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Loser_Rex
Apr 14, 2006

Spidercock? Here?
Rumor is if you go from a Pokémon to a shiny version of the same Pokémon on the next set of photos it will photobomb. Worked for me but who knows if it’s just coincidence.

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Protip
Sep 24, 2002

I am the Walrus.

I was able to get my first after a few photos yesterday, and a second on the first photo I tried today. Different pokemon with each, and didn't need to switch them out.

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Loser_Rex posted:

Rumor is if you go from a Pokémon to a shiny version of the same Pokémon on the next set of photos it will photobomb. Worked for me but who knows if it’s just coincidence.

Didn’t work for me when I checked just now.

DizzyBum
Apr 16, 2007


Loser_Rex posted:

Rumor is if you go from a Pokémon to a shiny version of the same Pokémon on the next set of photos it will photobomb. Worked for me but who knows if it’s just coincidence.

Just tried it with a normal and then a shiny Cloyster. No photobombs.

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


Finally got one

Entropist
Dec 1, 2007
I'm very stupid.
If you take a photo of Mew and there is a truck in the background, it instantly appears!!!

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.

Parrotine posted:

Does it really matter here? Smeargle has poo poo stats, who gives a gently caress

I mean I guess it doesn't really matter if I get a Pokemon with an extremely rare move but then why does it matter if I get a shiny? Or get a Pokemon at all? What's the point of playing the game even? Why bother getting out of bed at all if all human endeavor is ultimately meaningless? Why be alive when entropy ultimately means that eventually the universe will lay quiet and still forever, without the difference in energy required to drive anything at all, leaving everything you've ever done without consequence as the entirety of existence lays dead in a medium cold?

tankadillo
Aug 15, 2006

Guys, it’s easy. Just go to Bill’s secret garden by SS Anne’s Harbor and take a pic with the truck.

flatluigi
Apr 23, 2008

here come the planes
https://twitter.com/NianticHelp/status/1100426470189617157
https://twitter.com/NianticHelp/status/1100431751837560832
https://twitter.com/NianticHelp/status/1100432227106779142

so back out and take some more photos with a different pokemon instead of mashing out a few thousand (lmao) with the same pokemon

Bobby Cox
Nov 3, 2006


College Slice
TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND PHOTOS

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.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing 25,000 times and expecting different results.

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

Spinyahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Doctor Rope

flatluigi posted:

https://twitter.com/NianticHelp/status/1100426470189617157
https://twitter.com/NianticHelp/status/1100431751837560832
https://twitter.com/NianticHelp/status/1100432227106779142

so back out and take some more photos with a different pokemon instead of mashing out a few thousand (lmao) with the same pokemon

See, you could just have told this to players in the first place. Your game has a lot of players, so there will be a lot of people who do poo poo like this if you don't tell them what exatly triggers the photo bomb.

seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

FLAWED
INTUITION



Toilet Rascal
Tried flipping through different pokemon and got it on the third try. This is easy.

Henrik Zetterberg
Dec 7, 2007

25k lmao

flatluigi
Apr 23, 2008

here come the planes

Wheany posted:

See, you could just have told this to players in the first place. Your game has a lot of players, so there will be a lot of people who do poo poo like this if you don't tell them what exatly triggers the photo bomb.

on the other hand maybe by the hundredth photo you should probably think 'okay something's wrong' instead of sitting there for two loving hours mashing the camera button

FistEnergy
Nov 3, 2000

DAY CREW: WORKING HARD

Fun Shoe
laffo

Ursine Catastrophe
Nov 9, 2009

It's a lovely morning in the void and you are a horrible lady-in-waiting.



don't ask how i know

Dinosaur Gum

Chairman Mao posted:

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing 25,000 times and expecting different results.

RNG is a bitch, nice of niantic to clarify at least a little bit though

e: Yeah 3rd try now for me too

Ursine Catastrophe fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Feb 26, 2019

DizzyBum
Apr 16, 2007


Shiny Pidgey and Rattata are live! :getin:

Wheany posted:

Who the gently caress knows, it's Niantic. They will literally die if they ever give a straight answer to anything.

Wheany posted:

See, you could just have told this to players in the first place. Your game has a lot of players, so there will be a lot of people who do poo poo like this if you don't tell them what exatly triggers the photo bomb.

I can't believe Niantic is loving dead.

DizzyBum fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Feb 26, 2019

crispyseaweed
Sep 21, 2008
Finally got it after switching out different Pokemon instead of taking 100s of the same mon.

Don't know if this was mentioned, but apparently you can TM a Smeargle. It's a bug that'll be fixed after the next update according to Niantic. Also the move pool for the TM is every move, so you have no idea what you'll get.

Pez
Feb 28, 2002

Thanks to CoX, my stairs will be protected forever!

flatluigi posted:

on the other hand maybe by the hundredth photo you should probably think 'okay something's wrong' instead of sitting there for two loving hours mashing the camera button

How would that be any different than the hours we've all spent trying to find shinies

Edit: 4th try and he appeared hooray

Pez fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Feb 26, 2019

Louisgod
Sep 25, 2003

Always Watching
Bread Liar
Extremely pissed Niantic told people how to get Smeargle, fuckin bullshit.

Ballz
Dec 16, 2003

it's mario time

Got my Smeargle after about 30-40 photos or so (before I knew about needing to do the first photo).

Hooray, he photo bombed MewTwo with Focus Blast!

Then I caught him and he had 10 CP :v:

Grizzled Patriarch
Mar 27, 2014

These dentures won't stop me from tearing out jugulars in Thunderdome.



Is there any actual reason to want a Smeargle aside from dex filler? I don't get why people are trying to catch one a day and stuff.

DEEP STATE PLOT
Aug 13, 2008

Yes...Ha ha ha...YES!



i just hatched my second shiny growlithe of the last two weeks :psyduck:

Grizzled Patriarch posted:

Is there any actual reason to want a Smeargle aside from dex filler? I don't get why people are trying to catch one a day and stuff.

there's a medal for catching 200 of them

bowmore
Oct 6, 2008



Lipstick Apathy


first event evee is the best one

TheMaestroso
Nov 4, 2014

I must know your secrets.

bowmore posted:



first event evee is the best one

Nice

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013
Probation
Can't post for 3 days!

Louisgod posted:

Extremely pissed Niantic told people how to get Smeargle, fuckin bullshit.

Just imagine,d, a timeline where one of thses freaks took an actual literal million picktrs and ran out of space in their phones and maybe had to delete pokemon go even

Protip
Sep 24, 2002

I am the Walrus.

Had some really nice POGO luck with raids today.

Caught my first ever Latias which was a perfect 100%. Then the group I was with did a second raid and I ended up getting a shiny Latias.

Thanks game!

Dragonstoned
Jan 15, 2006

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

Grizzled Patriarch posted:

Is there any actual reason to want a Smeargle aside from dex filler? I don't get why people are trying to catch one a day and stuff.

I'm thinking of doing a "Smeargle Tourney" or something with my PvP friends where you can only use Smeargle's and then see who wins with whatever random moves.

DEEP STATE PLOT
Aug 13, 2008

Yes...Ha ha ha...YES!



today i learned that my double ice move mew is really good in the unlimited cp battles. that poor dragonite didn't even know what hit him.

in fact if you're lucky enough to have a mew with any two moves of the same typing i bet it's prolly real good in pvp since your opponent will have absolutely no idea what it has until you use it.

DEEP STATE PLOT fucked around with this message at 06:04 on Feb 27, 2019

Edward Mass
Sep 14, 2011

𝅘𝅥𝅮 I wanna go home with the armadillo
Good country music from Amarillo and Abilene
Friendliest people and the prettiest women you've ever seen
𝅘𝅥𝅮
There's going to be a special research reward Pokémon for March, right?

Dirt Road Junglist
Oct 8, 2010

We will be cruel
And through our cruelty
They will know who we are
So with Smeargle, is the trick to go to Items and then use the camera, or select a Pokemon in your bag and use the icon to photograph it from there?

Several hundred photos so far, still no wet dog.

Ursine Catastrophe
Nov 9, 2009

It's a lovely morning in the void and you are a horrible lady-in-waiting.



don't ask how i know

Dinosaur Gum

Dirt Road Junglist posted:

So with Smeargle, is the trick to go to Items and then use the camera, or select a Pokemon in your bag and use the icon to photograph it from there?

Several hundred photos so far, still no wet dog.

I caught my first the one way and the second the other way, it doesn't matter

DEEP STATE PLOT
Aug 13, 2008

Yes...Ha ha ha...YES!



Dirt Road Junglist posted:

So with Smeargle, is the trick to go to Items and then use the camera, or select a Pokemon in your bag and use the icon to photograph it from there?

Several hundred photos so far, still no wet dog.

the trick is to take one picture of a pokemon and if it does not appear, take another picture of a different pokemon. it always appears on the first picture of a given pokemon on that day, if it doesn't show up, taking more pictures of the same pokemon does nothing.

Psion
Dec 13, 2002

eVeN I KnOw wHaT CoRnEr gAs iS

DEEP STATE PLOT posted:

the trick is to take one picture of a pokemon and if it does not appear, take another picture of a different pokemon. it always appears on the first picture of a given pokemon on that day, if it doesn't show up, taking more pictures of the same pokemon does nothing.

but just to be safe, take 24,999 more photos of that same pokemon anyway

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

Spinyahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Doctor Rope

DizzyBum posted:

I can't believe Niantic is loving dead.

Same, tbh

mccnaol
May 26, 2018
Have they got rid of the naming trick for Eevee? Im only just getting back into the game after a while and just tried to "evolve an Eevee into Espeon during the day" but got 2 Jolteons in a row despite using Sakura as the name.

CROWS EVERYWHERE
Dec 17, 2012

CAW CAW CAW

Dinosaur Gum

mccnaol posted:

Have they got rid of the naming trick for Eevee? Im only just getting back into the game after a while and just tried to "evolve an Eevee into Espeon during the day" but got 2 Jolteons in a row despite using Sakura as the name.

You may have already used it once. You can only use the naming trick once for each name.

Froist
Jun 6, 2004

mccnaol posted:

Have they got rid of the naming trick for Eevee? Im only just getting back into the game after a while and just tried to "evolve an Eevee into Espeon during the day" but got 2 Jolteons in a row despite using Sakura as the name.

You don't need a naming trick for Espeon and Umbreon, it's a guaranteed evolution so long as you:
  • Walk 10km with it as your buddy
  • Still have it as your buddy when you evolve it
  • Evolve during the day for Espeon, or night for Umbreon
  • Have working GPS at that exact moment you evolve it

Froist fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Feb 27, 2019

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mccnaol
May 26, 2018

CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:

You may have already used it once. You can only use the naming trick once for each name.

Ah balls... I never realised it was a one time thing... 😂 Thanks for the answer though

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