PokemonGo #9. A journey to hatch a 10km egg starts with a single step.

[DoctorTwo]

It looked like a new thread was needed, so here it is, all shiny and pristine.

Spiderlight yay well done! Lovely CP too

I know! I lurve him. I am soooo chuffed!

Anyone else finding cyndaquil and houndour are a pain in the ass to catch.

Take loads of berries and pokeballs before they finally give in. I've had a few escape too

Soubriquet Yes, it's because Cyndaquills only have a catch rate of 20% (and a flee rate of 10%), while Houndour has a catch rate of 40% with the same flee rate.

Is that so, @WhatToDoAboutThis2017? I hadn't realised that different Pokemon had different rates, I assumed it was just chance.

LBOCS2 No, it's not just chance. Each and every Pokemon has its own unique catch and flee rate.

You can see them all here: www.heavy.com/games/2017/03/pokemon-go-what-is-the-capture-flee-rate-catch-percentage-first-second-generation-list-chart/amp/

I am so fucking annoyed.

Because MN isn't working on my phone, I cleared my cache which logged me out of the wifi on the underground. Got to the tube platform and there was a lapras. The first one I've ever seen in the wild. Except I couldn't catch the fucker because I had no wifi.

So it's Mumsnet's fault I missed out on a lapras.

Gutted.

I didn't know that about the catch rate, learn something new every day!

Loving the event, just need a couple more Cydaquils and Hounders to evolve them, Charmander candy is helping to power up my bad boys too.

I need more start dust though, we need a stardust event next!

The best Pokemon I've evolved has a cp of just over 2000 and I'm level 26. I don't know how you get a 3200cp Blissey or Dragonite without huge amounts of effort. I'm hoping the gym rework means Pokemon that aren't the usual suspects powered up to the 3000s can hold a gym or two too or at least have tiers so it's possible to participate. We'll see!

I am level 35 and have walked miles to get there! I have a gyrados at 3200 and a couple of ryhorn at 3000 but all the rest are lower. I hadn't realised how few defensive ones I had so I am building them up but have to walk to get the candies. I just can't bring myself to cheat!

Nooooo, Penguin? I would have been so gutted!! :(

I'm at level 27 almost 28 and only one local gym that changes team most days. Two poke stops in a one mile radius, that we got multiple times on the school run. Any more pokestops or gyms are a car/bus journey away, but we're just plodding on. Our highest level Pokémon are 2550ish.

Close to level 34 and my nearest pokestop is a mile away at the other end of the village! I might occasionally go way out of my way to visit it after dropping ds2 at school, but it adds an extra 20 minute walk and the whole mile home is uphill so don't bother if the weather is in any way unpleasant or hot!

We do have a gym equidistant, but that's in another village and getting there involves crossing a dangerous nsl road - it's hard enough to turn right onto it out of the village, so there is no way I would ever attempt it as a pedestrian.

I am fucked off.

Got a new simcard with better data. Topped up £15....fucking data doesn't work on my phone....and now my old simcard won't fucking work data wise either!!

HandbagKrabby I'm Level 27 and my highest is a Gyarados at 2616, then two Rhyhorns at 2547 and 2499 respectively.

I have no trouble staying in gyms - I'm usually in a middling position, but once or twice I have been the top, so it's more than possible to gym without 3000 CP Pokemon.

Omg FreeNiki that's fucking hilarious

I'm a level 28 and these are my highest ranked. I've maxed out a couple by powering them up too.

The gyms change hands here so frequently that I've never stayed in one more than 24 hours :(

With a picture this time...

LBOCS2 Oh yes, I've powered up the majority of my top ones; Gyarados, Rhydons, Vaporeons, Machamp.

I actually have to wait for my Gyarados to get kicked out of his gym before I can power him up every time I go up a level as he's in one that holds for weeks at a time!

I also have a Vaporeon that's been in a gym for a few weeks too.

So I get to collect at least two every day regardless of whether I'm gymming or not

I'm very careful with what I power up though as I don't want to waste my stardust. I only power up ones good at either attacking or defending a gym, and I stop powering up when I feel powering them up anymore won't be beneficial.

I've not powered any of mine up yet which is perhaps why they are such weaklings. The yellow gyms near us are all 3000+ and level 10 so I can't join those. I've won a couple that change hands pretty quickly. I think you need a group really to fill it up and get it up the levels. It will be interesting to see what happens with the updates. I have made enough coins from my exploits to buy a half price lucky egg though, so all is not lost! :D

HandbagKrabby I don't think you need a group, just two people is ample. I never gym alone as that's always a waste of resources, so DH and I gym together.

We can easily take down Level 10 gyms, but I wouldn't take down anything higher than Level 3 alone.

I only just realised you could do the special move! I'm hoping the gyms is a big change so we can all start from scratch. I remember when it first started and I didn't have anything to beat the 600cp gym leading raticates we had here!

Whoop! Got a Lapras at Euston station today. It was at rush hour so I expect I was a bit annoying Really low CP but my first wild one.

Got enough candy for Charizard and Houndoom now but going to wait until the end of the event to see if I get a wonder. I'm pretty rubbish at waiting to evolve new ones usually.
Nearly there with the Cynquadil candies.

I've not had much mojo for this event so far. I don't think that it's helped that I'm in a post half-marathon lull, and have got myself stuck into some decorating that's best done when the DCs are at school, but other than the evolutions for Houndour and Cyndaquill, I've already got a good stock of these pokemon and it's just feeling an effort to use lots of razzberries and better quality balls to catch anything.

You wait a year for one Lapras and then two come along - this one popped up while I was sitting on the sofa last night! Managed to catch it for DS as well although he has proclaimed it 'rubbish'. I don't care though!