Already used to.. hatched a pinsir a couple days ago.

Too bad im not gonna spend another cent on this game.

In no particular order...

Hunting rares or to fill pokedex.
- Niantic's vendetta against trackers while not providing its own (I'm sure its load is a lot lighter now with alot less people playing) makes it nigh impossible.

How about manually researching popular spawns while commuting to work.
- Sighting blank now while in the bus or MRT.

Then what about battling gyms instead
- Gym errors keep kicking me out half way even though I'm outdoors directly in the middle of the gym. Then the cooldown period before letting me in again and error again. Botters/cheaters are annoying yes but nowhere near to this. WTF niantic srsly WTF.

How about the social aspect.. lure parties and the fun to be in a dragonite stampede?
- Nowadays sunyi senyap.. habuk pun tarak

An upcoming P2P or Gen 2 or trading won't matter if their userbase especially the hardcore continue to decline to irrelevance.

The media won't cover it and folks won't remember PTC account a couple months down the road.

This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Oct 18 2016, 04:28 PM

That's a top trainer tip...

The natural habitat for venusaur is dalam jamban

For a mixed type gym is ok lor but I won't spend stardust on it.

Too many counters to it that's everyone have and too low max CP.

IV 100% also the max it'll go ever is only ~2.5k CP so chances are it wont sit on top of gyms where its safer.

Attack wise cocunut tree and victreebel does more damage.

Whenever i see venusaur in gyms... I bring out my butterfree for training. Hahhahah..

Edit: this is why its only worth to spend on dragonite, lapras, snorlax, coconut tree , arcanine... And vaporeon after level 30.

http://m.ign.com/wikis/pokemon-go/Pokemon_Max_CP

This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Oct 18 2016, 06:29 PM

But of course its just a game. You can always power it up if u like venusaur... Just like my ambitions to use pikachu to win dragonite

Well the natural habitat for dratinis here in taiwan are those large monsoon drains.

Lapras is easy. Arcanine with fire fang fire blast is guaranteed to take down any lapras pretty quick.

Snorlax on the other hand ... Just use whats available and grind away. And if its like this fella i battled the other day... its gonna take a while.

Not just that.. Fighting type weak to psychic zen headbut that most snorlax use. Couple that with low HP... misdodge a couple already damn siong.

Last night I saw a gym with a lone baby snorlax 1.6K defender

Since I just caught a mankey, I though maybe I could use my lone 1.3K Primeape Lowkick/Crosschop to give it a go.

Good match up right?

I lost.. tsk tsk.

On the topic of fighting snorlax.... someone did a table.

Worth a look.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comme...kill_a_snorlax/

Memang dodge kau kau but kena zen headbut also damn siong.

1.3K primeape is level 26 kena wiped by level 19 baby snorlax. Not to mention attacker advantage

Different species, even with 100% IV will have different CP at a particular level.

Example like a perfect Dragonite max reach a max of 3.5K CP @ Lvl40 while a Magickarp will only reach a max CP of 262.

http://www.ign.com/wikis/pokemon-go/Pokemon_Max_CP

Then there's the question of cost per power up issue. When your pokemon reaches level 30, power up is only half that of lower levels.

Ditto that.

I didn't really regret wasting stardust on all those spontaneous power ups I made... but I should've been more prudent.

I've even wasted stardust powering up and end up candying it as I catch better IV ones and better movesets

High CP don't do much except for psychological deterrence.

Last night I went to my nearby gym (super active gym... its almost never been above level 3) and it started raining. Couple of fellas were there to shelter from rain and there coincidently was the same team as me so we tok kok abit and decided to level up the gym while constantly being under attack.

We had a 2K charizard for training, 2.3K Lapras, 2.6K snorlax, 2.8K d.breath & 3K steel wing dragonite.

Then we ran out of potions and it got taken down in like under 10 mins..

Those low'ish 2K mons memang is not here not there

My 2 cents la...

Build as many 3K Dragonites as you can. As long as its not pathetic, no need to care about that 10-15% difference in IV lah

Sure they can be taken down by weaker type advantage ones but they have very high max CP so they'll sit at least near or on the top of the gyms where they're harder to get to.

Then if you have the candies, power up the Lapras and Snorlax... think of it as community service to your team. To slow down attackers getting to the Dragonites.

Maybe an Arcanine too if you have spare stardust and firefang/fireblast as a general purpose attacker.

Everything else no need to power up also since you can always catch a higher CP one.. in which case moveset matter more than IV (since not long term investment)

Those high IV and/or low CP ones also super useful without power up... if got good moveset, they're nice to use as gym trainers.

Besides training gym up faster/more XP... there's also the added benefit of them being "disposable". ie Saving previous revives and potions.

Having many pidgeots, venomoths, butterfrees etc means you don't have to heal them. Just use another one to train.

Being low CP also means HP will be low as well... you can then use those basic potions collected to heal them which would otherwise hog up previous storage space.

Kinda regret candying so many low CP pokemons... now I don't have enough.

This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Oct 20 2016, 11:35 AM

Giler buy phone just to use radar? Just wait till the others come back la

Unfortunately FPM coverage is just so so. Spotted a wild machamp on sightings just now but FPM didnt spot it

This is more accurate than pokeradar