I caught a shiny magikarp! And it got me my 200th magikarp candy, too. One more water festival and I can evolve it!
.unfortunately all the gyms around here are suddenly full of high level gyarados and I'm not winning many fights.
Completely unrelated, had anybody else noticed pokestops moving recently? Two of my local ones that were previously in buildings suddenly moved across parking lots to be much closer to the road sometime in the last few weeks (which sucks for me because I'm still depending on wifi.)
....And does anyone know how to get a pokestop to move? My local Starbucks one is about five hundred meters from the actual Starbucks and completely inaccessible, and presumably somebody paid good money for it.
woot - a shiny! Neither I nor my godson were so lucky, (he texted me twice a day throughout to check) although I have a new gyrandos out of the festival, so - no complaints here!
I've had best results with grass types with Solar Beam charge move, or with jolteons (so fast!), but I recently read on The Silph Road that if you have an all-electric Lanturn, its high HP makes it very useful against water types. Was the water event generous with Chinchous where you live?
I didn't know Starbucks paid for pokestops! Not that this would help me, because there's only a few Starbucks in the whole of Australia, but still, it's interesting!
Every Starbucks in the US has a "sponsored" pokestop now. They appeared in late December, I think. The disc shows a Starbucks beverage, and the text at the top is a miniature advertisement. I've also seem some "sponsored" pokestops at the storefronts of some mobile phone service providers.
Japan reportedly has the most such "sponsored" pokestops in the world! On the YouTube videos of people at the Lapras event, you see them spinning a lot of sponsored discs for Japanese banks and restaurants and all kinds of companies.
>"And does anyone know how to get a pokestop to move?"
Move, no, sorry. (Expect for some schools and government authorities who've gotten them turned off, or put on schedules -- there during some hours and gone during other hours.)
But fwiw, we do hear that if an Ingress player adds a certain resource in Ingress and it's approved, that new resource then subsequently appears in Pokemon Go as a new pokestop.
Also, reputedly, Niantic has some high-ranked Ingress players auditing requests for new Ingress resources in rural areas, which, when passed, are popping up in both games.
??? Mine showed up shiny on the catch screen prior to catching, though not on the overworld screen. It's why I used a Razz berry and an ultra ball on it, rather than a Pinap and a great ball.
Since I live in a coastal+river water (and bug and grass) biome, I found the water event deeply unrewarding. Spawns were all the dead common stuff I see all the time anyway, and far fewer of the interesting types. And no Lapras anywhere, not even on Nearby or Sightings. Ah, well. I did stock up on Karp candies and evolve one more Gyarados, though I'm still looking for a shiny.
However, I can't complain because I am delighted for all of y'all who scored a lot of cool water types that are normally uncommon or all but unavailable. Every event is good for a huge segment of the player base, and as each event rolls around, the benefits will come to all biomes and players sooner or later.
The really exciting thing for me has been learning so much new stuff!
I met a local Mystic player who invited me to the Seekrit team Facebook group (have to be invited by someone who knows you in person in order to exclude cheaters and spoofers and the like). I have a PokeGo community now! It's so cool! I haven't yet made it to a co-battling gathering, but I'm really psyched about doing this soon.
Also, after avoiding Reddit completely for years because of its reputation for rampant misogyny and general dickishness, I ever-so-belatedly learned that The Silph Road is a subreddit where such behavior is explicitly forbidden (and rigorously policed and dealt with when it occurs). So for the past week or two I've been happily spending some time there every day and learning SO MUCH.
For instance, I finally learned how and when to dodge -- when being my biggest challenge; I had no idea that the timing varied so much. It's made a big difference, and I'm finally being successful and having fun both battling and prestiging in gyms.
And as for weather, my corner of California is at long last catching a break from the incessant rain. Coming out of drought, it's hard to complain too much, but I live in the rainiest part of California and our drought years only baaaarely qualified as such, and this winter has been near-constant deluge after deluge, with rather a lot of localized flooding. Having six walkable days in a row this week is positively glorious!
I could wish that my 10K eggs would hatch something (anything) other than Pinecos, and that my evo items would include a bit more variety (kings rock x 3, sunstone x 3), but since I imagine that time and the Random Number Generator of fate will even things out, I'm trying not to whine and will keep on walking and playing, walking and playing.
I found a wild Lapras! The only one I've seen, and only 330cp, but finally an ice/ice moveset, and I had enough candy to level him up into range of my prestiging team so that was fun.
Also, a shiny magikarp and soooo many candies, but I'm trying to find a couple decent IV specimens of less common species before I do another evolving spree.
Some combination of Gen 2 and late-winter weather has been weird for our gym game. A bunch of gyms which used to swap nearly daily have stagnated for a while now, some for weeks.
I finally have a Gyrados! So exciting! Also, tourist season is ending so hopefully the gyms will become more accessible - people who normally play in Pokemon-rich areas have filled up all the gyms with 3000+CP pokemon, and local players can't get a look-in. Not fun.
Did really well out of water festival, since I don't normally play near water. I evolved Tentacruel, Poliwrath and Slowbro (I don't have the evolution items for Politoed or Slowking), and found my first Omanyte, Chinchou, Qwilfish, and Remoraid plus a wild Octillery without having to evolve it. Plus a bunch of Magikarp, which normally I get very few of, and I evolved much better Starmie and Golduck than my existing ones. So that's eight new-to-me Pokémons, and I found it rewarding to play with a different selection available.
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.unfortunately all the gyms around here are suddenly full of high level gyarados and I'm not winning many fights.
Completely unrelated, had anybody else noticed pokestops moving recently? Two of my local ones that were previously in buildings suddenly moved across parking lots to be much closer to the road sometime in the last few weeks (which sucks for me because I'm still depending on wifi.)
....And does anyone know how to get a pokestop to move? My local Starbucks one is about five hundred meters from the actual Starbucks and completely inaccessible, and presumably somebody paid good money for it.
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What do you use against gyarados?
I've had best results with grass types with Solar Beam charge move, or with jolteons (so fast!), but I recently read on The Silph Road that if you have an all-electric Lanturn, its high HP makes it very useful against water types. Was the water event generous with Chinchous where you live?
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Japan reportedly has the most such "sponsored" pokestops in the world! On the YouTube videos of people at the Lapras event, you see them spinning a lot of sponsored discs for Japanese banks and restaurants and all kinds of companies.
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Move, no, sorry. (Expect for some schools and government authorities who've gotten them turned off, or put on schedules -- there during some hours and gone during other hours.)
But fwiw, we do hear that if an Ingress player adds a certain resource in Ingress and it's approved, that new resource then subsequently appears in Pokemon Go as a new pokestop.
Also, reputedly, Niantic has some high-ranked Ingress players auditing requests for new Ingress resources in rural areas, which, when passed, are popping up in both games.
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But yay! I got so much more magikarp candy. (I am completely out of pinap berries, though.)
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However, I can't complain because I am delighted for all of y'all who scored a lot of cool water types that are normally uncommon or all but unavailable. Every event is good for a huge segment of the player base, and as each event rolls around, the benefits will come to all biomes and players sooner or later.
The really exciting thing for me has been learning so much new stuff!
I met a local Mystic player who invited me to the Seekrit team Facebook group (have to be invited by someone who knows you in person in order to exclude cheaters and spoofers and the like). I have a PokeGo community now! It's so cool! I haven't yet made it to a co-battling gathering, but I'm really psyched about doing this soon.
Also, after avoiding Reddit completely for years because of its reputation for rampant misogyny and general dickishness, I ever-so-belatedly learned that The Silph Road is a subreddit where such behavior is explicitly forbidden (and rigorously policed and dealt with when it occurs). So for the past week or two I've been happily spending some time there every day and learning SO MUCH.
For instance, I finally learned how and when to dodge -- when being my biggest challenge; I had no idea that the timing varied so much. It's made a big difference, and I'm finally being successful and having fun both battling and prestiging in gyms.
And as for weather, my corner of California is at long last catching a break from the incessant rain. Coming out of drought, it's hard to complain too much, but I live in the rainiest part of California and our drought years only baaaarely qualified as such, and this winter has been near-constant deluge after deluge, with rather a lot of localized flooding. Having six walkable days in a row this week is positively glorious!
I could wish that my 10K eggs would hatch something (anything) other than Pinecos, and that my evo items would include a bit more variety (kings rock x 3, sunstone x 3), but since I imagine that time and the Random Number Generator of fate will even things out, I'm trying not to whine and will keep on walking and playing, walking and playing.
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Also, a shiny magikarp and soooo many candies, but I'm trying to find a couple decent IV specimens of less common species before I do another evolving spree.
Some combination of Gen 2 and late-winter weather has been weird for our gym game. A bunch of gyms which used to swap nearly daily have stagnated for a while now, some for weeks.
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I'm in dry mid-west Texas. It's already in the 90s here most days. :(
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LOL