pogo_discussion

[weary gorge]

Butterfree is a weak ass pokemon anyway

[loud gull]

I would buddy her and make distance. If you catch anymore start placing them in gyms and constantly feed them for a small chance of candy too.

another idea is to max mega a fire or ground type, so when an event comes and makes them more frequent in the wild then mega them and it gives a big chance of xl candy on catch

[plucky sky]

Page 4 for Shiny Meloetta research is out. Hope you guys have 20 best friends, but honestly they definitely could have picked a worst medal. This is an instant completion for me, and it takes no luck. Its basically a ~90 day time gate if you dont have it and have no friends close to it.
https://fixupx.com/LeekDuck/status/1906666535055180093

Leek Duck 🦆🤝👖 (@LeekDuck)

The next step for the Shiny Meloetta Masterwork Research, A Dazzling Aria, reveals another wait. #PokemonGO
︀︀
︀︀The platinum Idol medal is 20 Best Friends.
︀︀
︀︀Full Details: leekduck.com/events/masterwork-research-a-dazzling-aria/

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FixupX · Mar 31, 2025, 11:15 AM

[glad niche]

Part 4 for meloetta is timegated for another 3 weeks

[plucky sky]

As expected

[glad niche]

Idk how close I am to platinum idol

I should be close if not already have it

I would have hated it if it was 20 best buddies

[plucky sky]

It sucks for people who havent already hit it, but at least its basically a simple timegate. Finding gifting friends is pretty easy, and then its just waiting 90 days

Basically one of the least work, luck, or specific circumstance required for a platinum medal

[glad niche]

Good thing this server has #pogo_friend_codes

[plucky sky]

We knew a platinum medal mission was probably gonna be part of this based on past shiny mythical masterworks, so I'm mostly just happy its this one and not one of the more restricted or harder ones

[fervent pewter]

OMG I GOT SCARED BY U GUYS

I THOUGHT IT WAS 20 best buddies

i was gonna feel so bad for ppl that would be a fucked quest

[glad niche]

If it was I'd probably quit

[fervent pewter]

20 best buddies would be unreal yea

[glad niche]

Spent money just to give up

[quiet kite]

I wish it was best buddies. I have at least 23

[fervent pewter]

i have enough i just feel bad for the others

[fervent pewter]

ill never get 200

[grand canopy]

did they change the legend encounter rate from gbl?

[kindred musk]

I only got a whopping 1 lol

[fervent pewter]

i never get legendaries ..

[plucky sky]

No, just different luck. You've probably gotten lucky in the past

[trail cloak]

Encounter rate was much higher in the first few seasons

Nothing seems to have changed recently, though

[fossil basin]

https://twitter.com/leekduck/status/1906656186725715992?s=46&t=iG0xFLhysjMe3DesmHFoEA

Leek Duck 🦆🤝👖 (@LeekDuck) on X

Poké Balls will appear on the map starting at midnight on April 1.

This special event will last 24 hours.

Full Details: https://t.co/ye8EDLXGU4

X · Mar 31, 2025, 10:33 AM

I Found one it gave me a great ball

[glad niche]

Banned because they're not appearing yet

[plucky sky]

There's like 3 time zones where it's the 1st already afaik

[glad rover]

Welp looks like I'll never complete the meloetta research, I don't know anyone else who plays locally and have never even done a party

[trail cloak]

Gonna have to step out of your comfort zone and add strangers from the Internet

[glad rover]

No thank you

[trail cloak]

https://tenor.com/view/meloetta-dance-cute-protect-them-gif-20348369

[grand canopy]

https://pokemongolive.com/post/go-pass-test-2025/

[restive turtle]

ok

[restive turtle]

the ONLY guy I've been able to party with won't ever party up because he claims it makes his phone overheat faster

it's so joever

[trail cloak]

He doesn't need to play. Just party up, he closes the game, you catch 100 solo

[halcyon plume]

I already used Sparky and have a Flareon, what should I try to evolve this into?

[restive turtle]

he's gonna complain that his phone will overheat anyway :(

[grand canopy]

this is gonna take forever

[plucky sky]

It was pretty clear the go tour pass was a test, and this is just the continuation of that test. Ngl, we don't need scopely to milk us, Niantic is doing just fine

[grand canopy]

ye but why isnt it global

[plucky sky]

Buy them a new phone. How much is this shiny meloetta worth to you?

[plucky sky]

Did it say what regions (I might be blind)? I only saw "some regions" and "some areas" without specifics

[grand canopy]

nope. they never mention that

which makes no sense because we already had the unova tour pass 😭 no need to test anything

[plucky sky]

Yeah true. Not sure what the point is. Also says rewards might be different in different places, even if you do get the pass. Kinda weird. Wonder what the point of this is

[grand canopy]

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/s/0uWXMFpJvX

[grand canopy]

there are multiple go passes

all different

theres even one with 40 coins on the free pass, so this seems like throwing random stuff in every direction

[plucky sky]

Im sure they have reasons, but I'm really curious what data they're hoping to get from this. Do they not know what items people like or are willing to pay for already? And was this the best way to figure that out? Im super curious

[fossil basin]

The game cant load em sometimes

this is the april fools pokeballs

Welp found a hisui electrode

[lone scarab]

I've had the same thing happen with zygarde cells its probably just any non-pokemon overworld spawn ig

[plucky sky]

Pogo seems to be very prone to resource errors in general tbh, in all parts of the game

Unrelated - Web Store update:
https://fixupx.com/LeekDuck/status/1906865408184824085

Leek Duck 🦆🤝👖 (@LeekDuck)

The Pokémon GO Reward Road is now live on the Web Store!
︀︀
︀︀Earn Reward Points with purchases to unlock 10 levels of monthly rewards. Get DOUBLE points when buying through the Web Store instead of in-game.
︀︀
︀︀Full Details: leekduck.com/posts/reward-road-april/
︀︀
︀︀leekduck.com/posts/reward-road-april/

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FixupX · Apr 1, 2025, 12:25 AM

Also works for purchases in game, but only for half as many points as the web store

Basically a monthly loyalty program for spending money throughout the month

April rewards:

Feel like the incubators and 3 silver pinaps are the most valuable

But nothing too major here

Just a bonus for spending you'd already do tbh, and a bigger incentive to do it on the web store instead of in game

Wouldnt go out of your way to reach the goals

- Purchases must be made with real-world currency. Purchases made using PokéCoins—and Pokémon GO Gift Card and live event ticket purchases—will not earn Reward Points.
- Reward Points expire at the end of the calendar month. Even if a Trainer claims every reward, Reward Points will not carry over between months. Trainers using child accounts are not eligible to participate in the Rewards Road program. Reward Points are not cash or any other currency, and they are non-transferable between accounts. Reward Road program availability and terms are subject to change.
- Rewards can be claimed on the Pokémon GO Web Store when a Trainer is logged in to their Pokémon GO account. An account must be in good standing to claim rewards.

[fossil basin]

Sus

[plucky sky]

Biggest bundle on the web store ($100 USD) is only 1200 points...and you need 3000 points to get all rewards...so they're expecting people to spend $250+ per month...for rewards this bad. Like I said, if you're spending anyway, you get some free stuff. But these rewards are NOT worth spending $250 per month lol

Ive said it in the past and I'll say it again: we didnt need scopely to come in and milk us. Niantic is perfectly fine with doing that themselves

[alpine ether]

people freaking out about scopely as if pogo isnt already one of the most monetarily predatory mobile games on the market

[trail cloak]

Definitely is not 🤥

All the ticketed stuff is annoying, and at times predatory because of fomo (especially now that not all mythicals have returned for free after an "early access" appearance)

But by and large Go is not even close to the top

[plucky sky]

Definitely not close to the worst, but definitely one of the more popular/mainstream bad ones. Not as bad as scoeply games, but also definitely not going easy on the player's wallet. Niantic has done a lot of stuff to show they were trying to raise profits for awhile, and selling to scopely is just the final step. They made a ton of money in this deal.
But yeah, like I've said for a long time, its not like Niantic wasn't already milking us.
Is it gonna get worse under scopely longterm? Probably.
But I think people overestimate the impact Scopely will have and dont fully realize the extent of how it was already pretty bad, and that's entirely been due to Niantic's own decisions so far.
Scopely might be a bit more cutthroat and shameless with their gouging, but Niantic has never been shy about showing they care about money at their core (its a business afterall)

[restive turtle]

can't wait for keldeo to return in a 15 dollar ticket

[plucky sky]

$15 shiny keldeo can't wait

[restive turtle]

honestly

I'd buy it if I don't already have keldeo by then

just for unova plat

volcarona is the only other one I'm missing

[plucky sky]

Id buy it for sure. I just still find it funny though lol

[glad rover]

I also need Keldeo and Volcarona left for my Unova dex, currently at 156 Larvesta candy with one as my buddy so slowly but steadily making progress for Volcarona

[plucky sky]

Soon enough

[restive turtle]

i have enough candy to evolve larvesta but I don't wanna do it and end up having to grind more to evolve another for the masterwork

[plucky sky]

Thats almost where I am with Zygarde. My Zygarde is not good, but I have close to the 200 cells to go from 50% to 100%...so I kinda want to just wait and see if we get another Zygarde encounter or an IV improver before going to 100%, and in the meantime keep collecting cells so I'm at 250 in case we do get another encounter to immediately go to 100%

I already do routes basically daily as part of my routine, so might as well just keep going

[quiet kite]

if you think Go is one of the most predatory mobile games out there, by all means go and play anything by Square Enix

and even their games arent the worst, they're just the worst Ive personally played

[plucky sky]

Its definitely not the most predatory and SqEnix also doesnt come close to the worst. People who play the most predatory games would look at both SqEnix games and Pogo as generous and nice. Its always relative. That being said, pogo is definitely predatory, as are most mobile games at this point, and definitely hungry for our money. That doesnt change with Scopely. Like I said above, Scopely might just be more shameless about it, but Niantic has always seen this solely as a cash cow and a data collection avenue. No major mainstream game by a well known company will be good about this stuff. Its just about HOW bad and how far they go.
Pogo could definitely be a lot worse, and I don't think it will be a stretch to think Scopely will make it even worse. But even Scopely games arent the bottom tier predatory monetization. There are still leagues above those games. I think people who have never played them underestimate how bad it can and does get.
That being said, it is getting worse while Niantic is in charge without Scopely's help, and its been this way since the beginning tbh. We've followed a very predictable trajectory and selling the whole thing to a bigger more predatory company was always the end goal

[quiet kite]

yeah I agree

this has been the endgame from day 1 for Niantic

[plucky sky]

All of that aside, we should still enjoy the game for now and see what happens. If it stops being fun for anyone, those people should quit.

Games are meant to be fun afterall

[quiet kite]

I personally wouldn't be surprised if this is the beginning of the end for Go though. It's easy to imagine new management running it into the ground and then dumping it shortly after

but maybe thats just wishful thinking. I personally wish it would be dumped and replaced by a more welcoming and well-thought-out flagship Pokémon mobile game

[grand canopy]

yay i have the pass

[quiet kite]

I dont

this game SUCKS now 😦

[grand canopy]

😶‍🌫️

[plucky sky]

I still have 5 hours until it would show up for me

[grand canopy]

someone on reddit posted that their pass only goes to 50 for the lucky trinket and they can only get 150 points (?) daily, their partners pass has the trinket at 100 and they can get 300 per day so its really random

[loud gull]

Just noticed there are pokeballs around the map and can give items or a pokemon encounter

[plucky sky]

Yeah its the April Fools event

https://leekduck.com/events/whats-that-pokeball-april-first/

[loud gull]

That's cool, I like surprise events like this

[noble coral]

a friend of mine has a pass that gives a total of 400 pokecoins while mine gives none

[grand canopy]

i dont even have the weekly tasks thingy, only daily

[glad niche]

I got the 100 tier one

[plucky sky]

Still 2 hours to wait for mine, but yeah it seems very random for who gets what

[glad rover]

I'm guessing I won't be getting the pass but I doubt I'm in one of the testing areas anyway

[plucky sky]

Whatever the areas are, I guess it doesnt include my part of the United States, which feels weird, but whatever. I was looking forward to buying the deluxe pass and getting another lucky trinket, but I guess they don't want my money can't say I'm not disappointed

An event that lasts for over a month with pretty good rewards including the tier bonuses like extra stardust for hatches and stuff...that people will have for a month...that a lot of people just dont get to participate in...just because. Seems like a great idea. I know they're only testing this, but nothing differentiates the benefits or rewards that people get whether its the testing or final version so a lot of people just lose out on all that stuff

[trail cloak]

'member when free daily boxes could have premium items?

Yeah, me neither

[forest saffron]

if i buy the go fest ticket now, will shiny odds be boosted now or will i have to wait until june 28th?

[glad niche]

They'll be during go fest

[forest saffron]

Oh ok, thank you for saving me 15 dollars

[crisp relic]

dyscordy has given 1 Gen Rep to blazardchu

[glad niche]

Yw I guess

[quiet kite]

I like the idea of grinding a month for a free shot at a legendary, thats good

for people who raid a lot, the value isnt there, but for rural players it must be nice

[kindred musk]

How do you get points

[lone scarab]

I mean

hit the question mark thing that seems like an obvious guide lmao

[kindred musk]

So money

[lone scarab]

yup

[kindred musk]

bruh

[kindred musk]

I’m blind I swear

Usually they don’t give us a guide we have to find it

[fervent pewter]

imo not worth TO spend on, but if youre already a spender its a nice boost

[plucky sky]

^

You would need to spend ~$250 USD for max rewards, and its definitely not even CLOSE to $250 of value. Do NOT go out of your way to spend to get points. That being said, if you're going to spend anyway, now you get some free bonuses when you spend.

[kindred musk]

Bro…

so a dollar per point?

[fervent pewter]

250 is crazy

[kindred musk]

fr bro WTH

[quiet kite]

its just a little (very, very little) cherry on top for people who are already spendin

[plucky sky]

Yeah 100%. If you're spending anyway, you get a little bonus. If you're not, don't worry about it

[kindred musk]

Anything to encourage people to spend money

[restive turtle]

wowie

took three raids

literally just wanted one better than this

shiny is a 13/10/10

[fossil basin]

I feel you, you know?

[restive turtle]

everyone around me at go fest was getting shiny and hundo necrozmas

i got the floor

[restive turtle]

lfg

[fossil basin]

niantic why https://x.com/pokemongoapp/status/1907568776398127375?s=46

Pokémon GO (@PokemonGoApp) on X

Trainers, please note the following change to Mega Audino Raid Day in #PokemonGO.

Audino will no longer be able to learn Moonblast but will instead be able to learn Body Slam.

https://t.co/vWQQ36h3Lf

X · Apr 2, 2025, 11:00 PM

I guess cause audino cant learn moonblast

[restive turtle]

lame

[trail cloak]

It was illegal, indeed. Body Slam is probably better for it, if it ever gets a half decent Fast move

[restive turtle]

hyper beam is still probably gonna be better for pve

maybe

[trail cloak]

Yeah, but then you're using a normal type... And Audino

[weary gorge]

Why Body slam of all moves lmao

That's such a weird move on Audino

[quiet kite]

Body Slam makes fine sense to me. it has a body, after all, and it can indeed slam it

[weary gorge]

[loud gull]

I am guessing the water tauros is in USA

[glad rover]

Yeah blaze is on the eastern hemisphere. Aqua's in the western and combat breed is found in raids around the Iberian Peninsula (so around Spain)

[glad rover]

https://www.serebii.net/pokemongo/events/pokemongofest2025global.shtml

More Go Fest details are out, this is for the global portion of the event but there also are other pages for the 3 special Go Fest cities, the 3 featured cities get access to Hawlucha and Fan Rotom which I guess the global event doesn't have access to

All of the events contain some regional Pokémon in some way which is pretty cool

[unborn garden]

Oooo I'm liking what's spawning

[wet lance]

Anyone have the Blaze Tauros? i need both Combat and Blaze please.

[fair hawk]

Me too I already have the water Tauros

[restive turtle]

fuck I was banking on getting hawlucha

[unique grotto]

Nice, I can get the other Flabébé variants.

[oblique ivy]

how many free raid passes are given during the global fest?

and what will be the shiny chances of zacian and zamazenta?

[unborn garden]

With the ticket you'll have 20 total including the 1 daily free one, idk about any free passes aside from what we currently get tho

And all legends have a 1/20 shiny chance if they can be shiny

[plucky sky]

Yeah I dont think we have any info about anything being different than normal for that stuff. Still early though, so I guess we'll see

[lone scarab]

might get more "free" daily passes off the ticket but those are 1 at a time premiums in disguise lets be real

[quiet kite]

so are the new Zacian and Zamazenta going to be good for anything besides maybe PvP?

they arent exceptional steel or fairy or fighting raid attackers

[grand canopy]

zacian maybe depending on the move, zama most likely not

and we already have dusk mane for steel type damage so

[unborn garden]

Hope it gets a fairy fast move

Or behemoth blade can rival necrozma

[modest totem]

Anyone have some reasonable predictions of what Giovanni’s next shadow legendary is?

[unborn garden]

Dialga

He has palkia so dialga is next

[modest totem]

Peak

Wait is arceus in pokemon go yet

[plucky sky]

Idk, Definitely not as impressive as the Necrozma fusions or the Kyurem fusions, but its a decent steel attacker. Its only behind Dusk Mane and the Metagross's (shadow and normal), and you need at least 5 other mons with a Mega, so I could see it get some use. Its not like people don't use attackers because they arent the #1 or #2 attacker for that element. A lot of people need variety, and getting a free one with a lot of resources for it during go fest makes it easy to build. Zamazenta is and always has been a tank, and pogo obviously doesn't have much use for a tank in raids, so that was always gonna go poorly.
So tl;dr - Crown Zacian could see use in pve as a good steel attacker even if not top 3 (#4). Zamazenta will likely see close to no use in pve just like other tanks

All of that being said, Behemoth Blade being added would make it the #1 steel attacker beating out Dusk Mane afaik, since its the same power as Sunsteel Strike and Crown Zacian has more atk. And we don't 100% know they won't add it in for or post-go fest, since the Kyurem and Necrozma fusions both had their signature moves. Could be a last minute addition or added later on, but either way, if they add that, Crown Zacian becomes top top tier (#1 most likely)

[quiet kite]

forgot about Behemoth Blade. doh!

surely they will add it

[fervent pewter]

uhh it has an insane advetnure effect as well

zacian will def be S tier for pve

[plucky sky]

Oh do we know what it is yet?

I didnt read look into that yet

[plucky sky]

Surely lol

[fervent pewter]

i'm not sure how to do one of those spoiler messages so i didn't want to post if ppl care abt that 😂

[woeful pulsar]

idt there's been any datamines about the adventure effect yet right?

[plucky sky]

If its a picture hold down on it for more options and a check box for marking it as a spoiler should show up. If its text (including links) you can use 2 of these: | on both sides of the text

||this is a spoiler||

|| at the beginning and end

[ancient patio]

So apparently people really want aqua tauros. I've hosted like 3 different raids on pokegenie and I keep getting people off my friends list jumping in as well. One of the people who joined via pokegenie lives 5.7 miles from me

[plucky sky]

Why is that kinda cute lol

[quiet kite]

pvp brainrot victims?

[ancient patio]

Probably It's just finally a nice spring day where I feel up to the exploring so trying to host for the massive queues I'm seeing on raid apps

[quiet kite]

life is good sometimes

[grand canopy]

nice spring day?

my thingy shows 27°C here 😭

[ancient patio]

The UK weather is a fickle beast 19⁰C and sunny but with a light breeze for me

[grand canopy]

lets swap

[ancient patio]

https://tenor.com/view/no-bugs-bunny-gif-18219884

[grand canopy]

[ancient patio]

I will bask in my beautiful weather for a couple of days. You can have it next week when it's 15-19⁰C still

[grand canopy]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-kitten-handshake-deal-agree-gif-7134721403924803840

[glad rover]

All three of them are still super popular yeah, combat breed's at 22,700 now

Oh wait no that's my position in the queue, it's 37,300

Blaze breed seems to be one that's calmed down the most and Aqua's more in the middle with the numbers

[grand canopy]

LOOK AT THAT AVATAR POSE https://pokemongolive.com/post/pokemon-horizons-anime-celebration-2025?hl=en

[ancient patio]

I was more confused by the coincidence of the distance

[ivory halo]

EVENT FLORAGATO!

On a more pragmatic note, what is a good Pokemon space management system? I’ve maxed out my 1300 storage spaces, and I’m not sure who I should transfer to HOME (yes I do home transfers from GO)

[weary gorge]

Let's gooooooo

[nova umbra]

How do you make an excellent throw

Cause for the life of me I genuinely cant lmfao

[trail cloak]

Meowth! That's right!

Practice... Lots and lots of practice

[lone scarab]

Some mons have huge circles so those are easier lol

Onix the freebie pokemon

[trail cloak]

True, currently over half of all Pokemon are Burmy, and they are terrible for excellent throws

Not terrible maybe, but certainly not in the easy category

[lone scarab]

Especially not when they try to fly off the top of your screen lol

Nanabs if it's causing headaches too I suppose

[plucky sky]

A lot of legendaries and megas in raids that are big but dont move a lot are also super easy

[plucky sky]

It really is practice and sample size. Enough catches going for great throws and you'll start getting excellents sometimes. Eventually you get good enough to always go for excellents and get them some of the time. Its really about the feel. You need muscle memory for where the center is and what power and curve of throw you need to get excellents. It will happen with time, so don't worry about it. I think most of us originally sucked

[nova umbra]

Thanks for the encouragement

Mainly practising in preparation for marshadow’s quest

[nova umbra]

It’s just so difficult

[nova umbra]

😬

Please ignore that second throw

[modest totem]

Wait what’s an apex pokemon? I keep seeing videos of apex lugia and ho-oh on TikTok, I was taking a break from pokemon go at the time so I don’t know

[unborn garden]

Pretty sure they were special shadow/purified variants of lugia and ho-oh a few years ago, haven't been around since then

[fossil basin]

Liko clip’s hat Floragato

[lone scarab]

it's honestly much harder to throw it straight than learn curveballs lol

[weary gorge]

As Tas said, they were Ho-oh and Lugia raid pokemon

[grand canopy]

apex werent raids tho, they were part of a paid research from the johto tour

apex are shadow pokemon with a different shadow "aura" and better moves, shadow apex ho-oh has sacred fire+, shadow apex lugia has aeroblast+

when you purify them they are still apex, have a different purified "aura" and their moves turn into sacred fire++ and aeroblast++ respectively

the moves only matter for raids/rockets, in PvP they work like their regular moves

[plucky sky]

Yeah ngl, I use curveball by default at this point. Once you learn, its so much simpler, and you gain the benefit with no real downside

[loud gull]

yay I want that shiny floragato

[supple scarab]

Anyone about?

[glad niche]

Need help with something?

[supple scarab]

Yes. Which items I generally don’t need to keep so I don’t run out of space constantly

[glad niche]

Potions and revives. Berries that aren't pinaps, TMs

[glad niche]

That's a very low storage
Do you not gym often?

[supple scarab]

Not hugely. Why?

[glad niche]

I'd start to as that is severely low storage

[supple scarab]

What does gymming do?

[glad niche]

Get you pokecoins so you can upgrade it

50 a day
4 days of 50 coins per upgrade

[supple scarab]

I’ve got 740 coins

[glad niche]

I'd put that into some bag upgrades

I'm at over 5500 and I still have problems with storage also

[supple scarab]

🤮

[lone scarab]

Nanabs are pretty pointless I'd yeet those, but you can feed them to buddies for hearts instead of just trashing them at least

[plucky sky]

You could also use some of those rare candies on a legendary or mythical mon you want to upgrade. That will free up a lot of space

[nova umbra]

I do know how I just miss more often

[weary gorge]

Honestly i just use golden berries for that

Since i have a shit ton of those from doing a lot of raids

[nova umbra]

I think I know why I’ve not been hitting my excellent throws

My dumbass hasn’t been aiming for the small circle in the middle, ive just been hitting the Pokemon

Now the challenge is aiming for the middle

[loud gull]

I also use them to feed pokemon in gyms for a small chance of candy

[nova umbra]

How are you meant to beat shadow raids dawg

They’re like CP 30,000

[loud gull]

If it's a level 5 raid it would take around 3 or more people to fight, level 3 depends on the pokemon you use that might solo it, and level 1 is easy solo.

[nova umbra]

Does it say what level the raids are

I should probably clarify I’m still fairly new to Pokemon go

Not so new I don’t know shit about it

But
Not the best

[restive turtle]

of course it's mine

i forgot to send image lol

[restive turtle]

raid pokemon will usually be level 20 when caught, 25 if weather boosted

[nova umbra]

I meant what level difficultly they are

Unless it’s the same

[trail cloak]

These will tell you what level they are

Non-legendary Megas are Level 4 difficulty - 2 strong trainers can take it down

[restive turtle]

oh mb

[restive turtle]

yeah this is the answer you're looking for

yeah generally once you get to decent strength you should be able to take down as high as a 3-star raid on your own. Anything higher difficulty and you'd need a top counter at level 50, usually with correct weather boost

but normal mega raids should be doable with two people at decent strength

[lone scarab]

Shadow raids also need the purified gems for tier 5s, for 1s and 3s they can usually be brute forced through the enrage meter but could still throw gems to make it a cakewalk

I think if you're solo and not comfortable with raiding yet, start with like 1 stars, maybe some more glassy 3 star raids, then worry about the higher tiers some other time/when friends/other people are around

Megas and legendary solos out of the question if you're struggling with more basic raids, they're pretty rough

[glad rover]

I'm honestly wondering if I'll get in any combat breed raids before the event's over. Pokégenie's queue for all the Tauros honestly seems insane

[restive turtle]

some kid used all his free passes and didn't get a shiny Audino but someone lucky traded him an extra

[trail cloak]

But don't forget, you need 8 gems to subdue a Shadow raid boss, but one trainer can only use 5 in one battle

[lone scarab]

If you use one like pokeraid or whatever where the auto join only fills like 2/3 of the available slots, you can get in pretty quick by just spamming refresh and where the join button is tilla lobby shows up

[lone scarab]

Yeah good note, wouldn't even bother trying on own regardless shadow raids tend to be a rough duo even with gems lol

Even if solo could subdue it they just take too long

[restive turtle]

power of friendship

[glad rover]

The auto join seems to fill all the spots instantly and if I want to get into one of the Tauros raids on that app it'll cost money. They're crazy asking for $54 a month for their "premium" kinda membership

Yeah I honestly don't like the look of this app. I'm just going to delete it

[lone scarab]

it doesn't auto fill completely it usually leaves 2 spots and those are ffa

so just gotta be quick if you tryna join manually, the premium features for raid apps are way too expensive I wouldn't ever recommend those lol, could just buy more remote passes at that point

[restive turtle]

what the fuck 😭

54 dollars

[trail cloak]

Genie is pretty crazy

Works just fine f2p, though. Only for these in-demand regionals does it get clogged

[restive turtle]

i've seen mfs with raid master join my lobbies

[trail cloak]

[steel wing]

does anyone know if you are able to transfer a mew from pokemon go to pokemon lets go eevee?

[grand canopy]

that doesnt work sadly

[steel wing]

so is that pokeball device the only way to get mew in the lets go games then?

[glad niche]

Yes

[steel wing]

what if someone else has used the device and got mew in the lets go games and trades it with someone else either through home or in game?

[glad niche]

Wdym by that I don't understand

[steel wing]

Do you mind if I dm please?

I prefer to explain things better in dms than in servers

[glad niche]

Sorry, no

[unborn garden]

I'm assuming it's a per save thing, dunno tho

[glad rover]

I found another app that worked much better and faster, it's called Go Raid Party and I got into all 3 Tauros raids pretty fast

[steel wing]

okay no worries

[steel wing]

basically say you used the pokeball device to get mew on your account, you then trade the mew from the game to home, can you trade the mew from home to someones else home and they are able tp put the mew into the game?
since the mew originally came from the game it makes sense for it to work but idk if it will tbh

[glad rover]

Looked back on Pokégenie, Combat Breed is up to 68,000+ and the event ends tomorrow. A whole lot of those people definitely aren't getting into raids for it

[woeful pulsar]

yes that will work as long as the mew never touches anything other than HOME or LGPE

[steel wing]

do you happen to have one then lol

[woeful pulsar]

nope, you're better off asking in trade channels

[steel wing]

is there a lets go trade channel? i cant see it if there is

[woeful pulsar]

#1112832566261731328 would be the most suitable. there's no specific channel for let's go

[lone scarab]

Whatever works lol

[supple scarab]

Is there a way to fight Rocket but wait to use the rocket radar?

I’m on 5 mysterious components but have just found a rocket balloon and I’m not in a place where I’d make proper use of the radar

[alpine ether]

unselect it in your bag

[glad rover]

You can always unequip the radar once you get it.

[supple scarab]

Do it becomes active as soon as I have all 6 parts?

[glad niche]

Yes

[supple scarab]

How?

[glad niche]

But your next balloon is guaranteed to have a leader

[alpine ether]

yeah, but you can use it whenever (after unselecting)

[glad rover]

Tap it in the bag to turn it off

[supple scarab]

But I only have 30mins

[glad niche]

Until?

[supple scarab]

For the radar?

[glad rover]

Radars aren't timed no

[glad niche]

No time limit

[supple scarab]

What?

[glad niche]

You can use whenever

[supple scarab]

I thought they were 30mins?

[glad niche]

No

[glad rover]

You get a radar, you can turn it off and use it whenever you'd like

[supple scarab]

Oh

My first one disappeared

[glad niche]

Balloons last like 20 mins if that's what you're thinking of from the second you log in or it spawns

[supple scarab]

So I thought all the radars were 30mins

[glad rover]

Nope, that incense that does that

[supple scarab]

Oh ok. No worries then. Ta

[glad niche]

Np

[lone scarab]

lol imagine

before balloons that would've been hell, I used to live in a city and there wasn't even always a leader in visibile distance with all those stops

[lost girder]

I have a weird question using two accounts.

I have phone and an android gaming device. Normally I use my phone for pokemon go.

But considering there are research tasks and that require me to trade and I don't live near anyone I mostly remote raid. So I can't do those. I've been stuck at Ripple in time's 5/8 research task for over half a year now. Also can't another Special research task due to needing to trade.

Would it be Ok to make a new account on that device for the sole purpose of trading to my main account. Not going to spoof or anything. To be honest it can't do much because its needs wifi so i can't use the account for much. mostly to grab do trade for main when I need one.

I am afraid because both devices use the same Android account or will it be ok since they will be on different devices.

[lone scarab]

I don't think they've ever actually done anything about alt accounts, but it's still against their ToS tmk

It makes sense they wouldn't care tho, considering alts are just more downloads/possibly entice more purchases

what he doin there

[trail cloak]

Technically two accounts is illegal; practically nothing ever happens

A friend of mine has two kids who play, but they only have his and his wife's phone to play on, so he juggles the three accounts on two phones - he's never had any issues

[trail cloak]

Having a good time 🦖

[lone scarab]

so real

[fervent pewter]

there are ppl that play on 20 alts 😂

ur good ..

[lone scarab]

gz

I did get all the burmys a long time ago so not too salty but holy how has one not shined with all their spawns this event lol

[restive turtle]

I've gotten two shiny trash cloaks

different genders though so kinda chillin

[restive turtle]

get your stardust up bruh

[modest totem]

bro i blew it on a serperior and i wasn’t looking at how much stardust it cost

[restive turtle]

tragic

[lone scarab]

I was actually losing the 3rd one until I just found a random ass audino today that was higher

[cerulean halo]

what the heck is up with raid invites recently? been using raidnow.leekduck.com for a while, but recently i actually get invited to maybe 1/4 raids i try to join

either that or it's super delayed and there's like 6 seconds left to join

[loud gull]

I had the same thing because of delayed invites

[plucky sky]

Might be an issue with leekduck or the people using it, since I've seen nothing like that in the raiding apps

[loud gull]

it was happening to me on a different raid app

[trail cloak]

I was on a call recently with a friend where he's asking me when the heck I'm gonna join the raid he invited me to when I'm in the game with no invite coming through.

I had to join from the new feature in the friends' list as the invitation never showed up

[plucky sky]

Thats really weird, I wonder what the issue is. Guess bugs with this game are nothing new

[trail cloak]

You can take the game out of Niantic, but you'll never take the Niantic out of the game

[plucky sky]

[kindred stirrup]

Do the Ultra Beasts have high CPs?

[glad niche]

Most don't

[trail cloak]

Highest is... Nihilego? The conversion formula was very generous for it

[kindred stirrup]

😕.

[trail cloak]

Xurkitree is just behind it. 4451 vs 4465

That's very good tbh, compared to the OP Palkia-O at 4670~

[grand canopy]

[modest totem]

wait can u gift people stuff from the shop in pogo?

[plucky sky]

Like paid tickets and stuff from the cash shop? Yeah

[modest totem]

i mean like remote raid passes or pokecoins

[plucky sky]

No

[modest totem]

dang

[alpine ether]

missed opportunity for more money tbh

[alpine ether]

they do have gift cards for pokecoins though

[modest totem]

hmmmm

i see an idea for my birthday

hint for legends za? it used to say “Complete!”

[loud gull]

so far the mega guru medal is still the same, only missing 1 last mega to platinum

[modest totem]

should i mega evolve my pinsir or beedrill for the dex? I dont need it for necessarily anything else

[trail cloak]

Mega evolve them every time it's (nearly) free

[glad rover]

Skiddo timed research is out for some areas. Guess tomorrow it'll get added for me since I did buy the Go Fest ticket

[timid dew]

Is there another way to get kubfu? I didn't do enough raids for might mastery

[trail cloak]

The first page of the seasonal research, which rewards you with a Kubfu, has 3 very simple tasks

[lone scarab]

yeah did either even expire I thought they were till the end of the season lol, not having done raids doesn't seem like it'd make a difference yet

[trail cloak]

Special Research never expires, but you do need to log in during the season to get it

[unborn garden]

Can the skiddo research be shiny? Wouldn't be surprised if it couldn't

[quiet kite]

POWAAAA

[plucky sky]

It can. But we can also farm it as an incense spawn during go fest weekend if we have a ticket

And it seems to be fully shiny unlocked

[unborn garden]

Oh sick

I didn't realise it was a ticket go fest spawn

Thanks!

[plucky sky]

With incense yeah

Looking forward to it

[unborn garden]

It'll be nice to finally get it after all those city safaris

[plucky sky]

Yeah for sure

[glad rover]

For the Skiddo research does it appear in game at 10am local time or something? It's not in my game yet and I bought my Go Fest ticket on the first day

[quiet kite]

it did for me

[unique grotto]

10 am local under the Events tab in research.

[glad rover]

Yeah it's there for me now, I wasn't sure if it was a global everyone gets this at the same time roll or the 10am thing.

But yeah now I spend the day completing it and notch another Kalos pokemon for my dex

Even when Go Fest is out the Kalos platinum medal's still not possible but hopefully they decide to add the Honedge line soon

[unique grotto]

That will be one of my I'll trade dang near anything shinies when its available.

[glad rover]

Aegislash's gimmick is probably what's holding them back from doing it.

They figured out how to do hangry form Morepeko though so they'll probably figure out how to incorporate shield form

[fossil basin]

Passimiam has the small circle issue. Just like chansey https://twitter.com/go50471379/status/1909180240792039935?s=46&t=iG0xFLhysjMe3DesmHFoEA

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[glad rover]

They really don't know how to a Dynamax release smoothly, think Machop also had that issue at its release

[fossil basin]

Yeah i think all the new dynamax pokemons had the issues

Unsure about DMAX caterpie though

[glad niche]

This is gonna become a recurring issue isn't it

[fossil basin]

Most likely

[nova umbra]

Just made 3 excellent throws in a row

[trail cloak]

Excellent!

[lone scarab]

Really embracing what it means to be a shadow rampardos eh

[nova umbra]

I finally got him

[glad niche]

Nice. That was quick

[winged axle]

Umm... Was that an error?

[modest totem]

Found a wild graveler

[glad niche]

Uuuuhhh. Probably

Seeing as glastrier isn't in game

[lone scarab]

It's supposed to say staka and blaceph it should be fixed now

Probably missed the 0 and hit the 9 when typing their numbers or something lol

[brazen spruce]

I've had a level 25 zacian up for trade for a level 21 to 30 zamazenta in Pokémon HOME for almost two weeks now. I would have thought that there would be some other people trying to fill up their Pokemon GO pokedex in Pokemon HOME... Do people not care about this?

[strange bough]

Pogo HOME dex is almost if not completely impossible to actually fill
So a lot of people won't even bother.
Mainly because you can't send them back to the game like the console games.

[sharp finch]

Glad to know my favorite ultra beast can finally be shiny

Funny clown ting

[lone scarab]

maybe try 11-20 instead, 25 would only be weather boosted ones so unless they're powering them up or transferring higher cp ones they're probably not gonna have ones above 20

Alternatively just ask for any level zamazenta, cuz if you get a non-pogo one that's rarer and ya can probably swap it for the pogo zama lol

people definitely do collect legends and stuff but it's kinda of a guessing game as to who's interested in what lol

[nova umbra]

I grinded that shit

Did the first part challenges in one day

[glad niche]

I'm only on part 2

[nova umbra]

The ones that were most difficult for me were either part 1 where you had to find 30 pokestops, part 3 where you had to do I think 15 field challenges, ALL OF PART 4 and part 5 where you had to do 5 excellent throws

[brazen spruce]

I didn't realize non pogo was rarer, I assumed the other way

[glad rover]

Yus Applin's getting added into the game soon

[fossil basin]

Aw f*k off

[plucky sky]

Well pogo let's you raid for legendaries which means you can get a ton of copies, unlike the mainline games where you need to beat the game to get 1

[weary gorge]

Hatch happiny? Bruh

[sharp finch]

Where do you see happiny on there?

[weary gorge]

The black silhouette?

[sharp finch]

That's budew

https://tenor.com/view/budew-sad-no-gif-23010235

[weary gorge]

I mean they look very similar

Like seeimg a jiglypuff from above

[sharp finch]

I see 2 round object I know budew, I see 1 orb I know it's happiny

[fossil basin]

Oh right ill see if i can get some stakatakss for people

I hope i pull budew though

[viscid seal]

Let the stakataking commence, I'n going to blow so much on raid passes this week lol

[fossil basin]

Ah yes

[lone scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/steve-carell-nooo-pleasegodno-the-office-angry-gif-12174751

[fossil basin]

Gossifler speens when it pops up

Theres a wild lapras where i am

Oh sakura pika appears

“Hatch an egg”

[glad rover]

I'm going on a vacation on Thursday where I'll be more on my feet for the next few days so maybe I could pull this off. All it really does from what I saw is just give you another Glossifleur encounter

[fossil basin]

I just want to hatch a budew

for dex you know?

[glad rover]

Well least it'll be in the egg pools so hopefully you can get it

[fossil basin]

Im not getting the correct egg type though

5km doesn’t give it

[glad rover]

I apparently only have one Budew in my storage, hatched from a 2K egg in 2019

[fossil basin]

Andddd if you have no one to play woth https://fxtwitter.com/pokemongoappjp/status/1909818644684558584?s=46&t=iG0xFLhysjMe3DesmHFoEA

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[glad niche]

👎 we already didn't like this kind of challenge. Time to send more feedback

[supple scarab]

I’ve had Slaking in the gym since Friday but I only received 50 coins. Do I get the remaining coins over the next few days as 50 coins is the max per day?

[delicate sparrow]

You can only get 50 coins per day, doesn't matter how long the pokemon has been in the gym over 8hrs20 and you only get them when knocked out

[supple scarab]

That wasn’t my question. Do I get the remaining coins over the next few days?

[delicate sparrow]

You only get 50 max per Pokemon, once a pokemon hits 8hrs 20, that's the max of 50 coins it will earn. You don't get any more for it being in there longer

[supple scarab]

That’s it!?

So it’s not per day? It’s just exceeding that time limit once?

[glad rover]

Yes

[delicate sparrow]

And you only recieve them when knocked out of the gym. So if you have 2 pokemon knocked out on the same day, 50 coins is still the max you'll get

It sucks but it's the way it's been for as long as I can remember

[supple scarab]

So how do I get the greatest return?

There’s clearly no point in maintaining the gym as long as I have been

But if you can only get 50 per day, do you leave one in a gym in the AM and another PM?

[delicate sparrow]

Best thing is to just get in as many gyms as you can, pretty sure the max is 20 at once.

[unique grotto]

You get the greatest return by getting kicked out. Find a gym that reliably flips at a certain time. Office complexes can often flip in the morning and at 5 as one team takes it during the day and another for over night. Long term gyms are better for dumping berries for that 30 stardust a berry and slim chance at a candy.

Or, just get a bunch of gyms.

[alpine ether]

theres a max?

[trail cloak]

Thankfully. Some people would otherwise drive all over town to occupy every gym

[fervent pewter]

as if they dont already?

[fair cloak]

What is the best Pokemon to go against Giovanni’s Persian? I know it’s weak to fighting type, but I’m still having some problems against it

[fervent pewter]

pup lucario prolly ?

[plucky sky]

Mega Lucario or Mega Heracross work well. Terrakion is also good. Really any strong fighting type destroys it

[unique grotto]

The general advice is to start with something else and immediately switch to a fighting type with a low energy chargemove. You'll get the two seconds or so of not getting hit after the attack to start charging up. The new advice is lead anything and switch to Morpeko. Thundershock will charge the first Psychic fangs with only taking one hit. After that, due to the form change animation you can charge up to the next psychic fangs before Persian attacks again.

[plucky sky]

Lucario also has a fast low energy fighting type charge move iirc

[fervent pewter]

it has forcr palm 🔥

[plucky sky]

Forgot we're living in a post-morpeko world

[unique grotto]

I'm trying but I just can't read that to the tune of Material Girl.

[fair cloak]

Ok. I’ll see what I have and figure it out from there. Thanks

[glad niche]

Yes

[supple scarab]

Looks like I wasn’t the only one to not know 😂

[grand canopy]

another raid hour with no 5* raid for me

[supple scarab]

But a lovely hot air balloon with some tourists floating by

[supple scarab]

So I’ve got a worm hole opened up near my gym ( 💪 not Pokemon) and I’m wondering if this is solo-able?

Blacephalon

Does anyone fancy joining? 😅😂

[glad niche]

From what I'm seeing it is not possible

Most places are saying 2-5. But that's based on stuff like you and the other participants' level, pokemon cp, party power and friendship bonus

[lone scarab]

it's theoretically possible with lvl 50 primal kyogre but it's so close in practice it'd probably still fail

[fossil basin]

Yeah raidhour was weird for me

Most of the gyms were invaded by mega raids + a tier 3 egg

i had to walk around to other gyms to fight stakataka

[lone scarab]

Future showcase winner for sure

[loud gull]

Just relized there is flower hat pokemon during this event

[lone scarab]

? what mon is that

oh the research eevee/pika yeah

[loud gull]

Yep I want a shiny eevee 1

[fossil basin]

Well

[unborn garden]

https://tenor.com/view/pokemon-pokemon-sun-and-moon-alola-blacepheon-dance-gif-24389531

I know I shouldn't be complaining but I really don't want another raid shiny drought

[sharp finch]

Love that it's just an MJ reference

[grand canopy]

do we have confirmation that the xerneas from the pass can be shiny?

[unborn garden]

It'll be shiny eligible

They don't turn off shiny legends once they are available

[grand canopy]

i hope so

i'll have both of my encounters unlocked in the next few minutes

[unborn garden]

Oooo bought the extra 10 ranks?

[lone scarab]

did u get shafted with the short pass lol

[quiet kite]

I got shafted with the shortest possible pass

which is to say, I got no pass

[grand canopy]

ok

[grand canopy]

nope, i just had 4 pokemon left to catch for rank100

[plucky sky]

Same, and I was actually planning to pay for deluxe too. I really wanted a lucky trinket. But no pass here

[quiet kite]

the lucky trinket is really great, yeah

[fossil basin]

I dont have the april pass

My friends have it though

[unborn garden]

I maxed out my remotes this morning and now that the cap has been increased I still can join them

[noble coral]

Anyone knows what allow stamps from gifts mean?

[unborn garden]

I call hacks

[glad niche]

Just a bug

[unborn garden]

Another niantic buggggg yippie

[grand canopy]

oopsie

probably shouldve saved those particles from the pass for another time

[glad niche]

That is a lot
Luckily entei is here soon

[robust moth]

My shiny zoroark has been in this gym for a week now, someone just kill it already 😭

[glad niche]

You got a local discord that you can ask someone to kick you out

[alpine ether]

if possible, make an alt account and kick it out yourself

thats what i do now

[robust moth]

too much effort

plus I don't have another email

[fervent pewter]

1 week is nothing

my shiny shadow metagross is hostage

[alpine ether]

they'll return home from war someday

[fair cloak]

The longest that I had a gym was around 6 days where I’m living at

[grand canopy]

do i gamble my lucky trinket on another kyurem? or do i get 12/12/12 again 😭

[glad niche]

You get the latter

[glad rover]

Used a magnetic lure and it mostly spawned the event Pokémon, was trying to get a Rookidee but none spawned

[sharp finch]

Dude I had a shedinja on a gym for 2 months straight, nearly went on for 3 if I didn't have my brother knock it out

[glad rover]

I've never had a Pokémon last past a few days

[lone scarab]

rookidee is way too rare I've camped at like 10 magnetics since it came out and none have shown up, even during the event only saw 1 from a lure

[trail cloak]

I don't think Rookie is available atm

They should put these kinds of new releases in Daily incense

[fervent pewter]

i dont think its worth tbh but at the same time what else is 🤷‍♂️

i guess it moreso depends what you already have

[trail cloak]

GMax shinies for which you don't care too much about IVs?

[grand canopy]

the wailord is pretty dope but otherwise im thinking kyurem, maybe get a good one so that i can actually use it

my friend doesnt have any gmax shinies

[trail cloak]

Zacian for when we can give it a sword?

[grand canopy]

i have a shiny lucky 13/15/15 one already

i could go kyogre, i dont have that at all

but i also only have kyurem-white, didnt fuse a kyurem-black yet

[lone scarab]

Kyurem always

[weary gorge]

Oh no he's starving

[raw pendant]

can someone explain everything in pogo for me? im new

also jow do i get legendaries easily?

[plucky sky]

[unborn garden]

Legendaries aren’t easy you’ve got to beat raids to try catch them

Hosting them with an app like raid party helps a lot

There are lots of ytubers who teach people how to play the game etc check some of them out

[alpine ether]

does anyone know if there's dark types in rotation rn?

[unborn garden]

If you have dawn wing Necrozma you can get some

Idk outside of that

[modest totem]

Are exeggutes gonna spawn with exeggutor as well cuz I have research where I need to catch five

[unborn garden]

Just alolan exeggutor

[alpine ether]

i mean spawns 😭

[unborn garden]

Yeah the adventure effect spawns some dark types haha

This event doesn’t feature dark types

[modest totem]

Damn

[alpine ether]

i see, bad time to evo a pancham then 😔

[unborn garden]

Yeah, you'll get there! Event is nearly over

[unique grotto]

1. catch everything you can. 2) drop into gyms to get coins 3) when you have coins prioritize getting storage upgrades (Pokémon and items). Don't worry about powering stuff up until you are higher level. 4) check Campfire (Niantic's map and chat app) for local groups to join.

[plucky sky]

Also in person stuff is very valuable. If you can find a local group on campfire and start doing in person raids, you get so many rewards. Obviously you can do some content remotely, and sometimes it wont be viable based on weather or location, but when you can...grouping up and doing stuff in person has a lot of benefits. Also try to get out pretty frequently. Spinning pokestops is a major part of gaining resources

[supple scarab]

Got my shinies

Smashed three mega raids in Leeds with randomers I never met

Good day to be introvert

But which Fletchling to evolve? Trés, trés conflicted

[glad niche]

First one

[supple scarab]

Why number 1 vs balanced 2?

[glad niche]

Idk why I just like stuff that has 15 in a stat

[supple scarab]

So do I

But I’ve struggled getting anything worthy to evolve

[fervent pewter]

talonflame isn't particularly usable

[supple scarab]

I know. But still feels like a waste of time evolving it if it’s got crap stats

[fervent pewter]

you just want the dex entry? then the stats dont matter 🤷‍♂️

[grand canopy]

oki so lucky trinket kinda ass for me, again

my friend got my shiny dialga (14/15/15) and got 15/15/14 so i guess thats cool 😭

next lucky trinket for sure

[fervent pewter]

trading 14 15 15 a week before they add hyper traininng 😐

or you have shundo?

[grand canopy]

i got 2 shiny 14/15/15 dialgas 😭

like 3 days between both catches, were my only shiny dialga as well

[fervent pewter]

my shiny98s are going crazy post hyper training

[plucky sky]

Let me pay for a lucky trinket

[grand canopy]

whenever we get them i'll do either my shiny bg kyurem (14/13/12) or my shiny lucky zacian (13/15/15)

[grand canopy]

maybe the next one

[fervent pewter]

the system leaked

you can do multiple afaik

its like buddy tasks to earn ivs

[grand canopy]

oh that would be dope

[fervent pewter]

yea its a permanent stat boost 🔥

but timegated tasks? its weird

[plucky sky]

So is it grind/time based? Not paid/p2w?

[fervent pewter]

yes just buddy tasks

[plucky sky]

thats an interesting choice, although welcome for sure

[fervent pewter]

probably pay to do more

[plucky sky]

Probably something like that

[fervent pewter]

the timegate is on the tasks

still cant believe we even getting iv changer

i thought for sure we never get that, so they for sure find a way to monetize it

[grand canopy]

NIANTIC, turn my shinies into shundos and my life is yours

maybe i should prioritize the zacian so i only need to get like 30 more XLs for gofest

[fervent pewter]

i cant wait

[grand canopy]

that reshiram is so cool

[deep mountain]

Can someone help me get a postcard from Japan? I really want the elegant form of vivillion please!

[supple scarab]

Are you on Facebook?

[supple scarab]

Why have you got a Cinccino?

[fervent pewter]

wdym?

[supple scarab]

Cinccino can’t be particularly usable

[pallid sapphire]

But it’s shiny so it’s cool

[fervent pewter]

ohhh shiny dex entry lol

[supple scarab]

What does this mean?

Oh

Ignore me. They’ve just laid it out oddly

[fervent pewter]

we were all beginners once, ask as much as you like

[raw pendant]

How do I transfer pogo to home?

[supple scarab]

Have you set Home up and linked them to PoGo yet?

If not, follow the instructions here: https://niantic.helpshift.com/hc/en/6-pokemon-go/faq/2787-sending-pokemon-to-pokemon-home/#:~:text=Linking your Pokémon HOME and Pokémon GO accounts&text=On the map%2C tap the,screen%2C tap the Settings button.&text=On the Connected Devices and,with your Pokémon HOME account.

To transfer Pokemon, tap the poke ball to get the menu of five. Far top right, tap settings > connected devices and services > Pokemon Home.
Tap the Pokemon you want to transfer and away you go

After that, load Pokemon home on your phone and it should automatically come up saying a Pokemon has been transferred and would you like it to go to your box. Tap yes and then scroll down to the bottom where it says Pokemon Go link and tap receive. Then view transferred Pokemon and finally receive Pokemon

If it doesn’t bring that menu up automatically, tap the circle below the Pokemon, then options and then scroll down to Pokemon Go link as above

[supple scarab]

How do I hatch Mantyke from eggs?

I’ve got a 5km egg that I received yesterday but it isn’t showing the Mantyke silhouette

[unborn garden]

2km eggs during the event

[supple scarab]

Oh. Not 5?

So now I just need to spin for an egg and hatch it all in a day 😪

[unborn garden]

yeah only 2km for now

[supple scarab]

Thank you

[crisp relic]

rupaul_original has given 1 Gen Rep to fang5829

[grand canopy]

some bottle caps info, probably what you mentioned yesterday

[loud gull]

looks about what I expect for it to work but too bad for shadow pokemon

[grand canopy]

i just wanna know if hypertrained IVs have a different color

[unborn garden]

it'd be cool if they did

[loud gull]

I won't mind that, if I can make a near hundo shiny to max then I will be happy with that. Like my 98% shiny gardevoir

[grand canopy]

and if its just one increase per stat i should probably do my xerneas from the go pass

and not trade it away

[loud gull]

I need to boost this twice

[grand canopy]

oh thats a good one

[woeful pulsar]

I wanna know how they'll handle HOME transfers

[quiet kite]

everyone wants to use their caps on a 98%, meanwhile I want to fix tragedies like this

these guys are also all prime candidates

[unborn garden]

oof yeah I think Ill only use them to fix mythicals you cant easily get good ivs for

that zarude is better than my failure of a monkey

[fervent pewter]

its an exlusive item so wasting it on a 11 atk nihilego..

[quiet kite]

its just an example, a worthier choice than some 98% thats mathematically indistinguishable from a 100%

[fervent pewter]

ya but "12$ item" not really smth youll want to use willy nilly

[modest totem]

I know ppl want to upgrade their Ivs for pokemon (as I do too for my 98 gengar) but it makes the feeling of having a hundo less worthy and special

[woeful pulsar]

once you play for a while, hundos are near worthless anyway so it doesn't really change much

if you have a hundo and you're happy it's a hundo, other people having a hundo shouldn't change that

[fervent pewter]

yes i only care abt what's on my acct

i want all the homies to have shundos

[unborn garden]

yeah that is true but with one time mythicals it kinda sucks when you get a 12/12/12

[grand canopy]

my zygarde is 14/14/14

but i wanna do my shinies

[unborn garden]

lucky aha

if you want to go for it, its up to everyone to decide what they want to use it on :)

[fervent pewter]

the iv distribution will be tough, for example you can do 1 iv or 3

so there will be some spreads that cant hit hundo from iv training yea

[unborn garden]

oof yeah true that

[fervent pewter]

like that 😐

[unborn garden]

Yeah 😔

Missed the og run and waited all that time to buy the ticket for it and it’s trashhhh

Not the best mythical luck

[fair cloak]

I just beat Giovanni last night and got Palkia. I had the task line to get the correct radar for Giovanni.

[unborn garden]

Ooo nice congrats

Ivs any good?

[fair cloak]

Thanks. Not sure yet. I haven’t tried him yet in anything

[plucky sky]

Just wait for the shiny Zygarde masterwork research

[supple scarab]

Please could someone sensible add me as a friend to complete the Meloetta research?

[modest totem]

I did NOT catch an exeggute

[lone scarab]

this a bug with regionals, I remember one of the old special research asked you to catch cubone and I got it checked off a an alolan marowak raid lol

[modest totem]

oh well i guess it’s a benefit

[fossil basin]

https://twitter.com/niantichelp/status/1911950424451514858?s=46&t=iG0xFLhysjMe3DesmHFoEA

Niantic Support (@NianticHelp) on X

Trainers, we have confirmed that Rockruff encountered from raids during the the Stunning Styles event cannot evolve into Dusk Form Lycanroc. Impacted Trainers will be reimbursed Raid Passes used on Rockruff raids during the event. #PokemonGO

X · Apr 15, 2025, 1:11 AM

https://twitter.com/niantichelp/status/1911960052769890530?s=46&t=iG0xFLhysjMe3DesmHFoEA

Niantic Support (@NianticHelp) on X

To clarify:
Trainers will receive Premium Battle Passes and Remote Raid Passes equal to the number used for Rockruff raids during the event.#PokemonGO

X · Apr 15, 2025, 1:49 AM

I did 1 though

[unborn garden]

You get one pass then aha

I got 1 remote and 1 premium

[restive turtle]

zarude came back??

[unborn garden]

Yeah its been out twice

Once during the og movie event

And once last year

[restive turtle]

damn

both times were right before i started playing

agony

[unborn garden]

Ouch good luck aha

[fervent pewter]

@trail cloak light night for me

[trail cloak]

gg

[supple scarab]

No one? 😭

[plucky sky]

Just be patient. Also there is no point double posting. Anyone who wants to add people will go to #pogo_friend_codes. Nobody in this channel is looking for people to add, and this isnt the right place to ask, so it just becomes spam

[fervent pewter]

holy shit the tinkaton pose goes hard..

[woeful pulsar]

it does

https://tenor.com/view/jumpscare-jumpscare-gif-hammer-hammered-meme-gif-23954848

[unborn garden]

yeah finally a pose I might use aha

[fervent pewter]

haha i have the opposite problem, too many poses!

[unborn garden]

haha fair enough :P

[fervent pewter]

and i still only use the same one all these yesrs 😂

[unborn garden]

haha so many choices you might just keep changing

[plucky sky]

Gotta flex those achievement poses tbh

[fervent pewter]

i really only use the season 1 pose, feel like it adds mental factor in gbl

though that pose is right on the line of being sus

[unborn garden]

ayo? what

[alpine ether]

which pose?

[grand canopy]

[fervent pewter]

yea just a few ° off

[grand canopy]

i already bought the ticket for the tinka pose

looks cute

[weary gorge]

Do we get a cool big hammer?

[fervent pewter]

yea that pose is worth $5

[fossil basin]

RMBR TO DO SNAPSHOT ENCOUNTERS!

[quiet kite]

how many snapshot encounters can we get in a day?

[fossil basin]

5?

Yeah 5

[fossil basin]

Just traded with my alt. Uh

[restive turtle]

is that a hundo

[trail cloak]

No

[fossil basin]

Sadly no

[fossil basin]

Oh ffsake https://www.rxddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/1k0fa8n/mega_kangaskhan_raid_day_announced_early_via/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1

[quiet kite]

yay

[grand canopy]

and i was so excited for these raid days

and they all just stink

[grand canopy]

the pose looks better ingame than the video we had before

[weary gorge]

Oh that looks fucking sick

[weary gorge]

Also WOOHOO MEGA KANGASKHAN RAID DAY

I love Kangaskhan

[grand canopy]

yeah this looks great

[fervent pewter]

bonk

[weary gorge]

Imagine fighting against a team go rocket leader

"Hahaha you can't defe-"
Bonk

[fossil basin]

die to gigaton hammer

[grand canopy]

@long delta

[long delta]

https://tenor.com/view/asta-hsr-honkai-star-rail-credit-card-meme-take-my-money-gif-18368285094954847310

[modest totem]

Ran away but first galar bird encounter

[fossil basin]

wow also l33t cp

[loud gull]

The event hasn't even started for me and lots of shiny floragato are popping up in chat. Super excited to join in

[supple scarab]

Is anyone able to add me as a friend to complete the Meloetta research please? 🙏

My friend code is in the other thread but no one has added me 😂😭

🤞

[glad rover]

Probably should keep that to the friend code channel above why it's there

[unborn garden]

Yeah if someone is looking for friends they’ll go there not here aha

[glad rover]

https://www.serebii.net/pokemongo/events/growingup.shtml

new event announcement, Rookidee in the wild, Mime Jr. (usually a regional) in 5K Eggs and Toxel's back in 10K eggs for it

[fervent pewter]

good event

[quiet kite]

give us wild Toxel ffs

[restive turtle]

i just used 30 rare candies on rookidee 😭

but MIME JR HOLY SHIT

can't wait to hatch another 30 eggs and not get it

[halcyon plume]

I keep forgetting to ask, if I want to get a Pokemon to max level before I have it unlocked should I wait to give it candy or is it's level cap just locked in?

[fervent pewter]

weve never had wild baby i dont think

[fossil basin]

I have a 98 corvisquire ugh

[restive turtle]

as you level up you can power your pokemon up more

so if this trainer had a lvl 47 pokemon they couldn't power it up anymore until they reach trainer lvl 38

[halcyon plume]

I also have a 2-12-12 Eevee that Pokegenie says I should evolve into Jolteon but I already used Sparky

[halcyon plume]

Thx

[restive turtle]

i don't think Jolteon is even good in PVP

but i also don't really do PVP so i could be wrong

[halcyon plume]

I don't really PvP either, but for raids or something would also be good to know

I could just try to evolve it into Sylveon

[plucky sky]

None of the eeveelutions are good in raids/pve

[lost girder]

Are the Rockruffs fixed or is there no Dusk this time around.

[forest saffron]

Does anyone know the odds of a shiny from a Dynamax raid? I know the legendaries are boosted, but what about the regular ones are they all the same or do they change

[alpine ether]

full odds i believe?

[glad rover]

They are full odds yes, SwSh can have the raids RNG manipulated but there also is a bunch of hackers who also put their own advertisements up for random raids

Oh wait this isn't SwSh discussion, yeah the Dynamax raids in Go are all full odds

[lone scarab]

500 reviews ah hell nah

[grand canopy]

with another trinket i could steal another kyurem tho

[fervent pewter]

is 500 a lot

never used that shitty app cuz too many abusers

[grand canopy]

yes

also, this is so ass 💔

[glad niche]

This is amazing for me

[plucky sky]

Can't you just get on an alt and make a party with you and your alt and then catch like normal? Seems pretty easy tbh

[weary gorge]

Party was one of the worst mechanics in this game

[grand canopy]

i dont care about the party thingy but 21 days again???

[supple scarab]

What’s this?

PoGo doesn’t allow you to apply dynamax to Pokemon caught outside of dynamax raids does it?

[fossil basin]

Kyruems that couldn’t have backgrounds fix is active! https://twitter.com/pogo_central/status/1912636510068781064?s=46&t=iG0xFLhysjMe3DesmHFoEA

PoGOCentral (@pogo_central) on X

kyurem make-up research is live

why? I don’t know
what for? I don’t know
who gets it? I don’t know

but check your accounts

X · Apr 16, 2025, 10:37 PM

[plucky sky]

Not currently, no

[dire scaffold]

when and where??

[plucky sky]

Oh that. Well I expected it with masterwork tbh. Im always more worried about stuff like hard platinum medals, which can take wayyy more than 21 days

[fossil basin]

should be now

but ive heard people haven’t gotten it yet

[dire scaffold]

what time is it for you?

[fossil basin]

10am? Timezones

[dire scaffold]

maybe it's like active local time past 6 or something

[plucky sky]

10am is the time stuff usually activates

[dire scaffold]

it's 5pm for me

[plucky sky]

So if you dont have it, I'd wait for 10am local

[dire scaffold]

prolly a day behind

[dire scaffold]

true

[plucky sky]

Its 8pm and I dont have it either, so makes sense

[unborn garden]

It's only for those who raided after the tour, because they turned off thr background after the event ended when they shouldn't have

[glad niche]

They changed the trinket to a super rocket radar

[fossil basin]

Ew

Thats a worse incentive

[glad niche]

I don't like that they changed it

Just another classic Niantic blunder

[plucky sky]

Thats actually so much worse wtf

People actually want lucky trinkets. Thats why its a good incentive

[fossil basin]

Not seeing shiny fuecoco?
https://shinyrates.com says its 1/1,750

[fossil basin]

Well its active now lol

[fervent pewter]

10am local times likely

[grand canopy]

[loud gull]

hi does the remote raid limit reset after midnight?

[plucky sky]

Yes, midnight local time

[loud gull]

thank you

[crisp relic]

slenderwoods has given 1 Gen Rep to eli_sussy

[grand canopy]

can the costume floragato be female?

[unborn garden]

Yes

[grand canopy]

ok thank you

[loud gull]

so awesome wish me luck today

[unborn garden]

Good luck!

[unborn garden]

(I did 90 checks and got nothing but my friend did like 18 and got 3 so I gave them a shiny froakie for this)

[stray birch]

Are there solgaleo and necrozma raids happening? Cuz of the wormhole thing

[fervent pewter]

just blacephalon / stakkata respectively

probably butcher that name lol

then we have cress

[stray birch]

Damn I can't get my hands on a solgaleo in pogo and even if there's a raid my pokemon aren't strong enough

[deep smelt]

are the end rewards any good

[glad niche]

They do not appear from wormholes

[alpine ether]

you can get cosmog from a quest

[stray birch]

I wasn't playing in the season of light where you get the quest, therefore, I don't have it

[stray birch]

I know that, but I wasn't sure if solgaleo raids would happen cuz there were ultra wormholes too

[glad niche]

No

[stray birch]

Thanks

[weary gorge]

I'm so sorry

[lost girder]

Anyone know if the rockruff raids are fixed or are they still bugged and can't evolve into Dusk?

[unborn garden]

They are fixed

Got mine today

[grand canopy]

theres a shiny meloetta at the end, i'd say thats pretty good

[plucky sky]

[modest totem]

Anyone else like how the nosepass mons always look north ??

[lone scarab]

I hate it lol

Well I appreciate the mechanic and the reasoning behind it, but it makes me think I haven't clicked on every nosepass since they never looking at me lol

[restive turtle]

we stay winning

[weary gorge]

Hong kong?

[restive turtle]

egg

people live there

[knotty narwhal]

Sorry I'm late to the party but BOTTLE CAPS ARE REAL?! Hedgie, I have some good news my friend.

[modest totem]

on the hunt for shiny shuckle

[unborn garden]

Get that blue lil creature!

[plucky sky]

Um ok...

I dont care about the last 2, but I really don't think I need to spell out why the lucky trade one sucks

But yeah, step 5/7 is now known ^

[grand canopy]

yay only 5 days in a row

[fossil basin]

oh ffsake

i didnt buy the ticket though

rip my friend who did though

[plucky sky]

Ready for solo players to scramble to buy the next 5 lucky trinket opportunities that they throw at us as we also see a massive resurgence in alt account usage

All to complete this ticket they already bought

Also new code for bonus timed research

907andLIKO

https://store.pokemongo.com/offer-redemption?passcode=907andLIKO

[fervent pewter]

been going thru my storage quite a bit, hyper training first jump out to me for the obvious picks (98s) but ill have so many picks like this that its going to be awesome for

glad i didnt transfer 😂

[rotund kettle]

Does anyone know if you are able to make a pokestop from a distance like on a map or do you have to be at the place you want to make it?

[unborn garden]

Very nice

[glad niche]

You gotta be within the vicinity

So you could make one from home if you've taken photos already

[plucky sky]

https://bsky.app/profile/pokemongohub.bsky.social/post/3ln3kfcvoch23

Pokémon GO Hub (@pokemongohub.bsky.social)

Some Trainers are reporting that they now have the ability to RSVP for Raids! This seems to be an expanding Raid RSVP system test.

RSVP in this context means you share publicly at what time you will be attending this Raid.

Bluesky · Apr 18, 2025, 11:47 AM

[fervent pewter]

did anyone get their kyurem makeup

[fossil basin]

I dont think i did any that time so i jave nothing

https://fxtwitter.com/alola_family/status/1913186142289346997?s=46&t=iG0xFLhysjMe3DesmHFoEA

🌴🌺Alola🌺Family🌺🌴~🥀💔Friede mourning era💔🥀...

Liko and Floragato in Pokemon Go promo 😭

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▶ Play video

FxTwitter · Apr 18, 2025, 11:01 AM

[lone scarab]

Unironically more excited about the pokeballs lol

[modest totem]

Hah shiny haul went pretty good 2 incense 6 shinies and I got the lil bugger

[unborn garden]

Damn yeah that's some crazy luck

Good job

[quiet kite]

I wish the "5 Lucky Pokemon" was retroactive 😭

[unborn garden]

Hot the no.1 meowscarada for ul I just don't know if it's good in general

[lone scarab]

Tbf its pretty easy to get lucky mons when you have someone you know, can just trade random ass mons and eventually it'll happen by chance

never says the lucky mon you get has to be good or anything lol

[fossil basin]

Gmax raids keep breaking lol

[weary gorge]

Well this is certainly interesting

[fossil basin]

https://twitter.com/niantichelp/status/1913458522215371047?s=46&t=iG0xFLhysjMe3DesmHFoEA

Niantic Support (@NianticHelp) on X

Trainers, we are aware of an issue where Gigantamax Snorlax may not be appearing at all Power Spots with Gigantamax Battles during Max Battle Day hours. Thank you for your patience as we investigate this issue. #PokémonGO

X · Apr 19, 2025, 5:03 AM

LMAO IS THAT WHY

i had machops and passimiams blocking spawns

[quiet kite]

yeah but convincing my play partner to make trading every day a priority is going to be a pain; im just going to have to hijack their phone I guess

[quiet kite]

why use Gengar against a normal type?

anyway this is the best one I got today. its not a total disaster I guess

seems Snorlax doesnt have a great deal of utility anyway

[fossil basin]

It can have the move superpower

Its just a tank for heals etc

[unborn garden]

More of a trophy gmax

[quiet kite]

im a little confused about why Snorlax isnt good but Blissey is. Snorlax has Lick, which is good for generating energy, right? Does Snorlax just not have as much defense and HP as I think it does or something?

[grand canopy]

snorlax has better defense but blissey has much more HP which makes it better for Max Spirit as a healer

i think its called max spirit, the healing thingy

[quiet kite]

is this article's analysis good? https://pokemongohub.net/post/guide/pokemon-go-max-battles-guide-best-strategies-moves-and-top-pokemon-2025/

it doesnt even list Gmax Snorlax as a Charger but it does list it under Attackers

so it seems like they took it into account, but that would mean that Snorlax is a worse charger than... Blastoise? huh?

[grand canopy]

maybe because blastoise gets stab on water gun? but that shouldnt matter for just charging the max thingy

[quiet kite]

I guess im just over here huffing the copium because I like Snorlax and want to use it. I was hoping it would be a slightly worse but still perfectly usable Blissey

[trail cloak]

Normal just isn't a useful offensive type

And Blissey is the better tank. Pound generates the same Max* energy as Lick

[quiet kite]

is Yawn not any good?

[trail cloak]

0 damage, 3 turn / 1.5 second move,

[quiet kite]

another dex filler for the dust bin

[lone scarab]

The thing about gmax snorlax is just, when dmax lax comes out, it'll probably just be better

So struggling to beat the gmax seems pointless in the long term, at least with dmax you can hit the ghosts you're walling with phantasm if shit hits the fan

[modest totem]

living rural sucks rn

[plucky sky]

Always has

[quiet kite]

Gmax Snorlax was really easy though, compared to the ones before

I think I'm going to train one anyway, just because I like it. It wont be seeing much play though on harder fights

[supple scarab]

Do I go for a quick drive to a poke stop to continue my streak?

:/

[alpine ether]

is it for a quest?

[glad niche]

Wheres the closest one?

[supple scarab]

Probs a 2min drive

Oh. Ignore me

I didn’t go out yesterday either

[plucky sky]

Time to start a new streak. Get in your car

[trail cloak]

not spinning one is also a streak! You're on day 2!

[lone scarab]

fr

[forest saffron]

No shiny, but was able to get my first non traded gmax : D

[modest totem]

brooo when does this guy giovanni change legendaries

[glad rover]

When the next rocket takeover event will happen

[unborn garden]

Almost 9k 💪

[knotty narwhal]

Realistically do y'all think people on this server would be interested in a tiny shiny fuecoco and/or rowlet?

[unborn garden]

Try auctioning them

In this channel people aren't really interested in trades but a lot of people really like tiny.shiny starters

[sharp finch]

Why?

[unborn garden]

I just catch a lot aha

I don't even pinap them

I do want a hundo tho