I caught Chimchar today! :D

Incense helps period. Each pokemon has a chance of shiny and on community day, beldum will have a MUCH higher chance of shiny.

I evolved a Chimchar and Piplup? to their second stages :D

Still need more Hoenn and grass pokemon lol

I'm mostly wondering because incense will actually work where I am, though no other Pokemon are in the area.

Incense works wherever you are, but its effectiveness depends on moving around. If you're not moving, incense spawns approximately one Pokemon every five minutes. If you're traveling at a brisk walk, a lot more show up.

I think they need to change that. I'm gonna use an incense because I'm not moving. If I'm outside, I can't see my screen and I can't be cupping it and moving it at the same time because I will hurt myself lol

Which I was never big on incense to begin with since it doesn't do much imo

Moving around is not a problem as I'm on a farm and just wrap my phone up in the top of my yoga pants if I have no pocket. It's just that there are no Pokemon here otherwise. Would the incense attracted Pokemon have different odds of showing up shiny or no? I've heard that they can be rarer types if the area is otherwise barren.

I'm not sure. I was under the impression that incense used the local spawning pool, so it SHOULD produce the shinies that you would get during events, et cetera. Whether or not it generates more of the rarer stuff, I couldn't say.

I saw a little blurb some time ago by a hiker stating that if you went to where the game map was completely empty and then used an incense, you had greater odds of attracting Pokemon from the rarer end of the scale. Not sure how much it works, but when I've used incense here I've seen evolved pokemon, a magmar which I've never seen otherwise in the area, and my niece caught a vulpix which are also not common.

I'm started to time my rewards as well now, in case I'm home for a day or something. I can maintain a catching streak with research reward catches for example.

I hate spiritomb....108 berries....then catch 108 pokemon D:

...Well I knew about the berries.

Well, now you know more...the catch 108 pokemon gives you spirtomb

There is also spin 8 pokestops you've never been to before. Luckily, in a city 15 mins away, since last I played pokemon....someone apparently went psycho in Ingress and suggested a ton of stuff XD

Well actually read the news the other day, and it explains all the cubones and surprising number of ponyta. No shinies though. Darn.

I still need an extra friend. I was mean an axed a couple people that haven't been on in some time. I did get this funny bug-ghost thing with my regular research. Still working away on those berries though.

I'm still on 7/8 of Mew with that damn excellent curveball throw.
I also need to use 50 berries.

3/8 in Celebi in which I'm just working on evolving my Gloom into a Belossom with the sunstone

1/3 in Spirittomb still working on using 108 berries. I'm at 35.

Please don't tell me that's a special research task, I'll be pretty screwed. Traveling isn't easy for me.

Friend task done! But I'm not very far into Celebi's stuff anyway, and I'm not sure how much I care. More annoyed that my new friend has a Shinx and I'm jealous!

Not much new lately. Catching things, picking up stuff given I'm in the city, blah blah and such. Apparently there's a POGO discord for a local group here. "Local" in the area can cover a fair bit of geographical space though.

Ugh this mofo excellent curveball is pissing me off.
I just fail at curveballs, I can only even get the Pokemon in about half the time.

I usually get "excellent" by fluke.

This event tho...so many eevees.

Same, I only get all three types of throws (nice, great, excellent) by fluke including non-curveballs.
So that's why there have been so many Eevee around.

It's the "Let's Go! Pikachu!/Eevee! Nintendo switch thing. One of my daily research things (which requires the excellent throw) has the "Let's Go!" tag on it.

I see that Evolved Electrike thing in raids and I want it because those things are annoyingly hard to find, but I haven't been able to stop for long enough to actually do one.

I evolved a new Vaporeon the other day, who happens to have the same CP as my first Vaporeon that I've been powering up for over a year now. Not sure how I feel about that. Opus is special, but his combat stuff isn't actually that good. This new guy might take over for practical reasons.

Coda might be getting to me. I caught a Beldum (I keep going to say "Bedlam") the other day, and called it "Tiny Tin."

Yeah my newer pokemon are a lot better than the ones i got a while back. which makes me sad but…. it isn't like the games where you train with one and improve them all of the time.

Yeah, that's annoying.

Also, the pogods have decreed I shall have more vaporeons. I got another that's better than my other two, and those two are still pretty up there in my collection. New guy is 2500 cp area.

So I still need to evolve an evolved grass type pokemon, get one more raid battle, use 3 more berries, and hatch one more egg. Then it's some next stage stuff.

...any my Arcanine got booted from the gym for only 10 coins. Poo.

I concur that gaining a new understanding of how to evaluate a Pokemon's stats does cause a feeling of let down towards one's older Pokemon who have sentimental value.

I have a Radicate that I value because it's the first Pokemon I ever caught but now that I've started using Poke Genie to see IVs, he's been revealed as horrible for battle. I still have him. I won't transfer him despite but it's still a disappointment.

I'm also evolving a new Umbreon and Espeon because my originals also have low IVs and shit was it difficult finding a female Eevee because I want my Espeon female.
I have to wait to evolve it though because I believe evolving an Espeon is a research task in my future.
Question: Would it count if I did it using the nickname cheat?

It counts for the "evolve an Espeon during the day" one but not for the "get two candy" one, so you might as well just do it the normal way.

1. How do I evolve an Espeon during the day?
2. What "get two candies" one?

Brief off-topic (sorry but the market isn't active), would someone be willing to trade me 50 runes for the guise of demise in the Backalley Deals shop? I'd rather not donate but will pay whatever in other Trisphee currency.

Those tasks! Were soooo hard!!!

They weren't very hard, just... very tedious.

Been online trying to find the elusive Ekans. T_T It's the only Pokemon I need to finish my dex.

So it requires you to evolve the same Eevee you walked 10k with into Espeon?

Ekans isn't elusive here. I get them quite often.

No, it doesn't require that. You CAN evolve another Eevee into Espeon and have it count, but if you're going to walk 10k with the Eevee you might as well evolve that one, since walking 10k with an Eevee is the way to get an Espeon in the first place.

Oh. I got it now.

Get an excellent curveball...I got an excellent curveball last week. You suck Professor!

Yup still struggling with that one as well and I too got one BEFORE the task.

BTW are Varlanna and Oanamori anyone here?
These people sent me friend requests but I've only ever given my friend code here and to an RL friend via FB private message.

Update:
I remembered that I'd also given my FC at Virtuadopts back when I needed friends for special research. I've since removed it and the friend requests are gone.

Meanwhile, I'm still wasting Pokeballs on this gorram excellent curveball, it's now the only task separating me from Mew.
On the bright side, I'm getting a bit better, I'm getting a fair amount of nices and greats and I've discovered that Snowver is one of the best Pokemon to throw curveballs at.

Thanx.
Ugh, not a fan of the raid missions either. Just finished 2 for the first or second stage of Melton. Good to know there's more. :P

I don't go out much either because I have no life. Mostly just to walk the dogs.
For this reason, I'm pretty much screwed on 8 Pokestops you've never used before for the Spiritomb research.