Routine Sparkles Pokémon Go

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New thread. No routes where I am. We're going to be at Pokémon Go Fest on 6 August. V excited.

Yeah, I trade with ds anything that I’ve hatched out of 7k eggs which is how I get the distance. Luckily I have picked up several friends in oz, Hawaii and South Korea who send me gifts daily. I get some gifts from Mexico and Bolivia a couple of times a week too. Having enough incubators is the main problem. I don’t seem to win them in showcases very often but ds wins one from showcases fairly regularly.

You need a friend with two devices, who you trust with your username and password...

I'm slogging through the battle challenges for level 44 at the moment. I don't enjoy battle league much, find it quite stressful, so it's not my favourite.

I'd like to complete my Scatterbug collection - just got Tundra, Ocean and Icy Snow to go.

If you post your trainer code on Twitter with relevant hashtags, you’ll be awash with invites from Japanese players. Most will be elegant, but you should also get some tundra. And without wishing to stereotype, Japanese players are demon gifters and raiders.

@SockQueen are we friends on Pogo? I have spares of all those scatterbugs if you are anywhere near me I’d be happy to trade them to you

Yes, I'm HeleniaBram - I think you are too far away, though I'll let you know if I ever make a trip your way!

It's quiet in here, are we all out collecting pink sparkles?

Yes! 😁

I don’t understand the pink sparkles! What the point of them? I got a few and now it says it’s full. 🤷‍♀️

You have to spend them on beefing up your magic sheep when you've got one.

What makes the magic sheep appear? I have one that popped up somehow, but not really sure what triggered it. Should I power that one up or is there a possibility of more better sheep happening along?

Sheepie pops up when you first get 1000 max particles (pink sparkles) or it doesn't - it did for me but my son didn't get anything. You get a second sheep from Professor Willow's research and then later he gives you a squirrel. You use the max particles and candy to give your dynabeast special moves, you can only earn so many particles in a day and only carry so much at once so you need to be using them so as to be able to collect more.

At the moment it's just about giving them their moves, come Tuesday we'll be able to use them in dynamax raids from which we can get more special beasts. It will cost max particles to raid so after that you'll need to balance spending particles on raiding against spending them on the new moves.

Thank you! I will get busy beefing up my sheep 😆

Thanks knotaknitter. That makes sense.

Over the next few days Woolos candy may be your limiting factor so catch all you can and shove pineapples on them so you can make the most of your pink sparkles.

Thank you! V helpful

I'm stuck in the house because I'm ill so I'm just sitting seeing random pink things pop up and know I can't go get them. 🤣 I'm just catching whatever appears around my house for now.

I have a magic sheep and a squirrel, but can't get enough candy to use many of the sparkles.

I'm definitely not really getting this bit yet, hoping it will become clearer once the raids are also involved.

Yes just catch any squirrel and any sheep you see for now to build up your candy, as well as the three new beasties so you can get a hundred and twenty five candies to double evolve them.

They're all adorable but I can't decide whether I like Grookey or Sobble better.

Thanks @KevinAndHerKits - that's pretty much what I've been doing as it's the only choice I have right now. Thankfully my house is a mini spawn point so I get quite a few popping up here. Just a shame I don't have a pokestop here or I could have put a lure on for a bit too.

I got stuck in the special research reset bug meaning I couldn’t progress the research until they ‘investigated’ and finally fixed it. So I couldn’t collect more pink sparkles and got board of trying to figure it out.

I now have one squirrel and 2 sheep Dynamax but I really don’t get the point at all. Only 4 people can participate on a raid which sounds like it will be local only, you have to take turns…. Seems like another ‘form’ to fill up on Pokédex and I’m maxed on storage already don’t have space for keeping xxl let alone a whole dynamex dex.
Plus my game has been crashing regularly since the update. Getting frustrated with it to say the least.

I'm sorry to hear that it's not fun for you @gillybean2, My phone crashed whenever I unlocked a dynamax move but that was fixed as of yesterday.

The limit of four trainers will be no problem for me as there are 126 names in the local group about seven who have ever written a word and five that can reliably turn up. We can't put a normal sized raid group together but should get four as three of them will arrive together.

My son caught up with the sheep he didn't get at 1000 max particles, he cashed in the walking reward this morning and it appeared then.

For anyone struggling with candy, I've just traded every wooloo and skwovet with my son, we each got two candy and an XL candy from the trade. The guarenteed XL candy from trades is on to the end of the season.

Uh-kay, one wander around town on and I have two magic fire lizards and a magic turtle too as well as a spare squirrel and sheep. Some of which got left behind at pink gyms to see if they do anything useful. Possibly help other people who come raiding after me?
Unlike with gyms, you can recall them if it turns out you accidentally left behind the one you taught moves to.

I have a magic turtle now and my magic sheep has earned a candy since I dropped it off. No idea if they get knocked out by themselves or if you have to call them back eventually!

I don't know if the battles will get harder, but they seem a bit too easy, I've not had enough candy to power up, evolve and add moves to my magic pokemon. I've prioritised the moves as otherwise my sparkle storage is always full, but it means I'm fighting with utter rubbish and still winning.

Not loving it so far, but maybe it will improve??

I'm assuming it's currently on easy mode for us to learn the system. Yeah, I couldn't really tell how much the previous raiders or my powered up attacks were helping as everything seemed to win everything single handed anyway.