Pokemon Go

[mrsfran]

If you go to a gym that belongs to the same team as you, if there's a space you can place your own pokemon on there to defend it. If your team hold the gym for 21 hours you get a Defenders Bonus (some pokecoins). If there are no slots for you to place your pokemon on there you can train at the gym to increase its prestige. For every pokemon you beat at the gym its prestige increases - and once you level up the gym by increasing its prestige to the next level a new slot will open up for you to put your pokemon in.

I have noticed now that a lot of gyms have 1 very low-level pokemon on there - this is so that members of the same team can come along and beat it easily, increasing the gym's prestige. It's a good strategy but only possible really if you're playing with someone else. If you go along, win a gym and just drop a very low-level pokemon in there, it'll get beaten easily. But if you go with a couple of friends, you can win the gym, one person drops a low-level to begin with, the other two immediately train, increase the gym's prestige and open up slots for more, better pokemon.

 

[hegley]

Thanks mrsfran ! Now I just need to find a gym that isn't being held by some level millions snorlax .

 

[spanglechick]

Gyms are pretty pointless if you're playing more slowly or are a later starter. My highest cp is 745ish, that's never going to beat anything in a gym around here.

 

[mrsfran]

BUT - You have 6 pokemon to fight with. So even if there's a high-level pokemon, if it's only 1 or 2 at a gym then it's their 1 or 2 against SIX of yours. So you still have a chance. You may not beat it outright with your highest, but say there's a CP1400 Snorlax - you could beat that via cumulative damage with a few CP600 Hypnos.

 

[spanglechick]

BUT - You have 6 pokemon to fight with. So even if there's a high-level pokemon, if it's only 1 or 2 at a gym then it's their 1 or 2 against SIX of yours. So you still have a chance. You may not beat it outright with your highest, but say there's a CP1400 Snorlax - you could beat that via cumulative damage with a few CP600 Hypnos.

Is that true if the gym is your own colour?

 

[mrsfran]

Is that true if the gym is your own colour?

No. If the gym is your own colour, it's just one against one. So there' no point trying to train at a gym your own colour if the lowest pokemon is higher than your highest.

 

[pengaleng]

I aint bothering to do gyms yet, need to catch a hench team

my main project atm is gyrados evolution, I have a magikarp that has a 91% IV that I have marked.

 

[Glitter]

Is there ANYTHING more annoying than catching something you want only for it to escape then disappear in a puff of smoke

Actually yes, catching something and the FUCKING app freezing so it appears as a shadow in your pokédex, taunting you.

I went to Rochdale yesterday morning, which I knew would give me weird and wonderful things. I got four new breeds, hatched a couple of eggs to give me enough to evolve some into previously new breeds and had dinner in a pokéstop with a lure on so could stock up on schizzle and catch some more! A successful trip!

 

[trashpony]

Gyms are pretty pointless if you're playing more slowly or are a later starter. My highest cp is 745ish, that's never going to beat anything in a gym around here.

But you'll catch up because they'll slow down.

 

[pengaleng]

But you'll catch up because they'll slow down.

thats why am using time to create a dream team

gonna go meet 5t3IIa to hunt

 

[BigTom]

Blimey. Gyms round here last about 10 mins.

yeah, same, I don't know what's gone on here, but now it's level 10 and there are a couple of gyms within sight (on the map) of this one, I wonder if players are going to think fuck that and head off to one of the easier ones to capture. Normally they change hands pretty often, I haven't kept one for more than a few hours before, and the other two I took this morning, one went within an hour and the other has gone by lunchtime, I wish there was some kind of record of what happened at gyms, how many people attacked it and who/when kicked you out.

 

[NoBystander]

Just hit level 23 today - saved up 60 or 70 pidgey/weedle evolutions, so i'll be close to 24 soon too hopefully! My Vaporeon is now nearly 2,000 CP

i just evolved 20 mons in the first 12 min of a lucky egg. couldn't decide whether to wait and stack up more or boost and catch bigger mons for the next egg.

If anyone hasnt noticed you get a candy back for each evolution, stack up extra spares to evolve with them. nearly missed an evo butncaught a gastly at last min to clear the deck.

 

[NoBystander]

Is that true if the gym is your own colour?

i was just pissing around with my wimpy mons -best 6 245CP to 440 CP against a gym with two 1500+ in it. Took the gym by accident on the 4th r 5th fight. You only have to knock their prestige down to zero. not sure how it works but the last fight was just the boss and we killed it. Thnk maybe you just have to be strong enough to win tht last fight? you get XP for fghting too and its a good way to clear out heals to make space in your bag.

 

[pengaleng]

me and 5t3IIa caught a fuckin slowbro

 

[NoBystander]

forgot training. it raises the prestige of the gym, the target points to . not sure if you have to win to raise it but you just choose a mon to train with the ones n the gym and it starts off with the smallest one. got a mon into a gym by accident by training to empty my bag and it opened up a new defender slot.

there's a chart of the typess and how they match up Pokémon Go - Battle chart, Type effectiveness and weaknesses explained

when you put a mon in to defend a gym you can fight it with your other mons to see how they match up. the computer doesn't fight well so fight them both ways round.

 

[mrsfran]

You know if you want to empty your bag you can just delete a bunch of potions and revives, right?

 

[pengaleng]

I've deleted all of mine, it aint about battles atm

 

[NoBystander]

better to trade for xp tho

 

[pengaleng]

just go pokestops, 50 xp every 5 mins even if yer bags full

 

[NoBystander]

still need room for pokeballs tho. i was catching 10CP pidgies with great balls yesterday.

 

[pengaleng]

I dont get what youve said

do you have poor bag management?

 

[NoBystander]

i did

gyms again. ours was level 7 red with 6 1000+ defenders in it last night and a huge lapras boss. now its blue with a 465 and a 690 hypno in it. the game is designed to let you take them if youre wiling to spend the time.

 

[pengaleng]

IV's m8.

me slowpoke is CP 1079, but checking IV's he's only 30% average, so well shit.

 

[Vintage Paw]

I don't appear to be getting any extra xp for good catches. I just got a 'Great!' catch (magikarp lolol) and I only got the base xp.

 

[pengaleng]

btw, when you keep typing 'mons' I just think yer referring to your pubic bone area.

careful other people dont get the wrong idea when yer talking about yer 'mons'

 

[5t3IIa]

btw, when you keep typing 'mons' I just think yer referring to your pubic bone area.

careful other people dont get the wrong idea when yer talking about yer 'mons'

Ties in with the poor bag management, I think.

 

[NoBystander]

IV's m8.

me slowpoke is CP 1079, but checking IV's he's only 30% average, so well shit.

only makes a small difference. smaller than the attack combos you end up with after evolving. if theyre shit the ivs dont matter

 

[pengaleng]

yeah ok it must be the game letting you win then, all those gamer sites are wrong.

 

[bi0boy]

I've cycled miles this morning and it only gave my egg 600 metres

 

[pengaleng]

is it broken? it seemed to take ages for my 2k egg to hatch this morning, got uber to CW, usually it woulda hatched in that time it was half cooked

I got 8 5k eggs and 1 10k to get going to hatch at the same time for lucky egg, gonna get incubators tomorrow