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[Pokemon Go] Remote Control
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Yep, it's still a thing! And if you haven't played in a while, holy crap, things have changed. You won't be catching Rattata endlessly anymore - the Pokemon available now rotate with each season, and there are plenty of events that keep things fresh. You can beat up Team Rocket grunts, and sometimes Giovanni. Raids now include Ultra Beasts and Mega Evolutions - and Niantic's changed up the system so you can use Mega Evolutions way more often. And you can transfer Pokemon into Pokemon Home for use in other games.
You can go as crazy complex as you'd like, but here's a few good resources:
Leek Duck will keep you update on events, what Pokemon are awarded from research, current Ditto disguises, and more. He's also got a Twitter account where he puts handy graphics on current things, but who knows how long Twitter will remain usable.
The Pokemon Go Gamepress site is a good place for news and analysis, especially if you want to dive into individual Pokemon to see how they stack up in PvE and PvP. (Thanks to the limited move pool, some Pokemon that are great in the main games aren't as good here, but by the same token some Pokemon are much better here.)
Silph Road is another great site for deep dives, including shiny rates, a nest atlas, raid strategies, and more.
Poke Genie is probably the best free companion app for Pokemon Go out there. Not only is it great for remote raiding (it keeps things fair whether there are tons of raiders in the queue or loads of open lobbies), plus it has an intuitive type effectiveness chart to help you make sense of the rock paper scissors lizard Spock system.
That's enough of my yammering. Go out there and huck balls at monsters!
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Not having the poison typing helps, but otherwise it's well below Mega Gengar. I mean, it's fine if you need a mega ghost and don't want to spend energy on Gengar, but yeah, not as good.
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This would explain why my gotcha randomly stopped working on Friday... I thought it was broken for a bit. I hope they fix this soon, but I'm assuming they aren't working on it over the weekend
Almost didn't go out tonight but I figured this was my last chance for Halloween stuff (tomorrow I'll be busy handing out candy)
Seemed to work out
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Mega Gyarados again?
Oh, sweet, but tomorrow's spotlight hour is the fancy Duskull, that's nice. Wish my gotcha was working.........
Yeah seems to be. They've done this the last couple months. Curious what the 27th event is.
Edit: Also curious what the elite raid will be. Would very much appreciate Zarude
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and yeah after getting my mew my will to play pogo is draining away
Shiny Yvetal though? Yeah, give me all the shiny Yvetal. And Steelix. Gold plated Steelix is super rad.
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Jesus...I know Bewear is an awesome pokemon but still.
It's kinda a pain if you missed his community day but they still spawn all over the damn place and are also in 2k eggs (I've noticed 2k eggs tend to be catch-alls for the obnoxious 400 candy evos). So it's not TOO bad. At least, it's better than the 400 required to evolve Noibat when it was a rare spawn from 10k eggs only :P I think I had maybe gotten 3 or 4 total before October (thank god for this event hatching them in 7ks + triple candy because it would have been ages otherwise)
But boo all the triple candy and stuff is gone now T_T I mean, it isn't technically gone for another hour for me, but I'm at work so it might as well be :P Miss it already. Can't believe this Saturday is already Dratini classic community day tho
Edit: Random thing after reading some comments on Silph Road a bit. I'd love it if Niantic expanded on what they did with this Halloween overworld theme and added a handful of different ones. Maybe even tailor it to the region you're in (so if there was one with snow you wouldn't typically see this, in say, Florida :P). They could even add a handful of biomes that change the look of the map, like say, a desert looking all sandy instead of full of grass :P
Also side note, I totally didn't register that Roselia were spawning as part of this event. I needs their XL candy really bad so woooo! Legit might say fuck it to a ghost mega tonight and just put up Venusaur or something (though maybe for spotlight hour it makes more sense to do ghost.. there isn't going to be too many other spawns)
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Spent ten bucks about two weeks ago on pokeballs but they go fast. Trying to make myself feel better about spending another tenner on this.
I usually spring for the 99 cent community day tickets since the rewards are good, otherwise I spend an average of $5 per month based on the need for incubators/remote raid passes.
Then again I'm in an area with abundant stops and reasonably competitive gyms, I've already caught/leveled all the released Pokemon, and I'm not that motivated by shinies.
I didn't used to spend much of anything but now I constantly need remote raid passes which are explicitly *not* available for free so maybe like $40-$80 a month or something, depending on how good the raids are. Occasionally I will buy boxes if they aren't like, a complete ripoff (so not often anymore) - I used to buy them more when they still had the good Adventure Box.
Also I usually buy the $1 research just because I really enjoy doing the special research tasks. That's honestly less about the rewards and more "it's fun to have a story to go along with this community day/whatever"
Edit: Side note, I really, really wish remote passes were still available for free (rip 1 coin box). No one in my community really local raids anymore except for special events (sometimes) so this is the only way to generally raid. I get Niantic wants us out and socializing and whatever but it's just not possible most of the time. Plus remote passes mean I get to find cool people from all over the world (even though I can't talk to them or anything it's still fun to get random invites from people on my friends list and see all their gifts). This game used to be really f2p friendly but it doesn't feel much that way anymore thanks to remote passes
And some of the Halloween gear.
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I feel like pokeballs are a waste. Slot expansions and remote raid passes are my only regular buys (and raid passes I generally do off gym coins), and if eggs didn't keep reverting to the same shit I didn't want six months ago I could see incubators.
When they do a good deal where a research pass is like half price to gift rather than buy sometimes my wife and I will trade them, but generally between us it's maybe $10 once in a while if we have a coupon code in the play store.
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I might occasionally spend actual money if I’m low on coins and I’m desperate to clear out some eggs or expand my stash, but those times are few and far between.
But I haven't bought anything.
Remote passes cost money so I've kind of been hesitant. Most of my best mons hover around 1300-1500 CP.
Honestly not sure where to start even.
4* raids might be doable. You could always login to Poke Genie and join some of those raids. Try a single remote raid pass.
You can start raiding right now! One-star raids are pretty soloable in that CP range, though it wouldn't hurt to keep an eye on typing (both with the Pokemon's overall type and the type for the Pokemon's attacks). I wouldn't attempt three-star raids solo until you have decent counter-type Pokemon that are at least level 29 (they cost at least 5,000 dust to power up).
Though if you're remote raiding, you can participate in all kinds of raids provided you have enough teammates at a high enough level. Three-stars shouldn't be a problem with at least one other person with fairly strong Pokemon, or 2-3 others at your same level. Five-star you potentially can, though you'll likely need five high-level friends with you, and some remote raiding apps are picky about the amount of damage you can contribute.
Only three star and the other five were all lv50 so we massacred that poor sableye.
So you don't get to keep your premier balls? Thats a shame, would make raid passes a good way to stockpile some balls.
Are you not near any Pokestops (... Spin the photo disk if you're not), or not opening gifts from your friends list?
There are a couple of pokestops in town on the way to and back from work but not a lot, theres one right next to where I work which is nice (literally the next store over) but when I'm on the clock, I can't whip out my phone to spin it too often outside of my lunch break. I'd have to go out of my way to get some of them but not really interested in doing that just for GO.
Also, this will sound harsh, but if you don't have enough poke balls for regular play, then I'd advise to just stop playing. This game has never catered to rural players (except possibly during the period where we had full pandemic bonuses) and never will.
So you do get the weekly bonus pokeballs from walking 5k+, but that's minimal
Otherwise I'd advise trying to find a Pokemon go group chat (or continue with pokegenie) to fill your friends list with 100+ people, just to open gifts and level.
But I think there's a cap of 20 gifts opened per day, so you may still stretch for pokeballs depending.
And raids/gyms/getting pokecoins for bag and Pokemon storage upgrades are always going to be a pain in rural areas, yeah.