My game has been so lame and non-existent since moving back to TX. I am hopeful that after starting back into my work routine this week it'll get better. I did catch a Tauros near the grocery store today, so that's hopeful.
OH!!! A dratini came to my IL's house last night! Not very good CP, but I always love catching new Mons.
@supergreen You were totally right about the Bellsprout evolution. I had a 620 and just caught a 631 yesterday. If I'd evolved last week I'd be so mad right now.
My game has been so lame and non-existent since moving back to TX. I am hopeful that after starting back into my work routine this week it'll get better. I did catch a Tauros near the grocery store today, so that's hopeful.
OH!!! A dratini came to my IL's house last night! Not very good CP, but I always love catching new Mons.
@supergreen You were totally right about the Bellsprout evolution. I had a 620 and just caught a 631 yesterday. If I'd evolved last week I'd be so mad right now.
im sorry to hear your gaming isn't going well since the move Hopefully you just have to find some new hotspots. Have you seen if your new town has a PoGo FB page or subreddit? I know other people have had good luck finding nests and whatnot on those. That's great about the Dratini! I haven't seen any dragons at all.
I'm glad the Bellsprout thing worked out! I'm glad I held out too. I even found a better Nidoran female than the one j had been holding onto (478 versus 499 I think). And that evolution turned out GREAT. I hope your eventual Victreebel does too! I should have one myself in about a week. I hope I catch a better Bellsprout. I have a 621 but think I can do better.
A young girl (she said she was 11) saw me taking down a gym. She asked what level I was, and her face went when I said "24." She was level 3, sweet young lady. She asked if she could walk with me. I showed her how to play, she'd never incubated an egg before, amongst other things. I led her to a Kingler, which came up as "" for her. She was getting frustrated trying to catch it, and said "oh no I'm almost out of balls!" I offered to give it a try for her, threw an "excellent"' throw (I told her I'd had lots of practice) and I got it. It was level 72 for her, by far her strongest Pokemon. She was thrilled. She went home after, beaming from ear to ear. It was pretty cool.
Love this! DS was pretty eager to fight in gyms when we had no one good. One time some fellow Team Mystic player helped him win a battle, and he was SO STOKED.
I just learned a new factoid. Spinning the 10th unique pokestop gives you a bonus (i.e.,) big item pickup. I wondered why some pokestops yesterday gave me like 6-9 items (I usually get 3-4). I see one stop in my journal that gave me 7 items (3 potions, 3 poke balls, and a revive). chilerellanos this might be a good trick to get you more potions.
Universal didn't have any amazing Pokémon, but it had an insane amount of Magikarp and lots of Pokestops. I caught about 45 Pokémon in 3 hours, left with more poke balls than I came with, and hatched 4 eggs. I am back up to 213 Magikarp candies even with powering up my Gyrados to 2k!
Heres is my current line up:
Here are some recent evolutions, not real pleased with any of their moves, but they gave me additions to the Pokedex. I am currently at 116/116.
I finally have enough candies to evolve my Magikarp!
I have several more evolutions that I can do too, so I might just use a lucky egg sometime soon. I've been waiting to see if I get anything "better" than what I have, but I'm so impatient.
Universal didn't have any amazing Pokémon, but it had an insane amount of Magikarp and lots of Pokestops. I caught about 45 Pokémon in 3 hours, left with more poke balls than I came with, and hatched 4 eggs. I am back up to 213 Magikarp candies even with powering up my Gyrados to 2k!
Heres is my current line up:
Here are some recent evolutions, not real pleased with any of their moves, but they gave me additions to the Pokedex. I am currently at 116/116.
Universal Orlando? I'll be there in a month. I'm excited to find some Pokemon that aren't common to me!
Yup Orlando, I have an annual pass, but hadn't been out since the release of POGO. They had quite a few fairly high CP Pokemons and Magikarp spawning 2-3 at a time by the lake between the parks. I can't really recall anything super unique, but something (other than pidgey and rats) was popping up every minute or two. Here is a pic of one of the parks Pokestops.
City Walk has about 5-7 stops and the other park has just as many, so you should be in for a good Pokémon time!
bl I hate you. I'm still sitting on 392 candies and haven't seen one in two weeks.
Ugh, I'm sorry. I am not sure if you live in a big enough city, but can you google for Magikarp spawns in your area or just go check some areas by water?
I do not understand you people who can save your evolutions. I need to do it immediately, ha .
I wait until I have enough to use a lucky egg. Plus, it has taken me WEEKS to save up enough candies for the 3rd tier evolutions. So I'm willing to wait to get to 125 candies to get the best final result. I traded in two wild caught strong Nidorinas because I HAD TO get that Nidoqueen, LOL.
Wow bl your guys look great! I think you and chilerellanos are the first of us to break 2,000CP. Congrats! I think my Vaporeon will get there, as soon as I get 7,000 stardust. I used alllll mind up yesterday. I'm down to 136!
I finally have enough candies to evolve my Magikarp!
I have several more evolutions that I can do too, so I might just use a lucky egg sometime soon. I've been waiting to see if I get anything "better" than what I have, but I'm so impatient.
What are you waiting to evolve? How do your base Pokemon look on their curves? If it's something I want to battle with, I wait until I get a good base Pokemon. Like my new Vileplume and Nidoqueen. If it's something I don't intend to battle with, I just want an addition to my pokedex, I don't wait. Like Rapidash, Haunter, Graveler, and Machamp. I won't wait on my soon-to-be Seadra or Persian. I mean, I'll wait until I'm using a lucky egg to get the extra XP. But that's only a few days at most.
I finally have enough candies to evolve my Magikarp!
I have several more evolutions that I can do too, so I might just use a lucky egg sometime soon. I've been waiting to see if I get anything "better" than what I have, but I'm so impatient.
What are you waiting to evolve? How do your base Pokemon look on their curves? If it's something I want to battle with, I wait until I get a good base Pokemon. Like my new Vileplume and Nidoqueen. If it's something I don't intend to battle with, I just want an addition to my pokedex, I don't wait. Like Rapidash, Haunter, Graveler, and Machamp. I won't wait on my soon-to-be Seadra or Persian. I mean, I'll wait until I'm using a lucky egg to get the extra XP. But that's only a few days at most.
I don't know if I will ever battle! I've basically been waiting to get the highest base Pokemon I can, and then evolve it. Some of them, I actually have all of the evolutions because I caught them, but then later caught better base Mons, so I'll evolve those. I need to do:
-Nidoqueen -Oddish (have all 3 evolutions but caught a great Oddish so I'm going to evolve that all the way up) - Meowth -Psyduck (have a bunch of Golducks, but have a good Psyduck, so I'll evolve that) -Bellsprout (have all 3 evolutions but caught a great Bellsprout so I'm going to evolve that all the way up) -Geodude (not a great one but he's pretty rare around here so I'll just evolve him for fun) -Slowpoke (I have a few Slowbro's, but I have a good Slowpoke so I'm going to evolve him) - Shellder (I feel like I can catch a better one so I've been waiting on this) -Drowzee (I just keep evolving these since there are so many around here!) -Goldeen (I have a Seaking but have a good Goldeen so I'll evolve her again) - Magikarp -More Evees -Staryu (I keep hatching these, and I have some Starmies already, but might as well evolve more)
I think that's it! It's enough where I could use a lucky egg and get some good XP.
Kit I have 1 EACH of slowpoke, Psyduck, Shellder, and Drowsee. I have 47 Magikarp candies, and that's AFTER hatching several. Not much water Pokemon here! If you want rattatas, pidgey, Weedle, and Eevee, I'm your gal LOL. And semi-decent grass & poison Pokemon.
Thanks to hatching one and catching several yesterday, I'm up to 28 Clefairy candies again. I'm going to wait and evolve a new one. My 1326 Clefable seems low now compared to all my new 1600+ CP Mons. Still hoping for a pound + Moonblast moveset. That guy I'll keep!
Kit I have 1 EACH of slowpoke, Psyduck, Shellder, and Drowsee. I have 47 Magikarp candies, and that's AFTER hatching several. Not much water Pokemon here! If you want rattatas, pidgey, Weedle, and Eevee, I'm your gal LOL. And semi-decent grass & poison Pokemon.
We have a ton of those too! There are always Weedles and Pidgeys outside of my house, and the occasional Magikarp because there's a small lake nearby.
I want some of the cooler, more rare ones though!!
My current plan is to max out Mons with ideal movesets. That way they're easy to maintain, since you can only power up twice per trainer level. So my Vileplume and Nidoqueen. I like Vaporeon with Aqua tail better than Hydropump, so I'm keeping my maxed out Vaporeon. So that's 3. I'll probably max out my current Exeggcutor, then try again to make a new one, since mine has a crappy move set (zen Headbutt and seed bomb).
Kit I have 1 EACH of slowpoke, Psyduck, Shellder, and Drowsee. I have 47 Magikarp candies, and that's AFTER hatching several. Not much water Pokemon here! If you want rattatas, pidgey, Weedle, and Eevee, I'm your gal LOL. And semi-decent grass & poison Pokemon.
We have a ton of those too! There are always Weedles and Pidgeys outside of my house, and the occasional Magikarp because there's a small lake nearby.
I want some of the cooler, more rare ones though!!
Who are you hoping to get? As far as realistically obtainable water Mons, I'd love a Golduck. I saw a shadow of one at the lake 2 hours away. We're going again next week, that's my last chance! A Slowbro would be awesome too. It's not like I'm going to CATCH a Gyarados KWIM.
I have 45 pokemon ready to evolve, with 4 that are new to me(Meowth, Voltorb, Jigglypuff and Sandshrew). It will get me ~50000 experience, but I'm 60000 from leveling to 23! So I'm going to wait a day or two and see what happens between then and now. I'm 16 from getting a Nidoking! I wish I had known in the beginning to save the smaller pokemon with 3 evolutions! I didn't know it would take 100 freaking candies to go from mid to end! I also have quite a few 2 evolution pokemon that I have 30 candies for that would be new evolutions. They are mostly ones I only get from eggs. I have 3 5K eggs that are at 2.5K. I should throw James on my back and go for a walk, lol.
H and I took down 3 gyms yesterday to claim. They were overtaken in about an hour, lol. So much turnover around here. The area is also heavily team red. I kind of wish we had gone that route, but I guess taking down gyms is better than trying to power them up.
We have a ton of those too! There are always Weedles and Pidgeys outside of my house, and the occasional Magikarp because there's a small lake nearby.
I want some of the cooler, more rare ones though!!
Who are you hoping to get? As far as realistically obtainable water Mons, I'd love a Golduck. I saw a shadow of one at the lake 2 hours away. We're going again next week, that's my last chance! A Slowbro would be awesome too. It's not like I'm going to CATCH a Gyarados KWIM.
Oh gosh, a ton of them that everyone is talking about. Ponyta, Sandshrew, more Clefairy, Mankey, Growlithe, Machop, Magnemite, Voltorb, etc. There's more, obviously, but I feel like I see the same crap all the time! I mean, obviously I'm not the only one with that problem but that is part of what's making me lose interest. Womp womp!
My game has been going so slowly lately. It's discouraging! I've gotten less than 10k XP since last thursday. I can't play at work right now (that should change in a few weeks) and I can't play at home. I had a little time saturday morning so I tried to practice some gym battling and it was so futile. My mons are not strong enough yet. And I didn't make any progress trying to level up one that was own color cause I can never beat anything with just one pokemon. gah.
Post by Wines Not Whines on Aug 22, 2016 11:50:57 GMT -5
I got to Level 21 today! I think it's going to take me forever to get to Level 22.
It looks like my neighborhood/town are heavily Team Valor, which kind of sucks because I'm Team Mystic, and most of the pokemons holding the gyms are stronger than what I have (trainers are generally levels 22-27).
I did manage to catch two Bulbasaur in/near my house yesterday, and I had sightings of two more. I hope that wasn't a fluke, and I can find more of them.
My game has been going so slowly lately. It's discouraging! I've gotten less than 10k XP since last thursday. I can't play at work right now (that should change in a few weeks) and I can't play at home. I had a little time saturday morning so I tried to practice some gym battling and it was so futile. My mons are not strong enough yet. And I didn't make any progress trying to level up one that was own color cause I can never beat anything with just one pokemon. gah.
I've found the key with gyms, especially training at a friendly (same color) gym, is getting good at dodging. I'm finding I make it a lot farther when I'm really paying attention to dodging. Here's a good video on technique. You only need to watch the first few minutes FYI, the rest is vlogging stuff.