Pokemon Go Thread #29: Are Friends Manectric? Are they?

[DoctorTwo]

Ooh look! A shiny new thread! Hello everybody.

So many shiny ones

How about a Wednesday night coordinegg? Maybe 8pm BST?

I'm due to level up with all the following trainers over the next few days, thanks to you all kindly adding me when I joined the last thread.

Today:
Debstonmon2
LilithFoul

Tomorrow:
BlueRoses1999
Flojo1979
StephVanjie
TallulahFox

Tuesday:
DaisyTRex
Lenorah1988
Mackitty153
Noobtree1234
WurzelPerry
WoofPenny

Wednesday:
BehindB1ueEyes
Woongy100
ffgghux

If Wednesday at 8pm doesn't suit some people, I'm happy to arrange other times as I've got plenty of lucky eggs.

Cupidity, that's amazing! How many did you get altogether?

@bellabelly yes that's right, I'm Misty.

Happy to hold off until Wednesday at 8pm, if that suits you?

@ignatiusjreilly I've just sent you a gift. I do have a lucky egg but I don't have much else to do so I'll probably skip this one and coordinegg for the big one.

@ignatiusjreilly sorry I'm Tallulah

@ignatiusjreilly I got 15 . Ran out of balls half way through but convinced DH to drive around town so I could spin all the stops and replenish.

I'm happy for you to trigger friendship level whenever you want. Just don't send me a gift over the next few days because I may accidentally open it. (I'm NoobTree)

@ignatiusjreilly, very happy to do 8pm on Wednesday. I will try to remember this time! But you should now have a gift from me to open if I do forget.

@ignatiusjreilly I'm StephVanjie and I can do Wednesday at 8 PM

I caught 6 shiny Gastly's and a shiny Meowth, very similar to usual Meowth.

@ignatiusjreilly 8pm on Wednesday works for me

I've just added you @chunkyrun I'm ajaed4 and alexandethan999

I'm jealous of all the shinies!!! I have only ever caught about 3. Maybe I just don't catch enough... certainly haven't played much today until this evening. Am struggling with a shortage of balls and potions but full item bag. No idea what's clogging it up?!?

Berries, it'll be berries. Feed as many Pokémon in gyms as you can. You'll gain stardust and solve the problem.
It's always berries!

Do we want to start coordinating raids? Now that we can start inviting each other. It looks like you can invite up to 5 people of above 32, which might make it easier to do 4/5* raids if you’re not part of a local group.

I’d quite like an Alolan Marowak, no one seems to arrange 4* raids around here.

Berries, it'll be berries. Feed as many Pokémon in gyms as you can. You'll gain stardust and solve the problem.
It's always berries!

I don't know how to make the quote thing but thank you @BaronessBomburst

Despite one catching one shiny Gastly I had a great Community Day, the last 90 or so minutes of which were spent sitting around in a field talking rubbish and laughing. i hadn't seen most of them since before lockdown and it was really good to see them.

Aw, that sounds lovely, @DoctorTwo. I didn't meet up with anyone from the local group, maybe should try to arrange that for the next one.

@Blueroses99 - I'd (Debstonmon2) be very up for some 4 raids. I got the Alolan Marowak recently, thanks to local players joining in (I needed to catch a Cubone for a task and they took pity on me, I think!) and I'd happily do another one. Also Togetic is a 4 one iirc - I got one from a remote raid in the Philippines the other day which was VERY exciting. I'd happily do another one of those. Or any really.

A local player and I tried to do a 4 recently for a Nidoking and didn't quite manage to win so I reckon you need at least 3 players for a 4 raid.

I've noticed that the button to invite other players disappears around the "30 seconds to go" mark so it'd be good to coordinate in advance and make sure that we're ready and waiting. Also, if someone invites you, you don't then have an option to invite others.
Who are the two pogo players on here who live pretty near each other? If they invited 5 people each, we could potentially have a team of 12 MN-ers - we'd be unstoppable!

Hi troops, this is Aggron/Dickheads. Sorry I've been a bit off colour and so not as regular with stuff as usual.

@Blueroses99 Make some alts 2 imaginary friends and you can eventually do Marowak. But I/we are happy to join in a raid.

Not all 4* are equal- a Metagross beat 4 of us the other day! Nor would I try a Snorlax in a hurry. It's the stamina.

If you get Pokegenie app you can do 'battle simulator' and it lets you know how much damage you personally would do in a particular raid.

Co-ordinating some raids sounds fun.

I need to get hold of some remote raid passes and would be up for some raids... Will try to get something in a gym or two over next couple of days but yellow seems to dominate the area.
Level 35 so hopefully have some useful strong Pokémon... I need to spend sometime sorting them - I have a few doubles and need to decide which to ditch and also I stopped powering up lots of them once they reached 2500/ultra league level but I need to sacrifice some ultra league battlers and promote them into master league!
I can't remember who called me out for levelling up - i am happy for you to trigger whenever you want as I find it too much to try to coordinate eggs! Just hang onto a gift from me because I tend to open mine as soon as there's space in my bag... (I'm DaisyTRex!)

I'm up for remote raids. I might buy some coins with real money as DD buys a poffin every time I get up to 100 coins and I want to buy the 3 for 250

blue I really want a marowak dd and I tried but we got timed out. I think we need three or four. She would also would like a tyrannitaur and I’m guessing that’s a tough four star.

Actually I think dd has a few mumsnet friends (Pr1ncecupc4k3) between us we could easily invite 10 to a raid.

ignatious I don’t mind, whenever you’re ready.

Whoops I mean Pr1ncesscupc4k3, got her her title wrong looking forward to her becoming a grumpy teen and changing her name to something dark and moody (actually she’ll probably be far too cool to play with her mum )

@Corneliusmurphy I'm friends with you and your DD I'm Tallulah Fox.

Yes, I am friends with both of you. (Debstonmon2) I would love a Tyranitar!

There's a five star raid about to hatch in five minutes near me if anyone fancies it?