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seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

FLAWED
INTUITION



Toilet Rascal
Articuno isn't a glass cannon as far as I'm aware. Neither is Lapras (but definitely on the weaker attack side, and lacks Aurora Beam). Shame we can't get Mamoswine till next gen.

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Willsun
Dec 9, 2006

I willed too hard again...
I powered up my Piloswine barely past 2000cp anyway and just enough to push him into the next point up for its ice quick attack. Won't bother trying to change its charge move with a TM since it has Mamoswine like you said where it'll just get new moves anyway.

Anyway it's stats like this that makes IVs somewhat useful. Just going by the Cloyster example, most people with mediocre attack IVs would never reach that extra point of attack given a less hardcore playing where I imagine they'd be in the lower end of level 30 themselves and can't power up their Pokemon to the next point even if they have the candy and stardust.

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

DeadlyHalibut posted:

I think there'll be a valentines event. I mean it makes sense, the 6h lures last until 23rd and this event is only 4 days.

So the question is should I hold on to the 8 10 K I've been hoarding for the past month or should I try and hatch them ASAP to get new eggs?

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Kyogre get!

Broke out of a few nice/great curve balls, handed my phone off to someone who'd gone 5/5 and he caught it with a basic straight throw. RNG is a hell of a thing.

Darth TNT
Sep 20, 2013

Psion posted:

raid fatigue is real, kyogre raid fatigue is the worst I've seen. Part of that is kyogre, probably, but I think part of that is how many legendaries most people have already. you can only keep trying the same trick to generate interest so many times before it stops working. I'm curious to see how much interest bounces back after kyogre leaves.


this is way better than my 666 slowpokes, you did win pokemon

Raid fatigue has hit our group harder than usual:
1: Kyogre is hard to catch making the reward even less than usual
2: Raid times are still poo poo. No Niantic, no one will raid at 5 AM in the morning so scrap that and move the endtime an hour or 2 back so it doesn't at at 7PM when everyone just got home from work.
3: It's the end of a raid boss.
4: People are actively gunning for Exraids. So the daily raiders tend to skip non exraid gyms. The exraid system is such a brilliant clusterfuck working actively against the values of the game.


Psychobabble! posted:

Supposed improvements on the ex system (just loving SCRAP IT ALREADY) incoming as well as acknowledging the bug with the last round of invites: https://pokemongolive.com/en/post/exraids-update-020718/
Reading through that makes me feel like Niantic took a page from Ubisofts Destiny playbook and actively lied to the playerbase to get them to spend money. Supposedly gold gym badges already boosted your odds, except all research pointed out otherwise. I wonder what new research will show.

Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016

Afrowalrus time to shine.

Louisgod
Sep 25, 2003

Always Stupid
Bread Liar
People think the event will start at 1 or 2 pm pacific today? Seems like Niantic's normal go-to time.

seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

FLAWED
INTUITION



Toilet Rascal
Another day passes, another day they don't acknowledge the existence of the dodge glitch.

Dr Tran
Dec 17, 2002

HE'S GOT A PH.D. IN
KICKING YOUR ASS!

Away all Goats posted:

Are there really no common dragon types until Gen 5? Guess I'll stick to using every single dragon scale to evolve Kingdras :shepface:

Trash evolve Trapinch. Problem solved.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


I've seen one Trapinch since they were introduced and they're a 10k egg, doesn't scream trash evolve to me

Louisgod
Sep 25, 2003

Always Stupid
Bread Liar

sebzilla posted:

I've seen one Trapinch since they were introduced and they're a 10k egg, doesn't scream trash evolve to me

They're trash in that they're generally pretty useless outside a dex entry.

Psion
Dec 13, 2002

eVeN I KnOw wHaT CoRnEr gAs iS

Louisgod posted:

They're trash in that they're generally pretty useless outside a dex entry.

Goats asked specifically for “common,” trash status is irrelevant until that part is met

seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

FLAWED
INTUITION



Toilet Rascal
The Dratini event in a couple weekends from now is probably your best bet at this point.

MY PALE GOTH SKIN
Nov 28, 2006


meow

Darth TNT posted:

2: Raid times are still poo poo. No Niantic, no one will raid at 5 AM in the morning so scrap that and move the endtime an hour or 2 back so it doesn't at at 7PM when everyone just got home from work.


This poo poo right here kills me. In the summer, raids usually didn't get going until 11 AM or so on the weekdays, 9 on weekends. Now it's more like 4 PM on weekdays, 11 AM on weekends.

The raid schedule is the same here, eggs pop at 5 AM, done by 7:25 PM. So there's 3-4 hours of actual raiding on the weekdays.

It's extra insulting because I remember when raids went til 9:45 PM. It was dark at 5 o clock in the loving evening until recently, what differenfe does it make?

I'm feeling salty about this because I went and took/added to 15 gyms this morning due to insomnia, and saw an egg in my hood on the way home. gently caress that. 5 AM is still yesterday for most people.

gently caress the short timers and eggs, too. Make it 15-20 min of egg and over an hour of raid.


Darth TNT posted:

Reading through that makes me feel like Niantic took a page from Ubisofts Destiny playbook and actively lied to the playerbase to get them to spend money. Supposedly gold gym badges already boosted your odds, except all research pointed out otherwise. I wonder what new research will show.

I don't know that they lied, there's a reporting issue with the TSR polls: gotta be a poo poo load of casual players who didn't get passes and didn't report it.

It's still a lovely system regardless. I'm now in the #2 spot for most EX passes in the Discord, and I definitely don't deserve it. Meanwhile, my kid has had zero, one of my friends who plays hardcore has had zero, and people who play more than I do have only had 1-2. I can't control it, but still am starting to feel bad about it.

Louisgod posted:

People think the event will start at 1 or 2 pm pacific today? Seems like Niantic's normal go-to time.

Probably 1 Pacific, if they follow pattern.

Psion
Dec 13, 2002

eVeN I KnOw wHaT CoRnEr gAs iS

MY PALE GOTH SKIN posted:

I don't know that they lied, there's a reporting issue with the TSR polls: gotta be a poo poo load of casual players who didn't get passes and didn't report it.

yeah, TSR is a self-selecting sample ("people who go to TSR") so it's not statistically meaningful for something like pass distribution. Something like eggs, where the RNG is individual per egg and it doesn't matter who gets it instead of passes per account, that's different; the odds are much more in favor of a TSR egg report being accurate.

Now that said I think we can all agree there's something stupid as hell about the pass system, but it's not easily quantifiable. And with Niantic changing poo poo behind the scenes with no warning and no communication, it's almost futile to guess.

Psion fucked around with this message at 19:38 on Feb 9, 2018

TVs Ian
Jun 1, 2000

Such graceful, delicate creatures.
So I put Evolve into the search to see what I had enough candy to evolve, and my Dittos are showing in the list, wanting to evolve into Raticates and Golbats.

That's a new one. I'm afraid to see what happens if I actually hit it.

SeXTcube
Jan 1, 2009

TVs Ian posted:

So I put Evolve into the search to see what I had enough candy to evolve, and my Dittos are showing in the list, wanting to evolve into Raticates and Golbats.

That's a new one. I'm afraid to see what happens if I actually hit it.
I've got a few dittos but none of them have an option to evolve. I say try it and see what happens!

seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

FLAWED
INTUITION



Toilet Rascal
My ditto wanted to evolve into a pigdeotto, tried it and got an "couldn't evolve due to an unknown error" heh.

TVs Ian
Jun 1, 2000

Such graceful, delicate creatures.

seiferguy posted:

My ditto wanted to evolve into a pigdeotto, tried it and got an "couldn't evolve due to an unknown error" heh.

Yeah, I had an extra and tried to evolve it into a Furret and got the same error. But I guess this is more confirmation that the game remembers what they appeared as, in addition to the "turns back into their old form if you use two Dittos" thing.

Man, the database for this game must be a mess.

Psion
Dec 13, 2002

eVeN I KnOw wHaT CoRnEr gAs iS
I just got a second EX Raid pass, despite not having done the first one (which is scheduled for tomorrow) ... at least this one is at a reasonable gym?

Psion fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Feb 9, 2018

kensei
Dec 27, 2007

He has come home, where he belongs. The Ancient Mariner returns to lead his first team to glory, forever and ever. Amen!


I got a third EX Pass for next weekend, very cool.

Louisgod
Sep 25, 2003

Always Stupid
Bread Liar
New Gen3 wave is live.

DizzyBum
Apr 16, 2007


Louisgod posted:

New Gen3 wave is live.

Confirmed - just logged in to 3 Swablus and an Illumise.

..And a wild Breloom :aaaaa:

e: Swablu needs 400 candies to evolve :gonk:

AirRaid
Dec 21, 2004

Nose Manual + Super Sonic Spin Attack
Logged in to... 2 Numels and a Spheal. Nothing new on the nearby. Worst event ever 0/10.

Louisgod
Sep 25, 2003

Always Stupid
Bread Liar
Yeah this even is poo poo so far, just Zigzagoon, Swablu and Taillow across the board. Eat poo poo Niantic.

Bear Retrieval Unit
Nov 5, 2009

Mudslide Experiment
months of unemployment and no ex passes, now that I'm finally starting to work I get two passes during work hours for gyms 45+ minutes away from my job :negative:

DizzyBum
Apr 16, 2007


My new office is a pretty high spawn area in general, and I'm just drowning in Swablu right now. I caught like 10 in the last few minutes. I'm okay with this since you need so much candy for it.

Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016

DizzyBum posted:

My new office is a pretty high spawn area in general, and I'm just drowning in Swablu right now. I caught like 10 in the last few minutes. I'm okay with this since you need so much candy for it.

Swablu everywhere. So much cotton.

mastershakeman
Oct 28, 2008

by vyelkin
hmm it seems weather dependent



in good news, every nest is gen3 as well. i can't find a single gen1-2 spawn on maps other than regionals

Edward Mass
Sep 14, 2011

𝅘𝅥𝅮 I wanna go home with the armadillo
Good country music from Amarillo and Abilene
Friendliest people and the prettiest women you've ever seen
𝅘𝅥𝅮
Swablu are EVERYWHERE. Good thing, too.

Thuneral
Jul 25, 2004
High Listener For Music Awful

So many new pokemans, yet still no Bidoof :(

DizzyBum
Apr 16, 2007


Thuneral posted:

So many new pokemans, yet still no Bidoof :(

Don't worry. Soon we will be all be smothered by beavers.

If the release schedule keeps up, I would expect Gen 4 sometime this summer.

mastershakeman
Oct 28, 2008

by vyelkin
just got a minun in Illinois

DizzyBum
Apr 16, 2007


mastershakeman posted:

just got a minun in Illinois

Nice. Possible spawn swap with Plusle, like the Seviper/Zangoose flip?

e: nope, looks like Plusle and Minun are spawning together right now:

https://twitter.com/pokemongoapp/status/962119264349061125

endlessmonotony
Nov 4, 2009

by Fritz the Horse
This is what the Christmas boxes should have been. Woo raid passes and incubators.

White Light
Dec 19, 2012

Somebody help me fit the nickname 'Stevie Ray Quaz' into the name box for my Rayquaza, the character limit is too small :(

Psychobabble!
Jun 22, 2010

Observing this filth unsettles me

endlessmonotony posted:

This is what the Christmas boxes should have been. Woo raid passes and incubators.

Regular incubators though, F-

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.

Parrotine posted:

Somebody help me fit the nickname 'Stevie Ray Quaz' into the name box for my Rayquaza, the character limit is too small :(

SteⅵeRayQuaz (lowercase Roman numeral 6 is a single unicode character)

Chairman Mao fucked around with this message at 04:26 on Feb 10, 2018

Entropist
Dec 1, 2007
I'm very stupid.

Edward Mass posted:

Swablu are EVERYWHERE. Good thing, too.

I wish. So far I've gotten 5 Beldum, but 3 Swablu. Beldum are rare, so Swablu are very rare. It's gonna take a while to get 400 candy... Or perhaps it'll be better in some different weather condition.

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White Light
Dec 19, 2012

Chairman Mao posted:

SteⅵeRayQuaz (lowercase Roman numeral 6 is a single unicode character)

This is brilliant, four stars dude :golfclap:

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