I only completed that one because I went out of town to visit family for Christmas. x.x

After a month of near exclusively curveballs, excellent curveball achieved! (Again). Now it's just a berry countdown. Lots of hatted pikachu to find.

I keep getting "trade a pokemon" in my field research but I have no local friends to trade with!

Awww. Still working on that mofo!:f-redstare:

I believe there is a special research task for that as well. I just hope my one local friend is local enough. She lives on the other end of the city from me.

I think it's 100 meters for trading.

I has Mew! I'm not actually sure how it works. Apparently there's an AR thing you need, but mine didn't want to turn on, but I managed to get him without seeing any of the commands on my screen.

That's fucking ridiculous!
My one RL friend isn't THAT close. Looks like I'm screwed.

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Stupid fucking excellent curveball!

what do you mean you need AR?

It means that Mew is invisible and the encounter to catch it requires you to turn your phone's camera on and find it based on the distortion in what you see.

Whew! At last!
Excellent curveball achieved and Mew obtained! I'm surprised it's in the good IV zone at 69 but oh well. I'm just glad to have it at last.
That AR thing was annoying, I never use it regularly. I hope the other legendaries don't require that.

My son insisted that I play Pokemon go. So I have now started to play Pokemon go.

Edit: I still suck at throwing pokeballs.

Throwing Poke Balls is definitely a skill that takes a while to get good at. And then there are Pokemon with funky hitboxes like Wurmple that are just a headache anyway -- I cannot reliably hit a Wurmple with a curveball and just have to throw straight.

It's the bane of my Go experience. I'm finding that I always overestimate how far to throw it. I've remedied that by tilting my phone downward, which puts the Pokemon at higher on the screen, thus I am more likely to hit them with it.

Also, it's glitched a couple of times and even though I throw the ball like normal, it just flops to the ground. I hate losing the pokeball over it.

Ghastly throws me for a loop. I just can't get a depth read on him.

And wow, 20k for a Mew candy. I think I'll be putting my raid candies there for the time being. One day I'll make a long trek though.

Has anyone tried the battle system? Gives me a spot to put my sentimental but lower CP pokemon now. I'm wondering though, it it's better to have an evolved low cp pokemon or a basic high cp pokemon. I'm leaning towards the former but not too sure.

The CP value takes the Pokemon's stats into account, so in general a higher-CP Pokemon is more powerful than a lower-CP one, regardless of evolution tier. (This of course isn't strictly true because CP is a flawed metric, but it is at least roughly comparable.) However, keep in mind that evolving a Pokemon will cause its CP to spike because the evolved form will have higher base stats, and the evolved form will usually have stronger moves.

This wouldn't be true in the main-series Pokemon games, where the attacking Pokemon's numeric level is used in the damage formula. A higher-level lower-tier Pokemon will still carry an offensive advantage over a lower-level higher-tier Pokemon; a level 100 Pokemon effectively has twice as much Attack and Special Attack as a level 50 Pokemon with the same stats.

But Pokemon Go doesn't use that damage formula, so it doesn't matter how full the level gauge is -- the Pokemon with the better stats and better moves will do better in battle, regardless of level or evolutionary tier.

I'm happy they now decided to put the power boost amount in a preview before confirming, so I can watch the numbers. Of course, I wasn't paying enough attention the other day and boosted one of my Raiku's to 1502. Oops.


A note on the unvisited pokestop thing, but I think there must be a timer on them. I passed a few that I know I've been to before and they still activated the quest requirement. They must refresh at some point because I didn't go very far to make that quest.

The field research things regenerate every day. There's three pokestops I can access from the couch in my basement (because my overworld character just kinda wanders the neighborhood and I don't have to move.) And so I go sit down there for some time every day and spin each pokestop as much as I can and every day, I get a new field research mission from each.

Also, I had to laugh. I have let's go eevee and I trained a Bellsprout named Sprouty from the beginning and now have a level 80 Victreebell. I got a screenshot of Bellsprout in Pokemon go standing in my bedroom doorway and it looks like Sprouty is telling me that I need to get up or we'll never be the champions.

There's a quest where you need to visit 8 Pokestops you haven't visited before at all, not just in that day. So, you need to go around to newer places and visit new ones. I just noticed that once I *did* visit before were counting and I assume it's because they weren't ones I'm at all the time and they must have a limit of a few months or something and count again as "unvisited."

So, my sad is that I was in a raid with Kyogre...and we won. Alas, a catch just wasn't happening. poo. I have a screen for proof though.

I'm decent at standard strait throws its curveballs that are the bane of my Pokemon GO experience, Mew had better have been the only research project that requests them.
I hate how many balls I waste just to successfully encase the Pokemon. That's right, NOT catch, encase!

Yeah, I have trouble with Ghastly as well.

I have not tried it.

Curveballs are the best way to catch almost ANYTHING. You should really teach yourself how to throw them better. It really is worth the effort to get good at it, because it's like having an unlimited supply of Razz Berries, except they're even stronger (1.7x vs. 1.5x) and you can still use a berry.

It's really not THAT hard. You just have to make yourself practice. I don't miss with curveballs much anymore except against a couple of oddly-shaped hitboxes like Wurmple.

Hoppips are irritating me now, probably because of the hovering deal like ghastly.

98 dratini candy! So close...

That moment when you have three Pokemon in gyms and they all come back on the same day. -.-

I'll keep that in mind.

Problem is, I don't get out much, mostly just to walk the dogs and lately I have been less into playing even then because it's been so fucking cold that I prefer to wear my gloves but don't own a pair with the touch screen compatible fingertips.

It's also not always easy to land a straight throw with two medium-sized dogs overpowering one hand, let alone a curveball. I need to work on thumb throwing as well.

Thumb throwing is a pain in the butt, can't disagree with you there. PoGo is definitely a two-handed sport.

I do pretty well with "thumb" curve balls, but if I really want to be precise, holding my phone flat and using my finger works best.

I tried out the new camera but forgot that I had my camera deactivated for PoGo and the pictures didn't save. Camera permissions do not equal saving pictures. So no Raichu in the living for my nephews. Maybe later. (They only know of Raichu and Pikachu because of my sister's novelty figures that she's hung onto from back in the day.)

I'm not sure what to think about Photobombing Smeargle.

Agreed and I barely have two hands most of the time I play.

I've only ever tried the old camera once, haven't tried the new one yet.

Ugh. I hate trying to catch these research pokemon. Lately I've just taken to throwing regular pokeballs at the because they just seem to keep eating them and eventually I'll get it, rather than waste my decent berries.

Edit: Huh. Well, fancy that. I have a regirock now.

The encounters that are rewarded for individual tasks?
Yeah being required to catch them because running from them halts progression is kind of annoying.

The main legendary that each special research series revolves around come with their own endless supply of Pokeballs and don't allow berries.
Or at least that is how Mew was for me and that's the only one I've completed so far.
This is nice but was slightly annoying to not have known before because I'd worked my ass off to preserve ultra balls for it.

Depends really. I know when I had the Samsung S6 Edge, that was a two hand sport cause it was soo massive than some times, I had a little iPhone 5s cause my mate would beg me to log on his account to do a raid or event. Now I usually have 3 or 4 phones so it's a more an one finger sport with the phones laid out on a flat surface. XD

And can't always say curveballs will catch. I have gotten a few excellent ones on legendries and they still break out, lol. But guess I can say I am lucky, have like 3 or 4 towns in a hour radius I can just hop on a train and spend a day going back and forth doing raids so lots of practice in curveballs.

As for gyms, hit or miss really. Some here are in really remote spots - one of my Ttars is still chilling in a gym.. 53 days after being put in. XD Still surprised the other one is sitting in a gym but with the bad weather, the usual suspects haven't gone out to reclaim their gyms or maybe they are allowing others to get chances at gold since I only able to get the gym if Mum is nice enough to stop and let me run over to it.

I have all the current special quests done. Most here treat it like a race to see whom gets it done first but meh, I try to enjoy the quests unless it's to catch a ditto.. that little pain in the ass is soo hard to find, lol.

I never said curveballs will always catch. I said that, with few exceptions, curveballs are always worth it, because they stack with all other sources of catch bonus.

True but not everyone knows how to do them. I honestly didn't know till a few months ago, lol. Needed for a quest and was like.. oh... poop balls. now it comes like second nature. Through, have noted a few times, the ball will catch without hitting the pokemon while the pokemon is jumping.

Hitbox shenanigans are, indeed, shenanigans. XD Trying to curveball a Wurmple is an exercise in frustration because its hitbox from the side is way smaller than it looks like it ought to be, while I've failed to get a Nice on throws that looked like they should have been just right because it hit farther out.

Anything with a small hitbox is murder if you need to do a set amount of curveballs.

The last spinda quests.. I was so ready to scream cause the ones I could do multiple great curveballs would stay in after one ball than I would get like wurmples, minuns, etc. Now I get smart and leave the 7 day pokemon not caught till need to cause always a guarantee the hitbox will be big enough to get the needed amount of curveballs on it.

I have a curveball quest but at least I don't need to do them in order. I've been wondering though, if there's something weird about starlies because I have a hell of a time catching those things.

And coda, it looks like your belt buckle has wifi. Jus' sayin.

I'm still lacking a Shinx and the angelic sort of raichu. Everytime I see those raids in particular, I'm busy or can't take the time.

What belt buckle...?

Whatever is holding your shorts up.

Cluster of turtwigs about the campus today. Was just dropping off a library book and they kept popping up.

There's a gym right outside my work now, two if I feel like walking across the parking lot. Alas, it's also right next to a school so it's not easy to hold down for very long.

In my Trisphee avatar or my PoGo avatar? I wasn't even aware either of them had something there.

Tris. It's just the radiating symbol on your avatar's shirt. Kinda.

I got a glameow today. So many plant types around. Is this for spring?

Oh, NOW I see what you're talking about. XD

That's actually just a place where the pixel edges happen to line up on a couple different items.

New Pokestop next to my mail box! They're getting closer. I may even be able to walk there one day when I'm actually in shape.

The lone gym at a local overlook has been grey for a while since it's closed over the winter but the hikers are appearing now.

Help! I'm on the send 20 friend gifts and I have no open friends to gift!

And my poor luck with raids continues. When I'm out by myself and just cruising around, it's legendary raids. When I'm with other people and can't just run off to go raid things, it's absol, shinx, marrowack with the green flaming bone, etc. Dangit! Tried for puffy raichu but fail. Might have to better plan things. I forget what decently hurts electric things.