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

Ok so it was a glorious 28k CP Charizard (which I don't have!) but there was no one visible at all. It showed me and the guy who is holding the gym battling, but he definitely wasn't there. So does the mon holding the gym participate in battles? Or is this guy spoofing my gym?!

For reference I scarcely made a dent in it.

Advice please! A raid is starting in 20 mins at my local (rural) gym. Not many players here but someone booted me out of the gym an hour ago. So if I go just before the start time, do you reckon we can take this down with just two of us, or will it need more?
DH has just reminded me to put a bra on before I go so I don't startle the young'uns.

And do I get a raid pass by spinning the stop on this gym? Can I do that while the battle is live? I read that golden eggs are more rare, right?

It was fine this morning but glitchy this evening. We were feeding our pokemon that is in a gym. After a few razzberries, it said it was fed up of razzberries; nanaberries and pinap berries and wanted different berries which basically only left golden razzberries but every time we tried to give it a golden one, we got an error message. We had to leave the pokemon about three quarters full.

Yep, it was challenging, but I put that down to playing in a big shopping mall. We got into a gym that wandered all over the place and kept having to restart and walk about until we got back into range!

Anyone else finding the app glitchy today? My phone normally plays the game beautifully, better than my daughters or dh's, but today has been a struggle.

Red no gps bar 50% of the time, even when gps is fine with other apps. I have also struggled to get close to things as my avatar won't budge, then she moves then suddenly glitches to the next field.

I was just playing my patch today which is normally smooth as silk, oh well.

I might have a pop at the gym round the corner in the mo, try and get one of my guys in for the night.

Check this out, DoctorTwo: www.express.co.uk/entertainment/gaming/820788/Pokemon-Go-Raid-Battles-explained-Niantic-Gym-update-phase/amp

You find an ongoing raid, DoctorTwo, by using your nearby screen.

If it's Level 1, you can do it yourself. If it's any higher, you'll need people to do it with, so don't spend your raid pass without checking if you can actually beat it or not

Had the egg hatched, dr2?

The alakjazam is pretty difficult. Having read up, s lot of the moves it's vulnerable to tend not to occur in high level Pokémon (dark, ghost, big), hence having more success with high hp Pokemon.

Dillite2 Even two people couldn't defeat that, but it sounds like you already knew that and she didn't

Agh. DS battled ok yesterday after the first error. So we are in The City for big raids hopefully with more people. And his stupid phone is doing the error thing. We didn't bring his dad's phone and I can't download the huge program via 4G.

Definitely going to have to get a new phone.

what she wasn't alone, I was there. The gym is at a cafe- she asked me if she could battle in the raid, I said no because we have used today's pass already and you need loads of people. She did anyway whilst I was in a loo. I had my "Mother knows best" moment and there's now no pokemon for her for 3 days.

Did our first raid today, was Level 1 and we did it on our own. Got a Quilava, 3 rare candy and a golden razberry which I used to catch the Quilava.

Ah, PokemonGo, you might be interested in this!

The latest consensus is that Pokemon defending gyms should be under 3000 CP for the moment due to increased motivation decay.

Well, dd got her ass handed to her when she couldn't defeat a 22970 Alakazam all by herself. But no, she could do it. What a waste of 100 coins on a raid pass.

No, that would require several players. Why did she go in on her own and waste the pass?

Well, dd got her ass handed to her when she couldn't defeat a 22970 Alakazam all by herself. But no, she could do it. What a waste of 100 coins on a raid pass.

Did a level two muk today by myself easy enough. Couldn't catch him after though, all the balls bounced off him despite hitting him perfectly it what would normally be a 'great' hit

I was confused because it showed as a level one but then when I got there, it suggested 5 participants were needed.

Oh yeah, just ignore the number of participants it recommends; it's way off. Level 1s are solos, Level 2 DH and I found easy on our own, not done Level 3. Level 4 Tyrannitar if we'd have had 6 people we would have done it, Level 4 Lapras managed to defeat with 3 seconds to go with 5 of us.

DameDeDoubtance Ahh okay

We caught a CP720 bayleef today woo It was the first raid ds and I did so we were quite happy with it. We were the only people there. I doubt we'll ever get a large group of people here.

Why don't you just evolve as many as possible just the once and then chuck?

because I am saving them up for a double XP event when I evolve them under a lucky egg, last double xp event I managed 5 lucky eggs worth with 60 to 70 evolves per egg.

Think I saw someone cheating today. Was battling a red gum, no one else around then along comes one guy and suddenly the gym is completely fill and he was smirking. Another gym a couple of hundred metres away suddenly filled up when he went to it, same accounts. So he's using multiple accounts. Really fucking annoying.

That's lovely Woo, what a star!

Went to a raid today. I was confused because it showed as a level one but then when I got there, it suggested 5 participants were needed. There was no-one else there. Defeated the raid boss with our first pokemon (got some golden razzberries and pokeballs, etc) and then caught the pokemon - Bayleef with 718 CP. DS was a bit disappointed. There seems a massive difference between a level one and a level three raid. I'm interested to try a level two now.

Off for a pokemon bike ride with DD, hopefully will have better luck with a raid today. Haven't seen anyone else at the raids but it was Midsummer day so probably busy with family so maybe today will be better.