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

Hi all, total newbie to Pokemon go. Seemed like a good idea as I walk the dog each day! When I was a teenager I watched Pokemon, it had only just come out, so we are talking Ash, Misty, Brock. There are these new Pokemon and I'm overwhelmed!

What ones should I power up? How do I know if they are any good? What if I'm powering one up then I catch the same Pokemon but with a higher CP? Do I switch to that one??

Help me!

And you can turn it to just spinning stops or just catching or both

It only uses red ones

Tempting....(Go-tcha) as long as it doesn't automatically catch all pokemon going as I don't live/work that near a Pokestop so tend to run out of balls - I can imagine it would just use them all until they ruin out!

Yes I have a Go-tcha and it’s great especially as I have a Pokestop at my desk at work so I turn it on and let it do it’s own thing.

You need a Gotcha or Pogo+. They spin stops and catch Pokémon automatically.

Murinae - you're certainly not the only WI PoGo playing member!

Our meeting venue has just become a Stop - only I'm far too embarrassed to get my phone out and spin during the meeting (I manage a couple of spins at start and finish but such a wasted opportunity!)

Thanks @PickAChew that seems to help, a slowbro just appeared in my house and I tried throwing when the circle was at 2/3 and got a great throw, although it then fled, but my task counted the great throw, just 8 more to go!

Salutations? How terribly formal. The above post was meant for sakura

Salutations, if you're struggling for accuracy, go for Mon like ponyta which have a big circles, hold the ball and wait for the circle tho get down to about 2/3 of its diameter before firing your ball into the circle.

Does anyone have any tips for how to get a great throw? I've only managed one of my ten for the 2nd special research tasks and can't see how I'll make it to ten!!

Jumping back in as I missed do Mandy threads.

No mewto for me. But got a mew. Still in pursuit of Latias.

I've been trying to top up my total catches for Dragon, Fighting and Steel to get my gold on those medals. With this Kanto region thing I seem to be swimming in Machop, so at least that one's going to be ticked off quickly, and the magnemite for the steel are fairly plentiful too.

I caught a Moltres earlier, as a result of completing some quests. Ds is very pleased. I had no pokeballs by the end of my morning. This has never happened happened before...

I've got every pokemon released in the UK so far, so I'd really love any regional that hasn't been here... But especially tauros to complete Gen 1.

I got Kangaskhan and FarFetch'd in the events last year so if they swap regionals, I hope we get Taurus.

Agreed; Tauros is the only one I’m missing from Gen I so it would be nice to fully complete it.

I managed to restart it between two bits of the meeting as well. Not sure how many WI women play Pokemon Go!

I managed to replenish my balls tonight after using loads trying for the excellent curve ball and catching the 50 Pokemon with a berry. I was at WI Meeting and the church hall is between a Pokestop and a gym and reaches both so had my Go-tcha on in my pocket the whole 90 mins. By the time the meeting had finished my bag was full.

I‘m hoping for tauros too. Got the farfetched and kang last year in the events as well. Just missing tauros now I have Mew

I got Kangaskhan and FarFetch'd in the events last year so if they swap regionals, I hope we get Taurus.

One of our goals, since ds1 is a bus fanatic, is to rid the northeast of white rings, so the ponyta are just a side order.

Has anyone come across the rarer ones like Touros or Farfetched?

Efferlunt They’re regional, and there have been no confirmed sightings of any regional Pokemon outside of their regions, so it appears they have not made them available around the world.

I’m hoping they might later in the week, though.

I had a good day and have now have the evolves of mankey Sandshrew doduo and diglet which means my gem 1 dec is looking pretty full. Has anyone come across the rarer ones like Touros or Farfetched?

Also DS8 and I did our first legendary raid through the FB group. Most of the other people who turned up looked like they would have been standing on the end of platform 12 at Clapham with a notebook and thermos in and earlier era. Although we battled the raid I failed to catch the Latious at the end which was disappointing.

I might manage a random excellent curveball before Christmas then

I've been dumping the consecutive throwing challenges. I just don't seem to have the timing to get nice/ great/ excellent on demand. I can do curveballs but not reliably and without wastage.

Remembered what someone said about battling a gym & quitting & letting the time run down before going back in. So popped out to a local raid but unfortunately it was a legendary one so took rather longer to run down each time! Managed to get 6 goes so will finish that one off tomorrow, yay! And thanks to the extra spawning of magikarps + double candy & pinap berries, evolving a magikarp no problem.