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  1. Yanks711

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    Both of the Snorlax's I've caught have been below 50% IV, but one has Earthquake as an attack :idk:
     
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  2. stangd

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    My snorlax is 95% and he's a beast . I only have him at 2660 right now... but he has a ton of room to grow. I need more candies lol
     
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  3. Sir Phobos

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    IV isn't nearly as important as moveset. The difference between 0% and 100% is 10% at the end of the day and that gap obviously shrinks significantly as you go up meaning a 100 IV Dragonite will just barely edge out a 60 IV Dragonite in a mirror matchup (and the lower one can win as a defender with some movesets). a 50 IV Exeggutor with Zen Headbutt/Solar Beam (best attacking moveset) is far superior to a 100 IV with Confusion/Psychic as an attacker (although that's its best defending moveset).

    my general theory is to accept IVs above 80 IF they're pokemon I don't have trouble catching or hatching. if they're more rare or only seen in a 10k egg then I start loosening up my IV requirements. I've got a couple 50 IV Snorlax around 1800CP with Lick/Hyper Beam and Zen Headbutt/Body Slam and I use those to attack and defend respectively and I've got a 1900CP Dragonite with DB/DC but only around 45 IV that I use as an attacker sometimes. right now I'm very close to being able to take a Dratini to Dragonite but the best IV I've caught is 71 so if I don't see or hatch a better one eventually I'm just going to roll with it because there will only be like a 3% difference between him and a perfect Dragonite and that's just not enough to matter.

    learning what movesets are good for attacking and defending are what matter. some pokemon have bad movesets period but very often you can end up with either a good attacker or defender and you want that. I've got 2 Exeggutor as listed above and I dump only the one in gyms and the other ever only attacks. don't always just look for your best attackers because those guys often aren't the best defenders and mean your gyms go down easier and it cripples your ability to attack as well.
     
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  4. 34

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    Did the charmarder/bulbasaur/squirtle event start at 3 pm? I see them all over my radar now
     
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  5. Sir Phobos

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  6. Rammer Jammer

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    Just evolved a charmander and weepinbell and am 3 candies away from evolving a Ponyta
     
  7. Jigga

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    Now a poliwag
     
  8. Karl Hungus

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    What's the event?
     
  9. Clown

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    Only problem is that the starters are hard as hell to catch so balls will be scarce.
     
  10. CUpigpen12

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    Woof
     
  11. Rammer Jammer

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    When does the incubator a day stop
     
  12. soulfly

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    Finally caught a Ditto and just snagged a 1780 Charizard. Nice.
     
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  13. Penor Boy

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    My 2 10k eggs hatched today.

    I'm level 24.

    Egg 1 was a 585 CP Elekid

    Egg 2 was a 664 CP Smoochum
     
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  14. Sir Phobos

    Sir Phobos Knight of Mars, Beater of Ass.
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    Today from 5PM-10PM:

    20 Squirtles (more than all I've caught up to level 25 now combined)
    21 Charmanders (hatched 2, caught 2 before this)
    10ish Bulbasaur (these are plentiful around me)
    2 Ivysaur
    2 Wartortle
    1 Blastoise (level 24 1550 CP, first one ever)
    Hatched Togepi
    Hatched Elekid
    Hatched Smoochum
    Evolved Cloyster
    Evolved Dewgong
    Evolved Charizard
    Evolved Alakazam
    Caught Aerodactyl

    If you're counting that's 9 new dex entries. I'm now missing just 11 non-regional plus Cleffa and Magby and Togepic.

    This event fucking owns. If you're remotely active this week you should absolutely fill out your first 9 entries on the pokedex.
     
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  15. Jigga

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    I hate you
     
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  16. soulfly

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    I keep hatching fucking pichus and cleffas :facepalm:
     
  17. Sir Phobos

    Sir Phobos Knight of Mars, Beater of Ass.
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    The 3rd, along with the eggs going back to normal. Starter event goes to the 8th.

    I've stuck to a pattern of Curved Great throws with regular balls if its <200 CP, Curved Great throws with Great balls for 200-450 CP and Razz+Great or Ultra for 450+ CP. I'm only 25 so I only saw a few over 450 CP. It chews up my Great balls more than anything but hey, why else did I save up 150 of them and 150 Ultra balls if not to use them?
     
  18. gritzy

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    in 2 hours:
    11 bulbasaurs
    6 charmanders
    10 squirtels
    1 wartortle
     
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  19. Rammer Jammer

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    Only lack a Charzard and Venusaur from the first 9
     
  20. Sir Phobos

    Sir Phobos Knight of Mars, Beater of Ass.
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    Just doing a few cleanups and decided to evolve the only good Bulbasaur I found (82 IV) and it turned into a Vine Whip/Solar Beam Venusaur so yay.

    be keen on trying to make one or two of those this event as they shit all over Vaporeon and Rhydon and will be great attackers for you. other charge moves are OK (Petal Blizzard then Sludge Bomb) but VW is the big requirement.
     
  21. Rammer Jammer

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    Ditto caught night made
     
  22. Celemo

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    Just started the download for this game to troll Meatball, I have no fucking idea what I'm doing
     
  23. stangd

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  24. Sir Phobos

    Sir Phobos Knight of Mars, Beater of Ass.
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    I'm probably around 30 caught of each starter. my goal, since I've got an easy work week, is to try and evolve 3 Vensaur, Blastoise, and Charizard. if it gets too close I'll do 2 of each and level them like crazy.
     
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  25. Celemo

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    Been playing for a day now, totally hooked. Caught a pikachu before Meatball did...he was fucking pissed
     
  26. Celemo

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    Lol just caught a Venusaur...Meatball is really fucking pissed lol
     
  27. Sir Phobos

    Sir Phobos Knight of Mars, Beater of Ass.
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    had to drive around for a couple hours to refill my Great Balls which went from 150 to 55 in 3 days. got it back up to 90 at least and I've rearranged my threshold for when to throw them because I picked up so many normal balls along the way I don't care about throwing 5-10 to catch a starter.

    oh yea and my Magikarp turned into a Ditto. :chatzy:
     
  28. Sir Phobos

    Sir Phobos Knight of Mars, Beater of Ass.
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    my dex is filling up nicely:

    Dugtrio (need 1 Diglett)
    Machamp (80 candy)
    Golem (70 candy, would be 50 if I'd stop evolving awesome Geodudes I hatch)
    Magneton (30 candy)
    Muk (47 candy, sigh)
    Hitmonchan (cmon 10k egg)
    Rhydon (need 1 Rhyhorn)
    Chansey (cmon 10k egg)
    Porygon (cmon 5k egg)
    Omastar (need 20 candy)

    e: also Cleffa, Magby, and Togetic (30 candy)

    5 of those I will probably knock off very soon with nests/hatching but the Machamp, Muk, Hitmonchan, Chansey, and Porygon are probably going to take till the summer unless I get a nest.
     
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  29. Rammer Jammer

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  30. Sir Phobos

    Sir Phobos Knight of Mars, Beater of Ass.
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    I've picked up like 40k XP and 50k stardust since the starter event went live 3 days ago, I just now noticed. I'm playing so much and hatching so many eggs along the way, I'm already almost halfway through 25 and I hit that like 10 or so days ago.
     
  31. soulfly

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    Weather has been miserable for most of this event :feelsbadman:
     
  32. Sir Phobos

    Sir Phobos Knight of Mars, Beater of Ass.
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    fun tip I just read about for Samsung users: you can install SideSync on your PC and phone and monitor the game entirely from your PC. this isn't spoofing or anything, it's just a relay from your phone to your PC using USB or WiFi so you can keep Go open all the time and not only enjoy a little bit of that sweet GPS drift for your eggs but if your home is at all a spawn spot (I've got 5 spots around and inside my house) you can monitor stuff and just check up on it when you hear that spawn sound. you can also flat out play the game from your phone but just from an early glance I'd advise against that since throwing curve balls with the mouse seems like it'll be annoying.
     
  33. Karl Hungus

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    finally got to 400 magikarp candies for first time since game launched. "battle with the best of them" gyarados with bite/hydro pump. pretty happy.
     
  34. Penor Boy

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    What does it mean your progress will be lost when trying to switch buddies? My Arcanine can't be leveled any higher.
     
  35. Wicket

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    your progress towards one extra candy
     
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  36. MA

    MA Surprisingly normal looking
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    Still have never seen a Snorlax, but I did hatch this tonight.
     
  37. Jigga

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    Been randomly catching squirtles and charmanders. Hatched another poliwag and ekans today. Fuck my eggs
     
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  38. slhorn

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    My eggs have psyducks and bellsprouts...
     
  39. Sir Phobos

    Sir Phobos Knight of Mars, Beater of Ass.
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    hatched a 2nd Togepi, 15 candy to go on that.
     
  40. Yanks711

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    was at the St Louis airport today and there had to have been like 25 Bulbasaurs in there, along with a few Squirtles and a Wartortle
     
  41. Sir Phobos

    Sir Phobos Knight of Mars, Beater of Ass.
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    I'm guessing by the 8th I'll have made 4 Venusaur, 2 Charizard, and 3 Blastoise not counting the one I caught. Charmanders still don't show up as much as the others but frankly Charizard is really only good for attacking as he's a trash defender so fingers crossed for Wing Attack. I've got the best defensive moveset (Razor Leaf/Sludge Bomb) and best attacking moveset (Vine Whip/Solar Beam) Venusaurs already so the others I make will be icing on the cake although I need to actually catch 2 more Bulbasaur worth evolving first. The Blastoise I caught has the best defensive moveset (Water Gun/Flash Cannon) but mainly going to hope for attacking movesets for the 3 I evolve.

    also I'm going to be burnt out so bad by the end of this I can almost guarantee I'll just pull it out once a day to do the dailies and put it back. I am surprised how much stardust and xp I've been piling up, though, as I just clear out eggs and am constantly catching shit. I hope they do events at least every other month if not more frequently, it really entices me to play beyond what I'm doing now, which is mostly trying to fill my dex and prep for gen 2.
     
  42. Papa

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    Why are some moves good for defense and some good for attacking? Seems like the highest dps moves would be best for both. What am I missing?
     
  43. Sir Phobos

    Sir Phobos Knight of Mars, Beater of Ass.
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    there's a lot to it, mostly related to the meta game but not all.

    a quick example not related to the meta is Venusaur's Razor Leaf/Sludge Bomb defensive moveset which is Grass and Poison respectively. now Venusaur is a very good defender because while his DPS is slightly lower than it would be with Solar Beam or Petal Blizzard, it's not double typed which means when people bring out their Arcanine (the most popular Grass counter) Sludge Bomb isn't resisted by Arcanine like any of the Grass moves Venusaur has on it and does neutral damage which is more than you'd get with other Grass charge moves.

    relating to the meta your best example is Snorlax, whose best offensive moveset is Lick/Hyper Beam and best defensive set is Zen Headbutt/Hyper Beamer and the reasoning is simple: almost nothing anyone attacks a gym with resists Zen Headbutt, a Psychic move. Hyper Beam is a devastating charge move regardless so as an attacker you just pound away with Lick, a significantly quicker attack that does less DPS, so you can charge up HB and melt faces. on D you take the slower but beefier ZH that will virtually always do full damage and wait for the one HB you need to win.

    similar things happen for other pokemon like Exeggutor but again, it's all about the meta right now which heavily favors Psychic attacks. once gen 2 drops and more viable attackers arrive that are Psychic types the superior movesets may change.
     
  44. Yanks711

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    Are Tangela's worth a shit? Just caught an 1103 CP one with Solar Beam and like 85 HP
     
  45. Sir Phobos

    Sir Phobos Knight of Mars, Beater of Ass.
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    yea. SB Tangela's are like Venusaur Jr's, great for going at Vaporeons. good prestigers, too.
     
  46. Yanks711

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    yea that;s what it has move set wise, plus the decent HP...it's apparently under a 50% IV though because the eval is "may not be great" or something like that
     
  47. Sir Phobos

    Sir Phobos Knight of Mars, Beater of Ass.
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    it's probably a bit higher than you want for prestige purposes. I've got a couple 950 CP Tangela I keep around when I come across a really built up gym where the first pokemon is like a 2k Vaporeon.
     
  48. Karl Hungus

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    caught my last kabuto to 50 candy and promptly hit evolve since i was on my way to work, totally forgetting i had a legit one waiting to get evolved. my kabuto is double what my kabutops is CP wise. so dumb.
     
  49. Yanks711

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    is there a 10k egg event going on? I legit just got 4 in a row..got em all cooking right now
     
  50. Yanks711

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    also, caught a Blastoise and hatched a Geodude, Goldeen, Lapras, Togepi, and Elekid and am 1 Bulbasaur catch away from a Venesaur....been a solid day