Pokemon GO! (2016)

Got a Charmander at lunch from a 2k egg. Sorted. I went out round work campus chasing a bloody pikachu but the swine couldn't be found.
I wish they made tracking a bit easier!
 
Yeah another bad point for me was when I saw someone roaming around the USA with GPS spoof catching a dragonite.
Obviously with pokevision this was easy.

The gyms will be unbeatable for anyone starting not.

I've never understood the desire to cheat/bot.
It's supposed to be a game. I never can understand what satisfaction a person gets from using bots?

Open question.. Those who use bots.. Doesn't it take any achievement out of the equation? And therefore why player?
 
Easy question.

Am I right in thinking that when fighting, it is the attack type that benefits from the attack bonus (1.2x) as opposed from the pokemon type?

So a Hypno attacking a Hypno with psychic attack won't do much damage but will do more damage with a ghost attack?
 
413x said:
Open question.. Those who use bots.. Doesn't it take any achievement out of the equation? And therefore why player?
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I don't particularly see the achievement in randomly bumping into a high CP/rare Pokemon... If it took some kind of skill to find them, maybe.

I bot'd overnight two nights ago, but only really because I'm done with the game. If I got banned, I really wouldn't be bothered, but it was nice to be able to evolve a load of stuff I'd previously caught.
 
DB_SamX said:
Easy question.

Am I right in thinking that when fighting, it is the attack type that benefits from the attack bonus (1.2x) as opposed from the pokemon type?

So a Hypno attacking a Hypno with psychic attack won't do much damage but will do more damage with a ghost attack?
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Yeah attack type.
 
Woop. What was a mundane lunchtime walk catching the usual crud paid off as my 10km egg hatched a 570CP eevee, which I subsequently evolved into a jolteon intentionally. It was IV-rated at 44-82. I powered it up and it ended up at 82%, which I am very pleased with. It also has the highest DPS attack moves. :D

I can now challenge the gyms with water pokemons!! In fact, I stuggled to take down one before I went on my walk, because I only had a 500cp electabuzz as my best electric pokemon to date.
 
TS7 said:
Does the tracker at the bottom right work? If always seems to be inaccurate for me.
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I wouldn't be surprised if it is still bugged.


Well, I caught 3 Weedles and a Venonat this lunchtime! 40Cp Weedle broke out 4 times!

Boosted a local gym up a level and placed my Pokemon in it. So that's my achievement for the day.
 
AndyCr15 said:
I don't particularly see the achievement in randomly bumping into a high CP/rare Pokemon... If it took some kind of skill to find them, maybe.

I bot'd overnight two nights ago, but only really because I'm done with the game. If I got banned, I really wouldn't be bothered, but it was nice to be able to evolve a load of stuff I'd previously caught.
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I had a quick glance at that bot stuff, it seems to suggest you have to put in your account details. What's to stop them ripping off your account?

I have no intent to not because why even bother there's no end game so you are literally removing any point to the game by botting but I cud the whole thing a little confusing.
 
DB_SamX said:
Woop. What was a mundane lunchtime walk catching the usual crud paid off as my 10km egg hatched a 570CP eevee, which I subsequently evolved into a jolteon intentionally. It was IV-rated at 44-82. I powered it up and it ended up at 82%, which I am very pleased with. It also has the highest DPS attack moves. :D

I can now challenge the gyms with water pokemons!! In fact, I stuggled to take down one before I went on my walk, because I only had a 500cp electabuzz as my best electric pokemon to date.
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How do you find the rating to be 82% and do you boost before evolving to find out or after?
 
Best way to catch is curveballs, since I've sorted my curveball out (it's a lot more horizontal than vertical on the throw) I've found catching and escape has gone down dramatically. Last night I caught 23 Pokemon and only had 5 of them requiring more than 1 ball and 2 escapes.
 
Quinnaay said:
How do you find the rating to be 82% and do you boost before evolving to find out or after?
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IV rating:
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In a nutshell, all pokemons of the same type/CP are not the same strength. SOme are better than others.

https://thesilphroad.com/research
SUmmary and online evaluator.

If you want to get into the details, google reddit IV spreadsheet. There is a spreasheet you can enter your pokemon's stats, and it will tell you how close to 100% (perfect) they are.

I have a handful above 90% but in their unevolved form. My fully evolved ones are 70-75%, which although not great, is what I am (currently) settling on, unless I catch/hatch better ones.

Bear in mind, IV's are not all that. A worse IV-rated pokemon with better/higher attack stats could be overall better than a higher IV-rated pokemon with worse attack stats (DPS).
https://pokemon.gameinfo.io/

Is there any chance a mod could sticky some of the links about IV's attacks, catch rates, etc i.e. all the stuff people ask every few days? How do we get about doing that?
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Strictly speaking, if your IV rating from the spreadsheet is vague e.g. 40-80%, you can boost it once or twice (should be enough) pre-evolving, which will refine the rating. That way you reduce risk of evolving a crud pokemon. Pokemons retain their IVs during evolution thankfully.

I took the gamble on mine, just evolved it without checking, because I was desperate for something exciting to happen i.e. new pokemon added to pokedex. That eevee was also the best of the three eevee's I had kept to date anyway, so chance of finding a better eevee is slim. I then boosted it a couple of times since evolving. It's sat around 1200CP atm.
 
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Quinnaay said:
So what's more important in a battle IV or CP am I better evolving my 70% eevee at 491cp or my 513 eevee at 60% as an example
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Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but I think it will be the 491CP eevee, because you cannot improve IV, but you can improve CP (to an extent) using dust+candy and depending on your trainer level. In your case, a mere 2000 dust + 2 eevee candy will probably bump the 491cp eevee to above 513, and the IV will still be 70%!

Moves also matter; you could evolve both, and then boost the one with the better attack.
 
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