Pokemon Go #10. See ya later Feralligator, in a while Totodile

I have 5 spare king's rocks! Finally got my sun stone which is the last one I need of the special items (well need another one too but don't have a sunkern to evolve yet anyway)

And I only use my free pass so only one raid per day

I think there are two many raids around here. I work in a hospital and there are about 6 gyms directly around me which is good but they are all running raids all day and i don't think there are that many people playing around here anymore. Also can't really go up to all the people sat around the lake in the gardens asking if they are going to go in the next raid or sat on the seats in front of the dentist school. Yesterday was loads of people around as it was sunny but no one joined in the raid the whole hour.

For the first time since mid-March, I got an evolutionary item outside of my 7-day streak! And it was a second King's Rock which was the last one I needed. Also I now have enough for a Meganium.

I'm going to do a little lucky egg sesh, which'll get me to level 30, and 222 Pokémon in the dex.

Happy with that.

No one else is doing raids here either it seems.

Ruhrpott the same for me! I'm either at work taking a few minutes at lunch and can't wait around, or at home where there is only one gym, no players, and I can't leave the house anyway because I have the kids.

I have the same problem with no one ever being there for raids. I am now going to stick to level 1 and maybe an odd level 2 that I can beat on my own after spending yesterday in a level three one and not being able to beat it on my own.

Congrats on the Snorlax ojalele!

I had 3 mons in and they were all kicked out around midnight, same thing happened the day before and it's always the same 3 players. They all own mighty mon and seem to have lot's of each variety, multiple Snorlaxes etc.

It's weird because I've never seen any of them playing, not one, but I have seen most of the other gymers of all three teams.

I have come to the only logical conclusion, there is a crack team of Vampires working my patch, bastards.

I lile the new Gym systems. Gyms switch reallu quickly here so I used to get in 1, maybe 2 and then collect the coins straight away.
Then I wouldn't bother again with gyms until the next day. So I got on average about 40 coins per week.
I'm getting close to 50 per day now. My mons usually get kicked out after about 90 minutes but I can put several in different gyms throughout the day. Brilliant!

Oh, and I finally caught Snorlax!

Both my pokemon have been kicked out. Thankfully as it happened yesterday amd today i got 100 coins. A few coins more had I been in the gyms using the old method so I guess that's good.

Well I've had three mon kicked out of gyms today after holding them for a few days. 50 coins. Meh. Cba with gymming whilst there's no incentive to keep them in.

Bloody unlucky! I'm still in 3 gyms and 2 others have piled in. There just aren't enough red or yellow players round here so the gyms don't stick.

Need to hold off and stock up on potions and revives, I hate not being able to revive 'mon. I feel like a bad parent.

I've been impressed by some of the guys that I don't usually use too, Magnetons are brilliant and I have tons of 'em

Where I live there's loads of raids happening all the time but there's never anybody there, so I haven't a hope of joining a team, it's always just me.

DameDeDoubtance Ha ha It's just the moves can make or break how good a Pokemon is.

If you have a double dark Houndoom, you get the STAB bonus too (or any Pokemon that has double of the same moves as it's type, i.e. Fire Pokemon with double fire).

So I'm going to use my fast TM on either my Houndoom to try to get double dark or my Typhlosion to try to get double fire.

I'm not sure whether it's a level thing or not, but I've done eight raids now, done all levels, and still no rare candy! I must just be unlucky

That does make sense. I tend to be of the" tap your screen a lot and make the other guy fall down" type of player.

I've had 3 rare candy from 2 raids, is it a level thing?

Saved me 15 k of walking with my pupitar.

WhiteHorseWilliam Yeah, checked my items. No rare candy

So what are these fast tm thingies, how should I use the one I got for the best?

A fast TM affects a Pokemon's first move. So you only want to use it on a Pokemon whose first move you want to change.

For example, if you want a double Dark Houndoom (best dark in the game with double dark) but its fast move is fire and charged is dark, use your fast TM to reroll the dice and have a chance at getting a dark move to make it double dark.

Does that make sense?

I fear he TM's are a step too far on the Pokémon world for me! I'm sure someone else can help you.

I am wondering about all this "only 50 candies a day" nonsense, that's more than I ever made in the old system...and have only had it once in the new system, the gyms are such high turnover. I had one in For 24 hours, but that was a new gym which is a bit more out of the way. I went to put another mon in it today, but valour had just taken it over. I couldn't bring myself to battle it down as it was the only red gym in town!

So what are these fast tm thingies, how should I use the one I got for the best?

That's so British WhiteHorse!

I got a cheer from a group of young lads for taking a gym down.

I sidled of sheepishly

Strange that you haven, had any rare candy howto I've had some on all mine ,(only done three though) have you checked in your items? Rare candy is a total game changer, I've had 5 which is like walking 25k with blissey or snorlax.

Raided a bayleef and a quilava today, I even moved my lunch break at work to go to a raid

There were a couple of sheepish looking 30 something chaps at the raid near work, we sort of gave each other sidelong glances for a bit, then I said 'are you here for the.. umm...' and gestured euphemistically at the statue that is the gym. Then we all smiled and talked about raids

K so this 50 coins a day, when does a day start and finish? Is it midnight till midnight?

I had a super time smashing blue gyms down for the hell of it but it's cleaning me out of potions and revives.

Had a new pokestop turn up today too, wasn't there yesterday, was there today!

Everything is still a bit glitchy but so much better than the last couple of days. I could actually get close to gyms and stops today.

I now stick easy to defeat Pokemon in gyms in the hope they only last a few hours

My cunning plan for today was to chuck stuff into gyms so that something would get knocked out today and bring with it some coins towards my 50 coin maximum. I took down a gym and stuck something in it and nipped in to three others. That was seven hours ago and I'm still in them all.

I've done four raids solo, there seems to be only me and the horses out here and the horses don't play. I've had rare candy each time but no TM yet.

I've done two raids and have six rare candy

Got really frustrated today - spent about twenty minutes knocking a gum down to its last monster and then it suddenly started pissing it down so ran for shelter and then the game decided to give me the error message every time I tried to battle that last pokemon. Finally managed it and put my blissey in and the bugger got knocked out in 50 minutes

I've done 3 raids (solo'd two) and I have 5 rare candy. I'm saving it for now.

A word to the wise, level 5 raids are said to be legendary Pokémon. Once they come out, you're going to want to have a lot of golden razzberries!