PokemonGo #9. A journey to hatch a 10km egg starts with a single step.

From what I understand, the gyms are not very cooperative in the most part. I mean, I think they will work much as before except with only one type of Pokémon allowed in each, and only 6 Pokémon in one gym (hence the need for increasing the number of gyms overall). I don't think you'll have to take a gym down together. The only team aspect I can see if feeding other people's Pokémon if they need it.

The raid aspect is cooperative - you kind of have to be there alongside other trainers. Does it look to anyone else from the screenshots that you (or rather your phone) will have to detect other people close by ? It says something like 'find other players' so that could be good against spoofers. It looks to be cross-team too. No idea how often a raid will happen, but if you don't want to stand about with other players, it seems very avoidable - just don't go on raids. You'll still be able to do normal gym stuff.

Raid rewards seem to be just evolved forms of Pokémon, with a difficulty level, rather than legendaries, which is a bit disappointing! Or maybe they will throw a legendary in the mix now and then.

My stash of gym coins has been slashed! Not only do I not have any to cash in today but the credit on the account has dropped by a hundred or three???

Predictably, nothing new in the village, but there's nothing on ingress, either.

Ooh!! I have a new gym too!

It looks like maybe you can select a proper team in the new gyms, instead of having to select pokes each time you battle.

Can't get in, there are loads of reports about problems on downdetector.co.uk
I have 4 km to walk on a 10 km egg and finally I even have some sunshine rather than drizzle, gah.

I'm jealous. I've been trying for an hour to get in. I've even restarted the phone and reinstalled Pokémon Go out of desperation. Unfortunately I work and it tends not to like logging in until the last 5 mins of lunchtime.

I'm still logged in from last night, but my Pokemon have all come home! Thankfully they dont need reviving.

I want to be in. I keep not being able to get in and have missed catching alot of fire Pokemon as a result. Also my eggs should have hatched 2 days ago if it wouldn't stop freezing or not letting me log in.

I have been in since 5.30.

Is anyone else finding that they can't get into Pokemon Go?

I am out of my gym and no coins today.

That's okay Check out this chart, it'll help a lot: www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-06-19-pokemon-go-type-chart-effectiveness-weaknesses

My knowledge of which types and moves are good or weak against others comes from playing all the original Pokemon games on the gameboy as a child!

I dont even know who resists who.

Ahh no worries I wouldn't be too surprised to find out others didn't know either.

It's like I have an Arcanine that's double electric, so if the game picked it to go against a grass Pokemon because its type is fire, it would do shit as grass Pokemon as resistant to electric moves.

At least you know before the start of the new gymming system!

I am SO I didnt figure this out.

That's why I get tired of battling as low cp jolteon get picked every time.

I've just grabbed this random image off the net, but you see where it says Tauros? If you wanted to change it, you'd just click on Tauros' picture. Likewise for each Pokemon.

It should still be applicable going forward, so hopefully this'll help

It will make battles much easier to win if you've got the right Pokemon facing off against each other! When the game picks they don't take into account the actual moves the Pokemon has, which can make or break the battle for you.

Shit. Im sure i tried that and it didnt work.

Just as gyms change i find this out

Yes, you click each Pokemon's box to change it and it brings up all your Pokemon. Sort by combat power and you have the best at the top, so it's easier to see which to use.

Does that make sense?

I didnt know you could pick.

You don't just go with the ones the game selects, do you?

It's useless at picking the right ones. I always spend a good couple of minutes making sure I have the right Pokemon for each battle.

Machamp never gets selected for battles.

I wonder why not

Vaporeon is good, but ideally you want fighting type Pokemon to tackle Blissey effectively (that obviously have fighting moves). So Machamp is perfect against Blissey.

I have that problem everywhere here. So many gyms stay the same as people put 3000+ cp Blissey in there about 2-3.

I have found that Vaporean is the only thing that takes out a Blissey but maybe one not several. When I battle I am not likely to get several vaporean to tackle all the Blisseys.

The gym nearest me has been untouchable for about 4 months. A level 10 with about 5 high cp Blissey. That's all about to change.

See I just haven't encountered that problem. Yes, there are gyms I can hold for weeks which is great, but they can be taken down if people are willing to put in the effort.

Upon reading more about the new system I am liking it. I was initially concerned about there only being six spots per gym, but seeing as they're adding more gyms, that shouldn't be a problem.

I hope some of them last until morning so i can get some coins.

The gym nearest me has been untouchable for about 4 months. A level 10 with about 5 high cp Blissey. That's all about to change.