Pokemon Go #12: "It's in the trees! It's coming!" The Houndooms of love are calling me (to join in a raid).

wartortle Instinct seem to be the night players everywhere

Mystic and Valor are about equal here too but there are two pairs of yellows who drive round the entire city at about 10/11pm each night knocking everyone out. The 18 month old is teething so a couple of times recently I've taken him for a walk after they've been round and reclaimed the ones near me in revenge. (Normally if the same people are in two I'd only take out so they'd still get coins)

I'm finding the game really glitchy at the moment. It seems to error out when I'm close to taking down a gym.
Lots of active players for such a stormy day. My mon got 2 coins and 1 coin! But one still in so will get more than 3 coins today.

Caught a Dratini in town too and needed the candy so that's a bonus.

I'm one of the few Valor members in my town too PokemonGo. Love the new gym system, so glad the days of the Blissey towers are gone. I leave early for work and walk a longer route so that I can paint the town red.

All three are fairly active here and most gyms will change hands once a day. Which is good for making sure you get 50 coins a day.

On a annual leave today so am aiming to get lots of pokemoning in.

I'm back and I've successfully painted the town red again 😂 None of my DC (adults!) would come with me so it was just me and my podcasts .
I think it works to my advantage being one of the few valor players in town. It means I get to take down all the Mystic gyms all by myself which is both fun and good for my XP. I guess it's one of the reasons I'm a higher level than everyone else ☺️

The Mystic gyms are full of high level pokemon but nothing that puts up too much of a fight especially if they are a bit demotivated.

The town used to be dominated by instinct players all who had suspiciously similar names 🤔 and all of whom were either invisible or spoofers..... one day they all disappeared curtesy of a banwave I presume 😁. Happy days...

Mystic and Valor are both very active in my town. We fight a lot I think we (Mystic) have slightly more players, though.

And we only have a few (less than 10) Instinct players.

Im mystic and it seems that there's definitely more mystic than anything else around here. Annoying because if the gym is full there's nothing I can do. The gym near-ish to a school in the town I work has stagnated. It used to switch out every day at about 3:30, but after the summer holidays PoGo is clearly not cool

There's a gym in a pub on my drive home. That is always yellow. Every now and then I'll take it down and get maybe 10coins if I'm lucky before they take it back. Last time he was out before I'd spun the gym stop. I tried to fight again but there were three back in there so I gave up.

Grrrr I had pokemon in quite a few of the local gyms all day and some bugger has just gone around and chucked them all out. I REALLY wouldn't mind but they chucked the last one out at 11.58 . If they had just waited two mins I would have got my coins for today.

Anyway, I'm just off to do some grudge gyming.

I'm declaring war.

The town is basically 99% Mystic and before the gym changes it was completely static. With the gym changes Mystic need players like me otherwise their pokemon would pointlessly languish in the gyms and not provide them with any coins.

I thought the gen 2 starters did hatch from eggs? I'm sure I hatched a totodile recently.

They do now, and you can no longer hatch Gen I starters from eggs.

Here is the most updated list on what's currently in eggs: thesilphroad.com/science/september-2017-changes-to-egg-species

I was posting that chart to show the percentage of getting each egg from a stop, not really taking note of the fact that egg hatches themselves had been changed recently

I thought the gen 2 starters did hatch from eggs? I'm sure I hatched a totodile recently.

I'm really struggling with 10km eggs, haven't had any for weeks. Is there any science behind it or is it potluck?

There's a 36.51% chance of a 2km egg, 51.11% chance of a 5km egg and a 12.38% chance of a 10km egg.

Check out the egg chart I've attached

I have 9 5km eggs. Hoping I might get a 2km one soon.

Should have managed to hatch a couple today, but was being lazy and couldn't be arsed to go for a walk after work.

Hopefully weather will be better tomorrow. I need to get rid of some of these eggs.

Atrium - at least you've been getting 2km eggs to power through. I now have 6 eggs and they're all 5km. Waiting for someone to kick Snorlax out of the gym so I can buy another incubator

Congrats on catching me Doctor! :)

I'm really struggling with 10km eggs, haven't had any for weeks. Is there any science behind it or is it potluck?

I've been burning through my 2km eggs (hatched loads of Woopers and Poliwags, two Pichus, a Ghastly, a Diglett and a Geodude I think) in the hope that if I have room for an egg it might be a 10km one. Not worked so far...

I caught a ditto this morning. Quite a weak one.

There were plenty of spaces in the gyms this morning so I put one of my better dittos in for fun.

A dog walker commented that he hadn't seen me hanging around the woods much for a while and asked if I was back because of the school run.

MummySparkle The Porygon and Elekid candies will be good for Porygon Z and Electivire in Gen IV

Had lots of eggs hatch in the last 2 days... porygon, skarmony, elekid and iggybuff. Iggybuff is cute and an addition to the Dex, but everything is a bit shit really. I want a mareep!!

It's almost fully maxed ditto, is it useful for anything?

It's very situational. A ditto copies the Pokemon's stats but not the moves, so if you put it against one that doesn't know moves that are super effective against itself but has the potential to (i.e. Gengar) then it can beat the opposition if it's a higher level.

If it's a higher level than the opponent, it might be better, depending on whether it rolls better or worse moves.

Also, it keeps its own hitpoints, so it will also be better against glass cannons (i.e. Gengar, Alakazam etc.) than tanks (Blissey, Snorlax etc.).

You really need to know what you're doing with a Ditto, otherwise it will be shit It can be good if you know how to utilise it properly.

Two pleasing egg hatches today; a very good quality Rhynose from a 5k and an Aerodactyl from a 10k. Neither particularly necessary but with time the Rhynose will be good for evolving,

Rhydon has an evolution in Gen IV, Rhyperior, so you definitely want to save candies for it as it will be a beast.

Somewhat, Bayleaf has run away from me in raids a number of times, so frustrating, I feel your pain ;)

Great day here for a change, picked up 3 10k eggs ;) and two dittos. It's almost fully maxed ditto, is it useful for anything? (Sorry, don't know how to add a photo ;)

Nothing much to report here either. Hatched 2 5km eggs today- a Hoppip (rubbish) and an Elekid (cute, but a bit useless). I've managed to keep up with my streaks, but the motivation just isn't really there at the moment.

Not really sure what to walk next, so I'm walking an Eevee to do the 10km Espeon/Umbreon evolution trick. My espeon I have at the moment is rubbish, as it's before I knew all about IV etc. Not as fussed about Umbreon, but will probably try evolve a stronger one in the future at some point, as the one I've got is also pants. Damn you've reminded me actually that Onix is one I could walk next- I'm sitting on 4 metal cotes, I've already done Scizor so Steelix could be next.

Two pleasing egg hatches today; a very good quality Rhynose from a 5k and an Aerodactyl from a 10k. Neither particularly necessary but with time the Rhynose will be good for evolving, and Aerodactyl is sufficiently novel and could be far worse. Still plodding on with Flaaffy... 120k down... 47 candies to go

Did a raid on a Bayleef without being errored out. I didn't manage to catch the blighter. I got a golden razzberry out of it which I was reluctant to use, and a couple of potions. Not seen a rare candy or a TM for a while. Hopefully I can do more raids and better stocks now the DCs are in school.