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8bit

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Oct 27, 2017
5,390
The increased egg hatching didn't seem to be working for me, walked about 10km with the same egg. It might be I missed something though. Anyway, got a shiny one pretty early and just evolved it with Meteor Mash. Also found out that possibly the most remote gym here is an ex-raid one for some reason. It's on the French border so mobile coverage at it is pretty poor. No-one is ever at it, and Pokemon dropped in it last for weeks.
 

ParanoidRED

Banned
Nov 2, 2017
2,931
Today went well
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IHaveIce

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
4,742
Got enough shinys to have every evolution step.
2 extra metagross 93 iv and a 97.

And a 93 mewtu

Today was a good day
 

Bardoon

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May 27, 2018
2,408
England
Is Meteor Mash worth it? I dunno whether to bother evolving my shiny or not.

I've been laid up with an injury past few weeks, so only managed to get whatever Beldum spawned around my house. Luckily one was shiny.

Also sorry to everyone that has been sending me gifts for not sending any back, I've run out, but will send more once I'm back up and running.

e: Thanks, went ahead and evolved it :)
 
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Robochimp

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Oct 25, 2017
2,677
Is Meteor Mash worth it? I dunno whether to bother evolving my shiny or not.

I've been laid up with an injury past few weeks, so only managed to get whatever Beldum spawned around my house. Luckily one was shiny.

Also sorry to everyone that has been sending me gifts for not sending any back, I've run out, but will send more once I'm back up and running.

Yes meteor mash is worth it.
 

Oxx

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Oct 28, 2017
951
Even though I didn't leave the house until 20 minutes into the event, one of my most successful and fun CDs.

Caught 161, with 10 shinies.

None of them were stunning I've but I've evolved 6x Meteor Mash Metas.

I even caught my first shiny Natu.
 

Bedameister

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Oct 26, 2017
5,942
Germany
Kind of meh CD. Only 4 shinies of which 3 were shite. IVs been rather bad despite one 96%. Evolved 7 nevertheless and boy I think this move is beast. Only missing 20k stardust to max out that 96%
 

Taco_Human

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Jan 6, 2018
4,225
MA
It starts in about 4 and 1/2 hours for me here, so I'll be heading out in a bit. I hope discord doesn't let me down today.
 

Falchion

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Oct 25, 2017
40,908
Boise
Hope my cd is as good as some of yours. Glad I went ahead and grinded out the candies for all the gem 4 starters before they changed the spawns up.

Also really hope there's an Alolan Marowak raid during cd so that I can finally get that.
 

Pwnz

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Oct 28, 2017
14,279
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Going to downtown Austin with my wife to fill up on items and get these gen4s first sunny day in what seems like 2 months.
 

Rygar 8Bit

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Oct 25, 2017
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Is Meteor Mash worth it? I dunno whether to bother evolving my shiny or not.

I've been laid up with an injury past few weeks, so only managed to get whatever Beldum spawned around my house. Luckily one was shiny.

Also sorry to everyone that has been sending me gifts for not sending any back, I've run out, but will send more once I'm back up and running.

e: Thanks, went ahead and evolved it :)

It's his best Moveset
Metagross Bullet Punch, Meteor Mash 16.294 DPS
 

Wijuci

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Jan 16, 2018
2,809
Did the Gen4 starters/starly get moved out of the rotation?

Yes, it's BS.
I only needed a few more of each starter tonfully evolve them and was hoping to finish today.

But no, three hours, not one starter.
Damn you Niantic, we did not even get a week of decent Gen 4 spawning...
 

Oxx

Member
Oct 28, 2017
951
Shame. But I have enough candy to fully evolve starters. I'll just wait for a decent hatch before going for it.
 

robox

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Nov 10, 2017
965
Only works for eggs inserted after the start time.
this is something you seriously need to clarify just like the no tm's thing. someone putting in a 10k egg into their regular incubator is seriously disappointed. i think that guy was me back in one of the earlier days. i held back a few eggs for today because of having learned, whereas the announcement still doesn't say anything about it
 

Pwnz

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Oct 28, 2017
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Got 2 shinies evolved, wife got 2 mew twos and I missed each (but I caught hers lol). Another bit of stardust and I'll trade a shiny mecha spider for a mew two.
 
Oct 25, 2017
16,396
Thanks, Community Day!
I got myself a "Breathtaking" shiny Beldum!

Also after a few days after the Gen 4 debut, I got both a Buneary and Lopunny.
 

jstevenson

Developer at Insomniac Games
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Oct 25, 2017
2,042
Burbank CA
no surprise on the Gen 4 starters. That's the highest spawn rate I think I've ever seen any of the starters show up at. I only wish I had spent a little more time the last couple days to ensure I had male / female evolutions of both.

There was no way that was going to stick for very long. I figured a week at most. The fact that I could find the water type here in the desert all over showed how amped they were.

During Beldum today I think I saw three turtles and one chimp.
 

Rygar 8Bit

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Oct 25, 2017
15,853
Site-15
At the buzzer 1 minute left got enough candy to evolve one last Metagross. Ended it with 3 Metagross and 1 77iv shiny from just playing at home with incense on.
 

Wanderer5

Prophet of Truth
The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
10,982
Somewhere.
Fucking hell, no shiny. :( I am really bum out this time, cause Metagross is one of the few shinies I have in the main series.

Eh, well, least I got enough candy to get a instant Metagross if any that I caught are really good lol.
 

jstevenson

Developer at Insomniac Games
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Oct 25, 2017
2,042
Burbank CA
honestly if you aren't finding shines... you just need to completely change your strategy.

If you want Shinys, this is a game of encounters. If the community day rate is 1 / 25 - then it follows you want to try and encounter 25 x Y - where Y equals the number of Shinies you want.

But assuming you are in a city --- You need to move fast and encounter as many Beldums as you can. Parks, high density Pokestop areas, etc. Fire up incense, team up and use a vehicle, etc. You goal shouldn't be to catch anything besides except shinies until you're satisfied with Shinies you have or you know for sure you have a second to catch that Beldum. But time spent catching non-shinies = time spent not finding shinies.

I get for rural players it could be a lot rougher, I'd probably lure up pokestops and use incense to try and get as many spawns by me as possible.

I caught 5 shiny in an hour and called it a morning.
 

8bit

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Oct 27, 2017
5,390
Oh, that reminds me. Can you catch Shiny Pokemon with a go plus? The ones I got today were manual but was wondering.
 

Firemind

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Oct 25, 2017
15,529
honestly if you aren't finding shines... you just need to completely change your strategy.

If you want Shinys, this is a game of encounters. If the community day rate is 1 / 25 - then it follows you want to try and encounter 25 x Y - where Y equals the number of Shinies you want.

But assuming you are in a city --- You need to move fast and encounter as many Beldums as you can. Parks, high density Pokestop areas, etc. Fire up incense, team up and use a vehicle, etc. You goal shouldn't be to catch anything besides except shinies until you're satisfied with Shinies you have or you know for sure you have a second to catch that Beldum. But time spent catching non-shinies = time spent not finding shinies.

I get for rural players it could be a lot rougher, I'd probably lure up pokestops and use incense to try and get as many spawns by me as possible.

I caught 5 shiny in an hour and called it a morning.
Yeah, I see people stop and catch all the time. I'm pretty much moving nonstop, only stopping when there's a dense pack. There's also the throwing ball trick that skips the ball animation you can use to save a lot of time.
 
Oct 25, 2017
4,553
Was a mixed bag for me

Caught plenty of Beldum. Even got a couple really good ones.

First catch of the day was a shiny. Then none the rest of the time. 72 Beldum caught though.

Caught a really good Torchic and caught a Breloom in the wild. Got my gold Hoenn badge too!
 

Casa

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Oct 25, 2017
9,501
Managed 7 shinies but had terrible luck with IV's. Not even anything in the 80's.

Got two shiny Metagross out of the day so that's good enough I guess. One of the coolest looking shiny's.
 

H3llR8iser

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Oct 25, 2017
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Got 7 shinies total...had to go to Starbuck for some coffee at some point cause its freaking cold and windy here in the NYC....
 

Casa

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Oct 25, 2017
9,501
I assume they'll return to another starter Pokemon for next month. Wonder if they go for a Gen 2 mon or maybe do one from Gen 4 since they were just released.
 
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