Pokemon Go #3 The Cubone's connected to your...

I caught a Gengar yesterday morning, I was well pleased. As he is my favourite Pokémon

Muddlin well done on the Duduo, I'd love one to pop out of an egg, or appear, both of DS's came from eggs, it would be heaven to find a nest! Especially if it was next to a Lickitung nest 😳

Bit late to the party but nuttella I may be loitering around Green Park tomorrow, if you're looking for an excuse

Today I hatched a eggsecute out of a 5k egg, with enough candies to be able to evolve so I now have an exeggutor, first one - squeee!!

Managed to level up to 24 too, & caught my first Marowak in Asda so two new Pokemon, it's been a while since I had one of those!

Really looking forward to Charmander's & Magma's in London tomorrow

QueenLiz - I have done more buddying with my Snorlax - quick wins for powering up. Did a short walk with a doduo for a candy so I can evolve it (second time for me) and also walked a clefairy this morning and easily got the candy to evolve it. It feels better seeing something for the return. Dratini is a long way off for me - I have a dragonair but likewise only 12 candy in hand.

I picked up three more 10km eggs today to help wipe out the misery of my pinsir. Now the pressure is on to hatch them before Sunday night!

i caught a dratini and now have 12 candies.

not even going to try. id rather buddy something i can evolve quickly.

Look what appeared today! 4 to go! This dragonite buddy thing is taking forever!

Pre-Halloween event there were pikachu in jubilee gardens (near the london eye). None there yesterday though. I think it's a spawn rather than a nest and spawns have been thrown by the event.

Not sure about Bulbasaurs - nothing central.

If you need charmander or Magmar thought, green park and Hyde park are go-to.

Ooooh and I've just hatched a Vulpix with 21 coins, pleased with that!

Well I didn't have to kick out the yellows somebody from team mystic in the village had already done it for me, so managed to get back into MY gym and the other village one! In 4 and cash out in about 6 hours so might have a wander into the next town and see what I can do.

It's great having 2 of each I have put 1 gyarados and 1 slowbro in gyms but have also got some to battle with

X post oops.

Is there any way to get into a level 10 gym? I'm curious about that as well.

Nothing you can do without a second account (not good team behaviour) or a friend from an opposing team rotate it down a notch.

I do find that the bottom one or two dropout regularly enough though to get a slot. I need to find some more secure mystic gyms - I'm in 6, with 2-4 more I can take but not keep. I have good defenders going spare though so need to widen my horizons!

Very jealous of all these gym collections. Does anyone have a cunning plan on what to do to get into a level 10 gym? Anyway you can kick someone out? I keen a friendly gym. There are 3 near me which I drive past everyday. So very frustrating.

Yesterday I put my Raichu in a gym at Lakeside and it is still there!!!!!!!!!!! I just collected 10 more coins. This is the lingest my pokemon has ever stayed in a gym.

I was feeling guilty about buying the incubators but I hatched a snorlax with decent but not perfect IVs so am more a peace with it . I've powered him up and am looking forward to putting him in a gym.

I cashed 10 gyms again and have 11 or 12 Pokemon in gyms so have a bit of leeway if a couple get kicked out.

I did a 3 hour hike this morning so hatched a load of eggs and my buddy made magikarp candy.

I'm planning to go to London on Monday as it's the last day of the Halloween event. I'd love a big charlizard I'm never satisfied

I love that this game appeals to everyone.

I'm 28yo female. I remember having the 'battle poster' you put on a table with spaces for all your cards whilst battling. It's a great blast from the past. I haven't been watching the old episodes though, oh no not me

Cant get out today as too much to do at home but I could try sneak a nip to the shop when DH gets home.
I'm on 106 caught now - hope I can get a few more in this weekend so the Halloween thing was worth it

I just hatched an Ekans. I only had one and with bonus candies I only need 4 more to evolve.
Loving this event.

it's a revelation.

I'm off to go and check some IVs out...

bumwad I use an app called poke genie to calculate IVs. You just take a screenshot of your Pokemon then the app calculates the IV for you so it's really quick. Sometimes it asks you to put in the appraisal info too.
The only disadvantage is that you get a load of screenshots/photos of your Pokemon so you have to remember to delete the photos from your phone unless you want to be embarrassed when u go to show a non Pokemon friend a photo of something completely unrelated!

Doctor my DH is out delivering leaflets and coincidentally racking up candy on his buddy right now

Sad times, I am (wo)manning the homework tasks this morning instead.

I use this calculator: pokemon.gameinfo.io/en/tools/iv-calculator

It's a complicated assessment of CP, HP and the appraisal results. CP is really the deciding factor in gyms because of where you get places but if you're choosing a Pokemon to evolve, picking one that got top IVs should result in one that's better at fighting.For example, the difference between my best and worst Slowbro is one main move versus at least three main moves in a battle: my top one is really hard to bea despite them both having similar CP.

Can somebody talk to me about 'IV's?

I have been kicked out of MY gym at the local village park by the team yellow, it's a bunch of teens that live up the road. Gonna go out later and take it back and I'm also going to attempt to take down the other gym they've been holding for weeks!

I'm early 30s and also play with my mid 30s colleague, we sneak away for walks at lunchtime. It is definitely a game for everybody.

I do fight in gyms a lot but have a pretty awesome attack and defence team anyway without another fire Pokemon (even though it is beautiful).

Despite doing a lucky egg yesterday I'm already siting on 51 to evolve (54 if you count charmanders) so should be good to go again first thing tomorrow. Level 26-27 in 48 hours! Catching Queen up as best I can.

We really should try and arrange to meet sometime. Came close to seeing QueenLiz yesterday but I did have the child in tow so it wasn't ideal.

Jelly I often find myself in this very dilemma. I suppose it depends how much you battle in gyms and whether you prefer to level up. I generally evolve only one and then do the other lower ones for xp in the hope I'll catch up with queen level up a little faster.