) and 2) bigger number of players required.
For Zapdos, 6-8 good players with the likes of Golem / Piloswine / Tyranitar / Dragonite should be able to kill it in the alloted time, 8-10 decent players is overkill. You're gonna need way more if you have players bringing the likes of Blissey. I've personally done Zapdos with 5 players by just spamming 1 Golem each.
For Lugia, 8-10 good players with the likes of Tyranitar / Golem / Articuno / Zapdos should be able to beat it. 12-14 decent players is overkill. Just be wary of Hydro Pump if you're facing Lugia; I recommend having Dragonite and Cloyster / Lapras in the back if that is the case. Also of note, Lugia raids will be harder to finish due to 1) diminished player interest (it's been out for 2 1/2 weeks, and Zapdos exits on Tuesday) and 2) bigger number of players required.
We had 7 for a zapdos today as we had barely 20 seconds left on the clock. Am still happy I caught my 2nd zapdos, this time on the first throw even if I didn't get the team bonus, one throw was just enough.
Do anybody know of a way to check IVs a little more in-depth than the appraisal system does, without having to install third party apps or upload screenshots? More specifically, I'm starting to fill my "box" full of Pokémon with 80+ % IVs, and I'd like to curb out the ones below, say, 90 %. It's easy to tell if your Pokémon is at exactly 100 %, but you can still have two stats of 15 IVs and one stat of 3, and it wouldn't show on the appraisal. Any manual IV calculators (I'm fine with some number punching) or other tips for this situation?
calcy iv is by far the best IV app (i know you dont want third party, but it does the screenshots for you and doesnt require your login credentials). other than that, if you don't mind the number punching, https://pokeassistant.com/main/ivcalculator is a really good one too
I'm very excited about mewtwo being the new raid boss, it's what we've waited for all this time, and at a whopping 49k you'll need your strongest lineup to take it down along with the help of other raiders of course.
gamepress has a list of good counters here to get ready:
https://pokemongo.gamepress.gg/pokemon/150
I already have 2 fully powered up tyranitars with bite/crunch and 2 fully powered up dragonites with dragon tail & outrage. I've been hesitant to convert my scizor with steel moves over to bug moves though I have another at level 20 with bug moves but that needs stardust that I don't readily have and others higher up on the priority list. To round things up, I have another level 20 dragonite with dragon tail & outrage and might as well get that one powered up since its damage per second (DPS) is hard to resist. I'll have to use charged TMs to fix a 4500 stardust houndoom and another to fix a perfect IV pinsir at level 20, so lots of grinding for stardust will be necessary. Oh I also have 2 highly powered up gyarados with bite and crunch as those will definitely be handy and resistant to focus blast as well. Other hard hitters like vaporeon and some of the other legendary birds may come in handy too. I was going to immediately power up my best zapdos but now my 3rd dragonite takes priority there.
Edit: I successfully used a charged TM to change my 100% pinsir from vice grip to X-Scissor, and since pinsir's X-Scissor is the same and barely better than scizor's X-Scissor, and since pinsir resist focus blast then pinsir gets the nod here for preference over scizor.
gamepress has a list of good counters here to get ready:
https://pokemongo.gamepress.gg/pokemon/150
I already have 2 fully powered up tyranitars with bite/crunch and 2 fully powered up dragonites with dragon tail & outrage. I've been hesitant to convert my scizor with steel moves over to bug moves though I have another at level 20 with bug moves but that needs stardust that I don't readily have and others higher up on the priority list. To round things up, I have another level 20 dragonite with dragon tail & outrage and might as well get that one powered up since its damage per second (DPS) is hard to resist. I'll have to use charged TMs to fix a 4500 stardust houndoom and another to fix a perfect IV pinsir at level 20, so lots of grinding for stardust will be necessary. Oh I also have 2 highly powered up gyarados with bite and crunch as those will definitely be handy and resistant to focus blast as well. Other hard hitters like vaporeon and some of the other legendary birds may come in handy too. I was going to immediately power up my best zapdos but now my 3rd dragonite takes priority there.
Edit: I successfully used a charged TM to change my 100% pinsir from vice grip to X-Scissor, and since pinsir's X-Scissor is the same and barely better than scizor's X-Scissor, and since pinsir resist focus blast then pinsir gets the nod here for preference over scizor.
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The addition of Mewtwo brings two implications so far:
1) Base stat nerf. Mewtwo received a 9% reduction to all of its stats prior to its release in Yokohama. While it's still the best attacker in the game, this sets a precedence that hasn't been established by Niantic: Could Blissey get a nerf? Could something like Noctowl be buffed? It's very arbitrary to just randomly choose Mewtwo and nerf it like that...
2) Exclusive Raid Passes. As some of you have heard by now, Mewtwo can only be obtained by participating in Exclusive Raids, which consists of an invitation to a gym that you have raided in prior. While the details are not known at all at the time of writing this post, this already seems very dangerous for rural players and those who are travel a lot. For example, the college student demographic who is mostly (this week) moving back to their dorms. We'll see in the coming days how Niantic handles this as it will not only apply to Mewtwo, but other powerful Pokemon as well.
As an aside, the legendary birds + Lugia have been extended to August 31st. Basically a money grab but allows people who missed out on the birds to be able to obtain them as a final hurrah + usage of these legendary birds to counter each other (e.g. Moltres as a counter to Raid Boss Articuno, Zapdos as a counter to Raid Boss Moltres).
1) Base stat nerf. Mewtwo received a 9% reduction to all of its stats prior to its release in Yokohama. While it's still the best attacker in the game, this sets a precedence that hasn't been established by Niantic: Could Blissey get a nerf? Could something like Noctowl be buffed? It's very arbitrary to just randomly choose Mewtwo and nerf it like that...
2) Exclusive Raid Passes. As some of you have heard by now, Mewtwo can only be obtained by participating in Exclusive Raids, which consists of an invitation to a gym that you have raided in prior. While the details are not known at all at the time of writing this post, this already seems very dangerous for rural players and those who are travel a lot. For example, the college student demographic who is mostly (this week) moving back to their dorms. We'll see in the coming days how Niantic handles this as it will not only apply to Mewtwo, but other powerful Pokemon as well.
As an aside, the legendary birds + Lugia have been extended to August 31st. Basically a money grab but allows people who missed out on the birds to be able to obtain them as a final hurrah + usage of these legendary birds to counter each other (e.g. Moltres as a counter to Raid Boss Articuno, Zapdos as a counter to Raid Boss Moltres).