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its been changing hands too quickly to bother about picking ideal ones with the best attacks it should drop off as people drop out and find something else THEN the elite training cruuuu can start proper
 
beesonthewhatnow said:
It had become level 8 by this morning. This could well be the first time I've ever managed to stay in one for the 20 hours :)
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I *nearly* made it once, school kicking out time fucked it up :mad:

I aint been able to go outside and do pokemon for a fucking week am jonesing hard
 
spanglechick said:
Yes, but for the gym to drop a level, don't I have to beat them all?
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As Bees says, you will reduce it for each you beat, 1,000 prestige for each pokemon you defeat + 500 if you defeat them all I think, so you can wear it down bit by bit.
If you're training in a gym then you get loads more prestige if you defeat a pokemon which is more powerful than the one you are using (500 instead of 100) but when you are attacking it makes no difference which I think is a shame (There's also no scale so whether you are 1cp less or 1,000cp less you get 500, if you are 1cp more or 1,000cp more you get 100; don't think I've ever had the opportunity to try equal CP pokemon).

Different pokemon have different strengths/weaknesses and it can be useful to remember some combinations, eg: grass>water>fire>grass or that fairy is good against dragon but there's loads of them and it's complicated because pokemon have different attack types to their actual type and sometimes are two types and it's way too hard to remember it all, I remember those ones because there's often dragonites and water types in the gyms around me and it's been useful to remember when attacking or find out when training up a gym what will be good. It's fairly quick to train a gym up levels until level 8 if you can be getting 500-600 prestige each time, and 2k for putting a decent pokemon in.

Personally I also just bash the screen, fractionMan there's a blue bar/bars under the hitpoint bar where you build up the charge for the special move. Once one of the bars is full you can hold down to fire it off, a little blue bar will build up under the big blue bar. It doesn't always work and I don't know why, it's very frustrating. I try and dodge when it says they are doing a special move but you don't get the message if your pokemon is weak or strong and even when it says I've dodged I still lose some HP.
I'd like to think there's something more to it but what skill there is lies in the tactical side of choosing which pokemon to fight with rather than the actual fighting.
 
When you go to fight in a gym, what's the logic in the 6 Pokemon it chooses for you to fight with? Does it automatically choose the ones it thinks will do best against the monsters in that gym? Or is it random? I usually swap them with my 6 highest CP monsters.
 
spanglechick remember that to lower a gym's prestige you only have to beat one monster - and you've got 6 monsters to do that with. So even if there are loads of high CP monsters in a gym you can still bring them down - it'll just take a long time. You fight the lowest CP monster first - so, say there's a CP1300 Vaporeon - even if all you've got is 6 x CP700 Hypnos, you can still beat that Vaporeon.
 
Still in that gym, it's level 9 now :eek:

Never seen one that high round here, ever. They usually change hands every 20 mins or so, so there's never time for the levels to build up past 3 or 4.
 
I'm so fed up of zubats. So many of them, not very useful and really hard to catch so they use up all my balls and then disappear in a puff of smoke :mad:
 
scifisam said:
I'm so fed up of zubats. So many of them, not very useful and really hard to catch so they use up all my balls and then disappear in a puff of smoke :mad:
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My junior advisor tells me that they're going to introduce the mega evolved form of zubats in the next iteration of Pokemon go and that they are awesome. So we have to catch them to get 100 zubat candies so we're ready to go :cool:
 
mrsfran said:
When you go to fight in a gym, what's the logic in the 6 Pokemon it chooses for you to fight with? Does it automatically choose the ones it thinks will do best against the monsters in that gym? Or is it random? I usually swap them with my 6 highest CP monsters.
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Not sure.

But you should get into the habit of selecting your team. It makes a massive difference.

When you see "super effective!" on your opponent during battle, it means you are doing double damage - your pokemon's attack is well-suited.
When you see "not very effective" on your opponent, it means the opposite... you are doing half damage.

Likewise, if you have "super effective" on you, it means you are taking double damage.

Obviously you want to be seeing "super effective!" on your opponent and "not very effective" on you.

For example, electric pokemon have a big advantage against water ones. As do grass pokemon. Water has an advantage over fire. Fire beats grass.

There's quite a lot of complexity to this but try looking out for the "super effective!" and "not very effective" and that'll help you :)
 
squirrelp said:
oh man this guy is a genius
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I put common/multiple evolves of pokemon into gyms as defenders when I'm doing gym runs as I know there is no chance of the gyms surviving and then transfer them away afterwards, but it'd take ages defeating gyms with shit pokemon.

The gym near me which is occasionally high level had a 1394 charizard and an 1800cp flareon in it this morning so I went and trained there with my 1371 golduck with two water attacks, taking out both fire pokemon and getting a little out of my vaporeon and getting 1100+ prestige each time, trained it up from 6k level 3 to 18.9k level 6 gym in 15/20 minutes and am now hoping some yellow players come along and drop some decent pokemon in the 3 slots, which'll take it past level 7 and on towards level 8. Having made the effort I'm sure it'll get taken out before I go to work in half an hour or so though :D Be difficult mind as will take a while with just 3 pokemon in, only knocking off 3.5k each time.
 
hegley said:
For a while there was a tentacool nest in the Meadows in Edinburgh. Seems to have changed to geodudes now though.
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Popped over there this evening, got 7 geodudes in about half an hour so can evolve a golem and also got my first grimer, plus walked the kms to evolve a charmander into whatever their first evolution is :D I'm going to swap my charmander buddy to a pikachu as only need to walk 8km to get a raichu and then stop playing, at 134 caught... at least until they release generation 2, which I'm sure will pull me back in. No way I'm going to walk the thousand plus km needed to evolve the others I can evolve.
 
Had buddy pikachu for 3 days and reckons only walked 0.4 km which is bollocks
Keeps crashing and not moving on map
Miffed
 
I have got so many things now :cool:

I'm onto level 26 :cool:

I finally caught a really sick jigglypuff so I have wigglytuff now
I have my blastoise, ninetails, kadabra, arbok, clefable, dotrio, electrode, exeggutor, machamp, parasect, persian, primeape, sandslash, venomoth, vileplume :cool:

today I hatched another pony so I can get me orse
 
I evolved my koffing into whatever it evolves into. It's more disgusting than the koffing. Yesterday we got all 3 eevee evolutions and I caught a 1300 cp scyther

I am walking with a diglett to get the evolution. 10 more candy to go :rolleyes:
 
I only have caught and seen 7 koffing :( (koffing and weezing are blatantly lung cancers)

I only have 1 diglett :(

I hardly ever see eevee :(

I hatched a 91% perfect exeggcute today :cool:
 
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the hunt has still been going strong :cool:

still on level 26
124 in the pokedex

CAUGHT a cp1306 89% perfect fucking pinsir yesterday :cool:
HATCHED a 89% perfect hitmonlee and transferred the Shitmonlee I had
HATCHED A FUCKING CHARMANDER FINALLY AND THE LITTLE PRICK IS 66% :mad:
EVOLVED a 91% exeggutor
EVOLVED a 91% rapidash w/best moveset
EVOLVED a 91% rhydon
EVOLVED a 93% victreebel w/best moveset
EVOLVED a 95% dodrio w/ best moveset
EVOLVED a 89% nidoking

the abra candy is up to 95

the dream team is coming together :cool:
 
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