Pokemon go

Been playing for a few weeks with my kids now. My 6yo is loving it and now we have some ground rules I’m really enjoying heading out and taking pikachu out for a walk. I’m purposely not getting too much into having any particular goals in the game – we’re currently just having fun just taking things on as we find them. I had a great time with him today strolling along a lovely autumnal lane while he chatted away about all the stuff he’s learned about Pokemon.

It’s a slippery slop if it catches hold,  but it’s great fun doing something with your kids where they can be better,  and know more than you.   My 9yo seems to have memorised an entire pokemon encyclopaedia that got bought!

Catch of the day here….shiny Halloween Gengar!  Like many shiny…. its identical to the normal bar the background  … but shiny is rare so it’s special.  Caught from a daily research challenge (win a raid).

Last night got better!  Go battle league gave me a Lugia encounter!  1 legendary 5 star raids boss now in the ‘dex! 2 happy kids when shown this morning.

How’s everyone getting on?  I’m exactly half way to levelling up to 36, 547 ‘mon in the dex and about 8 new ones ready to evolve. With 24 friends to level up the xp is zooming along.

I’ve discovered poke genie as a decent app to help pick out counters/battle parties.  These are getting much easier now I’ve several level 33 to 37 mon.

I happened to get off tnt bus home about 5 minutes before the lugia raid event at Crystal Palace park so joined but only for one raid as I hadn’t much time.   It’s easy when you are in a big party.   However my lugia burst out all 12 balls.   Oh well.

I’ve managed to evolve myself a dmax metagross at last and am half way to evolving a second.  Still waiting on falinks to show up again to see of my level 35 and 36 gmax gengar can take it down.

Ah yes, I’ve also got my head around tanking, as a way to get stardust. Still never enough.

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 (4×300 + 3×120 +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.