We had some time to kill, so we took a walk in the park. Hatched a Poliwag (111 candies!), ponyta, and caterpie. I chose that park b/c I'd left a Vaporeon in the gym there TWO WEEKS AGO. The gym isn't accessibly by car, it's all the way at the ass-end of the park, down a steep hill. So, hard to get to. I wanted to see what was going on, and add another of my own Mons.
Well, someone has been doing serious work there, it's now a level 8 mystic gym, which is the highest gym I've ever seen. It's capped by a Snorlax on BOTH ends. 636 CP on the bottom, 2008 CP on the top. I could beat that bottom snorlax, but would lose lots of HP b/c when you dodge now you still take 25% damage. Then the next Pokemon, a 1499 Exeggcutor with solar beam, would finish me off. I couldn't get any further, so I only got 400ish prestige each time, and I needed about 3,600 to get the gym to level 9 to put one of my guys in there.
At least that experience with the gym taught me something. On a good note, I've bee looking for a usable snorlax counter for awhile. He's normal type, which is only weak to fighting type. My 967 Machoke got decimated by that 636 snorlax. I tried a bunch of different Mons, and at the last battle before I ran out of patience I tried my new Rapidash, and BINGO. It has low kick, a fighting move, that I could use 3x between each snorlax attack. So it charged my special move quite effectively, which was fire blast, which does 100 damage (rapidash's best move). Success!
Post by spankswife on Aug 24, 2016 20:00:06 GMT -5
Good news of the day - ironically I've had 4 bulbasaurs poof on me and it always irked me that my pokedex was off. DD would always tease me, "oh look a bulbasaur" but there wouldn't be one there (gee thanks kid).
Well tonight she said it, and I was like ya ok whatever. But there was one (the 5th!) and she caught it for me!! I'm officially 63 for 63.
Post by spankswife on Aug 24, 2016 21:16:36 GMT -5
Ok so I'm yellow. I beat red. Blue beat me. I see it's now back to yellow. There only one Pokemon there, a level 2. So how would I add to it and make it so red or blue would have to fight 2 mons? Like would I have to go beat the yellow taht is there now? And then she'd be the first battle and id be the second?
Sorry for the lame questions. Today was my first battle. I've only practiced in my own yellow once.
Ok so I'm yellow. I beat red. Blue beat me. I see it's now back to yellow. There only one Pokemon there, a level 2. So how would I add to it and make it so red or blue would have to fight 2 mons? Like would I have to go beat the yellow taht is there now? And then she'd be the first battle and id be the second?
Sorry for the lame questions. Today was my first battle. I've only practiced in my own yellow once.
Tap the gym, and if there's an open slot there will be a gym symbol with a plus in the lower left corner. Do that, add your Pokemon, collect your defender bonus immediately. Yes, if you don't collect it, you lose it.
Ok so I'm yellow. I beat red. Blue beat me. I see it's now back to yellow. There only one Pokemon there, a level 2. So how would I add to it and make it so red or blue would have to fight 2 mons? Like would I have to go beat the yellow taht is there now? And then she'd be the first battle and id be the second?
Sorry for the lame questions. Today was my first battle. I've only practiced in my own yellow once.
Tap the gym, and if there's an open slot there will be a gym symbol with a plus in the lower left corner. Do that, add your Pokemon, collect your defender bonus immediately. Yes, if you don't collect it, you lose it.
Ok cool. I'm not going back out tonight but I'll know for next time. Thank you
Post by gooniesneversaydie on Aug 24, 2016 21:51:34 GMT -5
I finally hit level 23 tonight. That last bit of XP was painful. And I'm up to 102 of 102 in my Pokedex. I'm hoping to go on a Pokewalk at work tomorrow. Someone said the nests have changed again this week. Has anyone noticed that?
I finally hit level 23 tonight. That last bit of XP was painful. And I'm up to 102 of 102 in my Pokedex. I'm hoping to go on a Pokewalk at work tomorrow. Someone said the nests have changed again this week. Has anyone noticed that?
The PoGo subreddits and Youtubers I follow say yes, the nests have changed again.
peggy wow that was an awesome spawn! The Publix parking lot by me usually spawns 3-5 things at a time, but they are usually Pidgey, Weedle, and Rat with a Magikarp, Ekan, Oddish, or Nidoran mixed in. Not nearly as good as what you got there!
I did have an okay morning because I hatched a Koffing on my walk which gave me the final boost I needed for a Wheezing. I was finding Koffing at my apartment complex about twice a week before the first update and since then NOTHING, so I am pretty happy.
Yesterday H & I saw a Ponyta (new to me) on the screen so I sent him out to look for it because I was inside with a sick baby. He caught it, came home.
They change the nests to keep the game fresh and interesting, and to prevent players from having an unfair advantage. Like someone living near a Dratini nest was making multiple 3,000 CP Dragonites, and not letting any other trainers into the local gyms.
That would explain the influx of Pidgeottos at my house lol. Tiny upgrade from Pidgeys 😉
I walk away from them -- I walked away from a 900-something Fearow this morning. I already have it in my Pokedex, it's not going to be gym-worthy and it'll take a thousand balls to catch and probably still poof on me.
Either give me GOOD stuff, or just give me 10CP garbage mons so I can level up, lol.Â
Exactly. This is what I do too. I give them 3 balls, and then walk away. Kakuna and Metapod are hard to catch too, I'm not wasting balls on them. I walked away from a 800-something Pidgeot yesterday after 3 balls. I often say "FINE, don't come home with me, WHATEVER."
Fingers crossed the park near DH's office has Pokemon. I NEVER go anywhere populated, pullllease let me catch good stuff! There's a walking trail over a stream, I'm hoping for Psyduck, a Golduck would be amazing. The trail should be just long enough to hatch my 10k. COME ON SNORLAX OR LAPRAS! I'll take such good care of you! Feed you treats and loooove you.
Yesterday H & I saw a Ponyta (new to me) on the screen so I sent him out to look for it because I was inside with a sick baby. He caught it, came home.
This morning, my egg hatched. It was a Ponyta.
lol
This has happened to me with unusual frequency. I swear the eggs are rigged and/or linked to the site you obtain them from. It takes a bit of the excitement out of hatching an item. It's like "oh!!!! Wait. I just saw you yesterday." Except the egg usually has higher CP
Yesterday H & I saw a Ponyta (new to me) on the screen so I sent him out to look for it because I was inside with a sick baby. He caught it, came home.
This morning, my egg hatched. It was a Ponyta.
lol
This has happened to me with unusual frequency. I swear the eggs are rigged and/or linked to the site you obtain them from. It takes a bit of the excitement out of hatching an item. It's like "oh!!!! Wait. I just saw you yesterday." Except the egg usually has higher CP
The one we caught yesterday was 400-something, and today it was 800-something, so that's pretty good! And a lot of candies, too.
I'm taking DD to a big park today that supposedly (according to my local Facebook PoGo page) has good stuff. I'm really hoping my GPS signal works. I'm going to be seriously ticked if it doesn't. And will seriously consider driving an hour to the nearest Apple Store just to get them to tell me I need to buy a new phone. Which sucks.
It's funny, the GPS has been faulty for a long time. I haven't been able to use the map function on my phone in the last 6 months or so. But whatever, just look at directions before I leave. Once PoGo came out, all of the sudden it was a HUGE deal and I'm desperate to fix my phone. lol. Priorities.
IDK if I know where nests are locally to me. Definitely not nests with certain pokemon more commonly. Do you just notice them there a lot more often? There is one parking lot (at Starbucks so I'm there a few times a week) where I usually see 3-5 Pokemon as soon as I drive in, but they're never the same kind time after time.
I am a gym leader this morning! Woot. I'm sure that'll last an hour, but still. Also, I caught a new pokemon for me, Seel, 415cp.
@supergreen, have fun at lunch! Can't wait to hear about your haul.
I found a subreddit for my city with a list of nests by googling PokemonGo <city name>, so you may be able to find something. You'll know a nest if you see it - for example, I work on top of a Drowzee and Clefairy nest. I can usually catch enough to evolve 2-3 Hypnos/Clefables A DAY when I'm in the office.
Happy hunting, @supergreen! I need to go for a walk to try and hatch a couple of 10k eggs.
I see it got taken over already. But I promptly collect my gym defender bonus, and take a screenshot of me as team leader. Brag about it on here
Ya I didn't collect the bonus. So I guess I lose it? They should give it automatically. But I def got screen shots
It's not automatic so if you want to go take over a second gym, you can wait to collect your bonus til you have two mons in gyms. Then you get a double bonus. Or 3 or 5 or 10 or however many you want to/can do. If you claim the bonus after the first gym, then add to a 2nd, you can't claim that one until the 21 hours clock has counted down. This confused me so much at first!
Yesterday I leveled up a gym so I could add to it. First time I've ever successfully done that! Up until now I've just been adding when there are empty spots or taking down really low level of another color. My trouble is beating someone with just one pokemon, lol. I didn't have a lot of time to play after that, but I waited on my bonus until I drove by two more nearby gyms that are sometimes really easy to add too. They weren't at the time, but I figured my first guy would last the 20 minutes it took. He's still there today actually! We'll see how long he lasts!
Good morning! I caught a Tangela and a really great CP Golduck this morning, and a Bulbasaur so I could evolve to an Ivysaur finally. Now my Pokedex is even at 101/101.