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Routine Sparkles Pokémon Go

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ISaySteadyOn · 28/07/2023 18:23

New thread. No routes where I am. We're going to be at Pokémon Go Fest on 6 August. V excited.

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gillybean2 · 14/04/2024 20:43

Woohoo! Now to work on my pilot badge…

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BattleSymphony · 13/04/2024 22:06

gillybean2 · 13/04/2024 10:41

Second raid today. I’m happy!

A shundo! That is unreal! 😍

thirdfiddle · 13/04/2024 18:27

Was well chuffed I caught a shiny and a 4*, both in one even better!

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ISaySteadyOn · 13/04/2024 11:57

DD2 just caught a shiny female combee and a shiny male combee on one walk!

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gillybean2 · 13/04/2024 10:57

Their=there 🤐

gillybean2 · 13/04/2024 10:56

@KevinAndHerKits that time I was invited by a friend. How and when we became friends I couldn’t tell you. Either in my quest for scatterbugs or randomly met at a pogo event.
But i do also use the go raid party app. It’s great for distance raids and I can trade the mon for my distance badge. Lots of heracross raids to join on their at the moment.

KevinAndHerKits · 13/04/2024 10:46

gillybean2 · 13/04/2024 10:41

Second raid today. I’m happy!

Ooh, you have friends in exotic places. I've got one friend in Taiwan from last year's PoGo Fest but all the rest are Europe and California.

Or did you join a raid with randoms via Discord or something?

gillybean2 · 13/04/2024 10:41

Second raid today. I’m happy!

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gillybean2 · 13/04/2024 10:40

@KevinAndHerKits 😂
Nice and I’m sure you won’t think twice about running out in future, whatever the attire.
I dread to think how many times my next door neighbour has seen me running out in my dressing gown. I can only reach one of my home gyms if I stop in front of their house. I know it shows up on their ring doorbell…🫣

thirdfiddle · 12/04/2024 18:07

Love the way you tell the story Kevin 😂
Enjoy your new pet!

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ISaySteadyOn · 12/04/2024 17:23

Envy actually envy 😁

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KevinAndHerKits · 12/04/2024 15:05

I have the day off and henna'd my hair, so was wandering round the house wearing a crappy pj top and with my hair wrapped in cling film, when I clicked on PoGo out of boredom and noticed that the gym at the end of the road, which is in a really quiet area and doesn't normally attract passing trade, had four people waiting on a raid.

It took me all of five seconds to weigh up "but I have my hair wrapped in cling film and look mad" vs "but I don't have a Tapu Bulu", and I sprinted out to the perimeter of the raid (about twenty metres).

Three minutes later I discovered why a bunch of people had suddenly turned up to a gym in the middle of nowhere...

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AlmostLegendary · 08/04/2024 22:33

This is probably why I don't get the gems at all, most often I do raids by myself so would never be able to use enough to actually make a difference.

I normally delete them before they even get to 10, but now I'm wondering if having 3 shard pieces still takes up 3 item slots, so I'm still taking up almost the same amount of item space...

thirdfiddle · 08/04/2024 22:05

I think it takes 8 gems to un-enrage them. And each player can only play max 5 in one raid, so needs at least 2 of you, and to keep putting gems on as soon as it allows them (there's a cooldown). They're really helpful for the 5-star shadows. For three-star if DH is with me we can usually do it without crystals anyway. With a group of 18 doing Mewtwo it was subdued before I even noticed it was enraged.
[edited to remove star/bold type fail]

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ISaySteadyOn · 08/04/2024 20:46

I still don't get how the gems work. They never seem to for me. The Pokémon stays enraged

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thirdfiddle · 08/04/2024 20:26

And the shadow shards I think you collect x4 to add up to a purified gem. Will stop accumulating once the purified gems are at 10. I think it's 4, like AlmostLegendary I don't do many shadow raids so mine mostly sit around at 10.

thirdfiddle · 08/04/2024 20:21

Purified gems only stack up to 10 usually, so may be easier to just let them stack up to max than delete them and have to sit through the animation of finding them again every time you do a rocket battle.

AlmostLegendary · 08/04/2024 20:15

The mysterious components when you get to 6/6 make a rocket radar and then you fight one of the bosses, instead of just another grunt.

Purified gems can be thrown at bosses during shadow raids. I don't use them as quickly as I accumulate them, because I don't do that many raids where you'd need them. I delete quite a few.

iwantsunshine1 · 08/04/2024 19:25

Does anyone actually use these things I've circled? I can never remember what they do but I never actively use them

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SocksAndTheCity · 05/04/2024 14:31

I like a shiny Shelgon myself 😀

SneakyGremlin · 05/04/2024 13:43

Pretty much! The spawns will be basically just bagon from 2-5pm, and there's a special research you can buy for 99p that will give you extra rewards and encounters. Bagon will have a boosted shiny rate (I think 1/64?) and personally I think it's a lovely green colour Grin

iwantsunshine1 · 05/04/2024 08:50

How do community days work please? Do I just go out and play as normal to try and catch the Bagon Pokemon?

thirdfiddle · 03/04/2024 13:30

Currently I’m working on achieving my platinum showcase badge. I’m 8 away from that.
That is super impressive! I've only got silver and that involved considerable shuffling of xxls between the more obscure showcases in town.

I'd like to build teams and competence to reliably get to Ace/2000 in battle league. So mostly powering up my ML team as aiming for giant 4*s is easier than knowing what exactly is best in cp limited leagues.

AlmostLegendary · 03/04/2024 09:18

I'd like to get to level 50 and complete the Pokédex, I'm a long way off either at the moment!

I've always walked a lot, but had started finding just walking very boring, having something to do as I go keeps it interesting.

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ISaySteadyOn · 03/04/2024 08:21

SneakyGremlin · 01/04/2024 23:52

I'm trying to get one of each Pokémon and one of each shiny

Same!

Also, buddy play is sort of fixed. You can play with your buddy but it's on a sort of green screen background.

I still don't like the new avatars. I liked pretending I was a pretty manga girl for a bit.

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