There's no-one quite like Yanma, I'm sure you will agree

[DoctorTwo]

Yeah, I know I'm scraping the barrel now... :o But at least you get an earworm.

Still just keeping up the streaks, but yesterday I HATCHED A SNORLAX. That's No2, and I have 40 Snorlax candy.

I get it re grinding up Pikachus, it just feels wrong. I do it though, 'cos I'm heartless.

Which do you think is best to use them on?
Any Pokemon whose moves you're not happy with.

So I'm going to have to do research in the best moves on Pokemon now aren't I?

Yup, lots of research otherwise they'll be wasted!

Sitting on my hands to save my one and only lucky egg for Friday night before the event finishes, and not to use it now- even though I have 2 or 3 new evolutions to do for new 'mon

Hi all, i'm back to playing Pokemon Go after a few months break, level 30 when I stopped. Could someone please summarise what has changed and what the hell I do with gyms now? thanks

I got my dragonite!! Very happy

Also got enough candies to evolve my onyx. Just need special item.

So that's three items I need to evolve onyx, polywhirl and seadra.

Waiting not so patiently. My 7 day streak again tomorrow. If I get another sun stone, I'm going to cry

I am in a tiny hamlet in the middle of France, the closest Pokestop is miles away and not seen a gym. I have an ancient iPhone that won't support Pokemon. DP has grudgingly put it onto his phone but there's nothing to catch here.

Right gavel I will try and lay out the differences in the gym system now without rambling too much but I'm not great at summing things up concisely, apologies in advance

Since the gym update:

• Each gym can hold up to 6 Pokémon (but can only add 1 Pokémon per trainer)
• only one of each type of Pokémon can be added to each gym (e.g. One dragonite, one blissey, one snorlax etc)
• you can now spin gyms like pokestops, either using the symbol in the bottom right or top left of the screen from the main gym screen
• Pokémon in gyms will have hearts above them that represent their motivation. You can feed berries to Pokémon if they are your team to refill the hearts and keep them in the gym longer. The emptier the hearts are, the easier they are to beat. Motivation drops over time or once a trainer/group defeats the Pokémon in a battle.
• above the spinny symbol on the bottom right hand side of the screen is another symbol. If it is your team's gym and there is space you can use this to add a Pokémon, if the gym belongs to another team you can use it to battle. Battling gyms is much easier now which some people love and some people hate.
• Any Pokémon you put in a gym will get a coin for every ten minutes they stay in there defending (I think that's the current system, it's changed a few times). You will only get the coins when the Pokémon returns to you and it's capped at a max of 50 coins per day per trainer (so even if you had multiple Pokémon return at the same time that had all been defending for 24hrs plus, you would only get 50 coins).

There's also raid battles:

• raids come in 5 levels (with the 5th level being legendaries) with different raid bosses for each level.
• levels are represented by the heads underneath each raid on the raid screen
• level 1 raids are doable easily on your own and at your level, I would imagine you'd be fine with most level 2 raids too. Above that you'll need to team up with other trainers to help and when you get to level 5 I have only done those so far with the full 20 team members possible.
• If you succeed fighting a raid boss then you get a chance to catch them using special raid balls that you get at the end of the fight.
• golden raspberries are often given as a prize at the end of raid battles (along with revives, Xp, fast/charged TMs and rare candy - more on this in a sec). These can be used at any time when catching Pokémon but it's worth saving them to use on the more challenging raid bosses (especially legendaries!).
• the rare candies can be used on any Pokémon but again, worth saving them for legendaries as they're hard to catch and, even if you did catch lots to up your candy, can't be transferred so the only way to get candy is to catch them and eventually fill your Pokémon storage or walk them as a buddy (I read somewhere they are 20k buddies but haven't checked).

I think that's everything. I know it sounds like a lot but I actually find it much simpler and more fun! I never used to bother with the gyms whereas I do a couple a day with my DS now!

Lovely explanation cake

USed one of my passes on my dragonite

Switched the steel whiny to dragon tail

How middle class is my pokemoning! Sitting in a park outside a museum drinking m and s g&t from a can and eating strawberries.
Have only had a banana today so much more 'relaxed' than I should be.
Aim is a bit squiffy tbh

thanks Cake! Great explanation.

I also never used to bother much with gyms but looking forward to trying.

What is going on with the current event?

It's double, triple pretty much everything. But only until around midnight.

No..isn't it extended for another 72 hours?

It would originally have ended after midnight yesterday (early hours of Tuesday morning) and it was extended by 72 hours (three days). I went to bed expecting it to be all over only to find that it was still running. If I'd known then I'd have put more effort into farming balls.

I went into town and raided with people today, Articuno ran away.

Articuno ran away from me too. Rude!

Anyone got a link for a good explanation of using the TMs? I have a couple of Fast TMs and I'm clueless about them, not sure where to start reading up.

Sorry for replying to myself, but here's one I just found (there may be better ones out there):

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.imore.com/best-pokemon-go-technical-machines%3famp

Finally got my Pichu in a hat! Also got 62 Mareep candies from a 10k egg so very close to Ampharos

Considering it's currently the best electric in the game, I'm walking through it to get the last 10 candies!

I still don't have a bloody mareep or miltank though

I'm so happy that the event is extended. Gave me chance to go into London to get balls. Caught a few Bulbasaur and Chikorita which I don't usually see so that's all very welcome.
Hoping I can level up to 31 and finish generation 1 excluding regionals and legends by the end of the event

Evolved my Porygon, hatched a Miltank and levelled up to 34!

I finally got enough candy to evolve my dragonair just had to transfer my 2nd dratini only in my excitement I evolved my dratini 😢

Yes! Double electric Wonder high CP Ampharos! Currently the best electric in the game... and those are the best possible moves it could have too!

So, so happy!

Congrats WhatToDo!