Pokémon Go - Gen II

mcgovern · 12-03-2018 10:04am

Angron wrote: »

Got my third Mewtwo, weather boosted and caught it with the last ball Got a second 98% Rayquaza, a 100% Venonat, and jumped up about 700k XP over the last two days.

I've gotten one Mewtwo invite and it ran on me

On Saturday I had a 100% Rayquaza and guess what it did? I'm 12/18 for Rayquaza so not like I'm completely terrible at throwing, and caught the next one on first ball, it 2020 though

What sort of ratios are everyone else getting? I was 7/7 on Groudon and 6/9 for Kyogre.

Angron · 12-03-2018 10:19am

For Kyogre I'm 16/28, Groudon I'm 17/26, and Rayquaza I'm 14/21.

josip · 12-03-2018 4:04pm

Last week I finally reached 400 Swablu candies so that Jr could evolve his Altaria.
Unlike Gyarados, my motivation was low for catching useless mons for an equally useless evolve.
I informed Jr afterwards that that was it with me and Swablus.
The next day he caught a shiny Swablu, wants the shiny Altaria and I've been re-enlisted on another 400 quest

Jfrost · 12-03-2018 8:34pm

josip wrote: »

Last week I finally reached 400 Swablu candies so that Jr could evolve his Altaria.
Unlike Gyarados, my motivation was low for catching useless mons for an equally useless evolve.
I informed Jr afterwards that that was it with me and Swablus.
The next day he caught a shiny Swablu, wants the shiny Altaria and I've been re-enlisted on another 400 quest

AMGer · 12-03-2018 9:57pm

How many Swablu to get the shiny Jfrost? I’m at 758 seen and still don’t have one.

Angron · 12-03-2018 10:08pm

I got a shiny Swablu after about 300-ish.

Jfrost · 13-03-2018 7:08am

AMGer wrote: »

How many Swablu to get the shiny Jfrost? I’m at 758 seen and still don’t have one.

I have gotten 3 Shiny Swablu....... I'm just extremely Shiny Lucky

AMGer · 13-03-2018 8:40am

Jfrost wrote: »

I have gotten 3 Shiny Swablu....... I'm just extremely Shiny Lucky

My shiny luck is up lately but I still can’t seem to get shiny Swablu or Magikarp

Rooy · 13-03-2018 10:14am

Never had much joy as shinies myself , besides the events , only got 2 of the halloween guys , the one i really want is Magikarp.

Jfrost · 13-03-2018 11:37am

https://youtu.be/VvlgvkuC1H0

My Shiny Collection

mighty magpie · 13-03-2018 12:28pm

Jfrost wrote: »

https://youtu.be/VvlgvkuC1H0

My Shiny Collection

impressive.

I would assume you've done plenty of absol and mawile raids to add a few more.

I was lucky to get a shiny mawile on my 2nd attempt.

Jfrost · 13-03-2018 1:34pm

mighty magpie wrote: »

impressive.

I would assume you've done plenty of absol and mawile raids to add a few more.

I was lucky to get a shiny mawile on my 2nd attempt.

Yeah.... But not giving up yet

alchemist33 · 14-03-2018 1:35pm

mcgovern wrote: »

I've gotten one Mewtwo invite and it ran on me
On Saturday I had a 100% Rayquaza and guess what it did? I'm 12/18 for Rayquaza so not like I'm completely terrible at throwing, and caught the next one on first ball, it 2020 though
What sort of ratios are everyone else getting? I was 7/7 on Groudon and 6/9 for Kyogre.

Groudon 9/12
Kyogre 3/10
Ray 11/22

Stupid Kyogre.

Thirdfox · 14-03-2018 2:31pm

Kyogre 12/14 (pinap failure on 1 and distance bug on the other one)
Groudon 5/5
Rayquaza 6/8 (pinap failure on 2)

So it's been above expectations for the last few legendaries (would have statistically been in for 84% success rate if purely using golden razz throws).

Angron · 14-03-2018 2:35pm

I've only gotten one shiny from a raid so far, Magikarp. I'd love to get a shiny Absol.

syboit · 14-03-2018 5:18pm

Nothing worse being sick during double xp week, at least will get a few days out of it.
Nice start at least with a family charizard raid.

Tenger · 14-03-2018 6:02pm

syboit wrote: »

Nothing worse being sick during double xp week, at least will get a few days out of it.
Nice start at least with a family charizard raid.

That is a pain. However with the god awful weather today I only nipped out for my daily pokestop spin and 4-5 Go+ catches as I ran 200m each way.
Ive been working over last few days so planning on a 3-4 hour lucky egg grind in a city centre tomorrow.

AMGer · 14-03-2018 7:45pm

Angron wrote: »

I've only gotten one shiny from a raid so far, Magikarp. I'd love to get a shiny Absol.

Good to know someone has actually gotten a shiny Magikarp from a raid. I think drop rates of shinies for Mawile and Absol are lot higher than Magikarp, Sableye, Snorunt & Swablu.

syboit · 15-03-2018 5:21pm

that dreaded bird is back!

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/84n37s/lugia_is_back/?st=jesq1k2z&sh=9706c8d0

Angron · 15-03-2018 5:24pm

Hopefully I'll get a good one then. I wonder will they bring the other birds back as well.

syboit · 15-03-2018 5:48pm

Angron wrote: »

Hopefully I'll get a good one then. I wonder will they bring the other birds back as well.

Just noticed the skyattack statement, wonder if its getting a buff or is it possible to have a different version of it ?

At least people might have stronger pokemon this time around and the amount of trainers needed might not be as high. (more mewtwo's, raikou and zapdos) I remember failing one the last time with 10 people.

Angron · 15-03-2018 5:58pm

Yeah, I have a lot more Tyranitar and such for raiding, so I won't have to lean so heavily on Golem for doing Lugia.

alchemist33 · 15-03-2018 8:06pm

We'll also have weather boost for some of our counters this time.

mcgovern · 15-03-2018 8:47pm

We triggered our 2nd Ex Raid in Celbridge, invite for 24th.

Nody · 15-03-2018 9:25pm

I'm going to be in the Heathrow area for work for a few days in two weeks time; is it worth travelling into London to chase rare pokemons? I'd have a few hours only with 1h travel time each way basically but I'd for things such Chansey, Kangaskhan, Snorlax, Cyndaquil, Maereep, Togepi, Unown, Heracross, Corsola, Delibird, Smeargle etc.

syboit · 15-03-2018 9:32pm

Nody wrote: »

I'm going to be in the Heathrow area for work for a few days in two weeks time; is it worth travelling into London to chase rare pokemons? I'd have a few hours only with 1h travel time each way basically but I'd for things such Chansey, Kangaskhan, Snorlax, Cyndaquil, Maereep, Togepi, Unown, Heracross, Corsola, Delibird, Smeargle etc.

You might be better off using something like this,

https://londonpogomap.com/

most on your list aren't available in the UK (heracross,corsola,delibird,kangaskhan,smeargle)

AMGer · 15-03-2018 9:33pm

Nody wrote: »

I'm going to be in the Heathrow area for work for a few days in two weeks time; is it worth travelling into London to chase rare pokemons? I'd have a few hours only with 1h travel time each way basically but I'd for things such Chansey, Kangaskhan, Snorlax, Cyndaquil, Maereep, Togepi, Unown, Heracross, Corsola, Delibird, Smeargle etc.

Kangaskhan, Heracross, Corsola don’t spawn in this part of the world. Delibird was only here for Xmas and disappeared, Smeargle hasn’t been released in the game yet.

London is probably as good a place as any for the rest though - just make sure your not using 3 IE internet coverage as its absolute crap in the UK

Angron · 15-03-2018 9:46pm

No EX passes, shame. I'd hit a few EX candidates up in Dublin, but no luck.

Angron · 16-03-2018 12:11am

Heading up to Galway tomorrow, gonna get one last lucky egg run in before the double XP goes away. At 1.6m XP towards 40 now, gonna see how far I can get by the end of the day.

16-03-2018 1:06am

I have none of the legendary Pokémon but I can now say I took part in my first ever legendary raid, Rayquaza on Thursday in Merrion Square. I didn't go there intentionally but was passing by and saw small crowd of people so decided to stick around.

Sadly it wasn't a success for me - 12 balls, 8 or 9 of which landed, all with Golden Razzberries and curveballs....fúcker just wouldn't stay in.

Oh well, at least I've a better idea how they work now.

phog · 16-03-2018 9:51am

If there are any posters here who live or have reason to pass through Kinnerty it might be worth their while taking the gyms there. I got gold in both from one visit.

Jfrost · 16-03-2018 10:03am

phog wrote: »

If there are any posters here who live or have reason to pass through Kinnerty it might be worth their while taking the gyms there. I got gold in both from one visit.

No idea where that is.... But I know a few places like that.... One in fact, one visit, got Gold 18+days later and got kicked out about 2hrs later, perfect timing

syboit · 16-03-2018 10:03am

Saying here that lugia "should" be easier to catch, any extra % would be welcome..

https://www.pokemon.com/uk/pokemon-news/lugia-returns-to-pokemon-go/

Jfrost · 16-03-2018 10:07am

syboit wrote: »

Saying here that lugia "should" be easier to catch, any extra % would be welcome..

https://www.pokemon.com/uk/pokemon-news/lugia-returns-to-pokemon-go/

We will know tomorrow, as usual the gyms will be closed here at release time.... Talk of Shiny, guy slagged me in my local group when I posted my previous Lugia collection and said (tongue in cheek) that I wasn't interested, that they would have to have it Shiny for folks like me..... 2 hours later Trainertips said the same

Rooy · 16-03-2018 10:21am

Will be interesting to see what team sizes are required this time around , i recall min of 10 required last time around , and know of 2 raids with 11 that failed , but now most people are at higher levels with better counters too.
Only caught one last time around (1/4) and 78%IV so happpy enough to add to that , Im a bit on the fence on how useful Lugia is in game/raids , lower DPS but great bulk.

mcgovern · 16-03-2018 10:34am

Rooy wrote: »

Will be interesting to see what team sizes are required this time around , i recall min of 10 required last time around , and know of 2 raids with 11 that failed , but now most people are at higher levels with better counters too.
Only caught one last time around (1/4) and 78%IV so happpy enough to add to that , Im a bit on the fence on how useful Lugia is in game/raids , lower DPS but great bulk.

I'm level 36 with some decent counters, according to Poke Battler it could be done with 5 people with similar pokemon. For comparison it said 3 for Rayquaza. So I expect probably we will actually need ~7 most of the time for Lugia as not everyone in our local group uses the most optimum pokemon.

Thirdfox · 16-03-2018 12:58pm

I think it's technically 3 persons minimum (but that's with perfect network connection and perfect shadowclaw gengars

) - so realistically it's 7 for safety - that's with raikous/zapdos etc.

Ttars will be great too obviously. As are golems.

RobbingBandit · 17-03-2018 12:46pm

Shiny Lugia looks interesting

http://comicbook.com/gaming/2018/03/16/pokemon-go-shiny-lugia/

alchemist33 · 17-03-2018 12:59pm

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Shiny Lugia looks interesting

http://comicbook.com/gaming/2018/03/16/pokemon-go-shiny-lugia/

And I got one, first raid! Weather boosted too.

Shineys are 100% catch rate btw

syboit · 17-03-2018 1:11pm

alchemist33 wrote: »

And I got one, first raid! Weather boosted too.

Shineys are 100% catch rate btw

nice, how many trainers to take it down ?

alchemist33 · 17-03-2018 1:13pm

syboit wrote: »

nice, how many trainers to take it down ?

13, and we had over a minute and a half left. Felt easier than last summer anyway

RobbingBandit · 17-03-2018 1:17pm

Nice will try and get out for some raiding tomorrow so

AMGer · 17-03-2018 2:54pm

syboit wrote: »

nice, how many trainers to take it down ?

Got it handy enough with 7 this morning (weather boosted), could definitely do it with 6.

Angron · 17-03-2018 2:56pm

Beat Lugia with 7 earlier, but two were fairly low level with not very good counters so it would be easy enough to beat with smaller numbers but better levels.

mcgovern · 17-03-2018 5:02pm

Got myself a shiny Lugia this morning, someone else from our group got a 100% IV, Weather boosted, shiny Lugia

AMGer · 17-03-2018 8:52pm

0/5 myself on Lugia today - don’t mind too much, it’s the shiny I really want!

Rsaeire · 17-03-2018 9:45pm

AMGer wrote: »

0/5 myself on Lugia today - don’t mind too much, it’s the shiny I really want!

That's unlike you. How come the low catch-rate? I heard Lugia is meant to be easier to catch too but that's not looking likely from people's results...

I haven't had a chance to make any Lugia raids yet but I'm hoping I have luck on my side to catch the bloody thing!

Rooy · 17-03-2018 9:48pm

AMGer wrote: »

0/5 myself on Lugia today - don’t mind too much, it’s the shiny I really want!

Went 0/4 myself , painful , over 40 balls in total , nearly all Great Curve ,and popped out every time.

AMGer · 17-03-2018 10:25pm

Rsaeire wrote: »

That's unlike you. How come the low catch-rate? I heard Lugia is meant to be easier to catch too but that's not looking likely from people's results...

I haven't had a chance to make any Lugia raids yet but I'm hoping I have luck on my side to catch the bloody thing!

No idea - only difference is that the locking circle technique doesn’t work for Lugia, had a lot of great and excellent throws but no joy. Like I said though, it’s the shiny I want, as long as I get one I’m not too bothered about regular Lugia.

Rsaeire · 17-03-2018 10:53pm

AMGer wrote: »

No idea - only difference is that the locking circle technique doesn’t work for Lugia, had a lot of great and excellent throws but no joy. Like I said though, it’s the shiny I want, as long as I get one I’m not too bothered about regular Lugia.

Hopefully you manage to catch the shiny bugger!

Pokémon Go - Gen II

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