Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
You dare laugh at Alakazam?
Pokémon Go |OT| As in "Go Outside"
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You dare laugh at Alakazam?
There's just no real good counter to psychics in the first gen. The only ghost types are part poison, the dark type didn't exist, and bug types didn't have any real moves (except Beedrill who was part poison). Jolteon was the psychic killer with Pin Missile. But GO has dark type moves and I'm assuming bugs like Pinsir and Scyther have actual moves that might help.
Stormwatch
Member
Yeah, there's absolutely nothing near my house, but my friends are posting pictures of finding Pokemon at work or in their house.
Huh, really? I've mostly gotten birds, bugs, and rats from mine...
Spiritreaver
Member
I have a Pinsir with X-Scissor. Bug types are probably fine in this game.
FullMetaltech
Member
It doesn't do it automatically. Theres a camera icon to the right. Tap that and then tap the circle on the bottom and tap the check mark for it to save. That how I caught a few shots
You can get it right after you secure a gym or two. You just can only get rewards once every twenty hours.
As someone who doesn't know much about how battles, work, just from my experience in other Pokemon games...
Parasect, Scyther, Pinsir, or Butterfree with a Bug type move will hit it hard without being weak to Psychic.
Magneton will resist thanks to Steel typing, and two of the Psychic Pokemon lines in Gen 1 are weak to Electric.
This motherfucker showed up in my living room this morning and I wasted 40 pokeballs on him and in the end I ran out of balls with nothing to show for it.Was a BITCH to catch...
They aren't worth it. Evolve a pidgey instead.
when you are level 15 you will look back at this post and shake your head
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Deleted member 231381
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Is STAB even in this game? If it isn't, surely something like Persian would do better, given it can learn Bite which is better than all the fast Bug moves?
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Deleted member 231381
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Is this really true? CP seems to be capped by trainer level and all pokemon can eventually reach the CP cap. Size might save you a small amount of time, but it seems to be mostly bragging rights rather than something that provides an absolute advantage.
BlueTsunami
there is joy in sucking dick
I must have thrown 20. Once I got down to single digits I realized I'm throwing something like 20cents of real money at the bitch.
I should have done this instead lol
Spiritreaver
Member
Game went down for me right as I bought something on the shop. No clue if I got the coins :\ I did get a Google Play email though.
holding gyms is such a hard feat, and the rewards per day are super slim with how pricey things are to buy. you pretty much have to pay money right now to have any chance at all to hold one, too.
I already have a Pidgeotto but I was trying to save time. That's what I get for being lazy.
Glad I'm not the only one haha
CountAntonius
Member
Is it worth evoing lower level pokemon just for xp if you already have the evod form? I ndon't see myself using radicate but with those candies I can get xp by making two more.
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Deleted member 231381
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I hold all 5 gyms in the town near me. There are no other trainers yet. Did that in a day, too - they were all unclaimed.
Rurality does have some advantages.
Dandy Crocodile
Member
Literally no harm in it. You already have the candies.
You get xp and the new Evo might be stronger than what you currently have.
How is it "showing up" in your house? I feel like I exhausted all the pokemon in/around my house and yard the first day of playing. Do more generate? Do you leave the app open as you cruise around the house?
I still can barely grasp how the game works, it doesn't explain shit haha
Darkstorne
Member
Yep, seriously. I specifically went walking in the countryside, past a lake, through some huge woods, to the ruins of a 16th century chapel that was built on a 4th century Roman temple, looking for Pokemon. In over two hours of walking I found a single rattata in the woods, and the most I had were three "nearby" Pokemon.
I was excited for this game because I work in the countryside, surveying across the UK for protected wildlife and environments. Instead I'm being encouraged to visit towns and urban neighbourhoods. Really not happy that they've taken this route... It's completely the wrong way around. Don't get me wrong, towns can still be filled with Pokemon that fit, but natural environments should be equally heaving at the very least, and with different types of Pokemon.
yea. I tried to go on a trail and there wasn't anything out there. it sounded like a nice idea on paper. meanwhile, at the spring attached to it there was mad pokes. must've used foot traffic data to place them
Conor_Fool
Banned
I had to pay a dollar for 20 more pokeballs when I encountered one
Can anyone give me a definitive answer on whether incense is affected by your surroundings?
Vire
Member
The idea is to force you to socialize with other people. Not seclude yourself in a remote location.
I've run into over a dozen people playing the game in downtown areas and it was a really positive experience.
Well fuck.
I'd seen that there must be a lot of activity in my area because of all the gyms getting claimed and fortified, and seen a lot of people I figured must be playing, but I hadn't actually bumped into anyone over the course of the week. Today, I set out on my bike and went to get some lunch and a few things from the grocery store. There's a pokestop at a mural outside one of the entrances. I grab it and see a couple teenagers walking about with their phones. I want to yell "HEY GUYS YOU HUNTING POKEMON?" but I hold my tongue. That's when I see it- a lure on a nearby stop down the street.
I put on my helmet and race the hell over there. It's just a fountain a random intersection. Roll up and there's 8 people just chilling in the shade on the grass. I ask them if they dropped the lure. There's 3 guys on bikes, one one a longboard. Shortly after the two teens I saw earlier walk on up. "Man, I knew you guys were hunting pokemon." People call out when new mons pop up to catch. We talk about the local Gym presence and rib each other about Team choice. One of the guys on a bike is new and hasn't figured eggs out yet, I help him out popping one in an incubator and give him my findings about the speeds you can ride at to hatch them. Everyone speaks up and mentions what they're trying to catch most. Everyone was incredibly good-natured. The conversation was natural and comfortable. No one had to worry if they had anything in common with the people present, because everyone here was fucking here to catch pokemon. Here on the side of the road. I say, "Holy shit," aloud, for the first time of the day.
A couple of the kids know each other, but more than half of the people there were strangers. One of the guys was pretty overweight; he mentioned that he was at least heading to two more stops before going home. The lure runs out (though it lasted longer than they expected- some mentioned that maybe it stays active longer if a new person shows up and grabs the stop?) but another one just a block or two away lights up. I don't recognize it at all, but I say I'm going and one of the other guys on a bike says he's never been but knows where it is and thinks there is a gym down that way too.
The two of us take off. I'm following him and it hits me. This is like I'm on a quest with an NPC. But he's not an NPC, he's a human fucking person, right there in front of me in reality. We get to the spot and it's the entrance to an adorable little park. We go in and I say, "Huh... I had no idea this was here." He says, "me neither." Turns out we've both lived ~5 miles away our whole lives but had never seen it. We look around and it's empty except for a couple and their two small children in the corner. I think no way it's them, so my new buddy and I speculate that somebody maybe dropped the lure to be nice and drove off. We're commiserating about my pokeball shortage in the wake of an Eevee popping up when the dad walks up to us, "You guys here for the stop? It's been giving me great stuff all day and there's lots of Pokemon since it's a park." Says he has two more lures. Says he's gonna put one down at 7 if we feel like coming back. We do. While we're there, one of the city park rangers pulls up in his SUV... pulls out his phone, collects the stop, waves at us and takes off.
New trainer friend and I ride off to hit the gym he mentioned. He's Mystic too (naturally) and it's one of the few Valor gyms in the area, and not particularly well defended. It's a lion statue. Where is there a fucking lion statue around here? Having a lot of trouble finding it, when I see the turn off into where it must be. Veer off and suddenly i'm going over a wooden drawbridge (WTF), the street is all random stones, there's a gigantic teepee to my left, a bunch of weird snake-themed art over here to my right. Where the fuck are we. Just then a dude pulls forward from deeper into the property and goes, "Hey, you guys know you're on private property right?" Oh shit. Poor guy has a lion statue that's a Gym on his weird-ass estate. He was actually pretty nice about it, haha, but he's gonna be dealing with that for awhile.
Then we spot a dude on a bike in an obvious Ketchum hat. He's trying to check it out too but is only level 4. This kid turns out to obviously have something on the autism spectrum, he's super nervous and can't really keep himself from saying things- but here he was, out on his bike, interacting with strangers. We give him some leveling advice and tell him it would mean a lot if he joins Blue when he levels up. Then we manage to find a way the gym can actually be hit from across the street, luckily, and claim it back for Mystic and each put in a Pokemon. I have a Raticate to spare higher than his, so it becomes my first Gym! Woo. Other dude says he's heading home, so we shake hands and hope to see each other again in the field. He takes off. I say aloud again, "Holy shit."
I start heading back toward my local mall, which is a gold mine of gyms and stops, and notice the Ikea nearby is now a red Gym. I dismantle it easily and install a Psyduck of my own- though as I sit here typing this now, it has already been taken back. That IKEA belong to Mystic, goddamn it.
I get to the mall and walk in. I'm in the food court. I pull open my phone and notice I'm standing almost directly on top of another lure. I see what the stop is and it's this fruit-themed sculpture in the food court (there are three right there that are all stops, yay). But nobody's really gathered around it. I'm wondering who dropped the lure if there's nobody here. Then I just start to kind of look around at the people eating. And it's fucking everywhere. EVERYWHERE. I counted 24 people in that food court playing the game before I had to just stop counting people and get on with my day. Then I realize, this lure wasn't like the other- where it was sort of dropped in the middle of nowhere and people flocked to it. This one, somebody just popped it because there are a ton of people here sitting down to eat and playing anyway. So cool.
I walk through the mall and grab some stops, but now I can't help myself and I'm just keeping my eyes and ears open. Bare minutes pass before I hear something or other as I pass people sitting down or they criss-cross me going the other direction.
"...just another Zubat..."
"..got my ponyta!"
"This way, there's two spots that I know of..."
Completely surreal. I head outside to where I knew there were a bunch of fortified gyms and stops, and then I start getting server issues for the first time- it's like being snapped out of a dream. I look at the clock and I've been out for 6 fucking hours. "Holy shit," I say aloud again, involuntarily.
Back home to recharge and I was able to log back in. I'm heading back over to that park in 20 minutes. I feel like bringing snacks just in case.
This is some wild shit.
I'd seen that there must be a lot of activity in my area because of all the gyms getting claimed and fortified, and seen a lot of people I figured must be playing, but I hadn't actually bumped into anyone over the course of the week. Today, I set out on my bike and went to get some lunch and a few things from the grocery store. There's a pokestop at a mural outside one of the entrances. I grab it and see a couple teenagers walking about with their phones. I want to yell "HEY GUYS YOU HUNTING POKEMON?" but I hold my tongue. That's when I see it- a lure on a nearby stop down the street.
I put on my helmet and race the hell over there. It's just a fountain a random intersection. Roll up and there's 8 people just chilling in the shade on the grass. I ask them if they dropped the lure. There's 3 guys on bikes, one one a longboard. Shortly after the two teens I saw earlier walk on up. "Man, I knew you guys were hunting pokemon." People call out when new mons pop up to catch. We talk about the local Gym presence and rib each other about Team choice. One of the guys on a bike is new and hasn't figured eggs out yet, I help him out popping one in an incubator and give him my findings about the speeds you can ride at to hatch them. Everyone speaks up and mentions what they're trying to catch most. Everyone was incredibly good-natured. The conversation was natural and comfortable. No one had to worry if they had anything in common with the people present, because everyone here was fucking here to catch pokemon. Here on the side of the road. I say, "Holy shit," aloud, for the first time of the day.
A couple of the kids know each other, but more than half of the people there were strangers. One of the guys was pretty overweight; he mentioned that he was at least heading to two more stops before going home. The lure runs out (though it lasted longer than they expected- some mentioned that maybe it stays active longer if a new person shows up and grabs the stop?) but another one just a block or two away lights up. I don't recognize it at all, but I say I'm going and one of the other guys on a bike says he's never been but knows where it is and thinks there is a gym down that way too.
The two of us take off. I'm following him and it hits me. This is like I'm on a quest with an NPC. But he's not an NPC, he's a human fucking person, right there in front of me in reality. We get to the spot and it's the entrance to an adorable little park. We go in and I say, "Huh... I had no idea this was here." He says, "me neither." Turns out we've both lived ~5 miles away our whole lives but had never seen it. We look around and it's empty except for a couple and their two small children in the corner. I think no way it's them, so my new buddy and I speculate that somebody maybe dropped the lure to be nice and drove off. We're commiserating about my pokeball shortage in the wake of an Eevee popping up when the dad walks up to us, "You guys here for the stop? It's been giving me great stuff all day and there's lots of Pokemon since it's a park." Says he has two more lures. Says he's gonna put one down at 7 if we feel like coming back. We do. While we're there, one of the city park rangers pulls up in his SUV... pulls out his phone, collects the stop, waves at us and takes off.
New trainer friend and I ride off to hit the gym he mentioned. He's Mystic too (naturally) and it's one of the few Valor gyms in the area, and not particularly well defended. It's a lion statue. Where is there a fucking lion statue around here? Having a lot of trouble finding it, when I see the turn off into where it must be. Veer off and suddenly i'm going over a wooden drawbridge (WTF), the street is all random stones, there's a gigantic teepee to my left, a bunch of weird snake-themed art over here to my right. Where the fuck are we. Just then a dude pulls forward from deeper into the property and goes, "Hey, you guys know you're on private property right?" Oh shit. Poor guy has a lion statue that's a Gym on his weird-ass estate. He was actually pretty nice about it, haha, but he's gonna be dealing with that for awhile.
Then we spot a dude on a bike in an obvious Ketchum hat. He's trying to check it out too but is only level 4. This kid turns out to obviously have something on the autism spectrum, he's super nervous and can't really keep himself from saying things- but here he was, out on his bike, interacting with strangers. We give him some leveling advice and tell him it would mean a lot if he joins Blue when he levels up. Then we manage to find a way the gym can actually be hit from across the street, luckily, and claim it back for Mystic and each put in a Pokemon. I have a Raticate to spare higher than his, so it becomes my first Gym! Woo. Other dude says he's heading home, so we shake hands and hope to see each other again in the field. He takes off. I say aloud again, "Holy shit."
I start heading back toward my local mall, which is a gold mine of gyms and stops, and notice the Ikea nearby is now a red Gym. I dismantle it easily and install a Psyduck of my own- though as I sit here typing this now, it has already been taken back. That IKEA belong to Mystic, goddamn it.
I get to the mall and walk in. I'm in the food court. I pull open my phone and notice I'm standing almost directly on top of another lure. I see what the stop is and it's this fruit-themed sculpture in the food court (there are three right there that are all stops, yay). But nobody's really gathered around it. I'm wondering who dropped the lure if there's nobody here. Then I just start to kind of look around at the people eating. And it's fucking everywhere. EVERYWHERE. I counted 24 people in that food court playing the game before I had to just stop counting people and get on with my day. Then I realize, this lure wasn't like the other- where it was sort of dropped in the middle of nowhere and people flocked to it. This one, somebody just popped it because there are a ton of people here sitting down to eat and playing anyway. So cool.
I walk through the mall and grab some stops, but now I can't help myself and I'm just keeping my eyes and ears open. Bare minutes pass before I hear something or other as I pass people sitting down or they criss-cross me going the other direction.
"...just another Zubat..."
"..got my ponyta!"
"This way, there's two spots that I know of..."
Completely surreal. I head outside to where I knew there were a bunch of fortified gyms and stops, and then I start getting server issues for the first time- it's like being snapped out of a dream. I look at the clock and I've been out for 6 fucking hours. "Holy shit," I say aloud again, involuntarily.
Back home to recharge and I was able to log back in. I'm heading back over to that park in 20 minutes. I feel like bringing snacks just in case.
This is some wild shit.
Yep. Went to a lake in the countryside while on vacation and hoped that I would find some water types. Only found two Sparrows and one Rattata over the course of two days.
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Deleted member 231381
Unconfirmed Member
This isn't a choice for most people, though. I don't have a spare day just to hit up Cardiff to find Pokemon, most of my Go time takes place on my walk and bus between rural Wales and slightly less rural Wales. That pretty much condemns me to looking at forests totally absent of Pokemon; which is bizarre given the concept of the series.
I hold all 5 gyms in the town near me. There are no other trainers yet. Did that in a day, too - they were all unclaimed.
Rurality does have some advantages.
thats incredible. I live in a small town of like 5k people and on my walk down to the nearest gym there were 5-6 people down there trying to take it over. by the time we got home, my gfs Pokemon was already kicked out for being too weak
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
These servers are killing me 😫😞
all I know is they don't work in my flat, used 3 so far, and not a single pokemon
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Deleted member 231381
Unconfirmed Member
I'm UK though, it hasn't been officially rolled out here. I'm also in the arse end of nowhere; my actual house doesn't have mobile signal unless you're willing to climb a hill.
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
Quoting so I can read this when I have a few spare hours
Darkstorne
Member
For Pokestops and Gyms, of course! But not for hunting Pokemon. I mean damn, even their trailers showed people hiking into the wilderness for a Charizard. Instead anyone living in the countryside has sweet f*** all. Look at this poor guy! There's no excuse for an abysmal "nearby" list in rural areas.
I was seriously excited about the Pokemon I'd find mountain hiking in Scotland this August, but now I'm realizing I should save the battery for better uses. They'll be absolutely nothing out there.
Goldenmoney
Member
I haven't had any server issues today at all. Got to level 7, caught so many pidgey and weedle that I was able to get pidgeot and beedrill. Caterpie is pretty rare where I'm at. Also got three eggs from pokestops, two 2km and one 5km. I feel like this app is not tracking my distance travelled correctly because it says I've only gone 0.7km but I know I've walked more than that.
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Deleted member 231381
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I asked on Reddit, and apparently CP is ignorable; max CP is capped according to your level and every Pokemon can reach the cap. What's important is the moveset, which is set at capture or evolution, and which you can't change. So you want to evolve as soon as possible to see whether you got a good moveset or not.
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Deleted member 231381
Unconfirmed Member
The app has to be on the entire time and can't be in the background, it must be the main thing running. Otherwise it doesn't record.
So I spent all day today at Uni (Northwestern, Evanston) running around the campus and the town. Met a bunch of people (and some nice old ladies also playing, who asked for help) and walked around with a group of other students and grad students. We parked in the park for probably over an hour under a rotation of lures on a pokestop in the park.
Got to talk with a lot of random people I'd have probably never met, and I even managed to track down an Eevee (woot!). This has been a lot of fun.
Also I got somewhere around 20 streetpasses for ORAS as well since it was in my, and I imagine several others', backpacks.
What a great day. Also walked at least 5km as I hatched a fresh egg.
Got to talk with a lot of random people I'd have probably never met, and I even managed to track down an Eevee (woot!). This has been a lot of fun.
Also I got somewhere around 20 streetpasses for ORAS as well since it was in my, and I imagine several others', backpacks.
What a great day. Also walked at least 5km as I hatched a fresh egg.
Silphonica
Banned
Seen these questions asked with noone answering, so putting my tips down.
If you open the nearby pokemon list, highlight the one you want and min the list. Start walking, if the little box starts pulsing youre going in the right direction.
The question of whether to level or evolve first is irrelevant, no matter what you do, your evolved poke will have the same caps with no benefits or whatever. The only thing is, its fast to reach max evo max cap when you evolve from a poke that hit its previous cap than if you evolve earlier. Theres no movesets capabilities so its pointless otherwise.
If you open the nearby pokemon list, highlight the one you want and min the list. Start walking, if the little box starts pulsing youre going in the right direction.
The question of whether to level or evolve first is irrelevant, no matter what you do, your evolved poke will have the same caps with no benefits or whatever. The only thing is, its fast to reach max evo max cap when you evolve from a poke that hit its previous cap than if you evolve earlier. Theres no movesets capabilities so its pointless otherwise.