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a sexual elk
May 16, 2007

What’s with the size changes, seeing giant diglets and super tiny onix now.

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seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

FLAWED
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Toilet Rascal
Speaking of surf, Rhydon gets it as a charge move now. Weird.

GonSmithe
Apr 25, 2010

Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.
I hope we can get Shiny Dratini and have a gross rear end green Dragonite.

DEEP STATE PLOT
Aug 13, 2008

Yes...Ha ha ha...YES!



would've preferred beldum or bagon but w/e i guess

seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

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financially racist posted:

would've preferred beldum or bagon but w/e i guess

Probably don't want to give out cool new poo poo easily. But yeah I really really want Metagross because right now the only good steel type is Scizor, and that's not super great...

DEEP STATE PLOT
Aug 13, 2008

Yes...Ha ha ha...YES!



i more care about shiny metagross than i do about its place in the metagame, it's one of the best looking sprites in pokemon

dwarf74
Sep 2, 2012



Buglord
Sync up 2/18 to be Day 1 of your catches. Hold off until triple stardust time on the community event before your first catch, and it should be pretty fab.

Ballz
Dec 16, 2003

it's mario time

I can get behind a swarm of Dratinis. I still wish it was 6 hours instead of 3.

SeXTcube
Jan 1, 2009

dwarf74 posted:

Sync up 2/18 to be Day 1 of your catches. Hold off until triple stardust time on the community event before your first catch, and it should be pretty fab.
Do stardust pieces affect the daily bonus? If so you're looking at quite the bounty. You also have to consider your play habits and whether realigning your streak date will be a net gain.

The next community event has me considering buying a gotcha or something now. I was overwhelmed by pikachus Saturday I couldn't catch all of them as I was going about town.

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

robziel posted:

Community day 2 announced February 24th 3x star dust and a Dratini with a special move
https://pokemongo.nianticlabs.com/en/events/community-day/americas/

I hope their Javascript to set the local time is just broken.

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

seiferguy posted:

Speaking of surf, Rhydon gets it as a charge move now. Weird.

Rhydon could always surf in the games so maybe they're widening move pools?

Cowslips Warren
Oct 29, 2005

What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?

Grimey Drawer
So down for a Dratini event. I need that gold badge.

Wondering if I should leave Pokemon in the park again. Double Xp was great for raiding but stardust not so much!

dwarf74
Sep 2, 2012



Buglord

Steve Jorbs posted:

Do stardust pieces affect the daily bonus? If so you're looking at quite the bounty. You also have to consider your play habits and whether realigning your streak date will be a net gain.


Yep they sure do!

Pomplamoose
Jun 28, 2008

Cowslips Warren posted:

So down for a Dratini event. I need that gold badge.

Wondering if I should leave Pokemon in the park again. Double Xp was great for raiding but stardust not so much!

I'm glad it's dust instead of XP because during the last event it was tough juggling between catching, evolving, and raiding. Now I can just focus on catching the whole time.

seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

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~Coxy posted:

Rhydon could always surf in the games so maybe they're widening move pools?

Every move that a Pokemon learns end game is one that they could learn from previous games, but they don't include every move that they could potentially learn. It's just a really weird pick in my mind.

SeXTcube
Jan 1, 2009

seiferguy posted:

Every move that a Pokemon learns end game is one that they could learn from previous games, but they don't include every move that they could potentially learn. It's just a really weird pick in my mind.
Ya, it's not even a case where it's a counter to water and grass types or something.

MY PALE GOTH SKIN
Nov 28, 2006


meow

shyduck posted:

What's the consensus on the Go-tcha? Do I have to watch for bootlegs if I buy from Amazon?

How does one tell a bootleg from a non bootleg? They're all cheap Chinese fitbit knockoffs anyway, I thought.

Having said that, I've ordered about 12 from this listing:


[and 10 have worked perfectly out of the box, as far as I know. I tell people to just order through me because A. Prime and B. If it's borked, free return shipping and new item shipping. So I'm guessing they would tell me if it didn't work right.

One was DOA, easily exchanged. The other is the one I've been using daily since early September and basically wear from morning til night, because I'm a loser. It's been a bit fucky lately, Bluetooth issues. This may be because I dropped it in a loving snowy parking lot around Christmas and it sat there for 25 hours and was run over at least once, as evidence by it being seriously mashed down into the snow.

LionArcher posted:

This game is broken. Where the hell are my revives? I get one every 20th stop or so. Which is why I have 152 fainted Pokémon. This is bullshit.

loving same, and I have 8 gold gyms near.my house. They're trying to push people to raid more, I think.

Sanford posted:

I threw away two hundred and eleven max revives earlier today.

I chucked over 100 of them a few months ago and on my god do I regret it. I'm down to like 30, and I try to only use them when healing during a raid.

Cowslips Warren posted:

So down for a Dratini event. I need that gold badge.

Wondering if I should leave Pokemon in the park again. Double Xp was great for raiding but stardust not so much!

I'm planning on stocking the gently caress up on berries, attempting to have 20 Pokemon in 20 gyms at event start (at least 15 of which are gyms I feel I'll last at least a few hours in), and then popping Star Pieces and berrying the max out of all of them. While catching, obviously.

MY PALE GOTH SKIN fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Jan 23, 2018

GTJustin
Nov 24, 2010
I got my go-tcha at a GameStop and it's worked fine. I only wish they had a battery indicator.

I_Socom
Jul 18, 2007

A great ride that requires finesse and effort to get the best out of it.

dwarf74 posted:

Yes. It remembers the selected ball when I am manually tossing them. The Go-tcha throws regular ones no matter what.

From a page back - but you're correct. Having tested this morning, it appears my Whatsapp group was talking nonsense. Sorry for any alarm caused!

Away all Goats
Jul 5, 2005

Goose's rebellion

If they ever allow the plus/gotcha to throw non-regular pokeballs I might never throw an item out ever again.

MY PALE GOTH SKIN
Nov 28, 2006


meow

GTJustin posted:

I got my go-tcha at a GameStop and it's worked fine. I only wish they had a battery indicator.

Would be nice. I heard a lot of stories about ones being DOA, so I started with Amazon, and have just continued the trend.

We triggered an EX raid locally. Quite a bit of coordination in the Discord, but it boiled down to hitting the one easily accessible gym in an S2 cell hard. Massive groups for L5s, lots of lobbies of 1-5 for smaller raids. Mapping the S2 cells has also supported the idea that two or more popular gyms in one cell will just alternate.

Of course, the system is still hosed and broken, and the two people who put in the most effort (me and a friend, I live 4 blocks from the gym and he works three blocks from it) got zip. Tons of people did one Magikarp and got a pass, including both of our alt accounts (levels 19 and 24) and my kiddo's account (28). While I'm all for new people getting passes, the fact that I get nothing on my main account in my golded hone gym kind sucks. Doesn't need to get another pass, just.. something. Some drat incubators or something. The system is just stupid. I have several Mewtwo, and I freely admit that puts me ahead of anyone who doesn't. It still sucks to be left out.

There's a girl who is a very, very young 23 in my town, she's only permitted to play at her house and at the park across the street. I used to give her rides to raids, but I felt like I had adopted a spoiled rear end kid, tbh, so I haven't been doing so lately. She has had eight passes on her main account, first from riding around with me and us happening to hit the right gyms, now from the fact that enough of the nearby players go out of their way to raid at her park with her so she can beat the bosses.

She wrote Niantic an an angry letter! Because of the lack of raids between invites going out and the actual EX raids. She basically tried to put the responsibility of making up for the fact that she's a grown woman who isn't allowed to go anywhere out of sight of her house on Niantic. Im sure they'll get right on it. Speaking from experience, it's loving annoying. That's her job.

Crosspeice
Aug 9, 2013

More Hoenn Pokemon are gonna start spawning later today.

Hopefully this is the last batch of Hoenn Pokemon coming out, otherwise we'll get whatever is still left on Valentine's, hopefully.

seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

FLAWED
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Has Niantic ever acknowledged the existence of the dodge glitch? It's more or less plagued the game since the near beginning and it's probably one of the most impactful bugs. Yet they don't appear to be doing anything about it.

AweStriker
Oct 6, 2014

Crosspeice posted:

More Hoenn Pokemon are gonna start spawning later today.

Hopefully this is the last batch of Hoenn Pokemon coming out, otherwise we'll get whatever is still left on Valentine's, hopefully.

There are way more than 23 Hoenn pokémon we don't have in game yet.

White Light
Dec 19, 2012

AweStriker posted:

There are way more than 23 Hoenn pokémon we don't have in game yet.

I was about to ask if this was the final batch of new gen III mons or not. How many will be left after this thing rolls out?

Louisgod
Sep 25, 2003

Always Stupid
Bread Liar
I like how Niantic has gone with a staggered release of Gen3 as releasing all of Gen2 at once lead to huge dry spells of content.

At this point I feel all they need to do is improve water spawns. Lotad and Feebas are crazy rare, even next to rivers/creeks or when it's raining. They're the only sets of evolutions I'm missing.

Crosspeice
Aug 9, 2013

Willsun posted a list last page, there are 50 non-legendary Gen 3 Pokemon left, so yeah, we still won't be done after this. Makes sense, staggering 135 new Pokemon over the course of 2 or so months 4 times does breathe a lot of life back into the game and makes them all pretty obtainable at one point or another.

This will be harder to do for the 107 Sinnoh Pokemon, since if you remove the cross-gen evolutions (which will probably never spawn) and the legendaries (which you can't get if you're rural), that only leaves 63 Pokemon that you'll be able to actively hunt for and not just instantly get if you have the evolution item or whatnot.

Prop Wash
Jun 12, 2010



I'm hoping that they start the trickle of cross-gen evos like Magmortar and Electivire before the rest of the Gen 4s. I feel like they'll really overshadow everything else if they all show up at the same time.

GonSmithe
Apr 25, 2010

Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

Louisgod posted:

I like how Niantic has gone with a staggered release of Gen3 as releasing all of Gen2 at once lead to huge dry spells of content.

At this point I feel all they need to do is improve water spawns. Lotad and Feebas are crazy rare, even next to rivers/creeks or when it's raining. They're the only sets of evolutions I'm missing.

Yeah, it’s much better than releasing all at once.

It is insane how rare Feebas and Lotad are, though. Especially Feebas because to evolve it you need to walk it, so I’ve been trying to get a good one before I start that and it just isn’t happening.

Louisgod
Sep 25, 2003

Always Stupid
Bread Liar

GonSmithe posted:

It is insane how rare Feebas and Lotad are, though. Especially Feebas because to evolve it you need to walk it, so I’ve been trying to get a good one before I start that and it just isn’t happening.

Even if you find a decent one it'll be stupid long before you can evolve it thanks to how rare it is. The 5km for 1 candy ratio it has is dumb.

seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

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Thankfully I got a nice Feebas in an egg, but I've only caught 2 in the wild. No idea where else they spawn.

Entropist
Dec 1, 2007
I'm very stupid.
I've seen enough Feebas along the canals here, and Lotad appeared all over the place when it rained, especially during the water event. The main one I still need more candy for is Corphish...

Cowslips Warren
Oct 29, 2005

What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?

Grimey Drawer
I really do like the Staggering but I can do without some of the Gen 1 Nests at this point.

If lorad is so rare does that mean even in places like Seattle where it rains a lot they don't spawn so much?

Julio Cruz
May 19, 2006
It feels like quite a few of the gen 3 water spawns are rare, I'm in a water biome and haven't managed to evolve Corphish or Carvanha, and the only reason I've got Whiscash is I caught a wild one.

DeadlyHalibut
May 31, 2008

Julio Cruz posted:

It feels like quite a few of the gen 3 water spawns are rare, I'm in a water biome and haven't managed to evolve Corphish or Carvanha, and the only reason I've got Whiscash is I caught a wild one.

On the other hand we live on top of a "lake", small water spot, we've had all the water spawns here.

Plenty of carvanha and corphish, wailmers and feebas.

Julio Cruz
May 19, 2006

DeadlyHalibut posted:

On the other hand we live on top of a "lake", small water spot, we've had all the water spawns here.

Plenty of carvanha and corphish, wailmers and feebas.

Has it been raining there too? We've mostly had cloudy so that might be overriding the biome to some extent.

Chairman Mao
Apr 24, 2004

The Chinese Communist Party is the core of leadership of the whole Chinese people. Without this core, the cause of socialism cannot be victorious.
If Lotad always spawned as often as it does when its raining Ludicolos would be all over the place. If someplace was rainy all the time you'd have no problem just naturally accruing lotad candy. The problem is when you only have "rainy" weather for a few hours at a time every few days or weeks, they're not common enough to go hunt for in short bursts.

Not that it's stopped players around here from doing exactly that and driving all over town on the trail of lotad spawns.

DeadlyHalibut
May 31, 2008

Julio Cruz posted:

Has it been raining there too? We've mostly had cloudy so that might be overriding the biome to some extent.

Not at all, which was really frustrating. My last "new" pokedex entry was ludicolo, I literally had 1 seen 1 caught lotad. Ran the fucker for 300km and fed candy to gyms as much as possible.

Crosspeice
Aug 9, 2013

My only Lotad just popped up in front of me while it wasn't raining. Wasn't even near a river, so I was very confused. Still haven't found a Feebas or Carvanha and I'm getting Whiscash and Crawdaunt by walking them. I'll walk Wailmer when I've done everything but the 5k buddies, cause that will feel less tedious.

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Fritzler
Sep 5, 2007


Crosspeice posted:

My only Lotad just popped up in front of me while it wasn't raining. Wasn't even near a river, so I was very confused. Still haven't found a Feebas or Carvanha and I'm getting Whiscash and Crawdaunt by walking them. I'll walk Wailmer when I've done everything but the 5k buddies, cause that will feel less tedious.
I'm in a fairly water prevalent area. Caught a wild Whishcash, been walking perfect Wailmer I hatched and with catches I'm at 260 ish candy. Evolved Corphish and Carvanah no problem. I have 26 Feebas candy I think and 40 Lotad candy. So before the new wave comes out I'm just missing Breloom, Wailord, Milotic and Lombre/Ludicolo (could evolve to Lombre if I had/wanted to). And the babies obviously.

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