Pokemon Go thread #4

Draft Guru

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Articuno Day (today, in 12 hours as I'm writing this for us North American folk) is going to be insane. Watched some clips from Asia, all gyms will have Articuno raids for a full 3 hours. Shiny chance is about 1 in 19. Where I'm at I think I'm capable of hitting at least 50 raids, if not more during the window. Gonna load up one car with 4 players and bounce from gym to gym.
 

HanSolo

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Got three shiny squirtles from community day. Best one was 14/10/9 so I evolved that one and another 15/15/14 with around 200 leftover candies. Rough part is both need roughly 142k Stardust to hit max CP. I took a long break from the game so I only have 140k. Feels bad man.
 

Draft Guru

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Articuno Day (today, in 12 hours as I'm writing this for us North American folk) is going to be insane. Watched some clips from Asia, all gyms will have Articuno raids for a full 3 hours. Shiny chance is about 1 in 19. Where I'm at I think I'm capable of hitting at least 50 raids, if not more during the window. Gonna load up one car with 4 players and bounce from gym to gym.

Ended up hitting 43 total raids (A 44th we pulled too far out of range and got booted as the raid started. Instead of circling back we kept moving to the next one and took the L). Caught 1 shiny (82%) and one 100% Articuno. One of the most fun days I've had playing this game.
 

dr robbie

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Ended up hitting 43 total raids (A 44th we pulled too far out of range and got booted as the raid started. Instead of circling back we kept moving to the next one and took the L). Caught 1 shiny (82%) and one 100% Articuno. One of the most fun days I've had playing this game.

Man, nicely done. We were able to hit 21 raids which I thought was impressive :P. Though we only have 25ish gyms in our town. I got a 96, 98, and 100% one, but not a shiny.
 
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HanSolo

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Walked back to my car after work in downtown Vegas. This was a nice surprise. Caught not hatched. I thought when I saw it the IVs would suck. This was as good as I could've hoped for. And better than any of my shiny Squirtles. I only need...300 more Swablu candies :cry:

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Retrocity

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I was able to get a 98% shiny Squirtle with sunglasses among 7 shiny Squirtle caught (1 other with sunglasses and 5 regular). It was my best shiny rate out of any community day and I took a bit of a break in the last half as well (and others caught more).

Did 17 Articuno raids and caught two 98%s and two shiny. I had aimed for 20 but got a little off pace between a raid and then part of the group split off to go to another town rather than follow the planned route.

If the reward for the next challenge are Zapdos raids followed by Moltres for the third, those raids could be even easier than the Articuno ones (since they were essentially T4 rather than T5). Smackdown Tyranitar just cruises through the birds.
 

Natey

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Man you're all lucky. There's like.. maybe 10 Pokestops in my town? Pretty barebones. Not exactly close together either, lol. And I worked this weekend, so I missed out on Articuno and Squirtle. I managed to catch 2 Squirtles on break, but neither Shiny nor with Sunglasses.
 

Duddy

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It's just insane the raids you guys get to be part of. There is basically no chance of getting one of the legenderies where I live. Had to get most of them in vienna or out of country. The game is nearly unplayable for people not living in a bigger city.
 

HanSolo

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Ten raids almost getting heat stroke and I have nothing to show for it but 4 non shiny Lugias with horrible IVs to add to the 6 I already had. Good fun. RIP raid passes.
 

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My friend code is 3540 3912 4036 if people still got spots on their friends list.
 

Draft Guru

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Is there any way to get an Absol not through raiding? Yet to see one in the wild

A month or so ago you were able to get one from a "Throw an Excellent Curveball" research task, but that was removed when they switched them up in July with the addition of Snorlax.

Right now only way to get one is thru Raids, yes. Same with Mawile.
 
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A month or so ago you were able to get one from a "Throw an Excellent Curveball" research task, but that was removed when they switched them up in July with the addition of Snorlax.

Right now only way to get one is thru Raids, yes. Same with Mawile.

Hmm. That's weird, I feel like I was able to get that task completed. Oh well.
 

Draft Guru

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45 Zapdos raids done today. 3 shiny. Nothing really good IV wise on the main account. My second account of course gets a 98% shiny
 

Hadoop

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Not sure how well this will work cross country but might as well test it

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My code is
1624 3172 6141

I'll look regularly here to add anyone I see posting their code.

Mine is
7384 2256 0334

Have to say this new feature is kind of cool. My username is jshdb23

Alolan Rattata is now available in the wild.

And my code is 7287 0319 3491.

Thanks. Added.

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Just started playing this again after a 3 week or so hiatus. My trainer code is 9233 9191 5510. Will try to add those of you who have published your trainer codes already. I have a lot of spots open so others feel free to add me as well.
 

HanSolo

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Community Day 1 went really well. 12 shiny eevees (only a couple usable) and right before I got a 10/15/15 Charizard in the wild.

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Brodeur

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Some of my friends are gonna be stuck at part 2 grinding candy to evolve an evolved grass type.

Ho-Oh is also back for the weekend (aka Regirock not bringing in the masses).
 

Draft Guru

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Seems to be only Ho-Oh too, which is awesome. I'm over Regirock and it was only a week or so. Already have a handful of shiny Ho-Oh but it's another opportunity to use my Smackdown Tyranitar squad. May even try and duo one with a buddy if we can get Partly Cloudy and no Solar Beam.
 

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