:( you think I should go somewhere near water? But I haven’t seen any Dragonite around there! I usually get a ton of Poliwag, Slowpoke, Psyduck, Staryu, Krabby, Goldeen, and Horsea. :/
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:( you think I should go somewhere near water? But I haven’t seen any Dragonite around there! I usually get a ton of Poliwag, Slowpoke, Psyduck, Staryu, Krabby, Goldeen, and Horsea. :/
When I was in Miami and SF, Dratini did pop up only near water, so I guess you should at least try
If anything you might get a shiny Karp and a good Gyarados
If anything you might get a shiny Karp and a good Gyarados
dratini and dragonair share a biome with magikarp and most of the other normal water pokemon, whereas dragonite's in the mountain biome along with clefairy etc.
Well! I definitely see Clefairy pop up out of nowhere all the time, but not Dragonite, though obviously fully evolved Pokémon don’t exactly appear willy-nilly. But also, I do see Magikarp all the time but never any Dratini. Maybe they’re just there but not at the time I’m there, or they’re just supposed to be rarer? I don’t know.
It must've been kicked out by someone. It was in there for over 40 days (instant Gold badge lol).
Yay, am glad Entei is coming to USA already at time of this post as I can now use vaporeon and golem with rock moves and not have to power up raikou so soon.
Good thing I had raised few useful ground fighters. He's immediately joining Anti-Vaporeon raid team.
grats :) explosao facalizada is the coolest move name i've ever seen
Focus Explosion sounds pretty cool Ill admit
What does Duel Rating mean?
What does Duel Rating mean?
poke genie said:
It's the stat I care less about. They generally use it for ranking and simulation.
Yeah. Some of the translations are way too awesome.
Got my entei today. 88.9%, CP 1903 with 15 HP, 15 attack & 10 defense so I'm thrilled. Also got over 700k stardust as was a recent goal. Among the stuff I intend to power up soon includes an omastar with water gun and the legacy move rock slide, a 100% houndoom with snarl & foul play I recently hatched, and my 95% raikou.
Lucky you. I battled three yesterday, the first two ran away and then I caught the third one on the last ball. Ended up being only 11/15/14, but at least it already has Volt Switch and Wild Charge...The new beast has come, and did two raids. One ran away and one caught. And this one's almost perfect with only 1 HP IV loss (14/15/15). And already comes with Wild Charge. Nyahahahaha~!
Good thing I had raised few useful ground fighters. He's immediately joining Anti-Vaporeon raid team.
Well, to be fair, I had a perfect Thunderbirb ran away before, and only caught few Firebirb. My best catch there were only 43/45IV Freezerbirb and 42/45IV Lugia. This is indeed my best luck ever in GO, never any other time (I can only recall my best lucks were only an outstanding Larvitar at high level).
Well, I'd say -5IV is good enough to be kept and considered raising once beast migration happens again. After all Raikou is already better than any other electrics including Thunderbirb. We have a full month, but these beasts have atrocious catch rate. To hit excellent curveballs with all balls is a must. I hope I can catch more since Raikou may be currently the best Electric non-cover Legendary across all generations, it seems (well, there's still insane-Atk Xurkitree? but that's long and is pretty much glassier cannon than all-round Raikou).
Still, it'll eventually happen that one will catch very fantastic Raikou. Around 31 raids minimal is good, focusing on good attackers and throwing skills will very much help.
Now what I wonder is when Pokebank happens for GO (hopefully Masuda don't forget that). Suikun is useless here, but transferred to main games, a decent battler. Same with other legendaries (... well, at least the two NU birbs can be trade fodder....) and including those with subpar IV (viva Hyper Training).
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Honestly I think consistently hitting greats and maximizing the number of balls you get is the best thing to do. Of course if you really are a master thrower and hit excellents with >90% accuracy by all means go for it, but I'd rather hit 11+ great curves everytime. So far i'm 2/2 on Raikou and 1/1 on Entei. (My raikou's suck in terms of ivs/movesets tho, and he's gone for me now ;_;)
I learnt the trick to lock the ring to desirable size before throwing, enabling me to get Excellent throws, and had been practicing on Vaporeons to get Excellent curveballs. But true, the curveball discredit bug is still there, hurting catch rate. Hitting greats give more consistent curveball bonus than excellents which may discount it by bug and one can't tell if that happens until it's caught. So it is either praying to Random Number Arceus to not hit the bug or go safely with less optimal catch rate.
This said I usually have one or two botched throw in trying Excellent throws too....
I sure hope pokebank will be available to transfer from Pokemon GO as I have kept all my legendary catches and had no intentions of transferring any of them yet. Of course I would only keep the best ones in GO.
I'd like to see the ghosts from gen 3.
Now that the stardust event is over, I can now report that I have gained almost 600,000 stardust during this time. Before event I was at around 220,000 and am finished at 809770 so I'll start powering up some stuff immediately giving higher priority to Omastar, Houndoom & Raikou.
Holy ***, did you really grind that much? I also did a bit of playing but I only gained roughly 200k.
I think I only accumulated like, no more than 150k, seeing that I immediately spent it on Raikou and a 'don to get to optimal level, and returned to around same amount before event. I had been very busy and I don't get along well with people....
And that's with around 9 10km eggs hatched, 7 of which were stored before for this event.
And that's with around 9 10km eggs hatched, 7 of which were stored before for this event.
