Some continued good luck, second shiny pumpkaboo (although I've caught so many pumps I deserve that), a few minutes later a shiny venomat, now venomoth, and hatched a salandit (according to mystic7 they're rare).
I'm now on the hunt for giovani, so a new legendary in bound soon.
Giovanni dispatched and shadow Heatran captured, much to my eldest daughter's pleasure!
I can't get to fight Gio again now can I? Until a new research task that gives a super rocket radar.... next season?
Is it worth stocking 3 standard radars in the mean time?
There are typically four Giovanni events per year. And yes, you can absolutely save up the Super Radars - my youngest does. I think he's got three at the moment, as all this year (or in the past year) Giovanni's just had Reggies. Shadow Heatran is much cooler.
I wouldn't bother with buying and stacking the normal radars. If you have any in your item bag then you don't get mysterious components from the grunts until they're gone. I tend to ignore the leaders until I've got an egg space, which works out reasonably well - by the time I've walked off a 12k egg I've beaten another six grunts anyway.
Got it, if Gio doesn't have a legendary then stock the srr for the next season but you can't stock normal radars and building them only takes a short while anyway. Makes sense.
I see dmax drilbur in some stops here, hopefully I can find plenty over the next 3 days and catch a couple of good ones to evolve. Not sure when Toxtricity arrives but we need to build the team to tackle it/him/her.
How you all getting on? I've evolved 2excadrill from good iv drilbur, boosted one to 24.5 and the other to 28. TMs used to get mud slap and scorching sands which apparently is the best move set. Today my m particles went on upping the dmax moves, the best is now level 2 strike and 1 spirit. I've plenty of candy and xl candy so as long as I hit the daily max particles collection limit every day I'll get that one to max and level 2, and the second to level 2 and 1 at least... and probably both up a little more boost on the basic cp/level..... also depending on doing enough pvp to get the dust.
Planning on doing go wild with the Crystal palace pogo for a bit on Saturday and possibly Sunday. Thursday and Friday will be about trying to ensure we start Saturday with as close to 1280 particles as possible, and 300 ready to claim, so 2 gmax battles are straightforward and third may be possible before we have to leave. I'll try to save our p coins for the next week too so we could buy m particles if we choose, although the daily collection limit increases to 1600 (4x300 + 3x120 +300= 1860 in practice i guess.... othercombinations are possible buti think it's always 1560 max, plus 300) for Saturday and Sunday so with good planning and keeping a very careful track of the order and amount collected and used, it should be possible to do 3 gmax battles Saturday and carry 740 ish into Sunday. Collection of another 1860 or close and we'd fit in another 3 gmax battles Sunday anyway. My 9yo is quite excited.
Forecast is for solid rain all weekend but my eldest and I are planning to do go wild for a couple of hours each day, with the Crystal palace pogo community ambassador. I've worked hard for a couple of weeks to prep for gmax toxtricity. 2 big hitters, strong excadrill one lvl 31 with max max quake and lvl2 spirit, one lvl 25 with lvl 2 guard and spirit, and the team is completed by a metagross. I know many at the event will have 3 lvl 40 ish excadrill but I've worked hard on that team and confident i could do no more, and confident they will contribute at least our fair share, if not plenty more. If that proves to be the case I won't feel guilty being carried on some Palkia and Dialga raids... if we can fit some in to the short time we are able to play each morning!
Hope the rest of you have time to play a bit and get something good....a mighty 'mon perhaps.
Good fun! had to dash early when my little girl started to get cold and hangry, but in 95 mins we got two gmax toxtricity (one shiny!) And one of each form, a mighty luxray (in an ultra ball), a Groudon, kyroge, dialga and a shiny palkia from raids! Very exciting.... we are still very new to 5 star raids. Did another kyroge but failed to catch it and failed to catch another palkia (phone getting wet in the rain, I switched it off to wipe it as ball throws were a struggle, and on opening the phone again it had booted me out the catch sequence, annoying but a great day overall.
We've come away with the check in research battle pass and max particles canister unused, will they be disappearing at 1815 or can I use them tomorrow? Hope so!
If you manage nothing more, play for the last hour tomorrow and by a couple of gyms you hold! I got out again with my younger daughter and every gym spin gave a team bonus bucket full of stuff and probably at least twice as many safari balls per hour as first thing. 5 or 6. The mighty mon spawn rate went nuts with 30 Ish mins to go and although we missed out on 2 or 3 pidgeot, a pair of vene-somethings and maybe more, we did get a lvl 37 tyrantrum and... .drum role..... a lvl 44 gyarados! Best catch of the day, and two girls keen to go out again tomorrow.
Nice one! Caught a couple of Toxicitries but that was it. Lost my only safari ball when it ****ted off a Golem's head. It wasn't a day for Pokéing here, so after getting cold I went home for a bath.
Well another 2 hours done with the eldest. Windy but thankfully dry and warmer than yesterday so we played a little longer. 5 more gmax toxtricity, another palkia, diagla and Groudon! Less luck with mighty mon, just 1 venosaur... but hope to do the last 30 mins so may get more. Only had one safari ball today but seemed to get more later in the day yesterday.
My girls will be working on arranging trades with their friends now we have some spare gmax and spare legs.
I best charge the phone again! Hmm, I wonder if I can solo a dmax tox with the particles I have left.... so long as it doesn't have power punch I reckon my excadrill team should give it a bettering, but my my, gmax with that move were more touch and go even with 30+ people. And the difference between an excadrill and the 2nd best counter (metagross) was huge too. We definitely pulled our weight and more today... numerous venosaur even popping up in the battles. Come on people, metagross, rillaboom then drilbur are all better counters!
Another couple of events done with the local meet up. Cold today! Gmax Lapras was HARD! I'd worked hard to prep a team to be proud of again though as had everyone else and set had the perfect 40 so down they went. Annoyingly the first became my first d/gmax failed catch, but got 2 decent ones after that. Mid week eldest and I did the venesection raid hour and got a few of those. Level 37 now and up to 613 mon with as lot of new ones about since the new season started.
Hoping the rumours of new cosmog research could be true...necrozma raid hour next week.
Oh and...I am very VERY VERY proud to announce, we solo'd falinks dmax. It took a dozen or more attempts, tweaking the team and strategy before success with 2 gmax and a dmax gengar. Then used the trial mushroom to do it again. Feel like my max team is quite something to be admired now, although it's got room for improvement still.
How's everyone doing? We hit level 38 this morning and I am currently mad grinding dmax ❄️ in preparation for the dmax Zapdos! To say I'm excited by dmax galarian birds would be an understatement. I also fear it will be incredibly hard, but the Crystal palace pogo group is well established and we are getting ourselves organised! Thankfully I'd been gripped by the challenge of soloing cryogonal weeks ago and had built the team to achieve it so I'm in a good position for articuno and to grind for zapdos already.... although finding 3 cryogonal everyday is about as hard as taking them down .... this is a challenge I enjoy though!
Anyone else got one yet? I did 3 in 3 tried yesterday. The prep went well. Feeling confident for 2 and 3 now. Still grinding ❄️ though.
Anybody else get a zapdos? I thought it harder than articuno but got 5 from about 9 attempts. It was a bit hectic so not entirely sure but I think one of those was as a group of 3 carrying someone being greedy and attacking with a zapdos! Still, I got what I wanted. Just moltres now but also gmax kingler on Saturday... not sure if I'll manage that as well, maybe, it would be nice to get a couple.
You play very differently from me. I have so little interest in the battling! Currently stuck on Level 43 because you have to do some ridiculous number of league battles and I so cannot be arsed.
I'm not that interested in the raids although my daughters are and it's the main way to get the legendary pokemon (although I've been very lucky with pvp emcounters netting me 10 since mod Nov) I do enjoy the d and gmax stuff though. Largely as it appeared when I was still at a very low level but as a new mechanic in the game I realised I could build a team almost as quickly as a lvl 40 to 50 trainer. So I've put effort into that. Other then the first round of gmax stuff I've got all the rest, and have become the defacto max mentor for the local group. It is a part of the game that needs a tiny bit more planning and the battles have much more tactics....I mean, it's still mindless tap tap, but the hard dmax need a team with tanks and attackers, and ideally roles across the group to super tank, attack or heal. So a bit more than raids.
Level 43 I see! Not far from 44 by xp. We reach BFs in 7 days.
BTW @misteralz I assume you know pvp is about the best way to farm dust? Just get one win per set then bin the other 4 matches for speed, repeat for your 6 sets each day.
I've been playing it for years, I've got millions of dust. ?
Sorted then.
How are people going? We are still enjoying it. My eldest (9yo girl) is obsessed and seems to know all the strengths and weaknesses, my middle one (7yo girl) has bored of it a bit but will still come out for an event for an hour or so, sometimes. My youngest (4yo boy) is similar.
1 year and 1 week since startup we will hit level 42 this weekend...except I'm waiting for comm day to catch a load more eevee before I do my last 4 eeveelutions. Naming trick making those easy.
Tbh I'm not that fussed on levels since hitting 40. I can build a mon as strong as anyone else now so....
Still very much enjoying max battles and have a strong squad of g and dmax. Do some raids if I can with the local meet up in Crystal palace park but they aren't really my thing....although Zamazenta and zacian will be very strong on max battles so I'll aim to do a few of those.
806 pokemon in the dex. A few i can get by evolution too. 8 platinum medals and getting close on a few more.
Also still ftp except, had 2 friends want shiny max mons id caught as guarantee lucky so they bought my deluxe track go pass last 2 months, and another is (for some reason) collecting as many urshifu as possible so he bought me the special research and will use a trinket to ensure its decent when transferred. That went rather well for me...my first kibfu was OK (708cp, 15 attack) but the second was a 98! That did however reset my urshifu evolution tasks as I'm now working 'futwo' .... I have a long way to go on that!
Oh and loving having lots of 'best friends' now as I've gone lucky with a couple. If was great to mirror trade a shiny gmax machamp (aka 'Hulk!') On a guaranteed lucky, and having gone lucky with a mate today we have decided to wait for go fest and the zacian and Zamazenta raids in the hope of something similar. It's nice knowing I don't need to catch a good one, although a shiny would be nice.
