Weekend Free-for-All!

[inkstone]

How was your week in PokeGo, trainers?

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[inkstone]

It's been a couple weeks since our last free chat, so I'm trying to remember what's changed among my crew since then...

Caught: A venusaur! (This guy was cranky as shit & I used up my ultraballs to catch him but he's in my pokedex. Pretty crappy IVs -- seems to be a running problem with non-hatched starters -- but I got him!)

Evolved: A nidoqueen and a wigglytuff! (So excited about the wigglytuff, you don't even understand!)

In other news, I've finally begun powering up the mon I decided I'd be keeping. I decided that waiting until level 30 was kind of silly. Even if I find mon with better IVs, how do I know I'll get the ideal moveset when I evolve them? *side eyes her gyarados with fucking twister* I have a 88.9% vaporeon with the perfect attacking moveset (water gun/hydro pump). Why not power her up? I also decided to power up my 97.8% vileplume and 86.7% nidoqueen. Their movesets aren't ideal like my vaporeon's, but they're decent. I've been using my vileplume as a defender and surprisingly, my nidoqueen's charge attack (Earthquake) does decent enough damage to dragonites twice as strong as her that I can finish them off with a vaporeon.

(Since I'm used to attacking with vaporeons, it's taking me a while to get used to the attacking rhythm of my nidoqueen, but I'm definitely getting better at the attack-dodge-attack attack-dodge beat.)

At the moment, I've set my powering up limits to 85% IVs with at least a decent moveset. It doesn't have to be perfect but it can't be freaking garbage like bite/twister. (I basically use that gyarados as cannon fodder.) I'm wondering if I'm being too stringent given my playing habits. I have two 80% exeggcutors, one with the perfect attacking moveset (zen headbutt/solar beam) and the other with a decent defensive moveset (confusion/seed bomb). I have an exeggcute to evolve -- bad IVs but high enough CP that I can use it in gyms right away -- but in terms of the long game, I'm wondering if I should invest in these other exeggcutors. Even if I get an exeggcute with better IVs down the road, there's never a guarantee that I'll get a good moveset while I know I have these that do.

[brightknightie]

In happy news, a wild jolteon was waiting for me in my kitchen one morning this week! It came along quietly with just one razz berry and one ultraball. I also caught my first hitmonlee and second hitmonchan (poor IVs, but they're pretty rare here).

In less happy news, a fellow trainer frustrated me by what I felt was essentially swiping a gym spot out from under me. (Is that a totally okay thing to do, and I'm just being ridiculously overly sensitive? That's possible! I don't know the etiquette.) After errands this Saturday morning, I stopped by an out-of-the-way 7th-level gym at an office park. I spent half an hour training it up to open an 8th spot (lots of potions). About halfway through, a minivan pulled up in the mostly empty parking lot; I didn't think anything of it. As soon as I finally leveled up the gym, though, someone popped in a rapidash. As my jaw dropped at the sight of the rapidash in "my" slot... the minivan drove away. ~sigh~

[tyger]

I caught a squirtle! :D Now I have all three starters, though getting them to evolve is going to be A Challenge, hahaha.

Nothing much else, still mostly housebound. But am going out for a little bit today, so maybe I'll find something fun! :D

[yhlee]

Sad that most of the time when I load up the game, it tells me that it can't detect GPS. Oh well...

[healingmirth]

This week I decided that a) I felt good enough about the game and their development of it that I was willing to spend some money on coins, and b) that I was going to, this once, absolutely and definitely clear out my egg inventory so that I would no longer periodically get surprised with a lowbie mon out of a 5k egg. I'm almost level 25, and I felt like this was a good point from where I wouldn't be quite as *fists of rage* about finally hatching an older egg many levels later.

So, I spent some coins, and bought enough incubators to pop each of my 5k eggs into one. (On reflection, later, I realized I had enough coins from gyms saved up that I could probably have done this without the $$ in two batches, starting the incubation on the remainder before hitting a pokestop, but oh well.)

I also engaged in some very anecdotal research about whether egg origin has anything to do with what hatches. My conclusion: maybe? nothing hatched from my not-local egg pick up that I haven't encountered in the wild near my home, but the wild populations in each are fairly distinct.

I'm also 0/4 or 0/5 getting a 10k egg on the 10th pokestop spin when I have a spot open. I continue to watch with envy the threads of those on reddit who believe otherwise.

We also had a food festival here that brought a bunch of new trainers through amongst the hordes, so I was gently laughing at the constant flipping of the gym in that park, until it was the end of the day, and I was left with a level two gym, my team, both spots occupied with 2400+cp snorlaxes. Really, people?

Thankfully one of the locals swung by and flipped it an hour or two later, so it's accessible to our relatively lowbie population again.


I think I've mostly been evolving for XP, other than my first gyarados this week. Nothing else exciting evolved or captured on that front, but I've finally got a solid exeggcute lined up ready to go, with a handful more candy.

[vass]

I'm level 11 now. Since I commented here last, I had my first successful gym battle, then later on helped take down a gym and very briefly occupied it. I'm pretty proud of that, particularly since I only have three pokemons over 500CP: a Starmie (516), a Golbat (608), and a Golduck (609), and neither the Golduck nor the Starmie are what Candela would describe as great in battle. All my other pokemon are lower than 400CP.

A supermarket near me seems to be spawning Ninetails, but I haven't caught one yet -- I keep seeing what I think is their silhouette. They are giving great Evees, though. I haven't caught enough for an evolution yet, but I'm working on it.

[recessional]

Thanks to two 5km eggs popping out ponyta in a row I HAVE A FIRE UNICORN. Mwahhaha.