Look guys!!! Esp @supergreen Guess who I found in a random small town in TX while taking a pee break during our drive? Forgive the giant red bar pretty much permanently affixed to my screen these days. That CP level you're missing? Just look at his curve and you can see why I left it off. Whopping CP 42. I'm sure he'll be a huge asset to my pokedex.
Woot woot! I am (still) of the opinion that there is no bad snorlax. Even a low CP like that, you've got a pokedex entry, and candies for if you catch a stronger one in the future. #STILLwantsaSnorlax
I'm pretty bummed. Last night we did the zoo poke-event, mostly pidgeys and ratattas. And taht was th lures everywhere. I evolved a bunch and leveled up to 18. I thought the big guys came out at 18. Nothing. Best thing I caught today was a 600 gloom. I had a Abra poof on me today, so I'm annoyed bc it would have been new for me, and I only three one ball at it. I was in a gym today for a bit. Hatched a 5k oddish. BORING!
What's the deal?!
Abra has a 99% flee rate, the highest in the whole game. If you don't catch it on the first throw, it WILL FLEE. Always give Abra a berry + your best pokeball + best toss (good/great/excellent). Even if it's low CP. I had an Abra flee today also, after a berry + ultra ball + great toss.
As far as not finding high CP Mons, it could just be an off day. Lures don't usually bring high CP Pokemon FYI. They just produce the same crap that usually spawns near the pokestop. Lures are good for catching quantity, not quality IMHO.
Post by water*drop on Aug 28, 2016 21:33:21 GMT -5
Today at the lake I caught a slowbro and golduck, which are both new for me. I also got a bunch of psyducks, staryu, magikarp, poliwags, and tentacools. Tomorrow I'll be by a spot downtown that's supposed to be really great for an hour or so, and then tomorrow night I'll use a lucky egg and do a bunch of evolutions to level up.
I'm pretty bummed. Last night we did the zoo poke-event, mostly pidgeys and ratattas. And taht was th lures everywhere. I evolved a bunch and leveled up to 18. I thought the big guys came out at 18. Nothing. Best thing I caught today was a 600 gloom. I had a Abra poof on me today, so I'm annoyed bc it would have been new for me, and I only three one ball at it. I was in a gym today for a bit. Hatched a 5k oddish. BORING!
What's the deal?!
Abra has a 99% flee rate, the highest in the whole game. If you don't catch it on the first throw, it WILL FLEE. Always give Abra a berry + your best pokeball + best toss (good/great/excellent). Even if it's low CP. I had an Abra flee today also, after a berry + ultra ball + great toss.
As far as not finding high CP Mons, it could just be an off day. Lures don't usually bring high CP Pokemon FYI. They just produce the same crap that usually spawns near the pokestop. Lures are good for catching quantity, not quality IMHO.
DD is awesome at catching abras! She wastes 10 balls on a stupid pidgey, but she's caught all 3 of the abras she's found.
I caught a 1564 Snorlax (my first!) in my driveway today! Usually Pidgeys and Ratattas spawn at my across the street neighbor's house at the bottom of every hour. I thought I was going to pass out when I saw the Snorlax.
I caught a 1564 Snorlax (my first!) in my driveway today! Usually Pidgeys and Ratattas spawn at my across the street neighbor's house at the bottom of every hour. I thought I was going to pass out when I saw the Snorlax.
OMG that's incredible! A snorlax for everyone today, but me apparently *sob*
I caught a 1564 Snorlax (my first!) in my driveway today! Usually Pidgeys and Ratattas spawn at my across the street neighbor's house at the bottom of every hour. I thought I was going to pass out when I saw the Snorlax.
um Brie I think we need to go to Cheerio's house....
I caught a 1564 Snorlax (my first!) in my driveway today! Usually Pidgeys and Ratattas spawn at my across the street neighbor's house at the bottom of every hour. I thought I was going to pass out when I saw the Snorlax.
OMG that's incredible! A snorlax for everyone today, but me apparently *sob*
@supergreen maybe we will both randomly get snorlaxes like we both randomly got arcanine's the other day!
That would be incredible! DS really wants one. He keeps asking me why I don't have one. I have explained several times what the word "rare" means. I don't think he gets it. When we're playing and he hears my phone buzz, he often says "is it a snorlax?!?" I'm like omg dude, no, I'm sure it's a pidgey or a rattata. Yup, a pidgey.
I caught a 1564 Snorlax (my first!) in my driveway today! Usually Pidgeys and Ratattas spawn at my across the street neighbor's house at the bottom of every hour. I thought I was going to pass out when I saw the Snorlax.
OMG that's incredible! A snorlax for everyone today, but me apparently *sob*
I don't have one either.
More sob stories: DS and I are one Bellsprout away from a Victrebell, so we went to the park this afternoon specifically in search of one. While there, we saw the shadow of a Scyther (which we don't have either) and tracked it around the park. We found neither of them!
I'll contribute my sob story, er rage story... I've been one bellsprout away from a victreebell for weeks, not seeing them anywhere. Then I let my 4 year old hold the phone while sitting in the grocery store cart today, "looking" for pokemon... turn away for a split second to grab the milk, and BAM he evolved the only bellsprout we had into another weepinbell. It was better than the weepinbell i'd been saving, but still. When his big bro realized what he did he started sobbing. Damn kids.
Post by rupertpenny on Aug 28, 2016 23:42:54 GMT -5
I finally got the last bellsprout I needed to evolve all the way through to victreebel! It has 1772 CP but what seems like only an OK moveset, razor leaf and sludge bomb. I would have preferred double grass. The evolutions also pushed me over the edge into level 26 so that was nice.
lilybugpugz B messes with my pokemon too. She likes to power them up and used up ALL the abra candies I'd been saving plus a bunch more that were slightly less devastating.
Yes with the powering up! Whenever he gets ahold of it I look later thinking, I know I had more nidoran candies than that... My older one is super competitive and gets it, but the little one just wants to push buttons. And the irony of it is that whenever I do allow the 4 y.o. to try and catch one, he ALWAYS gets it first try.
Personal opinion question, do you guys ever evolve crappy ones just to get the new evolution, or do you wait?
Like for example, I have a 443CP Poliwag, and a 442CP Poliwhirl, with 82 candies built up. They're fairly rare but not impossible. I'm really pumped to get a Poliwrath, but it would probably be better in the long run to go ahead and evolve the Poliwag, huh? I'm impatient. Or my 97CP Kadabra that I caught in the wild, lol. I'd love to make him into an Alakazam, but he'd be useless.
Personal opinion question, do you guys ever evolve crappy ones just to get the new evolution, or do you wait?
Like for example, I have a 443CP Poliwag, and a 442CP Poliwhirl, with 82 candies built up. They're fairly rare but not impossible. I'm really pumped to get a Poliwrath, but it would probably be better in the long run to go ahead and evolve the Poliwag, huh? I'm impatient. Or my 97CP Kadabra that I caught in the wild, lol. I'd love to make him into an Alakazam, but he'd be useless.
I do! And then usually regret it. Lol. I care more about getting new to me pokemons. I evolve right away, then when it's time for the 3rd evolution I save up more candies to evolve a better one all the way through.
Personal opinion question, do you guys ever evolve crappy ones just to get the new evolution, or do you wait?
Like for example, I have a 443CP Poliwag, and a 442CP Poliwhirl, with 82 candies built up. They're fairly rare but not impossible. I'm really pumped to get a Poliwrath, but it would probably be better in the long run to go ahead and evolve the Poliwag, huh? I'm impatient. Or my 97CP Kadabra that I caught in the wild, lol. I'd love to make him into an Alakazam, but he'd be useless.
If the final evolution is useless, I evolve whatever I've got even if it's weak. But if the final evolution can be good in gyms, I wait and evolve a really strong starter Mon in hopes of getting the best final evolution. Like Alakazam is useless, which is a travesty b/c he was a BEAST in the regular games, like a poor man's Mewtwo. But in PoGo he's awful. So lilybug I would evolve your weak Kadabara just to get the new Pokedex entry. Poliwrath is another story! Poliwrath is an excellent battling Pokemon. Great stats, good CP, can get good moves. I would certainly save up 125 candies to evolve your best Poliwag straight on through all the way to Polywrath. That's what I'm doing. I have 115 candies and a 450cp Poliwag I'm waiting to evolve all the way through.
I don't do gyms so i evolve for the new pokemon for my pokedex! I try to wait and evolve a bunch with a lucky egg to help me level up
You're missing out on a super fun part of the game IMHO! DS and I love taking down gyms. I do the quick attacks and dodging, and tell him when to do long press for the special attack. You get decent XP from battling, and the gym defender bonus certainly is useful. Plus I love seeing my avatar and my best Mons on the gym pedestal.
This weekend I got enough Pikachus to evolve him, but will wait until I do the rest, with a lucky egg. I have enough candies where I can either power him up and then evolve, or have two Raichus. Probably powering up is the better option.
I got a few more Charmanders from the Charmander nest by my house, I'm pretty close to evolving him all the way up!
I also got a new to me Dodrio - which, last time I tried to catch him he escaped, so I was glad to get him this time. I also got a new to me Diglet.
Saturday we went to a place that was apparently a Scyther spawn point and picked up 4 of those before we had to leave.
ETA - Oh! I can also evolve my Exeggcute when I'm ready, I finally got the last one I needed this weekend.
This weekend I got enough Pikachus to evolve him, but will wait until I do the rest, with a lucky egg. I have enough candies where I can either power him up and then evolve, or have two Raichus. Probably powering up is the better option.
I would pick your best Pikachu and evolve him, see what moveset you get. If it's a good moveset (spark/thunder punch or spark/thunder), keep that one and power it up. If the move set is terrible (if special attack is brick break, it's awful), then go ahead and evolve the 2nd pikachu in hopes of getting a better moveset.
I don't think I'm going to be able to get my phone fixed. They cautioned me that if they see any water damage in it they won't fix it or they'd offer to fix it for the (non warranty) accidental damage fee. I mean, my phone is 2 years old. It's seen water before. I don't know how much, and if there is any evidence, but I've heard they're kind of hard about that stuff. RIP Pokemon game. I just can't play with it like this, and cannot afford $700 for a new phone right now.
I had to wait until I was on a computer to post the pic -- couldn't figure out how to do it from my phone. Here's my Charizard and Snorlax (although you didn't ask to see the Snorlax, I thought I might as well include it!)
I had to wait until I was on a computer to post the pic -- couldn't figure out how to do it from my phone. Here's my Charizard and Snorlax (although you didn't ask to see the Snorlax, I thought I might as well include it!)
Wow Cheerio they are incredible! Best moveset on both of them too! I would power them up and use them both in battle. Congrats!