Routine Sparkles Pokémon Go

This November Giovanni - you're going to need two fighting types probably. What else have you got? Conkeldurr from the recent event maybe?

The "teach a new attack" (for candy + stardust) gives your Pokémon a second charged attack. Vital in battle league, less useful against team rockets though sometimes you can have a cheap attack for spamming shields and a knockout one for after. I mostly just end up using the cheap one anyway. I'd power up the pokemon as much as you can first.

The TMs just change one of your attacks. You can use those to make sure your fighting type Pokémon are using 2 x fighting type attacks. My machamp just has Counter (fast) + Cross Chop (charged), Counter does a lot of damage on its own and CC is quickish to charge.

Gio's middle Pokémon varies, so you may just need to try the battle, see what he has, then look up what attack type it's weak to and bring something with that attack in the rematch. It sometimes takes me a few tries to work out a team that will win.

@AlmostLegendary You can also do start by giving the best attacks to your highest CP pokemon, then your next highest etc.

With the Giovanni, power up your counters of the same type to the desired one maybe, i.e. you don't have an X but you have a Y (also fairy/ghost/water or whatever type.) that's a gamble though.

I have looked at the best counters and I don't seem to have very many of them! I'm working on my Machamp but don't have much to back it up with.

I am currently trying to beat Giovanni and not getting very far, so trying to work out the best way to give my Pokémon a bit more oomph.

@AlmostLegendary It makes a big difference if you google the best charged and fast attack for a pokemon, and try and change/keep its current moves to the best ones.

You can also google Giovanni counters for this month, so you know which ones to power up or use the attacks on.

I have no idea who is who anymore, but thank you everyone for the gifts! I think I've exhausted my holiday postcard supplies now, so back to the local ones, I try to keep the slightly more interesting ones but tend to end up repeatedly sending the same few.

I seem to have accumulated quite a few fast attack and charged attack items, but I don't know the best way to use them. Should I use both on the same Pokémon? Should I teach them a new attack first, do these complement or replace other attacks?

I am currently trying to beat Giovanni and not getting very far, so trying to work out the best way to give my Pokémon a bit more oomph.

Hi everyone, I've been playing since August and I'm just starting to get the hang of things. I've requested all the codes on the thread, I'm Timnaiomi - if anyone would like to add me my code is 918637023193

Thank you! Research achieved and gifts sent to everyone, they're still holiday postcards at the moment, so almost feels like sending real postcards.

The husband and I have sent you a friend request (Uniquewyre and Uniquewyretoo)

I would love to be able to see all the routes on a map, so I could plan an outing. I also find it incredibly hard to work out what direction they're going in and where they end if the name doesn't make it obvious.

I need to make a new friend for my current research, was wondering if any of the codes above are still active, or if I can provide mine? 9218 0317 0519

Ooh I checked and one of mine's been approved. Not the other 4 or 5 from around the same time yet, though.

We now have 5 routes, including mine. If I'd realised, I could have tried one out with Ds2, this morning!

I submitted three routes at the end of August and one was approved yesterday. I can see four more in the village that weren't there earlier in the week.

@ochnanoch Same here. Two of three published this morning. I guess they’re finally pulling their finger out with the upcoming event requiring routes.

I am finding the routes on the map feature useful but it doesn’t show the actual closest routes to me as such. The ‘closest’ it shows are miles away and I have to zoom around to see the actual closest ones. I live rurally do they are very spread out.

Very excited this morning to see that 2 of the three routes I submitted in early September have been published. I had given up hope.

Well all I can say about the welcome party task is that it was tedious and I won’t be bothering with a party again except maybe when raiding. All 4 parts were mostly completed using the go plus+ while auto spinning stops or catching Pokemon reachable from the sofa or whilst driving. I can’t imagine how even more tedious and annoying it would be if you didn’t have a family member’s account to call on.

Ds happy to have the Jolteon t-shirt, even though he doesn’t actually play any more.
I’m happy not to have to keep scrolling through and cancelling parties until you get a task you actually want. The rewards are just not worth it.

I assume the aim is to try and get players to get family members out playing with them again. So far it seems more likely to encourage multi account players to me.

😂

Still to try Arlo's bellsprout.

Sorry for being horribly tipsy right now but this made me LOL. 🙈

I think the leaders are a little easier while the event is on. My togekiss hadn't even got a charge move out on Cliff's dratini or or Sierra'a sableye while the first in the line up is normally the one for burning through the shields. I was expecting Sierra to take a few goes as you can't easily select 3 cover all pokemon but she was surprisingly easy. I shan't bother with her again for Sableye, mind.

Still to try Arlo's bellsprout.

So you beat him now he has Dratini? Yay!

IDK if it works now but a couple of months ago I had a lot of team leader challenges. My go-to team which was Terrakion, Mewtwo, Terrakion. The Terrakions had Sacred Sword. It seemed to often work.