pogo_discussion

[flint wind]

[radiant vigil]

Remember when bulbasaur used to say 'bye' and it looked hella passive aggressive?

[charred rapids]

Some people are sad

[primal sluice]

i got a friend who likes to collect different kinds of stickers

[radiant vigil]

[flint wind]

[charred rapids]

Probably collects rocks too

[flint wind]

and socks

[radiant vigil]

Socks keep feet warm, useful

[charred rapids]

Rockem sockem

[radiant vigil]

Use sock to yeet rock

[charred rapids]

It’s what David used to kill Goliath

A sock

[flint wind]

woa

[radiant vigil]

[charred rapids]

Giant man murdered by midget and his sock

[flint wind]

its alro for my rocket leader

to skip or to battle

i mean venomoth looks dope

[radiant vigil]

It does

You can easily get another radar, do it

[flint wind]

shadow mewtwo metagross clap time

[radiant vigil]

Now I need to wait to evolve bby shadow shiny beldum with meteor mash...

[charred rapids]

Shiny shadow venemoth

looks like the normal one

[radiant vigil]

I've seen a screenshot in my local xD

[charred rapids]

I haven’t been bothered, would look nice though.

[radiant vigil]

Looks pretty cool

[charred rapids]

This cheese looks pretty cool

[radiant vigil]

It sounds cool

Think I should sleep

[flint wind]

and arlo has been of the clapped
and gives cliff sticker

[radiant vigil]

Lol yeah cliff gives me arlo something is up

[flint wind]

[charred rapids]

Sleep probably, I should I’m sure I have a long week of work ahead of me

But chese

[radiant vigil]

[flint wind]

cheese tho

[charred rapids]

Tasty chese

[radiant vigil]

🧀

[flint wind]

oh? max def max atk
but 9 hp sad

[radiant vigil]

I'd take that over 9atk

[charred rapids]

Yeah, depending on the shadow that would be extremely useful too, I’d power it up if the stats were on a metagross or something.

But a venonat

[radiant vigil]

[charred rapids]

anyone else think the new shadow pokemon are all terrible

[flint wind]

i have a 14 14 14 shadow metagross
sneasel is good

[charred rapids]

Sneasel isn’t new

[radiant vigil]

Well sneasel is a repeat

[flint wind]

kingdra is nice

[radiant vigil]

Lol in sync

[charred rapids]

Aussie mates 4 lyf

[radiant vigil]

Maaaaaate

[charred rapids]

Maaaaaaaate

[median narwhal]

theres a raid nearby for yvetal

[radiant vigil]

Gdayyy

[charred rapids]

Then maybe post it in the legendary raid channel

[radiant vigil]

No yveltal for me, it's 3am now

[median narwhal]

it ends in 2 mins

[charred rapids]

Oh no ones doing it with 2 minutes

[radiant vigil]

Yeah you're not going to have enough time...

[charred rapids]

maaaaaaaaaaaaaate

[radiant vigil]

Need to add ppls, send invites etc

[median narwhal]

sad times mate

[charred rapids]

do australians call barbeques barbies?

[radiant vigil]

Yes

Not always but when required yea

[charred rapids]

Yeah we aren’t weird, we don’t call them gas stations or whatever, we don’t use miles per hour pfffft.

[radiant vigil]

What conspiracy you speak of?

Servo all the way

[charred rapids]

Bloody oath

[radiant vigil]

My brain is dumb, need a common denominator for these sorts of things

[median narwhal]

i swear youre supposed to call em petrol pumps or petrol stations

[charred rapids]

Servos

[radiant vigil]

We do...or just servo

[median narwhal]

European confusion

[charred rapids]

Service station

[radiant vigil]

[median narwhal]

Ah shit that makes sense

[radiant vigil]

Pick up some toilet paper and extras on the way

[median narwhal]

and some alcohol?

[charred rapids]

Nah that’s at the bottlo

[radiant vigil]

[median narwhal]

bottlo..

[charred rapids]

where u at in europe

Servo is tp, food, rubbers

[radiant vigil]

Bottle-oooooo

[median narwhal]

Im from spain but live in england

[radiant vigil]

And gas bottles for the barbie and ice bagss

[charred rapids]

And bait

[radiant vigil]

Ok we don't have bait in ours 🤣

[charred rapids]

Pathetic

[radiant vigil]

I mean, I live next to a river with very explicit 'do not fish here signs'

Unless you want a third eye or something

[charred rapids]

nice im in uk as well

[radiant vigil]

Bri'ishhhh

[median narwhal]

where from

[charred rapids]

Aussie slang 101 with Milli and Mental, stay tuned

[charred rapids]

hahahahahahhahahhaah

Ayyyye pommies

[median narwhal]

chris hemsworth

[radiant vigil]

Good export of ours

[charred rapids]

scotland

[median narwhal]

nice broo

[charred rapids]

want to hear my british slang

[median narwhal]

edinburgh?

[charred rapids]

nah glasgow mate

[median narwhal]

Calm down bruv

[charred rapids]

OH NICE! Don’t look at me kilt yew or I’ll kill YAH

[median narwhal]

close enoughh mate

[radiant vigil]

I think the only slang I know is from kingsmen lol

[charred rapids]

Mah scootish blood is boilin ACK

hahahahahhah

[radiant vigil]

🤣

[charred rapids]

https://tenor.com/view/groundskeeper-willie-simpsons-gif-6162595

[radiant vigil]

Right sleep time

You go sleep too metal bwaha

[charred rapids]

ayo big man get out the ends innit

Fine fine

idek

[median narwhal]

wHAT endz you from cuz

[charred rapids]

mans from the ends innit

[median narwhal]

aight sn sn g

[charred rapids]

mans gonna buss out the shank

[median narwhal]

Shut up ya dirty yute

[charred rapids]

hahaha

[median narwhal]

british slang

[charred rapids]

ye

do people even talk like that or nah

[median narwhal]

dont think so

[stuck schooner]

exodia

[flint wind]

if that is a raid team

[surreal violet]

Yes my bro speaks like that and I'm from East London where loads of these roadmen are at

Loads in South too

[stuck schooner]

anyone wanna join a y bird raid?

[lucid frigate]

Im with feebas, if thats a raid team then

[primal sluice]

i am looking for these following players so if u know their discord name plz let me know in the dms thanks

athene727
SiuGon3BB
MagicGhidra
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Kigrr
Kwan612
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sEmAST
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BonKoiKue
CelesteTheOwl
FredrikSalle
Uptownfunk47
Agarahtida
sonofsohigh
HelixPoGp
Polygonia9

[karmic raven]

Woah so a place I requested for a poke stop became a poke stop but the other poke stop near it became a gym

[elder cloud]

Why do all my shadows have decent ivs

[flint wind]

idk

but noice luck

[fallen quarry]

my pokemon home transporter is fully charged but i only have the option of these pokemon and below to be able to transfer to home

and this is what it should look like, right? is there something im doing wrong?

[pulsar thunder]

It skips starred/favourites pokemon

As well as shadows

[fallen quarry]

ohhh yeah that makes sense, thanks!

[charred rapids]

lmao

does he only listen to drill music as well

[primal sluice]

@steel parcel for altaria what is better to have as second charge move against metal/ fairy pokemon

[steel parcel]

steel types resist dragon, fairy and flying moves so not much

[primal sluice]

welp i guess aint much i can do with the pokemons i have for now then XD imma just do my daily set for the stardust then :V

[steel parcel]

escavalier is bug type so you can probably win that matchup

if you see fairy, just switch out lol. most of them are too tanky to go down after just 1 sky attack even if it does do neutral damage on most

retro cup was altaria's time to shine

[primal sluice]

this pokemon is good against fairy?

[steel parcel]

not really since it doesn't have any steel moves

[primal sluice]

meh i shall see what i can do for now XD i take out charizard and i send up seeing too many ice type now i have it back in now more ice type like sigh

and btw would u put stunfisk as lead or altaria?

[flint wind]

stunfisk tbh

normal or g?

[primal sluice]

normal

[flint wind]

hmmmm depends on what ur seeing a lot of tbh

[primal sluice]

the orange one

[fluid eagle]

altaria op

its the main poke im struggling against

[analog steeple]

An abomasnow makes very quick work of it

[fluid eagle]

aint got a good snover i can work on im a newish player so aint got the spread @analog steeple am working on a near max sneazel shadow i got earlier though

[analog steeple]

Hmm. Others have more experience than me but I honestly don’t give a crap about IVs if I can’t be picky

Something I can’t farm as easily I’m just gonna pick a decent one to use vs just not using the mon

[fluid eagle]

i meant also i couldnt raid aboma when it was active

so in general i can get it

[analog steeple]

Oh shoot yeah I feel that

[fluid eagle]

im a new player

[analog steeple]

Oh cool welcome!!

What got ya into pogo?

[fluid eagle]

im lvl 28 but started like a month ago 🙂

i player sword found out its only way get melmetal in sword

i played when firts came out but tis way more advanced now

[analog steeple]

Ah gotcha. You already synced up your pogo to home yeah?

[fluid eagle]

yeah done about 3 melmetal boxes

should do more

[analog steeple]

Nice!

[fluid eagle]

i cant lie though

i have built some really good pokes and got some good catches

just need mroe dust to make em better

[primal sluice]

for abomasnow i swap in charizard for all that snow type

and i had to put extra move on my stunfisk for discharge move for the cover up incase they have water type

[analog steeple]

You running mud bomb/ discharge for stunfisk?

[fluid eagle]

tbh d3v bro im looking so much cause i cant afford double moved pokes

[primal sluice]

yea

[fluid eagle]

loosing not looking sorry*

[primal sluice]

i got most my stun fisk from egg tbh

[fluid eagle]

i got both versions of stunfisk i think around 1200 cp

[primal sluice]

so all that candies i had i used it on second charge

it wasnt the best top rank#50 iv stats but i was losing too much so i had to invest in it a bit

[primal sluice]

yes sir

[fluid eagle]

which fisk you using galarian or normal?

[primal sluice]

most people say the galarian is better but im using the normal one atm

[analog steeple]

How close are ya to Ace @primal sluice ?

[fluid eagle]

tbh i think it comes down to what the latest community days are

ive come across alot of azumaril and altaria

and against them normals better with electic secondary move

[primal sluice]

way too far from that i dont believe im gonna make it getting hard counter only recently after adding second charge on both stunfisk and altaria that is when im doing kinda ok

[analog steeple]

Yeah I always plan my GBL after comm day to counter that mon

[primal sluice]

but atm im still looking to see what i should have as my second charge move for altaria atm

[analog steeple]

Devil whatre you leading with?

[primal sluice]

atm i switch my lead to stunfisk

[fluid eagle]

@primal sluice i got a 763 near max altaria with dazzling gleam and sky attack but no dust to get it 1500 cp hahaha

a stong lead ive been using is Mandibuzz

[primal sluice]

i kinda run into him a few but they didnt lead with him so by time i face against him i get charges to fight him in a way

[fluid eagle]

yeah ima hes a strong lead

but if your low on shield and and they got a electric type your boned

dark pulse has been hitting hard though

[primal sluice]

that is why i got my stunfisk as lead

seen a bit of too much iron or water type pokemon as lead

[fluid eagle]

my favorite lead is gengar with shadow ball

no one ever expects it

[analog steeple]

Mandibuzz is a great mon to swap to since it’s so bulky

[fluid eagle]

@analog steeple ive been thinking that umbreon would be better since mandibuzz''s biggest problem is electicity

since umbreon can have same moves

[analog steeple]

Umbreon is actually one of the best swaps for PvP since it’s bulky and with last resort it can pack a punch

Umbreon or sableeye with Return

Highly recommend

Still working on getting myself a good umbreon

[fluid eagle]

i versed someone earlier my mandibuzz beat umbreon but the electic typing is beating me hard

yeah but luckily i think next week eevees more active or eeveelutions in raids?

[analog steeple]

I hadn’t seen that but I might be out of the loop?

Jellicent is also great. Been finding a lot of good wins with him

[fluid eagle]

i wanna get a scrafty

ill rare candy him up then after i evolve magikarp

[halcyon estuary]

Mandi should beat umbreon on equal shields

[brisk shadow]

Just caught a 14,15,15 shadow machop, but is it better to max this compared to a 15,13,10 shadow machop?

[charred rapids]

When it comes to shadow, the attack stat is really the only thing that matters, since the defence drop already makes them glassy regardless if it’s maxed or closer to maxed, dps is what makes them valuable

[brisk shadow]

ok

what a damn shame

[charred rapids]

But 14 attack isn’t too bad, the 20% buff does help

Near maxed, that’s entirely up to you.

[brisk shadow]

ok what would u do?

max the 14,15,15 or 15,13,10

[charred rapids]

Uhhh weirdly enough I’d still max the 14/15/15 just because how close to a hundo it is, I don’t drop resources in things missing so many stat points, 98% or the 83%

98 personally wins for me

[radiant vigil]

Yeah big iv diff there, I'd do the 98 lmao

[brisk shadow]

ah

I just had a 611 CP shadow snorlax run from me. Noooo >.<

ok, yeah, right, I'll max the 98

fair point

[radiant vigil]

I actually grazz shadow snorlaxes cos they're actually stupid to catch

[brisk shadow]

I did that too

but I had a new buddy pokemon that wouldn't hit back balls

that and my shitty aim I guess, was trying too damn hard for excellents

it broke outta 4 great throws, knocked back 2 balls, and the remainder were outside the red circle

[radiant vigil]

The buddy needs to be ultra before it hits back the balls

But snorlax is very red circle so I went for the grazz haha

[brisk shadow]

yeah, I was trying to get this 14,15,15 togepi to ultra, though I had an ultra drifblim and best blissey in the back that I do the battle with

wait no, great buddy is enough for catch assist

[radiant vigil]

You could probs just swap it throughout the day to get the interactions you need then keep your ultra buddy active

[brisk shadow]

Mine's just Good BUddy

[radiant vigil]

On it was one of them 🤣 don't remember the stages well

[brisk shadow]

wait on the related question of the machop, should I hold out on maxing it?

I mean, 14,15,15 does sound pretty dang hard to beat, but not impossible

I only have 256 machop candies

[radiant vigil]

I guess it depends on how much you need the machamp now

Are you going to use it asap or not? If not you can wait

Mind you I've gotten one hundo shadow out of 1.3k battles so I think it's very hard to top 98 xD

[brisk shadow]

it could help me kill blisseys

[brisk shadow]

yeah ok, I'm just going to max this shadow machop everytime I get one of those "power up a pokemon x times" then

[radiant vigil]

That is exactly what I do 🤣 surprised at how fast it got maxed lol

[brisk shadow]

in your experience, how often do you come across these power up quests?

[radiant vigil]

Hmm it's mainly in special research that I do it

I delete standard ones from field research, might find a few a day

[brisk shadow]

got it, ok

Also, what's the best resource to check whether I should be running cross chop, dynamic punch or close combat, if it's to beat blisseys?

[analog steeple]

Which mon?

[lucid frigate]

I assume machamp, which dynamic punch would be the best

[analog steeple]

I like cross chop myself

[lucid frigate]

Gamepress is my personal favorite source to find the best pve movesets for a pokemon in terms of a resource

[analog steeple]

Game press is awesome !!

[brisk shadow]

Thanks!

[analog steeple]

Ah so sorry didn’t realize it was PVE. Totally skimmed that

Yeah dynamic punch is great

[radiant vigil]

I use dynamic punch for gyms / raids / rockets

[primal sluice]

milli my pokemon finally survive through the day now i can leave it to die :V

[radiant vigil]

[steel parcel]

uhhhhhhh

so i’m kind of loving snorlax in GL

went through my snorlax inventory and found these bois

[lucid frigate]

Master league bois

[steel parcel]

i realllyyy don’t do ML at all but yea i’m thinking one of these might do it

[radiant vigil]

Purified lucky?b👀👀

[steel parcel]

is it purified?

i don’t think it is...

[analog steeple]

Looks purified in the second pic

[radiant vigil]

Ah I thought it was the first one you purified haha

[analog steeple]

Oh nvm

Forgot to read LOL

[steel parcel]

no i haven’t purified haha

[radiant vigil]

Dw both of us 🤣

[analog steeple]

Honestly I’ve found some great snorlax in UL too

They’re a bulk bitch

[steel parcel]

not planning to euthanize

*either

[analog steeple]

Amazing typo there honestly

[radiant vigil]

Leave it

[steel parcel]

tbh is purification not euthanasia by another name

[radiant vigil]

Exactly

[steel parcel]

i guess i’ll run some sims and see which one picks up more wins

xl medicham lead used to be bae, now snorlax is bae

[radiant vigil]

The loser....gets euthanised

[steel parcel]

the loser gets sent to home

[rustic nova]

This has been my unluckiest 30 days since I started playing this game last April

[radiant vigil]

I think that's actually pretty impressive haha

I already had multiple of 4 of these XD and also no idea where you're getting patrat spawns haven't seen those in months xD

[charred rapids]

Yeah I have like 9 lol

[rustic nova]

Only new shinies there were Smeargle (obv) and the Marill

Also idk Patrat spawns all the time for me

Already had 2 shiny Patrat before those

[charred rapids]

Im conserving my energy and shiny luck for Colgate raccoon

[rustic nova]

Only way for me to hunt that is to save the encounters in the timed research

Wish G-Pony and G-Zig spawned in the wild

[charred rapids]

At least zig will be average hatches in 7’s which have better shiny rates than other eggs

I’ll be raiding, research and hatching.

[rustic nova]

True. Also given the fact that the only eggs I can really do rn are 12km and 7km I might get lucky

[radiant vigil]

hope this goes better than pony shiny hunt haha

[steel parcel]

same. i stopped trying for shiny pony after attempt 122

ziggy is unfortunately not as common from 7km as geodude and diglett. i’ve hatched more deino and sandile than zig

[charred rapids]

The fact people went past 20 for ponyta without giving up is truly sad

[steel parcel]

but pony

[charred rapids]

I think I did like 12, wasn’t going to feed their pockets after that.

Pony isn’t even that good, shiny zig though.

[steel parcel]

our local discord posted which stops were going to be ponyta every day which helped

[charred rapids]

Obstagoon is one of my fave mons from gen 8, amazing shiny, pvp meta, so I’m keen to definitely fill pockets for it

[steel parcel]

between those and ar scans, i didn’t feel the need to do raids. but imagine how many more pony i would have if i had

maybe a whole 3

[charred rapids]

I don’t trust the AR scans

[steel parcel]

haha neither does my bf. that’s why i have 2 pony and he has no

[charred rapids]

Again, pony is meh

Zigzagoon, yeah I’ll hunt for hours

I plan on trying to get 3 zigs, how much I enjoy it’s shine

[steel parcel]

i’m riding this pony til the end of the rainbow

only unbuddied so i can get my future sylveons to 70 hearts in time

i do like ziggy

[charred rapids]

Might not even require best friends, has that been confirmed yet?

[steel parcel]

just 70 hearts

[charred rapids]

11 per day if you have no new stops, 22 with poffin, 4 days with poffin makes that pre easy.

[steel parcel]

yea i have a 4* i’m mostly there with but i have a shiny and a lucky fc to work on

[charred rapids]

Yeah I’m starting with the shiny

[steel parcel]

sadly no lucky shundo fc for me

[charred rapids]

Not a shundo but flower crown

[steel parcel]

i have a 98 fc and that will have to do

shundo someday maybe

[charred rapids]

I just realised I have a shiny flower crown on the other account too

[steel parcel]

i usually get 20-22 hearts with whoever i’m walking for the day by getting them excited before we leave the house

gonna have to min max my energy to get in a second run for shiny eevee

[sharp halo]

Is a 12/10/12 shadow Articuno good?

[charred rapids]

It’s okay

Though legendaries are never worth purifying it would be a 14/12/14, still not worth it though

[sharp halo]

Word lol thank you

My Zapdos and moltres are even worse

[charred rapids]

Yeah shadows tend to be terrible, they can be anywhere from 0 to 100, only chance we had decent shadows were from go fest, had floor IV’s of 10/10/10

[fluid eagle]

glad ive been stacking all these different shadow pokes

purify 7 pokes then beat 3 leaders then next stage purify 8 pokes

[radiant vigil]

that's nearly wiped me out

[west marsh]

I have a problem of hoarding shadows.... I’m up to 510 now 😅

[radiant vigil]

i've hoarding dragons for that 40km trading coming up, so i have no space to hoard shadows lol

[west marsh]

I always run out of space so occasionally I’ll yeet a few shadows lol. I keep them in hopes to one day get that platinum purify badge. Once I get more stardust I’ll purify a few and get rid of some.

[radiant vigil]

you have plenty of opportunity to purify rn XD

[west marsh]

But my dusssstttttt 😂😂😂 lol

[radiant vigil]

im sad when the quest is like purify 7...purify 8..

[charred rapids]

theres a purify 10

[radiant vigil]

im probably out of 1k purify mons...

[charred rapids]

when was the last big stardust event?

Yeah purify 10 and battle a leader 3 times

I’m going so slow with it

same

all for a 2 star deino

is deino a full odds shiny?

Oooooooo yeah

[radiant vigil]

lol shiny deino is stupid annoying to get

[charred rapids]

Eh it’s so unnecessarily rare too, terrible as a dragon and mediocre as a dark type

Like congrats to those who have it but was it really worth the pain?

[radiant vigil]

you'll have two parties with the shiny, people who paid over $100 for it, and those who didn't know it could be shiny when they got it XD

[charred rapids]

I see more like, spoofers, those who spend too much money for it, those who didn’t know it can shine and the extreme small handful of people that were just lucky to get it without spending a crazy amount.

Until it’s comm day comes out next year and it’s value goes from one of the most valued shines to fletchling status

[charred rapids]

like they did with gible

[radiant vigil]

the fall will be greater with deino, at least gible people already have to a degree from raids + it's 1/125 odds or so

i have enough candy to evolve multiple garchomp, but i had to walk a deino to get enough to evolve just one hydreigon

[charred rapids]

Yeah gible was still relatively common honestly, some people averaging 2-3 shiny gible, mega garchomp is also the top ground type attacker until primal Groudon with signature move so at least it has more use, deino’s downfall will be sweet, watching everyone who has one cry about it not being rare

And realise, huh, it’s lowkey one of the most useless pseudos

[charred rapids]

is it that bad?

It’s severely outranked as a dragon, there’s a few better dark types than it too like Darkrai, Tyranitar, Yveltal now, even weavile pretty sure.

Mega houndoom and Mega Gyarados if you count them too.

[radiant vigil]

sounds like you really really don't like deino

[lusty spoke]

deino is just annoying as a pseudo

because you get him lategame and then to get his max potential you gotta grind his ass to lvl 55

[charred rapids]

I don’t mind it, just don’t see the hype around it and don’t see why it needed to be so elusive

[lusty spoke]

garachomp is cooler imo

[radiant vigil]

ah yeah, i remember trying to evolve hydreigon for dex in the games....i don't think anything else took that long

[lusty spoke]

no other pseudo takes as much effort as hydregion

[radiant vigil]

i didn't even use it in the end lol

[charred rapids]

I love Axew more than emo Dino, Haxorus shiny > Hydreigon shiny

[analog steeple]

The hype is literally being elusive

[radiant vigil]

^^ this

[lusty spoke]

i only dislike axew because of iris in BnW

[radiant vigil]

haxorus is a black shiny...hydreigon is green...black wins ahha

[lusty spoke]

haxerious is such a dope dragon

[radiant vigil]

cho has a shiny hydreigon tho, pretty sure i saw as a buddy

[charred rapids]

Yeah I believe he has, little trash emo dragon

I’m not trying to be the envious type, I dislike majority of green shines.

[radiant vigil]

i dont like green

[charred rapids]

There’s only a few exceptions.

[radiant vigil]

does shiny groudon count as a shade of green?

it looks like highlighter, but i like that one

[charred rapids]

Gold? Yellow? I dunno

Yeah reminds me of highlighter too.

[radiant vigil]

can't think of any other green shinies that i really like

poliwrath is cool, but that's mainly cos i thought it'll be the same blue as it's pre evos, but turns out it's greeeen

[radiant vigil]

yes, thats the one

[charred rapids]

I mean congrats I still hate it

[analog steeple]

Didn’t spend on any incubators lol. Just a seriously small percentage of lucky walkers

[radiant vigil]

oh, you're a 2016 player too ehhh

[analog steeple]

Makes sense with how many eggs I crank out a week

[charred rapids]

2016 and not level 40

[radiant vigil]

so much fitness

[analog steeple]

Stopped playing and came back for celebi !

Luckily got into my old account

[charred rapids]

https://tenor.com/view/the-simpsons-pathetic-principal-skinner-gif-19732520

[radiant vigil]

niantic has figured out the formula to get people to play, just offer mythical shiny

[charred rapids]

Nah understandable, stopped playing pogo in 2016 for a good few months after starting it up

[radiant vigil]

it was bad at the start XD unless you were the elite it kinda sucked

there's a reason most people dropped it within months haha

[charred rapids]

Very minimal content

[analog steeple]

You can only catch so many kanto mons at first

[radiant vigil]

the content was the wild dragonite spawn at the top of the street!!

[charred rapids]

Pokémon go didn’t get big until raids and the Halloween event in 2017

[radiant vigil]

i remember the exact day i came back was the day they announced raids

[charred rapids]

The release of 3 shiny ghost types, something that wasn’t pikachu or karp

[radiant vigil]

pikachu comm day was my first shiny

[charred rapids]

Karp was the first shiny release, was the first shiny I received in 2017, 98%

It’s my level 49.5 best buddy mega

[radiant vigil]

my first shiny karp was from the good old catch 10 pokemon quest, not a 98 though 😛

[lusty spoke]

please grant me shiny luck

[radiant vigil]

the mega ended up being the august 2016 hundo karp i got haha

may you be blessed with shinies

[steel parcel]

@lusty spoke this worked for someone last time i posted it

[lusty spoke]

OFF I GO

[radiant vigil]

[analog steeple]

Loool

[radiant vigil]

No luck so far 😦

[steel parcel]

didn’t know this was what niantic meant by double battles

[white tree]

Recently got back into the game after not playing since around launch, anyone have tips I might not know about?

[pulsar thunder]

Are double battles common? I’ve only had them once

[pulsar thunder]

Welcome back, there have been a few updates since 2016. Big one I got from this server is to never purify shadow Pokémon lol

[steel parcel]

wild dragonite is still exciting, but not "put your life in danger by running out into traffic" exciting

[charred rapids]

Yeah if you haven’t been since around launch, it’s basically a whole new game.

From raids, to adding friends, lucky trades, events like community days definitely need to make the most out of, special researches and quests that grant various rewards

[white tree]

Never purify them? Why's that?

I've gotten the gist of the new features (I have been playing a couple weeks or so, even gotten a few shinies already), but don't really have any friends that play PoGo, so can't complete the quests that want me to send gifts to friends and stuff. :sweat_smile:
Luckily I live right next to two parks and the downtown area a couple minute walk from my house is full of PokeStops and Gyms. Plus I do a lot of walking at work, so I hatch eggs while working lol

[primal sluice]

the shadow form does more damage than it is being purify and also for friends u can check in #pogo_friend_codes leave ur code there or u can add those people who already leave their code their

[white tree]

Huh, interesting. I'll see about dropping my friend code soon and adding some others, thanks guys! :)

[pulsar thunder]

Yeah all my PoGo friends have been mostly from this server; keep an eye out for community days (next one is Gible) for increased shiny odds

[fallen quarry]

i keep getting arlo and cliff in the balloon when all i need is sierra >:(

[rustic nova]

Angry

Was deciding to only do leader battles on my alt during this event

And just got shiny shadow venonat on my alt

[west marsh]

I’d kindly pass away if that happened to me.... that’s the one shiny shadow I want the most.

[rustic nova]

Honestly

Might just purify it eventually and trade it to my main

Really no point in keeping it on my alt and I don’t have a shiny Venonat on my main anyway

[charred rapids]

i got a shadow shiny growlithe on my alt

might just do the same

[radiant vigil]

Alts always get the goods

[analog steeple]

My alt is getting all the good PvP iv mons

[steel parcel]

i keep getting messages like this after commenting on reddit

[radiant vigil]

I don't ever look at reddit messages period

[steel parcel]

“we’re not just all about raiding even though it’s kind of what we mostly do” yeah no i’m not spending money on raid passes for randoms

[radiant vigil]

the stickers you have are cute though

[steel parcel]

hehe i know

[radiant vigil]

everyone in the server matters to them too

[steel parcel]

what if i was a level 5 aggron user

[radiant vigil]

[steel parcel]

they don’t know me

[radiant vigil]

tell them you're new and slaking is your highest cp pokemon, it so stronk

[steel parcel]

all trainer lives matter

i will try that

[radiant vigil]

there was a funny pokemon that sparkled, deleted it because you thought it was a bug

[steel parcel]

one of my posts blew up a few months ago so maybe these ppl are tracking me from there

[radiant vigil]

the one time i had a majorly upvoted post on reddit, everyone just asked for my friend code

my friend list filled up

[steel parcel]

i hatched a deino but it was green so i deleted my account bc scared

[radiant vigil]

looked sick

[steel parcel]

don’t wanna infect my raid party

it’s all slakings and aggrons

and purified mewtwo

[radiant vigil]

pogo pokerus

[twilit sapphire]

[charred rapids]

[steel parcel]

i should post this on reddit

multiple subreddits

super repel all these randoms trying to grow their servers/yt channels

2 aggrons for the price of one and heatran for some reason

[charred rapids]

Where’s the chansey’s or blissey’s?

[lucid frigate]

And the lugia?

[radiant vigil]

why swanna haha

[charred rapids]

At least lugia is useful to some degree

[radiant vigil]

the stickers are amazing tho

[charred rapids]

Yeah that shiny aggron is fine

[lucid frigate]

Same with heatran

[radiant vigil]

cp fiiiiiiine

[steel parcel]

idk i ran out of meme mons

and wasn’t going to purify mewtwo for a meme

[steel parcel]

exactly

[radiant vigil]

My aggron so strong I never need to use revives it da best

[steel parcel]

i’m embarrassed by how high i powered it before learning it was useless. cp fine is accurate

[radiant vigil]

interested now

[steel parcel]

i think i caught it at cp 200-250

[lucid frigate]

As aron?

[steel parcel]

yeah

and now it’s cp 2786

[charred rapids]

Too much investment, at least it mega’s to a slightly less useless Pokémon

[steel parcel]

so level 35 i think

it was my first shundo, i didn’t know what i was doing, my little brother was playing

and i’m actually legally blind

[lucid frigate]

Wait its a shundo?

[steel parcel]

but yknow. it’s also an aggron

so it balances out

[charred rapids]

Yeah I mean amazing it’s a shundo, but aggron

Will be fun to mega when it’s released though.

[lucid frigate]

https://tenor.com/view/community-chan-allowed-ok-yes-gif-5022426

[charred rapids]

Yeah could be worse

[steel parcel]

this might be the worst one. can’t evolve, not even a nundo

tbh i thought the bars stopped loading until i realized that no it’s just that bad

[radiant vigil]

I know someone with a shiny nundo beldum

[charred rapids]

Well it’s not a shundo then is it

._.

[radiant vigil]

That was meant to say shiny not shundo oops

[charred rapids]

[radiant vigil]

Typo op

[charred rapids]

I was a little confused, like hey, which is it

[radiant vigil]

Absolute trash or treasure

[rustic nova]

pretty sure a youtuber i watch has a shiny 0% shadow metagross

[surreal parrot]

Wait when did the rocket leader pokemon change

I just managed to get 4 more radars to hunt for shiny shadow beldum, and then arlo spawned a venonat

[rustic nova]

they changed like 3 days ago lol

[charred rapids]

when does shiny galarian zigzagoon come out?

Tuesday

[fallen quarry]

is sylveon out yet?

[charred rapids]

Tuesday.

[fluid eagle]

im excited for next part of event

gonna go hunt a few eeveelutions too bad sylveon doesnt bother me

[stuck schooner]

is the next luminous legends event gonna be zygarde because currently its gone xereas then yveltal ( X then Y ) and if its going in alphabetical order then zygardes next right?

[charred rapids]

Could be anything, yeah might be zygarde, could be a legendary that we’ve already had though, can never be too sure without confirmation.

[flint wind]

just let there be mr. mime

[steel parcel]

@radiant vigil

[fluid eagle]

@flint wind you mispelt mr rime but dont worry i changed that for you

[flint wind]

mime not rime

[fluid eagle]

mr rime

[flint wind]

im talking bout the prevo not evo
need it for kanto dex

[fluid eagle]

mr mimes everywhere ive had a few this event tbh

i just desperately want this happy chappy

[flint wind]

o
im im merica so i dont see mr mimes spawn

[fluid eagle]

@stuck schooner @charred rapids i heard something about beast pokes maybe being next legendarys but it could just be chatter

[flint wind]

i could easily see pogo doing a bunch of leggie dragons before zygarde

[fluid eagle]

a higher leveled mate of mine said maybe like entai, rikou, suicune

id like a latios though personally

[flint wind]

that happened not too long ago i think

[fluid eagle]

you managed to bag a yvetal yet?

[flint wind]

done 2 raids no luck yet

[fluid eagle]

^ exact same

[steel parcel]

i haven’t done any raids yet, just been getting him through pvp

[flint wind]

might push gbl again

just need a fast tm for my politoed to work with my new team

[fluid eagle]

ive been doing gbl now guys im more wins then losses so thats nb

[steel parcel]

i feel like the encounter rate for legendaries is boosted so i usually prefer to get them that way

can’t flee so i can pinap all i want

[flint wind]

mainly raiding for tms

have 0 rn lmao

[fluid eagle]

i only ever encounter legendarys from raids/gionvanni

[steel parcel]

did you delete them lol? 3* raids are guaranteed to drop at least one charged tm

i still need to do an alolan meowth raid and then i’ll try my luck with yveltal

[fluid eagle]

so far ive had 2 yvetal wins, 16-18 balls a encounter used golden razz eac throw

[steel parcel]

it usually takes 12-14 red balls to catch him in gbl so i’m a little nervous

[fluid eagle]

no catch

[steel parcel]

are you hitting excellents each time?

[fluid eagle]

minimum nice/great

since he moves alot

[steel parcel]

i don’t usually circle lock but yves has a pretty long catch animation so it’s actually easier to circle lock

[flint wind]

got i think 5 excellents on one raid and maybe 4 on the other (14 balls)

[steel parcel]

this is why i don’t raid the new legendary until i encounter it in gbl lol

[fluid eagle]

when do you encounter legndarys in gbl?

[steel parcel]

i need the practice before i do it for real

[flint wind]

20

[fluid eagle]

thats awsome guess im heading that way fast

[steel parcel]

look up circle locking if you don’t do it already. yveltal’s excellent target is smaller than xerneas’s but it’s very nearly in the center of the screen for me, very easy to hit

and use this event to get your dark type platinum

[fluid eagle]

theres alot i still need to learn tbh

like that quick catch and escape

yeah ima use meltans for ym steel medals 🙂

[steel parcel]

what medals do you have?

for dark/flying

[fluid eagle]

200 dark catch so far

cant remember flying, charging phone

[steel parcel]

probably gold at least

these are catch rates if you have both gold medals

definitely circle lock for excellents, but if you’re having trouble, aim for great rather than nice

[fluid eagle]

10-15.6% x 35 still no luck hahaha

[steel parcel]

and try to raid with best friends (+4 balls) and at gyms controlled by your team (+2 balls)

i usually end up with 18-21 balls and haven’t had a legendary flee since lati@s

[fluid eagle]

yeah i found a small group near me now for raids 🙂

[steel parcel]

i did have a tyranitar flee the other day lol so i’m by no means a pogo master

[fluid eagle]

i caught my tyrannitar and lost my yvetal 🙂

[steel parcel]

that’s more understandable haha

every time a new legendary comes out people post about the impossible catch rates and i start getting worried

[fluid eagle]

10% aint too bad

ive played games with 0.002% chance at a certain item

[steel parcel]

it’s 2% base catch rate, up to 15% with gold type medals, golden razz & excellent curveball

[fluid eagle]

does plat medals give even better chance also?

[charred rapids]

Plat medals on the typings do I believe.

[fluid eagle]

how many pokes you need of a type for plat?

[charred rapids]

2500

4+ catch bonus for that type

[fluid eagle]

2500 is not bad at all

i thought it was gonna be pushing 10k

[charred rapids]

Yeah it’s not that difficult, I have all 18 at plat, dragon seems to be the most difficult for most.

It’s my lowest at 4000

[fluid eagle]

since ive start theres been alot of dragons out in events

like dratinis

flygon last month

[charred rapids]

Gible com day coming up.

[fluid eagle]

im excited

[stuck schooner]

when does giovanni change legendary?

[analog steeple]

Next month no?

[elder cloud]

Just got this in a rando raid invite!

(Would post in flex but im not great ball yet)

[steel parcel]

@stuck schooner gio’s got zapdos again for the first 2 weeks of june. no word on any new legendaries so far

[charred rapids]

is it 2 or 3 guaranteed xls? for a 3rd stage evolution

[tight pilot]

@primal sluice did you get a new stop?! That last one you sent was different

[primal sluice]

i was out that day to do some stuff with mom and yea manage to do one and 2 things here and there and i figured i yeet new gift to u XD

[tight pilot]

LOL i was like whoaa damn but still nice, thats from like your main city there right?

[primal sluice]

yes hour ride from where i live

[steel parcel]

i keep forgetting that yeeting doesn't always refer to SH and panic a little every time i see it here

[primal sluice]

what is sh? XD

[steel parcel]

i can't say on here lol

[primal sluice]

o it is fine then :V

and my alt got a good pvp shadow horsea T.T

purifying it and transferring it to main is not worth it 😦

[steel parcel]

nope, def not. you can use it in little cup!

[primal sluice]

i dont use my alt for pvp thou

too lazy to do so many pvp in a day XD

[steel parcel]

well, you can grind for stardust to trade unregistered shinies to your main

what are the main reasons so many people have alts?

[primal sluice]

i created a pogo group on fb for my country and it isnt going well T.T

[steel parcel]

i get using one to knock out one of your gym defenders for coins

[primal sluice]

^ that is the reason why i got my alt

[steel parcel]

but i'm not sure what to do with my 2016 account

[primal sluice]

trading shiny so many shiny pokemon take so slow

[charred rapids]

trade urself loads of guaranteed luckies?

[steel parcel]

guaranteed kanto luckies

anyway that's only good for 10 trades. i've been putting baby in gyms every now and then but not much else

i did log into it to catch that wild unown a while back, but nothing that rare has spawned since

[charred rapids]

apparently u can catch the lake trio in the wild???????????

[steel parcel]

yeah someone reported one in nyc a few days ago

but it would have despawned by the time i got there lol

[charred rapids]

how rare is it

[tight pilot]

Suuuuper rare

Example if the ones we’ve gotten all across my entire province (Ontario) in the past month or 2 lol, they dont spawn often but i believe there is supposed to be 1 spawned like always somewhere in the world but only like 1 at a time or something like that from what ive heard

Usually nowhere near me (like an hour-2+ drive lol)

[primal sluice]

we opening ultra gift on the 31st 8am est?

[radiant vigil]

Last uxie we had was 15 may lol

[steel parcel]

last azelf here was september 29, 2020...

[primal sluice]

milli morning hehehe

[radiant vigil]

Morning

[primal sluice]

idk why im constantly thinking i was in another discord server with RS being the logo lmaooo and when i check my server no RS logo hahahaa

[fluid eagle]

@primal sluice what server?

[radiant vigil]

👀

[primal sluice]

i think it was another pogo server cant rem but keep having a thought of it lmaoo

[radiant vigil]

I'm in a lot of pogo servers

[fluid eagle]

you said a rs logo thought you meant runescape

[primal sluice]

i cant rem but keep having the thought of it is meh

[steel parcel]

got honked at while playing pogo solo just let me catch my pokemans in peace dude

[primal sluice]

hahahaha

[analog steeple]

Weird. Just like a hi honk or ?

[steel parcel]

i didn't know them

[analog steeple]

Weird

[steel parcel]

it's pretty normal actually lol

i mean, it's not fun, i don't enjoy it. it's just not unsurprising

i haven't gone out to play without bf in a while but he was busy with kotor so ykno

[analog steeple]

So obnoxious for them to do that though

What’s the honk supposed to do? Make you fall in love and jump in the car?

[steel parcel]

i honestly don't know. i think it's to get a reaction more than anything

more and more people are out n about bc covid restrictions are being lifted

not looking forward to weirdos coming up to me and asking if i've caught a pokeychu

rant over! just needed to vent a lil

[analog steeple]

Glad you had folks here to vent to!

Always here for ya

[steel parcel]

thanks cho

one time someone yelled HEY PADMA LAKSHMI at me and i admit that one was pretty funny

[primal sluice]

@steel parcel that moment when u could have won a full set but ur game stop moving in the middle of a winnable match T.T

[radiant vigil]

Why are random people yelling at you?

[raw pulsar]

Wot

[charred rapids]

I DUNNO MILLI

NICE WEATHER TODAY HUH?

[radiant vigil]

Not sure what it's like for you, but it's miserable here

But I am very excited for lunch 🤤

[charred rapids]

I’m excited for shiny trash panda, lunch sounds good too though

[ivory halo]

Happy Oshi

[radiant vigil]

Aww oshawott

I have a talking oshawott plushie lol

[ivory halo]

Aww, I really wish I had one before.

[radiant vigil]

Does several languages, pretty much only says oshawott though 🤣

[ivory halo]

Yea

Funny story,

When gen 5 was first released people misspelled Oshawott as OshawAtt

How did the A get in there?

[radiant vigil]

Maybe the anime dub? XD

[ivory halo]

Yeah, maybe. XD

[radiant vigil]

Cos my toy sounds like OSHAWAAAAAATT

[ivory halo]

Ahhh, I see now.

Want to see another picture?

[steel parcel]

i wanna see milli’s oshie toy

[radiant vigil]

At work rn

I have a video of it I think lol

Have a screenshot of the video

[ivory halo]

Aww

[radiant vigil]

Oh it works 🤣

Featuring English, German and Frenchhhhh

[ivory halo]

Beautiful

[radiant vigil]

Was a Christmas present few years back

[ivory halo]

Amazing!

[radiant vigil]

Yes

[west marsh]

He’s so happy

I haven’t taken photos in forever but this was my favorite one ever taken. It’s so old that it still has the old feature where it showed your gamertag in the corner lol

[ivory halo]

That quality though

Excellent picture!

[radiant vigil]

i could never figure out how to go nice ar shots, i was that person who walked around and took photos of their butts

[west marsh]

We used to have contests in local discord server before the owner one day nuked it without saying anything 👀 and omg but those are the best photos! Their little booties lol

[radiant vigil]

Yeah I was trying to get 'creative' with a contest photo

[west marsh]

😂 well I approve of your method. You would have my votes for sure lol

[radiant vigil]

i didn't win (also i was admining that, so yeah i probs wasn't going to lol)

[west marsh]

But who doesn’t love some pokemon 🍑

[sturdy kraken]

I’m writing a pogo level guide

[west marsh]

Is there a reason why? I like the way it’s written so far. I’d love to see it when it’s finished. Im always up for advice. I have to gain 76million more until I have enough to get to level 50 anyways.

[charred rapids]

Gaining xp has been one of the easiest things though.

The amount of events we’ve had recently that revolve around 2-3x xp gains, all the XP rewards, the raids, they’re giving it to us at this stage.

[west marsh]

Nowadays it’s definitely very easy compared to before.

Raids, friendship, the events - have all helped people get a gain really fast. I remember when I hit 40 back a few years back. It took a lot of grinding. I’ve been able to gain I think 20million in a matter of 3 months? Which is the total amount you need for level 40 in general. And I mostly causally play since I’ve been on bed rest for 8 weeks

[charred rapids]

Probably just trying to move it along, get people to 40, since the shiny mew research required it.

[west marsh]

Hmm, I totally forgot that was a requirement haha

That’s probably why you’re right

[charred rapids]

Yeah I’ve been lazy as and still gaining a few mill a month easy.

I should be racing to get it done and over with, 2 levels and I’m done

[west marsh]

Definitely. I look at people’s stats in raids and im shocked at levels 50’s compared to me have so much less kms, battles won, and pokemon caught than me

[charred rapids]

Oh you can cheat XP now so don’t be too surprised

I watched a guy go from 47 to nearly 50 in two weeks, and no he didn’t have the xp for any of the levels between.

[west marsh]

You’re not wrong lol. I want level 50 because I love the jacket lol. I’ll probably get there within 2 years. I’m level 46 (enough to level up again but taking my time as I’ll be stuck)

jeez! 2 weeks?!

[sturdy kraken]

No reason in particular, I did a challenge back in December and just wanted to write a guide for newcomers, I could always use more advice to put in the doc

[charred rapids]

Yeah would be doable if you lived somewhere crazy, but here that’s impossible

[west marsh]

That’s a lot of money and time invested at that point to get that XP in 2 weeks

[west marsh]

Ah! That makes sense. I’m in some FB groups and I see people asking for advice all the time. So I think having a guide isn’t a bad idea.

[charred rapids]

Dude had auto excellent throws on, was gaining 6mill near a night so whatever I guess.

[west marsh]

Jeeeez.... auto excellents? Is that some type of cheat or is he that good?

[charred rapids]

He’s not good trust me

[west marsh]

[sturdy kraken]

I was doing crazy excellents during my challenge. I still don’t know how the hell I did excellents on the smallest mons

[charred rapids]

So spoofers now have a function where they can turn on auto catching and it could be whichever circle they wish so obviously everyone goes for excellents

[sturdy kraken]

Ahh

[west marsh]

Spoofers always having the upper hand man

As if they didn’t already have it easy.

[charred rapids]

I’ve watched 3-4 players do it lately been tracking their xp gains to the point it was impossible

[west marsh]

Nothing makes my blood boil more than cheaters.

[sturdy kraken]

Anyways, send advice you’d like to share!

[charred rapids]

Oh yeah, I couldn’t agree more, I lost motivation to really play after seeing so many players do it. It shouldn’t effect me, but I guess it does

[radiant vigil]

I just do my own thing, don't really care what others do

Each to their own, as long as I enjoy it I'll keep going 🙂

[west marsh]

My area we have a bad experience with spoofers

[charred rapids]

Until they start with the gyms and boasting about shundo’s, until they start using it to manipulate pvp

It’s a bigger issue than some people realise.

[west marsh]

I’ve had a personal bad experience with this one individual who used to stalk me from gym to gym on my nightly golding routine and would throw in an account called “SluttySami” because I rejected him ...

Stalk me with his spoofer account that is

[radiant vigil]

I think you could actually report that sort of thing to the police...

that's legit rl stalking..

[charred rapids]

And defamation right?

[west marsh]

Oh I did. He got in lots of trouble.

[radiant vigil]

yeah, anything like that if it's not banned on niantic's end i'd make a biiig fuss

[west marsh]

I think it’s the only reason why I have such a distaste for spoofers

[charred rapids]

I just hate them

I get some people do it when they’re in rural places like don’t have a stop in sight, whatever

[radiant vigil]

depending on the type of spoofer they're either the sort you don't notice or notice too much

[charred rapids]

Then you have dumbasses that use pandemics as an excuse

[west marsh]

Other than the occasional kicking me out of gyms that are hard to get to 😂 this one spoofer named “intheshrubs” always kicked me out right before midnight or out of any gyms that were annoying to walk to

[charred rapids]

Intheshrubs

[west marsh]

Yep lol. Classic name 😂

[charred rapids]

Probably the same guy, stalking in the shrubs

[radiant vigil]

dare them to actually go in the shrubs

[west marsh]

It was his friend

[charred rapids]

Of course it was, creeps run in packs

[west marsh]

They used to physically attack me and my friends. It caused me to stop playing for 6 months

[charred rapids]

Physically? Are they mentally stable?

[west marsh]

Hard to want to play with being targeted like that.

[charred rapids]

They realise it’s a mobile game right?

[west marsh]

Immature guys. They always starting drama. I was happy when they moved away!

[charred rapids]

Immature? They physically attacked you I would say that goes a little above immature

Need to be locked up for assault

[radiant vigil]

um, your community sounds very toxic, that is NOT normal

that a crime

[charred rapids]

Legit everything they’ve been doing is a crime

[west marsh]

My community was very toxic up until about a year and a half ago. They eventually moved or stopped playing.

[radiant vigil]

got arrested i hope

[charred rapids]

Stalking, assault, defamation

10 years minimum.

[west marsh]

Yeah, it’s just bad. I got a restraining order against the one.

[radiant vigil]

yeah bruh, assault and stalking is a bloody no go

[west marsh]

It really sucked because PoGo really helped me during a bad time in my life and these guys ruined it because I rejected their friend.

Some guys just can’t handle rejection I guess :/

[radiant vigil]

that's their problem, not yours

i'd use some choice words, but probs shouldn't here

[west marsh]

[radiant vigil]

pains of being a woman, seriously

[west marsh]

I’m just happy their gone and the community now feels a lot more safe and calm.

[radiant vigil]

very good news, hoping they're behind bars

cos i'm sure they've also messed with other people...

[west marsh]

One of them very well could be haha. It’s been over a year since I’ve seen or heard anything about them.

I’ve never understood how some people could be so awful over a mobile game or hurt feelings.

[radiant vigil]

cos inside they're small, insecure human beings who need validation

[west marsh]

Definitely ^

[charred rapids]

That wouldn’t swing in our community.

Guarantee they’d get jumped the moment they tried

[radiant vigil]

it shouldn't in any, but man some of the things i've seen people asking for advice for on reddit

like legit crimes and reddit be like 'report to the police ffs'

[charred rapids]

To be fair yeah why wouldn’t you report it

[radiant vigil]

well, intimidation, maybe they're in a place with corrupt police, who knows 😦

[charred rapids]

The whole station ain’t going to be corrupt

[radiant vigil]

might depend on the country haha

[charred rapids]

Okay, if you’re not in Columbia

[radiant vigil]

like the stuff i hear from relos overseas well

[west marsh]

Honestly I was afraid to take mine to the police just because I thought they would think it’s stupid over a mobile game

[radiant vigil]

i think the moment in turned into assault, it doesn't matter if it's over a game or not

[charred rapids]

They think the game is stupid, they won’t take the actions as stupid though.

[radiant vigil]

that's bodily harm

[west marsh]

That’s true. I didn’t think of it like that.

[charred rapids]

Stalking alone is serious enough.

Because that shows the person has intent to possibly do something reckless

[radiant vigil]

what makes stalking through a game different to online stalking at the end of the day? still stalking imo

[charred rapids]

No one stalks and does nothing

[radiant vigil]

can add harrassment to that too

[charred rapids]

All stalkers intervene in one or all parts of your life eventually, work, family, relationships just a matter of time.

To me they are as dangerous as any other criminal.

[radiant vigil]

That sounds like a crime in the making

So agree on the second point there

[charred rapids]

Most serious killers started with stalking so yeah.

So glad y’all are safer now in your community to play, no one should have to go through it

[radiant vigil]

I didn't even bother to find the community here (if it existed) when I moved lol

[charred rapids]

I left my local chats the other day

[west marsh]

It made a lot of people quit honestly and I don’t blame them. I know it wasn’t just me getting the shit to deal with. Things are good now so it’s nice to play again without worrying.

I don’t really use any local pogo groups. Mine mostly consist of nationwide.

[radiant vigil]

Local chats are pretty much dead cos remote raids now. You don't need to know people to do them now

[charred rapids]

30 lucky friends, no one even tried to organise, hell it could be the 40km distance bonus and they’d still laze about so hey I don’t need em, I can raid legendaries myself

[west marsh]

I only keep my one local chat because we do raid trains on Wednesday

[radiant vigil]

I can imagine you duoing things solo haha

[charred rapids]

I usually do

[west marsh]

👀you must be super strong

[radiant vigil]

He's very strong

[charred rapids]

Two level 48 accounts

[radiant vigil]

[west marsh]

Oh hell you don’t need anyone lol.

[charred rapids]

Multi accounts are bad I get it but I’ve never abused it.

I’ve never thrown them in the same gyms, hell I’m barely in gyms nowadays

[radiant vigil]

Most people I know have at least 2 accounts lol

[west marsh]

I can’t say anything. My boyfriend and I use an alt phone with a shared level 40 account.

[radiant vigil]

Cos trading pretty much forces it

[charred rapids]

It just helps me with the raids, the trades that no one else is willing to do here and that’s about it really.

[radiant vigil]

My alt is seconday shiny grinding device

[charred rapids]

Yeah the extra shines are nice too, can send those to home without it effecting my main.

[west marsh]

I fully understand. I use the alt phone a lot on increased xp evolving days I love getting double the amount.

[charred rapids]

Nothing is more discouraging than missing out on shiny pokes that are near impossible to get, spiritomb, snorlax, deino

[west marsh]

The alt always seems to have better shiny luck I stg....

[radiant vigil]

well, i have none of those

[charred rapids]

I have two, no deino

[radiant vigil]

funnily for smeargle, only my main go tit haha

[charred rapids]

Tit

[west marsh]

I didn’t even get one

[charred rapids]

I managed one, some people managed 6, shows how messed up the rng was that day

[west marsh]

I was so upset too lol. I really wanted one and I’m seeing everyone get 4+

[charred rapids]

Then to lock it after the event until the next one

[west marsh]

That crushed my spirit even more. You can only get one chance a day anyways.

[charred rapids]

Yeah? Exactly, why shiny lock something that is limited to 1 a day anyway

[west marsh]

Didn’t make any sense to me at all.

[charred rapids]

Just make the odds like 1/64 and people would still have trouble getting it

But it’s Niantic

[west marsh]

Niantic is 💩 sometimes

[charred rapids]

Sometimes

[west marsh]

I still just want my kecleon release.

[charred rapids]

Gible comm day is probably the only worthwhile thing they’ve announced these last couple months.

Xerneas and it’s moveset? Destroyed one of the best legendaries, one of the only fairy legendaries.

[west marsh]

I agree. I was happy about Xerneas until yeah. It’s trash.

It’s my favorite legendary and it’s not even worth it.

[charred rapids]

Ohhhh yeah, I did like 12 raids. I did more yveltal in a day than I did Xerny throughout its whole release

[west marsh]

I think I only did the two Wednesday raid days just because of the increased XP for Xerneas. I just didn’t feel like wasting any money into something. Yveltal I still haven’t done too many of it but definitely more than Xerneas.

[charred rapids]

It’s more useful than Xerny, just not top tier, I’m saving my money for zigzagoon

Colgate obsta is a flex

[west marsh]

I spent a lot of money on ponyta just to cry myself to sleep every night... I’m afraid zigzagoon is also going to do me dirty.

[charred rapids]

Yeah I didn’t do enough ponyta, I wasn’t lucky either for it I stopped before i got ahead of myself

But zig is better, so I probably won’t stop

[west marsh]

I’m so heartbroken over ponyta lol. I love ponyta so much so when I never got one after 80+ encounters I just.... I’m so sad lol. I’ll probably try my best with zigzagoon but I stg....

My luck lately for things I want is horrible

[charred rapids]

Same actually, I haven’t gotten anything new for awhile.

[west marsh]

I’m hoping we both get a zigzagoon. It’s the least they can do

[charred rapids]

Oh yeah lord give us that luck

[radiant vigil]

If you want something bad, usually niantic never delivers

didn't care for shiny giratina-a, got 2 in 9 raids. Other legendaries I wanted bad, 40 raids later still nothing bwahaha'

[charred rapids]

Origin took me 180 raids

Two accounts, 90 raids each.

[radiant vigil]

I didn't get origin, but I didn't do 180 raids either haha

[charred rapids]

That was for a 1 in 20 shiny

[radiant vigil]

I figured move it to home, I give it item, it turns origin anyway

[charred rapids]

I’ve never had a shiny hunt go that bad especially one so boosted

[radiant vigil]

That is incredibly bad rng

Reminds me of the time during eevee comm day I didn't get a shiny for over 2 hours in the middle of the sydney cbd

I had spawns, they just weren't freaking shiny

[charred rapids]

Wow yeah I’ve had a few comm days go about an hour without it but two is pretty rough, luckily eevee had two days

Also I don’t know if you’re raiding tomorrow Milli but if you do manage to see any zig raids, mind dropping me in? Don’t have to do them obviously

[radiant vigil]

i'll probs do in person but not remote, luckily im work from home so i can check A LOT

[charred rapids]

Cheers

[radiant vigil]

hope it's not ponyta round 2 lol

[charred rapids]

Same, I’m not looking to do like 50 zig raids

[radiant vigil]

yeah i know someone who spent $80 on ponyta

[charred rapids]

If I can get it within 10-20 that would be nice

Are they really winners then?

[radiant vigil]

they were a loser cos they didn't get it

[charred rapids]

I felt like I lost when I saw my shiny giratina O

I didn’t win anything

[radiant vigil]

yeah it's most like 'what did it cost'

[charred rapids]

Well 180 raids

Soooooooo...

[radiant vigil]

[charred rapids]

I don’t like to think about it, my wallet be hurting

[radiant vigil]

i don't buy passes, so i have to draw the line somewhere if i want coins for the next event lol

[charred rapids]

Lately, I’ve spent bare all on Go, more on tcg

[radiant vigil]

40 usually ends up being the limit, although ray ray got way more than that

[charred rapids]

Ray Ray is worth it

Especially for XL.

[radiant vigil]

yeah i have a few now, now it's just disappointing lucky trades

[charred rapids]

I have a few shines, but I didn’t end up with enough to max out a single Ray, should of done more

[radiant vigil]

I feel like if I delete a chunk of rays chilling for rerolll I'd get a fair bit of xl

[charred rapids]

Yeah, I should do that to max my shine out

[radiant vigil]

I don't have a ray I want to max rn either

[twilit sapphire]

imagine having decent iv legends

[charred rapids]

I should downgrade how many legendaries I keep, 50 seems a bit much

[radiant vigil]

my best ray is a 98, with FOURTEEN atk

[charred rapids]

The Ray I decided to max was a 98 shine missing HP

[radiant vigil]

mine isn't shiny tho 😦

[charred rapids]

Chose it over 3 hundo’s

[radiant vigil]

98 shiny is close enough XD

i guess if we ever get precipice blades groudon, i'd max out of the 98 shinies too and ETM the move onto them haha'

[charred rapids]

Ohhhhh yeah mega Ray

You haven’t maxed out your 98 shiny Groudon

[radiant vigil]

Well...to L40

[charred rapids]

Oh oh fair

[radiant vigil]

used to be maxing out in the day, old lingo dies hard

[charred rapids]

Yeah when Groudon and kyogre come out I’m going ham

My lady won’t like how much ima spend on them raids

[radiant vigil]

Gen 3 my og, would go ham for gen 3

The bf will be dragged for extra shiny chance whether he like or not

[charred rapids]

[radiant vigil]

Sometimes I just take the phone

[charred rapids]

Kinda hope that’s what’s next after Yveltal

[radiant vigil]

[charred rapids]

I wouldn’t mind Zygarde, but I would love to power up Groudon and Kyogre.

[radiant vigil]

I need to get back to like 8k coins or something lol

[charred rapids]

Past 40, Groudon is already a beast.

[radiant vigil]

my stockpile is getting depleted bad lol

[charred rapids]

Zig won’t help that at all

[radiant vigil]

i'll probs go more for quests than raids, raid only in person

[charred rapids]

Hope we all have that easy shiny luck

[radiant vigil]

hopefully

[charred rapids]

See ya in the flex channel first thing

[radiant vigil]

lol, usually you're always first

have a galar zig quest banked in field research i haven't opened yet, ready for 10am hehe

[charred rapids]

Lately not so much, work has been kicking my ass

[radiant vigil]

well...i am at work rn

[charred rapids]

5am wake, not home until 3, physically draining work so I nap after I get home, by the time I wake up dinner and have to go back to bed

[radiant vigil]

[charred rapids]

Yeah but I don’t get access to Pokémon during my work, it’s full on and hands on

[radiant vigil]

obviously i'm doing a lot of sneaky sneaky

[charred rapids]

Carrying a sack of Avos on ya chest like a kangaroo with a Joey when ya picking or fencing, driving poles into the ground by hand because my boss likes to do things the hard way

[radiant vigil]

im imagining the kangaroo jumping motion with the sack of avos too...

[charred rapids]

Swap jobs, gimme

[radiant vigil]

help me get my dependent picklists working