Weekend Free-for-All!

[inkstone]

I'm heading out of town to see the Perseid meteor shower (cross your fingers that skies remain clear) so I'm posting the Weekend Free-for-All early.


Did you catch Tauros? Did you watch in disbelief as Magikarp ran away from you? Let's share here!

If you're planning to PokeHunt this weekend, good luck! I haven't left town since PokeGo launched so I have no idea what it looks like outside the Metro DC area. Will I catch new and exciting pokémon or will I be in a PokeGo wasteland? Guess I'll find out! ^^v

Comments

[kaberett]

I CAUGHT A LAPRAS. I was collecting a non-Pokemon-playing acquaintance, I glanced down at my auxiliary internet device in my lap and saw a Lapras shadow in the Sightings bar and thought "AUGH I wish I could go hunt that", I glanced down again and it had vanished and thought "... oh well" sadly to myself, and THEN I REALISED IT WAS RIGHT THERE AND I CAUGHT IT.

I was very, very excited. BABY'S FIRST LAPRAS. :D

(Also I now have enough Slowpoke and Dratini to evolve one of each, which \o/, and I caught my biggest Magikarp to date...)

[inkstone]

My decision to switch to filling out my pokedex from speed leveling has paid off. And, perhaps, the last update's switching out of spawning locations has been very kind to me.

This week, I caught for the first time: Arbok, Tauros, Wartortle, Psyduck, Dratini, and Slowbro.

I evolved for the first time: Golduck and Haunter.

I also hatched a Magmar!

After a string of Jolteon evolutions, I've evolved 2 Vaporeons. Aside from the one-time eeveelution cheat, Flareon continues to elude me.

[inkstone]

Omigosh, congrats on the Lapras!

[yuuago]

I'm so glad that the stuff that shows on the tracker now is what is actually out there.

I ran out into the rain last night because there was an Eevee in the neighbourhood. I regret nothing.

[cyphomandra]

Oh wow! I've hatched one, but haven't seen any.

[cyphomandra]

I hit level 20! It was my goal for the week and after saving up a lot of evolutions I broke out my lucky egg yesterday and went for it.

New to me: Butterfree, Arbok, Clefable, Golduck, Starmie.

While my lucky egg was running, I hatched a 5k egg and got an Abra, which with one previous hatch and one catch gave me enough to evolve to Kadabra! And then I stomped uphill across a very muddy field muttering about how the tracking couldn't possibly be working, only to find that a) it was and b) I'd found the exeggcute I needed to evolve Exeggutor.

I don't have much free time next week and the weather's pretty appalling, but I'm very happy with this week's achievements.

[gorgeousnerd]

Good news for the week: I hit level 20! It's kind of hilarious that I now have many great balls and ultra balls, but I don't have any regular Pokeballs. (But also very true to my experience.) I also had one day where I had Pokemon in two gyms and got the corresponding defender bonus, which was a first for me.

Less good news: the amount of Pokemon in my neighborhood seems to have drastically decreased. I walked enough to nearly hatch a 5k egg yesterday and spotted/caught maybe fewer than 10 Pokemon? I used to do much better. I'm not sure if it's my level or changes to the app, but it's frustrating. (Also frustrating: the amount of 2k eggs I have. I JUST WANT A SNORLAX.)

[storme]

My wife heard a tip-off about Magmars locally, and I didn't have one. Now I have two, caught within minutes of each other behind our local arts centre! Up to 119 in my pokedex now, but a lot of the blanks are evolutions of the starter pokemon and I'm just not finding or hatching those *anywhere*, alas.

[moxieweed]

I did catch a tauros! But it wasn't as good as the one I hatched so I turned it in for candy.

I also caught a lickitung and a pinsir, firsts for me. Failed to track down two bulbasaur, but then finally caught one later the same day on the bus ride home. Also hit up the local magikarp hotspot, which is fittingly at a seafood restaurant. I also got a bunch of slowpoke there, enough psyduck to evolve a slightly better golduck, and a dratini so i was able to evolve to dragonair.

Eggs have been pretty good too: 2 cubone, ekans, and a squirtle! So now I have a marowak and I need just one more each of the others for an arbok and a wartortle.

[vass]

I started playing two days ago. I am now level 5, and have: two Psyducks, a Slowpoke, a Zubat, a Pidgey, a Staryu, a Clefairy, a Vaporeon (that's what it was when I caught it, not an Evee), a Nidoran (assigned F by the game), two Magikarp, a Poliwag, a Horsea, a Squirtle (my starter), and a Rattata. This is in addition to the duplicates I've been throwing to the Professor.

I also have two cats, insomnia, and a very strong headache.

And on my walks I've seen two ringtailed possums but didn't try to capture them.

[yhlee]

I ran out of Pokeballs walking yesterday and thus missed out on my first sighting of a Ponyta. Alas! But I did find out where one Pokestop in walking distance of my home is. I couldn't hit it today because I'm in Louisiana and my parish has, uh, been under flash flood warning since like 5 a.m. But at least I know where it is for future, less rainy days!

[melannen]

I am within 1.5 K of hatching my first 10k egg! (I don't have cellular data so the only way I can hatch eggs is via the GPS glitch, so it's kind of like hatching eggs in real life: nothing I do can make them hatch any sooner or later, I just have to wait and hope.)

(I'm level 18 and have hatched 3 eggs so far, 2 2k and 1 5k. My first 10k is going to be really exciting!)

[surpassingly]

I hit level 21 yesterday! I haven't been focusing a lot on powerleveling, just on catching ALL THE POKES, so that was a nice surprise.

I hatched a 900+ CP Porygon yesterday, too, which made me even more pleased than the leveling. That is pretty much what I'm all about, the cute pokemon!

...But because I am also the stereotypical Valor hothead who's just looking for a fight I've taken down four gyms (three of them were pretty strong!) this week, BECAUSE VALOR. WOOOOOH. I mean, I didn't hold them that long, but still! VALOR. :D :D :D

[st_aurafina]

We took a gym! lilacsigil and me! It was seriously undermanned when we took it, and we only held it for an hour, but first gym! We were proud and took many screencaps.

I'm going to crochet a pikachu hat, if I can figure out the odd notation on this free pattern: Pikachu hat.

[lilacsigil]

Wow! The person who usually holds my only local gym has a Lapras and it's so pretty!

[lilacsigil]

Porygon is adorable! My partner hatched one and I desperately want one too!

[lilacsigil]

GYM TAKEOVER FISTBUMP!

[st_aurafina]

That caterpie didn't stand a chance!!

[kaberett]

:D

[kaberett]

Awesome :D :D :D

Also ENVY of your Pokedex.

[surpassingly]

*____________* Yay! That's awesome!!!

[surpassingly]

OMG, V, POWERLEVELING IS SO HARD NOW /weeps

Hurray for new pokemon, congratulations! It always strikes me as funny how for lots of people eeveelutions are super common, whereas for me Eevees are so hard to get... and on the reverse, I'm swimming in Psyducks and Magnemites. Hah! It's cool seeing the differences in locations!

[surpassingly]

I ran out into the rain last night because there was an Eevee in the neighbourhood. I regret nothing.

Omg I totally get/understand/sympathize/solidaritize with this.

[surpassingly]

It is so so cute! It's funny the first time I hatched one I thought... it must be a game display bug or something, what is this, an origami robot?!? Haha.

I have seen them in the wild but they are quite rare -- I wish you the best of luck in hatching/catching one!

[surpassingly]

Yay gym battling! \o/!!!