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.

Guessing they'll come back in a couple of days as the pop up gyms move around?

Two of mine have earned five candy each for their helping, the other one has seen no action. No guesses which two were left in the centre of the village near Aldi and which was on the edge (but near my house). I thought the battles would be harder but I guess it's to edge us in gently. My charmander will be left out and about as it isn't good enough to sink the candy into - it didn't take me long to get picky.

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I tried to do a Dynamax raid yesterday but I wasn't sure how. Do you put your magic sheep in to fight and dynamax them or do you treat it like a regular raid? Also, how do you dynamax? Just tap the dynamax icon?

Yes you put your magic sheep in. The max thing charges up as you attack, I didn't seem to have a choice about dynamaxing when it got there. I got a little round plus sign thing that I could tap on that helped it charge too - is that related to the previous raiders helping or is it always there?

Disclaimer - I know nothing. I think the charge boost jobbie will always be there. The number of previous raiders is linked to a damage boost, there's a screen that says "get an attack bonus based on how many raiders are placed at the power spot" and a graphic of boxing gloves (one to four) with the appropriate one shaded. I'm sure we'll know more about it by the time they move to more challenging beasties.

Seeing as I paid attention on my morning walk, the boxing gloves are shown on the right, just above the box with your raid team in it. I also spawned a skwovet from a spot where I did a skwovet raid yesterday, when I collected the particles I saw the button on the bottom left hand corner, clicked it and a regular skwovert appeared.

How is everyone?

I'm not really getting the dynamax thing, seems to always be unable to collect or unable to store any more max particles. I've got lots of the basic dynamax pokemon, but seem to be miles away from being able to do anything with a beldum or falinks, even though I feel a beldum should be quite easy if they were comparable to raid bosses.

Between taking on gyms, doing raids and dynamax fights it just feels like too many things to keep on top of.

I like the one star battles because I can rack up the xp. But I agree about the falinks and beldum.

The dynamax feels like another thing to do and is ridiculously disconnected from the rest of the game. The XP is useful, though.

I'm wondering how long they will go on releasing them in useful order, eg for beldum you needed charizard and for Falinks you need metagross with psychic moves

I really lost my way with this game over the past year because of the sheer amount of different things...routes, parties...now Dynamax, the remote raid passes. I liked it when it was more classic.

This might be where I'm going wrong, I didn't get a charizard in time for beldum and then had nothing to take on falinks! The rewards are handy, so I'll probably keep doing the 1 stars anyway.

If anyone is doing a zamazenta raid I want to get one for the showcase, would love an invite.

Charizard with MaxAirstream turns out to eat Falinks for breakfast. Been trying with metagross but mine just dies before I get to the dynamax. (Not sure how you give it max airstream - is it changing the fast attack??)

Ds has a decent evolved and powered up dynamax team. Mine is very lacking still. I’m not bothering to evolve or power up anything below 90% and certainly not wasting xl candy to power up max strike/guard/spirit on anything below 93%.

I don’t really think there’s any great skill to it. Just get the biggest syntax Pokemon you can and power it up fully.

Generally with beldum I’m left ‘applauding’ because my team is wiped out but still get the win as ds succeeds with his evolved and powered up team.

I figure we have to persevere at the moment or we might get stuck when the higher levels come out and/or when they fix it to be more interesting. At the moment it just seems like a separate way to have to hold on to even more Pokemon. I’m struggling with less than 100 dex spaces left and I’ve already maxed out on storage. I also find I’m driving around trying to squeeze it in before 9pm. I often don’t finish work til after 8pm and just want to get home. So it’s not going to keep me interested for long at this rate.

@AlmostLegendary there’s a raid starting here in 8 mins if you’re about for it…. Mark yourself as online if you want an invite

@gillybean2 thank you! I missed this message but still got the invite. Unfortunately was out in the rain at the time and didn't manage to catch it, my screen was a bit too wet and I missed with too many balls.

Thanks to whoever it was that invited OhVienna during raid hour. It went in with the third ball and it's probably the only one I'll get seeing as we're struggling at the moment to get three people together at any time in the week.

That was me, I finally got one too!

Hi there! I've just got back into Pokemon Go after a bit of a hiatus and am absolutely loving this thread. If anyone would like a new friend (and to help me complete a task!) I would be very grateful 😃
I think my code is: 439062452473

Sent you a friend request. I'm GalarianPony920 🙂

Thank you! 😊

I've also sent a request thecrazyonesmum. Currently in the middle of nowhere and rapidly running out of balls so could do with some gifts to open if anyone is able to send?

I've just got back into playing after quite a break because my daughter and husband are now playing 😁. I’m good at gift sending and would love to join any remote raids! My trainer code is 227512731417 and my name is NephelineGrey. Thanks!

I've sent requests. I'm UnicorngirlSooz.

I can't do gifts daily but I do focus on those with lower friend levels when I do send. :)

How did everyone get on with the gigantamax weekend? Being rural we miserably failed with 3 of us being the only regular players here. Since seen that you needed like 40+ trainers and lots of time. Niantic are ‘tweaking’ but basically it’s another feature trying to make us go out and gather when really there’s little chance of that unless you are in a major city.
So I’m interested to know did anyone here in a major city manage to succeed in finding enough players and/or catching one at all?