Pokémon Go

[Tanooki]

Explains why it never happens here. I get enough dark stuff between misdrevous and a few others from gen1/2 like 10-15% of the time. It's still mostly those lame ground types followed by grass and water. The rest are just a more or less 10% -> 0.1% chance if no chance at all in this area. The dynamic shift out in san diego and los angeles counties compared to here was nuts. Out there it had all the variety, not just some, which is a shame. It made the game feel a lot more fresh, approachable, fun, like you really could discover anything outside of the regional stuff.

[Michi]

Yeah, the big cities have a lot more different types roaming around. My trip to Colorado was great, cause it had a much better variety of stuff (minus grass, water and bug).

It'll be interesting to see what shows up when I go on vacation this year.

[ExedExes]

I'm looking forward to finally getting Charizard and possibly Typhlosion. Plus some more Ice types to take on the Dragonites would be great.

I evolved Meganium today. Razor Leaf/Petal Blizzard and just under 1000CP. I also got a better Hitmonlee from a Tyrogue, Rock Smash/Close Combat. I don't know if I mentioned the Hitmonchan I got from Tyrogue a couple weeks ago too. Counter/Ice Punch.

[Tanooki]

Meganium is like some grassy lawn ornament. I've got one, and it doesn't even as a wow style one max out all that well. It's more just like a living checkbox to get knocked out of the pokedex.

I'm not too familiar with ice types since that really didn't have much of a thing in the original run of the franchise. That said I have a few of them so far with ice attacks like blizzard on a tentacruel for one and a few others with stuff. Dragonite will elude me for a very very long time unless this event goes excellent and the area becomes some kind of dratini nest. The KM needed to walk that sucker off with me having 12 candies is bs.

If anyone cares I'm currently Lv29, best 3 pokemon are a 2618 Rhydon, 2387 Snorlax, and a 2316 Espeon. For my level my Charizard I like so much is stuck maxed at 2267.

Oh and that earlier comment, my granbull is 1964cp, 95%+ of the arc needs 5k/4candy Has Bite/Crunch - amazing, hp, wow if anyone was curious.

Currently aside from the candy stuck on the dragonair, I'm working on bellsprout candies. I got insanely lucky on one recently, ended up with a 95% arc and it's amazing, atk, wow which I've upped to a weepinbell already with 1191 cp and needs 5000/4 to upgrade. 36 candies to go on that evolution (I've done it before but I erased my amazing but meh CP decent one for this.)

[alienjesus]

Yeah, the big cities have a lot more different types roaming around. My trip to Colorado was great, cause it had a much better variety of stuff (minus grass, water and bug).

It'll be interesting to see what shows up when I go on vacation this year.

Living in the biggest city by far in the UK, I find the opposite. Whenever I go to visit my hometown or friends who live in smaller towns or cities, I find a much greater diversity amongst the pokemon available, and normally find one or two I've never found in London.

Full list of Fire and Ice types in gen 1&2 for people below. Some of these aren't ice type, but evolve into ice types. Seeing how Slugma wasn't rock type but was in the rock event, I've included them as they'll probably be about. The legendary pokemon and Delibird aren't available yet though, so they probably won't! I've put those in italics.

Fire:
Charmander (Fire)
Charmeleon (Fire)
Charizard (Fire/Flying)
Vulpix (Fire)
Ninetales (Fire)
Growlithe (Fire)
Arcanine (Fire)
Ponyta (Fire)
Rapidash (Fire)
Magmar (Fire)
Flareon (Fire)
Moltres (Fire/Flying)
Cyndaquil (Fire)
Quilava (Fire)
Typhlosion (Fire)
Houndour (Dark/Fire)
Houndoom (Dark/Fire)
Slugma (Fire)
Magcargo (Fire/Rock)
Magby (Fire)
Entei (Fire)

Ice:
Seel (Water)
Dewgong (Water/Ice)
Shellder (Water)
Cloyster (Water/Ice)
Jynx (Ice/Psychic)
Lapras (Ice/Water)
Articuno (Ice/Flying)
Sneasel (Dark/Ice)
Swinub (Ground/Ice)
Piloswine (Ground/Ice)
Delibird (Ice/Flying)
Smoochum (Ice/Psychic)

[ExedExes]

** ATTENTION **

Gyms will be closing this Monday, June 19 at a time to be determined (sometime during Niantic operating hours in San Francisco) for the long awaited overhaul, so get your bonuses while you can.

As for the event, great! I found a wild Charizard! I caught it then I was able to finally evolve my own (Air Slash/Dragon Claw, BOOOO) I also evolved a Piloswine (Ice Shard/Bulldoze, meh)

Me and my fellow Valoreans are hoping this gym overhaul won't be anything terribly different. It's gonna be a scramble to get our dominant area back, that's for sure.

[alienjesus]

Not seen a notable increase in ice types. If anything there are less Swinub, Sneasel, Shellder and Jynx than normal. Slightly more Seel though. That's fine, I didn't need any of those.

Plenty of fire types about here though. Found a ton of Growlithe, Vulpix and Ponyta and a good amoint of Charmander, none of which I needed. I've been harvesting Growlithe and Charmander though, as Charizard and Arcanine make up 2 of my top 6, and I have about 5 'wonder' Growlithes to evolve.

More importantly though for me, is that there are quite a few Houndour about and an absolute crapload of Cyndaquil. I've gone from 11 Cyndaquil candies to 99 (and a Quilava) in 2 days, so I only need 1 Cyndaquil more to get a Typhlosion. Only 1 more Houndour will get me Houndoom too, and then I'll have every fire type in the game.

It's been more lucrative than the Water and Grass events, where I didn't find a single one of the respective gen 2 starters.

[Tanooki]

I hope this gym update decimates the status quo so people can't just be squatters anymore and those who are new or just lower level can experience the full feature set of the game as it runs people off as it stands now. Perhaps tiered gyms for certain levels if need be.

Also happy to say I finally got a Jynx and a Lapras the other day, never seen them ever before period, and found 1 of the Jynx and 2 Lapras (one which was proud so I'm keeping that.) Got plenty of pigs, waiting to ride that and the houndour out for the best one to evolve. Charmander is more normal for a popup as is cyndaquil(which never was here like Houndour.) Evolved finally a cloyster as well and a slick one at that.

I really still wish they'd fix the broken gyms in this game so more can have access, but even more so the broken nature of pokemon not showing up in an area outside of continental region style stuff as it's garbage. Most people can not afford to be world or countrywide travelers, they have no trades at all, so you're basically going to have to cheat and hope you don't get caught, or get fed up and quit finding nothing new any further. I'm close to that point as it is.

[ExedExes]

At this point, I'd be happy to see the dodge bug in gyms fixed. We know nearly next to nothing about how these new features are going to play out, which is unusual knowing that events are usually leaked weeks in advance.

All we know are features that were data mined out of the code:

- needing a new type of berry to keep Pokémon in gyms, similar to an item to keep the equivalent of gyms in Ingress going

- possible one type of Pokémon species per gym only

- raids and more cooperative opportunities to participate in gyms

Get ready to power up all the Pokémon that are returning! There's Pokémon I have that I haven't seen since January!

[ExedExes]

Color me impressed. New details on gyms dropped today.

http://pokemongo.nianticlabs.com/en/post/raids

It looks like it's more in line with Ingress with the new "motivation" system and I'm really stoked for the RAIDS! All teams can participate in them regardless of who is currently holding the gym so I'm looking forward to seeing new people (and rivals). Plus a big reason to visit gyms often, even if your team isn't controlling them with the brand new badge system (and items from them now too!)

Not as bad or as scary as me and my local teammates were expecting. Good show. Way to make the game more exciting this summer.