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Pokémon Go |OT 3| "No Officer, I'm a Passenger"

GulAtiCa

Member
Dragonite with Hurricane also works against Machamp. As is Exeggutor. Espeon is kind of annoying because you need to walk it.

Yeah. None of my Dragonites have Huricane, so perhaps I'll use a charge TM on it. Leveling up some more Alakazms will help too.
 

GulAtiCa

Member
I had a dream the other day where I got a Charged TM and 3 Fast TMs from a Snorlax raid. Good to know my dream isn't that far off from reality.
 

border

Member
Is it still possible for Espeon to get Future Sight? I just burned 2 Charge TMs on one and all it did was alternate between Psybeam and Psychic.
 

Dr. Malik

FlatAss_
I tried to take on a Machamp on my own lol and I was amazed I was able to take it half way. But I think its time I join a local group chat in my city. What is the best way to go about this?
 

GulAtiCa

Member
I tried to take on a Machamp on my own lol and I was amazed I was able to take it half way. But I think its time I join a local group chat in my city. What is the best way to go about this?

See if your local area/city/town/etc has a Reddit for Pokemon Go. For example here in Atlanata + surrounding areas we have PKGOAtlanta. We also use a Discord chat to keep in touch and help coordinate raids.

Another way is just to ask fellow Raiders as you see them what, if anything, they use to keep in touch/etc. Esp if there is a big group that shows up for raids.
 

gutshot

Member
Just got a 96% Tyranitar from a raid! Bite+Fire Blast was the moveset, so I used a Charged TM and got Crunch. Powered him up and now my top Mon page is a little less water heavy.

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border

Member
Yeah, it looks like Machamp is the boss that's easiest to Solo. Which is nice since he's arguably one of the hardest Pokemon to get and one of the most useful out of all the raid bosses. The only time I tried to solo him was with Espeon and a bunch of Exeggcutes with mixed moves......I couldn't beat the timer though.

If you get a team of 3 really good Psychic Pokemon and you just let Machamp kill them.......it sounds like you should have enough time to Revive/Heal them all and come back with enough time to still finish off a Machamp. I'm not sure if it's worth the trouble of building of 6 high-powered Psychics.
 

Dr. Malik

FlatAss_
See if your local area/city/town/etc has a Reddit for Pokemon Go. For example here in Atlanata + surrounding areas we have PKGOAtlanta. We also use a Discord chat to keep in touch and help coordinate raids.

Another way is just to ask fellow Raiders as you see them what, if anything, they use to keep in touch/etc. Esp if there is a big group that shows up for raids.

Looks like our city's reddit is pretty much dead but had a link to the Discord group which is pretty active, thanks!
 
Yeah, it looks like Machamp is the boss that's easiest to Solo. Which is nice since he's arguably one of the hardest Pokemon to get and one of the most useful out of all the raid bosses. The only time I tried to solo him was with Espeon and a bunch of Exeggcutes with mixed moves......I couldn't beat the timer though.

If you get a team of 3 really good Psychic Pokemon and you just let Machamp kill them.......it sounds like you should have enough time to Revive/Heal them all and come back with enough time to still finish off a Machamp. I'm not sure if it's worth the trouble of building of 6 high-powered Psychics.

Revive and come back? What?
 

GulAtiCa

Member
Looks like our city's reddit is pretty much dead but had a link to the Discord group which is pretty active, thanks!

Yeah, Atlanta's reddit for POGO is not really active. The Discord that was created very recently is though. I stopped going to Atlanta's reddit when I discovered the Silph Reddit
 

gutshot

Member
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wtf
 

GulAtiCa

Member
So if you mainly care about Raid Passes + Incubators: 6 x 150 + 2 x 100 = 1100. So if you don't care at all about the Max Revives / Ultra Balls, will be cheaper to buy everything separate.

This is a really bad deal... I was hoping this be like the Christmas deal....
 

border

Member
This reminds me of last December, when everybody was absolutely certain that Gen2 was about to be released and Niantic announced that in honor of Christmas....Pikachu will have a hat.
 
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wtf

HAHAHAHA

Fuck you Niantic
 

Acerac

Banned
For 100 extra coins, you get 6 Max Revives and 20 Ultra Balls. Wow.

Whoever came up with this "deal" should be fired.

It certainly is quite an event for a first year anniversary.

I like how they put it in a gift box like it is a present of some sort.
 
Let's see if I can even get Pika. Birthday hat Pika I juuuust managed to get 2 in the last couple days.

Edit: There should be Ash Hat Pika tier 1 raids.

Edit 2: Holy shit, yeah, that bundle is garbage. Revives are actually a negative for me, since no matter what I do I can't get rid of them faster than I earn them without straight up trashing them. Especially with raids giving them out like candy. I have 173 revives and 124 max revives, I've never even used the latter ONCE.
 

Rafavert

Member
I hope they got more events down the line =(

Does anyone know if TMs are exclusive to higher level raids or low level ones can give as well?
 

Dr. Malik

FlatAss_
When you look at where the game is now, and compare it to your initial road map, how similar are the two?

We lost probably six months on our schedule because of the success of the game. Really all the way through November and December, from launch onward we were rebuilding and rewiring infrastructure just to keep the game running at the scale that we were running at. We were fortunate to have a massive launch, a massive success, and many, many more users than we had planned for. But we had to redirect a substantial portion of the engineering team to [work on] infrastructure versus new features. That switched off things like extending gyms, it pushed out things we still want to have, like player-versus-player and trading. I’d say we’re about six months behind where we thought we would be.

On the other hand, we did Pokémon Go Plus, which was something we took on kind of late in the cycle. But it was fun to get that experience with a hardware add-on. We [added generation two pokémon], we’ve staffed up our live operations team, and I think players have really enjoyed the events we’ve been able to do. There are some things we did that we weren’t necessarily planning, and others we haven’t quite gotten to yet.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/6/1...tic-john-hanke-interview-one-year-anniversary

so PvP and trading before 2018?
 
Finally caught a raid Snorlax! A few coworkers and myself headed over to a group of 10 folks, working for different companies, get in on the fray. A group of folks were walking by till they saw us; "What's happening here?". One of the guys who was there already asked, "Are you guys here for the Snorlax raid?"...

"No... but we are NOW!" *group busts out phones*

No TMs, but 14 Golden Razz's. And I got my second Snorlax ever with Lick/Hyper Beam. What a great experience!
 

robochimp

Member
So if you mainly care about Raid Passes + Incubators: 6 x 150 + 2 x 100 = 1100. So if you don't care at all about the Max Revives / Ultra Balls, will be cheaper to buy everything separate.

This is a really bad deal... I was hoping this be like the Christmas deal....

It's not a bad deal for those going to Go fest, as there are going to be special 2k eggs, raids all day long, and rare Pokémon in the wild.

Awful "event" otherwise.

Edit: reading the announcement they say it's geared towards the events.
 

GulAtiCa

Member
Ended up doing 3 raids tonight with a lot of people from the Discord group. We all headed out to the 1st raid hoping it be a good one. Was a Lapras, not bad! Total of 17 people show up! Caught it on 1st catch. Got a Fast TM out of it!

We all went to a Tyranitar raid afterwards with them all. About 12 of us. Got a Charged TM out of it. Sadly didn't catch it. Could have used the extra candy.

After that, we all went to a Snorlax raid nearby. 11 there, with few being new. We all actually parked on the side of the road on a quiet street. kinda was funny. Caught it and got a Fast TM.

Really great time at all 3, esp for the 3 TMs.
 

Growlie19

Member
Seems like egg hatches have changed, according to The Silph Road.

The good: Totodile (and presumably the other gen 2 starters) is back in 5K, Houndour debuts in 5K, and the infamous Gligar, Mantine, and Pineco are demoted to 5K.

The bad and ugly: Spinarak is now a possible 2K hatch.

Still pretty early on, so we'll see if anything else pops up. Re-add Magikarp, please!
 
Seems like egg hatches have changed, according to The Silph Road.

The good: Totodile (and presumably the other gen 2 starters) is back in 5K, Houndour debuts in 5K, and the infamous Gligar, Mantine, and Pineco are demoted to 5K.

The bad and ugly: Spinarak is now a possible 2K hatch.

Still pretty early on, so we'll see if anything else pops up. Re-add Magikarp, please!

The starters have been in 5k eggs ever since the Easter event ended. I hatched Totodile and Cyndaquil. The other updates are actually new (and welcome)!

I feel almost guilty about my 10k egg luck after hearing other people's horror stories, but I really needed it after my bad time with Eevees in Gen 1. At least you don't have to suffer anymore.

My 10k egg tally is:
Pineco
Dratini x 2
Aerodactyl (first one ever hatched)
Chansey x 2
Larvitar (with 97.8% IVs)
Lapras (first one ever hatched)

I've only had 8 hatches for the entire gen so far, but they've been incredibly good ones.
 

Creamium

shut uuuuuuuuuuuuuuup
I don't know if it's my phone, but I walked around for an hour and had major gps issues just now. My avatar either lagged behind or didn't move at all. I keep getting the 'signal not found' bar too. There's untracked distance as well. The app was also lagging like crazy, well at least more than usual. Definitely didn't have any major issues before the last update. Don't know if it's my phone (iPhone 5) or if more people have had issues.
 

GulAtiCa

Member
The 5 TMs I had gotten so far have been used. Feels good to finally have a Machamp with fighting moves! I'm going to need a lot of Machop candies now lol

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Firemind

Member
The 5 TMs I had gotten so far have been used. Feels good to finally have a Machamp with fighting moves! I'm going to need a lot of Machop candies now lol
There's always rare candies lol. Lvl. 29 is the sweetspot in T-Tar raids if the Machamp has perfect attack.

And Rhydon is actually pretty bad right now. Rock Smash may even be more useful for T-Tar and Snorlax raids lol
 

gutshot

Member
I don't think so, pretty sure that was only for the event. I've hatched hundreds of 5k eggs since then and haven't hatched a gen 2 starter since that event.

Yeah, they were definitely taken out after the event ended. But if you still had eggs laying around since then, they would hatch into the gen 2 starters. That's probably what happened.
 
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