Abra Abra Kadabra. PokemonGo Thread #25

whereareyousleep I've sent you a request - I'm MaxLotus

I'm going to be looking to level up with several people (hopefully) on Community Day. I just need some time to work out who they are!

I've got a few Level 40 friends who send me gifts but never seem to open the gift I have sent them. I feel bad opening their gifts and not being able to reciprocate! Is this a Level 40 thing where you don't need the XP?

Yeah, raichu is a bitch. I remember the first one I did with DS. We defeated it with 2 seconds to spare and then both caught it on the last ball! We stood on the dyke dancing and hugging each other.
And of course if you haven't got a local raid group, you can't get the legendaries or teams of tyranitar. You just have to evolve stuff up. It's a bit of a catch 22 really.

Thanks baroness that's really useful. I've only ever tried raichu on my own and my arse was whipped so it put me off soloing level 3s. I'm nearly level 40 so when back home around more raids will look out for sharpedo.

Is WurzelP on here? We are due to go besties when I open your gift. Let me know if you want to coordinegg.

You could also try an app like PokieGenie. You scan your Pokémon in, select the raid you want to do, and it picks a team and estimates your chances of winning. DS and I used to use it a lot when it was just the two of us raiding.

@tumpymummy Sharpedo is probably the easiest at the moment. You'll need machamps or hariyamas with counter and dynamic punch.
Scythers would be next and I'd pick Pokémon with double rock moves: rampardos with rock slide, rhyperior or golems with stone edge.
Alola raichu are a bit trickier. Try giratinas with double ghost moves, or double dark tyranitars.
Avoid gengars and machamps. It takes a good team of level 30+ Pokémon to defeat either if you're going in solo, especially if they're weather boosted.

Another fucking Latias.

Now I have to wait another week in the hope of getting a kyogre or groudon

What are the easiest level 3 raids to solo and any suggestions what with?! I only ever play on my own and have never managed to solo a level 3 but need it for the last special task. Am really not comfortable joining a raid group.

Gosh I've not been on here for ages! I'm needing a new friend to complete a special research. 0083 3565 6729 is my number if anyone doesn't have me 😊

Okay thank you

WhenEnoughIsEnough sorry I missed your post yesterday. I'm MaxLotus. I'm not around much this week or the weekend so go ahead and trigger whenever suits you

Community day suits me too Bittercup thanks

Congrats BaronessBomburst

@Bittercup I'm Imnotstarting, community day would be good for me thanks.

@YogaDrone and Imnotstarting (sorry don't know your Mumsnet name) I have a gift from each of you that will level us up to ultra. Do you want me to wait until community day or arrange a different time?

Congrats Baroness! 🍾🎉

Congrats, Baroness, I was so chuffed when I hit level 40!

I got a shiny Kyogre for my research reward today, I did a little squeal

Congratulations @BaronessBomburst 👏

And this was how I kicked off Monday morning.

Our raid group is like that too. The 'hard fighters' will manage 35-40 raids in the 3 hours. The middle group will do 15-20, and I always get left running the 'kindergarten group' and doing 5-7 raids, depending on if anyone has any extra passes. There's usually a few beginner adults in the kindergarten group but the Grand Prix and tennis meant that this Sunday it was just me and 11 boys aged between 6 and 12. It's chaos. Fortunately DS and I can practically duo an entei so the fact that they were using shelders didn't really matter.

I missed the Raikou raids last month but made it out to the Entei raids today. My local raid group are very competitive and move on to the next one as soon as the raid starts, and they walk and raid. Even the medium pace group is pretty fast! But I found another group today that were moving at a much more leisurely pace. Finish a raid, revive and then move on. I got 3 Entei from 7 raids, including a shiny which I didn’t even realise at the time. So that was a fun hour.

@plantbased A Lucky Egg doubles XP for 30 minutes so when you are 1 day away from levelling up friendship, it’s great to arrange a time to open the gift that will make you go from great to ultra or ultra to best friends, so that you both benefit from double XP. Getting 100k or 200k instead of 50k or 100k is pretty significant!

He's so pretty 😍😍

Argh I'm sonicshoegazer. I haven't been on for ages and just saw that I've been mentioned on the thread.

I'm so sorry...I'm back now though.

I might egg for Entei too so if anyone I'm due to level up with wants to join me?

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I will hang on until CD unless I hear from you, just thought I'd take advantage of the opportunity.