Pokemon Go #1 - the one where we've discovered the gaming board

Had a major disappointment last night. A Dragonair appeared on our sightings last night, so we tracked it down on Fastpokemap. Drove round the corner and found it, for it to run after escaping from my first ultra ball It was only 458 CP! My partner's one was ??? CP and didn't run after using all his ultra balls and around 20 great balls. He's got dyspraxia so got me to catch it for him otherwise he'd run out of balls (he misses more than I do). I was pleased that I managed to catch it for him, but really disappointed that I didn't get mine.

Bubble strat is a technique that allows you to level up a gym quickly by using low level Pokemon to defend and an even lower level Pokemon to train.

Eg you catch a 10cp polliwag with a bubble move as it's quick attack and power it to 20cp. Now the bubble move is slow enough that a 10cp magnetite beats it before it can charge its main attack.

As the cp is twice that of the training Pokemon you get a tonne of xp and can quickly raise the prestige of the gym.

There are charts available which show which level Pokemon with certain moves this works with.

Problem is most of us are at a level where 10cp Pokemon are rarer than drangonites!

The bubble attack link didn't work for me - can someone explain it please (in simple terms!)? Thanks!

Level 30! I've just crept into L16. Although I've not used any lucky eggs yet, I'm trying to get the right Pokemon to evolve.

Ds1 (17) had just looked at me in bemusement as I explained (badly) about lower CP Pokemon in gyms and bubble attack.

I'm now having great success with the FastPokeMap and was able to get a local Venomoth, direct DS1 to a Squirtle and take to DD hunt Charmanders :)

Well done red. Ill get there by xmas 2017!

Longtime - I've tried the incense trick as I had been lurking here and read about it and it didn't work. Maybe not secluded enough. I will try again when I get free ones but I'm not buying any.

I've also no hope of catching new ones around here. All I can do is try to collect candy to evolve the least common ones.

I'm in London next Tuesday and refuse to come without a pikachu and a Lapras

I have a 766 Nidorina and a 751 Nidorino. Are they worthy of evolving?

I havent the candy to do it so it is moot. But should i hold out for better CP to evolve?

I have been promised an Aerodactyl from Pidgeys - but you are welcome to a lapras anyway :) I could do with a decent snorlax actually, mine are all good CP but crap when appraised - need to hatch one really but the few 10k eggs i've had seem to only produce Eevee, Electabuzz and Onix.

Just looked and the plus isn't available until after my trip I've got three aerodactyl, swap?! I really want lapras!

Only 500,000 to get to 31 Lurker! Lol - it's getting silly now, especially as there's no incentive to go out searching for pokemon, I need Aerodactyl and they don't spawn at all here so i'm reliant on 10k eggs (Ha!). I'm back to just catching pidgeys, weedles and caterpie for the candy. I am enjoying gym battles though but I do find they are hard to build up but too easy to take down, it could do with some adjustment imo.

well done red I'm a lowly 24!

Time for a rest now I think - until Gen II

I hoped no one would assume trolling on a pokemon thread songbird but glad I got it changed!

I now have three battery packs and have been all over the country this month which has helped. Add to that rural living plus incense on necessary boat trips and it all helps! Can't wait to go to London next month, seriously considering the pokemon go plus to make my hunting less obvious....

I ran out the house in balloon dog pjs to catch this

Yay Hunter - no-one will mistake you for a Goady Fucker now

Everyone is doing so much better than me - I think it's coz I don't have a car and my battery just doesn't last even though I got a pack!

Just for info, from the boat with incense. Definitely worth the incense! Loving the ivysaur since Bulbasaur is a rarity!

songbird I've flipped onto pc to try to namechange. Fingers crossed I've managed. Mobile kept kicking me off, so that's user1471 etc checking in.

Used the incense on a boat again (so no spawns). Two Pikachu, and a few other less common ones! No Pidgey and ratatta or weedle! Did a 30k lucky egg evolving session too!

Thanks to those who encouraged me to wait to do the double evolve for nidoking and Queen...look what I have!

Now on 118 seen and 118 caught. 13 lines in bingo.

Fucking hell, Icould! [horrified]

If it makes you feel better, I used up all my revives (over 36 of them) getting into a gym, got into the gym with 1% battery left and... then forgot to go and claim the coins after I'd got home and charged the phone! When I did check, well, you can guess what had happened in the interim... All that for nothing!

No, I had mine favourited, it's not that I accidentally shipped them out, I made a deliberate decision to do it. Alien abduction is the only thing that explains my idiocy. I had two really good ones and it would have been difficult to choose between them, now I don't have to choose at all (just have to keep on walking 2.5 miles in an attempt to catch more fishies)

Just went up to level 24 today

Could, I 'favourite' anything I hatch/want to keep, which means you can't transfer it until you unclick the star, after I accidentally transferred one of my battle squad.

I have also been on level 21 since God was a boy.

Me too. I've ground to a halt. Stuck inside with illness but catching whatever pops up. Maybe in a couple of weeks I'll be back at 'em.

Ooh no Icould, how frustrating! I do mine as I go along because I know I'd make a mistake if I did them all at once. But I don't catch anywhere near as many as you by the sound of it so have more time in between to do it. Fingers crossed your next one is a beast.