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

Very jealous soup

No more 8-bit sprites. All the graphics are back to normal.

(And this gives me a sneaky way to show off my Unown )

Yes very central. I think zone 1 only even!

Apparently Central London only. We got Unown during the EUROPE event so it's a bit of a pain that I have to travel.

Is the Unown thing just central London?

@Wartortle88 I love shiny swablu.

I managed to evolve mine. But it's still the only shiny I have apart from 3 community day dratini.

I think that the shiny swablu look like little burlesque show girls. Ha

Very jealous of the unown Soup!

I got this beautiful swablu today, so happy!

Damn photo fail. 🤦‍♀️

It won't let me post it. But I got 2xL 1xO 1xN and 2xD Unown. 😁

Tada!

Thanks @bettytaghetti I do at least have community day fun on my birthday so hopefully will get plenty of shiny sheep.

@Eggzandbacon that's a great Moltres well done.

@jaimelannistersgoldenhand I've been up to London to catch them. 😁

I missed out on the Europe event so didn't get Kangas or any Unown. But now I do hurrah!

Unown letters LOND spawning during London Games Festival in London

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/8agjkl/appstoreetweetsabouttunownsspawningginlondon/

Eggzandbacon 91% is great!

IVs are basically how good a Pokemon is. For things like Pidgey, Rattatta etc. it doesn’t really matter, but for God Tier Pokemon (Tyrannitar, Dragonite etc.) and Legendary Pokemon you want to have the best IVs possible. A high CP is great, but if it’s high CP/low IV it would be a bad idea to evolve/power up.

The higher the IV, the better the Pokemon will be in battle. So if two people are fighting with a Tyrannitar and one is 60% and the other is 95%, even if they have the same movesets, the 95% will last longer and deal more damage.

So if you’re there wondering why a Pokemon everyone is saying is good isn’t performing for you, if you’re not checking IVs before you evolve or power up, that could be a big reason why (along with best movesets, Pokemon Level, CP and type effectiveness).

If you want more info have a look at this guide: www.google.co.uk/amp/s/pokemongohub.net/post/featured/pokemon-go-iv-guide-explained/amp/

Ooh, nice Eggz! The one I got was 'only' 84% and tiny. Ho hum!

Perhaps they could make it so when you set a private group you pick a lobby time, maybe between 30 seconds and 2 mins so if you're soloing you don't have to hang around but if you're a group you can have the longer time to arrange.

I reinstalled pokegenie just to look

I don’t understand IVs

Eggzandbacon Congrats! What IVs?

I love this field research - my first legendary!

Did catch this nice little fishy the other day. Unfortunately I evolved one recently so it's going to take quite a while to get enough candy to evolve this one 😥

Nice 80's reference there Doctor!

No ex raid pass either Soup; hope you have a fun birthday anyway.

I used the battle simulator for the first time yesterday and managed to take down a level 3 boss on my own. Got a bit cocky and tried again a while later to no success!

It was just so much more pleasant walking & playing in the sunshine yesterday rather than having to wipe the rain off my phone screen before screwing up another throw due to frost bitten fingers!

I don't think I'd want the lobby time cut down but a skip option would be good. For when you solo it.

Round here we have very large groups which get organised for raiding and we tend to use private groups for all raids to prevent spoofers. Sometimes we need that 2 mins time to make sure everyone has got the code and gotten into the group without glitching or erroring out.

But yeah an option to say 'I'm ready, Let's go!' Would be great when you're soloing stuff. Otherwise the two minutes is long enough that I sometimes wander off into a day dream and don't notice when the battle starts. Haha.

I always think that they should reduce the lobby time to 30 sec for private groups. That would be particularly good if you want to solo something, you could just create your own private group and get on with it. For public I can see the sense in the 2 min wait because it gives people who are in the area, and close enough to see that there are folk in the lobby, time to get there.

Although here the last person to arrive will often signal to start the lobby when they are within 2 min away. That does help cut the waiting around a bit.

There are a few field research tasks which also give out rare candy too so keep an eye out for those!

iheartmichellemallon I don’t mind the two minutes as I either spend it picking my team (if I don’t already have a battle party for that particular Pokemon) or reviving and healing them from the previous raid

Plus you get to chat to everyone while you wait so I find it goes by rather quickly.

I do think there should be an option to bypass it though; say if you’re soloing or if everyone has turned up to the raid, you could click a button to just say “I’m ready! Let’s battle!”.