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Fair enough, I retract my statement of surprise. Turns out Mamoswine is way more popular than I imagined.  Looking over the list of Community Day choices is interesting: Pikachu (Surf) Dratini (Draco Meteor) Bulbasaur (Frenzy Plant) Mareep (Dragon Pulse) Charmander (Blast Burn) Larvitar (Smack Down) Squirtle (Hydro Cannon) Eevee (Last Resort) Chikorita (Frenzy Plant) Beldum (Meteor Mash) Cyndaquil (Blast Burn) Totodile (Hydro Cannon) Swinub (???) Really aside from locking into the worst generation of starters for three months it's a fantastic list. Loads of super popular Pokemon, lots of powerful ones, some with fantastic Shiny versions like Mareep and Beldum. Edit: Gonna lose my drat mind when we inevitably get Snivy day. 
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BGrifter posted:Fair enough, I retract my statement of surprise. Turns out Mamoswine is way more popular than I imagined. We all like what pokemon we like I guess.
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Kinda sad it isn't Slakoth just because it's V Day and he has a heart butt. A HEART BUTT. drat I wish when he was your buddy you could carry him like a baby, or he cling to you like a backpack.
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Jan 23, 2019 02:32
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Swinub is an extremely common nuisance pokemon in my area and has been since gen 2 first came out but at least I'll be able to do something with the massive pile of candy now.
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Dr. Abysmal posted:Swinub is an extremely common nuisance pokemon in my area and has been since gen 2 first came out but at least I'll be able to do something with the massive pile of candy now. Oh hey, good point. I didn't even think to look but I have 1065 Swinub candy. 
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Jan 23, 2019 02:36
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Cowslips Warren posted:Kinda sad it isn't Slakoth this except Bagon of course they break pattern just in time to keep that out of my hands. again.
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Jan 23, 2019 02:38
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Psion posted:this except Bagon I'm always sad it's neither Bagon nor Ralts. Maybe April will be Ralts to debut Gallade?
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Jan 23, 2019 03:07
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Ralts or Bagon would be amazing. Personally I'd love to see a Gligar day, even if he'd probably be mediocre gameplay-wise.
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Jan 23, 2019 03:14
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like I think the rollout of sinnoh has been thoroughly mediocre compared to previous generation releases but if their plan for the remaining sinnoh stone evolves is to drop them one at a time, once a month on a community day, their plan sucks even more than their previous plans
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Jan 23, 2019 04:06
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I really want ralts to get gallade released with it's CD, and both forms get a fairy fast move. Getting a new Pokemon that dominates dragons would be nice.
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Jan 23, 2019 04:17
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Another 7 day legendary reward, another normal Suicune. Only got one chance left to get Ho-Oh before the end of the month. I wouldn't mind if these repeat legendaries were shiny, since I don't have a single shiny legendary, but no. Managed to get two Groudons with my new raid group this fortnight at least, so that's nice. Just need to get Kyogre before it rotates out again.
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Woke up this morning and found there is a brand new pokestop in front of my house! Endless gifts and pokeballs, hooray!
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It's year of the Piggy. In the 2019 fireworks splash screen you see electric types (I would think Fire types more than electric types would be associated with fireworks, but for some reason Pokemon seems to like having electric types with fireworks and new year countdowns), mascots, and two of the currently available porcine Pokemon (porcemon). Tepig would probably be a better choice for Pig Year but it's not in game yet. Spoink and Grumpig are a boring two-stage Pokemon no one remembers. Mamoswine is a big tough 3rd stage boy, a new evolution for a species already ingame, and he's seasonally appropriate for the whole of the northern hemisphere plus all of Asia as well as large Asian populations in the southern hemisphere in Australia. I long for Swinub Day so I can find Swinub and see their little feet and big smiles when they do their animations.
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I don't really care too much, though Bagon and Slakoth would have been nice as I don't have Salamence or Slaking yet, as long as I can catch a shiny, BGrifter posted:Looking over the list of Community Day choices is interesting: I've participated in every community day except Pikachu, and bolded are the only ones I caught a shiny, while the Dratini day I saw a grand total of 4 Dratini in 90 minutes of trying. The RNG on shiny spawns is just stupid. NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 13:03 on Jan 23, 2019 |
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Cowslips Warren posted:Kinda sad it isn't Slakoth just because it's V Day and he has a heart butt. A HEART BUTT. Female Pikachu has a heart tail. Are you suggesting Feb community day should be Pikachu with a hat 
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NTRabbit posted:I've participated in every community day except Pikachu, and bolded are the only ones I caught a shiny, while the Dratini day I saw a grand total of 4 Dratini in 90 minutes of trying. The RNG on shiny spawns is just stupid. Go somewhere different if your spawns are bad. Last community day I went to a park for about an hour, and the spawn rate there kind of sucked. Decided to go to a mall instead and there would be points where I would be surrounded by up to 5 totodile at a time.
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BGrifter posted:Oh hey, good point. I didn't even think to look but I have 1065 Swinub candy. Exactly. I already have lots of strong piloswines and mamoswine will be useful, and I have over 800 candies as well, so if nothing else, I will be able to evolve those for the special move.
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seiferguy posted:Go somewhere different if your spawns are bad. Last community day I went to a park for about an hour, and the spawn rate there kind of sucked. Decided to go to a mall instead and there would be points where I would be surrounded by up to 5 totodile at a time. After the Dratini non event I went to a different spot for the next community, and now I go there every time (except Beldum where I went to the beach) because spawn rates have been fine for all the other days, I caught like a hundred Squirtle, Charizard, Totodile, Squirtle, and Cyndaquil each, I just didn't get a single shiny, because shiny spawn RNG is complete bullshit. There's people in my new raid group who go to all the same places I do and catch shinys all the time, even on regular days, but I get next to nothing. NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 14:50 on Jan 23, 2019 |
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EU goon here, added my friend code to the list as well. I played when this launched but some early update made it so I couldn't play on my old phone anymore. But since I got a new one now I am back at it and hoo boy, of course I had to get back in right in the middle of winter. So I caught up on the thread and learned a few things thanks to it, amongst others that apparently all those pokemon I caught in the first month are pretty valuable (Too bad I turned any duplicates into candy before I learned about that). I am mostly surprised that people in my local area still seem to be fairly active. I took over a gym and like five minutes later someone put a 150cp pokemon in it, and gyms are changing hands at least once per day. Guess it helps that for not being a very big village we got a lot of pokemon stops and such around, including one area that has two gyms and a couple stops inside the same small park. It's too cold right now to try that anyway, but does the trick of putting a few of those modules or whatever they're called in a bunch of stops that are right next to each other still work?
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seiferguy posted:Go somewhere different if your spawns are bad. Last community day I went to a park for about an hour, and the spawn rate there kind of sucked. Decided to go to a mall instead and there would be points where I would be surrounded by up to 5 totodile at a time. It's hard to do if you live in a rural area 
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NTRabbit posted:I don't really care too much, though Bagon and Slakoth would have been nice as I don't have Salamence or Slaking yet, as long as I can catch a shiny, The rate of shinies on community day is so high that I would go as far to say that RNG is not really a factor. It's a 1 in 20 spawn rate, and if you play properly at a fast but leisurely pace you should be encountering 100 or more per hour. An example of "bad" luck vs "good luck" is something like getting 7 shinies vs getting like 17. Getting no shinies or next to no shinies is the result of being in an area that doesn't spawn pokemon, playing incorrectly, and or not playing for the whole 3 hours.
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Greader posted:EU goon here, ... Yo just wanted to give you a shout out, finally hatched my first Mantyke from one of your eggs. I need more goon friends, I’m on that pilot medal grind.
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Someone in my area kicked me out of the gym yesterday and filled half the slots with accounts that were all obviously theirs. 
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BabyRyoga posted:The rate of shinies on community day is so high that I would go as far to say that RNG is not really a factor. It's a 1 in 20 spawn rate, and if you play properly at a fast but leisurely pace you should be encountering 100 or more per hour. Themata posted:Someone in my area kicked me out of the gym yesterday and filled half the slots with accounts that were all obviously theirs. Elysiume fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Jan 23, 2019 |
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I caught 2 weather boosted Kyogres today and I'm usually bad at catching them. They're both mid 70s IVs. Oh well. 
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Still chasing the shiny green dinosaur. I think we've done about 15 trio raids on our own now and have one so far. At least we got the kid her shiny Kyogre early on so we don't need to raid the murder whale too. The triple dust will help get the Groudon and machan teams leveled up for whenever dialga comes out.
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Do we have to do the pvp during the three hours? I'm supposed to be catching then!
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Everything makes more sense when you assume no one at Niantic plays the game at all and they push stuff out the second they finish it, no testing needed, they can just patch it later.
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DaStampede we just hit best friends. Wanted to give you a heads up so you can pop an egg.
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Beachcomber posted:Do we have to do the pvp during the three hours? I'm supposed to be catching then! No, you can get the 5 stones at any time on the same day.
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I have been aggressively hunting Luckies since the tail end of the 3-hour December community day window. Here is the result: https://imgur.com/gallery/pTadu5z Methods: 1) Soliciting trades with random people gathered for raids in popular areas 2) Trading with SO/family/old friends 3) Trading with new friends 4) Soliciting trades with random people at gaming/anime conventions 5) Trading with self for some of the boring/pointless stuff
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Auxiliary Treats posted:Yo just wanted to give you a shout out, finally hatched my first Mantyke from one of your eggs. Glad I already could be of some help. I actually am liking this whole gift system, especially getting to see a stop from a whole different country/continent. Though it also makes me wonder how the recipient feels like when I send them greetings from the local graveyard Actually, what are some of the weirder/sillier stops people have seen, either themselves or through gifts? My local area has a bunch of strange ones since I guess the Ingress crowd just took pictures of anything that stood out, my favorite is still the gym called Psycho-Disk (Basically a big disk with the circular hypnotic pattern you see in cartoons and such)
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I got a shiny Houndour and I am loving pumped, yall.
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BabyRyoga posted:The rate of shinies on community day is so high that I would go as far to say that RNG is not really a factor. It's a 1 in 20 spawn rate, and if you play properly at a fast but leisurely pace you should be encountering 100 or more per hour. I caught 0 shinies in areas that spawned hundreds of the community day pokemon, the exact same areas and exact same time and method of playing as when I caught 2 shiny Mareep, 3 Larvitar, 3 Chikorita, and 4 Eevee, so no, you're flat out wrong. NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 08:05 on Jan 24, 2019 |
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NTRabbit posted:I caught 0 shinies in areas that spawned hundreds of the community day pokemon so no, you're flat out wrong Maybe your account is shadowbanned. Every community day, i've hit the same numbers. Everyone i've brought with me and taught my method has had similar results. Learn the quick catch, and next community move around for the whole three hours while constantly moving. Throw one ball at each pokemon you encounter unless you run out of new ones to click on. You should encounter between 200 and 350 of the featured pokemon, and I guarantee you'll get around 10 shinies. Unless you are indeed shadowbanned.
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BabyRyoga posted:Maybe your account is shadowbanned. I am not shadowbanned, and I've never been shadowbanned. The city wide facebook group I'm in has similar polarised reports at the end of every community day, some people playing for an hour and getting lots of shinies, others playing for 3 hours and getting none. The shiny spawns are broken. NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 09:13 on Jan 24, 2019 |
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NTRabbit posted:I am not shadowbanned, and I've never been shadowbanned. The city wide facebook group I'm in has similar polarised reports at the end of every community day, some people playing for an hour and getting lots of shinies, others playing for 3 hours and getting none. The shiny spawns are broken. So you are basically convinced the game is bugged, or that something is causing different players to get different shiny rates. My own personal experiences (out of over a dozen trials at this point), as well as all statistical data available on the internet suggests that going multiple community days while playing efficiently and still getting no shinies is basically impossible. If you reach 200 encounters, even getting 3 is like a 98%+ chance of success. If you open your dex right now, how many Totodile does it say you have seen?
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BabyRyoga posted:So you are basically convinced the game is bugged, or that something is causing different players to get different shiny rates. My personal experience demonstrates otherwise, and I'm not the only one. Seen 100, and the vast majority of those would have been on community day, as only the grass starters appear in this area normally. I've seen 107 Beldum, and I can guarantee all of those were on community day because I hadn't seen it in the wild before then, and haven't seen it since, and I got 4 shiny there. When they had the regionals hatching from 7km eggs for a week or so, I hatched more Kangaskhan than any other regional (Something like 5 or 6 Kangaskhan, 2 Tauros, 1 Farfetch'd, 0 Mr Mime) despite them having spawned up and down my street in Australia since 2016. The answer is Niantic fucks up most of it. NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 10:07 on Jan 24, 2019 |
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NTRabbit posted:My personal experience demonstrates otherwise, and I'm not the only one. Statistics state that given 107 Beldum, you would have roughly 60% chance to get 4 and 45% chance to get 5. The numbers fit perfectly there providing you didn't see any of those during the december weekend (which had different shiny rates outside of the 3 hour period). Let's say 85 of those 100 Totodiles were on community day. You should have had like a 93% chance of at least 1 shiny, and around 60% chance to get 3. Either there is some kind of bug, or you were extremely unlucky that day. It's hard to tell; you very well could have encountered 200 and gotten like 7 in the next 100. BabyRyoga fucked around with this message at 10:13 on Jan 24, 2019 |
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