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

We've got a group for the local gyms. We have a heavy imbalance of blues and a few yellows. No regular reds. We've got an agreement on keeping/ attacking gyms to maximise coins. Yellows benefit as they nearly always get to keep a gym to collect coins for longer than 20 minutes and blues don't get stagnant in a full gym doing nothing for days. It's helped people build up their gym badges too.

There must be a lot of students around visiting home as the list of names is quite different to usual and some reds popped up. Quite a few usual suspects like me have had their routine broken with the kids being off. I'm still meeting my streak and can get into other gyms in passing but I'm not getting out for my usual round.

I think Xmas means they set up a private group for raiding so without the code others can't join.

Yeah, I guessed that as an option But what I don't get is... just she just turn up to do a raid and there's people doing it but in a private group?

And if so, why not introduce and say hello, mind if I join? That's what DH and I did when raiding was first introduced in the summer (we recognised some faces from seeing them Pokemonning beforehand but we didn't know them), though they weren't using a private group.

I think Xmas means they set up a private group for raiding so without the code others can't join.

Found this odd little thing on a walk today!

Its not worth me doing raids as the gyms are always full up with really high level Pokemon and the raid parties are always private

Do you mean battling or raiding? Because if you're raiding, it's irrelevant what Pokemon are in the gym.

Also what makes you think the raid parties are private?

I've tried setting up a raid party more than once...no takers

How, via Fb or whatsapp?

DoctorTwo I just don't think it's worth it, but different areas work differently.

PickAChew Roselia evolves into Roserade in Gen IV, whereas Sudowoodo never evolves.

And sort of a feminine sudowoodo in usefulness.

Those Roselias are hard to capture.

Bloody annoying, Jennie!

It's all meditite, today. With a windy weekend I've gone from a handful of candy to well over 100. Picked up a few extra ralts in the wind, too.

Actually been walking one of my weather spawn eevee because I still don't have a particularly good umbreon.

What would you call a circle of Roselias?

Its not worth me doing raids as the gyms are always full up with really high level Pokemon and the raid parties are always private I really think that there's only 1 local group with 3 accounts each.

I've tried setting up a raid party more than once...no takers .

We have 3 gyms in our area and obviously there are 3 teams. So we all organised days that we are in each gym and when we kick each other out to maximize coins . Doesn't always work if players are passing through and don't know our system.

That's well civilised Doctor.

I tend to leave gyms alone if I've seen a kid battling it down, anyone else is fair game.

Oddly all the names from the old Blissey Tower days are gone and they used to own all the towns round here, now poof, all gone.

So we did. Now there's an agreement in the group that a newly taken gym has 90 minutes before it's attacked.

If you're gonna take it in a couple of hours anyway, you may as well just take it straight away as they'd only earn 12 coins!

You get 1 coin per every 10mins.

That idea floated in our group, but we all decided that it was part of the game, and the experience you get from battling and levelling up the gyms is more valuable than the meagre few coins you'd get if they left you in an hour.

I've never caught a shiny anything! 😣

DamnDeDoubtanceIsSpartacus Shinies currently available are Magikarp, Gyarados, Pichu, Pikachu, Raichu, Duskull, Dusclops, Shuppet, Banette, Sableye, Absol, Mawile and Snorunt.

Also, as I mentioned above, anyone who caught Zapdos automatically has a shiny as they only released shiny Zapdos for the raids.

I’ve caight hundreds of magikarp but never a red one.

BouleBaker The shiny Magikarp are actually yellow/gold coloured; it's when it evolves into Gyarados that it becomes red

I've caught two shiny magikarp (so turned one into a red Gyarados), and of course several Zapdos.

For anyone who caught a Zapdos, you do have a shiny, as only the shiny Zapdos was released during raids

I’ve never caught a shiny either damn. Very annoying. I’ve caight hundreds of magikarp but never a red one.

Ooooooo so shiny. What can you get as shinies now? I have never caught a shiny

Wailmer is now a Tier 1 Raid so candies will be easy to get

I got a new shiny

Is anyone buying the boxes?

WhatToDo yeah Milotic looks brilliant! Can't wait to evolve him. I just meant in terms of candies, as it's only the 2nd Pokemon that needs 400 candies. He's going to be a beast!

Wailmer has also been confirmed to be hatching from 2km eggs which should help with reaching the 400 candy mark.

I've also just seen, that the single use incubators actually start dropping from your first Pokestop spin after 21:00 tonight, not yesterday.