Pokemon Go Mark III

Canard · 25-06-2020 5:55am

Odd that they scheduled it so far into the pandemic if they were going to need to cancel it, but it did sound like a big gimmick anyway.

Got my 5th shiny Feebas last night, tired of him!
Got a shiny Patrat the other day too

Didn't get a shiny Clefairy but then yesterday I hatched a 96% shiny Cleffa

phog · 25-06-2020 10:40am

Caught 3 shinies yesterday, Teddiursa, Poochyena and a Pidgey, delighted with the pidgey, rare as hens teeth and I've an affection to him because he was my weekly grind evolving him to get XP way back.

Angron · 25-06-2020 1:27pm

https://pokemongolive.com/post/anniversary-gofest-weeklychallenges-2020

25-06-2020 2:14pm

I caught an absolute shiny BEAST during the Solstice event. :cool:
Those stats, that CP.....I was overwhelmed!!

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Canard wrote: »

Got my 5th shiny Feebas last night, tired of him!
Got a shiny Patrat the other day too
Didn't get a shiny Clefairy but then yesterday I hatched a 96% shiny Cleffa

I also caught a shiny Patrat, didn't even know they were a thing! Missed the Clefairy hour but randomly hatched a shiny Cleffa last year so already have my shiny Celfable.

phog wrote: »

Caught 3 shinies yesterday, Teddiursa, Poochyena and a Pidgey, delighted with the pidgey, rare as hens teeth and I've an affection to him because he was my weekly grind evolving him to get XP way back.

Nice. Pidgey's one of the few non-special event/non-community day ones that I have two shinies of. Would really like a shiny Teddiursa.

DirtyBollox · 27-06-2020 7:33pm

Can someone tell me the name of the app that you can see the IVs please? May as well start now considering that the Pokémon I'm missing are legendary or regional

Canard · 27-06-2020 7:54pm

The appraisal feature shows you them, you just need to know how big the gaps are to distinguish between the numbers.

sector7Gdrone · 27-06-2020 8:09pm

sector7Gdrone wrote: »

Anybody in Meath? 204 days in the "Old Skryne Church" gym (in Skryne obv). I'd love to be released!

Can't believe it. Maybe it was because of this post. I've been released after 214 days.
Might go out there just to see who did it.

Tenger · 27-06-2020 8:12pm

DirtyBollox wrote: »

Can someone tell me the name of the app that you can see the IVs please? May as well start now considering that the Pokémon I'm missing are legendary or regional

I don’t bother with CalcIV anymore (pokegenie is another one) as the ingame appraisal shows you the exact IVs.

I delete anything under 40 total. (15/15/15 is perfect)

DirtyBollox · 28-06-2020 2:43am

sector7Gdrone wrote: »

Can't believe it. Maybe it was because of this post. I've been released after 214 days.
Might go out there just to see who did it.

I'll be out in a week anyway to kick them out, or join them...

On another note, how many mons do people keep? Keep a living Dex, or delete everything except to be evolved and battle Mon?

josip · 28-06-2020 11:00am

DirtyBollox wrote: »

I'll be out in a week anyway to kick them out, or join them...

On another note, how many mons do people keep? Keep a living Dex, or delete everything except to be evolved and battle Mon?

Living best-mon each evolution Dex + Battle Mons + Shinies + some luckies

josip · 29-06-2020 1:12pm

Happy this morning.
The 3rd family account put in a sterling overnight shift and drifted 9km to just make it over the 50km line before 9am.
First time all 3 accounts have made it.

Diemos · 30-06-2020 12:24am

DirtyBollox wrote: »

On another note, how many mons do people keep? Keep a living Dex, or delete everything except to be evolved and battle Mon?

I keep a bunch for trading with hopes to go lucky but as trading is time consuming I rarely get time to trade them (Sitting on 30+ Zekrom right now). Right now I've a 3,000 bag which is pretty much full.

Diemos · 30-06-2020 12:33am

sector7Gdrone wrote: »

Anybody in Meath? 204 days in the "Old Skryne Church" gym (in Skryne obv). I'd love to be released!

You kick me out of that gym!!!! :mad::D:D
I dropped there during tough mudder (was only a 10 min drive from there) and got kicked out just before getting gold. Lord knows when I'll be back in that direction again.

sector7Gdrone wrote: »

Yellow team. Waited this long. Will happily wait another two weeks. If you take the gym, prepare for a long stay yourself.
One other player joined me 173 days ago, but other than that not a single victory scored against the gym.

I wonder if anyone is stuck in a gym longer...and if so, where?

Yup, I'm 256 days in a gym, trying to get a full year.

Plus it adds to my Gym Leader badge hours, currently sitting at 100,000 hours.

josip · 01-07-2020 2:09pm

Finally got my Rufflet this morning after many battles.
It'll probably be in the 2k eggs from next week.

phog · 01-07-2020 2:53pm

Diemos wrote: »

Plus it adds to my Gym Leader badge hours, currently sitting at 100,000 hours.

My Gym Leader Badge is at 253,344 hours

I've interacted with 1,266 gyms and I have 269 Gold Gyms

josip · 01-07-2020 3:10pm

phog wrote: »

My Gym Leader Badge is at 253,344 hours

I've interacted with 1,266 gyms and I have 269 Gold Gyms

Winner winner, chicken dinner.
That's very impressive, the most I've heard of up to now was 130.
Do you travel around a lot with work or something?

phog · 01-07-2020 3:35pm

josip wrote: »

Winner winner, chicken dinner.
That's very impressive, the most I've heard of up to now was 130.
Do you travel around a lot with work or something?

In the Limerick group I'd say I'm in 3rd place for Gold Gyms, I was first to reach 1,000 gyms but may have been overtaken during lockdown. My hours defending would be up there with another two players in Limerick.

I don't travel too much with work but I have family in Dublin that I visit fairly often and I've done a few city breaks which increase the gyms tagged. The gold gyms would be mainly ones in the Midwest/Munster region that I'd target and then I've a few scattered around Ireland that were one or two visit gyms for gold badges.

At this stage I've started to lose the Gold Gym Badge as you can only have 1,000 gyms gym badges so the older ones disappear as you tag new gyms

Eduard Khil · 02-07-2020 10:02pm

Bragging rights 50 excellent throws time to step up starts at 8am tomorrow

https://leekduck.com/events/gofest-week1-challenge/

DirtyBollox · 03-07-2020 11:26am

Anyone happen to be around Sallins at some point we can coordinate for a Zekrom raid? Managed to catch a group of people in a remote raid about 3 weeks ago so got a shiny Virizon, but havent caught them since.

Cant be going out and about as there's a new born in the house so remote raiding is the way to go for now.

syboit · 03-07-2020 12:33pm

phog wrote: »

My Gym Leader Badge is at 253,344 hours

I've interacted with 1,266 gyms and I have 269 Gold Gyms

There's an infamous player here in Cork , "Jeff" he might be able to rival your hours, he constantly holds down part of the city with his 6 accounts!

Angron · 04-07-2020 11:57am

I'm only on 84,000 hours for that badge, heh.

Got a shiny balloon Pikachu, so very happy about that.

Canard · 05-07-2020 11:32pm

Was making sure to do all the shuckle quests and I got a shiny one fairly quickly! Chuffed, hes great

phog · 06-07-2020 8:40am

syboit wrote: »

There's an infamous player here in Cork , "Jeff" he might be able to rival your hours, he constantly holds down part of the city with his 6 accounts!

I hate that nonsence, or players who defend the gym that can be reached from their home/place of work.

I mean once it gold what more do you want from it, if you want coins then chucking players out of the gym in your patch will only piss people off and you're less likely to get coins anyway

markfinn · 06-07-2020 9:24am

phog wrote: »

I hate that nonsence, or players who defend the gym that can be reached from their home/place of work.

I mean once it gold what more do you want from it, if you want coins then chucking players out of the gym in your patch will only piss people off and you're less likely to get coins anyway

Playing the game as designed (taking and maintaining control of gyms for your team) is a problem? Weird.
And if you're not pissing off (by which I mean opposing and countering their in-game activities; actually getting pissed off about people playing the game is totally their own choice) the other teams then why have teams at all?

DirtyBollox · 06-07-2020 10:17pm

How's everyone doing with the 50 excellent throws?

matrim · 06-07-2020 10:25pm

DirtyBollox wrote: »

How's everyone doing with the 50 excellent throws?

At 26 now. I seem to get about 1 excellent throw for every 6 or 7 mons I catch, so not expecting to get to the 50 by the end of the event.

rustledjimmies · 06-07-2020 10:33pm

Blitzed it on my Saturday walk. Mudkips working well for me, 2 out of every 3 throws or close to that. Hey, they did say it's for bragging rights

Can't remember what the reward was though. I've a shiny Spinda from Saturday so maybe that was it.

06-07-2020 10:38pm

Don't think I'll be doing the 50 Excellent throws, can't even get 1. :pac:

Darksoul · 06-07-2020 10:59pm

Eventually got the 50 excellent throws off 3 incenses,don't think I focused so hard on trying in ages but to me the Pokémon were more erratic then normal.

DirtyBollox · 06-07-2020 11:05pm

matrim wrote: »

At 26 now. I seem to get about 1 excellent throw for every 6 or 7 mons I catch, so not expecting to get to the 50 by the end of the event.

About the same, got a snover there that helped bag me 5 before he decided to be caught, bastard

Angron · 06-07-2020 11:07pm

I think I finished the excellent throws on the first day.

markfinn · 06-07-2020 11:12pm

DirtyBollox wrote: »

How's everyone doing with the 50 excellent throws?

Got it done on Saturday. Took a while, but a decent streak of Mr Mimes helped a lot. That and mastering the excellent spearow throw.

markfinn · 06-07-2020 11:13pm

rustledjimmies wrote: »

Can't remember what the reward was though. I've a shiny Spinda from Saturday so maybe that was it.

500 XP, 500 Dust and a few balls I think.
Really was bragging rights only.

Wise Old Elf · 07-07-2020 6:50am

Got it done Sunday. An extra challenge we were joking around with , try to complete the 50 excellent throws before you complete the catch 100. I failed, was doing fine but messed it up Sunday morning on a load of tailow and pidove. I did get a shiny pidove for my trouble though

pew · 07-07-2020 11:00am

I'm not even going to attempt the 50 excellent throws....I'm brutal at them!

Tenger · 07-07-2020 11:33am

DirtyBollox wrote: »

How's everyone doing with the 50 excellent throws?

Haha. I know my limits. Was actually surprised I got 15 after catching 50 pokemon.
Im not consistent so have mentally abandoned this quest.
As noted above would needs lots of Mimes to spawn or to be doing T5 raids.

Canard · 07-07-2020 2:05pm

Oooh I love these quests, I got a shiny Aerodactyl, had wanted him for a while!

Eduard Khil · 09-07-2020 8:08pm

Best in game news event ever

Prepare for Trouble
Make it Double

Eduard Khil · 11-07-2020 9:17pm

Important information for tomorrow

https://pokemongolive.com/post/gofestweeklychallenge-teamgorocket?fbclid=IwAR3AsU6FY3oeenjWMc88V2aLZ9efV3BiBNEqkP9aOdwbo4rRzen6wqJeP4A

12-07-2020 8:50pm

Beat Giovanni last night after about six or seven attempts. His Persian now knowing Bite was an unwelcome surprise, considering Giratina had been my counter for that previously. And Suicune with ice moves is a bitch to try and counter; Magnezone with Spark and Wild Charge is the best counter I managed but even with the resistance to ice moves it doesn't last too long.

Have 3/5 Team Leader wins needed to complete the GO Rocket event, faced Sierra twice but thankfully she didn't have her double Lapras team - one Lapras was plenty to go up against! Also beat Cliff once, and he was a pushover compared to Sierra and Giovanni. Have yet to find Arlo so don't know what kind of team he has this time around, he was hard enough as it was so I hope they haven't made him even more difficult!

Was kinda disappointed with the Jessie and James matches, was hoping Jessie would use Arbok and Wobbuffet and that James would use Weezing and Victreebel.

Irish Aris · 12-07-2020 10:20pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Beat Giovanni last night after about six or seven attempts. His Persian now knowing Bite was an unwelcome surprise, considering Giratina had been my counter for that previously. And Suicune with ice moves is a bitch to try and counter; Magnezone with Spark and Wild Charge is the best counter I managed but even with the resistance to ice moves it doesn't last too long.

Have 3/5 Team Leader wins needed to complete the GO Rocket event, faced Sierra twice but thankfully she didn't have her double Lapras team - one Lapras was plenty to go up against! Also beat Cliff once, and he was a pushover compared to Sierra and Giovanni. Have yet to find Arlo so don't know what kind of team he has this time around, he was hard enough as it was so I hope they haven't made him even more difficult!

Was kinda disappointed with the Jessie and James matches, was hoping Jessie would use Arbok and Wobbuffet and that James would use Weezing and Victreebel.

I bumped into Arlo today and was able to beat him on the second attempt.
The only thing I remember Homer is his first pokemon was the Pineco.
I wasn't able to beat Giovanni. I cleared his Persian with a Machamp, but I can't figure how to beat his Garchomp. I thought I had a Mamoswine that could do the job but I don't and my Glaceon and Granbul aren't very strong to resist the attacks. I hope to meet him when he has a Dugtrio as I have a pretty decent Gyarados

Wise Old Elf · 12-07-2020 10:38pm

I needed two melmetal and a Zekrom to beat Giovanni this time, I just encountered Sierra with Lapras, Lapras, houndoom, that was tough. I got through Arlo easier than I normally do. 1 more leader for "bragging rights". Completely eaten into my revives though

12-07-2020 11:26pm

Irish Aris wrote: »

I bumped into Arlo today and was able to beat him on the second attempt.
The only thing I remember Homer is his first pokemon was the Pineco.
I wasn't able to beat Giovanni. I cleared his Persian with a Machamp, but I can't figure how to beat his Garchomp. I thought I had a Mamoswine that could do the job but I don't and my Glaceon and Granbul aren't very strong to resist the attacks. I hope to meet him when he has a Dugtrio as I have a pretty decent Gyarados

A Pineco already makes him much easier, thst's a relief! Weird how Arlo only gets a Pineco and Cliff only gets Grimer but Sierra gets to lead with fecking Lapras?! Niantic clearly making up to Sierra for saddling her with a Beldum before! :pac:

Can't help too much on Garchomp I'm afraid, Giovanni had Nidoking when I faced him (and Groudon made light work of him!) The only Pokémon I can think of that would have 4x-resistance to dragon moves would be Mawile but even so I don't know if its stats would ever be high enough to take down an overpowered Garchomp (and of course you're ****ed if Garchomp knows any ground move at all!) Dazzling Gleam Togekiss is stronger than Mawile and has Ground-type resistance, but you only have 2x-dragon resistance, and it can be a bit slow. And I don't know if either of those can learn ice moves that you'd ideally want for the 4x-attack? Articuno is a strong ice attacker and probably bulkier than Glaceon or Mamoswine, it doesn't have any resistance to Dragon attacks though.

Try the r/pokemongo forum on Reddit, there are usually tips there for difficult battles.

ETA: If you know that Garchomp only knows Dragon moves, would either Alolan Sandshrew or Alolan Ninetales work as a counter?

Wise Old Elf wrote: »

I needed two melmetal and a Zekrom to beat Giovanni this time, I just encountered Sierra with Lapras, Lapras, houndoom, that was tough. I got through Arlo easier than I normally do. 1 more leader for "bragging rights". Completely eaten into my revives though

What finally worked for me against Giovanni was sending in Hariyama against Persian, switching him out when fully charged, sending out Groudon to dispatch Nidoking, who is then of course instantly wiped out by Suicune. Magnezone to just about get Suicune down to the red before it too faints, and then finally Hariyama is sent out fully charged to finish the job (and survive by the skin of his teeth!)

How did you deal with double Lapras? I found getting rid of one per battle was tough enough! Giratina did the job for me against one that only knew water moves but the one with two ice moves is trickier.

Wise Old Elf · 13-07-2020 7:34am

I used the two melmetal again for the fast charging and electric, and a swampert for houndoom. Had to switch them a lot to gain tla small advantage, Very close and took several goes again.

Angron · 15-07-2020 7:59pm

Raid invites are live, and are gradually being rolled out through the levels.

Edit: open to level 32 and up, they've said they are leaving it there for the time being to monitor stability.

glenjamin · 17-07-2020 7:02pm

Finally won my first 5 star raid in beating Kyurem. After 12 balls I couldn't catch him and he fled. Devastated!

Now that raids are live would anyone be interested in doing a WhatsApp group for invites?

matrim · 17-07-2020 7:07pm

Do you need remote raid passes to be invited?

glenjamin · 17-07-2020 7:25pm

matrim wrote: »

Do you need remote raid passes to be invited?

I reckon so. 3 for 250 ain't bad.

Eduard Khil · 17-07-2020 7:29pm

Tip for the ten hearts research change your buddy task is done with three buddies in seconds

matrim · 17-07-2020 7:38pm

glenjamin wrote: »

I reckon so. 3 for 250 ain't bad.

Takes me about a week to get that many coins. I hope the change it so the daily free one can be either a remote or normal pass

Pokemon Go Mark III

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