There was a huge meet up in the city today so I decided to go. Surely was a cringe fest but oh well. I managed to get all three Gigantamax Pokemon, but it sure was tough. We needed at least 30 people every time and it required strategies if it wasn't 40 people. You also won't beat it if the majority is just people leeching with shitty Wooloo or Grookey.
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Can only read part of this article because of tge paywall, but it basically just reports what we already assumed: Niantic trying to force players back outside to harvest their sweet sweet location data. But wait! It's not (just) to sell to advertisers, they want to train a large "geospatial" model (a la large language models) on it. Which, of course they do, you can't be sitting on all that data in the year 2024 and not add a few tons of carbon to the atmosphere to run it through the AI machine.
https://www.404media.co/pokemon-go-players-have-unwittingly-trained-ai-to-navigate-the-world/
But we can now join remote raids with friends through the friends list without an invite, so I guess it balances out </s>
https://www.404media.co/pokemon-go-players-have-unwittingly-trained-ai-to-navigate-the-world/
But we can now join remote raids with friends through the friends list without an invite, so I guess it balances out </s>
I'm liking the latest new change which enables to join a raid that a friend is currently in the lobby for without requiring an invite. Too bad with this current event with origin palkia/dialga I have not yet gotten a single shiny, hundo nor one with signature moves, and now I am out of remote raid passes as I refuse to pay 195/525 coins for them even to this date but wait until there's a bargain sale for them permitting I have enough coins saved from defending gyms, etc...
Did the Wild Area event this weekend for a couple of hours both days, without a ticket - pretty lame, tbh, but I appreciated finally being able to do some Gigantamax raids since there were a lot of people present. It seemed dumb to do a Dynamax Toxtricity or a regular raid if I could get the Gigantamax versions. The Mighty Pokemon were more of a bonus than an attraction - none of the species were ones I was particularly desperate to get, so I largely wasn't fussed about getting them unless someone reported seeing a hundo on a scanner app. Actually managed to snag a surprising amount of them in Ultra Balls, and even one Electivire in a Great Ball.
Did catch a Galarian Moltres in a Safari Ball, though, so that's pretty cool. Collector's item.
Did catch a Galarian Moltres in a Safari Ball, though, so that's pretty cool. Collector's item.
I also did the wild event without a ticket and was disappointed with how unsuccessful I was with the Safari ball as a failed catch was enough to prevent finishing the task so that was a bummer. Among the few highlights were as follows:
- ability to evolve the likes of Venusaur, Pidgeot, Poliwrath, Gyarados & Feraligatr without an elite TM
- got an Origin Dialga with 15/14/14 and Roar of Time
- got a 0/15/15 Mareanne (sp?) which is top rank for GBL great league
With the fusion Necrosma returning to raids in several weeks I'll be saving any remote raid passes for those as I am still lacking the ability to fuse with my lone hundo.
- ability to evolve the likes of Venusaur, Pidgeot, Poliwrath, Gyarados & Feraligatr without an elite TM
- got an Origin Dialga with 15/14/14 and Roar of Time
- got a 0/15/15 Mareanne (sp?) which is top rank for GBL great league
With the fusion Necrosma returning to raids in several weeks I'll be saving any remote raid passes for those as I am still lacking the ability to fuse with my lone hundo.
to the surprise of probably no one, they did in fact just confirm that the unova tour shiny mythic is meloetta
Our plans for going to London for the EUIC are still active as we're seeking plane tickets first so we'll most likely be there. I hope we can meet if all works out as planning.
You & I are lucky, yes? (GoateeVGC/Greentyphlosion)
Happy to meet up and do a trade if I'm free and if you have time/availability.
Quentin & I have been going back & forth in the requests thread and can't get a straight answer because sources either make assumptions or lead to dead links: does anyone here have any of the cap pikachu who they would be willing to test if they can transfer to Home? Even better if one is shiny or a female.
& I mean commit to the transfer, not just "shows up but errors on transfer" like the G-Maxes do.
& I mean commit to the transfer, not just "shows up but errors on transfer" like the G-Maxes do.
Thank you!
If it's not too much trouble, could you provide an image? Just so there's a nice, definitive answer to go with this.
Bah! Thanks for testing that, looks like I'm officially out of luck.
The good news is my son was able to register for TCG, the bad news is I learned that Pokemon GO is sold out as I didn't expect to fill up as fast through the recent waves online. I plan to still go for the vacation aspect and at least get a spectator badge so I can get into the venue. We haven't looked into plane tickets yet.
To be fair I don't think they announced the free cosmog research for the Go Fest either. It surprised a lot of people. Perhaps it's the same here?
With Go Fest the confusion I more commonly encountered was people who did not know that there was both a Free Cosmog research and an additional Ticket-Paid Research for a fully evolved mon (usually they only knew the former since you had to finish it to get the latter), but I distinctly recall the Ticketed one at least was announced.
Current theory seems to be that it'll be the next step in the Seasonal Research, since those aren't often advance mentions.
That would explain why Rhi was a background character for this season
For the upcoming London EUIC I was at least able to get a spectator badge which allows me to get into the center for the event and participate in any side events. While we still haven't purchased our plane tickets yet, the best way to contact me is through X (goateeVGC) or Discord (goatee64).
For those following on X I had something incredible happen during Necrozma raiding, I got my first ever shundo for goateeVGC and was able to get enough lunar and solar energy so I can fuse both hundos so that was a thrill. Now at 269 xl candies and enough that can be traded if over 100 km I can max one of these. Lunar for the non-shiny with the special background caught in July, and the solar for the new shiny. I'm open to suggestions which I can max out first as I may end up doing the shiny since the solar version is ranked slightly higher in the master league GBL.
First, congrats on a Shundo, those are extremely rare (only have 2 myself playing since Launch).
If you're investing for the sake of Master League alongside raiding, the primary thing to watch for is 15 ATK and 15 DEF to avoid missing Breakpoints/Bulkpoints (can elaborate but essentially a stat threshold to cause moves to do 1 more/less damage), which the Hundo obviously hits but I want to ask about both.
Dusk Mane is currently better in Master League since a lot of Dragons are popular up there. Dawn Wings is good but a lot trickier to use as a result of several things with Dark/Ghost Coverage such as Yveltal, Crunch on Zygarde, and the rare Marshadow (runs Sucker Punch as its Fast move) that can really exploit it for energy. If you're trying to get your foot in the door with Mons that pull double duty as Raiders and ML mons, I suggest Dusk Mane Hundo first for a max-out target.
Raiding wise Dawn Wings will have more mons it can hit hard thanks to a lot of Psychic Legendaries (and Ghost but the 2x weakness makes that Boss-move dependent), but it's also a lot easier to find "budget" or alternatives of close-enough power for those fights like Shadow Tyranitar, Hydreigon, Shadow Weavile, and a decent few Megas, while Dusk Mane comes up less frequently (only a few Steel-Weak Legends like 2 of the Regis, Kyurem, Xerneas, Zacian) but is harder to replace in its role (next closest being Shadow Metagross w/ Meteor Mash, then a steep drop off to normal Metagross and Metal Claw/Iron Head Dialga).
So some other news, the McDonalds promotion in the US includes Raid spawns from 6-7PM at the sponsored Gyms, which for Monday and presumably the rest of this Week, are Kyurem spawns. If you have any overseas friends and want in on those to hunt ahead of Unova Tour or something, keep an eye on your "At Raid" friend list, since Kyurem's probably more appealing to many people than the Mega Latis (and is solo-possible/duo-easy).
Anyone have any idea what G-max might be coming up? Calendar doesn't have any revealed after the recent Lapras if I'm reading it correctly.
Orbeetle, iirc, was teased recently.