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Giving Gengar psychic is just another example of Niantic never listening to players.PathAsc posted:I meant the 9% squish they have given to a few legendaries for balance bs. I mean what they did to Mewtwo, Ho oh, Kyogre, Groudon, and Rayquaza was an intentional nerf. They made exceptions to the stat conversion formula to lower their HP. But what happened with Giratana is completely different. They mistakenly uploaded the wrong base stats entirely, using the Origin forme numbers instead of the Altered forme. SuperKlaus posted:I don't understand "formes" because I never actually played a real Pokemon game past Heartgold. Are they subspecies of Pokemon like male/female Pikachus or Sneasels? Can a Pokemon change what "forme" it's in like it's a combat stance or I dunno Autobot transformation? A forme is any difference within a species. It could be appearance, type, stats, moves learned, or ability(these aren't in GO yet). Some forms are persistant/unchangeable, like Alola forms (ie. an alolan vulpix will never be fire type) but some are changeable. For example in the main series, an individual castform will become a different type based on the weather. Niantic hasn't implemented this though, so I wouldn't expect them to do it for Giratina either. In the main games it changes with a hold item (a feature not included in GO). This page goes into more detail: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_Pok%C3%A9mon_with_form_differences
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Pomplamoose posted:I mean what they did to Mewtwo, Ho oh, Kyogre, Groudon, and Rayquaza was an intentional nerf. They made exceptions to the stat conversion formula to lower their HP. That's what I was referring to as well, the stats from the oopsie they did wasn't what I meant. The intentional nerfs are awful.
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Oct 26, 2018 03:07
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Yeah I'm not gonna bother with the Gengar raids but I'm sure lots of people will still be trying for a shiny.
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Oct 26, 2018 03:57
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My younger kid loves Gengar. I'll go raid for him.
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Oct 26, 2018 04:12
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slave to my cravings posted:Niantic trolls Pokémon go players so well lmao No kidding. I don’t give a poo poo what moves my guys have. I attack with the default whatever it gives me and just mash attack the whole time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Oct 26, 2018 04:44
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I’ve completely destroyed my entire inventory of berries so a big raid day is just what I need to get back up and the chance of a shiny is a nice bonus. Wish it was a better move but I’m happy either way.
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Oct 26, 2018 05:04
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My gotcha caught me a shiny Bulbasaur yesterday and shiny Swablu last week  RE Gengar: I love Gengar and was pleased to hear about the shiny chance but was ruined by the it being another sucky "barely any different for normal" shiny  Seriously what's even the loving point? Why not make him black or white or ANY OTHER COLOUR instead of a slightly different shade of purple thats barely even noticeable. Also does this mean wild gastly be shiny now? or is it only Gengar and only in the raids?
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Oct 26, 2018 06:22
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Dragonstoned posted:My gotcha caught me a shiny Bulbasaur yesterday and shiny Swablu last week It's a relic of early shinies just being palette swaps. Like each color had a number and the shinies back then was just the color number +1 or something like that. Hence boring gray Gengar and vomit Dragonite.
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Oct 26, 2018 06:44
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old gen shiny pokemon are mostly like that, it's a bummer but one you'd have to go back a few decades to correct
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Oct 26, 2018 06:45
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Dragonstoned posted:My gotcha caught me a shiny Bulbasaur yesterday and shiny Swablu last week My only shiny since Sapphire on GBA is a Haunter from Moon and yeah it blows. Still got my shiny Aggron though. That's a pretty great shiny.
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Oct 26, 2018 06:47
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Dragonstoned posted:My gotcha caught me a shiny Bulbasaur yesterday and shiny Swablu last week It'll pay off whenever they get around to mega evolution. 
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Mustached Demon posted:It's a relic of early shinies just being palette swaps. Like each color had a number and the shinies back then was just the color number +1 or something like that. Hence boring gray Gengar and vomit Dragonite. They should have taken "Pokemon: Lets Go" as a chance to give the gen 1 shinies an update
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Oct 26, 2018 07:14
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Anyone else noticing gifts aren't giving out as many berries lately? I'm getting everything but berries, which I need for this stupid quest, but every gift is coming with stardust
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Oct 26, 2018 08:02
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X13Fen posted:Anyone else noticing gifts aren't giving out as many berries lately? I was wondering if it was just me. It's probably one of those observer effects where it only seems like that because we're actually paying attention.
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Oct 26, 2018 08:11
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Maybe, but it could be a real thing. The other day I opened 20 gifts and only got three berries.
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Oct 26, 2018 08:32
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It's looking like this Sunday is the Pokemon Go "sit around and do nothing" day. Getting no walk distance all day, and minimal login time. A natural way for goons to tell Niantic to go gently caress themselves.
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Oct 26, 2018 08:39
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Aquagremlin if you see this we're about to hit three hearts. I don't have lucky eggs so feel free to just open my gift whenever is more convenient for you.
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Oct 26, 2018 08:51
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Is anyone else getting some of their notifications in Japanese now?
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Oct 26, 2018 09:15
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Beachcomber posted:Is anyone else getting some of their notifications in Japanese now? I got one in Japanese but then it republished a few hours later in English so I figured it was just a mistake
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Oct 26, 2018 10:02
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endlessmonotony posted:It's looking like this Sunday is the Pokemon Go "sit around and do nothing" day. Getting no walk distance all day, and minimal login time. A natural way for goons to tell Niantic to go gently caress themselves. What? What’s the relevance of this Sunday?
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Oct 26, 2018 12:36
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Even if you don’t care about this gengar raid: 5 free raid passes. Worth it to be out and raiding during those hours imo.
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Oct 26, 2018 13:25
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Stupid question time. What's so great about Shadow Claw Gengar? I admit I barely pay attention to who has what moves. When I raid I mostly just mash whatever pops up on the "recommended" list, and call it a day. I do pretty all right, all the same. My problem with doing the tougher raids is absolutely not winning the battle, it's catching the drat thing. Most of the legendaries I've picked up have been from the monthly research quests. I do have three Mewtwos, though, so that's nice. None of them have Shadow Ball and apparently that's the Holy Grail too?
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Oct 26, 2018 14:07
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Hang on, this stupid old Gengar I still have lying around from July 2016 is actually good for something?
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Oct 26, 2018 14:15
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It does pretty great damage compared to it's other moves. It's pretty worthless without it. If you're in a big enough group, autoselect will be fine, because almost anything is fine when there is overwhelming firepower and numbers. It often means you're hardly contributing to the raid though, and potentially getting less balls and rewards, in an already smaller reward pool, due to there being more people. This is why you don't catch the boss, you don't have enough balls to have a high chance. Most of the people I raid with all tend to optimize their attackers at least somewhat, since we generally have smaller groups and can't finish otherwise. My kids and I can take out giratina with 3 of us easily because we just use Mewtwo and dragons. We all get 15+ balls and is almost a guaranteed catch at that point.
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Silver Falcon posted:Stupid question time. What's so great about Shadow Claw Gengar? Shadow Claw deals roughly 50% more damage than the currently available best fast move Hex. 12.86dps vs 8.33dps. It’s the difference between Gengar being worth using and just taking up space. If you have Shadow Claw Gengar he’s a powerful glass cannon. Without it, he barely qualifies as a glass squirt gun.
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Oct 26, 2018 15:02
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I beg to differ - the game has repeatedly assured me that Focus Blast Gengar is the very best at everything Aggron isn't the best at. 
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Comrade Koba posted:Hang on, this stupid old Gengar I still have lying around from July 2016 is actually good for something? He's one of the highest DPS attackers in the game, so he's an interesting collector's piece. But he's made out of wet paper, so getting hit by any charge move ever isn't really an option. If you know what you're going up against and that you can dodge it, he's great, but if not, it's almost as good to just bring any type-advantaged attacker with bulk. I have one at level 30 and he's not worth stressing about having/not having imo, but given that people love/want him and most people are not skilled enough to take advantage of his dps anyway, it WOULD have been the perfect thing to do on a raid day to make people happy without doing anything to the gym meta. Niantic is dumb.
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Hex/Shadow Ball Gengar is still a good attacker and worth using. It dies quickly but does a lot of damage, which is what counts when you're up against the clock. Also I broke down and bought the sweet Gengar hat. I tried to resist...
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Beastyfella posted:It does pretty great damage compared to it's other moves. It's pretty worthless without it. Huh... I didn't know that. I still kind of suck at throwing the balls. I can get Great Curveballs consistently on a legendary, but they break out of them so easily. I also use the Golden Razz Berries. I usually wind up with a dozen or so balls to work with? I've caught 2 Mewtwos. Haven't tried Giratina yet.
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Xinder posted:Even if you don’t care about this gengar raid: 5 free raid passes. Worth it to be out and raiding during those hours imo. Assuming it's the same format as the legendary bird days: It'll be 5 free passes given out at the time that Gengar's on every gym, one at a time. So you can't really take the 5 free passes and use them for anything else, the best you can get is 1 free pass for other raids. I'll be doing it because a) it's worth it for the XP, and b) Gengar is one of my favourites from Gen 1. I'm a bit disappointed that it's not Shadow Claw (mainly because I probably had one in the early days and threw it away knowing no better), and moreso that the shiny basically indistinguishable. But if I end up with a shiny I'll probably splurge on maxing it anyway..
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dwarf74 posted:I beg to differ - the game has repeatedly assured me that Focus Blast Gengar is the very best at everything Aggron isn't the best at. Good at beating.. aggron!
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Oct 26, 2018 15:58
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I love Aron and think Aggron is a cool bad rear end kaiju guy so I collected and evolved a bunch and now all the game recommends is a team of six Aggron. Blissey? Aggron. Gengar? Aggron. Blaziken? Motherfucking six Aggron.
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Oct 26, 2018 16:07
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My first 100 IV was a hatched Aron. I just got enough candy yesterday to evolve him to Aggron. I look forward to trolling the try-hards with him in the local Discord server.
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I know someone who refuses to ever heal her Aggrons, because she's so tired of the game recommending them. Poor little Kaiju.Fyrbrand posted:My first 100 IV was a hatched Aron. I just got enough candy yesterday to evolve him to Aggron. I look forward to trolling the try-hards with him in the local Discord server. "First?" I've never seen one. I don't believe they exist in my version of the game.
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Oct 26, 2018 16:42
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Looks like London gets 6 unown for a little while. Enjoy! I need to figure out what email to send a request for an event in our area.
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Unsinkabear posted:I know someone who refuses to ever heal her Aggrons, because she's so tired of the game recommending them. Poor little Kaiju. "First and only 100" would be more accurate, heh. I've got a lucky 98% Gyarados and and 98% Gengar who are my beautiful pokeman sons though.
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Who here is Plateialumitar? We hit Ultra friends and i'm coordinating to hit it with two of my besties tomorrow. I'll give you a heads up a few minutes before.
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Getting people to use the right stuff at raids is like trying to get people to vote. There's a huge amount of people who can make a difference (in the case of PoGo, faster raids, less deaths, actually winning) but most of them are put off by the minimal effort it takes. In the case of this game, I just wonder why people want to get better Pokemon in the first place if they don't care about using them. For the people who just wanna collect and do one-and-done on new legendaries? That's fine. But frequent players I see that go "Eh, I dunno, I just use the recommended teams" I'm thinking, why play then? I mean look at the stats on vs. Mewtwo:  Literal garbage mon you catch off the streets do more damage than Aggron. Dragonstoned posted:
People gotta remember gen 1 shinies are using Game Boy Color palettes at best and that's still only 8-bit. Most of them are inspired by the puke green palette of the original brick Game Boy.
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Silver Falcon posted:Huh... I didn't know that. I still kind of suck at throwing the balls. I can get Great Curveballs consistently on a legendary, but they break out of them so easily. I also use the Golden Razz Berries. I usually wind up with a dozen or so balls to work with? I've caught 2 Mewtwos. Haven't tried Giratina yet. If you usually have 12 balls, use golden razzberries, and consistently get great curveballs, you should be catching around 75% of legendary raid bosses (a little more if it's a smaller circle and less if it's a larger circle). If you're not, your throws probably aren't as consistent as you think. If you're not using the circle lock trick and throwing only during attacks, you should be.
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Brother just bought a Gotcha, and is having issues pairing it. Aside from "forget the device and re-pair it", were there any other steps in getting it to work? Mine worked like a charm... for now, so I don't really know what other debug steps there were. He also updated it via the gotcha app. Also, is a barely 50ish IV legacy shadow claw shadow ball gengar worth powering up, over a theoretical 80+ hex shadow ball gengar?
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