There's no-one quite like Yanma, I'm sure you will agree

whattodo, are you adding in the nests you find to Silph Road?

No, I don't bother. We have a WhatsApp group with the main players in town and we all know the nests.

With IV's, I have a big beast of a Rydon, 2800ish CP, which has a terrible IV (lowest appraisal). I kept it because it has such a good CP. It does well in battle though, I presume because it has Stone Edge?

Yes, Stone Edge is an amazing move; one of the best. So it will be carrying your Rhydon.

Due to its low IVs, it won't be anywhere as near as good as one that had great IVs.

whattodo, are you adding in the nests you find to Silph Road? I do if they are interesting, but was struggling to get onto it today.

With IV's, I have a big beast of a Rydon, 2800ish CP, which has a terrible IV (lowest appraisal). I kept it because it has such a good CP. It does well in battle though, I presume because it has Stone Edge? Doesn't make sense to me. (Not that hard...)

SilphRoad doesn't show nests in my area but I keep an eye out through our WhatsApp group.

Hopefully one day they'll show up!

Maybe worth looking at Silphroad to see what is currently nesting near you? There were Sandshrews near me last week.

Kpo58 I can't find a Dodrio anywhere Nor its evolution. Also only ever seen one Sandshrew so need my Sandslash.

Can get Clefable but waiting for more candies to evolve my Cleffa to have a good IV one.

Then just missing Porygon.

After that Gen 1 done!

Today has been a good day. I caught an Articuno in my only raid of the day.

Hatched a decent enough Dratini to turn into (my first) Dragonite and now only need a Dodrio to finish my Gen 1 pokedex (excluding legendaries and other region specific Pokémon).

I also beat a gym without taking damage (my cp~1900 Alakazam Vs a cp22 Venusaur). Not exactly a challenge, but still...

@WhatToDoAboutThis2017 so would you say the IV is a better measure of 'Mon than CP? Also I had a Lugia that was 93%, powered it up quite a bit and now it's 87% - why would that happen?

You have to be clever about it. Obviously a 10cp magikarp with great IVs wouldn't be worth powering up because it would take too much dust and candy.

But when powering up, you want the highest CP Pokemon with the best IVs. For example If you have a 600 CP Rhydon with low IVs but a 500 CP with high IVs, go for the 500.

You have to be smart about it because stardust is so rare, and for good Pokemon so is candy.

Re doing the raid alone we've done a few alone (Muk, quivlar and Bayleef) and been successful and didn't realise the difference in difficulty at that point (we are mainly weekend players).

They're all low level raids. Level 1 Raids can be soloed, Level 2 can be soloed with the right Pokemon and movesets. Level 3 is possible with two people.

Level 4 you need 6-9 people.

Legendaries, Level 5, ideally you want 11 or 12.

@WhatToDoAboutThis2017 so would you say the IV is a better measure of 'Mon than CP? Also I had a Lugia that was 93%, powered it up quite a bit and now it's 87% - why would that happen?

Re doing the raid alone we've done a few alone (Muk, quivlar and Bayleef) and been successful and didn't realise the difference in difficulty at that point (we are mainly weekend players).

Cakedoesntjudge Niantic's blog says Articuno runs through until Monday. Whether that means it ends Sunday or Monday is the last day, I don't know.

It also says Moltres is appearing on Monday, but given timezones it could be later in the day.

Will someone tell me about IVs please?

What do you want to know? Basically, it it has poor IVs it's not worth bothering with as it'll be shit in a fight and take a lot of dust and candy to power up.

Even at high CP if its IVs are shit it's useless.

DH and myself were trying an Articuno raid alone

Also Why?!

I would repeat what others say and just approach the raid groups. We got approached by guy in the raid group as DH and myself were trying an Articuno raid alone, he asked us to jump out the raid and back into their private group. We got added to their message group and have been to as many raids as possible since then. We got chatting to the same guy yesterday about the community feel that has developed, it's really lovely. Wait around having a chat, do the raid, have a chat about who got it, who's off to which raid later and then say your goodbyes.

Will someone tell me about IVs please? I've just got Poke Genie and have some 'mon that I've always thought are great but they have terrible IV then others I wouldn't even power up/evolve that have good IV.

Smashie I will have to make sure I do the same for the rest of this week will make that my goal tomorrow!

I am getting more and more confused as to when articuno goes and moltres starts! I originally thought articuno finishes tonight and moltres starts from tomorrow, then the general consensus at the raids today was that articuno was available until 1am Tuesday and then moltres starts straight after. No people are saying what I originally thought again! I guess I will just have to wait and see who's appearing tomorrow!

I managed to figure out Discord today which I'd gathered from Facebook was where raids are arranged. We went to an articuno raid and everyone was lovely and friendly and a real range of people (and I could've sworn a MNer or two!). Didn't catch it though :( and it seems it's flying away for good tonight :(

Aww Cake sorry today wasn't great. I had my mum head on today because our day yesterday was like yours today. Today I made people wait until everyone was there, made sure everyone got into the raid ok and made them quit out if someone didn't get in. I used my best mum voice and everyone behaved

For anyone worrying about joining a raid please don't, as someone said up thread they will be glad of the numbers! We had one raid today where we split into teams, one where we split the levels equally and one where we had enough for one big group. Each raid is different but the more you go to the more faces you will recognise and the less scary it gets.

Had a rubbish day pokemoning today! First raid we saw when we were out was an articuno raid, messaged our group and they said they wanted to start 15 minutes later - showed up 5 minutes early and they'd already gone in and done it despite it not being a full group and not being near the start time agreed. Grrr. Very annoying but waited for the next group, managed the battle but me and the 2 I was with didn't manage to catch it.

Then turned up at the next one and missed the first group and there wasn't enough of us in the second. Turned up to a third one and waited about for half an hour and no one showed up at all.

Plus DS has been so incredibly Whiney today and when DP (no idea what to call him on here, DP sounds too serious but boyfriend sounds odd!) turned up to join us be was in a massive mood for absolutely no reason so the two of them completely brought the mood down and now I feel incredibly grumpy and down which was not the idea of going out for the afternoon!

The only highlight was evolving my gloom into a belossom which looked sweet enough to cheer me up momentarily!

Hopefully tomorrow afternoon's venture will be more successful!

Ooh just been going through and appraising some of the Pokemon I've caught/hatched recently- I've got a 100% IV Drowzee! Not the most exciting Pokemon in the world, but once evolved should make a strong Hypno

Woohoo! I now have 3 Articunos and 1 Lugia!

Also did a Snorlax raid today and caught it!

So now only 5 (barring legendaries and regionals) from Gen 1!

lcouldbeknitting im always the oldest too. I've also stopped worrying about it but not stopped noticing!

Obviously if I was getting over the age thing I wouldn't be still noticing it.....

All you have to say is "Hi, is this the raiding party?" So far no-one has asked me anything other than which Facebook chat group I followed to get there and that was so I could be added to others that I wasn't in. I've turned out to three actual raids and another three that didn't get enough people to make it worth starting and I've been the oldest there each and every time. I'm getting over it now.

This keeps disappearing off my Threads I'm On - so annoying .

Took part in a few raids now but alone rather than in a group. Best part for me is the Rare Candy!

RudeDog there's a limit of 20 so if there was a huge group they would split into two. One group will set off and then the next will start. By the time the second group is ready to go that might also split into two if more people have wandered in.

DoctorTwo well done! was it a full gym? Hopefully your Pikachu does a good job of defending

Is there a limit for raids? I walked past a group doing one and I was again too embarrassed to join - but there was like 30 of them waiting!