Wild Pokemon almost always have lower IVs than ones from eggs. And certain species often have particularly low IVs, maybe Slowpoke is one of them? I know the starter Mons (Bulbasaur, Squirtle, and Charmander) have almost universally low IVs caught in the wild. Everyone I read about who's working towards their final evolutions of those is praying to get one from a 2k egg, because their wild caught IVs are always bad.
I obsessively check IVs. I don't recommend it, because it is hard to make myself evolve the crappier but higher level ones and I don't have the stardust to power up the others.
I've noticed that wild nidorans have pretty consistently crappy IVs. My sample size might not be big enough, but eevees and growlithes seem to have more consistently good IVs.
I check them but routinely ignore them, LOL. As I said earlier, I simply don't have the stardust to evolve a low CP, but better IV Pokemon. And they're not really that important, the difference between 0% IV and 100% IV is only 10% improved stats. I guess picking evolves by IV makes sense if you have several Mons to choose from, and plenty of stardust. But that's not the case for the vast majority of players KWIM.
As a SAHM in a very small town, I rarely go anywhere populated. That's by choice, overall I love living in the country. But I don't see good Pokemon. Well I'm meeting DH at his office for lunch tomorrow, and I'm hoping to catch some good stuff! I'm reading up on the best places to go. Hopefully the kids will be agreeable! I want someplace with a long walk (to hatch my 10k egg) that goes through several pokestops. Hopefully such a place exists not too far from DH's office.
I took a long weekend off, and got to do some pokehunting with the kids. They had "the best weekend ever." While wandering around downtown, and then at our lake house, we encountered a ryhorn, Pikachu, Snorlax and Bulbasaur, and then some semirare guys like Polywog, psyduck, staryu, etc.
War almost broke out when DS2 caught the Pikachu and he poofed on DS1. That was a bad scene.
I saw a Dratini pop up on my screen while I was turning down the long driveway type area by my work this morning (I keep it open and running in the passenger seat to hatch eggs), so I turned around and pulled into a little lot area by where I thought it popped up and caught him! I see maybe one a week or so.
Post by Wines Not Whines on Aug 24, 2016 14:35:42 GMT -5
Yesterday I saw a shadow in my "sightings" that looked like a pokemon with two small antennae on top of its head, and it was holding a club of some sort. Not Cubone, because I have him. Any idea who it was? I never found him.
lishie but you caught a Snorlax!! I can only imagine what encountering a snorlax must feel like.
The kids and I all caught him. I'm the highest level, at 22, and I caught a 400 something. DS2 is level 16 and caught a 1300+. DS1 is level 19 can caught a 1200+. DS2 was so proud he caught the largest of the 3 Snorlax
((whispers)) We caught one randomly a few levels ago (so maybe level 15 or so?). He came over at 600 cp and I think I powered him up to like 750 right now, or so.
((whispers)) We caught one randomly a few levels ago (so maybe level 15 or so?). He came over at 600 cp and I think I powered him up to like 750 right now, or so.
Relatively - but it really depends on your area, like all things Pokemon. I actually caught a 1440 Snorlax this morning in the break room at work but it's been WEEKS since I saw one before this.
Here's an interesting chart re: Pokemon rarity: https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/4ta6tm/updated_rarity_chart/
I have hatched two Digletts and named them "Penis" in the past two days. #adult
Yesterday I saw a shadow in my "sightings" that looked like a pokemon with two small antennae on top of its head, and it was holding a club of some sort. Not Cubone, because I have him. Any idea who it was? I never found him.
((whispers)) We caught one randomly a few levels ago (so maybe level 15 or so?). He came over at 600 cp and I think I powered him up to like 750 right now, or so.
Relatively - but it really depends on your area, like all things Pokemon. Â I actually caught a 1440 Snorlax this morning in the break room at work but it's been WEEKS since I saw one before this. Â
Here's an interesting chart re: Pokemon rarity: Â https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/4ta6tm/updated_rarity_chart/
I have hatched two Digletts and named them "Penis" in the past two days. Â #adult
YOU GUYS ARE KILLING ME. Catching 1000+ CP snorlax's like its no big thing?!
My Pokemon-ing has been either nonexistent or really lame for like a week now. Bah! It's because there isn't much around here. We are going into DC on Saturday so hopefully I'll have some luck.
I caught an over- 1K Tauros today! He was 1053 and I powered him up because he has a really good move set. And I have a bunch of random Tauros candy sitting around since there are no evolutions.
I also saw a crazy amount of less frequently seen pokemon in the PetCo parking lot today. I drug my poor dog around in the midday heat as much as I thought I could safely get away with in a busy parking lot. I caught: 608CP Koffing (my 2nd one), Pidgeotto, Rattata, and had an Ekans poof on me. I let DD play on the way to daycare today and she caught a Rattata and a Paras. And we hatched a Weedle and a Poliwag. Naturally she was more excited about the Weedle. lol
I keep hatching Poliwags and I'm up to 77 candies! Getting time to calculate and decide whether to evolve my existing Poliwhirl or hoard more to evolve one of my 'wags.
ETA: I definitely need to keep hoarding to evolve my Poliwag. Now I need to catch 12 of them instead of just 6. Ugh. Never gonna happen.
Yesterday I saw a shadow in my "sightings" that looked like a pokemon with two small antennae on top of its head, and it was holding a club of some sort. Not Cubone, because I have him. Any idea who it was? I never found him.
Marowak? Evolved form of Cubone.
No, I have him, too. Hopefully I'll catch one soon and find out!
Relatively - but it really depends on your area, like all things Pokemon. I actually caught a 1440 Snorlax this morning in the break room at work but it's been WEEKS since I saw one before this.
Here's an interesting chart re: Pokemon rarity: https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/4ta6tm/updated_rarity_chart/
I have hatched two Digletts and named them "Penis" in the past two days. #adult
YOU GUYS ARE KILLING ME. Catching 1000+ CP snorlax's like its no big thing?!
My old co-worker had no idea why I was freaking out over the fact that she caught a Lapras on her train ride the other day.
Post by Wines Not Whines on Aug 24, 2016 17:35:55 GMT -5
I have a couple of Eevee evolution questions. Is one form better than the others? Most of the gyms here seem to have Vaporeons. Are they the best for battles?
I've never used the evolution name trick before, so I could use it to get my highest Eevee (CP 601) to be whatever form I want. Does it make sense to do that now, or should I take my chances, and hold off for the sure thing when I catch an even better Eevee later? WWYD?