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shut up blegum posted:So I'm a complete beginner in this game. Here's what I've been doing so far: This is what I'm doing and I'm curious too as another newbie.
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It does not matter if you power them up or evolve them first. I usually save candy and evolve first in case I find a better specimen while I'm collecting candy.
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Sep 29, 2018 11:13
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shut up blegum posted:So I'm a complete beginner in this game. Here's what I've been doing so far: Don't bother powering up pokemon until you hit level 20 at least. Wild pokemon can be up to level 30 (level 35 when weather boosted). It doesn't matter if power up your pokemon before or after evolving, you end up with exactly the same pokemon either way. The stardust and candy cost is the same whether you power up the unevolved or the evolved form. One (boring) way of getting lots of xp (like 70k) is to use a lucky egg and then mass evolve whatever pokemon you happen to have, since you get 500 xp per evolution (1000 with the lucky egg). Then just sit there and evolve pokemon for 30 minutes until the egg runs out. If you're really good at tapping, you can evolve almost 3 pokemon per minute, so you have to have like 70-80 pokemon ready to evolve and enough candy for them all.
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Sep 29, 2018 11:14
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Wheany posted:A normal person who plays the game casually: We have 8 people on this raid. I-is that enough??? Doesn't the game suggest something ridiculous like five people to beat a Magikarp raid?
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Sep 29, 2018 11:52
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shut up blegum posted:So I'm a complete beginner in this game. Here's what I've been doing so far: It depends what you're wanting to get out of the game. Technically speaking at your level you shouldn't power up or evolve anything, as your level still limits the strength of pokemon you can catch. For example a 400cp eevee might be the highest you can catch right now, but if you wait until you're level 25 you could have caught a few at 700+cp. The lower eevee would take a shitload more candy and stardust to turn into a useful fighter. If you're interested in levelling quickly, absolutely the best thing you can do is get involved in raids as soon as possible. You'll suck for your first few because you've got nothing competitive, but very quickly you'll build up a decent team (The 5 star raid is mewtwo right now, which is good against everything). As long as the group you do your first few raids with is big enough then it won't be a problem that you can't contribute. I did exactly the same with my second account I opened a few months ago, piggybacking on a few raids a week, and within a month I was level 25 or so and had a useful squad. Of course if you're not too fussed about raiding then keep as you are, and evolve what you want as and when you get the candy.
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Sep 29, 2018 11:56
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Black Feather posted:Doesn't the game suggest something ridiculous like five people to beat a Magikarp raid? It sure does. Maybe if you followed its recommendations and used a team of six Aggrons every time you might need five people to take down a Magikarp. If, like, all six of your Aggrons were level one with 0% IVs, maybe, and none of them had Thunder.
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Sep 29, 2018 11:59
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:If, like, all six of your Aggrons were level one with 0% IVs, maybe, and none of them had Thunder. how did you get my login details??
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Sep 29, 2018 12:16
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Butterfly Valley posted:If you're interested in levelling quickly, absolutely the best thing you can do is get involved in raids as soon as possible. You'll suck for your first few because you've got nothing competitive, but very quickly you'll build up a decent team (The 5 star raid is mewtwo right now, which is good against everything). As long as the group you do your first few raids with is big enough then it won't be a problem that you can't contribute. I did exactly the same with my second account I opened a few months ago, piggybacking on a few raids a week, and within a month I was level 25 or so and had a useful squad. Oh yea, absolutely do not be afraid to go on raids. The only time your low levels are going to be a problem are if you're on a level 4 raid and there is only one other player or a level 5 raid and there are fewer than 5 other people there. The raids do not scale to the number of players, and levels 1-3 are soloable. Level 4 requires 2 very high level players or 3 30+ level players. Some level 5 raids are doable with 4 or 3 players, but most are easy with at least 6 players. So if you stumble on a raid that already has enough players, you can join in with a team of 6 pidgeys and you will get the full xp from the raid, you will not steal xp from the other players and you will not make the raid harder for them and if you manage to catch the raid boss, you will get a pokemon that is better than the pidgeys you used on this raid.
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Sep 29, 2018 13:01
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Wheany posted:levels 1-3 are soloable. Except shuckle.
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Sep 29, 2018 13:28
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Yeah, bosses will probably rotste at the end of the event. There's always the possibility of a new one that is very difficult or impossible to solo. If you guys haven't already done this, see if there's a local Discord server. Helps with raids, a lot of channels have general chats for questions like that. Some of them are going to have faster reaponse times than SA.
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Sep 29, 2018 14:46
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MY PALE GOTH SKIN posted:Yeah, bosses will probably rotste at the end of the event. There's always the possibility of a new one that is very difficult or impossible to solo. In my experience these faster response times can come from people answering who don't actually know what they're talking about, so take pubbie Discord advice with a grain of salt. But sometimes you find real gems, and the raid access is super nice. I don't have time anymore but I did a lot of that when they first came out. People form legit caravans and will farm out your whole county on event days.
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Sep 29, 2018 14:57
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Beachcomber posted:Except shuckle. I still can't solo a Machamp or Alazakam. But usually the latter almost always has Focus Blast too.
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Sep 29, 2018 15:12
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Cowslips Warren posted:I still can't solo a Machamp or Alazakam. But usually the latter almost always has Focus Blast too. This is probably only helpful if you played during Gen 1 and have a ton of eggheads or egg candy, but my Machamp Squad is Alakazam, Espeon, Exeggutor, Exeggutor, Exeggutor, Lugia. I've never seen the Lugia come out in any weather against any moveset, and the Alakazam dies so fast I think he could easily be another Egghead. Those goofy motherfuckers are low-cost Machamp heroes.
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Sep 29, 2018 15:27
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Every Meltan I catch ends up being a Ditto  Do I gotta trade to get one of these poorly-designed variables? How much dust is it gonna cost?
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Sep 29, 2018 15:57
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Parrotine posted:Every Meltan I catch ends up being a Ditto
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Sep 29, 2018 16:14
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I think someone requested this earlier And a bigger version if you need to brutally own Niantic in non-smilie compatible way 
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Sep 29, 2018 16:16
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Cowslips Warren posted:I still can't solo a Machamp or Alazakam. But usually the latter almost always has Focus Blast too. Just because you can't do it doesn't make it impossible. Shuckle is the only 3-star so far that is impossible to take down solo.
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Sep 29, 2018 17:51
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Cowslips Warren posted:I still can't solo a Machamp or Alazakam. But usually the latter almost always has Focus Blast too. This is the best time to build up your Machamp soloing team, get a couple of Mewtwos with Psychic and just start stuffing candy down their gullets. Confusion/psychic Mewtwo will gently caress up a Machamp pretty bad although I've found that Gardevoir has the best dps/tdo balance so if you lead off with one or two of those you'll be able to mostly fill your bench with Espeons or Alakazams (especially if you have at least one Mewtwo to back it up). Make sure everything is above 2500cp (Mewtwo should be over 3k) and don't dodge* and you should be fine. Movesets are important, make sure that Gardevoir has Dazzling Gleam on it and Espeon/Alakazam are running Future Sight. Without future sight you might as well not even use Espeon or Alakazam. *dodge like one charge shot if you're using an Alakazam
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Sep 29, 2018 18:45
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Apparently during Beldum day we're going to have shiny Beldums et al, plus shiny Krabby and Kinglers.
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Sep 29, 2018 19:07
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Metagross isn't a crab, he's 
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Sep 29, 2018 19:23
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JesustheDarkLord posted:It does not matter if you power them up or evolve them first. I usually save candy and evolve first in case I find a better specimen while I'm collecting candy. There is a small benefit to evolving first in that you can find out what move set you got and then decide if you want to bother powering up or maybe evolve another one for another shot at a better move set. But this requires being into the game enough to care about movesets.
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Sep 29, 2018 21:08
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Elysiume posted:Doesn't trading reroll the IVs? How does that even work? Maybe he doesn't trade them? If he finds a raid for x% IV, he could log on a second device with his customer's account, have it join the raid, then catch it there. Could even do multiple devices at once if you find a good one. Which I suppose could put that other account in danger of being banned, depending on when/where they last logged on. With that many raids, is he spoofing the location, or just counting running the same raid over and over to catch it for multiple people?
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Sep 29, 2018 21:26
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TVs Ian posted:Maybe he doesn't trade them? If he finds a raid for x% IV, he could log on a second device with his customer's account, have it join the raid, then catch it there. Could even do multiple devices at once if you find a good one. Isn't the mon you get from raids different for every participant?
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Sep 29, 2018 21:32
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Black Feather posted:Isn't the mon you get from raids different for every participant? IVs are rolled differently for each participant at a raid, IVs are rerolled when trading. You'd have to do all the raiding on the target account for it to work but it doesn't look like he's doing that so I don't know what the gently caress his method is supposed to be.
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Sep 29, 2018 21:42
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If you caught enough Mewtwos I suppose you could just trade spam until you get a 100%
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Sep 29, 2018 21:48
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Mewtwo is a special trade, so you can only trade one per day.
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Sep 29, 2018 21:55
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Either he's logging into his clients' accounts, spoofing, and running tons of raids for them or there would have to be some sort of exploit he's using.
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Sep 29, 2018 22:00
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doingitwrong posted:There is a small benefit to evolving first in that you can find out what move set you got and then decide if you want to bother powering up or maybe evolve another one for another shot at a better move set. But this requires being into the game enough to care about movesets. TMs have been a thing for a very long time now
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Sep 29, 2018 22:37
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Butterfly Valley posted:TMs have been a thing for a very long time now I am a semi new player, I don't raid that much, TMs are rare and for many mons it's easier to just get more catches and candy.
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Sep 29, 2018 22:48
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Butterfly Valley posted:TMs have been a thing for a very long time now either charge tms have had their rate greatly, greatly reduced or i am just incredibly unlucky because i did over 30 articuno raids during bird week and got zero charge tms the entire time, which was bullshit because it meant i never got a shadow ball mewto
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Sep 30, 2018 00:13
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:either charge tms have had their rate greatly, greatly reduced or i am just incredibly unlucky because i did over 30 articuno raids during bird week and got zero charge tms the entire time, which was bullshit because it meant i never got a shadow ball mewto I got 3 this morning from a single Mewtwo raid. Granted, I'm 1/4 on raids this week, so maybe it was just karma.
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Sep 30, 2018 02:05
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:either charge tms have had their rate greatly, greatly reduced or i am just incredibly unlucky because i did over 30 articuno raids during bird week and got zero charge tms the entire time, which was bullshit because it meant i never got a shadow ball mewto Extremely unlucky I'd go with. I burned literally all my charge TMs on Moltres day giving TTars Stone Edge because I had zero with Smackdown, and now I'm back up to 20, even after getting 9 Mewtwos to Shadow Ball before it became legacy. I raid once, maybe twice per day. Oyster fucked around with this message at 02:27 on Sep 30, 2018 |
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Sep 30, 2018 02:25
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Did four Mewtwo raids today and caught all four, I’m extremely good at this game.
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Sep 30, 2018 02:31
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One out of two today, 87% is an improvement over my 80%!
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Sep 30, 2018 03:16
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shut up blegum posted:So I'm a complete beginner in this game. Here's what I've been doing so far: You're doing it right, but like others have said, you should wait until you're higher level to start evolving stuff you plan on keeping long term. Also there is literally no reason whatsoever to power up before evolving. Butterfly Valley posted:Literally everything in this post is incredibly stupid for a large number of reasons Yeah, and I know it sucks for people in rural areas, but this game just isn't made for rural play. They'd be better off sticking with the 3DS/console games if they want to play pokemon.
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Sep 30, 2018 03:30
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shut up blegum posted:So I'm a complete beginner in this game. Here's what I've been doing so far: don't power up anything until you're level 25 hoard candy evolve nothing raid every day for the next 23 days and use nothing but your level 20 mewtwo army to take on gyms and raids buy a gotcha and make it auto catch trash all day, turf every mon that's not 90% IVs or higher w̷̵͜á̵͡f́͠u u̟̳̣͚͘͢ͅǹ̺͈t̝̭̟͓͖̲̥͢͠ì̸̠̮̘̠̝l̬̗̝̫̲ y̨̨͠ǫ̴̸͘͟u̴͞͏҉r̷͢͡ ̕͞f̷̶̕i҉͞n̴͡g̨͠ę̷̛ŗ̧̀s͜͏ b͍̳̙̣́̕͢l͏̡͓̣͇͓͎̙̱̘́ͅẹ̡̯̣̫̺̥̘̭̞͘͟ȩ̵̻̬͇̩͖̠̙̙̮d͏̷̧̳̗̬̳͔͓̣͠..
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Sep 30, 2018 03:55
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doingitwrong posted:There is a small benefit to evolving first in that you can find out what move set you got and then decide if you want to bother powering up or maybe evolve another one for another shot at a better move set. But this requires being into the game enough to care about movesets. If you care enough to check IVs you should care about movesets since they matter vastly more
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Sep 30, 2018 07:01
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Finally got a frickin Tauros that was missing from my gen 1 dex. Got 2 Kangas, 2 Farfetch'ds and even a Mr Mime before getting the Tauros. Took just about 30 eggs or so. Still have 9 7km eggs, but at least I don't have to deperately walk maximize my chances anymore.
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Sep 30, 2018 08:28
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Woo hatched a Tauros from an egg gifted by an Illinois goon. Thanks thread!
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shut up blegum posted:So I'm a complete beginner in this game. Here's what I've been doing so far: Like everyone else said, hold off on evolving until at least level 20, preferably 25. You'll catch higher level stuff in the wild than the stuff in your storage before that. I would also caution you to not put too much importance on IVs. That's what I did when I first learned about it, and it caused me to make bad choices. IVs are really not that important except for edge cases where you're trying to hit breakpoints to beat raids with less players than normal. In everyday play you won't notice much difference. For instance, I did stupid things like evolving a level 15 99iv or a level 20 98iv instead of a level 30 94iv because the low level is 'better'. In reality there's almost no difference in performance but the low level Pokemon cost hundreds of candy and tens of thousands of Stardust to level up. Your best bet unless you're a big city tryhard player is to level up and use Pokemon that are around your level (25+) and have the best IV you can find without driving yourself crazy. I typically do 80%+ for rare species and 90%+ for more common things.
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