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

WhatToDo It's the first Mareep I've ever hatched so still a way off unfortunately. Appraisal is good but I definitely want to wait until I hatch another and see if it's any better.

Once I've finished walking all of my odds and sods for their last few candies, and finally got my Gyarados, it'll probably be the next 'mon I walk. Unless I've hatched another by then, fingers crossed. It would
be between Mareep, Larvitar and Dratini, but to be honest, Dragonite doesn't really appeal to me I know it's a great Pokemon but I much prefer Tyranitar and Ampharos!

Joined in an Atricuno raid and there were 20 people! caught it

Thank you, cottonwool125! And congrats on your Mareep! How far off are you from Ampharos?

You'll want to wait and save your best Mareep to evolve to Ampharos (as tempting as it is to get a Flaaffy!) as they're the best electric in the game currently

WhatToDo congratulations (again!) you're having some lovely luck at the moment!

Omg! I can't believe it! I caught Articuno with a golden raspberry on the first ball!!!

I'm so happy!

There were 13 of us and only 3 of us got it. Can't believe my luck!

It's double ice, but I'm going to reroll the charge move to try to get Blizzard as that will be the best moveset for it.

I also have 51 Rare Candies so will be using some to power this baby up So glad I saved my rare candies for legendaries!

Hatched a lovely Mareep from a 10km (3.3km at the moment) egg. Bought a lovely 62 candies with it!

another quick returnee question - how can you tel when a gym will have a raid battle available and how do you know if its one where you could get a legendary?

When a gym has an egg over it, that means a raid will take place after the time has gone down.

A pink egg means Level 1, 2 or 3. Level 1 can definitely be soloed and possibly Level 2 if you have good Pokemon with good movesets.

A gold egg means a Level 4 raid - so rare, good Pokemon like Tyrannitar or Snorlax. You need about 6-9 people for those.

A legendary raid just has the legendary flying atop the gym. It is Level 5 and needs 10-12 people at least to defeat it.

The number of "heads" the raid has is its Level; the higher the level the harder it is to beat.

another quick returnee question - how can you tel when a gym will have a raid battle available and how do you know if its one where you could get a legendary?

tumpymummy DH and I have iPhone 6s and they work Pokemon great

I have a Samsung Galaxy S7 I've only ever played pokemon on this phone so nothing to compare it to but I find it absolutely fine.

Nice big screen, battery seems fine.

What's todo I know I have been considering getting a new phone. Any suggestions as to what is good? Def can't afford an iPhone 7, and not even sure I want another iPhone. Only thing is that pokemongo buggered up the battery on my iPhone so a bit reluctant to buy a new phone only to wreck it playing pokemongo!

Oh and the other thing is I drove across town today to feed one of my Pokemon in a gym only to find that there was a raid on so I couldn't access him!

My iPhone 5s is so slow and glitchy

Yeah, the iPhone 5s is a really bad phone to play Pokemon Go on so if you're more than just a casual player it would be an idea to get a better phone to avoid issues.

Especially since so much more will be introduced in the game (PVP, trading, Gen 3).

I have decided that I don't like these high level raids! I much prefer playing Pokemon on my own. First raid approx 15 of us defeated him but I couldn't catch him (not helped by rain on screen). Second raid I joined in town some guy decided to set up private groups. But then he kept stopping the battle so new people could join. My iPhone 5s is so slow and glitchy that I then couldn't get back in to the right group with all the other players. I can't decide how much I want a legendary?! I could go in to town to join groups today but am a bit reluctant knowing that i still might not get one.

I tried a articuno raid with two two random guys the other day. Obviously we didn't have a hope but it was worth a try to see if any one else turned up. It's times like that you wish the spoofers would turn up 😁.

I'm not optimistic I'll get any of the legendaries.

I got 4 new Pokemon today

Finally got my dragon scale to evolve my kingdra

Also got my clefable, granbull and togetic!

Very happy

I am still plodding after the dark badge so Murkrow is on my must-catch list. Top of my list at the moment is Pidgey and Weedle as I still have a ton of candy left but nothing to evolve.

It's raining really hard so unless they come to me the candy will keep until another event.

Murkrow annoys me too. Common, hard to catch, won't be evolved in a hurry.

Had a wasted raid. Rain got into my phone and made it glitchy. Only a Magmar but still annoying, and wet!

I need more balls!

I dislike Murkrow. Dd1 hates Murkrow. It's not irrational, they are hard to catch.

Whenever there is an xp event I tell dd1 she can catch everything she sees and she does, but she always leaves Murkrows She writes stories about Pokémon school (don't ask) and Murkrow is always the baddie.

We caught about a million of them to get our dark badge back when gen 2 was first released, but they are dead to us now I'll evolve one in gen 4 and then I'm done with Murkrows forever.

On the other hand, I can never pass up on an Oddish, or a Poliwag. DD1 can't pass up a Krabby. I caught her using ultra balls on one once.

Murkrow, rather. Dislike it so much I can't even get its name right. It probably doesn't speak highly of me either.

Very wet here today. Both dc are at home with me after a couple of days at holiday club. We thought about going raiding, but I don't really fancy dragging them about in a downpour and they're not showing any signs of wanting to get out of pyjamas...

Meanwhile I'm "walking" thanks to GPS drift - 1.3 km since bathtime last night! I'm all out of red and blue balls and resisting the temptation to use ultras on random Sentret and Paras spawns within reach of home. And Murcrow. Does anyone else irrationally dislike Murcrow?

Also - for anyone disappointed at not getting a legendary:

The Lugia I got I've powered up a couple of times so is relatively strong and useful though nowhere near my strongest or best but both articunos I caught were only around the 1600 mark! I expected them to be super strong but that hasn't been the case at all and I don't think I'd have been as bothered had I of known.

Cottonwool I'm quite shy so have avoided the higher level raids up until now for exactly that reason but we have a local Pokémon go Facebook group and someone set up a group message via that that you can request to be added to and local players organise group raids on it. I really wanted a legendary so I bit the bullet and it's honestly been fine! You just rock up, say hello, do the battle and then there's normally a quick chat afterwards about whether you caught it etc and then you go off on your way! Might be worth seeing if there's one for your local area too!

I'm desperately waiting for a stronger IV magikarp so I can finally get my gyrados! I have 637 candies but my highest IV is a B so there's no point, I am gutted at how long it's taking!

I'm a rural player and so far I've been to five legendary raids in the village and there's been only me there. This was not a surprise as I have yet to see a player that is not my son. There are three Facebook groups that could cover where I live, we're on the fringes of all of them.

Yesterday I went into town and was first to the Articuno with 1.57 remaining. I made my first ever post to the Facebook group that I lurk on and went to get a coffee. When I came back there was an obvious raid party assembling so I asked to be included and sat and drank my coffee. We set off with 20 players, I was the oldest one there by at least ten years (there was only one bloke there who was too old to be my son and one who could have been my grandchild). No-one asked me what level I was or what Pokemon I had, it was all good. There were a lot of L36 players who carried it, I had two beasts knocked out and was on my third when the raid finished.

After we'd split up and wandered off so Raid Party 2 could have the space a group of three lads came up to me and said they were off to another legendary raid and would I like to come with them? For anyone who is a bit wobbly about joining in - "Are you here for the raid?" is all you need to say.

I walked past a massive group of people outside a legendary raid yesterday- probably 25/30 people. I almost went and joined in, but I got the fear and didn't

I would like a legendary, but as I only got into Pokemon when PoGo came out and never watched it as a child, I suppose it doesn't feel AS important to me to have one as it does to others. I only learnt their names and what they look like a week ago!

I would like one, but not enough to go up to a group of strangers and ask to join in unfortunately. Hopefully I'll get over my shyness as time goes on and everyone's getting Pokemon I don't have