Pokemon Go #10. See ya later Feralligator, in a while Totodile

[DoctorTwo]

Despite only really playing at the weekend due to working I'm now 180k through Level 31. Today I cheated somewhat. The M25 was stationary, so I opened the app and left it on. I had 8 eggs cooking and between junctions 18 and 22 managed to hatch 7 of them. Mantine, 2x Exegcute, Krabby, Eevee, Togepi and Magby.

Congrats Abbey on reaching Level 30, and commiserations Spammy on not being able to log in.

I loved walking togepi, so cute!

I'm walking a pupitar at the mo, just a weird spiky...thing!

Only 2 candys till I can evolve it though. I got a bayleef in a raid today and a rare candy which saved me 5k.

Also snagged 2 more totodiles which I am well chuffed with. The gps is very dodgy where the nest is but it's a beautiful spot by a river so there are worst places to wait. My dex is up to 220 now.

Does anyone know when the next nest changes are?

WhatToDo oh okay good thing I didn't try that then!

My Donphan has earthquake and my Rhydon has stone edge. They're fairly decent aren't they?.

With the electric vs water thing, think of it like this: if you drop a toaster into a bath, whatever is in there is going to die! So electric is good against water.

Stone Edge is a great move, but it's a rock move, so it's not ground and therefore electric isn't weak against it.

Earthquake, another great move, is a ground move and therefore super effective against electric!

What are your fast moves for Donphan and Rhydon?

Tip: when you fight, you can tell if your Pokemon is any good against the other as over the other Pokemon it will say "Super Effective!" (so keep going!) or "Not Effective!" (Switch Pokemon immediately!).

Whatever words appear over your Pokemon is whether that Pokemon is good against you or not. You want it to say "not effective" over your Pokemon, because if it says "super effective", you should switch!

I struggle to activate the big moves. I'm not sure if that's connected with the diagonal crack across my screen! Sometimes it pulls up the switch pokemon box, but mainly results in dodging around.

SomewhatIdiosyncratic When battling, continually pressing uses up the fast moves. More fast moves charges up your charged move, and when that second bar (or bars in some cases) is full, hold your finger down for a couple of seconds to activate your charged move.

But you might already know that and it might just be your phone

I think the charged move issue is a new thing, I hope so anyway because it has changed recently. The bar fills and sparkles, I do a long press.....and nothing happens. I swear and do it again and the second time it works. I've not changed, my phone hasn't changed so I'm hoping that a future update will return things as they were. Failing that I'll learn to do two long presses.

That's strange; I haven't been having any problems with charged moves.

Whatever words appear over your Pokemon is whether that Pokemon is good against you or not. You want it to say "not effective" over your Pokemon, because if it says "super effective", you should switch!

Bollocks I always thought it was the other way round?

Bollocks I always thought it was the other way round?

Nope. If I'm fighting a Gyarados with my Jolteon, it will say Super Effective on the Gyarados (because he's weak to water) and Not Effective on the Jolteon (because he's super effective against water).

If you still don't believe me, BumWad, it's easy to prove.

Next time you gym, pick an obvious effective/not effective duo (i.e. If battling a grass Pokemon, use a fire Pokemon with fire moves; if battling a fire Pokemon, use a water Pokemon with water moves).

If using a fire against grass, "super effective" will appear over the grass Pokemon because your fire type and it's fire moves are super effective against grass (because fire burns grass!).

I did a raid this afternoon with a group of trainers I'd never met before. 7 of us did Tyranitar. Arranged through the local Facebook group. Mine did something really weird though.

I was selecting the Pokemon to use and changed 5 of the 6, tried to change the last one and got Network Error. It started the battle and I could see the others' Pokemon and my damage bar was going down a little bit as was Tyranitars. Then everyone else said they had defeated it but it was still up and going on my screen. Thought maybe I'd somehow managed to get into a battle by myself, but no, it showed the right number of participants.

Network Error kep coming up and I kept going, my damage bar stayed exactly as it was when everyone else had finished but I kept clicking away and slowly but surely Tyranitar went down to yellow then red, then dead. Then it seemed to go back to working as normal. Said I had won, gave me 6 revives, 3 golden razzberries and 2 rare candy with 3k XP. Clicked on go to bonus round and caught him with my first ball. Have a lovely 2024 Tyranitar with the best defensive moveset, so chuffed, even though I don't understand what happened. Have 83 candy so will evolve Pupitar now.

Walking Togepi still but up to 42 candy, nearly there. Hatched a Scyther but still only on 19 candy so that will be next to walk. Up to 105 Mareep candy for Flaafy and Ampharos, will take an age to walk, even with our 8 rare candy, but then we'll have them all.

TrashPanda It's just connection issues, that's all. Nothing nefarious or out of the ordinary.

I can't remember off the top of my head what moves my Donphan has, but it's truly berserk when it's fighting!!!

After a long delayed lucky egg session, I'm now the proud mother to a Tyranitar (needs lots of powering up - all of my larvitars have been hatched), two typhlosions and a disappointingly fire/dark Houndoom (my other is fire/fire)

I've been tagging all my best battle mon with they type of skills they know. Amused by Ursaring having fairy moves :o

a disappointingly fire/dark Houndoom (my other is fire/fire)

What you really want is a dark/dark Houndoom; they're one of the best dark in the game. So if you get a TM, it might be worth rerolling the fire move to try to get a dark one (only if it's a good Houndoom though).

That's what I'm probably going to do with my fire/dark Houndoom

Yeah I get it was connection issues with the Network Error thing I was just surprised that was how it worked, for want of a better word. I would have expected it to just kick you out if you weren't connected for the battle. Not complaining, I got Tyranitar, rare candy and golden razzberries so I'm happy, as is DS who was at school at the time. I think only 3 of the 7 of us caught it in the end.

Donphan. Lovely donphan.

Oh I love Donphan! Such a shame that one has normal/fairy moves though

It's a beast when its got ground moves.

Fairy is only good against dark, dragon and fighting, and there aren't too many of those around.

Bloody gorgeous Donphan, they really do the business.

They roll around in little balls and smash everything around them.

Another one for the dex PickAChew, whar are you up to now?

How do you know when a pokemon is double of the same attack? Yes, I know, stupid question alert!

How do you know when a pokemon is double of the same attack? Yes, I know, stupid question alert!

There are no stupid questions

Take a look at this pic; look at the very bottom where it says the moves. My Vaporeon (effectively named Rayla ) has Water Gun and Aquatail.

The little symbol next to the move says what type it is. In this case, they're both water so both have the water symbol.

Because Rayla is a water type and is double water, she also gets a STAB bonus when battling.

Hope that helps

Shiny Pikachu rumors abound...

Shiny pika! 😮
I'm thinking about pretending to go clothes shopping and going and finding a tyranitar raid downtown today. Much cheaper too!
My DH would find it unthinkable that I was going to meet with strangers to play Pokémon!

Shiny!!!!! Still waiting for my shiny magicarp. I saved 400 candy so I could evolve a red gyarados but gave up in the end and evolved another blue one.

I see everyone on reddit is whinging about the lack of potions too, 30 stops yesterday and I got 13 potions which revived a small handful of mon.

Well, just a rumor so far, but it's in the code and has apparently been leaked. Whether it's from the same source as the one which predicted a few events so far, I don't know, so cannot vouch for its accuracy.

I'm still waiting for a shiny magikarp too!

I want to get my venusaur and my machamp this weekend. Not much left to go for those now.

500 to go before my 10k egg! I have been ill and not been able to go out so I've been staring at 9.5 for fucking days

Fingers crossed it's something good!

Get well soon, what. I hope it's a Mareep for you.