Pokemon Go! thread

My Pokémon Go-'phone died, so I had an extended layoff from it; don't play it as often as I used to, though it's fun to get out every few days and do it. Just hate the glacial pace with which Niantic introduce new monsters (plus, living in a rural area, I'm hardly spoiled for choice to begin with).

Good exercise, though.
 
Dialga's here!

https://pokemongohub.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Dialga_Raid.jpg

Went 1 for 2 today. I have a six-man squad of Machamps I painstakingly cultivated and maxed out over a year ago, so it's a good to be able to use them as a perfect raid party fit. Dialga's an easier throw than Palkia was because it's closer rather than far which reduces bricked ball throws, but it's just as stubborn to hold down on a catch, maybe even worse. Great and Excellent throws mean nothing to these guys, even with a golden raspberry. Your best best is just plain luck and hoping your team is dominant so you can get more premiere balls.

My little human and I still play, I have a few Groudons, Zumi.

If only Niantic made long-distance trading possible! :( I missed the boat on Groudon's first appearance and when they brought it back along with Kyogre this past January, sporadic spawning and bad weather days severely limited my raid chances. I just barely got my first Kyogre as it is. I desperately need that ground king! Maybe I can luck into meeting someone with a surplus to trade with. :D

Shiny Pidgey might be the lamest looking shiny of them all.

Yeah, that one is kinda weak. They should've made it a totally different color.

I think the shiny Metagross is probably the coolest. Also the shiny Ponyta, which I never found even after chasing damn near a million of 'em when they were spawning all over the place last December.
 
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Two more days to enjoy the Battle Showdown event before it goes poof!

https://pokemongohub.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/BattleShowdownLow-696x696.jpg

https://pokemongohub.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/LowQ.jpg

Primo chance to soak up some easy extra Stardust, get rare candies and stones from the Trainer battles and get some choice TMs from the PokeStop quests. However, I haven't seen ANY shiny Machops or Mankeys yet and I've been gaming on those spawns like crazy! :mad:

Legendary Lunch Hour raids are popping off this Wednesday:

Pokémon Go developer Niantic wants to get more trainers raiding during their daily break. A new event called Legendary Lunch Hour is coming to the mobile game next week as a test for future lunchtime events.

“From 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. in your local time zone, there will be an increased number of raids to test your battle skills alongside your friends, coworkers, and classmates,” Niantic said on the Pokémon Go website. The first of those events will kick off on Wednesday, March 13, at 12 p.m. local time.

Legendary Lunch Hours will bring “an increased number of raids during the event hour” to Pokémon Go. According to a tweet from Pokémon Go fan group The Silph Road, Legendary Lunch Hour will spawn Raid Egg timers that last 10 minutes and hatch one-hour Legendary Raids.

https://www.polygon.com/pokemon/2019/3/8/18256562/pokemon-go-legendary-lunch-hour-raids

and Ray Ray is coming back in raids but only for this coming weekend, from the 15th to the 18th:

https://i.ibb.co/nrJgQsc/Rayquaza-Raid-Counters-copy.jpg

no shiny version, but I need this sweetums as I missed out on the first go-round, so it's a plus for me. I also used a lot of dust and Charged TMs to max out my counters. I almost had a milly in dust from saving and grinding and that did feel nice for a moment, but you can't play strong if you don't make strong! :D
 
Don't forget, y'all...tomorrow is bringing

LEGENDARY LUNCH HOUR

https://pokemongohub.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/LLH_Kopie1.jpg

Tips and Tricks

You only have one hour for this event and, potentially, a great portion of that time is going to be spent catching Dialga (assuming you are not just raiding for the XP and items), as well as sitting through the 2-minute lobby timer each raid. As a result, there is a sense of urgency to the event. The event will go as fast as your regular work lunch break seems to, so taking the aforementioned into consideration, it is this author’s recommendation to keep the following tips in mind:

Plan your spot prior to the event, focusing on a large number of gyms with a short distance between them.
Planning a route and mapping it out will be beneficial for your raid group, as it ensures there is no confusion on which gym to go to, and leads to the greatest number of raids that can be done.
There is strength in numbers. Large groups of Trainers with high levels and good counters can make short work of any boss, as well as carve out the extra time needed to fit in additional raids.
Catching will be the most time-consuming part, assuming you intend to catch Dialga. In this case, it is best to use berries like the Silver Pinaps and Golden Razz Berries so that each throw has the best chance to catch. Additionally, throw curve balls. Set the throwing circle to the great or excellent range and wait for Dialga to attack before throwing so it does not bat away any balls.
That being said, catching is not entirely recommended, as it can be a time-consuming task, and time is against you. Some raiders, in fact, do not catch while on a dedicated train. They simply finish the raid and go to the next one, skipping the catch sequence altogether.
Realistically, the best case scenario for Dialga raids is completing, roughly, 10 for the hour. This educated guess is taking into account the 2-minute lobby timer, the raid itself taking around 1 minute, with a large number of players, and an average traveling/ready-up time of 3 minutes. This is not factoring in catching time and can vary depending on gym density, the number of people in the raid, and potential glitches and bugs that occur at the start of these events.
Pack a lunch for yourself, there won’t be any time to grab take out when you are grinding raids.

https://pokemongohub.net/post/guide/legendary-lunch-hour-event-guide/

If you are able in free time/mobility to do so, especially in a city/urban area with high pedestrian traffic, def take advantage of this, because the best thing about it is that you don't have to worry about lucking into good timing for raid spawns. Everyone will be party raiding so you might not have to worry about enough of a head count to take down the Legendary. Also, the chances of reaping the bennies of Fast TMs, Charged TMs and Rare Candies are red alert high.

Also, catching Dialgas. I have, after several fails that I loathe to remember, about twelve of them with two in the 90% range, so catching more is not a priority for me at this point (but I would love to luck into a pure hundo if possible.) Getting Rare Candies and Charged TMs are the real treasures I'm after.

anyway, if y'all get into it at lunch tomorrow, good raiding! :D
 
For those who are still in it to win it, today is

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/567422878820204574/570323517657186325/image0-10.png?width=571&height=509

get your shiny Blast Burn Blazikens on!

also, this has been happening since Friday:

https://i.ibb.co/4gxj1RX/new-sinnoh-1.png
https://i.ibb.co/6bt1JGD/new-sinnoh-2.png

https://i.ibb.co/gjV8RLH/new-pokeys.png

get up on these if you haven't already. Lures, evolutions, alla it. Friday's explosion was the best time to nab everything for a short window of opportunity if you were being active in the game, but they are all in the wild and in eggs from here on in. They are SO MUCH FUN. :D

And lastly, this is gonna kick off this Tuesday:

https://i.ibb.co/7kv8Gd2/Extraordinary-Raid-Week-1.png
https://i.ibb.co/j4prd7b/Extraordinary-Raid-Week-2.png

gonna be super busy for the rest of May!

Oh, for those who were holding onto your Flower Crown Eevees, now's the time to shine!

https://i.ibb.co/SwfSS5w/Leafeon-Glaceon-Name-Trick.jpg

I recommend saving the name trick for the future and just use the new lures. You don't even have to buy one, wait until someone drops it on a Pokestop and get underneath it to evo your Eevees (as well as Nosepass and Magneton.) I got my Leafeons, Probopass and Magnezone already due to lure-thirsty mofos here. :D
 
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