PokemonGo #15. We're gonna rock down to Electrike Avenue

Another one waiting for a ditto. There was a time when I was catching multiple ditto a day. I had another Moltres as a reward for completing field tasks so now I have 2. Hopefully it will be some other mon on Saturday when I collect my 8th stamp.

Feel like I’ve been chasing a ditto forever. Every pudges/rattata etc. I see I pounce on!

Also still waiting for a Ditto - sick of catching everything in case it is one

Dobby Well done on getting your raids done. Mr Mime, Electabuzz and Sudwoodo Are good targets for the curve excellent based on their big circles and comfortable distance. HTH good luck!

Kadabra and Rue I completely sympathise I felt like i was stuck trailing ditto around for ages. I had caught one 20 mins BEFORE I reached that level of tasks, and then it took me days to find one. (Once I did I obviously caught another one 10 minutes later! sod's law )

Managed to get that last raid, spent all afternoon curveballing everything but still missing the elusive excellent one. Nearly there!

I need a ditto too, and 2 more ghost types. Getting annoying now!

Ditto where are yooooou? I always catch the annoying thing when trying to pidgey farm and then when I actually need it. Nope.
I thought I'd be stuck on the Gary stage as only had 8 candies but the event sorted that. Not even got to that stage yet!

yeah we have 'no weather' here either.

Doh! Everyone's is!

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Anyone else's weather broken? On ds1's phone as well as mine and force stop hasn't fixed it.

CollyWombles Yeah, PickAChew is right. They’re not attack and defense but fast (top) and charge (bottom).

When you press repeatedly you’re using your fast move, and you’ll see the bar powering up at the bottom. Once that’s full it will unleash the charge move which has more power.

Some Pokemon have a charge move with just one bar while others will have two or three.

You can’t really defend when battling, but you can dodge the Pokemon’s boss move when you see it coming in the bottom right corner of the screen by moving your finger quickly to the far right or left However, I don’t bother so much with dodging as my Pokemon are powerful enough to take the hit.

Don't be sorry about not knowing things Colly we've all just had more time to ask and learn!

As PickAChew says the top move is your fast move and the bottom is the charge move.

both moves are used when attacking gyms, or raids and also when defending gyms, there is no difference between attacking or defending.

One is the quick move and the other is the charge move. That charges b.up by both attacking and being attacked.

Another question! Sorry!

When looking at a Pokémon, there are always two moves, which one is attack and which is defense? I'm assuming the top move is attack and below it is defense?!

Dammit! Thought I had a record there!

@bettytaghetti not quite! I had a Mon stuck in a gym in (very) rural lincolnshire for 3 months... I had so completely given up on his as lost that I was then really confused when he turned up home again ha!

39 days & 17 hours Soup! Have I set a mumsnet record?!

Yay @bettytaghetti glad your Blissey has returned.... finally.

Dobby it's a tough old slog for those of you who hit that tasks post the 'fix' of the failing on the same raid thing. Glad you're nearly at your 10 though

After 5 days I've just made 9 raids. One more to go, hopefully today!

I bet the raid frequency will increase again after I've got my 10th too.

Was that you Cottonwool? If so, many thanks! Blisseywatch is no more!!

If its a creature worth powering up, these days I do the whole caboodle in one go --> wait until I have enough candy to evolve and power up to level 30 in one hit. I wait for the right one before I do anything. (Powering up beyond level 30 I do in dribs and drabs, as and when, depending on lots of factors!)

I would always power up after evolving in case you get a better one and change your mind about which to evolve, then you’ve not lost anything by powering up.

Also if you don’t do a lot of raids then you won’t have many TMs so movesets will be more important.

I stopped using calcy IV after getting some odd (and clearly wrong) results from it. I use PokeGenie if I want a quick check while on the go, but I do most of my IV checking once back home with the calculator on PokeAssistant.com.

Powering up once is a way to narrow down the IV options. But a rattatta is useful only for evolving for XP, it's IVs are irrelevant and there's no point checking them really. (Unless like me you keep useless 100%s just because )

It makes no difference if you power up before or after you evolve in terms of candy and stardust cost. People used to evolve first to see what move set you got before investing stardust. But since you can now change moves, it makes no odds either way.

I'm level 17 and rattata was level 20, I only powered it up once for 2200 star dust so not much wasted. Thanks for the help, still learning!

Won my first gym battle today, against a dragonite and vapereon, it was one of my field research tasks.

CollyWombles Yes, soupforbrains is right. Also are you putting in the appraisal too? As that makes it more accurate.

You should only power up after evolving.

However, do not waste your stardust powering up Pokémon like Rattatta! Stardust is such a precious resource that it shouldn’t be wasted like that.

You’re under level 20 as well aren’t you? So I wouldn’t be powering anything up for quite a long while yet as everything you catch and hatch will be too low to be worth it.

(I would also recommend PokeGenie as the app of choice for IV checking.)