Pokemon Go #17: Mankey Gone To Heaven

I don't mind not being able to filter friends, but it would be useful if it was obvious from the friends list who you haven't given a present to yet today (and can actually receive one).

Thanks for al the tips! I'm also struggling sending gifts back I have 200 friends now and you can only gift & accept 20 a day

@imnotadragon start walking a Magikarp for the candy. Also if you have a local Pokémon Go friend, trade them Magikarp so you get extra candy.

I find Mr Mime and Machop good for excellent curve balls. Thanks for all my gifts, I've been trying to make sure I don't miss people when sending back but it's hard when you can't sort, filter or search friends.

Pressed sent too soon!

The bonuses are nice-great-excellent. My first excellent curveball was on a Hoothoot but that was a fluke! You get extra XP for better throws too.

@imnotadragon it’s to do with how small the circle is when the ball hits it. It’s easiest with Pokemon with big circles like Wailmer, Ponyta, Jynx. I got 7 out of 10 great throws on the same Pokemon. It was a high CP Ponyta that I knew wouldn’t be caught easily with a red ball but you still get credit for the throw.

You might want to start practicing your curve balls too, there’s an excellent curve ball coming up! I now mainly use curve balls and it really improves catch rate. There’s YouTube videos on how the throw one.

Hello! Is it ok for me to join you lot? I'm level 32, Team Valor :-) None of my friends IRL plays, so thought I'd pop my code here, in case anyone fancies adding me... 3314 7949 4509.

And the only mythical pokemon I've been getting so far are Articunos I have two or three now

Oh god I'm no where near 400 candys to evolve a magikarp! I think I only have around 208 I am doing ok with the ghost Pokemon but I'm struggling with the great throws how on earth do you know what makes a great throw each time? .x

I meant the field research rather than mythical discovery!

Hey @imnotadragon im at 5/8 too, dunno if you know but at 6/8 one of the tasks is to evolve a magicarp... just incase your close, hold off! I'm sat on my 400 candies now waiting to do it until I find these darn ghost Pokemon

Is there expected to be a new legendary as mythical discovery reward come 1st July?

imnotadragon if you leave the completed task until tomorrow it will give you a stamp tomorrow.

Hey I'm 5/8s through the mythical discovery thing what happens when you complete it does it restart again? And I also have collected my research stamp for today and have another to collect if I leave till tomorrow will that count as a new day even though I completed t today I just haven't clicked on it yet if that makes sense?z

I was convinced the alohan eggs where 2k 🙈no idea why I thought it but I set myself up for disappointment didn't I

It was announced before the water event that all eggs dropped would be 2km, so it was planned and not a glitch.

Thank you to those who have friended me already, I've also added a few of you tho not all, back to real life now but quite excited about sending and receiving presents!

Hello all, another solo player and lurker here. I will add some of you lovely people when I get a minute and if you'd like to add me, my code is 0399 2479 6003. My avatar's name is Leonora. Now to try and get rid of all those 2k eggs! Will try and post properly later

I have the Kyogre as a buddy - don't think anyone else here does?

SneakyGremlins You’re walking Kyogre? It’s 1 candy per 20km!

I'm sending as many gifts as I can every day! Please let me know if I missed you - I have the Kyogre as a buddy - don't think anyone else here does?

Also, I've accepted lots of friend requests which I assume are from on here. Thanks lovelies. I will get to gift giving asap but sadly have only spun about 3 stops today and only picked up 1 gift so haven't been able to gift away. Sorry!

Thank you to everyone who gave me a gift too. I have a bit of a backlog on them (and also bag space issues) but thanks!

@SeahorsesAREhorses congrats on the Absol

I'm not surprised you did better not using the recommended Pokemon.

The recommendations are always HEAVILY skewed in favour of défense. So it will pick types with immunity to the raid boss type over the strong attacking types you should be going for, plus high défense stats. Generally they'll be tanky things but won't actually get the job done as they won't administer enough damage.

I highly recommend using pokebattler.com it takes a little time to tell it about your strongest Pokemon but once you've done that it will recommend your strongest team from your actual Pokemon taking into account not just Pokemon types and base stats, but also the move sets, level and IVs of your actual Pokemon.

iheartmichellemalon I didn't get my coins from gyms yesterday too. Was in 2 gyms, both knocked out during Saturday but no coins received. I've checked back in my journal and no mention of them being returned even though I've had to revive them. Too busy to do any gyms today so didn't get a chance to check today.

Thanks to all my poke friends who have sent me gifts. If I haven't returned the favour yet I will as soon as I have more boxes to give.

My code is 8088 4387 0337 if anyone wants new friends 😁