I don't like Kricketot, oh no, I love it, yeah

BaronessBomburst Suicune seems to be one of the very few legendaries that just don’t work in Pokemon Go unfortunately. Its movesets are poor and don’t benefit from STAB, and it lags behind Vaporeon and Gyarados.

Larvitar are exceptionally rare wild encounters (hence the importance of the Larvitar community day a few months back), and rare in eggs too due to their importance in the game.

Thr majority of raid groups operate via WhatsApp and/or Discord, so if there’s one in your area, they’ll all be on that. If you ever bump into one, ask them about a group!

SneakyGremlins Kyogre is an exceptionally good Pokemon so I can see why your friend was so bitter!

That's true. Even my pony 35% Alakazam has been on the recommended team for some raids. Other times my highest Pokémon have been ignored and my Lairon picked as it's a steel/ rock type.
DS and I like to plan raids, research and pick a posse, then see how it compares with the recommended battle group.
We always end up going with the recommended posse!

I always lose you guys - so just checking in again.

Groudon was 70% when my friend sent it me.

she's still bitter

Thanks Wailmer, I'll look into it! I tend to use Kyogre most (over 2500 battles) as the game tends to recommend it - and it is my highest CP Pokémon!

Brilliant, thank you Wailmer.
My only legendaries are the Suicune from last month's boxes. I ended up with five.
Metagross and Gyarados are both a work in progress.
Tyranitar is getting nowhere fast. I have one Larvitar, and one Pupitar - both hatched. I have never seen either spawn locally.
The good bit of news is that DS hacker friend has had his account reinstated and has promised to stop hacking, so at least they'll be three of us for raids now.
There are loads of players locally including level 40s (with multiple accounts!) but we never seem to meet them. And the FB group died a death a long time ago - I checked.

SneakyGremlins Very lucky with your Kyogre, Groudon and Gyarados!

I wouldn’t create a party with them as you’ll want to tailor your battle team to whatever Pokemon you’re facing at the time. Even powered up high IV Pokemon can be useless if they’re fighting against an attacker and they’re the wrong type with the wrong movesets.

Type and movesets play a very I mportant part in a successful battle (and can make or break sometimes) so it’s always worth researching

I have 89% IV Kyogre, 83% IV shiny Metagross, 98% IV Gyrados, 89% IV Machamp, 80% IV Tyranitar, and a 96% IV Groudon, should I put them all on one team? Or will that not work due to types?

What would you recommend as a starter team of attackers Wailmer?

BaronessBomburst If you have any legendaries, they should take priority - they are legendary for a reason and one of the best in their type! This particularly applies to Kyogre, Groudon and Mewtwo.

After legendaries, you should switch your focus to high IV:
• Tyrannitar (especially important - always good to have several high IV ones)
• Dragonite
• Metagross
• Salamence
• Gyarados

Definitely stick with your Machamp, and then Alakazam too when you get it. Especially Machamp - it’s a very important player in the attack stakes

I think I get why people call me a shiny magnet now...

What would you recommend as a starter team of attackers Wailmer?
I've got my Machamp (fighting type), a Vaporean (water type), both with high IV (98 and 93) and powered up to the max of my trainer level.
I'm wondering where to focus next?
I've got a good Kadabra, also lucky, but need to catch a free more Abras before I can evolve him.

I store things like pineco for when I get "Catch 5 bug types".

Not getting rid completely @SneakyGremlins but they have said it's not a supported feature. If you have more than 100 then some will be deleted, not sure if it will be oldest last or what. They have also said that having too many stacked may cause problems for future special research.

Oh that's a relief!

They’re not removing stacking completely, Sneaky, they’re just putting a cap of stacked rewards to 100

That was me, @TrashPanda - they're getting rid of it?????

So far I’ve been powering up willy nilly

pottypotamus Stardust should only be used to power up your top tier attackers. Any other use of it is a complete waste.

While it might seem stardust is easy to get as you get it from every catch and hatch, consider this: to take a Pokemon from Level 20 to Level 30 it costs 75,000 dust. And that’s just one Pokemon, so to have a good powered up team of attackers it is going to cost you hundreds of thousands and most likely into the millions of stardust.

So choose the Pokemon you power up very carefully - make sure you’ll be battling with them, they’re high IV and at least level 20 to minimise the stardust and candy costs.

Yes I was also convinced my Pokemon with the highest CP would have the highest IVs

CP and IV are completely unrelated.

Niantic have put a tweet out about stacked research encounters. I'm sure I remember someone mentioning that they had them so it made the catch 108 for Spiritomb easy. Not sure how it will work now.

@BaronessBomburst
Yes I was also convinced my Pokemon with highest CP would have great IVs. Turned out not.
Oh well...I have a lot to learn.

Had an argument with DH this evening because he wouldn't spin the pokestops for me while I was driving

Wailmer. Ah ok. Thank you! I will definitely be more careful with my use of stardust in that case.
So far I've been powering up willy nilly

I've got an alakazam evolved from a kadabra that I caught in the Efteling. It has a really high CP. I loved that Pokémon. It was special.
It also has an IV of 35%.
In fact, most of my highest Pokémon have been revealed to be utter donuts.

I would chuck them all out but they still come up as recommended for battles. I'm now focusing on replacing them, then chucking them out.

So far, all mine have.

Do Pokemon keep their IV score after evolving?

pottypotamus Yes. IV never changes unless the Pokemon is traded (in which case it’s not yours anymore so that’s irrelevant anyway).

That’s the reason IV is so important - because it can’t be changed. Low level Pokemon can be powered up (only do so if they’re worth it - stardust is especially hard to get a lot of) so the CP grows, but low IVs will always be low.

Just discovered Pokegenie
Trying to get my head around IVs...

My cacnea, who'd have thought.
Do Pokemon keep their IV score after evolving?

1,154. I've been playing less than 2 months though. My previous phone was so ancient it didn't support PoGo and although I set up an account I couldn't actually use it.

I've only caught just over 9.5k, I play most days but had a 6 month break not long after it was released. I don't catch anywhere near anything I see. The most on my friends list is about 65k.