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

Blimey this event is going to be seeing trainers fly through their levels. I've not been able to play that much at all but am adding XP like nobodies business. I am doing a lot of lucky eggs which helps.

1am Saturday morning.

When does the event now finish?

I'm not sure how rare catching a legendary is.

Exceptionally rare. It has a 2% catch rate.

Woohoo! So glad the event has been extended!

I'm so pleased it's been extended - I'm not working today so even if I can go on a couple of walks I might get enough candy to evolve my ivysaur at long last!
I did catch a random bulbasaur the other day - if only I would again and I could walk something else!

We had a rather beautiful morning walk to the gym though ☺

We just went to an Artecuno raid (must have started at 6 am) at the gym we can see from the house but we were the only people there. ds battled it on his own but obviously had no chance whatsoever. He still enjoyed it though.
This is completely useless for rural players, there just aren't enough players around and even if I could alert every one I know who plays some of them won't have 4G in that location just as I don't have 4G at the gyms 6 miles down the road. We will never get a legendary.

I'm not sure how rare catching a legendary is. 5 of us play and we've had about a 40% catch rate.

Hooray, I love this event! Only thing I will have a mini whinge about is the reduced number of pokeball drops. I am out of red and blues and down to

I'm not sure I can manage an extra 72 hours, I still have hundreds of candy but not the Pidgeys and Weedles to go with them. It does mean that I'll walk the few KM to get my Houndoom which was the last thing that I needed to walk. After all the walking I put into Mareep it was a pleasure to find that everything else only needed a few km.

I've waked past three legendary raids but there was only me there. Maybe if I pop into town over lunchtime I'll get lucky.

The event is extended, I think.

Just remembered the really stupid thing I did the day before yesterday - went into the shop in the middle of a pokemon bike ride so stuck my phone in my bag but neglected to lock it. When I finished in the shop and took my phone out I discovered that my bag had decided to toss about a hundred balls at a fucking Rattata!

But the friendly young game geek blokes beside me had been to TEN legendary raids together since yesterday and one of them had caught nothing yet, which made me feel a bit undeserving.

Yeah, several people had been in eight or nine raids and hadn't caught anything either. I did five and still didn't catch a legendary.

There's only a 2% chance of catching a legendary Pokemon so you were very lucky.

Just did a lucky egg evolve, got 100k experience and now only 100k off Level 30!

Icould that's such a good tip! Thank you.

Did my first team raid today - first time talking to other players and it was great, a big friendly varied group (I live in a city). And I caught a Lugia! Really exciting. But the friendly young game geek blokes beside me had been to TEN legendary raids together since yesterday and one of them had caught nothing yet, which made me feel a bit undeserving. I got over it quickly though

Just about to put a lucky egg on and do a quick evolve before the bonuses stop.

I've done two lucky egg mass evolutions tonight and a big tidy up. About 35 spaces have been cleared in addition to the usual vermin. The evolve command definitely speeds it up. You have to be careful if you're saving up for a second to third stage evolution if just the first is showing. It's easy to forget and blow 25 candies.

Currently out of red balls due to the extra spawns while using the go plus.

Anyway the mass evolution has now got me halfway through level 32. I'd like to get to level 33 around the start of September.

I found something out today. When you're planning a mass evolve with a lucky egg it's a big time saver if you type "evolve" into the search box on the Pokemon screen. It lists only the Pokemon where you have enough candy to evolve them. When you no longer have enough candy for another evolution then they vanish. It means that you don't have to scroll down through quite so many in order to find the ones that you want.

I discovered a cool fact today! When you're doing a raid and you see all the people doing it with you, if you click on their avatar you can see information about them! It works on yourself too.

So, by doing that, I have discovered the following about myself:

Battles Won: 534
Walking Distance: 317.56km (179 miles )
Pokemon Caught: 3,789

How cool

I got three newbies today

Articuno
Ampharos
Hitmontop

Now my dex is equal caught 238 and seen 238.

There were loads of people there, but I didn't get close to defeating it in the groups I was in

Did you not all coordinate in one big group to defeat it together? That's what's happened at all the raids I've been at.

Just dragged ds1 out for a pokewalk, since it's no longer raining.

I hatched a bloody mantine. At least I didn't waste 5k on it.

Noticed I only have .1k to the next snorlax candy, so might have to pop back round the block.

Was out for a walk and legendary raid a local pokestop - it's a church on a roundabout with a bland car park- normally never see anyone there so as we walked up was saying to DH 'no point doing it as we can't take it on our own' reach stop- four cars and a van in the car park and a van (never any cars there except when its a Sunday or slimming world!) 20+ people when I've never seen another player there!!

The result we defeated articuno and both me and DH caught him!! Result

I made my legendary my buddy just to see how it looked.

It takes 6.7k for one candy. So when thr event ends, normal walking distance for one legendary candy is 20k 😮😨

@RudeDog I will never forget the rage I felt when I hatched a Chinchou from a 10k age.

Bastards.

I could cry @NikiBabe I thought I was in for something good

Rudedog if that sod had been alive I would have killed it.

They look like a dancing sausage with pom poms.