Pokemon Go

[squirrelp]

Starting to rock it at the gyms. My Exeggutor is ruling Victoria Park and my Vaporeon is holding strong in another gym too!

My new strategy for dealing with escapees - well I don't throw balls or razzberries depending on how difficult they are to catch, I do that depending on whether I want them or not. So if a 400CP drowzee comes along, it just gets normal pokeballs. Why care if it escapes? There'll be another one along all too soon. Whereas a 34CP Evee gets the razzberry and the ultra ball. I try to only use the better balls with the razzberries so as not to waste the razzberry.

Had a long sequence of battles to get my 1500CP Vaporeon into the gym, against a 1400CP Hypno. They are quite tough. I managed to finally get the upper hand by just using the base attack and dodging. I still haven't quite mastered dodging special attacks but it's got to be the way forward and feels more sophisticated than a spamming strategy.

 

[squirrelp]

I have cracked and shelled out cash for egg incubators

 

[BigTom]

Level 22 but still on 77 types caught

It's just always the same stuff round here, even in the centre of B'ham it's now rare to get a new monster.

I got an Omanyte in cannon hill park this evening (taking me to 100 ), haven't had one those before. Got a dragonair at gas street basin yesterday, have seen two dratini before. So they are around but I agree it seems to be a limited selection - fire, ground (nidorans aside) and electric types in particular I rarely find (although am seeing a few electric ones since the weekend). I'd say 5-10 of mine are ones that I've only hatched from eggs and never seen in the wild.

 

[pengaleng]

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

I caught a 93% perfect Eevee today. Well happy. What should I evolve it into?

 

[squirrelp]

I caught a 93% perfect Eevee today. Well happy. What should I evolve it into?

Internet says there are going to be two more options coming soon - umbreon and espeon... you might want to save it

 

[hegley]

Do IVs matter for evolving? A low IV can't evolve into something with a high IV? Or vice versa? I need to go on a lucky egg-evolving session today so am prioritising my pokes!

 

[pengaleng]

Do IVs matter for evolving? A low IV can't evolve into something with a high IV? Or vice versa? I need to go on a lucky egg-evolving session today so am prioritising my pokes!

IV's can change depending on the variables given, sometimes it gives you 25 possible combinations where the lowest is 35% the average is 57% and the maximum is 83% so in that case if you really wanna narrow it down you'd power up the pokemon ONCE and re-enter the new values and click refine, it should instantly narrow it down a lot more

I dont keep anything below 75%

but you're right IV's stay static whereas you can always increase CP to the max, I've turned my 95% gastly into a 95% haunter and soon I'll have a 95% gengar

try and make sure as well as high IV you check the movesets, some are really shit

 

[Ranbay]

Do you only get 10 coins for the gym or what?

so I stuck two in a gym this am, and later collected the 10 coins.....

 

[hegley]

try and make sure as well as high IV you check the movesets, some are really shit

Failing on the first hurdle at the moment - I've got some truly shit pokemon on it seems.

 

[bi0boy]

I evolved a paras to a parasect and it has an attack of 3

 

[aqua]

I just ran the IV thing for my biggest pokemon (slowbro, 1206 or something) and it came out at 24% average. He got transfered in a fit of anger no wonder he never wins me a gym

 

[pengaleng]

Failing on the first hurdle at the moment - I've got some truly shit pokemon on it seems.

LOADS of them are properly shit, I've yet to find a drowzee above 88%

most come out as 30ish averages

and I've got a load high CP high IV but the weakest attacks which is useless

 

[pengaleng]

I just ran the IV thing for my biggest pokemon (slowbro, 1206 or something) and it came out at 24% average. He got transfered in a fit of anger no wonder he never wins me a gym

the slowbro I caught was really shit like that, I have another one which has -70CP than the one I caught, so I found an 82% slowpoke with an ok-ish CP and evolved him but he has the weakest attacks, havent found a slowpoke above 37% since

 

[pengaleng]

oh with the IV thing - i have found if you wanna power up to refine the IV if theres more variables you will need more power ups to refine it, you wanna get the max avg and min equal in one combination so it's better to do this on ones which already have a smaller set of variables - just depends if you wanna use stardust on something that has potential to be shitter than it's worth cus averages can go down as well as up

 

[pengaleng]

and another thing lol

dont power anything up and refine it then check the IV's again on same stats, it'll just open the variables up again and it's well depressing when you got a 84% wartortle and you've powered him up and refined his IV then run the stats as 'find IV' again cus it opens up the variables again and theres loads of them and the average is 53

fuck you wartortle

 

[Vintage Paw]

Got my first Paras. The vagina dentata of the pokemon world. Ugh.

Fucking Mystic bastards have got the gym near my house. It's a level cunting 10 gym now.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Thought I'd be all fancy, getting my curveball skills into play and all that. Got a fucking lovely curveball at a psyduck, who then fucked off in a puff of smoke the shit.

 

[pengaleng]

ooooh I just found a bellsprout I didnt realise I hatched

he's pretty awesome

CP 630
HP 66
93% perfection across max avg and min (1 possible combo)
attack 15 / defence 15/ stamina 12
has the second best attacks tho acid 10 / sludge bomb 55

 

[Vintage Paw]

I've got a 93% goldeen. I've powered it up a couple of times, which has taken it down to 91% (is that a thing?). Should I keep it as is and evolve at 91 or keep powering? What's the theory behind all of that?

Got rid of a bunch of sub-50% stuff today.

 

[pengaleng]

it's a thing cus theres a minimum percentage, the average is an average so it depends how many variables you had left after power up, ideally you are looking for max, avg and min to be the same

deciding whether to power it as you level up depends on how good it's moveset is

the only time it's really worth investing in your pokemons if they have good IV and the best moves because you can always power up the CP to maximum

 

[ddraig]

Do you only get 10 coins for the gym or what?

so I stuck two in a gym this am, and later collected the 10 coins.....

yes

 

[squirrelp]

I've got a 93% goldeen. I've powered it up a couple of times, which has taken it down to 91% (is that a thing?). Should I keep it as is and evolve at 91 or keep powering? What's the theory behind all of that?

Got rid of a bunch of sub-50% stuff today.

My understanding is that the 93 / 91% is the fixed quality, so it represents the potential of your pokemon. Powering up doesn't change it, so if it changes that's a measurement issue probably because your calculator has a better idea after you power up. I think the idea is to evolve first before powering up so you can see if you like the result before possibly wasting your resources on powerups.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Got my first Paras. The vagina dentata of the pokemon world. Ugh.

Fucking Mystic bastards have got the gym near my house. It's a level cunting 10 gym now.

Level 10? Wow. I've never seen one round here higher than 5. You just can't hang on to them long enough.

 

[bi0boy]

Level 10? Wow. I've never seen one round here higher than 5. You just can't hang on to them long enough.

The British Antarctic Survey near me was level 10, it's right on the edge of town and no one will go there except staff normally so I reckon they've all agreed to be on the same team.

 

[ddraig]

seen a couple of level 10's here and a few 8's

 

[squirrelp]

One of the guys was showing off his super battery thingy. It clips onto the back of the phone, so you have a chunky phone with loads of power. WANT. plus I had already ordered a charger, but it's going to be silly walking around with a cable attached to the phone.

Interesting that mobile phones have gone from huge to tiny and now they are getting large again. Where will it end?

 

[pengaleng]

a phonablet.

 

[Ranbay]

yes

so max 10 coins every 21 hours then.

only point of taking loads of gyms is more xp then?

 

[bi0boy]

so max 10 coins every 21 hours then.

only point of taking loads of gyms is more xp then?

No you get 10 coins for every gym you're in when you collect.