Pokémon Go

[Tanooki]

I've never seen anything of a porygon before other than once a picture of one online in some gym I think.

I have a really slick pair of scythers though. I have a pretty solid Onix, just sucks their CP even up high on the arc is garbage so it just rots, maybe Steelix mades it less trashy. Other than that slowbro, onix and chancey - all the others pop up quite often here outside of the never seen porygon.

I popped open the game before bed last night and saw that update rolled out, very pleased with it. I'd probably go out of my way for something depending what it was.

Hopefully someday they make the walking in the game count like a pedometer and not just GPS as it's cold and getting damned colder. How many are going to walk around in 0F degree weather to go catch digital furballs is beyond me. I know I won't. I'll get on a treadmill though, it's exercise, which the game is trying to push with its setup as it is so it seems stupid to me.

[alienjesus]

I've never seen anything of a porygon before other than once a picture of one online in some gym I think.

I have a really slick pair of scythers though. I have a pretty solid Onix, just sucks their CP even up high on the arc is garbage so it just rots, maybe Steelix mades it less trashy. Other than that slowbro, onix and chancey - all the others pop up quite often here outside of the never seen porygon.

I popped open the game before bed last night and saw that update rolled out, very pleased with it. I'd probably go out of my way for something depending what it was.

Hopefully someday they make the walking in the game count like a pedometer and not just GPS as it's cold and getting damned colder. How many are going to walk around in 0F degree weather to go catch digital furballs is beyond me. I know I won't. I'll get on a treadmill though, it's exercise, which the game is trying to push with its setup as it is so it seems stupid to me.

Steelix should be a good bit better than Onix. Onix sucks in the actual games too - other than a big defence stat, the rest of it's stats are awful. Steelix has a decent attack and HP too, so it should get stats more similar to Golem or Rhydon after evolving.

[Tanooki]

Good to know. I have to admit after Red and Yellow I ignored the franchise for a long time until Pokemon Stadium, Puzzle League, and then the DS re-release of soulsilver but never got too terribly far in it.

That lot of GB/GBC games and GBC I got for my kid back around Labor Day or 4th of July (forget which) had Crystal in it. I put a new battery in it and despite the price tag it gets I've held onto it as it has been an interest to try it out.

[marurun]

So where is this more varied Pokémon selection we've supposed to have had for a while now? I am seeing more Mon, but they are still mostly Ratatta, Pidgey, Weedle, and Spearow. Getting tired of them.

[ExedExes]

I've seen it. Around where I am now, Exeggcute-s are VERY common, as much as the old Pidgey/Rattatas used to be. Today at the park I found Slowpoke and Rhyhorn, perfect for powering up my Rhydon a little more. The spawns have been getting more impressive.

The new tracker update isn't nearly as bad as I thought. The "Sightings" do appear when you're not near any Pokéstops, but the only drawback I saw so far is either it's one or the other, whereas I saw on earlier screenshots that it can support both the "Nearby" (Pokéstops) and Sightings (non-Pokéstops)

[Tanooki]

I like it, it works and isn't a random mess it was before.

The variety though maybe I'm off, but ever since they supposedly did some balancing stuff maybe a week ago now in a lead up to this latest update the variety went nearly into the toilet.

I had been seeing a lower variety of fire pokemon increased a bit and that's gone. The ghosts are back to nearly non-existent. Some of the other screwy things I had been seeing after the variety fix are basically gone. It's like that last update broken their random furball generator and got it back to the old way. I'm seeing a ton of pidgey, enough rats, worms, bugs, some stars and seahorses, and a few plants and the usual healthy supply of eevee.

A 2km egg busted with a tentacool today, got me enough to make a tentacruel. The one in it wasn't nearly as nice as the one I had with lower CP. I did that one and wow it ended up with acid and blizzard. Seemed like an odd combo but I know that ice attack is nasty.

[alienjesus]

I have mixed feelings on the tracker as a city dweller.

One the one hand, when something rare pops up on it, I can basically pinpoint where it is extremely accurately due to the abundance of pokéstops nearby.

On the other hand, due to there only being 9 spots in the tracker, and pokemon appearing multiple times on it, it tends to show me where I can find 9 pidgeys, rattatas and spearows and not the stuff I actually want.

Yesterday I found an Oddish, Abra and Porygon, all stuff I wanted, and none of them were on the tracker. They were all obviously very close, because I ran into them, but the game decided it was really important to let me know there was a Pidgey half a mile away instead.

[marurun]

You wanted that Pidgey, you know you did.

[Tanooki]

I've seen that around here, it's city but sort of getting towards rural. I've got 2 pokestops like a 5min walk from my home on each side, and another one a little farther off. They all range that finder so what I get is usually a mix of 2-4 from each stop depending what is what. I've see those dumb birds and rats, but it has thrown other things up too, yet oddly the non-overly common do get skipped which blows.

I'll be curious to see how it overreacts in the mall around here which has like a dozen stops inside.

[ExedExes]

I did that one and wow it ended up with acid and blizzard. Seemed like an odd combo but I know that ice attack is nasty.

Blizzard is the best ice attack offensively AND defensively, because you really need to know the dodge timing. Unlike all the other attacks, the damage is calculated AFTER the visual effect of the attack. So when you dodge it, you wait for your character to become a giant ice shard, THEN dodge. If I knew that while training against a Lapras last week, it would have saved me a lot of time.