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

Got another EX Raid invitation. Very excited!

I name anything I want to evolve Aa and sort alphabetically when I do lucky eggs. I did a lucky egg using my phone and iPad during the event yesterday and made 244k xp! Also caught 2 shiny Pikachu and enough others to get my gold medal. Hope it’s magikarp next.

There was a Lotad in my house today

Oh yes, I have had the best day Pokehunting!

It started off amazingly, as we did a Wailmer raid and I GOT A 100% IV WEATHER BOOSTED ONE!

It’s my first 100% IV Pokemon ever

Then we wandered around town for a few hours in the heavy rain, cold and sleet, but it was definitely worth it as we caught loads of weather boosted Lotads (usually very rare), Carvanhas (rare), Speahls and a few Mudkips and Wailmer’s too.

We live in an area full of water Pokemon, so to get weather boosted ones is brilliant. Totally worth getting soaked through for.

I’m also 90% to getting gold on my fourth gym, so hoping I don’t get kicked out too soon. I want gold on all gyms in our town by the end of the year, if not much sooner.

jennielou75 I wasn’t having a go; I apologise if it came across that way I was just trying to explain why I don’t use that particular method.

Of course everyone is welcome to play the game however they like, and every player is welcome in this thread whether they be casual or serious

Oh no jennielou I didn't mean to be rude. Just explaining how I do it. I also play for fun but using luck eggs to grind through the levels!

Um I am level 38 so have been playing this for a while. People play in their own way so that way may help someone. Anyway as I just play for fun this thread is obviously not the place for me.

jennielou75 That’s too simplistic; it doesn’t take into account the complexities of serious evolution.

There are lots of Pokemon that would appear if I just typed in evolve that I don’t want to evolve yet - I want the highest CP, highest IV combination possible, so particularly with Gen III there are lots I’m waiting for a better one to evolve.

You only get half an hour with a lucky egg and a star piece, so when doing a mass evolution every single second counts.

The only difficulty with that jennielou is that I might evolve the wrong one! If it's one where I want to evolve the best IV e.g. Mareep I can work out beforehand and mark it otherwise it uses up lucky egg time

I just type evolve into the search bar and all those with enough candy are there! Someone put this up because of the screen problem but I will use it from now on because it makes mass evolves much easier and quicker.

I love a good sort out too. I mark the ones to evolve with a dot and the candy so I know where I'm up to e.g. .Pidgey12 then I know I need 24 candy to evolve the next one etc.
Then can just search on . for the evolve session

DH and I went out this morning and spent the entirety of the three hours out and about

We did several raids, and had lucky eggs and star pieces on so got lots of XP and stardust (close to 200k XP). We also tried to catch as many Pikachus as we could for the gold Pikachu badge (enabling us to get the shiny ones too!).

I’m also getting more serious in my Pokemonning; I had 1000 Pokemon and needed to do a proper sort out.

So for the last two days I’ve been going through each and every Pokemon, putting them through PokeGenie and naming them with their IV percentage and level (see attached pic).

I’m still only a third of the way through, but organising it is very satisfying. I’ve got rid of lots of Pokemon I had been keeping for months for no apparent reason, and marked anything I want to evolve with “evolveme” to make it nice and easy come the next community day.

With the couple of hundred free slots I’ll have from this sort out, I’ll catch lots of pidgeys/weedles/caterpies etc. and name them as “evolveme”, so that on the community day I can stick a lucky egg and star piece or two on and rake it all in

I didn't do any getting out and about. They all appeared at my sofa (and I'm not near a park)

I hope they're not always at the same time of day, it's a total non-starter for me to get out and about at that time most Saturdays.

Excellent event, I hope they repeat it (maybe with Wailmers or Magikarp though...)

RueDeWakening It’s a new monthly event; each month will be a different Pokemon with an exclusive event move.

At no other time will you ever be able to get a Pikachu with the move surf apart from today.

My hope is that these 3 hour events don't replace the big ones.

PickAChew I very much doubt they would do; they’re only mini events to try and get people out in their communities and doing things together.

My hope is that these 3 hour events don't replace the big ones.

I took my 3 kids to a local park for the event today, my 4 year old caught me a shiny pika in the car on the way there

Did a kyogre raid but on DD's account, caught it first ball. I have 2 already from late weekend so it's all good. And DS1 started an account this morning, he's already level 14 thanks to double xp, he's over the moon!

Excellent event, I hope they repeat it (maybe with Wailmers or Magikarp though...)

I have noticed that when I click on a Pokemon to catch it it is going straight to blue balls.

jennielou75 Yeah, it’s a new feature. Whenever you try to catch a Pokemon now it starts off with the poke ball you used last. So since you last used a Great Ball, that’s why it’s coming up automatically with those. If the last ball you used was an Ultra Ball, it will show that as default on your next Pokemon.

Basically it remembers the last type of ball you used and gives you that.

It’s the same for the PoGo plus too so watch out for that! Else you’ll spend all your great balls on pidgeys and the like.

Murinae I’ve done six Kyogre raids and only caught two of them (89% and 80% IVs so not too awful).

I have noticed that when I click on a Pokemon to catch it it is going straight to blue balls. Going to see what is happening with my Pokemon go plus.

I‘‘ 1/4 on Kyogre raids and the one i caught is rubbish I.v

I got a couple of shiny Pikachu’s today

I also did a Kyogre raid; it was 100% IV and I didn’t catch it

I have a shiney schuppet too but that’s all.

I caught a shiny shuppet and transferred it before I noticed!