Pokemon go thread #3

[AfroThunder396]

EX Raids (Mewtwo) will start field testing next week as well. They're probably going to introduce them to high level players first and then slowly ease the restrictions like they did with raids originally.

Did a Lugia raid with my friend who didn't have one yet. Told her I would catch the Lugia for her. Mine was 2002 (trash). Hers was 2050 (96%). I've caught 28 Lugias and the highest was 2039 (91%). Of course, she handed me the phone and I caught it on her account....I am a little upset.

 

[Draft Guru]

Bring on the beasts. My Rhydon army awaits you, Raikou.

 

[Retrocity]

EX Raids (Mewtwo) will start field testing next week as well. They're probably going to introduce them to high level players first and then slowly ease the restrictions like they did with raids originally.

Did a Lugia raid with my friend who didn't have one yet. Told her I would catch the Lugia for her. Mine was 2002 (trash). Hers was 2050 (96%). I've caught 28 Lugias and the highest was 2039 (91%). Of course, she handed me the phone and I caught it on her account....I am a little upset.

RNG lol.

 

[Afino]

glad they're giving a one month window with one Johto beast, definitely a "play at your pace" thing.

 

[Brodeur]

Fun last day. 2/2 on nearby Moltres/Lugia to hit my revised goal of (at least) six of each of the birds. I was looking forward to taking a break this weekend.

Then a Raikou spawned. Logical side of me knew I had a month to grab it, but I went there anyways. Got down to the last ball. Niantic supposedly had fixed the last ball glitch, but I was still skeptical. I used a normal razz instead of golden....and bingo!

I should have been done for the night, but I knew my friend needed a Moltres. There was one nearby and I eventually pestered her enough to do it. Gave some random person at the Raikou raid a lift to Moltres as well.

We were about to go in, but I had to get another raid pass. At the Raikou raid I leveled up to 30, so I had to discard 87 items. When I finally did that, there was like 10 minutes left on the raid so we decided to go in despite there only being 5 people. I figured it would be futile and was mildly bitter about dumping all the items.

As we were waiting for the 120 second countdown, another car hastily parked and the dude had four devices. Another random person showed up, so we comfortably beat Moltres with 10.

My friend caught it and there was much rejoicing. [/coolstorybro]

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

Is what I read online true about all the dogs having substantially lower CPs than the four birds did?

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

Is what I read online true about all the dogs having substantially lower CPs than the four birds did?

Max CP for the dogs is actually close to the birds.

Raikou 1913, Entei 1930, and Suicune 1613. So other than Suicune, they have higher max CPs than their bird counterparts.

 

[Brodeur]

The birds are still spawning........that makes my friend's last minute Moltres catch for her Pokedex a little less fun. Hopefully I can help another friend get an Articuno today. Friend's son needs a Moltres as well; She told me that there's been tears involved with previous attempts.

 

[TheBluePenguin]

Finally caught a Moltres on my 11th kill, so far at work have not seen a single dog spawn in any of the 8 gyms I can see from my desk, no birds either on their last day you would think maybe they would spawn even more frequent.

I will end this bird phase with
2 Lugs
2 Arc
3 Zap
1 Molt

in about 30 kills I do not miss many throws I just have had some bad luck,

 

[Retrocity]

Lots of birds still spawning. I think only one Raikou so far in the areas I've been monitoring and couldn't make it over.

On one hand you have the people who still haven't caught the birds or want more excited, but the rest don't want to use their passes on them.

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

Finally caught a Moltres on my 11th kill, so far at work have not seen a single dog spawn in any of the 8 gyms I can see from my desk, no birds either on their last day you would think maybe they would spawn even more frequent.

I will end this bird phase with
2 Lugs
2 Arc
3 Zap
1 Molt

in about 30 kills I do not miss many throws I just have had some bad luck,

I'm going to end with:

5 Lugia's/28
3 Articuno's/20
8 Zapdos'/12
3 Moltres'/8

I was 0 for 15 on Articuno and 0 for 20 for Lugia until I caught my first ones. It was just pure luck with these things.

 

[Brodeur]

Started off slow before I got the timing down.

Articuno: 7/13 (started 1/5)
Lugia: 6/22 (started 1/8)
Moltres: 8/21 (started 1/8)
Zapdos: 6/7

Initial goal was one of each, then three of each, then six of each. Added a couple extra Articuno/Moltres yesterday trying to help friends get it.

Best Articuno/Lugia are ~96%, Zapdos 93%, Moltres 91%. For some reason I have some really bad IV Moltreses.

Today might be my first non-raiding day in a long while. Had to fight the compulsion to do a Raikou this morning.

 

[Afino]

1/1 Raikou, 91% IV. Nice to get that out of the way.

 

[AfroThunder396]

2/2 Raikou so far, 84% was the best.

As for birds:

Articuno 11/26 (98%)
Zapdos 23/41 (96%)
Moltres 17/30 (93%)
Lugia 28/52 (91%)

 

[Draft Guru]

Started the day 4/4 on Raikou on my account, went 1/1 for my girlfriend, and 1/1 catching one for a 5 year old whose father asked me to help him. He was so excited when I snagged it on the second ball. Apparently was his first legendary. Pretty cool moment.

Think I finished the day with 6 out of 9 for myself, highest being 1890. Found him really easy to hit Great and Excellent curves. Basically the same short distance throw as Tyranitar. Get the circle small, wait for the bite, spin and throw before he resets.

Heading into Central Park in NYC tomorrow for the crazy magikarp nest that is there right now. Hoping to get my first shiny. I'm sure we'll do some raids throughout the day too. Should be a fun day of XP and stardust farming.

Can't believe the birds are still here, again. Second time they were supposed to be gone and Niantic has left them. Just want to see them go already.

 

[GabeTravels]

Got my Raikou on the first go today. Very nice to get it out of the way.

Took it down with 7 by the way, could likely do 6.

I leave for the Philippines in 10 days, and I'm there until the beginning of October. Hopefully I can catch a Suicune early. And Corsola spawns there too. (Though the Philippines is weird...there's no Farfetch'd spawns in the country for some reason.)

 

[Retrocity]

1/2 on Raikou. First one wasn't very good and ran. Caught my 2nd at 1892 CP, 91%. Did the first raid with 6, and ran into a 2nd group at the other, so it went down easily.

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

0/4 on Raikou today. At least it's a lot of XP and items I guess?

Thankfully I have all month to catch one.

 

[SubyDubyTML]

Went 2/3 on Entei today. The one that got away was a 96% IV.

 

[mouser]

2/3 on Raikou, including a 15/13/13 91% one.

 

[AfroThunder396]

Got a 14/15/14 96% Raikou. Would have liked to have gotten a max attack but I think I'll take it easy for the rest of the month.

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

My best Raikou so far is 14/15/12. Wouldn't mind a stronger one, but Suicune is the only one I really care about for the dogs.

 

[Brodeur]

Started the day 4/4 on Raikou on my account, went 1/1 for my girlfriend, and 1/1 catching one for a 5 year old whose father asked me to help him. He was so excited when I snagged it on the second ball. Apparently was his first legendary. Pretty cool moment.

Nice!

Niece/nephew were in town for a bit for the long weekend, so I took them for their first raid. Nephew managed to snag Raikou on his first throw. Niece got it with a pinap berry of all things. And naturally Raikou ran from me.

My friends' son was missing a Moltres, so I was trying to coordinate with his mom who had been driving him all around. She had told me that tears had been involved with previous unsuccessful Moltres attempts.

On the last day(s) for the birds, the mom was working so I tried to contact his dad to take him out for one final try. The dad was aware that his son was missing Moltres, but declared that he himself didn't care about Pokemon so he didn't want to take any effort to help his kid out. That was a little disappointing.

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

Anyone else having GPS issues today, or is it just me?

 

[The Head Crusher]

Anyone else having GPS issues today, or is it just me?

I had some while trying to take a gym, but it was down in a river valley and notorious for bad cell reception so I didn't think anything of it.