Topic: A Comprehensive Pokémon Thread

[Inkling]

Meant to reply last night but I just passed out instead. You get coins from having pokemon at gyms. Any friendly gym with less than six pokemon, you can instantly put in one of your own. Otherwise you'll have to fight your way in. If you haven't been battling then you don't have much use for potions, but you will once you start. What's the strongest Pokémon you have so far? I can go find a FAQ when I'm not on my phone.

[Hydromancerx]

I have a 1157 CP Arcanine who is extra large 259.53kg. The next Strongest is just a 939 Sandslash, 910 Rapidash, 858 Xatu, 844 Granbull, 835 Primeape and 802 Vaporeon. Compared to the ones i see at the gyms these guys are weak.

[Inkling]

That may be about right for level 18, I forget. Battling at a gym with those won't get great results, but it doesn't matter for a friendly gym. I saw one with a mankey in the 500's today. Best way to learn is to try. And if you do get something in a gym, give it a berry before you go. Best to use the banana looking things, they're worthless for anything else. You know that you can get items from gyms now too, right? Have you leveled anything up yet?

[Hydromancerx]

So in my walking area I usually get the following Pokemon around unless there is some special event ...

Common
- Rattata
- Pidgey
- Ekans
- Sandshrew
- Paras
- Ponyta
- Sentret
- Murkrow
- Snubbull

Rare
- Nidorina
- Nidorino
- Venonat
- Mankey
- Abra
- Geodude
- Eevee
- Hoothoot
- Ledyba
- Natu
- Teddiursa
- Houndour
- Growlithe

Very Rare
- Pidgeotto
- Arbok
- Furret
- Poliwag
- Rhyhorn
- Ariados
- Sudowoodo
- Sunkern
- Ursaring
- Slugma

Besides catching all that i need and evolving the ones I need which Pokemon should I catch? I have been catching Rattata for the small Rattata achievement thing. And Pidgeys for evolving. Are there more common ones I should be catching? Also is there any point to catching dead end Pokemon like Sudowoodo or Murkrow?

Also last year when I tired it on my sisters phone there was a lot of Oddish around but I have never even seen one using my own account.

[Inkling]

Those achievements don't really do much except give you xp, and whatever enjoyment you get from getting a shiny digital medal.  I'll usually only go for common stuff if they're weak and I'm basically guaranteed stardust and candy for one pokeball.  Depends on how many balls you have to work with, really.  There will eventually be an evolution for Murkrow in later generations if you want to stock up on candy, but they're a real pain to catch so I usually leave them alone.

Gotta run so I'll go through that list later, but grab every eevee you can.  Its evolutions are some of the strongest in the game right now, especially vaporeon.  So here's a guide I found, may be overly simple but maybe it'll help?  I'll poke around there and on the Sylph Road in the related links section to see if I can find more helpful stuff.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/wiki/manual#wiki_main_map

EDIT:

Interesting, I've heard about there being different biomes for pokemon.  In my area I get more water, grass, and bugs.  You get more ground, rock, and fire.  Your common tier isn't going to be much use other than mass evolutions with a lucky egg, though a high level rapidash might not be terrible.  Grab any abra, geodude, eevee, teddiursa, gorwlithe, rhyhorn, and maybe houndour that you see.  Definitely grab any magikarp you see flopping around, Gyrados is a beast.  Otherwise, prioritize anything you haven't fully evolved or for things that will be powerful if leveled up.

[Great Distance]

Tired of Pokemon Go? There's a new game called Draconius Go, which is basically a Pokemon Go copycat, that actually includes some features that Pokemon Go has been missing. I think the greatest part is that it allows you to play in rural areas and forests, something that should have been integral to Pokemon Go in the first place.

[Inkling]

What other features does it have?

Also, update, gen 3 pokemen and weather changes coming soon.

https://pokemongolive.com/en/post/hoenn-pokemon

Also, Ultra Sun and Moon came out? Anybody play that?

[Krakow Sam]

Gonna wait for Radical Red and Bodacious Blue.

[Great Distance]

What other features does it have?

Also, update, gen 3 pokemen and weather changes coming soon.

https://pokemongolive.com/en/post/hoenn-pokemon

Also, Ultra Sun and Moon came out? Anybody play that?

Well, I almost got interested in Pokemon Go again with those weather changes. Then I realised there is an Extreme Weather warning all the time, which means less Pokemon spawns. A lot of people on reddit were complaining about the same thing. They gotta fix that.

Draconius Go also has Player vs Player and random encounters. Plus there is this alternate reality realm you can enter through a portal. You will find different creatures than normal in The Rift. The Rift also has The Mother of Dragons that can hatch some ancient eggs. And you know, the arenas and other buildings are scattered about pretty evenly, so that's pretty great if you don't live in a big city. Also in my opinion it is great to see something other than the same old Pokemon over and over again. I think many of the creature designs in Draconius Go are pretty neat.

[eropS]

I have an employee who is probably the number one Team Blue player in Seattle, with multiples of all released legendaries and apparently with many perfect iv Pokemon?


IDK I tune him out quite a bit since its 80% of what he talks about but hot damn, he is deep

[Inkling]

Discussing your pokemon with your employer. How absolutely horrifying.

I've only done one or two raid battles because it turns out that requires having a group of people.  I might be able to take the easiest level solo, but haven't had a chance to attempt that either.  I rarely stay at a gym long enough for a battle, just throw something in an already taken blue gym in passing if there's room.