Pokemon Go #17: Mankey Gone To Heaven

Congrats Wailmer!

I'm considerately less fussed about no Zapdos as I have alolan Ninetails

Had a very interesting day today!

Zapdos Day Stats

I gained 336,483 XP
Which meant I levelled up to Level 38
I gained 29,588 stardust

I caught 3 shiny Zapdos - 87%, 82% and 79%

I did 13 raids and caught 10 overall

All good, except I had a 100% Zapdos run from me

But other than a great day! I did have to cut it short though; otherwise I’d still be out there now!

I don't have Facebook so I don't know where anyone is

Yay shiny high IV Zapdos!! Very happy with my first raiding experience

It has also been discovered that Alolan Geodude and Alolan Diglett can now be hatched from 7km eggs

Here’s an infographic of what counter to use against Zapdos. Basically, it’s that army of Smack Down/Stone Edge Tyrannitar you should have from Larvitar community day

I’ve also attached a picture of normal vs. shiny Zapdos. It is a small difference, but shiny Zapdos is darker. If you get one, you will mostly notice it by the stars that appear when you hit the catch screen

I am very much looking forward to this. On Articuno Day I managed 17 raids and gained around 700,000 XP. Sure, it was a double XP event, but I’m going to be sticking a lucky egg on every half an hour to maximise XP today too.

For the first 5 Zapdos raids today you get a free raid pass.

Can't see me being free for Zapdos raids. I knew having kids was a bad idea!

Finally dinged to 25 last night, but even that caused me an issue: I now have 425/400 items in my pack. First-world PoGo problems, for real.

Thanks!

Zapdos day today! I’m finally free and able to go with my local group (with the kids of course) so we might raid at least three times Do you need to buy extra raid passes?

Ah yes I meant Mew. @OrianaBanana try and find a river or lake this weekend! I was chuffed how fast I got a load. There's a research task too - "Catch 10 pokemon" to get a magikarp so keep spinning pokestops to find it.

that's the one!

Not sure on the Google thing. I have an android and all the Google stuff on it. It basically stalks you and says "rate your trip to Asda today" and stuff like that.

Tangelas Something like this?

Congrats Sneaky on getting to level 30!

I have been dead set against spending any money on games but I finally caved the other night as I thought the ultra box was good value with all the super incubators, lucky eggs & raid passes.

Do you have to have a google sign in in order to be able to use the google rewards and does it need to be an android phone? Completely useless at how that all works!

They must've had a battery power pack as big as the moon

Did they not have a job to go to or anything?!

That’s good going Tinsel!

Somebody on Facebook has gone from zero to Level 31 in 24 days with a new account.

Took me nearly two years.

I'm level 35 and haven't spent any real money on the game. I feel that if I start spending on it I might not stop
I've uses Google survey money though so technically not all from gyms.

7/8 looks easier to complete so I'm on my way to a mewtoo...

MrsJamin Might be an autocorrect if you’ve typed Mewtwo a lot in this chat, but you get Mew from the special field research quest, not Mewtwo; they’re ex raid only

I have 1,343 Magikarp candies! As well as four Gyarados (two shiny), two of which are powered up to level 30. I live in a water area so I see lots of Magikarp

Well done MrsJamin! I’m only at 268 Magikarp candy.. Need to find a river!

I've finally got enough magikarp to evolve for mythical task 6/8, it was a incense + walk along a river deal today that clinched it, as I pinap'ed any magikarp I found giving 12 candy per karp, so phew! 7/8 looks easier to complete so I'm on my way to a mewtoo...

On the topic of spending money on the game, I limit myself to £20/month as I’m a casual player. Do you think there’ll be an event box tomorrow? The current ones aren’t great value for me. I mainly use coins for incubators and lucky eggs.

MeetMeInMontauk Yeah, you can only get 50 coins a day. Once you get 50 coins, any Pokemon that is kicked out for the rest of the day comes back with nothing.

It resets at midnight, so if you get kicked out of a gym at 1am and you’ve been in a while so get 50 coins from it, you won’t get anymore coins for another 23 hours regardless of how many Pokémon come back from gyms.

I don’t take gyms for coins; I take gyms to get gold on them. I want gold on every gym in our town so hold multiple gyms each day. So far I have 9 gold gyms and I’m well on my way to getting gold on another 9.

So if someone kicks me out after five minutes, I think that’s a good thing, as I can just go back, retake it, and get a load more points towards getting gold on that gym.

ETA - congrats on levels/shinies, all!

Wait, it's capped at 50 coins per day across all gyms, regardless of total control time? Wow, that is a bottleneck. Guess it also takes away the incentive to control multiples rather than, say, a quiet gym overnight (I've found this to be the most reliable and efficent method for minimising use of revives/potions. Nothing more annoying than taking a gym and burning a ton of HP consumables just to see some bugger kick you out within 5 mins before other team members can support).