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Dragonstoned
Jan 15, 2006

MR. DOG WITH BEES IN HIS MOUTH AND WHEN HE BARKS HE SHOOTS BEES AT YOU
by Roger Hargreaves

OgreNoah posted:

I just evolved my Riolu, it is now 1510 :( I should have hatched a slightly worse one.

Also I caught my second shiny Shinx, or Shinxy, just a few minutes ago.

Thankfully my Lucario just slid in at 1499

HookShot posted:

I have a 98% Scizor that's 2503.

Now that sucks, I've been hearing that Scizor is going to be great for PvP

As for raiding today, OF COURSE all the 5 stars seem to be hatching Ho-oh the one I already have a heap of but I managed to get one Lugia today finally and 3 more Ho-oh's (one was shiny which is ok I guess...)

The real win of the day is another Meltan box and they've increased the amount it spawns so I got 18 instead of the 10 I got from previous boxes. I'm up 312 candy :D

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Coq au Nandos
Nov 7, 2006

I think I would say to my daughters if they were to ask me this question... A shitpost is the greatest gift that you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don't give it to someone lightly, that's what I would say.
Is there any way to know what a raid boss will be before it hatches?

Dragonstoned
Jan 15, 2006

MR. DOG WITH BEES IN HIS MOUTH AND WHEN HE BARKS HE SHOOTS BEES AT YOU
by Roger Hargreaves

Coq au Nandos posted:

Is there any way to know what a raid boss will be before it hatches?

lol nope enjoy waiting an hour to find out it's a Cresselia


"because gently caress you thats why" - Niantic

BGrifter
Mar 16, 2007

Winner of Something Awful PS5 thread's Posting Excellence Award June 2022

Congratulations!

Centzon Totochtin posted:

ZottSA, I accidentally pushed us into best friend territory, please use a lucky egg when you log in if you care about xp

Don’t worry about it. People get way too worked up about timing lucky eggs. If anyone is close to any level of friendship with me just open the gift whenever is convenient for you.

Thanks for the warning though.

DJK447
Dec 21, 2013

Beachcomber posted:

DJK447, we're about to hit best friends!

I'd ideally like to do it tomorrow or Saturday, but next Friday/Saturday works as well. Currently in USA East coast time one.

No worries buddy, I'm not too fussed about the XP so feel free to open my gift whenever suits best :)

seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

FLAWED
INTUITION



Toilet Rascal
Suddenly all these fast TMs I got is useful for lower level poo poo I want to pvp with. Also, last resort eeveelutions are surprisingly nice if you don't have a favorable matchup.

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

Spinyahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Doctor Rope
Fought a rhyperior in a gym for the first time since they fixed the scale. He big

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

Dragonstoned posted:

lol nope enjoy waiting an hour to find out it's a Cresselia


Wait, so they left Cres in rotation on the special weekend?
The useless poke that has already been available for a month?

Willsun
Dec 9, 2006

I willed too hard again...
Boy if you thought Cresselia was useless I can't wait to show you the upcoming psychic legendary trio.

And duh, the mixing is for your immersion and sense of adventure of waiting on eggs!

MY PALE GOTH SKIN
Nov 28, 2006


meow
gently caress Cresselia's stupid face, I miss the beasts (even Suicine was fun, try to get different Anxiety Power types) and the weather trio (esp sincr catching Kyorge made nerds rage)

HookShot
Dec 26, 2005

Dragonstoned posted:

Now that sucks, I've been hearing that Scizor is going to be great for PvP
It's ok, I have a 93% that's like 2498 or something so I'm using that instead. He's not amazing for PvP, not with fury cutter. On the other hand, water gun/ancient power Omastar is the loving greatest. So is vine whip/frenzy plant venusaur.



A bunch of locals went to do a 5-star raid train when 4 of them hatched locally around the same time and all four were Cressalia LOL.

Duckman2008
Jan 6, 2010

TFW you see Flyers goaltending.
Grimey Drawer




Shiny Cop Blastoise is prepared to go on the beat in the Great League (so glad I now have an excuse not to power him up more).

RodShaft
Jul 31, 2003
Like an evil horny Santa Claus.


So is there a mix of IVs that is actually better for PvP to do more damage at 1500 or 2500 CP than all 15's? Like would 15 0 0 be better because you'd have a higher attack at 1500 CP?

FistEnergy
Nov 3, 2000

DAY CREW: WORKING HARD

Fun Shoe
Randomly stumbled into a 20 person party and caught Lugia and Ho-Oh each on the first try. Excited!

Pomplamoose
Jun 28, 2008

For all the people complaining, Cresselia is actually really good in ultra league right now. Defensive legendaries actually have a use in PVP.

HookShot posted:

It's ok, I have a 93% that's like 2498 or something so I'm using that instead. He's not amazing for PvP, not with fury cutter. On the other hand, water gun/ancient power Omastar is the loving greatest. So is vine whip/frenzy plant venusaur.


Fury cutter is tied with psycho cut and thundershock for the fastest energy gain in pvp right now. All of the starters with community day moves are great though, yeah.

RodShaft posted:

So is there a mix of IVs that is actually better for PvP to do more damage at 1500 or 2500 CP than all 15's? Like would 15 0 0 be better because you'd have a higher attack at 1500 CP?

There's no one size fits all answer, it just depends on how close you can get to 1500 without going over and that's going to be different for every species. It could be 15/15/15 for one and 15/0/0 for another, it all depends on the base stats.

BGrifter
Mar 16, 2007

Winner of Something Awful PS5 thread's Posting Excellence Award June 2022

Congratulations!
Awesome. Went 2/2 on Lugia and 1/1 on Ho-Oh!

Now I can relax and ignore raids for the rest of the weekend.

Chairman Mao
Apr 24, 2004

The Chinese Communist Party is the core of leadership of the whole Chinese people. Without this core, the cause of socialism cannot be victorious.
2/2 on Lugia, 2/2 on Ho-Oh and a Ttar I just kind of stumbled into. All in all a pretty good day!

Xinder
Apr 27, 2013

i want to be a prince
i got thrown off by ho-oh being so close and failed to catch it with my 8 balls. the fact that i was walking an excited dog at the same time didn't help.

BGrifter
Mar 16, 2007

Winner of Something Awful PS5 thread's Posting Excellence Award June 2022

Congratulations!

Xinder posted:

i got thrown off by ho-oh being so close and failed to catch it with my 8 balls. the fact that i was walking an excited dog at the same time didn't help.

Yeah the range/height was a big adjustment. Lugia in particular was so much higher on the screen than I initially guessed.

Robokomodo
Nov 11, 2009


Is this a typo? Isn’t “Best Friends” the highest?

Chairman Mao
Apr 24, 2004

The Chinese Communist Party is the core of leadership of the whole Chinese people. Without this core, the cause of socialism cannot be victorious.

Robokomodo posted:



Is this a typo? Isn’t “Best Friends” the highest?

Yeah it's a typo, you only need Ultra.

Soulex
Apr 1, 2009


Cacati in mano e pigliati a schiaffi!

Edit: Nvm misread

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

Take me to your Shida

I thought I read that I can battle my faction leader, how do I do that?

Robokomodo
Nov 11, 2009

IcePhoenix posted:

I thought I read that I can battle my faction leader, how do I do that?



Hit the nearby Pokémon

kensei
Dec 27, 2007

He has come home, where he belongs. The Ancient Mariner returns to lead his first team to glory, forever and ever. Amen!


IcePhoenix posted:

I thought I read that I can battle my faction leader, how do I do that?

Click the Nearby then click Battle then do it

FistEnergy
Nov 3, 2000

DAY CREW: WORKING HARD

Fun Shoe

Chairman Mao posted:

2/2 on Lugia, 2/2 on Ho-Oh and a Ttar I just kind of stumbled into. All in all a pretty good day!

I got each of those today too without even trying! :respek:

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

Take me to your Shida

Robokomodo posted:



Hit the nearby Pokémon

Well that's awfully unintuitive!

Thanks

Beastyfella
Mar 5, 2008

I have lost all powers of reading comprehension and counting ability hours ago
Got my shiny ho-oh on the second raid. Now we both have one,. I already had a Lugia and she had two and a ho oh. Guess we'll just help raid chat people if we're out. Ho oh is ridiculously easy to beat now with all the power creep going on. Brave bird went down to 3 of us without losing the whole raid team. Lv 35ish pokemon +/- a couple levels, and a random high level rhyperior.

All 3 of the lake trio look like easy and forgettable duos or trios.

HookShot
Dec 26, 2005
Yeah, me and another dude managed to do Ho-Oh easily, both of us with a main account and an alt. My alt is super lovely and has no good pokemon (basically all just level 20 gengars from that raid day) and then my main account glitched out so that every time one of my Pokemon died another one wouldn't spawn until the Ho-Oh had used Solar Beam again, and we STILL beat it with like 60 seconds to go.

Coq au Nandos
Nov 7, 2006

I think I would say to my daughters if they were to ask me this question... A shitpost is the greatest gift that you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don't give it to someone lightly, that's what I would say.

HookShot posted:

Yeah, me and another dude managed to do Ho-Oh easily, both of us with a main account and an alt. My alt is super lovely and has no good pokemon (basically all just level 20 gengars from that raid day) and then my main account glitched out so that every time one of my Pokemon died another one wouldn't spawn until the Ho-Oh had used Solar Beam again, and we STILL beat it with like 60 seconds to go.

We got a raid together for a level 5 egg hatching near my place and it wound up being a Cressalia.

I didn’t catch it.

hamburgers in pockets
Jun 18, 2005

Yeah, that's blood. It'll get better before the show.
Anyone else having glitches since this last big update? I bought a second charge attack for a few pokemon, but they only have it available for one fight at a time in gym battles. Like I can start a gym with Rhyperior and he has both of his charge attacks, but when I battle the second pokemon he only has access to his first move but if I switch him out and back in he has it again. Also I suddenly seem to be unable to power up a lot of pokemon. I've got a Mewtwo at level 37 but whenever I click on the Power Up button it just darkens as long as I'm touching it but nothing happens. I also can't power up my level 34 Zapdos, but every other pokemon I've checked I can power up with no problems.

Chairman Mao
Apr 24, 2004

The Chinese Communist Party is the core of leadership of the whole Chinese people. Without this core, the cause of socialism cannot be victorious.
No, nobody. This is a bug free game there must be something wrong with your phone.

skooma512
Feb 8, 2012

You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.
Got a Gengar off a raid :v:

I’m sick of getting lanturms off the quests though. It’s a dead end useless mon that I have like 5 of already

Yukari
Feb 17, 2011

"That's going in the cringe reel for sure."


hamburgers in pockets posted:

I've got a Mewtwo at level 37 but whenever I click on the Power Up button it just darkens as long as I'm touching it but nothing happens. I also can't power up my level 34 Zapdos, but every other pokemon I've checked I can power up with no problems.

Take it out of your battle parties. It's a known bug, and probably going to be fixed so that if pokemon are in great/ultra league pvp sets, they can't be powered up, most likely anyways.

Also, to JesterHuni, lDoomsayerl, saSyrinx, SlickSlinky, I want to open gift and push us to ultra tomorrow at Noon MST.

Yukari fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Dec 16, 2018

Pez
Feb 28, 2002

Thanks to CoX, my stairs will be protected forever!
3 PVP matches everyday, one trainer battle a day and cashed in another 7 day research. Still not a single Sinnoh stone since the first guaranteed research one

MadFriarAvelyn
Sep 25, 2007

Pez posted:

3 PVP matches everyday, one trainer battle a day and cashed in another 7 day research. Still not a single Sinnoh stone since the first guaranteed research one

:emptyquote:

3/6 Lugia, 7/7 Ho-oh, and 2/2 Cresselia when they hatched and everyone gathered for the raid didn't immediately leave because it wasn't Lugia/Ho-oh.

Walked almost 11 miles raiding today, feels pretty good.

Dr Tran
Dec 17, 2002

HE'S GOT A PH.D. IN
KICKING YOUR ASS!
BostonRoberts, 10am Pacific if you can. Don’t worry, I won’t cut you if you can’t.

Scrooge has been a gift sending MVP.

that ivy guy
May 20, 2015

0 for 4 on lugia catch attempts so far. Pretty fun game

hamburgers in pockets
Jun 18, 2005

Yeah, that's blood. It'll get better before the show.

Yukari posted:

Take it out of your battle parties. It's a known bug, and probably going to be fixed so that if pokemon are in great/ultra league pvp sets, they can't be powered up, most likely anyways.

Also, to JesterHuni, lDoomsayerl, saSyrinx, SlickSlinky, I want to open gift and push us to ultra tomorrow at Noon MST.

Yep, that was exactly it. Thanks.

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NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

i wear this armour to protect myself from the histrionics of hysterical women

bitches




Just participated in my first 5 star raid, fluke of timing that a call for people came up on facebook as I was getting ready to walk my dog to the gym anyway.

Unfortunately, I didn't manage to catch Lugia. Was interesting to see how quickly it went down under 17 people though.

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