This week, I evolved a clefable! Don't know what I'm going to use it for. Garbage attacking moveset but best defensive moveset? Unfortunately, the relatively low CP puts clefable in a bad seating in gyms. So, hmm. I do laugh because clefable's animation when you tap her looks like a DJ about to drop some sick beats.
In other news, I evolved another gyarados and I got the best attacking moveset! Thank god because I was going to be pretty upset if I got another gyarados with twister.
I'm dangerously low on items, so I think this week I may concentrate on filling my bag up again. It's hard being in the suburbs and working from home sometimes!!
I got to evolve my arcanine today! I've been walking a growlithe for a while, and, he's adorable!
I read somewhere about a tactic of using pokemon that you were planning to transfer as the first couple of members in your team, and then transferring them rather than healing them, to conserve potions and revives, and decided to give that a go. My pattern this week has been to instantly transfer anything that's in the lowest ranking (unless the CP is really high) and rename as "1cf" anything in the second rank, and use those as my, well, canon fodder. One the one hand, I can see the advantage, especially in taking on a multiple level gym with something moderate in the first slots. On the other hand, I feel kind of weirdly guilty, watching them faint and then transferring them away ...
Today, I started a Mission to try and make a dent in the level 8 gym in the park that's been solid yellow for a couple of weeks now, where the starting level was a 2k+ Exeggcutor, I've got it down to a level 5, and I plan to try again tomorrow to see if I can wear it down further.
Went to a town I hadn't been to since Pokemon Go started and got my first Voltorb and Magnemite! But it was Level 10 gyms with the usual suspects as far as the eye could see. There were so many repetitions of Snorlax-Dragonite-Gyrados-Eggsecutor that I got really excited when one had a Polywrath and an Aerodactyl!
I found where the grassy stuff lives! You know, your growlithe, your exeggcute, your geodudes. Apparently I'd been blazing past one sufficiently landlocked neighborhood between home (water/garbage residential) and where all the pokestops live (water, water, more water). Also found a cluster spawn at one corner of said neighborhood that spawns all sorts of fun/rare stuff. Now just to avoid making people think I'm casing their house for a robbery.
I don't know how I feel about this new gym training, y'all. There are clearly all sorts of relative youngins on my team who are just now able to train I to gyms. That part is great. The part that's less great is that now I need an army of 400cp mons of every possible type.
Thus far I've trained into three high level gyms since the update, two of which I think predated it, and one that I know flipped today.
The older gyms were the typical for here assortment - lots of vaporeon, a snorlax or two, arcanine or exeggutor - in a relatively tight CP range around 2k. I liked the chance to put the countering team together and the challenge of trying to keep them all under a goal CP instead of just bowling them over, and working through all the defenders for 2-3k prestige.
The new gym today ranged from 700-2200 CP with a clefable right in the middle, so I ended up just doing the old first defender matchup over and over. Less fun. Also feels like such a waste of potion capacity.
So, hooray community? Yay, team, I guess? ;) I need to learn to be less grumpy, and remind myself that this is still better than having the bottom defender in a friendly gym being something nigh impossible to solo.
I find it's best if I don't think too hard about the narrative of transferring Pokémon ;) I still haven't let go of any of my eeveelutions, but at least I can now manage to blithely wave goodbye to my army of fainted pidgeottos.
I don't know how anyone has the patience to tear down gyms. Best of luck with that!
I have a low CP clefable that's got pretty good IVs. No idea on the movesets! I don't have the time to pay that much attention to everything! But once I'm done walking my pikachu as my buddy and getting enough candy to evolve it and power it up, I'm going to do the same with my clefable.
Being in the suburbs is terrible for items and pokemon. Very annoying.
I went into town! Caught a kangaskhan, fucking finally - I keep seeing them on the radar but haven't been able to actually get one until today. Instantly became my strongest pokémon, with... 505CP. Um. >>;;;
Got a bunch of pokéstops, levelled up to level 12, caught a bunch of pidgey and rattata... that's about it. Wasn't able to get any gyms - I fought at a couple for a bit, but I wasn't able to defeat anything. :( Maybe sometime this week I'll walk to a local one and sit around and battle until I run out of revives and potions, or something...
My bag has quite a lot of revives/hyper potions, but even if I have the gear to spend on just button mashing without thinking too hard about it, battling gyms just seem to drag on forever. So I keep not bothering and accumulating more items, and then -- should I recycle them even if they're good because I'm not using them? Or try to spend more time fighting gyms instead of wandering about?
Clefable has the same issue as wigglytuff. They're both tanky but their CP range doesn't go as high as others like dragonite or vaporeons. They're great for training, but they're not so good for optimum gym seating.
I think you should play the game how you want to play. If you don't like fighting gyms, then you should ditch the potions and revives to make room for pokeballs.
I got it done today! My reward was having a completely-new-to-me pokemon show up as the second defender - I'm feeling warm and fuzzy towards the unknown Team Blue folks who have come through and jumped on / levelled up the spots, and hope to see things get more fluid again (although if I can get 2-claims worth of coins out of it, I won't complain!)
Yeah - you're right - best not to think about that whole part of the narrative, really!
It's not a thing I spend a lot of time on usually, but when I've got the time to spare, it's quite satisfying to grind away - and noticeably less frustrating now they've done something about the memory leak that kept crashing the app when on a gym!
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This week, I evolved a clefable! Don't know what I'm going to use it for. Garbage attacking moveset but best defensive moveset? Unfortunately, the relatively low CP puts clefable in a bad seating in gyms. So, hmm. I do laugh because clefable's animation when you tap her looks like a DJ about to drop some sick beats.
In other news, I evolved another gyarados and I got the best attacking moveset! Thank god because I was going to be pretty upset if I got another gyarados with twister.
I'm dangerously low on items, so I think this week I may concentrate on filling my bag up again. It's hard being in the suburbs and working from home sometimes!!
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I read somewhere about a tactic of using pokemon that you were planning to transfer as the first couple of members in your team, and then transferring them rather than healing them, to conserve potions and revives, and decided to give that a go. My pattern this week has been to instantly transfer anything that's in the lowest ranking (unless the CP is really high) and rename as "1cf" anything in the second rank, and use those as my, well, canon fodder. One the one hand, I can see the advantage, especially in taking on a multiple level gym with something moderate in the first slots. On the other hand, I feel kind of weirdly guilty, watching them faint and then transferring them away ...
Today, I started a Mission to try and make a dent in the level 8 gym in the park that's been solid yellow for a couple of weeks now, where the starting level was a 2k+ Exeggcutor, I've got it down to a level 5, and I plan to try again tomorrow to see if I can wear it down further.
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I don't know how I feel about this new gym training, y'all. There are clearly all sorts of relative youngins on my team who are just now able to train I to gyms. That part is great. The part that's less great is that now I need an army of 400cp mons of every possible type.
Thus far I've trained into three high level gyms since the update, two of which I think predated it, and one that I know flipped today.
The older gyms were the typical for here assortment - lots of vaporeon, a snorlax or two, arcanine or exeggutor - in a relatively tight CP range around 2k. I liked the chance to put the countering team together and the challenge of trying to keep them all under a goal CP instead of just bowling them over, and working through all the defenders for 2-3k prestige.
The new gym today ranged from 700-2200 CP with a clefable right in the middle, so I ended up just doing the old first defender matchup over and over. Less fun. Also feels like such a waste of potion capacity.
So, hooray community? Yay, team, I guess? ;) I need to learn to be less grumpy, and remind myself that this is still better than having the bottom defender in a friendly gym being something nigh impossible to solo.
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I don't know how anyone has the patience to tear down gyms. Best of luck with that!
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Being in the suburbs is terrible for items and pokemon. Very annoying.
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Got a bunch of pokéstops, levelled up to level 12, caught a bunch of pidgey and rattata... that's about it. Wasn't able to get any gyms - I fought at a couple for a bit, but I wasn't able to defeat anything. :( Maybe sometime this week I'll walk to a local one and sit around and battle until I run out of revives and potions, or something...
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Upside is, I caught a Seadra yesterday. Low CP, so it's useless in battle, but it was a new one for the pokedex, so that's cool.
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My bag has quite a lot of revives/hyper potions, but even if I have the gear to spend on just button mashing without thinking too hard about it, battling gyms just seem to drag on forever. So I keep not bothering and accumulating more items, and then -- should I recycle them even if they're good because I'm not using them? Or try to spend more time fighting gyms instead of wandering about?
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Yeah - you're right - best not to think about that whole part of the narrative, really!
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