Weekend Free-for-All!

[inkstone]

Welcome to the inaugural weekend free-for-all here at pokestop!


How was your week in PokeGo?

Did you level up? Did you finally get the eeveelution of your dreams? Did you catch snorlax? Let's celebrate!

Did you lose tauros? Did they remove the only PokeStop in your town? Did your 2km egg hatch a rattata with middling CP? Let's commiserate!

Your triumphs, your trials, your frustrations, and your excitement--it all goes here.


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Comments

[kshandra]

I got my "won 10 gym battles" badge this week - which impressed me because I have NO FREAKING CLUE what I'm doing. And there were four PokeStops at the minor-league baseball park I went to last night, three of which I could hit from our seats; I came home with a 695cp Arbok and a full backpack.

[senmut]

Awesome! I'm still not going anywhere near gyms and battles, but it's the collecting that's entertaining me.

[healingmirth]

Ha! I feel you on the battles. There's no doubt a world of strategy behind the scenes somewhere, but I don't seem to have room for it in my brain yet.

[inkstone]

A friend of mine doesn't play PokeGo but they did play the original games so when they heard I was playing & wondering if there was strategy to gym battles, they sent me a strength & weakness chart of ALL the pokemon. It was too much for me LOL.

I find it easier to think of gym battles in terms of elemental concepts. Water puts out fire. Grass sucks up water. Electricity + water = BAD. Poison hurts fighters. Once I started thinking of it that way, it become so much easier. If you take those sorts of things into account, gym battles become more doable. Like my 900 CP Kingler (whose basic attack is ground) can take on a 1400 CP Flareon (a fire type) and it's awesome. (I also crack up at the gym animation of this giant crab trying mud on a flareon. It looks so offended at being covered in mud.)