Pokemon Go

Megas are coming to Go.

Galarian Slowpoke and Isle of Armor outfits available now.

GO Fests this year will be completely digital.

Edited by tclittle on Jun 17th 2020 at 8:18:36 AM

Garlan Farfetch'd is in the wild now till tomorrow 6 AM.

Man the closest I have with good IV is an 87% and that was during the weather boost. Also what the hell, why doesn't Niantic want to evolve them?

It could be Executive Meddling from Game Freak maybe?

Edited by Steven on Jun 18th 2020 at 10:34:45 AM

Low-key hope they don't wait until they are adding Gen 8 to Go to add Sirfetch'd, because that's going to be a long time of G!Farfetch'd sitting there twiddling its thumbs in people's Pokémon storage.

It's just inconsistency that's bothering me, since you get Perrserker and Obstagoon already. Also apparently Farf is still appearing even on eggs?

Edited by Ookamikun on Jun 18th 2020 at 11:36:57 PM

Speaking of egg, they added Galarian forms from the event several days ago into the 7km eggs, which is good since I still don't have Galarian Darumaka yet. I only got the Unovan one during the event.....

And lol Galarian Farfetch'd available for only one day. Caught only 4 of them, all are male, I didn't find any female XD

Edited by ShiningStardust on Jun 18th 2020 at 8:54:29 AM

I managed to catch two Zekroms today, the first one being the very first Zekrom I ever caught in Pokémon GO.

The best part about catching the second Zekrom was that I had screwed up a throw, only for the next one to be an Excellent Throw that ended up catching the Zekrom.

It's usually the opposite for me. Land a bunch of curved Excellents in a row, it breaks out. Next ball is a bit off-target, so it just hits as a curved ball with no modified. Catch. RNG be fun.

My closest call for catching a legendary is still that time I scored a lucky catch on the very last Premier Ball during a Cobalion raid. I think that might be the only time I ever scored a lucky catch on a legendary.

On another subject, I'm still waiting for Battle League to open again. I just need to complete the "Battle 15 trainers" task to get the next set of Throwback Challenge Champion tasks. I really hope that the Genesect at the end ends up being a good one.

You can also battle friends and it'll count.

That's the one thing I miss since moving to Germany, having people to raid with. Since I barely know anywhere here and whenever I check out raids that launch near me for remote passing, nobody is ever around raiding.

Still at a grand old one out of 15 raids. I'm out of remote passes (and don't want to spend real money on them). I managed to get to a gym for a raid... and it was a Shuckle, which I couldn't manage to solo. I'll get there, but it's gonna take forever. People are starting to completely ignore social distancing though (while our numbers are still fairly bad), which makes me even less fond of hanging around a public area.

Even in busier areas, it seems super uncommon to actually find someone to raid with by random chance. Basically need to arrange with other people beforehand, one way or another.

I was lucky enough to catch a Galarian Weezing today.

I only have one more research task for my current set of research tasks in Throwback Challenge Champion: capture a dragon-type Pokemon. Hopefully a Zekrom raid will pop up soon and enough people can join...and hopefully the RNG doesn't screw me over.

Made it to rank 8 finally, and now I'm getting whittled by 2-3 sets. Scizor seems like it needs to stay on account of being able to get off good hits on fairies (who seem to be expecting x-scissor or night slash but never iron head), but I'm right dickered if I come up against someone with a pick 2 of swampert, venusaur, and any steel or fighting type. My second guy's an aggron which works as an anti fairy and giratina, and my third has been switching between gardevoir (plugs a fighting weakness, but am now vulnerable to poison and is bad against steel) or snorlax (exacerbates fighting and steel vulnerability).

I have no idea why people don't shield my charge move from Scizor when they have a fairy, though. Iron head tends to bring granbull and togekiss to nearly 0 health.

I also have no idea why people insist on fighting the match all the way through even when they're clearly losing and aren't going to win. I mean, when you're on your giratina and it's your last mon, and the other guy has an aggron that gives zero shits about anything you hit it with plus another mon at half health and there are no more shields, what's the point of continuing other than to just waste time or hope the other guy gets hit with a bad connection glitch?

Some have this strange code they follow where quitting is for pussies.

I know I've also stayed in against some unusual match ups to get a feel for how my remaining Mons perform against them.

Currently my team of snorlax, venusaur, and charizard leaves me at a state of hovering between 2-3 and 3-2 sets. I do think I'm getting more and more skillful players, though; when I lose battles, usually I can pinpoint the exact reason (usually wasted a shield or didn't shield when I should have expected a better attack or made a bad bet that they wouldn't shield my first charge move or improper switching). Rarely do I get to blame charge move tiebreaking bulllshit now.

So I fought a balloon Pikachu in a raid and I think the devs set its height a bit too high up. Because the camera is pulled back so far, it shows the boundaries of the skybox.

I like balloon Pikachu. Finally, a event mon that isn't just a hat.

Too bad they didn't make it Flying as second type.

Yeah, I was thinking that too. Instead it just has Fly as a charge move, I suppose to follow the theme of Surfing Pikachu.

I managed to catch two Ho-Ohs yesterday from raids, and today I hatched a Galarian Zigzagoon that I evolved into an Obstagoon.

Sorry for the double-post, but I just had a Team GO Rocket balloon spawn near my home. It's nice being able to do a Rocket fight without having to go outside.

Apparently Giovanni can also appear if you have the appropriate radar equipped. I wonder if that means we'll be seeing the return of the Team GO Rocket research tasks sometimes soon.

Oh I'm sure we will. I had two balloons spawn near me today, so I am thinking their spawns are based on if they hacked stops near you.