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

cottonwool125 Charmanders, along with Cyndaquills, have a low catch rate of 20% so they are hard to catch.

Razzberries do make a difference and they do make them easier to catch (you can see the circle change colour sometimes, from dark orange to yellow or yellow to green), but it will be tricky to catch such rare Pokemon in a poke ball I'm afraid.

Kpo58 yes I do, have been using them with pretty much every attempt, seems to be making little difference! Used probably 7 or 8 razberries on a charmander earlier, he kept breaking free, then eventually fled! Good cp too

cottonwood Do you have Razz berries? They make Pokemon easier to catch.

I've run out of ultra and great balls trying to catch cyndaquills and charmanders with a standard ball and a cp of 100+ is nearly impossible!

Quite aptly, my blissey is guarding York minster :)

You mean that you don't regular order a Pinap Berry burger with Razz Berry sauce and a side of Nanab Berry fries?

Actually it could mostly be true as there is a pokestop just over the road to my nearest McDonalds. Though I was more thinking about all the candy. Surely they will be sick after having 50 of them? Spare a thought for the poor magikarp...

Caught my first Doduo today.

I still have never seen or hatched a Doduo

Caught my first Doduo today.

Haven't seen many charmanders around here which is a shame and no Lapruses either. Only just (with berries) managed to get enough candy so that I can evolve a houndour. Also should we really be feeding our Pokémon junk food?

AbbeyRoadCrossing Yeah, every five levels you get better stuff. Level 30 gets you:

Ultra Ball x30, Max Potion x20, Max Revive x20, Razz Berry x20, Incense x3, Lucky Egg x3, Egg Incubator x3, Lure Module x3

You also unlock max revives.

The extra XP is great as well. I'm hoping to level up to 30 soon and I think that's one where you get a good haul of incubators etc.

I've enjoyed this event - all these Pokémon are rare for us

spiderlight The CP is good, although it entirely depends on its appraisal as to whether or not it's "rubbish"!

You wait a year for one Lapras and then two come along - this one popped up while I was sitting on the sofa last night! Managed to catch it for DS as well although he has proclaimed it 'rubbish'. I don't care though!

I've not had much mojo for this event so far. I don't think that it's helped that I'm in a post half-marathon lull, and have got myself stuck into some decorating that's best done when the DCs are at school, but other than the evolutions for Houndour and Cyndaquill, I've already got a good stock of these pokemon and it's just feeling an effort to use lots of razzberries and better quality balls to catch anything.

Whoop! Got a Lapras at Euston station today. It was at rush hour so I expect I was a bit annoying Really low CP but my first wild one.

Got enough candy for Charizard and Houndoom now but going to wait until the end of the event to see if I get a wonder. I'm pretty rubbish at waiting to evolve new ones usually.
Nearly there with the Cynquadil candies.

I only just realised you could do the special move! I'm hoping the gyms is a big change so we can all start from scratch. I remember when it first started and I didn't have anything to beat the 600cp gym leading raticates we had here!

HandbagKrabby I don't think you need a group, just two people is ample. I never gym alone as that's always a waste of resources, so DH and I gym together.

We can easily take down Level 10 gyms, but I wouldn't take down anything higher than Level 3 alone.

I've not powered any of mine up yet which is perhaps why they are such weaklings. The yellow gyms near us are all 3000+ and level 10 so I can't join those. I've won a couple that change hands pretty quickly. I think you need a group really to fill it up and get it up the levels. It will be interesting to see what happens with the updates. I have made enough coins from my exploits to buy a half price lucky egg though, so all is not lost! :D

LBOCS2 Oh yes, I've powered up the majority of my top ones; Gyarados, Rhydons, Vaporeons, Machamp.

I actually have to wait for my Gyarados to get kicked out of his gym before I can power him up every time I go up a level as he's in one that holds for weeks at a time!

I also have a Vaporeon that's been in a gym for a few weeks too.

So I get to collect at least two every day regardless of whether I'm gymming or not

I'm very careful with what I power up though as I don't want to waste my stardust. I only power up ones good at either attacking or defending a gym, and I stop powering up when I feel powering them up anymore won't be beneficial.

With a picture this time...

I'm a level 28 and these are my highest ranked. I've maxed out a couple by powering them up too.

The gyms change hands here so frequently that I've never stayed in one more than 24 hours :(

HandbagKrabby I'm Level 27 and my highest is a Gyarados at 2616, then two Rhyhorns at 2547 and 2499 respectively.

I have no trouble staying in gyms - I'm usually in a middling position, but once or twice I have been the top, so it's more than possible to gym without 3000 CP Pokemon.

Omg FreeNiki that's fucking hilarious

I am fucked off.

Got a new simcard with better data. Topped up £15....fucking data doesn't work on my phone....and now my old simcard won't fucking work data wise either!!