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#601 |
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I'm not bothering with the gyms. I fought one battle and was absolutely thrashed by a single Pokemon.
In other news, I caught a Porygon in the wild today so am very pleased Also evolved my Gastley to a Haunter, caught a second Dratini, and caught a 350 CP Nidoran.
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#602 |
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Gloucestershire, England
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What is the point? Why can you visit gyms at level 5 if you can't feasibly beat the Pokemon in them until level 20?!
![]() Apparently (in time) there are plans to extend what Gyms are capable of, so keep an eye out for that. |
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#603 |
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: London
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Up to level 13 but I have caught no new Pokemon in 2 days , managed to find one and caught it and my game crashed and then it wouldn't reload.
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#604 |
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Join Date: Jan 2012
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Level 12 at the moment. Hatched a Porygon yesterday from a 5km egg so very happy.
Left phone at home today though so the other two 5km eggs will have to wait
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#605 |
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I also caught a Porygon today. Aren'the they supposed to be rare yet others have caught it?
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#606 |
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Lancs
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Can't login, server down again?
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#607 |
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Join Date: Nov 2011
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Don't bother with the gyms, they don't reward you nearly as much as it's worth the hassle, and as you yourself have pointed out, that portion of gameplay is where all semblance of balance flies out of the window.
It was fine a couple of days ago, where everyone was around Level 7 - Level 15, back then you could take a gym without too much hassle, but now almost every gym around has Level 20 trainers and are stuffed with all the massively overpowered Pokémon. If a gym has either Snorlax, Lapras, Vaporeon, Dragonite, Gyarados or Alakazam in it, don't bother, you will lose unless your CP is significantly better than theirs. There was a 2500 Dragonite in another gym! My egg hatched into a Doduo and I found a Cubone surprisingly |
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#608 |
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Liverpool
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On the way to town I put Pokémon Go on while on the bus so that I can get some distance for my egg without actually walking. The GPS was kinda laggy, you'd stay in the same spot for ages, then jump to a new place a while later. Kept missing out on Pokéstops because of it.
While in town I encountered a Pokémon that I hadn't caught yet, and I couldn't catch it. The circle thing that appears was orange, and it kept escaping the ball. I might've been too low a level. Later on I seen a Pidgeotto, which I haven't caught yet. I tried to catch it, but it was raining, and the game kinda froze. It just wouldn't do anything, so I had to restart it, then caught a Pidgey. ![]() I got a Charmander from a 2km egg, though, so it wasn't all bad.
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#609 |
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On the way to town I put Pokémon Go on while on the bus so that I can get some distance for my egg without actually walking. The GPS was kinda laggy, you'd stay in the same spot for ages, then jump to a new place a while later. Kept missing out on Pokéstops because of it.
Anyway Today I did a little hunting after using a pokefinder app. Today I have caught: Pidgey x# Ratata x# Porygon Drowzee Raticate Evee Staryu Spearow Pidgeotto Shellder Meowth Magicarp Jigglypuff And annoyingly I missed out on a Seal. I arrived to the location too late. And I got a 10k egg, 5k and 2k egg |
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#610 |
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Even if you can't beat the whole team at a rival gym, if you are fairly confident you can beat one or two - by configuring the six slots you have so the type match-ups are on your side - then escape battle once you come up against a mon you can't beat, you get nice XP and weaken the gym.
For example, a gym has a Vaporeon of around 600CP in the first slot. Fill your six slots with your best grass or electric mons and keep escaping immediately after the first battle. This helps with levelling up and gives you a reason to look to build teams with good movesets. The Porygon I hatched knows Signal Beam, with fighters resisting Bug and Porygon being weak to fighting this mon is useless defensively, so I will reserve it for working on other gyms' prestige rather than leaving in one. |
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#611 |
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I heard it doesn't count the km if you go over a certain speed. I read you have to be under 10 miles per hour
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#612 |
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Join Date: Nov 2011
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With gyms why does it just select 6 pokemon for you? And how do you make sure the 6 picked are the ones you want; do you just star the preferred 6 then set your pokedex in star order?
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#613 |
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With gyms why does it just select 6 pokemon for you? And how do you make sure the 6 picked are the ones you want; do you just star the preferred 6 then set your pokedex in star order?
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#614 |
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I heard it doesn't count the km if you go over a certain speed. I read you have to be under 10 miles per hour.
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Anyway Today I did a little hunting after using a pokefinder app.
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With gyms why does it just select 6 pokemon for you? And how do you make sure the 6 picked are the ones you want; do you just star the preferred 6 then set your pokedex in star order?
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It usually picks your 6 best but if you want to change them then just tap the one you want to leave and then tap the one you want to bring in.
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#615 |
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Join Date: Sep 2015
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Statistics have revealed that the playerbase of this game peaked on 14th of July and steadily and not un-significantly fell every day since then, funnily enough the "3 footstep 'glitch'" came into effect on the 15th of July - the day the playerbase saw it's first dip. Coincidence? I think not. Way to go Niantic, you've let bugs (which are rumoured to be of Niantic's own doing to reduce server strain) kill what could have been monumental hype and the return of Pokémon Fever.
Anyway back on to general gameplay discussion, today was fairly decent. I was out at London Film and Comic Con all day, so unfortunately I wasn't able to play *too* much - and despite all the city hype London seems even more filled to the brim with Rattata than my local area - but when I got back home I went out for a walk and hatched both a 5k egg and a 10k egg, the former gave me a Voltorb with 18 candy and the latter gave me a Dratini with 21 candy, all in all a pretty good haul, only need 1 more Dratini for a Dragonair Immediately after Dratini hatched a Seaking appeared in front of me too so that was doubly great as it meant a new Pokémon for the Pokédex. Amazingly a Hitmonlee *and* an Omanyte also appeared on my radar for the first time ever but I couldn't track down either before they both despawned Better luck next time,,,
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#616 |
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Join Date: Nov 2011
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Finally got my Koffing!!! (not via an egg)
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Amazingly a Hitmonlee *and* an Omanyte also appeared on my radar for the first time ever but I couldn't track down either before they both despawned
Better luck next time,,, |
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#618 |
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Join Date: Oct 2010
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It's getting so so difficult to get any more new Pokemon. I only have 61 different types, there's another 90 out there but I'm struggling to find any.
Got Level 21 tonight
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#619 |
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It's getting so so difficult to get any more new Pokemon. I only have 61 different types, there's another 90 out there but I'm struggling to find any.
Got Level 21 tonight ![]() |
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#620 |
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Join Date: Nov 2007
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Via hatching I'll soon evolve Abra into Kadabra. 'Citin!
My sister's hippy beardie eco housing area in south London is a gym. I've just taken it over (poor the Exeggutor guarding it, I have plenty of bug types). |
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It's getting so so difficult to get any more new Pokemon. I only have 61 different types, there's another 90 out there but I'm struggling to find any.
Got Level 21 tonight ![]() I'm on 79 caught & seen now, and have enough candy to make that 80. I'm level 21 too 😄 |
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#622 |
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Join Date: Mar 2008
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I saw a Voltorb/Electro yesterday and before I could catch it it turned into a Pidgey
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#623 |
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Join Date: Sep 2015
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Um... actually there are 250 available now.
![]() ![]() No there aren't. In fact there isn't even the full 151 from Gen 1 available. No Ditto, no Articuno, no Zapdos, no Moltres, no Mewtwo and no Mew. Also no Tauros outside of America, no Kangaskhan outside Australia, no Mr Mime outside Europe and no Farfetch'd outside Asia unless you get extremely lucky with a 10k egg (they have extremely low hatch rates outside of their region too) |
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#624 |
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Um... actually there are 250 available now.
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#625 |
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Omanyte was the 3rd Pokemon i ever found, right next to a creek. It was such a fluke and i've never seen another since.
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Also evolved my Gastley to a Haunter, caught a second Dratini, and caught a 350 CP Nidoran.



Immediately after Dratini hatched a Seaking appeared in front of me too so that was doubly great as it meant a new Pokémon for the Pokédex. 