Oh hey I just noticed 7km eggs now include the Hisuian variants as well. I'd say that's a fair upgrade, especially in the short term and probably still keeps them useful for long enough that they'll juuuust start to get boring and then there'll be a new batch of regional variants to add.
e: Hot Take but 5km eggs should be starters and starters and their evos should be more rare in the wild. Doesn't always have to be all or the same starters, they can rotate over time, but I think that'd make them solid and reliable eggs
Wow, I can get stuff from last year too. I'm farmin the shit out of some of those 1* raids.
Edit: I wonder if any of the raids or eggs will have the CD shiny rate (like at least during those hours). I'm guessing no but it'd be really nice if they did :P Either way I am gonna get my god damn not shit Garchomp if it kills me :P (I also need to farm Roselia XLs so bad)
Hmm, also curious how the paid research is gonna work since there are so many different spawns.
I came here to remind people to prepare their eevees for sylveon but the announcement doesn't have 2021 cd moves (where previous December cds always went two years back). Niantic really going out of their way to defy expectations and anger the players.
Really weird to give us the mon but not the moves.
So either Niantic went back on this decisiion or the communication was just terrible, but the event details now specify that you can evolve into the 2021 CD moves.
That means Sylveon! And that is quite good and cheap for PvP (Ultra and master league), so I'd advise people to prepare their eevees now!(you need to get 70 buddy hearts)
Defeat 3 team leaders!? The hot air balloons aren't showing for me for some reason. These special research tasks are permanent right?
Special research is permanent and not timed. Balloons show up every 4 hours. They have Giovanni if you have a super radar active, a team leader if you have a normal radar active or just a regular grunt otherwise.
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That's all true, however, this research wants you to battle Team Leaders, not Team GO Rocket Leaders, so it means the team mystic and etc. leaders.
You can battle these at any time by scrolling down to the bottom of the Battle menu.
The new inventory is amazing, props to MNC Dover's wife if she had any hand in that. At long last the Star Piece is sorted with the Lucky Eggs and Incense.
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Warlock82Never pet a burning dogRegistered Userregular
Thank the lord. Its nice to see this game finally getting some much needed user-friendly improvements like this and stickers (and animation speed ups, just need evolutions sped up now!). I'm going to give MNC Dover's wife all the credit because the game got more awesome as soon as she joined :P
(also holy shit finally lucky eggs and stardust won't be like 15 items apart from each other! Neeeever understood why stardust made me scroll sooooo much when a lot of people are gonna want to activate both items at the same time.. I think it's one of the last items on the item list order)
So either Niantic went back on this decisiion or the communication was just terrible, but the event details now specify that you can evolve into the 2021 CD moves.
That means Sylveon! And that is quite good and cheap for PvP (Ultra and master league), so I'd advise people to prepare their eevees now!(you need to get 70 buddy hearts)
Is there something I should know about Sylveon? Is there some amazing 2021 move for it?
Thank the lord. Its nice to see this game finally getting some much needed user-friendly improvements like this and stickers (and animation speed ups, just need evolutions sped up now!). I'm going to give MNC Dover's wife all the credit because the game got more awesome as soon as she joined :P
(also holy shit finally lucky eggs and stardust won't be like 15 items apart from each other! Neeeever understood why stardust made me scroll sooooo much when a lot of people are gonna want to activate both items at the same time.. I think it's one of the last items on the item list order)
So either Niantic went back on this decisiion or the communication was just terrible, but the event details now specify that you can evolve into the 2021 CD moves.
That means Sylveon! And that is quite good and cheap for PvP (Ultra and master league), so I'd advise people to prepare their eevees now!(you need to get 70 buddy hearts)
Is there something I should know about Sylveon? Is there some amazing 2021 move for it?
It's Psyshock, which is useless for PvE but makes Sylveon a decent pick for Battle League. Definitely Ultra but the other two as well to a lesser extent.
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Warlock82Never pet a burning dogRegistered Userregular
Thank the lord. Its nice to see this game finally getting some much needed user-friendly improvements like this and stickers (and animation speed ups, just need evolutions sped up now!). I'm going to give MNC Dover's wife all the credit because the game got more awesome as soon as she joined :P
(also holy shit finally lucky eggs and stardust won't be like 15 items apart from each other! Neeeever understood why stardust made me scroll sooooo much when a lot of people are gonna want to activate both items at the same time.. I think it's one of the last items on the item list order)
So either Niantic went back on this decisiion or the communication was just terrible, but the event details now specify that you can evolve into the 2021 CD moves.
That means Sylveon! And that is quite good and cheap for PvP (Ultra and master league), so I'd advise people to prepare their eevees now!(you need to get 70 buddy hearts)
Is there something I should know about Sylveon? Is there some amazing 2021 move for it?
It's Psyshock, which is useless for PvE but makes Sylveon a decent pick for Battle League. Definitely Ultra but the other two as well to a lesser extent.
Am I right in thinking that there's no way to evolve a Last Resort Eevee on CD to get the evolution specific CD move without it overwriting Last Resort?
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Warlock82Never pet a burning dogRegistered Userregular
Am I right in thinking that there's no way to evolve a Last Resort Eevee on CD to get the evolution specific CD move without it overwriting Last Resort?
I'm not super sure on this? I'm assuming one is a fast move and the other is a charged? I know in the past I've evolved shadow pokemon with Frustration to learn a CD fast move (ex: shadow Staraptor with Gust), but that's not quite the same thing. If you evolved Last Resort Eevee right now would it lose the move? My gut feeling is yes because most Pokemon change their moves on evolution but I have no clue.
You might wanna ask this over at Silph Road if no one here knows the answer. I'm sure someone over there would know.
It looks like all the eeveelution CD moves are charged moves, so you're better off buying the second charge move slot and using an Elite TM. It's more resource intensive, but iirc eevee always rolls new moves when it evolves in PoGo
Am I right in thinking that there's no way to evolve a Last Resort Eevee on CD to get the evolution specific CD move without it overwriting Last Resort?
I'm not super sure on this? I'm assuming one is a fast move and the other is a charged? I know in the past I've evolved shadow pokemon with Frustration to learn a CD fast move (ex: shadow Staraptor with Gust), but that's not quite the same thing. If you evolved Last Resort Eevee right now would it lose the move? My gut feeling is yes because most Pokemon change their moves on evolution but I have no clue.
You might wanna ask this over at Silph Road if no one here knows the answer. I'm sure someone over there would know.
Nah they're both charged, the thing is Last Resort is a CD move for Eevee, and then the evolutions got their own CD move. There's no way to keep both even if you unlock the second slot because CD moves always overwrite the first slot.
It's like having return on a purified Ursarang and then evolving it into Ursaluna on CD. I lost Return for High Horsepower even though I had two slots. It's really stupid, especially when you can't elite TM a move like Return back.
It looks like all the eeveelution CD moves are charged moves, so you're better off buying the second charge move slot and using an Elite TM. It's more resource intensive, but iirc eevee always rolls new moves when it evolves in PoGo
So, probably not worth the five bucks unless you missed out on Galarian Mr. Mime before or you really really want the mega Abomasnow energy/the pose.
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Warlock82Never pet a burning dogRegistered Userregular
edited December 2022
I mean technically you have a couple weeks (or is it all season?) to get a free Galarian Mr. Mime from research breakthroughs too (though based on rng). I agree, not really worth it. I bought it anyways literally only because I enjoy doing the research. That's honestly the only reason - the rewards are kinda trash for the price. Even then I was hesitant.
Man, that one special holiday box in the store was actually a great deal, but then they only let you buy one T_T I was super excited for a moment until I saw that.
I got 3 shiny Hoppip to go along with the 4 I already had.
I think all I really want from this weekend is a good PVP Swampert
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edited December 2022
I got a bunch of shinies. First day was mostly focusing on Hoppip and Spheal since I missed those community days. Got quite a few of everything, except Deinos for whatever reason (got like three all day) despite that being like the one thing I clicked on all Sunday (need dragon medal progress - ended up pretty close, maybe 300ish away from platinum). Also no shiny bulbasaur but I mean, I already have some. Also got a couple of 2021 shinies from eggs including two Fletchlings and a Snivy. Was trying really hard for a Tepig cuz his shiny is cool but no luck T_T Did get a 98% Gible like minutes into Saturday's thing (not shiny but who cares, Garchomp has a garbage shiny) so woooo. Finally.. Sick of only getting shit IV ones.
Did a Mega Glalie raid last night and got screwed over, only getting 80 mega energy despite us clearing it insanely quick (I've read this is a bug that can happen when there's a network interruption of some kind, though everything seemed fine to me?). Tried to write to support but once again they are completely worthless and refuse to do anything. Thanks, glad I spent money on remote passes for your broken ass game and you won't even comp me the mega energy I was supposed to get. (I'm still really salty since this is the second time support has basically told me to fuck off and this one in particular was the game being broken)
My kids and I have hit that point in the game where we don't care as much about it anymore. We used to go raiding every Wednesday and everyone was looking forward to it but then we all suddenly stopped. It's probably due to the cold ass weather.
Doesn't help that there's like... One pokemon out that my whole family hasn't had for months.
The game really needs to have more than about 8 Pokemon out at a time given there's gotta be well over a thousand now. Even if it was like a fraction being anything from the current weather boosted types and rare what the fuck ever spawns it would be more interesting to go around the neighborhood than, "Ok how many Terriursas will we get this time?"
Hevach on
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Warlock82Never pet a burning dogRegistered Userregular
Man, this Vivillon feature has been great for deadbeat friends finally sending gifts again.
I told my wife this and she had a good chuckle. She then wanted me to tell everyone that she spearheaded this event from the start and is glad to hear people are enjoying it. She’s quite proud of how smoothly this one went.
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I don't understand Canada Vivillon. Ontario is Polar but British Columbia is Modern?
I have USA friends for Modern, that all seem to be in Raleigh, (is that where the bikes come from?)
Where is Icy Snow?
Oh see I didn't even know you had to do that. I was wondering why everyone was pinning my postcards lol.
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Warlock82Never pet a burning dogRegistered Userregular
Speaking of which, man I want more postcard space :P I had already been using it before hand so my album is mostly full. Been kind of annoying having to clear it out so often Also more friend slots
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I just pin and unpin right away because I'm a Grinch and don't care for postcards. It has gotten me to send and open gifts again, that really is a good incentive for the feature. I just have to throw away a hundred more items per day, but it's not a big deal because I open my gifts in one go in the evening.
Apparently I'm missing some vivillon regions among my friends, so I'm going to have to seek friend codes again. Maybe prune some inactives but that always feels bad with lucky friends.
Yeah, I'm wondering how long it'll take for some web service to pop up that'll get you friends in every Vivillon region. Suddenly trainers in Alaska are very popular!
I'm up to about seven styles thanks to picking up friends from Poke Genie. If only that person in the Philippines would start playing again...
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Warlock82Never pet a burning dogRegistered Userregular
Yeah, I'm wondering how long it'll take for some web service to pop up that'll get you friends in every Vivillon region. Suddenly trainers in Alaska are very popular!
I'm up to about seven styles thanks to picking up friends from Poke Genie. If only that person in the Philippines would start playing again...
Yeah, there's like four or so I don't seem to have progress on. I'm sure there are already reddit threads or something going on.
I just pin and unpin right away because I'm a Grinch and don't care for postcards. It has gotten me to send and open gifts again, that really is a good incentive for the feature. I just have to throw away a hundred more items per day, but it's not a big deal because I open my gifts in one go in the evening.
Apparently I'm missing some vivillon regions among my friends, so I'm going to have to seek friend codes again. Maybe prune some inactives but that always feels bad with lucky friends.
So does this work? I've honestly been slightly confused by how everything is working - there's no indication on if you're making progress towards one or not beyond manually going to that menu hidden in the middle of the badges (and even there it's like 16 different progress meters, it's impossible to keep track). Kinda wish it was a little more clear (the only notification I've seen is if I pin enough of my own gifts in a day it eventually says it's not gonna do anything anymore)
GrobianWhat's on sale?Pliers!Registered Userregular
It does work, it only counts the act of pinning, so you can unpin right away. You can pin 3 of your own cards per day and you can pin friend's gifts only once (so I open them, to get them out of the system)
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e: Hot Take but 5km eggs should be starters and starters and their evos should be more rare in the wild. Doesn't always have to be all or the same starters, they can rotate over time, but I think that'd make them solid and reliable eggs
So either Niantic went back on this decisiion or the communication was just terrible, but the event details now specify that you can evolve into the 2021 CD moves.
That means Sylveon! And that is quite good and cheap for PvP (Ultra and master league), so I'd advise people to prepare their eevees now!(you need to get 70 buddy hearts)
Special research is permanent and not timed. Balloons show up every 4 hours. They have Giovanni if you have a super radar active, a team leader if you have a normal radar active or just a regular grunt otherwise.
You can battle these at any time by scrolling down to the bottom of the Battle menu.
But the hot air balloons haven't showed up today. I haven't fought one yet today and nothing shows up.
Thank the lord. Its nice to see this game finally getting some much needed user-friendly improvements like this and stickers (and animation speed ups, just need evolutions sped up now!). I'm going to give MNC Dover's wife all the credit because the game got more awesome as soon as she joined :P
(also holy shit finally lucky eggs and stardust won't be like 15 items apart from each other! Neeeever understood why stardust made me scroll sooooo much when a lot of people are gonna want to activate both items at the same time.. I think it's one of the last items on the item list order)
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Is there something I should know about Sylveon? Is there some amazing 2021 move for it?
It's Psyshock, which is useless for PvE but makes Sylveon a decent pick for Battle League. Definitely Ultra but the other two as well to a lesser extent.
Ah, then I probably don't care :P
I'm not super sure on this? I'm assuming one is a fast move and the other is a charged? I know in the past I've evolved shadow pokemon with Frustration to learn a CD fast move (ex: shadow Staraptor with Gust), but that's not quite the same thing. If you evolved Last Resort Eevee right now would it lose the move? My gut feeling is yes because most Pokemon change their moves on evolution but I have no clue.
You might wanna ask this over at Silph Road if no one here knows the answer. I'm sure someone over there would know.
Nah they're both charged, the thing is Last Resort is a CD move for Eevee, and then the evolutions got their own CD move. There's no way to keep both even if you unlock the second slot because CD moves always overwrite the first slot.
It's like having return on a purified Ursarang and then evolving it into Ursaluna on CD. I lost Return for High Horsepower even though I had two slots. It's really stupid, especially when you can't elite TM a move like Return back.
Assuming you're into PvP, of course.
So, probably not worth the five bucks unless you missed out on Galarian Mr. Mime before or you really really want the mega Abomasnow energy/the pose.
Man, that one special holiday box in the store was actually a great deal, but then they only let you buy one T_T I was super excited for a moment until I saw that.
Anyone else seeing that? Or did I manage to hit the jackpot in some sort of randomized test?
It's a one-time box that everyone should be able to pick up.
Yeah that's the box I was talking about.
zero shinies
i r sad
I was hoping to get at least one deino and a stufful, having missed them earlier this year.
I think all I really want from this weekend is a good PVP Swampert
Did a Mega Glalie raid last night and got screwed over, only getting 80 mega energy despite us clearing it insanely quick (I've read this is a bug that can happen when there's a network interruption of some kind, though everything seemed fine to me?). Tried to write to support but once again they are completely worthless and refuse to do anything. Thanks, glad I spent money on remote passes for your broken ass game and you won't even comp me the mega energy I was supposed to get. (I'm still really salty since this is the second time support has basically told me to fuck off and this one in particular was the game being broken)
17 degrees without any snow is miserable.
The game really needs to have more than about 8 Pokemon out at a time given there's gotta be well over a thousand now. Even if it was like a fraction being anything from the current weather boosted types and rare what the fuck ever spawns it would be more interesting to go around the neighborhood than, "Ok how many Terriursas will we get this time?"
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I told my wife this and she had a good chuckle. She then wanted me to tell everyone that she spearheaded this event from the start and is glad to hear people are enjoying it. She’s quite proud of how smoothly this one went.
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I have USA friends for Modern, that all seem to be in Raleigh, (is that where the bikes come from?)
Where is Icy Snow?
Oh see I didn't even know you had to do that. I was wondering why everyone was pinning my postcards lol.
Apparently I'm missing some vivillon regions among my friends, so I'm going to have to seek friend codes again. Maybe prune some inactives but that always feels bad with lucky friends.
I'm up to about seven styles thanks to picking up friends from Poke Genie. If only that person in the Philippines would start playing again...
Yeah, there's like four or so I don't seem to have progress on. I'm sure there are already reddit threads or something going on.
So does this work? I've honestly been slightly confused by how everything is working - there's no indication on if you're making progress towards one or not beyond manually going to that menu hidden in the middle of the badges (and even there it's like 16 different progress meters, it's impossible to keep track). Kinda wish it was a little more clear (the only notification I've seen is if I pin enough of my own gifts in a day it eventually says it's not gonna do anything anymore)