Pokemon Go

[Waldo]

I don't think I've hatched a Pokemon over CP 300 yet.  My top 3 are all over 1000, top 15 are all over 600.

[miss_marissa]

My strongest hatch was in the 600s (lapras from a 10k egg) which I then powered up to over 1000.

My strongest catch right about the same (pidgeot)

 

I have yet to do any evolves or power ups other than those so hard to say...

[Mike_d85]

I guess the radar is lying to me. 

I keep taking extra long walking home from work trying to find the Charmander and Meowth it keeps showing me and I can never pin down the locations.  Just in case on my way home I will have to check pokevision because that charmander seems to be there every night at the end of my commute.  I might open a Safari page on my iphone and refresh to see if it pops up.

 

Charmander is the only starter pokemon I don't have.  I hatched a Pikatchu this morning.  Pretty strong too, just under 300.  My squirtle is only 30.  I think my bulbasaur might be even lower.

[karinajean]

aw, you guys, you should ALWAYS battle a gym. I mean, even if it's levels above you and you don't  think you can beat it if you are attacking you will get to use 6 pokemon and you can take down stuff! plus if you're like me and totally rudimentary about pokemon then it helps understand who beats who. plus you've probably got dozens and dozens of revives and potions, might as well use them up too.

[Jonesy]

My strongest are evolved (2 eevees) but I caught the rest of the top 10. 

 

I caught a beedrill while sitting at my desk at work.  

[Marauder]

My highest 4 are all evolved, then captured, then evolved for most of the rest of the top 10.  I think my 10th position one was a capture.  My eggs stink so far as far as CP goes.  I've gotten some unique pokemon that way, but never very high powered.  I've only had one 10km egg though.  

[karinajean]

Guess who showed up at work today!!!

Sent from my iPhone while riding a unicorn through the cosmos.

[Jonesy]

Noob question, but what does the level of a gym mean?

[Marauder]

because Niantic explains it better than me...  from their site.

 

"A Gym’s level is determined by its prestige. As a Gym earns prestige, it increases in level. The higher a Gym’s level, the more Pokémon can be assigned to it, which makes it harder for rival Teams to capture. A Gym’s prestige increases when you assign a trained Pokémon to it, and also when teammates assign additional Pokémon."

 

when you are viewing the gym screen, you can see it's prestige...  like 4500/8000 in the top left (on iPhone anyway)

[Raincloak]

Gyms can have up to 8 Pokemon in them I believe.  Fight an allied gym to boost its Prestige (make more room), fight an enemy gym to lower its Prestige (kick out its Pokemon) and eventually empty it).  Use potions and revives to heal pokemon injured in fights.

 

When you assign a Pokemon to a gym, quickly open up Shop and tap the shield icon to get 10 free Pokecoins.  You can do this every 20 hours.  You can use Pokecoins to buy stuff like extra Pokeballs or a bigger storage bag.  If you assign Pokemon to multiple gyms you can get more coins, but leaving a gym unattended makes it pretty likely someone will come along and kick out your 'mons, at least around here...

 

Hand raised Pokemon are stronger than wild caught ones.  Every time I hatch an egg the Pokemon that pops out is at or near max CP for my trainer level.  Next best is raising a good level 1 caught in the wild with candy.  

 

Catching a wild level 2 or 3 Pokemon usually isn't worth the Pokeballs unless it's very rare, cause they're weak.  I just ignore the Golbats and Fearows that turn up around here unless I'm bored.  Though I did toss a berry and one red ball at a wild Poliwhirl just for fun, and it snuggled right into the ball.  Guess it really wanted to come home with me... if only higher level Pokemon came with more candy.  (I have plenty of Poliwags cause I live by the beach!)

[Shello]

2 minutes ago, Raincloak said:

 

When you assign a Pokemon to a gym, quickly open up Shop and tap the shield icon to get 10 free Pokecoins.  You can do this every 20 hours.  You can use Pokecoins to buy stuff like extra Pokeballs or a bigger storage bag.  If you assign Pokemon to multiple gyms you can get more coins, but leaving a gym unattended makes it pretty likely someone will come along and kick out your 'mons, at least around here...

 

Aha.  I wish I had known that last night.  I finally took my first gym yesterday. 

[dancezwithkittehz]

17 minutes ago, Raincloak said:

Catching a wild level 2 or 3 Pokemon usually isn't worth the Pokeballs unless it's very rare, cause they're weak.  I just ignore the Golbats and Fearows that turn up around here unless I'm bored.  Though I did toss a berry and one red ball at a wild Poliwhirl just for fun, and it snuggled right into the ball.  Guess it really wanted to come home with me... if only higher level Pokemon came with more candy.  (I have plenty of Poliwags cause I live by the beach!)

 

Jealous! I live by the beach and the only Poliwag I have is from an egg hatch and I've never seen one out and about! I think I need to check out the harbor and see how it is for water types. HMMMMM.

[Mike_d85]

I came up with an idea and I can't tell if I'm messing with my own success.  I got a slot in a gym and trained with my own pokemon.

 

Did I do anything for that pokemon by fighting him and losing by giving it gym wins?  I was thinking that might be a good way to build up a weaker pokemon (specifically my only fire type: Ponyta).

[Waldo]

1 hour ago, Raincloak said:

Every time I hatch an egg the Pokemon that pops out is at or near max CP for my trainer level.  Next best is raising a good level 1 caught in the wild with candy.

 

Huh, I haven't gotten that at all.

 

I get different Pokemon from eggs, but they are all weak.

 

This AM I hatched a 5 km egg and got a CP 195 Shellder.  The only time I've seen one.  Its nowhere near max CP for my level.  I got a mediocre Rattata from the last 10 km egg I hatched, total bummer.  

 

I got a CP 50 (ish) Magikarp from my last 2 km egg, rather meh, however it also came with 17 candy, which was a great score.

[raptron]

Weird that you got a Rattata from a 10k egg, all of my hatches have been consistent with these tables http://www.serebii.net/pokemongo/eggs.shtml , but I have heard rumors you can hatch lower pokemon from higher tier eggs... 

 

My two high CP hatches were from 10k eggs, Magmar and Pinser. I am also level 21 for context and hatched both these around level 18. 

 

 

[zeroh13]

5 hours ago, Waldo said:

Are y'all's strongest Pokemon from eggs, captured, or evolutions?

 

My top pokemon is a Lapras I got from a 10k egg. My second and third are high level eevees that I evolved. I don't know if they are ones that I originally caught or hatched though.

 

1 hour ago, Mike_d85 said:

I came up with an idea and I can't tell if I'm messing with my own success.  I got a slot in a gym and trained with my own pokemon.

 

Did I do anything for that pokemon by fighting him and losing by giving it gym wins?  I was thinking that might be a good way to build up a weaker pokemon (specifically my only fire type: Ponyta).

 

As far as I know, gyms don't level up your Pokemon. You can only make them stronger by using stardust or evolving. 

[Waldo]

10 minutes ago, raptron said:

Weird that you got a Rattata from a 10k egg, all of my hatches have been consistent with these tables http://www.serebii.net/pokemongo/eggs.shtml , but I have heard rumors you can hatch lower pokemon from higher tier eggs... 

 

My two high CP hatches were from 10k eggs, Magmar and Pinser. I am also level 21 for context and hatched both these around level 18. 

 

 

 

Ha, incidentally I happened to catch an 1142 Pinsir on my lunch break, my new #2 in CP.  I haven't caught a fighter since a 620 Kingler back at level 14 (a few minutes after that Kingler I also caught a 600-ish Pinsir), both of those were when hanging at a triple lured spot.

 

But.... Pinsir is kinda like Flareon, looks cool, has good CP, sucks at actual fighting.

[dancezwithkittehz]

2 hours ago, Waldo said:

 

Huh, I haven't gotten that at all.

 

I get different Pokemon from eggs, but they are all weak.

 

This AM I hatched a 5 km egg and got a CP 195 Shellder.  The only time I've seen one.  Its nowhere near max CP for my level.  I got a mediocre Rattata from the last 10 km egg I hatched, total bummer.  

 

I got a CP 50 (ish) Magikarp from my last 2 km egg, rather meh, however it also came with 17 candy, which was a great score.

 

Hmm!  As I get higher level I get better stuff from my eggs (but not max CP necessarily, usually mid to high range.) A rattata from a 10K egg is just mean! 

 

From my reading about on the Pokemon Go reddit, some people surmised that what you get from an egg is based on when you got the egg, not when you hatched it, so I suppose if you got the 10k egg earlier on and hatched it later you could get a sad lame Pokemon that way? I'm not 100% if that is actually correct or not though!

[Raincloak]

Went on a massive evolution binge today.  It was appalling how quickly my stash of stardust (over 200k, took me three weeks to save up) disappeared.  But I am now the proud owner of a dozen maxed out mons.  Including a few electric and ground types.  SO fun shredding gyms full of Vaporeons.  That's all anybody here seems to use for battles.

[Mike_d85]

3 hours ago, Raincloak said:

Went on a massive evolution binge today.  It was appalling how quickly my stash of stardust (over 200k, took me three weeks to save up) disappeared.  But I am now the proud owner of a dozen maxed out mons.  Including a few electric and ground types.  SO fun shredding gyms full of Vaporeons.  That's all anybody here seems to use for battles.

 

Everyone's got water types and Hypnos here.  I am trying to get my electric game up but I can't get anything with any candies with it.  The strongest I've managed is about 400 CP.

[Marauder]

18 hours ago, Mike_d85 said:

I came up with an idea and I can't tell if I'm messing with my own success.  I got a slot in a gym and trained with my own pokemon.

 

Did I do anything for that pokemon by fighting him and losing by giving it gym wins?  I was thinking that might be a good way to build up a weaker pokemon (specifically my only fire type: Ponyta).

 

After you battle your own team's gym, it will show prestige points added.  In my experience, if I'm in the gym, my battles result in 0 prestige points.  

[miss_marissa]

5 hours ago, Raincloak said:

Went on a massive evolution binge today.  It was appalling how quickly my stash of stardust (over 200k, took me three weeks to save up) disappeared.  But I am now the proud owner of a dozen maxed out mons.  Including a few electric and ground types.  SO fun shredding gyms full of Vaporeons.  That's all anybody here seems to use for battles.

Lots of vaporeons here too!!! I've been debating evolving my eevee into a jolteon just because there are SOOO many vaporeons.(and I don't have any electric pokemon yet) It seems it would be an easier battle to win.

[Raincloak]

Electrics are a bit scarce but I found a local utility station that spawns Magnemites and Voltorbs.  And there's always Jolteons.  I really want a Raichu but Pikachus are rare (did get a nice one from an egg but one isn't enough...)

[miss_marissa]

1 hour ago, RandMart said:

http://nerdist.com/pokemon-go-players-mistake-research-buoy-for-pokeball-take-it-home/

 

Way to go, pokefuckers

This is your fourth or fifth comment in this thread. None have them have been positive and all of them have been insulting.

 

Please take it elsewhere.

[DarK_RaideR]

16 hours ago, RandMart said:

http://nerdist.com/pokemon-go-players-mistake-research-buoy-for-pokeball-take-it-home/

 

Way to go, pokefuckers

15 hours ago, miss_marissa said:

This is your fourth or fifth comment in this thread. None have them have been positive and all of them have been insulting.

 

Please take it elsewhere.

I'm not one to bother with "language" and I'm certainly not fond of this whole Pokemon GO thing (although I've refrained from jumping on the Hatemobile) but a certain red line of respect and manners seems to have been crossed here. It's the support and positivety that makes NF a very special corner of the Internet and I'm sure we'd all like it to stay that way, so plese adhere to Wheaton's Law.