This Week in Pokémon Go News

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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

[havocthecat]

The clefairy nest in my hometown better not migrate! But I see I'm going to have to go clefairy hunting in the parking lot tonight just in case.

[vass]

My Grimer buddy finally got a candy (it took 3km to do this, and 3km in GPS distance seems a lot further to me than three actual km) and I've switched to one of my Pikachus (hatched, 1km for a candy.) I hatched another egg, and it was a Doduo. Disappointing in that it's the third egg I've hatched that gave me something I already had (Pikachu, Evee, Doduo.) Its stats were excellent, but still.

I sat down tonight and did some evolving. I now have a strong Pidgeot, and a strong Flareon. And on tonight's Pokewalk I caught my first Oddish!

[monanotlisa]

Oh my God, you are right! I caught a BUNCH of both Clefairies and Wigglypuffs; I was scratching my head but then late at night at the pool saw the almost-full-moon, not quite connecting that to the Fairy mon. :)

[serpentine]

Naming my Jigglypuff Pokémon buddy Mokona (after the Magic Knight Rayearth character) was the best idea I had this week as it makes me smile whenever I see the words "Mokona found a candy!".

Otherwise, things haven't been particularly interesting outside of the fact that I finally was able to level a gym from level three to level four and we've been holding onto the gym since Wednesday.

Now that the weather is starting to cool down, I am thinking of getting more walking in than I had in previous weeks.

[soc_puppet]

I'm probably going to get a Go Plus, if only because I get arm/hand cramps from walking around with my phone out like that. Plus, it sounds like I'd be able to possibly track distance at work (where no phones), and even if I can't catch anything while I do that, I think it'd be worth it to hatch eggs and pick up buddy candy. (Also, my location tends to get glitchy when I'm at my house, and I am shamelessly willing to take advantage of that. I may not "walk" very far when sitting in one place, but I have logged at least 500m (enough to hatch an in-progress egg) while laying in bed and reading, so!)

[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!