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

Well done for 37 Murinae. I'm now just over halfway through 35 and it feels like a long slog. My second Mewtwo is in the bag thanks to this afternoon's ex-raid, I was down to the last 2 balls so it got a bit tense

I'm guessing that we are going to get lots of pink stuff again for valentine's. We'll be swimming in Luvdisc, which has got to be up there with the most pointless Pokemon ever . I can't think of anything else they might add in, given that we've recently had double XP for the community day and have double stardust coming up for the next one. Reduced egg-distance has to be likely for Easter, so it only really leaves reduced buddy distance.

Just been out and done a double kyogre raid with a lucky egg and managed to level up to 37.

Gen4 looks great. I have been saving piloswine candies since whattodoaboutthis2017 told me to. I will make a list now of the others

I hope it’s not a big one just because I can’t go out and catch anything!

I wouldn’t have thought they’d release more Gen III now as they’ve only just had a release, and they’re promoting the pink Pokemon so I think it’s unlikely.

What do we think the Valentines event is going to be? Potentially the next (possibly final) wave of Gen 3 'mon being released?

Woohoo seeing as the only time I've ever got a Chancey was the last valentines event I'm pretty excited.

(Corsola is of course still regional.)

Yes, it has lots of amazing Pokemon!

Also, here’s a picture of all the pink Pokemon we can expect to see more of for the Valentines event

Gen 4 looks exciting

Here’s some charts showing what candy you should be saving for Gen IV and what their evolutions are

Has everyone checked for ex raid passes? We've just had some sent out here for Saturday, I have one .

Bit of a shock, no-one was expecting them and it's much less notice this time.

GreenShadow Glad it helped!

WhatToDo that us SO useful! Despite getting to level 31, I've never really understood Levels and how much priority to give to CP versus IV.
I'm due a mass evolve when I get back from my hols so will try and study Levels a little more first.

goo.gl/maps/s3PVZ4TBG9o

Someone did a map of the ex raids on the London group and it's definitely parks. Or areas that pokemon go colours green anyway which might include playgrounds etc.
I don't really raid much and I'm not near a park often so thats me out!

I'm on Level 35

Did a mass evolution session earlier and evolved some new gen 3s while I was at it. I needed a big tidy up of the pidgeys

We thought we'd sussed it here but last night's ex raid passes has thrown us and a new unexpected gym for the ex raid pass. (We normally get 2 gyms and a local one has been selected 6 times hence why we thought we'd sussed how to trigger a raid)

pokemongohub.net/post/research/data-tells-us-ex-raid-february-8-2018-invitation-cycle/

RueDeWakening We’ve had members of our group extrapolate and pick apart everything about ex raids, following every and all advice including the one I posted the other day from a well known Pokemon site as well as the patterns from the next town over who get loads. Still nothing since the very first test raid way back in October!

I’ve just been out and done an absol raid. Sadly wasn’t in the park though.

Our local park gym has got another pass this week but as I said I wasn’t around to raid mich so didn’t get one. I’m a bit sad as it’s the first mewtwo raid here without me 😢 but I have two mewtwo already so not too bothered and I’m too fat to climb the fence!

Wow, me, DH, DD, and DS1 all got Ex raid passes for next week! Thanks to the rubbish porygon we took at a raid on Saturday only because DS1 has only just started and didn't have one yet.

Someone was telling me about how to trigger gyms for Mewtwo, it involved having 60 individuals raid at the location, ideally the three days before passes are given out. And gyms that can be triggered are mostly in parks. I have no idea how it works, but she's been right so far in our area...

We usually get 2 EX Raid locations but only 1 this time for us too. We have a gym that's been selected 7 times in our town but this time, it's a gym that's never been chosen so good for them.

PikachuHeadgear Thank you The ex raids appear to be really hard to get, at least in our town. Whatever we’re doing we’re missing something!

I’m saving my star pieces too. I really hope I’m well enough to walk by then as I really don’t want to miss out on so much stardust!

Ooh that table shows how much advantage the weather bonus makes. I am saving 6 star pieces and am planning on spending the entire 3 hrs catching. I won't be walking past any weather-boosted mons...

Get well soon WhatToDo, and congrats on the lovely flappy fish.

We've only got one ex-raid here this time (no pass for me), whereas we've had two in the more recent rounds. Of the three previous ex-raid gyms, one hasn't had many raids appearing since the ex-raid last week so with the pre ex-raid hiatus there won't have been much activity there. But the other one is in a park in the centre of town and is one of the most frequently raided gyms in town, but zilch this time. So there is much debate about strategies for triggering raids and maximising chances of a pass. But it seems to be so random

Oh also this is an interesting chart on how much stardust you can acquire during the 3x stardust on the next community day