This Week in Pokémon Go News

[inkstone]

Happy Friday, trainers!

• The Pokémon Go subreddit has become the biggest subreddit in the world -- bigger than even /r/all! Ironic, since that's not really the subreddit you go to if you want legit & helpful info on PokeGo. (source)

• Look alive! The next nest migration is expected to begin today. (source)

• On that note, today's a full moon. Keep an eye out for a surge in clefairies and jigglypuffs. It's all anecdotal, of course, but there always seem to be more spawns around this time of month. (I saw 5-6 jigglypuffs yesterday myself, which is very unusual.)

What's going on in your next of the woods? Anyone pick up the Go Plus?

Comments

[ephemera]

Has anyone else been having problems with connecting to the servers again the last few days? I was wondering if the Buddy walking was impacting the server load, as I haven't had that issue in over a month, and it's been a real bear the last couple of days. Particularly frustrating when I *could* have been earning buddy candy and have two 10k eggs cooking!

My reliable Ryhorn spot got changed in the last next migration, and is now More Drowsies (I swear - we don't need any more Drowsies - they're more common than pidgies round here!) so roll on another change!

[kotturinn]

Yes. Since the update it's been immensely troublesome. I'd been fortunate with not having problems before but now I'm getting problems all the time! Failure to connect to the servers, with changing from wi-fi to mobile data (I'd never had that one before) and with the game partially working - for example this morning it was working sufficiently for my avatar to move accurately but tracking kilometers was not working and until I restarted I was seeing no 'mons at all. Once I restarted things were OK for a while.

Drowsies

[brightknightie]

>"Drowsies - they're more common than pidgies round here!)"

Oh, regional differences! I've seen/caught exactly 1 Drowsy.

Re: Drowsies

[havocthecat]

Oh my goodness, really? They're EVERYWHERE here. I have at least half a dozen 1100+ CP Hypnos from all those Drowzees that I keep catching. I can run into a clutch of three or four at a time at work. I would give you some if only that were possible.

Re: Drowsies

[inkstone]

The way biomes work in PokeGo are so interesting to me. Drowzees are pretty rare where I live too. I caught my first one in the wild yesterday. I've only ever hatched them until then.

Re: Drowsies

[havocthecat]

I've honestly started to hate them because I have so many. No one around here uses Hypnos once they start getting high-level enough to use anything else.

Relatedly, I'm getting a little tired of hatching Eevees from 10k eggs. They're all over the place here! I've got two of each Eeveelution, and I'm working on getting a third. I haven't decided which I should try for next.