Pokémon Go

[ExedExes]

Poison Jab & Megahorn is a good moveset. At least he's using his head! *boohiss*
(mine has Poison Jab/Drill Run)

My Jolteon with Thunder has done very well against Vaporeons, but the low HP does it no favor. It's more useful as a "softener" before it dies and then I gotta use a grass type like Exeggutor who is built with good HP to finish it off.

Now there's a bug going around that I experienced myself involving gyms controlled by Team Mystic -- you go and enter one and then your game crashes. It happened to me today and apparently I'm not the only one. Now before any of us say "It's a conspiracy headed up by Blanche for control of all the gyms in the Pokémon Go world!!!11!1!", while that might have been a keynote presentation at their recent symposium in Colorado *eyes Michi suspiciously*, this is also affecting members of Mystic equally as much as their rivals. I don't think it's terribly widespread yet, but something to watch out for.

[Michi]

My Seaking's got Peck and Megahorn. I thought it odd it didn't have a water attack. Now I know why

...Now before any of us say "It's a conspiracy headed up by Blanche for control of all the gyms in the Pokémon Go world!!!11!1!", while that might have been a keynote presentation at their recent symposium in Colorado *eyes Michi suspiciously*, this is also affecting members of Mystic equally as much as their rivals. I don't think it's terribly widespread yet, but something to watch out for.

"Yes, Team Leader. The bugs I planted are working properly. Yes....Yesssss...."



Seriously, though, this same thing has happened to me a couple of times. Both on Blue gyms and a couple of times when I tried to fight and Red and Yellow gym while I was killing time at the airports. I'd get to the stadium screen, the Pokemon would show up, "GO!" would flash out on the screen.....then the gym would boot me out and then freeze. After a couple attempts I just gave up trying to battle there and figured it was due to my internet connection *shrugs* Hopefully they get it fixed.

[Tanooki]

I had a gym freeze on me repeatedly until I gave up and walked away when I was in Indiana the other day where I got into that clefairy horde on the way out of town.

Also the wife was out earlier, did work to free up a spot in a gym for herself, some douche in the 30sec she took to HP repair her vaporeon took her spot -- she was pissed. I can't remember the last time she was this into some game other than picross awhile back. This is a person with no knowledge or interest in pokemon but loves to mess with it. Tends to ask me about what is strong/weak on things or what evolves and it's bringing back memories from the 90s when I cared a lot to know these things.

[ExedExes]

Also the wife was out earlier, did work to free up a spot in a gym for herself, some douche in the 30sec she took to HP repair her vaporeon took her spot -- she was pissed.

That's my biggest fear whenever I take over or get a new spot in a gym, the time it takes to heal the attacker that I also want to put in that gym. I find the former situation a lot tougher because of the higher visibility of a neutral gym. When you train it's not really too obvious unless someone notices a new smaller platform being placed underneath indicating that the gym increased a level, plus in training I'm always using weaker attackers to increase the prestige quicker, meaning I already have a bigger defender in mind to put in. I try to use an attacker that's different than the one that I want to put into a neutral gym, but that doesn't happen like that all the time. Everyone would love to see a sort of cooldown time for the person who rightfully claimed/trained the gym to get their Pokémon of choice in; let's see if Niantic listens. I'll never snipe any neutral gym I see.

[Tanooki]

Yeah kind of sleazy people can do that.

I don't gym fight/train much as I don't get a lot of reward out of it. Maybe I don't get it or do it wrong. You talk about going in with something weaker, but I do that I get stomped most the time. I tend to try and overpower whatever I hit, roll the damn thing using as few pokemon as possible given the line-up involved. Also not sure why or how I got that much candy, but last night before I went to bed I fired the game up to see if something was standing around outside (it happens rarely) and noticed that my growlithe had enough candy for an evolution -- got me an arcanine with 1575cp which was stunning, topped my vaporeon yet the appraisal isn't a bunch of WOWs either so I'm kind of mixed on it as I know it doesn't suck, but it's not perfect. 111 HP, Bite+Bulldoze, a strong pokemon, attack is strongest, it's got excellent stats, and is so tiny it almost was unnoticed. I guess it's in that 61-82% range of quality (B team level.) It's odd that it has no FIRE attack at all just Dark and Ground.

[ExedExes]

About going in with weaker Pokémon for training, I'll give a good example.

Yesterday I visited a Valor Gym at level 6 that had a 680CP Slowbro as the first Pokémon. No problem, I said! Being a water type, a Slowbro above 1000CP might give you the fits, but a 680 is easy to fight. But which one to train with? You could bring the Jolteon, but its low HP and my uncertaintly of the charge attack (usually powerful) that the Slowbro had. I had my Golduck at around 650 to use, and it has Hydro Pump, so how about Water vs. Water? Sure enough, it worked *great*. Water Gun is a fast attack and it also charges the meter fast, and this Slowbro had Ice Beam as the charge attack. A couple of dodges and successful Hydro Pumps later, 4 battles at 500 each (for being under the attacker's CP) and I was able to put my original Vaporeon at 3rd in the rotation in the new level 7 gym with minimal Potion use required. This gym was stacked with 3 Exeggutors right next to each other, and that's why I went with the Vaporeon, but I had a funny feeling that it wouldn't last long, because all someone has to do is get 3 or 4 good Fire types and maybe a bug or two (double super-effective against Grass/Psychic) and those Exeggutors would fall. I was right. About 3 hours later, Vaporeon got the boot.

What I was trying to say that even if you have a 599CP going up against a 600CP, you'll still get 500 prestige for the victory. It just has to be under the attacker, no matter if it's 1,2,10,50,100, etc. If you can manage to get one that has half of the attacker's CP (yours 250CP vs 500CP), it's 1000 prestige for victory. Most of my situations are better fought just getting 500 per fight, run away, repeat 4 times. My Golduck paired very well against that Slowbro.

As for that Arcanine, bad luck with the moveset. Bulldoze and no Fire attacks for STAB. However, CP is great, "excellent stats" means 13-14 on Attack, and if it got a "Strong Pokémon, you should be proud", it's at 66.7%-80.0% perfect, so it will be a good defender. According to the PG-DB, its best moveset is Fire Fang/Fire Blast. But I always take Arcanines in gyms seriously, so it would be a good intimidator.

[Tanooki]

Yup it's a 14~ level as you put it in the 80th percentile with a high set of defensive capability stats going for it with a solid attack, just crap as far as it's own class...weakness of fire and no offenses one would have with it. It's a screwball build that'll surprise the hell out of someone thinking a fire attack is coming. I'm keeping it, just not going to try and raise it as I'll see another some day. Right now I just wish that buddy system would pop up as I'd love nothing more to candy troll my dragonair and snorlax so I can really max those two out (and obviously evolve the one.)

I did find a few seel today that was new. Seems the park across the street from my kids school, the road between is a seel magnet. 4 of the things popped up just picking her up today and the wife said they were all over this morning too. Weid as there's no water in the area anywhere.

As far as training goes I had a feeling it was something as simple as that. Just beat on what you can until you're pitched out, and as long as whatever you take down is above you you get 500xp, and under then I think its 100xp. I don't have a problem with that, helpful to level up fast sure if you can find a chump somewhere.

[ExedExes]

Right, if you train with a Pokémon higher than the defender's CP, it's only 100 prestige. Great if you want to spend all day there and waste items, yet the "suggestion" always does just that, my 1200CP Vileplume or 1600CP Exeggutor, probably because I favorited them.

I see water Pokémon everywhere, even on dry land. Staryus, Krabbys, and even Goldeens are very common here. I need to see more Psyducks for candy, but I do have some 5km eggs coming soon, maybe I'll get one or two there. I was going to go out on another big adventure this weekend, but two of the parks I visited last month that I found lots of great and hard to find Pokémon with many water types being so close to the water are closed indefinitely due to the storm damage from last week. Maybe in October or November I can try those again. There still is one beach location I can make it out to as well as a new park with tons of Pokéstops, that will be on Saturday, with re-supply days to precede that of course.

[Tanooki]

Should be interesting, but I think that bit about water pokemon and rainy predicted weather days has a hand in that too.

I just don't get the distribution on some stuff. All this time I've only seen a Chancey once and the punk bolted, and a pikachu once too and got that one throwing a blue ball at it just to be sure I got it. I've yet to see a Ponyta but got one of those in an egg, and Psyduck is rolling around the seen just 3 times type thing, as is Charmander too. It confuses me how they setup what arrives whenever it does as it's so skewed. I don't mind the pidgey party going on, easy leveling up with the evolutions, same with the eeves fairly well too all things considered but I'd love some true variety. I've only seen the one Snorlax I have as well so I can't even candy that sucker better until the buddy system arrives which sucks...same with my dratini->dragonair I have now.

[ExedExes]

At least you have a Dratini. That's my elusive one so far. Yet everyone in the world seems to have one and they're always (Dragonite) in lots of gyms around here. I saw 2 Snorlax and caught both of them, I've seen shadows for Cubone, Haunter, and Victribell, don't have them yet. I still don't have Charmander, or many of the more notable ones yet. My Pokédex is at 89, so I still have 53 more to go. These places I aim to go to this weekend have been told of really good Pokémon in addition to plenty of gyms and stops nearby.