It's been raining since Wednesday, so I haven't been able to play PokeGo for days! Ugh.
Still, I was able to get a couple new pokedex entries: kabuto (hatched) & nidoking (evolved)
I was happy to evolve the nidoking since that means I now have a matched set of nidoroyalty! :D
My scouting from last week turned out fruitful. I knew we were going to get this stretch of rain so I went to a nearby park mid-morning on Wednesday when we had a break in the rain. I got defenders into 5 of the gyms. I lost two of them a few hours later, but I was able to collect the bonuses on the remaining 3 every day until this morning. I've since lost one of them, but I still have the other two. We'll see if I can retain them. It's supposed to be showery all day. At any rate, this is definitely a promising location for winter!
Speaking of winter, do y'all have any advice for playing PokeGo during the colder seasons? Our winters are relatively moderate in the DC area, but it does still get cold.
Edited (minor text fixes) Date: 2016-10-01 03:06 pm (UTC)
My Pikachu caught a couple of candies. I used up ALL my remaining pokeballs catching a difficult Golbat. I always have trouble catching the flying ones, and I'm not super great at throwing the ball even with the ones on the ground. But it was worth it: this Golbat is strong and has good attack and defense, and is CP636, the strongest 'mon I have.
Our local park now spawns charmanders! I might FINALLY be able to evolve my actual starter pokemon. :D
(Otherwise I'm mostly just catching things I already have and trying for *better* evolves than the ones I have. And some other spots in our area now have things like kabutos that were pretty rare locally, so it's all good change. Still far too many drowzees though. :D)
I haven't been able to do much recently but I caught an Electabuzz just walking up the local trail! I caught a Ghastly and a Bulbasaur as well but that was the highlight especially since this area is usually just Pidgeys/Weedles/Zubats. I'm having a persistent glitch with gyms so the local one is still held by the rival team but as soon as it gets resolved I want to take it back.
I now have Pokemon showing up at my house in the last week! Nothing too earth shattering, mostly Rattatas and Weedles, but it's exciting compared to the complete dead zone I was in before.
My partner and I held a gym for six days, and we were just a few hours short of holding it for a week!
Okay, the real reason was that it was school holidays, and the local Instinct team that is relatively tough consists of two teenage brothers and their friend. They all live on farms so no school means they weren't coming into town at all. Hooray!
I caught a snorlax! I caught a snorlax? I went for a slightly grumpy walk this afternoon because it's supposed to be even rainier and colder tomorrow, and it just popped up right in front of me. 1430 cp, which isn't amazing, but should be plenty solid enough to drop in the occasional gym here without being the bottom defender and boxing others out.
And then I was spared the moral quandary of whether to point it out to anyone else - who by gym traffic seemed to be all not-my-team - by not even *finding* anyone else who was playing for almost 20 more minutes.
I also evolved my perfect magikarp, bite/dragon pulse, and powered it up mostly to have a higher CP option for gym placement.
Basically my entire life pokemon life right now is managing CP for training and some variety in placing defenders.
That, and hitting refresh on reddit to see if theres any news on The Silph Road atlas update.
This is doubtless a silly question to those who've played all the mainline Pokémon games, but I'm very much just beginning to learn about type advantages, S.T.A.B., and all these fun mechanics, and...
What's the difference between "strong against" and "resistant to" (and "weak against" and "vulnerable to") in the Pokémon Go type advantages? For example, normal types are "strong against" no types at all, but are "resistant to" ghost types. For another example, ice types are both "weak against" and "resistant to" other ice types!
UGH. After not being able to log in or play on roaming for several days, I finally asked Google the right questions and found out that the Niantic servers are evidently blocking some of the IP addresses that my carrier, Cricket Wireless, uses. I had to restart my phone until it came up with one that isn't being blocked.
Bless my husband for completely supporting my decision to go out last night to hit up several Pokestops to replenish my supply of Pokeballs after the long drought.
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Still, I was able to get a couple new pokedex entries: kabuto (hatched) & nidoking (evolved)
I was happy to evolve the nidoking since that means I now have a matched set of nidoroyalty! :D
My scouting from last week turned out fruitful. I knew we were going to get this stretch of rain so I went to a nearby park mid-morning on Wednesday when we had a break in the rain. I got defenders into 5 of the gyms. I lost two of them a few hours later, but I was able to collect the bonuses on the remaining 3 every day until this morning. I've since lost one of them, but I still have the other two. We'll see if I can retain them. It's supposed to be showery all day. At any rate, this is definitely a promising location for winter!
Speaking of winter, do y'all have any advice for playing PokeGo during the colder seasons? Our winters are relatively moderate in the DC area, but it does still get cold.
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(Otherwise I'm mostly just catching things I already have and trying for *better* evolves than the ones I have. And some other spots in our area now have things like kabutos that were pretty rare locally, so it's all good change. Still far too many drowzees though. :D)
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Okay, the real reason was that it was school holidays, and the local Instinct team that is relatively tough consists of two teenage brothers and their friend. They all live on farms so no school means they weren't coming into town at all. Hooray!
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And then I was spared the moral quandary of whether to point it out to anyone else - who by gym traffic seemed to be all not-my-team - by not even *finding* anyone else who was playing for almost 20 more minutes.
I also evolved my perfect magikarp, bite/dragon pulse, and powered it up mostly to have a higher CP option for gym placement.
Basically my entire life pokemon life right now is managing CP for training and some variety in placing defenders.
That, and hitting refresh on reddit to see if theres any news on The Silph Road atlas update.
What's the difference between "strong" and "resistant"? or "weak" and "vulnerable"?
What's the difference between "strong against" and "resistant to" (and "weak against" and "vulnerable to") in the Pokémon Go type advantages? For example, normal types are "strong against" no types at all, but are "resistant to" ghost types. For another example, ice types are both "weak against" and "resistant to" other ice types!
References: the Silph Road (massive spreadsheet), Eurogamer (simple table)
:-) Thanks for any tips.
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Bless my husband for completely supporting my decision to go out last night to hit up several Pokestops to replenish my supply of Pokeballs after the long drought.
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I've walked my Bulbasaur 47km. 22km to go to Venusaur!