I cannot believe I found a 100iv pidgey.

[havocthecat]

I'm not sure whether I should keep it as a Pidgey, power it up, and magikarp gyms that botters hang at, or evolve it up.

What's your worst 100iv catch? Or your worst ever. I got a 0iv Totodile once; that was sad.

Wild catches both, total luck of the draw.

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[lireavue]

Zubat. Definitely the 100 IV zubat.

Some folks on my Discord enjoy hunting the 0%s, and call them zombies. I guess if you’ve accomplished everything else in the game...

[havocthecat]

A 100 iv zubat has to be something else! I'm not sure what else, but I mean, I think golbat are pretty decent in a fight?

We should really friend each other and put our pidgey and zubat up against each other in the great league. A highest iv/worst critters low-league battle!

[lireavue]

Tragically, my zubat was even weather boosted, so it's actually ultra league. It's such a waste of weather boosted 100% luck!

(The Sceptile and Breloom sorta make up for it.)

Shall PM you my friends code regardless. :)

[havocthecat]

I also have other, better 100iv, but it's kind of fun talking about the 100iv that are...kinda there and kinda meh. I have a bunch of 98s, which are close enough. I'm not that hardcore.

[jhameia]

OMG ZOMBIES!!!

I collect 0%ers! They are rarer than the 100%ers.

[lurkingcat]

I caught a 100iv Whismur. I evolved it, powered it up, and take great joy in leaving it in gyms that regularly get hit by spoofers.

[havocthecat]

I did that with my pidgey. Some asshole knocked me out of a gym after 20 minutes, so I knocked him out of a gym, and then left my pidgey - and then two other people left a feebas and a bonsly to join it.

Then people stopped joining me in my "screw you" gym critters and started leaving rhyperior and things like that. I was very disappointed.

[lireavue]

My first shiny Magikarp I named WheatonsLaw, because I caught it while we were dealing with a spoofer cheerfully known as the Barcode Bandit. They had a bajillion accounts, and this was before the gym redo, so they'd leave Blisseys stacked up in all the gyms.

Usernames were a horrifying mix of l, 1, |, and sometimes I just to REALLY piss people off.

[silveradept]

I have 100s of both Pidgey (now a pidgeot) and Ratata (now a Raticate). I've also been blessed with 100 Caterpie, Weedle, and Leydba. Just yesterday, I collected a 100 IV Voltorb off a research task.

My general bit has been to evolve and fully chanrge the first 100 IV I get. If I ever get a duplicate, it will probably stay in the next lower evolution and get fully charged that way, and so on.

[havocthecat]

I don't have that many terrible 100s! But they're so much fun! I don't have enough stardust for that, maybe because I have fun charging up my highest CPs, whatever they are. I'm terribly unscientific and not min-maxy about my play in that way.

[silveradept]

I've mostly been conserving stardust because until the introduction of the Rocket Stops and Hyper Snorlax, I haven't really needed to power up anything that isn't perfect to be able to handle raids (which always come with friends when they're above 3 stars) and so I've got nearly two million to be able to play with. It's having enough candy that's often the problem.

[ayebydan]

I don't get into the stats. I just wanna catch em all. We don't have the same issues with bots and trolls where I play either. We're all just sludging along getting miffed the Chikorita spawn time didn't last long enough to get enough.

I would maybe evolve it up if you get enough Pidgey around but they seem to have tapered off in a big way since the latest incomers.

[havocthecat]

Catching them all is a fun goal! But I don't really play socially, which means I'm not sure I'll ever get Mewtwo or Deoxys. :(

[ghost_lingering]

While I understand the new appraisal system better from a numbers perspective I miss hearing that a Pokemon "is a wonder!". I used to save all my wonder pidgeys, etc until a friend who is much more hardcore got so confused because I didn't "need" them. Alas, I never got a 100 Pidgey for my collection.

I've gotten super lucky with 100s -- the first I ever got was a Moltres. I also have a Torterra and a Hariyama. The ones I have bad luck with are luckies. So many lucky furrets and kakunas that I feel bad giving to the professor.

[havocthecat]

I feel like everyone should play Pokemon Go in a way that makes them happy!

[soc_puppet]

My first 0% (that I know of) was a Luffy Hat Pikachu. I'm keeping him forever.

On the other side of the aisle, I have two 100% Alolan Meowths. (Well, one's a Persian now, but still.) I've also got a perfect Luvdisc and a perfect Swablu.

My favorite perfects include a Rhyperior, a Golem, and a perfect Eevee I'm saving for Sylveon.

[havocthecat]

I harbor a secret love Meowth for the cartoon Meowth being such a little shit when I watched it with my kidlet. Sad, but true.

[soc_puppet]

Cartoon Meowth has an amazing history! IIRC, his first English dub voice actor was a trans woman who was inspired by the role to transition! It is way cool and justified to have a love for Meowth.

[jhameia]

I have two 100% Pidgeys (well, Pidgeots now)! They're a bit useless, but you never know when you might need a Hurricane or Steel attack flying birb! And I'm always getting TMs from raids, so they give a good excuse to use them, especially after giving them one more Charged move.

My other 100%ers are:
Charizard (wild)
Pidgeots (2, both wild, one caught on the Gotcha)
Nidoking (egg; still waiting for a matching 100% Nidoqueen)
Ninetails (2; one Vulpix a random Gotcha catch)
Wigglytuff (yeah idk, wild catch)
Arcanine (wild)
Poliwrath (this one's my very first 100% using an IV checker! wild, and on a red ball, even)
Alakazam (egg)
Machamp (egg)
Golem (Alolan egg)
Gengar (egg)
Drowzee (this one was Purifed!)
Krabby (egg)
Magikarp (one was a Lucky trade, one was my very first 100% from within the first month of playing when I still didn't understand IVs but understood from the appraisals that it was good; the third's a wild catch but doesn't register WHERE so I have no idea???)
Dragonite (egg; I was wandering with friends at the time, and one of them glanced over and immediately ID'd it by the CP that it was 100%, and played salty about it)
Typhlosion (wild)
Sceptile (egg)
Tailow (wild)
Aggron (egg)
Wailmer (wild)
Flygon (egg)
Cradily (this wild Lileep I caught IN MY BEDROOM)
Beldum (one from Beldum day, one hatched recently)
Latias (I was faced with a 100% Latios as well but failed to catch that, UGH)
Kyogre (I knew from the IV that it was 100 but kept silent and waited until I caught it to ask everyone else around me, "hey, is 2222 the 100% IV?")
Empoleon (lucky trade)
Magmortar (egg)

The ones I get the least use out of are the Tailow, the Aggron, and the Wailmer, for sure. Haven't evolved the Krabby, Drowzee, second Beldum, and third Magikarp yet, saving those for a research task.

My perfect 0s are:
Swablu
Larvitar
Delibird
Murkrow (and honestly, there was that time where all the goddamn murdercrows were around so I deserve SOMETHING)

When I catch a bunch of things, I search for, in order, 4* (immediate Favourite), 1* (delete), 2* (delete), 0* (search for perfect 0!!!!), and finally 3* for a more discerning decision on what to keep and what to transfer.

[havocthecat]

You are a much more hardcore player than I am. You have a great list.

[jhameia]

Thanks! I was a much more hardcore player during grad school... this game kept me sane XD

[kirin]

I just got my *second* 100% purified Ratata. Yay? Also got a purified-to-100% Golbat, though I already had 100% lucky Crobat from a trade.

According to the new sort function (so useful) I have 35 100%s total. Faves are a Kingler (gave it the new Crab Hammer and am waiting for a water-weak raid boss excuse to power it up and wreck faces), lucky Arcanine, Ho-Oh, lucky Jigglypuff, Blaziken with Blast Burn, Deoxys normal, Absol, lucky Magikarp from Bali, Hariyama, Kabutops, Nidoqueen, my very first one, a Venusaur caught in Oct '16, and the pièce de résistance, my single Spiritomb. The most useless one outside the rats is probably Sunkern (twice, evolved one).

[jhameia]

OOooOooo 100% Absol HOW COOL!!! And a Lucky Magikarp from BALI!!! And Spiritomb!! (Yeah this comment is literally just squeeing over your list, sorry-not-sorry hahaha aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa)

I LOVE the new sort function, omg I liked Calcy IV but being able to just key in "4*" is just so much better!

[brightknightie]

My 100% Bidoof seems to fit here. :-)

(I gather that Bidoof and Bibarrel, in the main series games, specialized in Hidden Moves (HMs), which are a mechanism that not only isn't in Go, it's apparently been removed from the main series itself.)

I hope your 100% Pidgey brings you fun!