pogo_discussion

[weary gorge]

Good

[lone scarab]

Tags is a glitchy menu it can disappear randomly but usually comes back after just leaving and reopening lol

[loud gull]

definitaly hold onto the extras so you can get the other starters from trades

Got my favorite starter heck yea

[sharp finch]

I was just saying it because it was on XL aswell

Or XXL sorry

[loud gull]

That is very rare good find

I'm super excited for Kubfu

[plucky sky]

New fusion energy code direct link:
https://store.pokemongolive.com/offer-redemption?passcode=ABJXJET8MYW7T

ABJXJET8MYW7T

Also the site is working again, so can enter this code from earlier

[ivory halo]

Oshawott. : )

[fossil basin]

MEGA AUDINOO YASSSSSSS https://fxtwitter.com/pokemongoapp/status/1895172218121789748?s=46&t=iG0xFLhysjMe3DesmHFoEA

[wispy sand]

has anyone else caught a shiny genesect from the new rewards

[loud gull]

yay I even got my lucky shiny ready

[fossil basin]

No

Got shiny from raids

[toxic jolt]

sorry if this is obvious somewhere, but do the cap pikachus last all weekend?

[unborn garden]

They should appear mostly frequently during the weekend

[toxic jolt]

ty. i havent seen any until today

[loud gull]

does the hoen event starts 10am Saturday?

[warm monolith]

ARE YOU KIDDING ME!! So close!!

[trail cloak]

Sir, Hoenn Tour was Feb 2023

Unova Tour, however, will start at 10am, yes

[loud gull]

oops I mean Unova lol

[primal ivy]

So, the PGo Home Dex is virtually impossible, right?

[lone scarab]

Even if you just include all species available within Go, it's still impossible, because Home has a dex entry for Zygarde and Spinda which both can't be sent to Home from Go at all

Thankfully that means it'll probably never be tied to a Home reward, unless they just want to set an arbitrary amount of mons needed

[primal ivy]

I was also thinking about Cosmog. You need four to complete the dex.

[lone scarab]

Not necessarily, you only need 2, since you can evolve at least one after transferring cosmog to home for the lower evos entries

You've been able to catch at least 2 I remember but trading makes that available regardless

If you ignore every impossibility the real issue with trying to do it yourself would probably just be all the regionals and stuff like skiddo which would need a lot of traveling to catch

[forest saffron]

Is the tour on Saturday and Sunday all day or does it have specific hours for the raids and stuff

[lone scarab]

rehiram/black kyurem will appear first at 10am local and then theyll alternate every hour with the other 2

the event itself runs 10am-6pm for spawns and stuff

[plucky sky]

Yeah local stuff is 10am-6pm both Saturday and Sunday. But you can do stuff like remote raids and other content the entire weekend

[tough sluice]

Anyone know if they'll do the extra normal raid passes? There's no mention of it on the POGO Unova tour website

[unborn garden]

It'll probably still be the 2 free per day if that's what you're asking

[weary gorge]

Is anyome having problems to connect?

Poke stops are not loading and it's just error (2)

[grand canopy]

yep, the game is down

[noble coral]

Glad it's not just me

[weary gorge]

Oh thank god

I panicked a lot

Because like months ago the game warned for using third party software and blocked me for 24 hours

But then it just did it again and again for 3 whole days

It just stopped so idk, i'm scared to being banned suddenly 💀

[modest totem]

reshiram over zekrom but black kyurem over white kyurem

[mighty bane]

pokestops for days

[modest totem]

Why can’t i spin this pokestop

[mint island]

anyone know if the shiny chances were upped for the ledgendarys in the timed research?

[woeful pulsar]

still 1/20

[viscid lagoon]

If I buy the deluxe pass, is Victini a guaranteed catch?

[unique grotto]

Yes.

[viscid lagoon]

Great! Will I use my own Pokeballs or (like the other mythicals) the Pokemon will be provided?

[untold torrent]

Anyone else run into an infinite pokeball glitch today?

https://youtu.be/m9-Ry9eHJwM?feature=shared

[trail cloak]

I remember something about timed research not taking pokeballs, but it was a long time ago

[unique grotto]

It will be its own little sequence. I don't think it will consume any of your Pokéballs and it will stick on the third hit.

[untold torrent]

It seemed to have happened again. Everything worked as expected outside that task.

[viscid lagoon]

I see. Thank you so much!

[crisp relic]

aceeeeeey has given 1 Gen Rep to skalad

[silent sleet]

Does anyone save the extra 2* legendaries they get from raids? Or does everything just toss them like everything else that's not good for candies?

[trail cloak]

If it's a really good legendary -> save a few for lucky trades

If it's something like Azelf? 🗑️

[lone scarab]

Send to home and see what cool trades ya can get out of them lol

[cerulean halo]

if you're gonna transfer them, at least hold onto them until a 2x transfer candy event, like next tuesday's spotlight hour

[ivory halo]

This ^

[brisk kindle]

I'm confused, I thought Go Tour was March 1st and 2nd 10:00am-6:00pm. I see Zekrom and Reshiram raids and Pikachu's wearing hats all around me. People are catching and raiding event Pokémon online. Did I miss something? Did it start early?

[trail cloak]

It has started in parts of the world

Resh and Zeke arrived on Thursday and Friday, respectively, and Pikachu are here to celebrate Pokemon Day

[brisk kindle]

Ok, phew. Would've been very upset if I'd missed day one. There's just one more thing:

In-game in the "ongoing events" section of the research menu, it says "Go Tour Global-Ends in 2 days 11 hours". The endless Remote Raids are the only active bonus listed, however. I assume they started everywhere when the first event started?

[lone scarab]

More or less

Still don't think ya get fusion energy from raids till your global starts tho so hold off if ya planned to

[unborn garden]

My global is in like 15mins but I'm getting energy before, I think when it hits 12am on the 1st you start getting energy

[trail cloak]

You can get energy right now, even if it's Friday

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/861329581825589250/1345167507371331667/IMG_8807.png?ex=67c3905d&is=67c23edd&hm=469719c2ad5f300811c4f27b1344b5e28246833b40c6915957bb2b9ab0f7a8ae&

[lone scarab]

So must've been unlocked with the infinite remote ig

Omw to do kyurems haha

[minor chasm]

Heads up - for the first 2 minutes of every hour during event, all spawns are zorua

[restive turtle]

is kyurem not guaranteed to know glaciate

[woeful pulsar]

If you raid a kyurem of the fusion you picked for the event, it's guaranteed. Otherwise it's not

[restive turtle]

global has not started for me yet

got a White Kyurem BG, guess I'm using an elite TM

[lone scarab]

Really hope some friends are free that weekend

[fervent pewter]

luckily excadrill should make it ez

[kindred musk]

can anyone else not login to pokemon go?

[plucky sky]

Make sure to do it for Glaciate and not after fusing. You can't elite tm the fusion specific moves, so the Kyurem you fuse has to know Glaciate already to learn the specific moves

[grand canopy]

thats an easy duo, nice

[slender needle]

How many free raid passes will there be for the event?

[unborn garden]

2 daily

If you want to raid a bunch it'll need to be out of your pocket

[slender needle]

,
2?

But they
But they made it like 8 during necrozma

[unborn garden]

That was a raid day

This is the Unova tour, Niantic doesn't give free passes for tours or go fest sadly

It'll probably get a raid day later in the year or next year which will have free passes

[slender needle]

Welp

Time to be delusional and hope I somehow get the shiny with the free passes

Wait no-kyrem’s in DA. I could hunt it there if I really wanted it

[mild whale]

How much energy is the max we can get every raid

[unborn garden]

Ive gotten 130

[mild whale]

Oh wow

Is it hard to catch?

[unborn garden]

you dont need to catch kyurem for the energy

its reasonabley easy to catch from my experience

out of around 60 raids I did today I only lost one

its either in the first few balls or your last two

[mild whale]

Ok

[distant mural]

In the unova dex I'm missing a legendary or mythical I need help telling me what let me get the number

Help me figure out 0647

[grand canopy]

keldeo maybe?

[unborn garden]

It's probably Keldeo

It came out once in 2022 for $8 and hasn't come out since

[grand canopy]

wtf is this research 😭 catch zekrom+kyurem for reshiram candy

[weary gorge]

HUNDO KYUREM LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Also wtf only two free passes?

[weary gorge]

Yea you need Keldeo, who knows when were getting him again

[tired yarrow]

Is there any shiny chance boosting this event?

[woeful pulsar]

yeah i believe so but it's something like 1/128. not anything near CD rates

[tired yarrow]

I mean that’s still a decent rate as is

[pale mason]

yeah that part of the research confuses me, maybe they want to prepare us to get the other fusion on sunday?

[restive turtle]

I'm aware

[autumn copper]

These were the best stuff i got today + the shiny's kyurem both have a background. The hundo i got after 5 raids

[honest pollen]

y'all pallosand is absolutely busted in great league

[late edge]

question,
are the roaming legends this tour the swords of justice or the weather genies

[tired yarrow]

almost halfway through the event, only gotten this from a enigma research

[woeful pulsar]

you mean like in the wild legendaries? idt this tour has any

[late edge]

oh
okay

[cerulean halo]

i wish the zorua spawns lasted 5 minutes instead of 2, considering you have to catch it to see if it's shiny, and there's the extra animation

[glad niche]

I got 1 shiny all day

[glad niche]

Can confirm

[restive turtle]

wowie

[mighty bane]

yea, with what pokemon dawg 😭

[tough sluice]

They don’t even give you enough to fuse them if you didn’t buy any premium raid passes. “Oh yeah, let me just fuse them with the free 100 + another 100 from the battle pass (non premium) maybe around 100 from the Kyrum black raid if you even did Kyrum black, and the 50 if you’re lucky in catching both of them with the two raid pass.” What were they cooking?!

[woeful pulsar]

gotta spam the quick capture and check after the 2 mins

[cerulean halo]

yea i guess that works too

[forest saffron]

Are shiny odds boosted today and tomorrow

[distant mural]

Yeah it to bad for me

[kindred musk]

Are the shiny odds boosted for global or no?

[kindred musk]

Oh BRUB

we both asked

[unborn garden]

They might be 1/128 as they said

[ivory halo]

I ended up buying the Deluxe pass and got both a shiny Vullaby and a 100% Vullaby.

Was it worth 20$? Possibly yes.

[kindred musk]

lol

[torpid fjord]

Done 27 reshiram raids and nothing yet and coworker does 1 gets it shiny

[kindred musk]

average day in Pokémon go

[lone scarab]

I got a blue basculin a few days after hatching a blue basculin and yeah everything else pretty much got yeeted to the void

[restive turtle]

been on this screen for like five minutes

[ivory halo]

I guess that’s what we’re calling professor Willow’s PC boxes now.

[rustic nova]

Anyone know if pokestops will be giving unova tour eggs after event hours on day 1?

[restive turtle]

i can check in a few minutes if you haven't gotten your answer yet

[rustic nova]

Yeah I still don’t know

[restive turtle]

gonna go check rn

got wrapped up in something

They do still give Unova tour eggs

@rustic nova

[rustic nova]

Huge 🫡 ty
I can grab some more to hatch tomorrow :D

[crisp relic]

griffinism has given 1 Gen Rep to carkid

[rustic nova]

I fell asleep mid event so I missed out on some 😅

[restive turtle]

finally have enough candies to evolve larvesta but I'm not gonna because I'm worried I'll have to evolve one as part of the masterwork

[rustic nova]

Just hatched this as my first Maractus egg of the event cuz I was clearing out my eggs for more thanks to ur info 🫡 thanks again goat

[crisp relic]

griffinism has given 1 Gen Rep to carkid

[rustic nova]

Was my main goal of the event too 😁

[restive turtle]

beat a Kyurem raid but got kicked out before even having the chance to catch it

it ate my remote raid pass too

[rustic nova]

This happened to me I think 5 times

And support is useless unfortunately

[plucky sky]

I had that happen and support gave me my remote raid pass back. It was automated

You give the automated bot your info and they get back to you like 24 hours later. Every time I've done it, they give me my pass back. Its always worth trying. It takes like 1 minute and you can't lose anything, but potentially get your pass back

So I'd say support is definitely worth trying. They can deny you, but they also can potentially get you back your passes, so might as well. Definitely not useless

[fossil basin]

Pain

26 kyreums no shiny

but i got a shiny regional monke

[unborn garden]

That's neat!

The shiny kyurems were not kind

[fossil basin]

Its not my regional so ill take it

[unborn garden]

Niceee

[fossil basin]

To think my pogo plus missed it

[unborn garden]

Lucky haha

[minor chasm]

;-;

[unborn garden]

The shinies did not want to show up

[grand canopy]

my last shiny raid legend was dialga and i did my 2 daily raids every day + 3/4 every day this week and like 20 kyurems so far😭

maybe today

[unborn garden]

You got this!

[quiet kite]

Settled on this Kyurem for my Black fusion

[unborn garden]

Settled on a lucky 98 damn jealous

[quiet kite]

this is my white, but it's an older Kyurem and not quite as swole

[unborn garden]

Yeah 14 attack isn't bad tho

[quiet kite]

Yeah I already had it over lvl40 with Glaciate and Lucky, so why not

[unborn garden]

Yeah might as well

[grand canopy]

my best kyurem so far is 15/15/10 and it has the white (?) bg so i can at least get some cool background if i dont get anything better

[unborn garden]

Yeah, hopefully you should get better

[quiet kite]

15/15/10 is nice to have as a fallback at least

[grand canopy]

i get a shiny lucky kyurem from a friend once the event is over so i get guaranteed one shiny

they get my shiny palkia w/ SR from last tour but i dont use that anyway

[fossil basin]

Thanks zoura cheese

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/imasogari8119/status/1896162702319661195?s=46&t=iG0xFLhysjMe3DesmHFoEA

[lone scarab]

64 kyurem raids, no shiny, and this is the highest iv I have overall. Genuinely awful

Literally from the old raids may as well have not done these ones, just energy and candy lol

[weary gorge]

Bro wtf how am i supposed to do the Tour research if NO RESHIRAM RAID

I only can see Zekrom wtf

[signal flicker]

Mood

[glad niche]

So sorry

[glad niche]

Wait till reshiram is back in normal rotation

[restive turtle]

pokegenie!

[weary gorge]

Wha

[trail cloak]

Zekrom and Reshiram can't be out at the same time, they rotate hourly

Except maybe the 1-2 minute overlap

[rotund copper]

Can someone explain the difference between these 2 backgrounds?

Especially when it comes to fusing

[grand canopy]

first pic is black background, second pic is white background

fuse kyurem with white bg + reshiram with black background and you get special background

fuse kyurem with black background + zekrom with white background and you get special background

if reshiram/zekrom have same background as kyurem/no background it will go with kyurems background (i think, kyurem takes priority same as necrozma and its fusions)

[restive turtle]

are the legendaries from the previous timed research also 1/20 shiny odds

because if they are I've only gotten like two shinies from the 75 encounters I've gotten in the past week

[woeful pulsar]

yes

[restive turtle]

cool

two shinies from 75 checks then

[torpid fjord]

Do i need shiny kyruem only for shiny fusion like necrozma or do i need both or one shiny of either?

[blazing thistle]

just kyurem

[slender needle]

Someone in my college pulled a back to back hundo the luck

[autumn copper]

Well that's lucky that i traded with my alt. These were my best catches today

[restive turtle]

got a 96% boosted black BG Kyurem, immediately followed by a 2* BG Zekrom

this is so epic

[autumn copper]

That's a pretty good one congrats on both background legendaries

[weary gorge]

Damn it sucks not being able to fuse mine

I got a wild hundo Kyurem

I honestly think i'll not have luck like that in a while after that one lol

[restive turtle]

I think I used all my shiny luck on the Pikachu, Eevee, and Unown I got yesterday and the other Pikachu I got the day before

only two shinies from the 85 legendaries I've encountered in the past week, both of which being in the first six

[autumn copper]

How much did you miss cause to get 1000 of them you need to do 10 raids

[weary gorge]

Bro what do you want me to do with only 4 free passes

[autumn copper]

That's why i was asking cause i don't know how many passes you had i started with 10 raid passes before i paid

[weary gorge]

Meh

Why would i pay when they don't give more free passes

[frail cape]

i have a shiny kyurem

should i fuse it with a shiny reshiram

[grand canopy]

nope

[frail cape]

ok

[grand canopy]

if you have a non-shiny reshiram fuse that with your shiny kyurem

[frail cape]

kk thx

[forest saffron]

If I fuse kyurem with reshiram and then separate them, can I fuse them again for free or will it cost

[fossil basin]

cost

just like necrozma dusk or dawn

[forest saffron]

Ok can you get energy by making him your buddy or no

[fossil basin]

Ye

Though 20km is a doozy

[trail cloak]

It's not like mega energy, you don't get it from walking

[restive turtle]

i think I used all my luck on wild shinies

[fervent pewter]

i finally got a shiny background kyurem

[weary gorge]

Special treat tho

[restive turtle]

I swear they nerfed shiny legendary rates

[sharp finch]

Idk what you talking about

Technically did 23 checks in these 2 days because I messed around in 2021

Otherwise today the only other shiny I saw was sewaddle in the 5 hours I was out

So my luck sorta sucked

[craggy venture]

I say that i wasn't lucky much this tour

[sharp finch]

4 shiny pokemon in 2 days when they are boosted, along with multiple duplicates for the road to unova

[restive turtle]

oh fuck off

[craggy venture]

I end up getting two shiny, two backgrounds, and one hundo

[restive turtle]

(I don't actually mean that I'm sorry)

[sharp finch]

To be fair necrozma I did 63 raids and only got 1 shiny

And kartana I went 100 over before the first shiny appeared

It was an 11/10/10

And xerneas I went 100 over and only ever got the 4*

Deoxys went 2x over odds

So I'm a little surprised I was lucky for once

Because there was that and my roggenrola com days to look to for luck displays

[restive turtle]

everyone around me kept getting shinies and hundos while i kept rolling low

[sharp finch]

(I pulled over 100 shiny pokemon on roggenrola com day, transferred over half of them)

[sharp finch]

My brother who I was with has been more lucky than me

Sinnoh tour he got the regigigas, 2 lake spirits and the origin forms

While I got only mespirit and dialga

[craggy venture]

Same with me

I was quite lucky with that tour than this year

[sharp finch]

But yeah, for once didn't go over odds because I am really good at that

[lone scarab]

My friend I played with day 2 had allllll the raid luck, probably had a little better wild luck than them but was fun anyways. Fuck kyurem tho

[restive turtle]

wild shiny timburr

[lone scarab]

Probably gonna lucky trade 1 more for the chance at a good one but I have 3 lucky shinies that are mid af

[restive turtle]

100+ legendary checks this past week and nothing, this is where all my luck went

[lone scarab]

Unown kinda cool those seemed crazy rare

[restive turtle]

the Unown and the Eevee were about a minute apart

[craggy venture]

I wasn't fortunate to get one shiny pika

[restive turtle]

my coworker got one a bit ago

and he does not want it

[viscid lagoon]

Guys, I want my Xerneas to have a Fairy-type attack. Should I use my Charge TM to change it??

Is there a guide I could use?

[sharp finch]

Nah fuck rayquaza, took me 46 raids for a 2* shiny

[lone scarab]

Suck don't it

(Have since had great luck with it tho lol)

[sharp finch]

Still doesn't compare to my kartana

Will never get over it

100+ raids to just get it from a research and for it to be 1 above a floor

Almost made me delete my account

That seriously pissed me off

That happened after my incident in the main series

Never again.

Fuck BDSP

[west vale]

Unlucky

[restive turtle]

insultingly low

[plucky sky]

This isnt a competition. If it was though, I would win since my first shiny came at 65. I ended up with 3, but all of them were after 65

Also, yes, all of those are remote raids

[odd crag]

No background after 6pm?

[glad rover]

Almost up to 3 million xp and then I'll just need 2 million more to reach level 40

[west vale]

Rip no 100% too?

[plucky sky]

I was still able to get a background on a kyurem from a remote raid after 6pm my time. Pretty sure those things are based on the conditions where the raid is being hosted.

[plucky sky]

Hundos are wayyyy rarer than shinies for raids. Especially for legendary raids. Ive gotten 2 hundos from 1000+ raids. The rate is 1/216. Shiny rate is 1/20

[lone scarab]

I once got 2 hundo mewtwos in a row that was pretty fun

I thought some scripted shit was going on lol

[plucky sky]

Yeah, when you do get one it's pretty hype. Even with the raids having IV floors, 1/216 is definitely not very common or anything. I treasure every hundo I get, almost more than shinies

[restive turtle]

my coworker said legendary shiny rates were nerfed for me and me alone

no shiny Kyurem but at least i can do this

[twin cove]

GUYS

||CROWN ZACIAN AND ZAMAZNETA FOR GO FEST||

[plucky sky]

[fervent pewter]

holy fk

i am going in person 🔥🔥

[twin cove]

I’m reeeaally tempted to go to nj go fest

It’s probably as close as go fest will ever get for me

And it’s galar… 👀

[wintry abyss]

I’m looking for an Accelgor, does anyone have an extra they can trade?

[glad rover]

Go trades are local only

[wintry abyss]

Really? I’ve done non local trades before

[glad rover]

Not sure how you did since the trade distance is not long

[west vale]

So im lucky i at least have 1 hundo

[unborn garden]

Better be able to use the old ones we have aha

[unborn garden]

Where did you find this anyway?

[twin cove]

Pokeminers discord

[unborn garden]

Ahh oki

I tried googling and found nothing so checks out

[twin cove]

it’s definitely legit if that’s what you’re wondering

[twin cove]

Well it was only like 2 hours ago lol

[unborn garden]

Oh aha

It'll be hype, hope they work like fusions or megas

[twin cove]

My guess is that they’ll be a form change using the rusted sword/shield

But they could definitely be a mega style

[unborn garden]

That'd be nice it'll probably be very limited maybe only one and the other for a payed ticket

[twin cove]

Oh and btw, they said it was up for a very short time on the new season’s page

Like less than a minute short

So that’s why you haven’t seen it anywhere

[unborn garden]

Ahhhh ok ok trying to hide thingsss

[sharp finch]

I mean you got a 4* so...

[sharp finch]

Pls no

[sharp finch]

You say that as if it was a good thing

Galar mid

[sharp finch]

That one pokemon ruined competitive for me because I was happy primals were gone, and then IT was introduced

Opening the floodgates to the most broken pokemon in history

[minor chasm]

Ayyy same lmao

[stone pier]

If I have a star piece and lucky egg in effect, will it apply to the go pass rewards?

[plucky sky]

Unfortunately, no

[plucky sky]

Yes

[midnight iris]

Man, just today I said I was sad that my 4* mewtwo was pushed to 3rd place on my CP list after I powered up two kyurems to 50, and along comes crowned Zacian which will push it to 4th lol

[restive turtle]

oh I also saw this the other day

there's not actually a pokestop at this location in-game

[unborn garden]

There should be aha

[grand canopy]

finally stopped tanking, last few sets were all 4/5 or 5/5

the team is pretty basic, moltres is just stupid good tho

[midnight iris]

That much energy and no shiny? How many raids did you do? I got just about 1 shiny per 20 raids

[unborn garden]

that should be in the rates, but rng can mean hundred and no shiny, super sucky, wish pogo had some sort of pity sysyem

[midnight iris]

Yeah it is what it is, I was just curious about the number of raids

[unborn garden]

thats probably 60 raids minimum so they should have gotten at least 3 shinies

[plucky sky]

I did 73 raids and got 3 shinies, but all 3 were in the last 15 raids I did

The first 65 gave me none

Rng is just rng. Randomness

[grand canopy]

finally best buddy

now onto skorupi, hes so cute aaaargh

[weary gorge]

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOO

Also serious question

Do people dodge in raids? XD

I just remembered that's a mechanic when accidentally swiping

[glad niche]

No lol

[fervent pewter]

yes

[grand canopy]

absolutely

[weary gorge]

I mainly forgot to do it because normally with 4 or 5 pelople i'm done with the raid

No matter what

So taking care of my health isn't a problem, specially when i have several hundo pokemon to keep going

[trail cloak]

Just swipe once when you see the text, it's pretty easy once you get the timing right

[woeful pulsar]

brute force only

[trail cloak]

It's especially nice when the boss has no fast move damage, like Tackle or Zen Headbutt Xerneas into Dusk Mane Necrozma

[restive turtle]

61

coworker and I started making jokes about how they nerfed the shiny odds for me and only me

[lone scarab]

I dodge in raids if it'll let me get off another strong attack

If it's just like a 3* raid or whatever who cares tho lol

[glad rover]

If you need a xp boost the new power up ticket honestly does look like it has some good benefits for that, I might buy it

[plucky sky]

Yeah I dodge if I'm in a 5+ star raid and the charged attack is going to 2-3 shot my best dps, but most of the time you're fine brute forcing.

It doesnt take much effort to swipe a couple times when the text shows up, but honestly its very rarely necessary

[unborn garden]

I got thr reverse, last 20-30 raids and I did didn't have a single single shiny

And overall I'm over odds with thr amount of shiny kyurems I've got

I always dodge in 5* raids, means I only use 2 or 3 of my party, I often get hardest hitter while dodging a lot so it works for me

[sharp finch]

I do actually

[midnight iris]

Ive been playing this game for 5 years and I don't think I've dodged one attack lmao

[trail cloak]

One time where it was very important/beneficial was vs Blizzard Kyogre

[stable torrent]

Just realized that I forgot to evolve my lucky unova starters during the event.

[weary gorge]

It's gonna be weird getting back to one free pass

[forest saffron]

Are low cp birds easy to catch? I managed to catch this and a 1600 cp zapdos without a masterball

[unborn garden]

Easier

[plucky sky]

Yes, they are easier to catch at lower cp/level

Still have an awful flee rate

And still not easy

[unborn garden]

Still a low chance but the lower the level the higher the catch chance is

[forest saffron]

I’ve only encountered like 6 birds ever and only one fled

[plucky sky]

Congrats! Very lucky

[unborn garden]

Damn thats crazy luck

[forest saffron]

That’s probably where all my wild shiny luck went 🥲

[unborn garden]

You're a bit early game

[glad niche]

Lol

[graceful tapir]

what are popular ones for general raid use/ones that could be useful in a zacian/zamazenta raid?

I am not really familiar with the process of building mons in this game so some guides on that could also be helpful

[unborn garden]

Mega ray is best for zam

And duskmane necrozma is best for zacian

[graceful tapir]

the only legends I have are the BW sword trio and the weather trio

[unborn garden]

Aside from the top counters zacian (regular) will be countered by poison and steel types

And for zam flying, psychic and fairy types

As long as they have some decent cp and super effective moves you should be able to beat it in a party of 5 or more

[weary gorge]

I'm so mad bro

[graceful tapir]

what is considered decent CP?

[weary gorge]

I had a Moltres raid, the only kanto mon i had to catch to complete that dex

The game crashes, i reopened it and the moltres is gone

[unborn garden]

2k plus minimum, 3k or above is best

[weary gorge]

Wtf

[unborn garden]

Damn that's super unlucky

The raid timed out?

[weary gorge]

No, it was still celebrating, it just didn't give me the encounter again

Tomorrow the birds will still be here?

[unborn garden]

Click on the gym again

As long as the raid doesn't time out you should still have it if you beat it

[weary gorge]

Yea i know what i have to do

But still nothing

[unborn garden]

Huh that's weird then does it still show the lil spinning raid icon?

[weary gorge]

Yea

When i touch the gym it doesn't spawn anything

[unborn garden]

Ouch, my condolences

The birds will be here for a week at least

March 4th to March 13th you got over a week, plus two raid hours, you got this!!

[glad niche]

The raid ended?

[weary gorge]

Oh thank god

[crisp relic]

axelphysical has given 1 Gen Rep to fang5829

[weary gorge]

Fuck forgot to turn off the mention

I was gonna lose it if they were a one day thing

I managed to catch articuno at least

With the double pass before the season changed

[graceful tapir]

So basically get a mon that resists the raid's moves and has super effective moves with 3kish cp

And fight with people not solo lol

[glad niche]

Yeah lol

If you're able to find a local group chat it'd help alot

[lone scarab]

Zapdos probably a lot easier with big boss kyurem in the game now lol

[fervent pewter]

mamoswine

[loud gull]

a friend in local chat just showed a pic of catching dynamax kubfu, trying to figure how lol

[trail cloak]

Special Research starting Wed 10am

[cerulean halo]

why is there no way to mass unfavorite, just spent like 20 minutes unfavoriting a ton of hoarded legendaries to xfer in an hour

[grand canopy]

i better get a female kubfu 😤

[plucky sky]

Smol indie company. They dont have time to add QoL features like that. Maybe once Scopely buys them

[cerulean halo]

lmao

[plucky sky]

Surely. I believe in you.

[grand canopy]

[fossil basin]

Oh.. https://twitter.com/niantichelp/status/1897005442892533977?s=46&t=iG0xFLhysjMe3DesmHFoEA

Niantic Support (@NianticHelp) on X

Trainers, we are aware of an issue where Trainers could not obtain Special Backgrounds from Reshiram, Zekrom, and Kyurem raids after 11:59 p.m. local time on Sunday, March 2. We apologize for the technical issue which caused this.

Impacted Trainers will receive Timed Research

X · Mar 4, 2025, 7:25 PM

[glad niche]

Oh no
Bronzor is back

[fossil basin]

Nooooooo

[torpid fjord]

Finally done 1000km since i started in june

[loud gull]

Oh boy I'm about to get an insane amount of encounters soon then.

[torpid fjord]

Me too

I did over 60 raids

[loud gull]

I think I did around 50 on Sunday

[torpid fjord]

I really wanted shiny reshiram and kyurem

I think i encountered like 40 reshiram and 20 kyurem and 5 zekrom

Caught these during go tour

[quiet kite]

BUST

[lone scarab]

trade it in for a used one lol

[quiet kite]

I buckled and bought the research ticket this morning so we'll see how my second one is

[grand canopy]

11/13/10

[glad niche]

How easy is kubfu to get

[grand canopy]

i think its the reward for the first page of the new seasonal research

walk 3km, battle some rocket grunts

[glad niche]

So that'll take me a while

Because of the walk 3k

[quiet kite]

the top 12's looking fit

[grand canopy]

i'll get mine today, kubfu better be female

[unborn garden]

Ehhh I'll take it, hope my paid one is better

[fervent pewter]

my first bronzor of the szn NOT SHINY LFG 🔥🔥

[vapid scroll]

I still have to wait 30 minutes for kubfu

[fervent pewter]

is urshifu even good i havent even look at stats

[vapid scroll]

Idk but gmax kubfu for max raiding is prolly good. Gotta pay for that one though

I wonder if water urshifu will be better in go than it was in game though

[weary gorge]

The paid mons are better?

Like guaranteed good IVs?

[grand canopy]

nope

[unborn garden]

Nah same iv floor

Just hoping it'll have better ivs aha

[grand canopy]

[unborn garden]

Hope yours is female ^^

[unique grotto]

I didn't realize Kubfu wasn't relegated to just one gender.

[unborn garden]

It's got the starter odds

So like 1/10 female I'm pretty sure

[weary gorge]

Oh i just realized it has gender % lol

I hope mine is male

And also

I'm freeeeeeeeee

[torpid fjord]

If i dont use the lucky trinket in 4 days will it dissapear from my inventory

[grand canopy]

yes

[fervent pewter]

so messed up

[weary gorge]

That's so ass

It's not like you can buy a lot of them

[midnight iris]

I think they will probably offer the lucky trinket as a reward again and don't want people to stockpile them

They did state it was time limited so if you bought the pass it's on you lol

[weary gorge]

When was the last time they did that tho?

[midnight iris]

Never

[weary gorge]

Bruh

[midnight iris]

It's a new item

[grand canopy]

i can see them releasing another one for gofest

[grand canopy]

can this damn grunt spawn please

[vapid scroll]

Be better DC

[vapid scroll]

Guess what guys OMG He got better. Became an expensive lil guy tho

Also got this guy for when alolan eggseggutor

[plucky sky]

Female kubfu has existed in the past, just not breedable and very low odds. I guess they just decided to give us the same thing, but with potentially slightly better odds. Wouldn't be the first time, since we get shiny legends and mythicals the same way, but I don't think most people expected it

[glad niche]

Congratulations

[vapid scroll]

What level do I have to be to max out my melmetal? I tried to get the achievement and they said no

[woeful pulsar]

iirc once you're lv40 you can raise mons to 50

[fervent pewter]

yep just 40

its always n+10 afaik

[vapid scroll]

Shoot I’m forever away.

Only level 32

[fervent pewter]

it goes quick!

[woeful pulsar]

yeah used to be n+2 till they released lv50

made it nicer for low level players getting traded high level mons now

[fervent pewter]

yea im still holding hella mighty pokemon for new players

[vapid scroll]

Hey is alolan eggectutor in go yet?

[woeful pulsar]

yep! not as an evolution option currently but it can be caught in the wild and sometimes in raids/tasks. they had an event where it was temporarily available to evolve into like 2-3 years ago

[cyan crater]

is the kubfu special research ticket worth it guys?

[vapid scroll]

Prolly not. The free one can gigantamax too

[plucky sky]

Do you want a 2nd kubfu in pogo? If yes, then yes. Otherwise, no. Nobody can tell you if something is worth it for you. Its worth it for me, but if you don't want what it offers, then its not worth it for you. If you want a 2nd kubfu in pogo, this is the way to get it

[cyan crater]

I havent caught the 1sr kubfu

[vapid scroll]

I bought it cause I thought the free one wasn’t gmax

[plucky sky]

Its free, you'll catch it if you keep playing

You need to do research for either of them

1 is just paid research

[vapid scroll]

The paid one is lije step 4 you get kubfu. Free is 1st step

[trail cloak]

That's correct. Neither of them are

[vapid scroll]

No my free one was gmax

[plucky sky]

Yeah, assuming you complete the research, you get a kubfu. If you don't plan to finish the research, then neither are worth anything lol

[vapid scroll]

The paid one, fuzzy whatever says you get a normal and gmax kubfu

[plucky sky]

You get 1 kubfu per research

1 from the free research. 1 more from the paid. Both dynamax

[plucky sky]

I think you're confusing dynamax with gigantimax. The kubfu are both dynamax. Not gmax

[midnight iris]

Are they useful or just collectibles? I skipped that whole event

[plucky sky]

Just a good IV, high level, XXL mon

Nothing else special

[midnight iris]

Thanks

[fervent pewter]

good for new players to boost their acct

i can trade a full team of lvl 40 dragonite is kinda good!

[plucky sky]

Yeah, like a mighty mon can easily be the highest cp mon on a new account, by far

[vapid scroll]

So how do you meet other pokemon go players to trade your useless mons for extra candy. Is there like a discord you can go to that organizes that?

Trading is so hard having to know people 😦

[plucky sky]

Try campfire. Download the campfire app, and you can find the public groups closest to your location. A lot of towns have groups even if not big. If there isn't one, but people put mons in gyms and stuff, then you can make your own group

Some of those groups have discords or other ways to communicate, but thankfully campfire is partially built into the pogo app and has its own chatting functions, even if not as polished as discord

[trail cloak]

If you're not in a big urban area (where you can just search "[Cityname] discord"), campfire is your best bet

[fervent pewter]

check out the biggest local urban area yea

even if its 45 min- 1 hr away or whatever

i'm lucky to live in capital of NY but youd be hard pressed to find metro areas without a pogo community

[trail cloak]

Plus, you could ask in that big urban server if anyone knows a closer community

[vapid scroll]

Yeah I’m going to a campfire meetup for fuecoco community day. I joined their discord just now but their discord doesn’t seem very active. 42 people say they’re coming to the meetup though

[onyx surge]

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/thepokemodgroup/status/1897452479966535833?s=46&t=iG0xFLhysjMe3DesmHFoEA dont mind the volcanion gif

[onyx surge]

Another day I have been reminded of Volcanion's existence

[fossil basin]

Global skiddo huh.. https://twitter.com/thepokemodgroup/status/1897453007723204727?s=46&t=iG0xFLhysjMe3DesmHFoEA

The Pokemod Group (@thepokemodgroup) on X

Additional content:
• Purchase by April 15 and play between April 8 and April 15 for Timed Research that awards an encounter with Skiddo!

X · Mar 6, 2025, 1:03 AM

[onyx surge]

Pay walling skiddo 🫤

I forgot how long it's been since it debuted at that go safari lol

[fossil basin]

I mean its the safari tour sooo

[vapid scroll]

Not even higher chance for shiny skiddo… he should be golden if you’re paying for him

[onyx surge]

Smoliv is back in 2km eggs 😮

🚮

[fossil basin]

I mean it can be shiny

it was unlocked

[onyx surge]

Top tier pokemon in my opinion in terms of cuteness but utterly useless in go

Still have a hundo one with the buddy ribbon, no evolving or anything

Smoliv doesn't need to evolve

[fossil basin]

More candy for your hundo /j

[vapid scroll]

I have a single pokemon with the buddy ribbon. My plan was to level him up all the way. I gave up on that plan. And leveled my melmetal instead

[fossil basin]

I have enough candy to max out a buddy of mine

a shiny togekiss

[onyx surge]

Now I'm remembering the hundo meltan I Hunted so hard for

[fossil basin]

Best buddy it

[vapid scroll]

I play sporadically. So I don’t get a chance to get hundreds of candies for the same pokemon. Cause they keep changing whats in my area

[onyx surge]

Used to remember the exact number of encounters it took for me to find it but I haven't really discussed that in a while so

[vapid scroll]

I caught my hundo melmetal today

[onyx surge]

I guess I forgot

[vapid scroll]

I had 900 candies by the time I caught it so that many encounters

[onyx surge]

Lucky

I think I had like 3 nundos before I got the hundo 💀

Game was laughing in my face at that point

[vapid scroll]

Yeah. It was my day I randomed a perfect eggsecute to save for alolan eggseggcutor when he’s allowed to evolve

No shinies though

[glad rover]

If the Skiddo encounter is real I'll take it since it'll help me get two more for my kalos dex. I only need 9 kalos Pokémon left

[mighty bane]

allat for a goat

[onyx surge]

Would rather pay for a pidgey

[glad rover]

Skiddo and Mudbray are annoying to get since they're always safari encounters

[onyx surge]

Like even if it's not the usual 10/10/10 iv floor

Cuz I could potentially get an xl for my pidgeot army that I for some reason have

Idk

Might do a rockruff army if I ever get that stupid 3rd evo one's shiny

So many rare candies wasted on moongiest beam 😑

[vapid scroll]

I wasted most of my rare candies on cyndaquil

[fossil basin]

Mine is definitely spacial rend palkia

[vapid scroll]

Also speaking of rare candy whyyyyyyy do they take up inventory space DX

[fossil basin]

I use so many rare candies on ir for spacial rend usage lol

[onyx surge]

I've been trying to get that rockruff since the moongiest thing debuted in go fest last year

Guess ill have to wait even longer

[mighty bane]

i bought 2 raid passes and still havent used them..

[onyx surge]

Go Tour Unova was so P2W. Niantic must hate Unova 💀

If i hadn't been sitting on so many raid passes for so long I wouldn't have been able to play without spending money

[lone scarab]

Idt that was a fault of the tour that's just how raids are, there's lots of unovan legenda

The tour itself was pretty f2p friendly in regards to like wild spawns, eggs, research, all were the same for paid players. Only the tour pass was really that impactful and it wasn't anything crazy

I still think locking like sandile and stuff to the pass and super rare research tasks with like 15 other possible mons was silly tho

[plucky sky]

Yeah overall I don't think unova tour was much more p2w than other content outside of the pass, which honestly didn't give much at the end of the day. A lucky trinket that you have to use in the next week and some cosmetic items mostly. There are certain aspects that were objectively better if you paid stuff, but that goes for the game in general, and nothing new or exclusive to this event

Also pretty sure a lot of people will get the paid skiddo encounter just to fill their pokedex since most people have no real way to get it otherwise. Its a smart thing for Niantic to offer tbh. The scummy part is locking it to safari in the first place. They created a problem and then offer a paid solution. But a lot of people will buy it anyway. I know I will

[fervent pewter]

im gonna have someone trade me one

[plucky sky]

Thats smart if you know the right people

[grand canopy]

i missed the collection challenges and the roamers, that wouldve made the tour better (like the ones before) but for me it mostly felt like a massive raid day without the benefits of being a raid day

was still a cool event imo, the route spawns were something i'll definitely miss

[fervent pewter]

my only complaint w unova tour was kyurem shouldve been insta catch like necrozma and research sucked

the green research was insanely rare and the other tasks sucked

[grand canopy]

ye increased catch rate wouldve been dope

but thats what the kyurem forms are for right?

i'll prob never use their adventure effect thingies tho

[plucky sky]

Yeah honestly "week of raids followed by raid weekend + some bonuses" would be a more accurate name for the event tbh

[plucky sky]

Some people swear by adventure effects, but I never use them personally. Legend candy and stardust often feel more valuable for my 1 year old account than I can throw at adventure affects

[grand canopy]

they also couldve done a lot more with the party challenges instead of just spin 20 stops/win 2 gbl battles (gbl battles during the event is also absolutely hilarious)

[plucky sky]

Yeah thats fair lol

I feel like party stuff is often overshadowed

[grand canopy]

i think the palkia one is great, i use that on comdays or other events

but i always have stardust/candy from gbl or raid rewards

the others are also alright, stationary incense or increased daily incense time, the kyurems i dont really like

[fervent pewter]

i used RoT for daily a bit then found out it prob not worth lol

spacial rend is prob best by far yea

[quiet kite]

the research did, in fact, suck ass

[fervent pewter]

so gross the power up 5

[unborn garden]

should've been catch 5 unova mons

[fervent pewter]

yea the reward wasnt even worth the dust

i pretty much only did basculin tasks lol

[quiet kite]

same, I was thirsty for more Go Fish and Enigma tasks

[fervent pewter]

i think i saw maybe 10-15 enigma tasks the whoke weeked

[twin cove]

Woah hey dude

It’s been a while

How you been?

https://pokemongolive.com/post/go-fest-2025-events-announcement?hl=en

I NEEEED IT

[fervent pewter]

hail crown zacian

[twin cove]

I’m so tempted to go in person rahhh

[fervent pewter]

yea its a fun time

i'm going to jersey

[woeful pulsar]

Debating the Paris one. I have a lot of stuff scheduled that month so just need to check dates

[glad niche]

I'll be skipping in person again as I don't have a passport so I can't go to Paris

Plan to go next year on holiday though, even though I want out of it

[loud gull]

I swear when they host again at Seattle I will go then.

[loud gull]

Yea it felt way to slow for me to join each raid when I needed to walk around too.

[onyx surge]

Pretty good actually

[blissful trench]

614644365345 hey guys can yall add me i only have 6 friends and i want to try to get shiny charcadet

[twin cove]

We’re getting close to hitting best friends so I’ll ping/dm you whenever we do

[onyx surge]

Still kinda upset I didn't get a hundo kyurem from the tour 😕

[twin cove]

My tour went garbage

[onyx surge]

Best i got was a 14/15/15 💀

[twin cove]

2 shinies in 7+ hours of gameplay

[twin cove]

Same, that’s probably the best thing I got all weekend

[onyx surge]

I did enough raids with my locals to fuse three of both black and white kyurem and barely got 2 rare xls from rewards

Not to mention the lack of extra free passes

[twin cove]

No bonus free passes sucked

I had to buy the tour pass to get a fusion

Wild area was 100% better imo

[onyx surge]

For sure

[twin cove]

Anyways now I sleep through march because I did my one zapdos raid

[vapid scroll]

But kubfu research says to raid 3 more times. Kubfu needs you

[onyx surge]

How is it that I'm already out of kyurem candy. All I got is a heaping 380 xls

I haven't used the abilities but once just to see what they do. I've been powering up kyurem too much ig 💀

I haven't even checked to see how usable the fusions are for raids/Master League.

Honestly haven't touched PvP in so long

Pretty sure I was rank 4 last season

[twin cove]

theyre both pretty useful imo

freeze shock on shadow legends go brrr

[onyx surge]

Almost at 300m xp. Not quite 3.5 million to go

[vapid scroll]

This sounds incredibly high until I remember it starts at rank 1

[onyx surge]

Lol yeah I don't think I've ever made it past ace rank lol

[twin cove]

i didnt do any pvp this season lmao

not like i ever do

[vapid scroll]

I’ve never made it out of numbered ranks. I think I’ve done 250 battles total.

I would say over five years but most of them happened during two months and then I stopped playing for years

I just upgraded my meltan so I’m out of stardust though. Time to pvp grind again

[twin cove]

dont talk to krispoi about meltan

[plucky sky]

Both are top tier in raids and Master League.
Raids:
Black is more general purpose and used against dragon weak bosses, while White is specifically for ice weak bosses, but both have insane dps, so can be used really well in neutral situations too. Very similar to the necrozma fusions where they have a niche, but their sheer power let's them be used basically everywhere if you want. Black is the #4 dragon attacker and the top non-mega dragon attacker. White is #1 ice attacker and Black is #2 ice attacker. Basically, insane for raids.
PvP:
Im less knowledgeable about pvp so if someone like rvptxr wants to weigh in, that could be helpful, but from what I've heard and read, White and Black are both in the top 10 Master League contenders, with Black at #2 and White at #8 on pvpoke. Black is apparently an insane monster in Master League thats hard to take down and extremely powerful. White is a bit more niche, but offers Fusion Flare for steel types, which gives it a unique use compared to Black, and White is still really strong

Oh BTW, I saw some misinformation going around online that Skiddo was a separate paid research, but according to the official notice, Skiddo is the reward for getting your global gofest ticket before April 15th, not an additional cost. So anyone getting the global ticket basically also gets the skiddo research for free, unless you wait to buy the ticket for a month

[unborn garden]

Oh sick that's great then, just got the ticket today

[plucky sky]

Yeah, its a lot better value than buying a ticket specifically for the pokedex slot. Especially since most people who care about that stuff will be buying the go fest ticket anyway

[lone scarab]

I'm not a fan of buying tickets that early and just hoping no plans come up over global weekend

But not like I'm gonna get skiddo another way

[viscid lagoon]

Guys, for the Volcanion encounter, you need to buy the ticket, right? Am I understanding correctly that you won't get a free encounter?

[woeful pulsar]

Correct

[trail cloak]

Keldeo waiting room

[viscid lagoon]

Damn.

Thank you for clarifying !

[crisp relic]

aceeeeeey has given 1 Gen Rep to bgoproton

[woeful pulsar]

It will probs eventually release globally for free like previous gofest encounters

We're waiting for marshadow release atm. They usually release the prev gofest mythical before a new one comes

[autumn copper]

I caught these in the last 3 hours

[viscid lagoon]

Ooh! Then I'll just wait

[woeful pulsar]

You do have to complete a good amount of all previous mythical researches to unlock the next one though so keep an eye for that

[quiet kite]

Marshadow and Keldeo still in ticket tjail

[plucky sky]

Surely soon

[lone scarab]

marshadow should be coming up right

Diancie was sometime around now it feels like

[fervent pewter]

didnt we just get marshadow

[glad rover]

Yeah we'd probably get Keldeo before Marshadow

Diancie was around last May

[lone scarab]

free marshadow

[fervent pewter]

ohh

keldeo in 2025 surely

shiny? 👀

[onyx surge]

Oh god

Not meltan

It's definitely been a minute since I've caught one of those Lil turds

Still waiting for the gigantimax so I can finally use the over abundant 100k candies

Haven't even considered using a meltan box in a while, either

Honestly wouldn't open a meltan box if it gave me a third hundo

Having to wait over 10k encounters for the first hundo was bad enough

[lone scarab]

Hope so cuz if they pull the "you already have normal keldeo ya can't get another one" after all this time...

[onyx surge]

Getting really burnt out from best buddying pokemon too.

Working on best buddy #37 right now

Hundo raikou

Need the extra walking candy anyways

Even with poffins, it's painful

[twin cove]

Dangg 37??

I’ve only done 5

Not because they’re meta but just because they’re my favorites

well ig the dialga is good it does have RoT

[weary gorge]

People who work with mutiple buddies scares me

The free time for 50 buddies 💀

[restive turtle]

i just got my 3rd like a week or so ago

shiny party hat wurmple

[vapid scroll]

Is meltan even going to be good in gigantimax raids? What he even do? I’ve only done 1 and 3 star gigantimax raids tho I might join against a gigantimax starter on community day

[lone scarab]

Well having only thundershock as a fast move is kinda crippling if it's what the dmax move is based on

But it's got lots of decent charged attacks and high stats

[fervent pewter]

melmetal will surely get buff

[lone scarab]

Give it steel fast move watch the pvp people shiver

[trail cloak]

I'd argue the opposite: Melmetal is fairly tanky (about Lapras level bulk) with great typing and a 0.5s move. It's going to be a great generalist into many Max battles

Its G-Max Meltdown will have limited use, though, being steel. And its Electric D-Max move will indeed be very mid.

[restive turtle]

G-Max Meltdown won't see any use at all unless melmetal gets a steel type fast move

oh my fucking god

[trail cloak]

Why is that? Other GMax mons use their signature moves with or without the appropriate type fast move

[restive turtle]

oh

i didn't know that

[trail cloak]

Like Water Gun Lapras's Ice move

[restive turtle]

I've only ever done one Gmax battle ever

and it had the same move type

[trail cloak]

Niantic's band aid solution to implementing max battles in Go

[lone scarab]

Meltdown is a good alternative to giving melmetal a different fast move so can appreciate that

And yeah actually thundershock hitting fast ti charge would be pretty good in higher tier raids kinda overlooked that

[wide wave]

Are Mega Lucario raids still going on?

[lone scarab]

it's around till the 13th

[wide wave]

Thanks. Just means i gotta try one before they go.

[twin cove]

Pain and suffering

[fervent pewter]

couldve been worse !

[twin cove]

Not by much

[sharp finch]

I day the mew is worse because I paid 15 just to get a mew worse then my original one

[twin cove]

My mew was xxs

[midnight iris]

Ayo, since we're posting mythicals

Pretty lucky considering it's my favourite one, I even hunted for one on Pokémon crystal VC and have it on Home

I want to take it to 50 but I need many xls

[fossil basin]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1137139535181004931/1347556032624459919/im-literally-shaking-rn-v0-j8js0wnnqi9e1.jpg?ex=67cc40da&is=67caef5a&hm=695565eaec5292dabb8dbd18e5da3a2bffaf14cfa177bf84ab323ab555f23d47&

[trail cloak]

That's the laziest version of that meme I've seen yet

[halcyon plume]

I know that your trainer level dictates how much combat power your Pokemon can get but does it change when you power up the Pokemon or is it locked in whenever you catch the Pokemon?

[vapid scroll]

Trainer level dictates max level pokemon can be I can’t remember how many levels over your trainer level they can be

[weary gorge]

Yea i don't remember much

But for what i know you can reach lvl 50 once you're 40

[woeful pulsar]

Level+10 is the cap

[forest saffron]

Why do PvP Pokémon want to have no attack ivs, and what are some good Pokémon right now for great league?

[mighty bane]

I NEED IT SK BAD

[glad niche]

There's an entire list on pokebattler

[fervent pewter]

maximize stat product

[vapid scroll]

So the attack stat has no relation to how much damage they do or what?

[fervent pewter]

yes but for your sake no

those 2 azumarill are mostly doing the same dmg

but u can see the one with 0 atk has more room for defensive stats

and that is prefer in pvp

[midnight iris]

IVs mostly don't matter outside of very high PvP ranks

Where everybody's min maxing

And the stat matters but so does the level. Notice that he lower atk azumarill can level up more

[vapid scroll]

Man pvp needs to be more transparent. How do I, a casual, find these things out. I hate having to look up every pokemon I have, go is this good in pvp and what stats should it have.

[midnight iris]

You can play with whatever you want, it's just if you really want to go high up in ranks that you need to know every little detail but that's how every game works

[unique grotto]

A terrible Azumarill will still be better than no Azumarill. A "bad" set of stats will just lose some edge cases. For the most part, if Azu wins it will win either way.

[vapid scroll]

Nah I’m down here at rank seven winning less than half my battles. I need that stardust from winning. Trying mandibuzz cause I heard its good and pairing it with perserker and a water frog

[fervent pewter]

yes and no

but for the sake of just starting out its not that serious

there are some pretty budget friendly pokemon these days @vapid scroll

check out a website "pvpoke" if youre interested in the rabbit hole

[lucid frigate]

I think HSH swapped mandibuzz for shadow drapion since that team insta loses to morpeko lead

[fervent pewter]

a lot of those teams suck ngl

[restive turtle]

i don't think spiritomb is very budget-friendly unless you've played on halloween

just popped the coin bag because I had foggy weather but only the first gimmi was boosted

[vapid scroll]

Huh. Now I just gotta find a morpeko and train up my jigglypuff. I actually have a decent talonflame because of a community day

[fervent pewter]

exactly

[weary gorge]

Unrelated but i'm so glad Shiny Keldeo is finally available

Yeah you need Galar's pokedex

But still

[lone scarab]

If nothing else it makes a go one more likely now that it's had an official release

[restive turtle]

if I already have phony form would this be a guaranteed antique

it was not

[weary gorge]

Sorry but i'll proceed to XD

[quiet kite]

sHoUld I PUrIfY!?!?

[sharp finch]

Do it

It'll be worth it

[quiet kite]

I believe you, birb

[fervent pewter]

i would

[midnight iris]

Yes because the shadow effect is ugly as hell

[quiet kite]

I troll

[restive turtle]

my shadow palkia would be a 98% if i purified it

[weary gorge]

Not so much luck with my Kubfu damn

At least it's a male

[void mirage]

Let's be friends in Pokémon GO! My Trainer Code is 309596377445! I need gifts

[plucky sky]

You don't need to post the same thing in multiple channels. There's a channel for friend codes and it's #pogo_friend_codes If people are looking for accounts to add, they'll go there

[alpine ether]

oh my god they did the thing 😭

[lucid frigate]

Yeah i dont remember the last time i used a content creator team

Ive been running pangoro/jellicent/clodsire and pangoro can absolutely take over a game if they’re ABA weak to it, which a lot of teams seemed to be

[fervent pewter]

you would hate to play my team

[fervent pewter]

is good for new players to see the landscape at least haha

but anyone running those teams is free win

[stray birch]

Guys I missed the fuecoco event how do I get it now? I was so busy iforgot it happened

[woeful pulsar]

You either have to trade for it locally, or wait till december when all the years CDs rerun at once

[stray birch]

The cds rerun each december?

[woeful pulsar]

December has a community day weekend where the whole years CD mons run at the same time

[stray birch]

Ouch so I gotta wait till December

[woeful pulsar]

Yeah unless you get really lucky and just get one in the wild at base chance

[stray birch]

I've never seen a sprigatito spawn since it's community day so I'm gonna rule out the wild encounter

[fervent pewter]

arent there raids after

[weary gorge]

Yea it sucks missing the community day

[fervent pewter]

that spawn fuecoco

[weary gorge]

Specially for the increased shony odds

[grand canopy]

nope

they stopped doing those

[stray birch]

I just caught a cp 28 charizard,

I thought it was a zorua since my buddy was a charizard

But It wasnt

[fervent pewter]

scumbags lol

[mighty bane]

why tf cant i claim this

[glad niche]

Try reloading

[lone scarab]

they stopped this with sprigatito who just so happens to have been really nice to catch in a premier ball for the first time lol

thankfully the ongoing sv 7* raids allow it now but felt personal

[mighty bane]

i have

still aint working

ok now it works

[glad niche]

👍

[mighty bane]

took over 30 minutes

[glad niche]

That's mews research isn't it

[mighty bane]

mhm

[stray birch]

I hate that you can't do worldwide trading in pogo

[mighty bane]

fuecoco dont spawn for another 2 and a half hours…

[mighty bane]

first raid and we just barely lost, fml

[weary gorge]

I managed to catch a gigamax venusaur and charizard

Yay

[glad niche]

Did you eventually win?

[midnight iris]

how many of you were there?

[mighty bane]

3

[mighty bane]

no sadly

[glad rover]

Just because I forget about it sometimes but has Hisuian Lilligant been in the game yet? I know some Hisuian forms are occasionally in raids but I forget if that one's been in them yet

[mighty bane]

nope

[glad rover]

Ah yeah just double checked, H-Zorua line and H-Sliggoo/Goodra need to be added eventually to. Also looking at the dexes for what's left in some of them, the Honedge line is the only kalos pokemon that need to be released into the game (Volcanion to but it was just announced for Go Fest)

[mighty bane]

9 minutes for the shiny

[vocal bolt]

At least it’s a female

[lone scarab]

Pretty good for a kubfu lol

[weary gorge]

Yea honestly not bad

[fossil basin]

https://twitter.com/leekduck/status/1898432818658840630?s=46&t=iG0xFLhysjMe3DesmHFoEA

Leek Duck 🦆🤝👖 (@LeekDuck) on X

Fuecoco Community Day does not feature Stickers, which have been a staple of past Community Day events.

This absence could signal a permanent change in the future. What are your thoughts on the removal, and do you want them to stay?

X · Mar 8, 2025, 5:57 PM

[quiet kite]

should I PuUUUUUuuUriFfFyyy!?!? ungaunga hundo unga

[forest saffron]

From the research

[glad niche]

Wow nice

[glad niche]

Serious question?

[quiet kite]

i troll

[alpine ether]

skeledirge's shiny colors look so pretty in pogo

[weary gorge]

Holy shit it's El Muerto

[twin cove]

Yeah trust me it gets way stronger no cap fr fr

[trail cloak]

15 > 13, it's simple math

[quiet kite]

the numbers don't lie frfr

[fervent pewter]

yea i aint making a 13 atk shadow

[trail cloak]

Before Shadow raids

No ragrets, it has served me well

[kindred musk]

#purify

[fervent pewter]

only 200 xl to go

[fervent pewter]

@trail cloak playing new szn? changes are pretty good

https://tenor.com/view/dusknoir-pokémon-dusknoir-shadow-ball-pokémon-shadow-ball-dusknoir-uses-shadow-ball-gif-26126337

[trail cloak]

Yes, but ironically playing mons that didn't get changed

Lokix/Drap/Tenta

[fervent pewter]

i would feel bad to queue you

[trail cloak]

[fervent pewter]

actually won that one

venu gfisk basti

[trail cloak]

Gfisk, in this economy?

How the mighty have fallen

[fervent pewter]

these low rank battles are great

tho im lagging a bit behind the pack

[trail cloak]

I'm at 88/117 (carried 3 over on accident )

[fervent pewter]

lol i carried over a 0/1 i was pissed

not sure how i manage that

[gusty sun]

I need someone to trade with me any pokemon so I can complete a challenge

[unborn garden]

Trading distance is 100m

[midnight iris]

Ask your neighbours lol

[glad niche]

No can do unfortunately

[alpine ether]

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/niantic-campfire/id1608615554

[torpid fjord]

If i use my lucky trinket with a friend whos at great friend level will the stardust cost go down if we trade legendaries

[trail cloak]

Fairly certain it was 16k when I traded legendaries with a Great Friend

[sharp finch]

Dude shiny smeargle coming back means mine will have even less value :[

And knowing this server there's going to be quite a few shundos

[mighty bane]

I mean all pokemon lose value

[sharp finch]

But this is a shiny that was less available then Meltan

That's saying something

[rotund copper]

Don’t worry, it has little to no value to begin with

[mighty bane]

well you can go download pla and catch meltan there ...

[rotund copper]

And now more people will get access to it

[rotund copper]

Meltan isn’t in PLA

[mighty bane]

wait

oh wait i was thinking of the wrong pokemon

[trail cloak]

It's been out 2-3 times already?

Never had anyone ask for one, no one values it

[mighty bane]

bro tryna gatekeep smeargle just go buy the sv dlc

[rotund copper]

Yeah Shiny Smeargle is made available like every year or maybe every other year

[trail cloak]

And it's not affected by weather so hundos are pretty darn rare still

[sharp finch]

Only twice

As in meltan has been out like 4 times for multiple weeks

Every time smeargle was ever avaliable was for a week or less

So it's more rare in GO

[rotund copper]

Yeah I’ve only got one

Mewtwo ass Smeargle

[alpine ether]

theres literally no other way to get shiny melmetal besides go so itd be bs if they didnt have a bunch of events 😭

[sharp finch]

I've been over odds on mentan while I've gotten 2 smeargle, one a 96% of with v-create

[vocal bolt]

Is the event today?

[fervent pewter]

it been back a few time already

u can try to get a cool smeargle shiny

incinerate flying press

[sharp finch]

Twice.

[fervent pewter]

hey thats a few 😂

need xls

[rotund copper]

Oh I have no idea when it is

[fervent pewter]

it starts thursday

[vocal bolt]

Oh ok nice ty

[lone scarab]

Think it was out last year/recently cuz one of my friends had great luck with it

Idt I've had any since it's initial release lol

[glad rover]

I got shiny Smeargle last time it was out, was on the first photobomb to, I think I took a screenshot of an Igglybuff and the Smeargle was shiny. Of course it wasn't shiny in the photobomb but still was nice

[lone scarab]

Ya know what

They should make the photo bomb shiny if the snapshot encounters shiny that'd be actually sweet

I'd like never click on one again but it'd still be cool

[lucid frigate]

aw man not the toxic team noooooo

[halcyon plume]

Why won't it let me shake the Kekleon off of the stop?

[vapid scroll]

you shook it off? it should be on the ground now?

in overworld

[halcyon plume]

No it won't let me, it just stays stuck there

Ok it was just lagging super hard

[grand canopy]

2XLs

[wide wave]

Man the campfire app is just dead for my area. Trying to find people in my area of michigan thumb is a pain.

[lone scarab]

"For my area" sure sure

not just dead everywhere cuz raid apps and the "can join raids your friends are in" update almost completely invalidates the app lol

[plucky sky]

The only purpose of the app tbh is for in person stuff

You can't use raid apps to do things like shadow or elite raids

Thats the only real purpose

[wide wave]

Even the facebook groups are dead. I was looking for in person groups to do trades or gmax or something.

[plucky sky]

Oh yeah, trades is another one

But yeah, for most raids you can just ignore campfire

[lone scarab]

Discords do kinda invalidate that as well to some extent, if you have the courage to ask around lol

Worked great in my old town until remote raids became more mainstream

[plucky sky]

Yeah, I used campfire and then found a discord that local people made and now use that lol. Its a good starting point, but something like discord is just so much better for talking to people and coordinating. The hard part is finding the local discord, if it exists

[wide wave]

Thats very true and no discords for my area. Plus being in a very rural area doesn't help distant cow moos It's why I'm gonna try to make one later.

[winter gust]

im really sorry if this is the wrong chat to ask this in, but i cant find a very good spot too, im trying to catch vivillons and recently learned how to do that (i have not played go in a long time) and i was wondering if it was possible for people to send me some post cards from different regions, so far i have fancy, polar and modern, i apologize again if this is the incorrect chat to send this too

[wide wave]

@winter gust Can always post friend code in the friend code channel. Helped out for me.

[winter gust]

omg im not very bright, tysm

[lucid frigate]

If it makes you feel better i live in a top 10 populated US city and even the discord and facebook groups here aren’t all that active lol

At least from what ive joined