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Pokémon Go |OT 3| "No Officer, I'm a Passenger"
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Dusktildawn48
Member
Those numbers are just insane
Bedameister
Member
1/1 Lugia
2/2 Articuno
2/4 Moltres
I at least want to have 2 or 3 Zapdos. Don't have that much time next week, gonna have to do a lot of raids on one day.
2/2 Articuno
2/4 Moltres
I at least want to have 2 or 3 Zapdos. Don't have that much time next week, gonna have to do a lot of raids on one day.
HammerOfThor
Member
Ha same here.
I'm just doing them for trading leverage down the road and to get some of that fine fine Legendary raid XP.
LucidMomentum
Member
1/6 Lugia
3/6 Articuno
3/5 Moltres
Will probably help my friends get some Moltres on Sunday.
I will be going for like 8 Zapdos though. My fave.
3/6 Articuno
3/5 Moltres
Will probably help my friends get some Moltres on Sunday.
I will be going for like 8 Zapdos though. My fave.
I literally just can't connect with my curved throws no matter how many balls I have lol. And when I do connect it just breaks out. I typically get 7-11 balls most of the time since we usually split into teams if we have enough people.
I'm 5 / 10 now. Caught another 89% and then my last 1 I just did ran. That hitbox is way too small, keeps going through it for me. I can do curve balls at 1st no problem, but then becomes an issue and have to sadly switch to straight throw. I must be damn lucky, since 3 of mine caught were with straight ball lol
Dusktildawn48
Member
I switched to straight throws when you suggested it. Caught 2 yesterday.
Damn! That's like opposite of me. I caught like 70% of my Lugias and Articunos. lol. Granted, my 50% Moltres rate not bad though.
Nice! Yeah, much better chance of catching it when you can actually successfully hit it.
Fernando Fernandez
Member
Second Moltres attempt and first since Tues. 11 people and one spoofer took it down very easy but sadly I was the only Valor and ended up with 6 balls. First ball was curve ball that hit normal but it jumped out, next three were all misses. Switched to forward throw, hit a great and caught that spicy boy!
So how do I work out the percentage of it?
So how do I work out the percentage of it?
Finally caught one. 1/8.
Had 10 balls and completely missed the first 5 throws.
Next throw I seemingly completely missed the circle hit box but it still registered it and I caught it. 91% IV.
Moltres is still garbage. I don't know why it was so difficult but at least now I can go back to raiding for candies instead of for the catch.
Had 10 balls and completely missed the first 5 throws.
Next throw I seemingly completely missed the circle hit box but it still registered it and I caught it. 91% IV.
Moltres is still garbage. I don't know why it was so difficult but at least now I can go back to raiding for candies instead of for the catch.
Fernando Fernandez
Member
I know it's hard to predict but is there anything in Gen 3 I should be saving these rare candies for?
Dandy Crocodile
Member
Well you can bet that either the Flygon or Gardevoir lines are gonna be the new Mareep in terms of a pretty common Pokémon becoming rare.
Salamence will be like Dragonite or Tyranitar.
Bedameister
Member
Nope. Gen 3 is almost independent from all other gens. Gen 4 you have to save up a lot of candy for.
Gen 3 has two pseudo-legendaries, Metagross and Salamence. Both are three stage evolutions. Guaranteed to be rare and difficult to evolve.
Yea Gen 4 is a bit crazy. Off the top of my head, has evolutions for:
Sneasel
Togetic
Rhydon
Tangela
Electabuzz
Lickitung
Murkrow
Magneton
Magmar
Plus the two new Eevees
And I'm probably missing some more
Bedameister
Member
Dude, where do you live. I see people play all the time.
On the silph road people are saying it will be the best fire attacker for awhile, but the current raid lineup doesn't really call for fire.
It will if Articuno ever comes back I guess lol
Atlanta. I'm sure I'm around people all the time playing, I just haven't seen their screens.
Fernando Fernandez
Member
Nice! I've got some good candies on all those mons so that's going to be easy. Where I live Magneton spawns every two mins, I can get 100 candies in under an hour.
Lol, you need to start raiding more. I live up in Roswell, and when legendaries came out I saw over 60 people at Roswell City hall doing the Lugia Raid.
I usually see over 30 different people a day from raids and just in general haha
Bedameister
Member
If you see people with a powerbank connected to their phones you can be 99% sure they're playing
Yeah I've already saved those specific for each one the only one I'm missing are togepi candy which I might have to use rare candy for
Bedameister
Member
U woot m8? Togepi candy is just a 1 km walk. Don't waste rare candy on that.
Dusktildawn48
Member
Togepi candy is 3km.
Bedameister
Member
Oh shit, really. Hmpf, gonna have to walk a lot then. But not gonna spend rare candy on that.
Anyways, got a lvl 29 ditto today with ATK and DEF at 15 but HP only at 7. Should I still power it up? How good are Dittos in raids?
Dusktildawn48
Member
Yeah I've been walking him for quite some time
Dusktildawn48
Member
Using straight or curves?
well curves boost your catch rate by 70% so I am trying to use those, but I have resorted to straights from time to time as those are easier to hit with.
Dusktildawn48
Member
I recommend straights for him.
According to this curves are only like 12% better
https://thesilphroad.com/science/curveball-throw-bonus-in-pokemon-go
Dusktildawn48
Member
But its easier to connect with a Straight.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
nabab the effect lasts 2 turns then golden raz with a curve ball worked for 3/4 of mine where the last one i went all goofy didnt take it serious or really cared and missed a bunch
which I guess makes it only 63% better but still.
it is...
but lets say I have 10 balls.
lets say straight I hit with 7 and curved I hit with 5.
12% chance on straight means over 7 tries I have like a 59% chance of catching him
19% chance on curve over 5 tries works out to a 65% chance of catching him.
assuming I remember how to do percents over tries properly still lol.
Well, that's gonna be different for everybody. I've been throwing curves almost exclusively since last year and now I can get at least a nice curved throw on everything. Legendaries pretty much always get great&curved throws [not that it helped me much].
It's just a matter of practise, I don't even think much about timing or distance at this point.
the only ones I have major problems with are the far away ones. aka moltres and zubat and a few select others.
the rest I can hit without really paying attention.
Acerac
Banned
12% is a pretty large bonus to the tiny chance of catching legendaries. 3% last I checked for Moltres? That seems like a bonus you wouldn't want to pass up.
It's like saying you don't like using berries because it wastes time that could be used to travel to another raid. You're not technically wrong, but you are giving yourself worse odds for the catch you are currently attempting.
Acerac
Banned
No doubt that it's a challenge, but the best way to improve is practice. I've certainly missed many times myself, but I'm 4/5 on Moltres (the only miss was with a phone I'm not familiar with) because I've been willing to screw up TONS of times in the past to get to the point where I am fairly consistent. All those lost pokeballs have sucked (there is one pokestop visible from my home) but the effort has certainly paid off.
I'll admit that luck has favored me some, but investing the effort to get decent with curve balls has allowed me to stack the odds in my favor.
Granted, if you only have one chance at Moltres I understand, do what you are confident with. That said if you are using your raid pass daily and doing straight throws you are handicapping yourself harshly in the long run. Let a couple run to strengthen your chances for all future legendaries, your future self your be grateful.
Dusktildawn48
Member
I've been great with curveballs except for this little bastard. They fall short almost every time. Doesn't help my phone just so happens to get glitchy come catch time.
Acerac
Banned
Oddly, one of the main reasons I feel I have success is because of the great difficulty I had with pidgies. The little guys are just so close to the screen that my brain just couldn't process the throw no matter what I did. After what felt like ages I was finally able to space them out properly, and ever since I seem much more able to compensate for any distance.
Of course, I had trouble with pidgey for more than a week, and they are far more common than Moltres! Do what gives you the best odds, I just always feel the need to think long term about such things so I'm happy to fail today for a greater chance of success tomorrow.
Dark_3nergy
Member
My 900 murkrow 🍭 is ready