Pokemon Go

[albert]

I was trying at my desk at work and the GPS signal was rubbish, I think I was teleporting around during capturing and nothing was staying capped. I took half a doven 400CP+ on my bike ride home in 1-2 normal balls with simple lob.

I stopped at a Gym of the same team as I'm in and tried battles out. 500CP vs the 1100CP defender I could only get him down to about 40% health in any of my top 6 Pokemon.

I may have to start leveling them up, but what CP Pokemon drop does it become worth spending the resources to level?

[RizZy]

Finally, you have the Pokémon Level. In brief, a Pokémon Level is like how hard the Pokémon has been training, so again, a more well-trained Machoke with a higher Level might have an overall higher Attack than an untrained Dragonite. Raising a Pokémon's Level is easy enough - each time you use the Power Up function in-game, it raises that Pokémon by half a level. Note that the Level always caps out at a maximum of 1.5 Levels above your own Trainer Level, but that maximum does still increase alongside your Trainer Level over time. You can get a rough estimate of a Pokémon's Level from the white curved bar above its head - a bar all the way to the right means the Pokémon is at its current maximum Level, and a bar all the way to the left means it's at its minimum Level, which is always Level 1.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-07-21-pokemon-go-cp-meaning-explained-how-to-get-the-highest-cp-values-and-create-the-most-powerful-team

I would say from reading that, the closer to the right of the circle the better it would be to train, but then you also have to take into account its other stats, something with good attack stats would probably be a better idea than a high lvl one that can't fight its way out of a wet paper bag.

A bunch of other useful stuff - http://lifehacker.com/the-pokemon-go-trainers-advanced-tactics-handbook-1784003725

[albert]

Thanks, I'll read this today.


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[Vargen]

I was trying at my desk at work and the GPS signal was rubbish, I think I was teleporting around during capturing and nothing was staying capped. I took half a doven 400CP+ on my bike ride home in 1-2 normal balls with simple lob.

I stopped at a Gym of the same team as I'm in and tried battles out. 500CP vs the 1100CP defender I could only get him down to about 40% health in any of my top 6 Pokemon.

I may have to start leveling them up, but what CP Pokemon drop does it become worth spending the resources to level?

Not really worth leveling them up, as you get better CP pokemon as you level up your character.

[Arcticfire]

Id say dont use stardust untill lvl 30, because till level 30, because every level till 30 you get the chance the find stronger (CP) pokemon, after level 30 they stay the same.

A small tip is to "save" for about 30 pokemon to evolve (farm pidgeys, caterpies and weedles.) then use a lucky egg and start evolving the pokemon since you get double XP (1000 XP per evolve).

I did this with about 20 pokemon, had 18mins left on my egg and went two levels up (14-16).

[albert]

I'm getting bored of it already. The game seems geared to making players either starve of balls or want to buy coins to get extra capacity (the latter I don't mind because they have to pay for their people somehow). The throws that were capping me CP 350 when I was level 8 are taking 5 or 6 balls now I'm 15 and they are still only yellow targets. They have coded the game so the higher the level you are the more difficult it is to cap more. I could appreciate this if they were higher level pokemon as well but they're not. It's a total con. I can't see me getting to level 30 simply because there are not enough stops near where I live to stock up on resources and I can't be travelling 5Km to find enough stops.

[albert]

Anyone trying raiding and catching Legendary Pokemon? I decided to give this a go again after the Gym rules changed and I could actually get a character defending a Gym. So for info, no longer does one person have the ability to put all 6 Pokemon onto a Gym, only one, plus if you attack you gradually reduce the defender CP and given time can totally defeat the gym alone and put your (one) Pokemon on there. You get gold coins for this.

Raiding is a team thing, Legendary Pokemon can be in excess of 43000 CP so you need a decent group. You beat it together and then you get a chance to catch (2% chance) it's lower CP sibling with special balls and golden berries. Fortunately folks seem quite helpful and tend to have a more the merrier attitude. Catching it is a different matter. But my 1869 CP Zapdos is rather nice. Now level 28.5 in the game.

[RizZy]

I got up to lvl 30 at the 1 year anniversary & that was about it for me, I'm not personally keen on the way the game is pushing more towards having to be in a group for raids & sutch - I kinda like just bumbling around on my own playing.

I'm also not so happy with the gym rework, I don't think it was any better before, but I thought a better idea would've been to just have gyms npc controlled & you batter against the gym leader for the coins/rewards, there's a small group of spoofers in my town which make trying to do much with gyms pretty pointless most the time - even more so not being in the same team as them.

fun while it lasted anyway.

[albert]

They just started limiting spoofers accounts. First thing they find is evolved spawns in the wild stop appearing. Then limited pokestops and raids. And the good thing is they don't even tell them it's happening, they just let the spoofers waste their time.

I like the new gym setup because lower level players like me can get a piece of the action. The previous itteration was great for high level players with lots of strong pokemon but useless for anyone below 28.5 lvl where maxing out attack is starting to become possible. I look for the IVs these days and favorite any 15s and transfer teh rest.

[RizZy]

The same couple of guys had 3k+ Tyranitar's in pretty much all the gyms in town last time I looked a few weeks back, the local group on FB that I was in reported them all the time & nothing seemed to happen, & even more annoying is the spoofers seemed to get some level of acceptance when the new raids came due to them being able to help out with raids easily.

[albert]

I think folks who already were high level benefited from raids immediately due to their stock of strong pokemon and the fact they only got stronger rarer bosses to cap from the raids. I've receiced my first ever few 100s of coins in the last 7 days and in my town there are plenty 1k to 2k pokemon on gyms I can do some decent damage to. I'm not sure what Niantic can do to folks who are already high level but got there dishonestly and now follow the rules. But if you gps spoof or find other ways to exploit they can detect you and permaban. I also noticed the game won't authenticate on a rooted Androis phones.

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