PokemonGo #14. Rhydon Time, Rhy-Rhy- Rhydon Time...

It’s switching between wind and rain here. I’m either ending up overrun with plusles or taillows.

CrabbitArse You don’t need to worry too much about having the best movesets for Mewtwo, because there will be a lot of other people there at the raid and you should take it down easy.

I would advise caution if changing your Pokemon’s movesets to fit with Mewtwo as you only have a few TMs. Mewtwo is a psychic Pokemon, and there aren’t a lot of psychic raid bosses or good psychic Pokemon in general.

So if you changed the movesets they’d really only be applicable to Mewtwo (who you might only ever fight once) and a couple of other Pokemon.

However, the best Pokemon and their movesets for fighting Mewtwo are:

Tyrannitar: Bite/Rock Throw
Houndoom: Snarl/Foul Play
Gyarados: Bite/Crunch
Dragonite: Dragon Tail/Outrage
Scizor: Fury Cutter/X-Scissor
Pinsir: Fury Cutter/X-Scissor

Out of those, I would definitely not change your Gyarados’ moves to those unless you have several Gyarados’. Everything else you would be fine changing those moves and particularly for Scizor and Pinsir, they are good movesets to have

It rained where we were for a bit and we ended up overrun with these.

It’s always windy here. Or raining.

Have caught about a million taillows so far, but not much else that’s new.

It's windy!

I'm another who got a rural raid pass although I only do L1,2&3 raids because I'm almost always alone when I play so I'm over the moon & definitely going. A brief google suggests I have none of the Pokemon with the right movesets for Mewtwo but I do have 4 TMs for the big move & 7 for the quick move. Can anyone recommend the best site I can go on to see which mons I would be best to use them on? This is undoubtedly going to be my only chance for a big raid & I really want to make the most of it

I have enough candies to evolve a numel but no good one so still waiting on that one.

I’ve got husband home today and we are off overnight to MILs so no pokemoning for me till late tomorrow afternoon when we get back .

Thanks for the info on the weather changing one. I didn’t know that. Shame it snowed yesterday but probably won’t snow again this year!

Plusle I mean. No longer region locked as I just caught one.

Plusie is here!

Murinae Yes, that’s a good Slaking Because Slaking isn’t that great, 82% is worth it with such a high level. Congrats on the ex-raid pass too!

DH and I went out tonight and caught a few new Pokemon:

• Sunny/Fire version of Castform
• Volbeat
• Swablu
• Swelllow
• Taillow

Also got a lot more candies for Numel so half way there on that one

For anyone that doesn’t know, Castform is very unique; it’s the Weather Pokemon, and you can catch four different versions depending on what the weather is.

So you can catch Normal Castform with Normal moves, Sunny Castform with Fire moves, Rainy Castform with Water moves and Snowy Castform with Ice moves.

It’s pretty much just one for the PokeDex, but it’s cool none-the-less

New Pokemon are live. We should see Rayquaza in the morning.

Disappointing swampert

Lurvely gardevoir:)

tumpymummy go to the raid, they are fun and the more people that are there the better chance they have of taking mewtwo down.

I’m in two raid groups and in one I’m old enough to be the mum of some of the group and am the oldest one and almost the only female. They are a friendly bunch though and are happy to have me tag along. The other group is
the one around the hospital/park where
I work. That is older people though I think I am still the oldest and some students (medics and dentists mainly) even the odd professor or two. I’ve made some useful work contacts doing raids!

whatToDoAboutThis2017 I took your advice especially with regard to slaking. I chose one who was already level 34 and a slightly lower IV (82% i think he is). Didn’t level him up at all. He was just over 1000 before I evolved him. No idea where I got him from and I waited till I had enough candies for him and no rare candies were needed. I know he looks good but is really rubbish.

I got an ex raid pass today after doing a one star on the gym this evening on my way to the carpark from work! It is a gym I have raided before though and a known ex raid gym which is why I went and did the charmeleon when I saw it come up on the radar.

stayingaliveisawayoflife It’s usually always 9pm

Yep, heard ex-raid passes have gone out but yet again, nothing for our group

Another wave of EX Raid Passes have gone out. Lots of people in our group with 2 EX Raid passes in their inventory 😵

Stayingalive normally it's around 9pm in the UK

What time does the new stuff start today?

I reckon there's a gap in the range of avatars for paunchy/ balding men
Mind you, my avatar is rather misleadingly male!

In the last couple of months I've got quite pally with another school mum whose DCs are a bit older. It suits us both to do a lap of the main pokestop/ gym area after drop off. We're on different teams so we nicely negotiate which gyms we're attacking or skipping for maximum coin opportunities.
I've got into a couple of WhatsApp groups which are more localised with a more managable flow of messages. The main one for the town was overwhelming when I was on it in the summer. Everyone I've met at raids is very pleasant. I tend to stick quite locally rather than heading into town so see the same faces most times.

tumpymummy Yeah, Niantic has admitted giving out those passes was a bug. If you don’t raid much I would take advantage of it.

The majority of the people in our WhatsApp group are between late twenties and mid fifties; we have hardly any students or early twenty year old’s, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there were people your age there

I would definitely advise caution about powering up Slacking. Its extremely high CP makes it seem attractive, but its unique moveset means its primary attack doesn’t actually do anything.

So I wouldn’t automatically rush to power it up (or at all, really).

I confess I am one of those people who has been sent an exraid pass but I dont raid. I have only ever done about 4 raids and that was ones I can do on my own, like magicarp. Anyway the exraid isn't far from where I live but I am just not sure whether to go or not as I am meant to be taking DS to a football match at the same time. Plus I'm a bit nervous about actually meeting some other pokemon players! From the local facebook group I can see everyone else going are students and I am embarrassed about being middle aged mum!

Murinae lovely Slaking! 4000CP I cant wait until I have enough candies to evolve mine!