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

Have spent a busy morning racing around the centre of Newcastle getting those last few raids in. Knackered now, but I've at least earned my Fitbit Sahara badge!

Jammy Mr "I don't do curve ball throws. Ever." Ds1 got his excellent curve ball throw almost immediately. Mine took a little longer as my thumb had locked up again after all that raiding in the biting wind but I just got mine on a 'tini :)

dillite All of the Pokemon in the attached picture can be Dittos, so you need to catch every single one of those types that you see, and then after you catch them hope they change into a Ditto.

I got my Mew! I’ve not got many of the legendaries as I’m not in an area with many gyms or raiding parties, so am dead chuffed to have this spot on my Pokedex filled.

dillite I Found my ditto in a ghastly so catch all of those too.

Personally, I play hardcore. Every spare minute I have (before and after work and on my break, as well as every single available day off) is spent on perfecting the game.

I want a full PokeDex (all of Gen I and II are done bar regionals not yet released in the UK and Pokemon not yet in the game, and Gen III is only missing three Pokemon of those available), but I want that full PokeDex to be great IV Pokemon, and I’ve mostly managed to achieve that alongside getting gold gyms, completing medals etc.

FleurDelacoeur That’s fine; the game can be played in whatever fashion you want. It allows for the casual player, the catch it all player, the hardcore players and many, many more.

But if you don’t do raids, you will have gaps in your PokeDex unless those Pokemon are released via missions.

Raids and battling is a big part of the game and the majority of players take part in it, so the advice on high IVs and so on is there for those that want it.

If you don’t battle, it doesn’t matter if you have poor IV Pokemon, but if you do battle, it matters a great deal.

Again, it’s all about how you want to play the game. There is no right way and I’ve not seen anyone suggesting there is.

I’m the same. I want my Pokédex to be tidy and full!
Problem with no doing raids is it means shadows in the pokedex.

I'm like that too Fleur

Not everyone is bothered about whether their Pokemon are "good" or not. There is no right or wrong way to play the game, some players are more concerned with filling their Pokedex up than having the strongest creatures.

I don't battle in gyms often, don't do raids and don't have the IV calculator thing on my phone - I'm just not that interested. I'm more interested in catching ANY Lapras, and evolving my Treecko as I don't like shadows in the Pokedex...

That would be great, many thanks cottonwool! Make sure you don't leave anything useful in there though!

Betty sorry, didn't read your post properly, it's been a long day! May be going to that area next week, so If it's still there I'll battle the gym down!

Betty where abouts in Norfolk have you lost your Blissey? I live in Norfolk so If it's local to me, I'll kick it out for you

I caught my third Mewtwo today, but again it’s 84% (other two are 84% and 87%). Still, I have another ex-raid on the 23rd so will hope for 90%+

How long do I have to catch Mew?

It’s unknown, I’m afraid.

I evolved a rubbish Mareep by mistake and didn't realise about the reduced egg distance. Oh well.

How long do I have to catch Mew? On part 5 now.
Due to this event I'm racking up the magicarp candy at least.

I managed to catch enough Mareep for two full evolves today (think I had some candy in the back anyway). The last two days like this I barely saw anything around so was very happy to see them!

I did pretty well. Spawn rate seemed pretty good in my local park.

2 shinys but with pretty poor CP/IV but I did get a 98% IV / (about) max CP which got evolved immediately.

Like others thought I bought incubators and filled 3 before the event. Luckily I didn't have any 10km ones so managed to walk enough to hatch the 5km ones and refill.

Those who've done previous Community Days at that park said that the spawns were paltry today compared to the others

The spawn rate was really high for most previous community days, but for this one and the last one (Bulbasaur) they completely nerfed the spawns and the high IV ones too, so it’ll be like that for future ones too.

In other news, we're on day 36 of Blisseywatch (no Chris Packham, you can't have that one!). Every time I get notified a Blissey has come back, I get hopeful it's my Lost-In-Norfolk one! Bit worried it might come back with big bushy eyebrows à la Desmond from Normal for Norfolk, given it's just down the road from that café.
If there are any mystic or instinct players that fancy taking over the Wiveton church gym with a pathetic pidgey, I can highly recommend the pub next door (Wiveton Bell) for lunch afterwards! Very good food.
Interesting aside; I've just noticed that Blissey sways perfectly in time to Gorillaz' Hong Kong!

I did a park/city loop and definitely thought the spawns weren't as plentiful as previous community days, in both locations.

I am also trying to get a ditto. Ever since this even started, I have only seen 3 pidgeys and no rats. As much as I love being able to get all these kanto pokemon (still no aerodactil though?), I would like to get my fucking ditto so that I can complete this task.

We walked straight past our park, today. The best spawns were right in the city centre. You could barely move for sheep around the marketplace and cathedral.

I went out with the raid group at a local park for the event, and there were about sixty of us there, we had to split into three groups for a Latias raid just outside the park.

I managed to get six shinies, so I have my first complete three set of shiny evolutions, as I only managed two shiny Bulbasaurs and Dratini at those events.

Those who've done previous Community Days at that park said that the spawns were paltry today compared to the others, but they all agreed it was probably because of the Kanto event, so the spawns should be more plentiful for the next one - unless it coincides with another event.

Only got one shiney. I’ve also been to a park I rarely go to this afternoon in my desperation to catch a bloody ditto.
Sick of it now.

I just managed to nip out for an hour and don’t catch any shiny. Then went out again for the last 10 mins and got one! It’s not that good but better than none.