Makes no sense! Shouldn't I be getting better at catching low level pokemon and not worse?! The cp was crap as well. Argh
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Pokémon Go |OT 2| Servers...gotta crash 'em all!
- Thread starter spyroflame0487
- Start date
- Status
Makes no sense! Shouldn't I be getting better at catching low level pokemon and not worse?! The cp was crap as well. Argh
Lord Thrappleper The 49th
Member
Would you guys say its better to evolve a cp51 poke to its final stage and then level it up, or raise it and then evolve for that cp spike?
I'm thinking purely long term. Like ultimately who would be the strongest poke? The one with the cp spike or the one raised from dirt?
I'm thinking purely long term. Like ultimately who would be the strongest poke? The one with the cp spike or the one raised from dirt?
Dusktildawn48
Member
absolutely not, around me there is a growlith nest and a hitmonchan nest.
Nope
There was a dratini nest nearby where I live, got 20+ dratinis from there
Now it's a fucking Eevee nest
EL CUCO
Member
Acerac
Banned
panthapanda
Member
Don't waste your time and resources powering up a Pokemon, you'll catch a better CP one eventually. And no, starting from scratch doesn't make a difference. All Pokemon have set stat values so it doesn't matter where you start.
bluelightningduo
Member
There's a hitmonchan nest in a park near Akron Ohio. I'm up to 8 Hitmonchans I'm holding on to in the hopes of trading them once that opens up.
EL CUCO
Member
I was just joking since I've yet to find one.
Lord Thrappleper The 49th
Member
I was under the impression that a raised pokemon would get higher stats then one caught with a high cp?
This seems pretty awesome, works with my Pebble. You don't even need a watch though.
Muku
Member
That's the story of my life with Weedles. Jerks.
ZiggyPalffyLA
Member
Someone mentioned the Grimer glitch on a podcast I was listening to yesterday, so it's definitely not just you.
panda-zebra
Member
Dusktildawn48
Member
looks like the charmander nest about an hour from my house is still charmander.
Well obviously
But now I can't get a Dragonite when it was literally the only thing I was looking forward to after grinding 20 levels in this damn game, getting 1 10km egg that was an eevee, having the game freeze on me trying to catch a charizard, and missing out on a venusaur and snorlax cause the tracker was busted
My rarest pokemon is a Tangela lmfao
edit: it's even worse because as of now no known dratini nests exist anymore
Abstrusity
Member
If I knew 5km eggs were 900 xp I would've popped a lucky egg first.
Oh well, I guess I'll just spin to win soon! I need to hit 20 before I get more eggs, though. H mm...
Oh well, I guess I'll just spin to win soon! I need to hit 20 before I get more eggs, though. H mm...
panthapanda
Member
Well, yes and no. Every Pokemon species has a set stat value that they can achieve. Without going into IVs, let's just say every Charmander can get to 1200 CP, fully raised. Starting fresh at 12 CP doesn't increase that Charmanders potential because it's max is 1200 CP. you don't get any bonuses for starting at the bottom. Since stardust and candy is so hard to come by, you'll be wasting those resources powering it up. Why? Let's say, down the road, you come across a "better" Charmander with a CP of 600. The new Charmander still has a max potential of 1200 CP, but now you can use way less Stardust and Candy to reach that max.
So in the end, it doesn't matter where you start but you will be better off being more efficient with your resources.
John Dunbar
correct about everything
i have never even seen a nest.
this was inevitable but niantic are making things much worse, the game is awfully balanced and they are going to drive away a lot of players if things don't change
John Dunbar
correct about everything
yeah, to be honest i am surprised how much time i have put into this broken piece of shit.
Damn, the growlithe nest that was so awesome on tuesday is basically just commons now for us. Nooo. There's a park I haven't been to a bit further away, probably too far to bike, that is a growlithe nest now. But that park was so good for Tuesdays :'( I'm gonna go back and commiserate with everyone about the growlithe migration lol
Lee Chaolan
Member
Saw this on Twitter, thought this was pretty neat.
chrominance
Member
That's the effect of different IVs (or Individual Values if you've never seen the term before). Higher IVs mean a slightly higher CP cap. That's why you can see a pokemon A with a higher CP but further away from the cap than pokemon B: pokemon A has better IVs.
Whereabouts do you live? If it's an urban area, it seems really unlikely that you have absolutely no nests. (If it's Toronto, we absolutely have nests here.)
I live in the Niagara region and have been hunting all the way up in Mississauga. What nests are in TO?
BigJonsson
Member
chrominance
Member
Basically what Pineconn said, many of our nests are in parks. The northern bit of Trinity Bellwoods Park was a Pinsir nest, appears to be Magmars now. The northern part of Riverdale Park East had a Charmander spot, dunno what it is now. The Tangelas at Coronation Park downtown have been replaced with Cubones. Doduos out by Sunnyside Pavilion are now Ponytas. And so on and so forth. As for Mississauga specifically, check /r/pokemongotoronto (and probably /r/pokemongogta). I feel like I heard about some Mississauga-specific ones there but because I'm never out there, I didn't pay any attention to them.
Many of these nests are easy to find once you throw one of the mapping tools at an area, but even without that people discovered a bunch of nests through word of mouth (that Charmander spot, for example, was on Reddit, and people near Fort York knew about the Tangelas).
Maximus P
Member
Yeah, iv'e found two nests...A charmander nest and a Squirtle nest. Both are in large-ish parks on the outskirts of Sheffiled UK.
This is what the one of them looks like
Edit: sorry if some feel this is cheating. I actually stumbled across this one totally by luck when I was there with my kids. (well, sort of. My friend told me about it and I visited it a few days later)
This is what the one of them looks like
Edit: sorry if some feel this is cheating. I actually stumbled across this one totally by luck when I was there with my kids. (well, sort of. My friend told me about it and I visited it a few days later)
Well I've been playing it less too, but I'm still into it once I boot it up. They need to fix stuff, but they can pull people back in with new features. The app is free after all.
At least the servers are generally up now.
Icyflamez96
Member
I'm not in a big city. I don't know if the parks in my immediate area qualify as a nest, or at least they might be "weaker" nests than other's I've seen in screenshots. This park a couple blocks down spawns Machop, along with a lot of other things. But I can go there to see some Machop spawn pretty consistently. They're not spawning like mad or anything. They seem pretty evenly mixed in with the other pokemon spawns, but Machop spawn nowhere else in my city, only there.
A mile and a half away (or so) is another park that consistently spawns Lickitungs at a greater capacity than the Machop spawn at the first park I mentioned. So that might be a real nest nest. I've never seen a Lickitung anywhere else at all.
I don't know what spawns in those places now though. Haven't checked yet.
A mile and a half away (or so) is another park that consistently spawns Lickitungs at a greater capacity than the Machop spawn at the first park I mentioned. So that might be a real nest nest. I've never seen a Lickitung anywhere else at all.
I don't know what spawns in those places now though. Haven't checked yet.
LightningXCE
Member
I've got an Instinct vinyl on the back of mine!
chrominance
Member
I'd say that counts as a nest. Some nests are clearly better than others--many nests around here don't even manage to spawn the relevant pokemon every hour, usually because it's only one spawn point for that species, so it's less "come here to farm that species" and more "if you hang around here you might be able to cross that species off your pokedex." Then there are the ones with one spot that spawns a specific species (nearly) all the time, or multiple spotswith lower hit rates for that species, but when combined will almost guarantee you'll be able to catch at least one no matter when you go.
Maximus P
Member
Is this too much? I thought it might've been good advertisement for Team Instinct lol We exist.
I got a few honks but not sure if it was jellyness or a fellow Instinct.
Anywayz. Team Instinct 4eva
I'd be too afraid of some crazy kids from the other faction egging your car or worse while your parked somewhere.
There's already been a case of people using graffiti of their factions logo on public property posted on this thread.
- Status