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Chairman Mao posted:They'd be great defenders if it wasn't for that double weakness to fighting. You could say that about Rhydon but that doesn't stop people from loading him up in all the gyms I run across
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There are no good gym defenders. Everything is easily killable because the attacker's set their team up in advance with the best counters to whatever's in the gym.
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Jan 25, 2018 04:39
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Do you even want a strong defender these days? You want your pokemon to eventually drop out.
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flatluigi posted:Do you even want a strong defender these days? You want your pokemon to eventually drop out. I usually have 6-7 in gyms, they turn over pretty quickly here. I put everything from Feebas so I can remotely feed them or Blissey/Snorlax to sit in gyms long term to get gold.
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Jan 25, 2018 05:25
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I put in rare stuff so maybe someone gets a dex entry, it's the only way I've been able to see some Pokemon (regionals, Unown, fuckin Tangela). And to contribute to a theme, those who break those are the WORST.
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Jan 25, 2018 05:30
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What strange part of the world do you live that you have not been able to get Tangela?
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Jan 25, 2018 05:32
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I guess the Latis aren't coming out? Heard the announcement was fake or something, not sure
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Ballz posted:What strange part of the world do you live that you have not been able to get Tangela? I'm pretty sure I've never seen a wild one but they were pretty common hatches in gen 1.
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Jan 25, 2018 05:45
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Julio Cruz posted:I'm pretty sure I've never seen a wild one but they were pretty common hatches in gen 1. I only ever hatched 3. All of the same gender.  I need that other gender for my dex.I second the perception that Anorith is behaving like Lotad. I managed to catch 2 yesterday in the rain and spotted a few others on a scanner. I also caught a (for me) max lvl 81% Lotad. So guess who's going to become a dancing pineapple as soon as I have enough candy.
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Jan 25, 2018 09:31
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Never hatched a Tangela. Or a Miltank. Or a Chansey. Stupid Dex holes.
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Parrotine posted: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? Gen 3:
Remora posted:Is it better to power up and then evolve, or vice versa, or does it matter? I'm having trouble getting a grasp of how CP works in relation to IVs and levels and poo poo. It doesn't matter. All Pokemon are at their own levels that you can't really see, but they go from 1 to 40. When you catch a Pokemon, its possible level it can start at are 1 to whatever level you are, but maxes out at 30 (35 during the right weather boosts). You know when you view a Pokemon and you see that arc behind it? When you power it up, the arc reaches further with the white. That's what the level is. Every power up is half a level though, so you might see an app that helps determine their level say it's maybe level 18.5 or something. Knowing this, when you evolve, your Pokemon's level stays the same, but obviously it's on a different track of CP. I'm making up numbers here, but like a Squirtle's CP goes from like 10cp at level 1 to 950cp at level 40, and a Wartortle's CP goes from 50cp at level 1 to 1300cp at level 40. It's NOT a multiplier when you evolve a Pokemon, so you're not missing out on exponentially increasing a Pokemon's CP if you failed to power it up before evolving. They end up being the same no matter if you power up or evolve first. If your Pokemon has higher IVs, then it'll end up with more CP. Most people will tell you in here that after doing the math, it's not going to make a huge difference in raid or gym battles since you're fighting a CPU controlled enemy and the one or two more attacks you might be able to tank won't help much, nor will it ever change the CPU's pattern of firing off charge attacks. It's really hard to say, because you never know how many people will be fighting in a raid, and sometimes good IVs just might help make the difference in finishing a raid boss in time. Right now though, it's probably more for collectors/perfectionists unless Niantic finds a way to make PvP battling, where it might matter more.
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Jan 25, 2018 10:24
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Why do we get new gen 3 out when all the nests are loving gen1? Oh boy, we have loving 6 Goldeen nests within an hour of each other. No Magikarp. No starters. ONE Gen3 nest that is Nosepass. Yay.
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Jan 25, 2018 14:27
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I bet Tropius will be another regional. 
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Jan 25, 2018 14:28
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Cowslips Warren posted:Why do we get new gen 3 out when all the nests are loving gen1? Oh boy, we have loving 6 Goldeen nests within an hour of each other. No Magikarp. No starters. ONE Gen3 nest that is Nosepass. Yay. Nests aren't exclusively a particular gen. The nests around here switch gens pretty regularly when nests change.
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TheMaestroso posted:Nests aren't exclusively a particular gen. The nests around here switch gens pretty regularly when nests change. the point is gen1 probably shouldn't be nesting this much. let alone the issues with non nesting pokes (wife still doesn't have grimer)
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Jan 25, 2018 16:09
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Apparently 37 degrees and intense downpours is the equivalent to snow in this game for some reason. Even when it's snowing in game jack poo poo spawns. The weather system is hot garbage when it comes to spawning poo poo that aligns with the weather.
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Jan 25, 2018 16:36
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Louisgod posted:Apparently 37 degrees and intense downpours is the equivalent to snow in this game for some reason. I feel like it just steps up spawns by one rank, so rares are still stupidly rare.
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Jan 25, 2018 17:18
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Steel and ice Pokemon are incredibly rare in some places, weather just bumps them up to "still pretty loving rare". We get a ton of Spheal and Magnemite when its snowy around here but that's about it. I guess Swinubs and Arons show up a little bit too, but not really in the same numbers. I have never seen a dragon spawn in windy weather. Parrotine posted:You could say that about Rhydon but that doesn't stop people from loading him up in all the gyms I run across Rhyhorns are loving everywhere and people still have lots from when they were relevant to the gym system. They are essentially high cp garbage that people dump into gyms because they're not going to use them for anything else. Which is probably what's going to happen to Aggron in a few months. Chairman Mao fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Jan 25, 2018 |
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I haven't seen a single dratini since weather was introduced. I just looked at the map there isn't a single one in the Seattle area. The weather has rotated from cloudy to rainy, so it's all the same poo poo. Spheals, wurmple, oddish, machops, gulpins, and maybe the occasional ralts. The system would be cool if it wasn't linked to the weather because it never snows where I'm at.
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TheMaestroso posted:Nests aren't exclusively a particular gen. The nests around here switch gens pretty regularly when nests change. I know it's random and the nests are likely generated by computer random logs but there is no reason we should have so many gen 1 nests and few to no Gen 2 nests and 1 to 2 gen 3 nests. Likewise there is no reason so many of the eggs have to be from gen 1 by this point. They removed the rat in Pidgey and they really should remove several of the others like Ponyta Growlithe the male and female Nidoran Etc.
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Only Snorunt is a pure ice type (at least for now), and only Gen 5's Klink line is pure steel so the rest of the steel/ice types should be boosted by other weather conditions. I think that's probably by design because what does steel have to do with snowy weather?Cowslips Warren posted:I know it's random and the nests are likely generated by computer random logs but there is no reason we should have so many gen 1 nests and few to no Gen 2 nests and 1 to 2 gen 3 nests. We have had a ton of reasonably rare gen 3 Pokemon nest around here lately, you unfortunately just got the rear end end of the rng this time. They'll probably roll around to you eventually. If it helps any, they've removed all gen 1 and 2 Pokemon from the egg pool temporarily and you haven't been able to hatch a nidoran in ages. Chairman Mao fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Jan 25, 2018 |
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Chairman Mao posted:Only Snorunt is a pure ice type (at least for now), and only Gen 5's Klink line is pure steel so the rest of the steel/ice types should be boosted by other weather conditions. I think that's probably by design because what does steel have to do with snowy weather? I guess there wasn't really a good spot to put steel otherwise. My suggestion is they put steel in partly cloudy, since that only has normal and rock boost. All the other weather types kind of make sense, except for cloudy.
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seiferguy posted:I haven't seen a single dratini since weather was introduced. I've seen Dratini once ever. It doesn't feel good.
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Cowslips Warren posted:I know it's random and the nests are likely generated by computer random logs but there is no reason we should have so many gen 1 nests and few to no Gen 2 nests and 1 to 2 gen 3 nests. There are more mons in gen 1 than 2 or what's been released of 3, plus a decent chunk of gen 2 are babies and evolves that need items, none of which spawn at all. If you're going to take earlier gen mons out of the game then it really has to be all or nothing. Ponyta and Growlithe for example are pretty rare where I am, I'd much rather get rid of Goldeen and Poliwag.
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Dratini has gotten considerably rarer ever since gen 3's initial release. Larvitar has straight up vanished.
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Away all Goats posted:Dratini has gotten considerably rarer ever since gen 3's initial release. Larvitar has straight up vanished. I was so excited for fog weather to see lots of larvitar and...nope. none
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mastershakeman posted:I was so excited for fog weather to see lots of larvitar and...nope. none No there wouldn't be, fog only boosts ghost and dark types. You want sunny/clear or partly cloudy for the ground or rock boost.
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We used to have a lot more Dratini on the riverfronts, not so much any more. I did a lot of raids to get Larvitar candy since they almost never spawn here, and I did a lot of hunting during the rock event. I still see a few of each on the city map but not often.
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Chairman Mao posted:No there wouldn't be, fog only boosts ghost and dark types. You want sunny/clear or partly cloudy for the ground or rock boost. The game has shown to boost the first form of final forms typing even if they aren't the same. Torchic is common in cloudy weather because Blaziken is a fighting type (although Torchic won't be weather boosted), and Slugma shows up in partly cloudy because Magcargo is rock. So I wouldn't be surprised if Larvitars showed up in fog. You'd still as to catch them in sunny / partly cloudy weather for the boost, though.
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Cowslips Warren posted:Likewise there is no reason so many of the eggs have to be from gen 1 by this point. They removed the rat in Pidgey and they really should remove several of the others like Ponyta Growlithe the male and female Nidoran Etc. Well, good news then! All eggs received since yesterday (I think) now only hatch gen 3 mons. Per this chart: 
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TheMaestroso posted:Well, good news then! All eggs received since yesterday (I think) now only hatch gen 3 mons. Per this chart: Wait, is this true? I've been waiting FOREVER for some sort of confirmation of this as I want to purge all my poo poo eggs and start incubating eggs that aren't complete loving trash.
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Louisgod posted:Wait, is this true? I've been waiting FOREVER for some sort of confirmation of this as I want to purge all my poo poo eggs and start incubating eggs that aren't complete loving trash. It's from the Silph Road - I think they're still working on official confirmations in an upcoming real research/blog post. E: From one of head people over there: dronpes posted:These have also been updated on the Silph Road's egg resource: https://thesilphroad.com/egg-distances TheMaestroso fucked around with this message at 00:36 on Jan 26, 2018 |
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TheMaestroso posted:It's from the Silph Road - I think they're still working on official confirmations in an upcoming real research/blog post. Nice, that explains why the two 2k eggs I received yesterday hatched an Aron and Whismur. Thought I just got lucky with the odds.
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Come to Arizona if you want a Bonanza of the latest release. Numel, cacnea, trapinch, claydol are all incredibly common. Less common but still plentiful are nosepass, aron, lileep, whismur. Stage twos pop up here and there. Solrock is really rare and you'd need a scanner or good luck to find it. I caught two thanks to a scanner this week. It's always Sunny here so any of those types spawn like crazy.
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No thanks, I'll just keep encountering Pidgey, Rattata, Hoothoot, Sentret and Zigzagoon forever since it's been Partly Cloudy all day. Rock types? Never heard of them.
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It's been cloudy all the time here so we get all of the snubull and Mankey. Steels with ice because that shits cold rolled baby.
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Aggron raids are a thing now. Level 4. Will have to try it when I get a chance.
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Chairman Mao posted:Only Snorunt is a pure ice type (at least for now), and only Gen 5's Klink line is pure steel so the rest of the steel/ice types should be boosted by other weather conditions. I think that's probably by design because what does steel have to do with snowy weather? I've hatched about ten Nidorans from eggs, all recent eggs, in December. So they're still there.
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